UNLEASH YOUR POTENTIAL: FROM IDEA TO IMPACT
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If you’ve been toying with an idea, exploring entrepreneurship, or simply wondering what it takes to build something meaningful — this day-long session is for you.
Unleash Your Potential: From Idea to Impact is a deep dive into what it really takes to turn early sparks into ventures that can scale. Across the day, you’ll hear from some of the sharpest minds in the ecosystem — people who’ve shaped companies, backed founders, and seen the journey up close, those who bring years of hard-earned wisdom from being in the arena.
Expect practical insights, candid stories, and frameworks you can actually use. By the end of the day, you’ll walk away with clarity, direction, and a sharper sense of how to take your idea forward.
Dr Siddhartha Das, General Partner, VenturEast and Parag Dhol, General Partner, Athera Venture Partners will moderate all sessions
AGENDA:
10:00am to 10:30am
REGISTRATION AND COFFE/TEA BREAK
10:30AM TO 11:45AM - ENTREPRENEURSHIP
THE JOURNEY FROM GUT FEELING TO GREAT SUCCESS
Being an entrepreneur is brutal. Everything is screaming for your attention and decision. How do you manage your bandwidth and keep your sanity? This session will help you in evolving and sharpening a mindset that lets you prioritise - from establishing your company culture, to focusing on attracting the best talent, to shipping a great product on time, and, to raising and managing money.
• Atul Shinghal, CEO, Scripbox
11:45AM to 12:00PM
NETWORKING AND TEA/COFFEE
12:00PM TO 1:15PM - VENTURE CAPITAL
FUNDRAISING: DECODING THE METHOD TO THE MADNESS
This session on Venture Capital will focus on how VCs evaluate and assess startups as part of their funding philosophy and strategy. This will help you tailor your pitch to what's important to them.
• Vinay Rao, Partner, VenturEast
1:15PM to 2:30PM
LUNCH
2:30PM TO 3:15PM - FINANCE
PRIORITISING FINANCE - THE USUAL BLIND SPOT
This session on Finance will cover various aspects of fiscal responsibility including zero based budgeting and financial controls, and statutory and mandatory compliance requirements. You may understand numbers, but understanding Finance is critical, and a different ball game.
• Ujjwal Agrawal, Head - Finance; Tricog
3:30PM TO 4:45PM - SALES AND MARKETING
DEVELOPING A GTM STRATEGY
This session on Sales & Marketing will emphasize the importance of various marketing strategies (technical, channel & insight marketing, brand building, SaaS etc) and in identifying sustainable revenue streams to achieve both revenue maximization and profitability. This will help you in sending the right message and be a magnet for your potential customers.
• Anant Sood, President & Cofounder, worxogo
• Anuradha Narasimhan, Faculty for Entrepreneurship, IIT Bombay
4:45PM
NETWORKING AND TEA/COFFEE
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