Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)

The Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) of IMT Nagpur aims at fostering creative thinking and nurturing an entrepreneurial spirit among the student managers by conducting sensitization workshops, entrepreneurship development programme, business plan competition, and sessions with eminent entrepreneurs, and internships with growth stage startups.

IIC Activities Conducted During Academic Year 2024-25

Entrepreneurship Talk (8/7/2024 & 11/7/2024)

Abhishek Azad, Partner-Tossin Pizza & Executive VP- The Middleby Corporation
Satendrasingh Lilhare, Co-Founder-Bastar Se Bazar Tak
Sukhada Chaudhary, VP, Community & Content at Rang De
Sahil Chawla, Co-founder and CEO of Tsecond
Wasudev Ganeshprasad Mishra, Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Silaigram

Avsar – Business Plan Workshop & Competition (31/8/2024)

Business Plan workshop conducted by Mr. Satendra Srivastava (Director, Institute of Capability Building), Mr. Sweekar Pawar (Incubation Manager-36INC), and Mr. Abhijeet Sharma (Incubation Manager- NITRRFIE)
Post Workshop, a Business Plan Competition was organized in which students participated in teams. The top 3 teams were awarded with cash prizes.

Voyage – Startup Internship Fair (29/11/2024 – 2/12/2024)

34 Startup Founders & Co-Founders visited IMT Nagpur campus and shared their experiences with the student managers
90 student managers were offered 8 weeks of internships with the participating startups

Pantheon – constitute a series of five events: Aarambh, Inspirio, Venture Verse, Launchpad, and Seed to Scale (24/1/2025 – 25/1/2025 and 15/2/2025)

Subhash Ingewar, Assistant Director-MSME DFO talked about government funding support to startups
Sandip Khedkar, CEO-YCCE Incubation Center and Dr. Ashutosh Bagade, BioNest Incubation Center in Nagpur talked about incubation support during Ventre Verse
Pratap Shukla, CEO-Take IT Ideas Innovations Pvt. Ltd judged team for simulating business ventures in digital environment during Launchpad
Shashikant Chowdhary, a veteran Startup Mentor based in Nagpur gave talk during Inspirio
Arvind Modi, Partner-Satguru Catalyzer Fund, and Mr. Chetan Ruwatia, Senior Finance Associate-Capital 2 Be, evaluated business plans for Seed to Scale