Thursday, September 22, 2011

Talking to Students at IIT on Social Enterprise

Last month (August), I had the opportunity to speak on social entrepreneurship at the IIT-Kharagpur campus, at an Idea Conference organized by the Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT-K in association with the National Social Entrepreneurship Forum (NSEF). I spoke on the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship, and why we need more young and talented students to forge their own destinies as change-makers and social entrepreneurs.

Other speakers included four incredibly inspiring social entrepreneurs: Santanu Bhattacharjee, founder of Technable Solutions, which provides training and employment solutions for white-collar jobs; Kaushlendra, founder of Kaushalya Foundation, which focuses on organizing and branding the informal sector for vegetable vendors; and Manish Kumar and Shashank Kumar, both IIT-Alums and founders of Farms ‘n Farmers, which provides end-to-end solutions for improving productivity and livelihoods of poor farmers in Bihar.







Read more about the conference here.

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