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Loyola college organized their flagship event, Epsilon-20, which is an intercollegiate E-summit conducted by EDC (Entrepreneurship Development Cell) on 26th February 2020 at their college campus. They had invited around 400 participants from around the country.

Shyam Sekar S, Founder – Startup Xperts was invited to deliver a session on ‘Startup to Scaleup’ to the audience. The talk was very well received as the audience found it very interesting and exciting.

Events like TEX-Talks, Workshops and Mind blowing events takes the learning to a whole new level. Epsilon-20 was also the venue for various seminars and workshops focused on budding entrepreneurs.

Franchising Workshop was organized by Alagappa University – Alagappa Institute of Management, Karaikudi on 23^rd and 24^th of Jan 2020.  This 2 day event was organized by the Management Institute and had the presence of about 16 colleges from various parts of Tamil Nadu.

Franchise approach, and acquisition strategy and messaging through digital channels was covered by Shyam Sekar S, Founder and CEO – Startup Xperts in 2 different sessions in this 2-day workshop.  It also had Dr Chackochen Mathai, who also addressed the students highlighting the softer aspects of franchising as well.

It was a unique program that was organized by the University inviting Franchise Experts to give an overview and industry insights on the Franchise Business Opportunity.

Startup Weekend Chennai CEG organized a Hackathon, at the College of Engineering Guindy from February 21-23, 2020. Shyam Sekar S, Founder and CEO – Startup Xperts was part of the Jury panel for this Final Pitch session.

Startup Weekend is a 54-hour entrepreneurial hackathon where ideas are transformed into startups over a weekend. Startup Weekend is powered by Google for Startups initiative and is a well-recognized community of 193,000 members spread over 140 countries. This was limited to 120 attendees categorized into – Developers, UI/UX Designers, Hustlers and Ideators.

The teams at Startup Weekend built their prototype and the business model for their dream startup idea. The startup ideas are generic, ranging from artificial intelligence to FMCG-based startups. Three ideas / prototype startups were selected for award on the final day, by the Jury members.

IIT-Madras had shortlisted Startup Finals Pitch event on 19-Jan 2020 at IIT-Madras. 

Around 12 teams were shortlisted for the final pitch and it had innovative and interesting initiatives across industries – agri to e-vehicles. 

Shyam had been part of such events from IIT-Madras for almost 4-5 years now.  He quoted that some of the initiatives were very interesting and potential to scale higher and that most times they were wanting a proper mentoring support to guide them thru’ the business side of their initiative. 

The Jury members included Shyam Sekar, Founder CEO – Startup Xperts, Chandran Krishnan – CEO Chennai Angels, Gopala Krishnan from Deshpande Startups, and Jeetendra Kang – Director of Flex.  The finalists were given 5 mins to pitch and Q&A session was planned for an additional 5-mins from the Jury end. 

The talk Big Ideas organized the last of 2019 event at Coimbatore, on 18-Dec at Radisson Blue Hotel.  Like the previous events it had many interesting talks and panel discussions.

Startup Xperts was the Knowledge Partner for the talk and had identified Award Winners for 3 Emerging SMEs of Coimbatore, 3 Emerging Women Entrepreneurs of Coimbatore and one Rural Entrepreneur Award as well. 

Mr Shyam Sekar, Founder and CEO -Startup Xperts was a Panel Speaker along with Mr Kaarthick – CEO, Cultiv8, and moderated by Prof. Arvind Subramanyam – CEO and Dean, Firebird Institute of Research and Management, Coimbatore.