IITBAA Pune Chapter ties up with CIIE at IIM-Ahmedabad to promote Innovations

August 1st, 2010

IITBAA Pune Chapter has tied up with the Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at the IIMA for the benefit of creative minds and technocrats who qualify for Innovations 2011. This provides a great opportunity for innovators to get mentored by the stalwarts from the field of technology and management. The CIIE will make its expertise in incubating and mentoring available to select innovations from Innovations 2011. These would also be eligible to participate in MentorEdge, the mentoring programme from industry experts at CIIE.

We annouced this at a press conference in Pune recently. The news got good coverage in the media …

Submissions for Innovations-2011 are open

June 1st, 2010

Submissions for Innovations 2011 are now open. Registration details are avaliable on the website.

Your entry may be a process, product, design, method, application or even a business model or a model of social entrepreneurship. Innovations from all fields are welcome. Entries are sought from individuals, research/academic institutions, NGOs, or corporate entities.

Eligibility criteria for submitting an innovation entry are

  • Innovation must be a truly novel idea
  • Must be based on the application of science / technology
  • The idea should have been introduced in practice

Please download the information brochure for details.

Innovations 2010 on TV!

February 2nd, 2010

Innovations 2010 was covered on ETV Marathi and Star Majha. Watch the TV clips below.


Innovations 2010 was a grand success

January 12th, 2010

Innovations-2010 event was held on 9th January at the Dewang Mehta Auditorium at Persistent Systems. It was attended by ~250 people from various industries. The event started with an inspirational keynote by Sanjay Nayak, CEO of Tejas Networks. Later, 12 innovators presented their ideas and answered questions from the audience. The afternoon session had three successful innovators share their experiences with the audience.

View the complete proceedings of the eventĀ  online. This includes and slides and video recordings of all the talks. Please do write send us your feedback and comments on the event. A few photographs of the event are attached below…