Theme: Life: Expect the Unexpected

The first major gathering of successful Entrepreneurs from various fields of life. Gather around a room full of collaborating ideas with different minds, innovative new thoughts and a new step into knowing the unknown.

NMIMS Indore Campus
Super Corridor Road, Bada Bangarda, Gandhi Nagar
second floor
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 452005
India

Ankit Aggarwal

Founder : Dare2compete

Ankit Aggarwal, Founder & CEO of Dare2compete is a star entrepreneur from IMT Ghaziabad. He founded Dare2Compete with vision of creating a unified platform where colleges and management students could interact, share and compete. Ankit explained his motivations and entrepreneurial vision behind Dare2Compete saying “ With hundreds of B-schools organizing events at different points of time, there was a need for a platform that could help students find out about competitions and events for participation and the colleges needed a medium to reach out to maximum students across the country for conducting a successful competition." With more than 3700 registrations from top 60 B-Schools and after collaborating with 43 top B-schools, Dare2compete.com is trying to address this need. Their network of 43 top B-schools which include IIMs, XLRI, FMS, NITIE, IMT, SP Jain etc. has already created a platform in which information flow from and to organizers to the students happens instantly.

Athar Ali Nagpurwala

Co-Founder-Chai Kaapi, Founder & CEO-Scool

Every foodie of Indore would be well known to the brand “Chai Kaapi”- an initiative from the burning entrepreneurial mind of Athar Ali Nagpurwala. Mr.Athar Ali started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 19; he has been the brain behind the debut of many successful startups in Central India.He explored the far-flung corners of the nation and during this, he was suddenly struck with an idea of “Chai Kaapi”. Earnestly, he started to work on materializing his dream into reality. Finally, a year later in 2016, his hard efforts paid him off.He started a popular brand “Chai Kaapi”.Thereon, Mr. Nagpurwala never looked back. Within a short span of 3 years, he opened 18 outlets across the country.Under the company name Flying Turtles Food and Beverages Pvt Ltd, he swept the wave of cafe culture across the cleanest city of India, Indore.Now after a successful operational exit he is on his way to build another startup from scratch,called Scool, which aims to revolutionize how people learn.

Dilip Auti

Corporate trainer, Life Mentor

Mr. Dilip Auti is the motivational speaker, Author, Educator, Entrepreneur, Life Coach, Facilitator for coaching and counselling, Group Dynamics, Selling Skills, and Personality Development. He inspires and encourages individuals to realize their true potential. A young and dynamic personality, he excels in his understanding of the human mind and understands the problems of our society. Through his vast knowledge and profound experiences, he introduces “Life Changing Process” will definitely change your perspective of life and make it crystal clear, far-sighted and productive. His is a voice that re-imagines what life is and shows you a different path without changing the goal. Every single person who learns from him is benefited in all the various aspects of life, namely, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially and socially.

Divya Rathod

Researcher & Young Scientist

She is a student of NMIMS and also the founder of Silvery Nanos. "A creative way to keep bathroom clean." Beside being a co-founder of this company she is also the winner of chancellor challenge 2018. Her story started from 10th STD when she published "Plastic degradation from bio-degradation." She then quit M.B.B.S and got into research. She got an invitation from Oxford and Newton Scholarship. As a first year student she received the title of "Student of the Year" and got honored with PDD Desai Trophy. In second year she became the Secretary of Bhavans Association of Microbiologist.She was selected in summer school 2014 where top 50 students all over from Maharashtra were taken on basis of their invention.Her invention was - “safety belt for women’’ She got selected in ICMR under director where only 2 seats were available on an all India basis.She was recently selected by high commission of India, Singapore for exhibiting her products in Singapore as a part of India Singapore summit.

Manish Tyagi

Stand-up Comic, Corporate trainer

Manish Tyagi or "The Knotty Commander" as he is popularly known in the comedy circuit, is one of the best and the busiest stand-up comics, travelling within India and abroad. He has performed solo at multiple locations across the country. Till date he has done over 50 solo shows, hosted over 100 shows and many more open mics. Manish used to be a commander in the Indian Navy before he decided to become a Stand up Comic sometime in 2014. His Facebook page and YouTube channel have over 95,000 followers with multiple videos having almost 1 million plus organic viewership.His jokes have also been aired on 91.1 FM and 94.3 FM. Manish is also a regular performer at Canvas Laugh Club in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida and also at the Taj properties across India. Manish has spoken at Josh Talks, 9 TEDx talks and has also performed at a few corporate gigs. He has performed for iamSME of India, Madhyamam, Tata Sky,Tanishq, Tata Motors, VLCC, DSV India, McKinsey India, Cummins, various conferences, etc.

Navrajvir Singh

CEO : Raletta technology

Navrajvir Singh is an entrepreneur, leader, mentor and a motivational speaker. He has a natural entrepreneurial drive. His overpowering need to create something of his own gave birth to his IT company. His company recently won the Madhya Pradesh brand leadership award. His inspirational speeches are loved by all the students from all the premier institutes of India such as IIM (Indore), Symbiosis (Indore) and PIMR to name a few. With marketing as his strength, Navrajvir switches gears effortlessly from the inception of an idea to its execution.

Neha Jain

Civil Servant, Educator

"Compassion is what makes you human and wisdom is what makes you a complete one". Having this motto in life Neha started her journey just like any another engineer. Her quest to gain knowledge and to serve people, compelled her to leave a high paying job in software and steer life in another direction. She has worked in multiple sectors like Private, Government and NGO. Now a Civil Servant she has no intention to stop. She believes that failures are more important than success as they teach us the most and one should not stop themselves from exploring the inner self and the outside world.

Nihad Panju

Athlete , Marathon Runner

Nihad Panju is a marathon runner. At the age of 5 months, he was diagnosed with Tubercular Meningitis which left him with a left-sided Hemiplegia (partial paralysis caused by brain injury). His parents tried every possible conventional and alternative therapy and treatment available, but there was very little to no improvement and as years went by, they gradually accepted that a hurt brain cannot be fixed but there were ways to overcome obstacles that he would face in life. He believes that people must not allow any kind of disability to stop them from achieving their dreams. With determination and hard work one can do anything he/she wants to - even if they are told achieving something is impossible. He believes If he can do it then anyone else can. Nihad’s story is that of grit, perseverance, character and resilience. His achievements in sports have given the world an identity to inspire from.

Nikita Sharma

Model, Founder - Silver Linings

Nikita Sharma was just 16 years old, a vivacious teenager, when she decided to start her association ‘Silver Linings’ —Her dream venture to support cancer awareness, and do her bit to educate the world that little bit more about the disease. At 21, the Bengaluru-based youngster has seen her persona take on many more eclectic fronts over the last five years —that of a fitness enthusiast, motivational speaker, a microbiologist, a dancer, model and beauty queen to boot! She participated in Miss India, and finished among the top three finalists in the Karnataka state, and won a slew of sub-titles as well. But though the glamour world fascinates her, Nikita’s focus is clear today on her cancer activism. She is honored with the Young Woman Achievers Award from the International Woman Empowerment Conclave (IWEC) recently, and now more determined to handle the multiple aspects to her life continually -- with consummate ease, as she always has.

Rahul Bhatnagar

Professional speaker , Founder : USP

Rahul Bhatnagar is an Entrepreneur & a Professional Speaker. He has been a professional speaker since the past 12 years. He started his entreprenurial journey 8 years ago. He and his team survived at just Rs. 500 each on a monthly basis. He made the transition of taking his content online and has emerged as one of the pioneers of self education in the country. He has conducted 200+ Sessions and inspired more than 2,00,000 people. He holds the world record of delivering 50 speeches on 50 Consecutive days. Rahul & his team conducted one of the biggest digital events of India in Goa.His talk on the prestigious Josh Talks YouTube channel is became their top 7 talks within just 5 months. He has been instrumental in creating thousands of success stories and is committed to empower lives and serve as a mentor to millions of people.

Tarang Chandola

Ex - Bodybuilder, Co-founder CWAT APPS

Tarang Chandola co-founder of CWAT APPS lives by the words "If you think it, You can do it", Tarang Chandola is young, versatile and vibrant. His mantra is "Don't just dream but execute." He's a man with a plan who makes things happen. He has a panache and penchant for problem solving. Tarang is enthused by investing his time learning about and investing in ventures in a wide variety of domains. He stated out from the fitness industry, then expanded to hospitality, then to IT, eventually media, marketing and Talent acquisition. Sustainable development has been something that has been close to Tarang's heart all this while and he wishes to actively work on providing solutions for problems that plague the world. A learner at heart and in life, he is always open to growing in any industry and field.

Vani Kabir

Writer, Public Speaker

She is a global TEDx speaker who has floored the audience with her hard hitting talks. An upcoming author for a space opera, high fiction book for which she is working with Stanford University, San Francisco. She has completed NanoWriMo writing, one of the toughest courses (from Stanford continuing studies). She has given a week long lecture at the University of Cape Town to students from Norway and New Zealand. She is a proud single mother who started her life from scratch after she got divorced and started looking for consultancies and jobs. She faced every obstacle that a single mother would face but she worked harder than one can imagine.Her career started 13 years ago and currently she is a Senior Creative Director with a leading firm in New Delhi. Most of her work has honored her with some of the most prestigious global awards of the fraternity like Cannes gold, Graphics gold, New York Festivals, One Show Design just to name a few.