Innovations 2009

Invest-in-us workshop

The Invest-in-us workshop is aimed at providing innovator a first hand experience to pitch to VC’s. The workshop will be an unique enriching experience for innovators and audience.

Selection Process

The Invest-in-us workshop on the second day morning is an occasion for mentorship in raising funds for business growth.

This workshop is modeled as a “live show” to provide a first hand experience. Some of our selected innovators will take a shot at raising money in front of the audience. We believe this will be most instructive due to its “live” nature for all the entrepreneurs in the room. We thank NVIDIA – the renowned graphics market leader worldwide with a strong presence in Pune – for sponsoring the Invest-in-us workshop.

Jaya Panvalkar, Director, Pune Design Center of NVIDIA will be addressing the 200+strong audience during this workshop. Before coming on board of NVIDIA, she was the Director and CTO of PACE Soft Silicon, an Irish Multinational responsible for design of Multimedia Software for mobile wireless devices and was closely involved in PACE's take over by NVIDIA. Under her able leadership, NVIDIA's Pune Design Center has grown to 350+ in last 2 years.

Objective of the Invest-in-us workshop

Live Mentoring based on actual business cases of 6 selected innovators.
Make the audiences learn about growing an innovation-driven business.

Objective of each innovator presenting

Raise money

The 2-hour Invest-in-us workshop is for 6 of the 16 selected innovations on Jan 6. Each innovator will give a 1 minute pitch of his innovation-based business idea.
Dr. Ashok Korwar, ex-IIMA Professor and Management Consultant,
will be the panel moderator for this workshop. The esteemed panel members would be

Mahesh Krishnamurthy, Partner, India Value Fund and a veteran member of the VC community
Shashank Inamdar, CEO & Managing Director, Praj Industries Ltd representing the chemical and process industry
Girish Sohoni, Vice President, BAIF Development Research Foundation from the social entrepreneurship
Pravin Desale, Site Head and Director of Engineering, LSI Corporation representing the IT industry
Prof. Amarnath,representing IIT Bombay Incubator and funding from Government