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Mr. Shyam Sekar S, Founder and Chief Mentor, Startup Xperts, was a key speaker on the occasion of the MOP Vaishnav College’s Silver Jubilee Edition of ICCCMIT 2017. This was their third International Conference on Communication, Computing, and Information Technology and held on 3-4 Feb 2017. He also was the judge for their social program initiative for a rural Digital India on their pitch day.

Also, as part of their Entrepreneurship Awareness Program, Mr. Shyam also gave a session on ‘Building successful Startup Enterprises’ on 1-Mar 2017. This program was arranged as part of their Silver Jubilee celebrations organized by Ministry of Entrepreneurship Student Cabinet.

Rajalakshmi Institutions had organized a startup event by name Venture-Pitch. This event drew students who aspire to become entrepreneurs, from across many colleges in Chennai. Shyam Sekar S, Founder and Chief Mentor at Startup Xperts was invited to be their Chief Guest and Judge for this event. This was held at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Tandalam, Chennai, on the 4-Jan 2017.

The event witnessed idea formulation, poster competition, and finally pitch to Chief Guests, Jury, to qualify for prizes. There were many teams that had participated; finally about a dozen teams pitched in the final round and 3 of them won the prizes based on their innovation component, feasibility of their solution, articulation of their pitch and technology as an enabler.

Startup Xperts is the Digital Marketing Partner for Small Enterprise Business Awards 2016 (SEBA2016)

Startup Xperts has been signed up to be the Digital Marketing Partner for the upcoming Small Enterprise Business Awards 2016 (SEBA 2016) being held in Bangalore. SEBA 2016 recognizes and awards SMEs and Startups who have made an outstanding business achievement in their respective industry. This Small Enterprise Business Awards is organized by Aspire Media Pvt Ltd. The Small Enterprise India Business Awards program was conceived to recognize the most outstanding small businesses across the cities, towns and villages in India. There are 6 Startup Awards and 42 SME Awards, totaling to 48 awards. The award ceremony has been planned to be telecasted live by NDTV on 10-Dec 2016.

SEBA2016 has prominent partners that includes KPMG, NDTV, India Mart, amongst others.

Shyam Sekar S, Founder and Chief Mentor of Startup Xperts has also been invited to act as the Jury member to shortlist the nominees and select award winners.

DHI Labs team from Germany and also the German Government’s representative involved in Climate change and technologies, had organized Cimathon, a pitch event aimed at clean energy solutions. This event was held on Friday, 28 – Oct 2016 at Anna University, Guindy and Dr Ravi Kumar of CED, College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, had provided support in putting together this event.

Mr Shyam Sekar S, Founder and Chief Mentor – Startup Xperts, was a Jury member to evaluate the shortlisted pitches from the students. Along with Mr Shyam, the other Jury members were Mr Balram Nair, Vice President of Chennai Angels, and Jaydeep Halbe, CEO of Halbe Innovations. Winners were awarded and recognized for their solutions. They may get opportunities to take their project forward based on interest levels at the German office of the representative.

Jury for Dr Kalam Young Achiever Award

Founder and Chief Mentor of Startup Xperts, Shyam Sekar S, was empanelled as a Jury for Dr Kalam Young Achiever Award, held at Anna University, Chennai, in Oct. This was organized by World Youth Federation team.

The event had brought in hundreds of applicants pitching their idea, product, service. The shortlisted ideas were about 60 in all and the award ceremony was held on 15-Oct, on Dr Abdul Kalam’s birthday. Mr Ma Foi Pandiarajan, Minister for School Education, Sports and Youth Welfare graced the occasion. Mr Shyam, and other Jury members also distributed the award trophy and certificates for the shortlisted winners.

Startups Talk, Faad and A.R.M.S came together to organize a startup event at the IIT-Madras Research Park. They had previously organized similar events in Delhi/NCR. This was aimed at budding entrepreneurs to have a better understanding into the startup world and also to network.

This was called as the ‘Open Networking Session’, organized on the 17th July 2016. The organizers had invited 3 speakers – Mr Shyam Sekar, Founder and Chief Mentor @ Startup Xperts, Mr Navnit Krishna, an entrepreneur and an angel investor, and Mr Vijay Krishna, CEO of Samyutam, a robotics and big data software company.

The session’s aim was to have the speakers share their experiences, and ideas, of their own startup, entrepreneur journey, share some success tips, that can be useful for the emerging entrepreneurs to build a successful startup.

The event was attended by a large number of entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs. Post the event Shyam mentioned, “Nice to see so many budding and aspiring entrepreneurs coming on a Sunday evening at this IIT-Madras Research Park. The entrepreneurial ecosystem needs such events and activities to promote entrepreneurship amongst the community. This in turn can certainly help build a good ecosystem”.