Entrepreneurship Cell

 Got hackathon ideas but missing the wins?
This is where ideas turn into trophies 

 E-Cell SAKEC presents
 Meet the Innovator 
A power-packed session with past hackathon winners, sharing tips to crack SIH and other big hackathons, gain insider insights, and boost your confidence to turn ideas into wins! 

 Guest Innovator Spotlight:

Meet the tech enthusiasts who’ve not only played the game but mastered it:

 Joel Pawar — AI/ML engineer, 2x SIH winner & Mumbai Hacks Champion

 Amir Zakaria — Product developer, 3x SIH winner & UNESCO Int’l Hack Winner

 Date: 9th September, 2025

 Time: 1 pm to 4 pm

 Venue: 7th Floor Auditorium

 Register now: https://forms.gle/Kf6BKnsMgLejHgpH8

 Contact:

Riteshraj Panda : +91 77180 63429

Varshit Jain : +91 98197 56206

 Register now and level up your hackathon game!

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Mr. Gautam Bambawale, IFS, Rtd. Inidan Diplomat, India’s Ex-Ambassador to China”, on 23rd April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 15 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership Talk with Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, President, Indian Councilfor Cultural Relations (ICCR)”, on 16th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India 10 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership Talk with Mr Ronnie Screwvala, Chairman, UpGrad, Founder UTV (Now Walt Disney India)”, on 17th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 15 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Prof. K. K. Aggrawal, Chairman, NBA, Govt of India”, on 18th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 20 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Mr. Yashraj Bhardwaj, Co-Founder, Zenith Vipers & Partner Ensure Equity”, on 20th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 25 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Mr. Gururaj Deshpande, Indian-American Venture Capitalist & Entrepreneur”, on 21st April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 20 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Padmashri Vaidya Rajesh Kotacha, Secretary, Ministry of Ayush, Govt. of India”, on 22nd April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 20 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Dr. Abhay Jere, CIO, MHRD – On Changing Shape of Higher Education in the Covid 19 Era”, on 26th April 2020. It was organized by MHRD, Government of India. 20 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Mr. BVR Mohan Reddy, Ex-Chairman, Nasscom, Chairman, Cyient”, on 27th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 40 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Ms. Anu Acharya, Founder and CEO, MapMyGenome”, on 28th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 40 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promote “Leadership talk with Dr. Madhuri Kanitkar, Lieuteenant General”, on 2nd May 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 40 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Prof. DP Singh, Chairman, UGC, Government of India”, on 9th May 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 40 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

The Nation Innovation Contest 2020 organised by MHRD’s Innovation Cell is being conducted at Institutional level by IIC 2.0 in collaboration with the E-Cell. In order to make students aware of the rules of the contest and give them the handholding support in submitting their ideas, PoC and Prototype, the PoC validation workshop was conducted online by IIC 2.0 with the E-Cell. All the groups that are participating in NIC 2020 attended it. Students were guided for their ideas, PoC and prototype submission.

Dear Students,
Everyone has a dream of starting his own business/industry. However, not everyone dares to take a step for it. Reason – Lack of awareness, lack of proper guidance for setting up the business, marketing, sales, startup registration process and most importantly, funding! E-Cell has the intention to help you make your dream come true. We are going to give you the hand holding support till your startup gets established in the market. To start with, we are enrolling the students who want to go for their own startup so that we can bring best guides, mentors from the industry/Government to groom them up for it. Click the following link to enroll:
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/BuzPEtCUdbSrgyF77
Last Date of enrollment: Friday, 14/08/2020

Dear Students,
Are you tired of listening to words like innovation, creativity because everyone tells you to be innovative but no one tells you how? Here is an opportunity for you to learn innovation from great masters of IIT Gandhinagar. Yes, Center for Creative Learning, IIT Gandhinagar is a place where Maths and Science meets arts, technology meets creativity and a place where Engineering is at its Best! “EKLAVYA” is a series of sessions aimed at teaching creative use of Science and Technology to develop innovative projects/articles/toys. During your engineering journey, you need to participate in various national/international level competitions like Smart India Hackathon, Toycathon, Deep Blue Hackathon etc. The participation in the program will give you great inputs on how to use Science and Technology to solve the society related problems. The details are as given below:
Name of the Program: EKLAVYA
Nature of the Program: Online, every Sunday from 4 PM to 5 PM.
Fees: NIL
Participation Certificate: Rs 100/- + Tax
Competency Certificate Rs 100/- + Tax
Register now

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India”, on 8th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 15 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership Talk with Ms. Shradhha Sharma, Founder CEO of Your Story”, on 15th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 15 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted MHRD Mega online challenge, “Samadhan”, on 17th April 2020 launched by MIC and AICTE in collaboration with Forge and InnovatioCuris to test the ability of students and Educators to innovate. The participants in this challenge will design, simulate and develop such measures that can be made available to the government agencies, health services, hospitals and other services for quick solutions to the Coronavirus epidemic and other such calamities. Apart from this, through this “SAMADHAN” challenge, work will be done to make citizens aware, to motivate them, to face any challenge, to prevent any crisis and to help people get livelihood.Apart from this, through this challenge, work will be done to make citizens aware, to motivate them, to face any challenge, to prevent any crisis and to help people get livelihood. The details of the competition can be accessed from www.mic.gov.in/samadhan.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership Talk with Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems Ltd.”, on 14th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 15 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership Talk with Dr. VK Saraswat, Member NITI Aayog”, on 13th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 20 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership Talk with Mr Abhishek Singh, CEO, MyGov India”, on 11th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 25 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Prof. Partha Chakraborty, Chairman National Digital Library, Ex-Director, IIT Kharagpur”, on 10th April,2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 10 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership talk with Prof. Anil D. Sahasrbudhe, Chairman, AICTE”, on 9th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 8 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 did the “Promotion of Idea Submission for the Launch of 5G hackathon by Department of Telecommunications”, organized by MHRD on 7th April 2020. 10 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.

E-CELL SAKEC inaugurated Innovation Center and Training in SAKEC on 29th January 2019. The Institute has purchased a software from InnovationNext to set up the Innovation Center. Mr Pravin Rajpal, CEO, InnovationNext conducted a motivational and training session focusing on the software.

E-CELL SAKEC organized a seminar on effective Presentation Skills on >b>13th March 2019. The talk was delivered by SAKEC Third year EXTC student Mr. Shiekh Mohd. Salman.

E-CELL SAKEC organized a seminar on Stress Free exams on 13th March 2019. The session was delivered by Ms. Hansa Joshi and Mr. Rajesh Joshi. The session was aimed at >b>helping students deal with their exam related problems like becoming blank, forgetting the studies at the time exams/viva, lack of confidence etc. The speaker gave certain tips to deal with the exam related problem. The speakers also taught Sukshma Vyayam – A light exercise that the students can do in order to keep themselves energetic and active. The speaker took different questions from students and answered them.

E-CELL SAKEC organized a workshop on Working with Geodesics on 1st and 2nd September 2019. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Milind Khairnar, Assistant Professor, SAKEC and Mr. Aditya Sahani, SAKEC – Innovation Cell – Student Council Head. The workshop was aimed at teaching creative use of Geometry and create beautiful and useful objects.

E-CELL SAKEC organized a workshop on National Policy for innovation and startups on 19th December 2019. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Milind Khairnar, Assistant Professor, SAKEC. The workshop was aimed at creating awareness on national policy on innovation and startup.

E-CELL SAKEC organized a workshop on Technical Paper Writing on 14th and 15th January 2020 for First year and Second year engineering students. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Awab Fakih who is currently working as Assistant Professor in department of Electronics and Telecommunication at Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. Mr. Awab Habib Fakih secured First prize in the Avishkar Research Competition at Local Region & District Level under Ph.D. Pursuing Category, awarded by Vice-Chancellor of Mumbai University and was honoured with the “Young Teacher Award 2019”.

E-CELL SAKEC organized a workshop, Working with Geodesics-2 on 24th January 2020. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Milind Khairnar, Incharge, E-Cell SAKEC and Mr. Aditya Sahani, SAKEC – Innovation Cell – Student Council Head. The workshop aimed at teaching creative way to look at Mathematical and Geometric Concepts and building useful objects from it.

E-CELL SAKEC organized a session “Introduction to Cryptocurrency & Blockchain” on 7th February 2020. The session was conducted by Mr. Rupesh Shetty from EXTO. The session was aimed at creating awareness about the cryptocurrency. The speaker explained the concept of cryptocurrency and blockchain, its advantages and risk involved in it. He also explained EXTO exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange and the business opportunities in it.

E-CELL SAKEC organized the “FOOD FIESTA” at the SAKEC campus on 17th February 2020. The session was aimed at providing a platform to students who want to exercise their entrepreneurial talent. The idea was allowing the students to adapt a food stall in the campus and run it for a day. Great enthusiasm was seen among the participating students as well as faculty members of the institute.

E-CELL SAKEC organized the “SHARK TANK 2020”, a 3 days intercollegiate event for gearing up the start-ups and industry revolutionizing on 5th, 6th and 7th March 2020. Day 1 flagged with Training for pitching the start-up idea by Mr. Awab Fakih. Day 2 included Mock pitching and Mentoring which was also qualifying round by successful entrepreneurs namely Mr. Anil Ahire, Mr. Kushal Shah and Mr. Vansh Pandya, who are also our Alumni. Day 3 involved the Final Pitching round in front of investors.

E-CELL SAKEC in collaboration with IIC 2.0 promoted “Leadership Talk with Mr. Abhishek Suryavanshi, Director, Wikipedia, Swastha “, on 7th April 2020. It was organized by Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD, Government of India. 21 students attended the talk broadcasted on Dr. Abhay Jere’s Twitter handle, @abhayjere.