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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”.

SRM School of Management headed by Dr.Jayashree Suresh organized the second edition of Commencia 2016 at their SRM University campus premises in Chennai between the 4th and 7th of April 2016.

Commencia 2016 is an entrepreneurship carnival that provides a platform for talented entrepreneurs to showcase their products and business acumen. They seek to accelerate their entry into the corporate world.

Commencia 2016 hosts many events that aim at challenging and promoting the business spirit within its participants. Their flagship event is called the Startup Expo. Participants can bring their idea, prototype or product and win an opportunity for visibility or funding from one of our angel investors. The Startup Expo was held on 6th April 2016.

Startup Xperts was invited to be their mentor and also act as a judge for their Startup Expo. Speaking on the occasion, Shyam said, “A good initiative by the SRM students team. Was able to pick 2 good ideas to the final stage, and interesting to see the entrepreneurial spirit amongst the student community. Happy to have been a part of it”.

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) organized ‘Startup Expo’, the first big event managed by their E-cell (Entrepreneurship cell) during 2-3 April 2016 at their campus. Startups showcased their products and ideas, and demonstrated in their booths/stalls. Shyam Sekar, Founder and Chief Mentor was invited to take part on two separate events of this Startup expo initiative. First is to be a ‘mentor and judge’ for their Startup ‘Pitch fest’, and then to be a key ‘speaker’ for their boot camp day. Shyam presented on the topic ‘what it takes to build a successful startup in today’s ecosystem?’ to numerous startup enthusiasts, aspiring entrepreneurs, and startups. In total there were 12 products/solutions presented by IIT students and external startup teams.