The second Idea Opportunity Validation Bootcamp was held on 28 – 29 April and the concluding session on 5 May. The bootcamp gave early stage start-ups, budding entrepreneurs, professionals with a start-up idea and corporates exploring new products a hands-on-sessions and one-to-one guidance from investors and mentors.
The Bootcamp was organised to help founders and early stage start-ups assess their start-up ideas, evaluate the market opportunities, establish their unique value propositions and evolve an initial start-up business plan.
The key speakers were Radhika Meenakshi, Founder Wise Owl consulting; Ramesh Loganathan, Professor Co-Innovation lab and COO, CIE-IIIT-H; Rakesh Bhatia, Partner Beyond Strategy Consulting; Abhay Deshpande, Founder and CEO of MartJack; Bhanu Prakash Varla, Partner & Director Grey logic technologies; SyamPeela, Director & Partner, Evoke technologies; Viiveck Varma, Co-Founder & Partner IIIT-H Seedfund; Vikrant Varshney. Co-Founder & Managing Partner, SucSEED Ventures; Anurag Garg, Sr.Director, Voice Engineering GM- India Innovation Centre; Ajay Jain, Principal Co-Founder, XSeed partners and V. V. S. N Raju, CoFounder, IIIT-H Seedfund.