ICGE - Updated with pics

The International conference on global Entrepreneurship was held at SRM University in the outskirts of Chennai from Dec 20-22nd 2007 . I was one of the delegates and it was the first time I'm participating in something like this thou' I have been thinking of pursuing a career in Entrepreneurship for a couple of years now. I presented a paper on "Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality Industry" (guess I was one of the youngest participants in the conference) . I enjoyed the whole experience and looking forward for more such events.

The Chief guest of the conference was Ashok Soota (Chairman and MD Mindtree consulting) . There were very many invited talks from eminent people from world over . Had participants from India, Singapore, Japan, US and Iran . It was a very diverse and new experience for me. The most interesting part of this conference was the panel discussion . There were panel discussions in the areas of Women Entrepreneurship , Educational Entrepreneurship, Youth Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship .

Panel discussion on Women and Youth Entrepreneurship were a few of my favorites as I was able to connect with what they spoke.. If I go into detail Im sure the post would continue for pages . The most inspiring talks were by Shalin jain and Sarath Babu , the two youth Entrepreneurs . The panel discussions were most headed by prof. from Virginia university and Women Entrepreneurship panel was geaded by Dr.Sushila rao (C0-founder Soft skills India).

These 3 days turned out to be very enlightening and I have gained a lot too and have come up with a few quotes myself , will share it with you guys in my Moday morning inspiration. Thank you all for your wishes ,like I said my presentation went well ..

This post is not complete yet have a few pics to upload my broadband is kinda low, so uploading pics at the moment is taking time . Will let you all know after uploading , you can see the upload message in my title.. :)

Inaugration of the conference by planting saplings (There is one big story behind why they chose to plant saplings for inaugration , that might take up another full post)

Panelists of the Women Entrepreneurship discussion

Panelist of the educational entrepreneurship discussion

Mr. Sarath Babu and Mr.Shalin Jain , during the panel discussion on Youth Entrepreneurship

Sarath Babu's mom - the lady who helped him reach great heights . (I spoke to both of them and they are so down to earth and humble . Hats off to the mom - son duo )

That's Shalin Jain's entreprise - they have come up with some amazing softwares.

Shalin Jain's blog space

Mr.Sarath Babu during his talk .

Sorry, about the poor quality of the pics . Thanks for bearing with me :)

My presentation, conference and entrepreneurs...

The conference(ICGE, which I was talking about in my last before post ) has enlightened me in many ways .. Im yet to give my presentation , which will be tomorrow.. At the end of the 2nd day in the 3 day conference I am so excited . Not because I have my presentation tomorrow that may matter only partly but the best thing of these two days were the kind of people I met a LOT of entrepreneurs (thou' not very popular but im sure quite a few of you would have heard about them they are mainly Indian entrepreneurs.. It was a very exciting forum , much better than what I had expected of it. The line up of spreakers were amazing , I jus' truly enjoyed every moment there .. One more day to go and I hope I could make the best use of it too . I have a few pics to put it up here..Due to the lack of time and in availablity of the connecting cable will do it sometime later ..

You all have a lovely weekend and a great time too!

P.S : Due to lack of time im not able to drop by any of your blogs, guess I will be back to my routine starting monday :)

Cheers

My day to day rambling...

This week is turning out to be something like I have never seen before .. My room is so messy and so is my house and it smells paint everywhere... Im jus' praying all the time that I don't end up feeling sick during my presentation which is to be held at the later part of the week..( we will come to that later)

For the last 3 days I have been preparing for my prsentation in an elevated position .. let me explain.. On my cot there were 3 beds stacked and i was sitting on top of it and preparing.. was so FUNNY.. and to top it all we had some guests dropping by home today for you know what ??? They wanted to have a look at our home as they are planning to renovate their house.. huff..So we had to show our messy house to them .. I wonder what they thot at the moment thou' they knew we were re painting it.. I jus' so felt that I wasn't at home when they dropped by ... Usually everyone decides to paint when its not raining , so did we.. but from the day we started painting its been raining cats and dogs ( not literally thou') this again makes things all the more messy .. And we can't stop with the work , as this is the only time we get to do before new year and Pongal ( a south indian festival)..

My messy room with everything stocked in here
the mess continues...

a flake of paint which was scrapped out..

wardrobes covered before painting...

all the painting stuff..

So, about my presentation .. Im presenting a paper in the International conference on global Entrepreneurship which is to be held in my college for the next 3 days. And the details of my paper ,will write it in another post .. I have been informed that my paper is selected and i need to present it in the conference but haven't got the information on which day i will be presenting as yet..Im sure there are no presentations on the first day of the conference as per the schedule, so that's iving me a little peace.. Im jus' so worried as this is the 1st presentation im gonna do.. Wish me good luck and I jus' hope all turns out to be fine..

I might not be around in the blogsville much for the next 3 days .. Have a great week and a wonderful weekend!