UK Entrepreneur Lord Karan Billimoria to address Indian Entrepreneurs at Delhi next month
Britain to up its India focus: To invite Indian entrepreneurs
New Delhi August 23, 2012
Eminent thought leaders on entrepreneurship, start-up strategists
and fund managers are heading to New Delhi next
month for India’s
annual conference on entrepreneurship.
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) conference -- TiEcon Delhi 2012 -- with 1000
entrepreneurs and start-ups wannabes will be addressed by leaders including
celebrated first
generation entrepreneur Lord Karan Billimoria will be speaking at the opening
session of TiEcon Delhi 2012, Asia’s biggest entrepreneurial gathering, on
September 28, 2012 on how to spot opportunities and pitfalls as an entrepreneur
and how to handle success and failure.
Lord Billimoria,
who founded Britain’s most loved beer brand Cobra and received the CBE in 2004
for services to business, is President of the UK-India Business Council and a
founding member of the Prime Minister of India’s Global Advisory Council.
British High Commissioner to India
Sir James Bevan CMG will kick off the two- day TiEcon at New
Delhi on Friday September 28, 2012, opening United Kingdom’s
doors to Indian entrepreneurs in a host of exciting areas in science,
technology and education.
Britain’s Trade and Investment Board, charged
with promoting investments by entrepreneurial firms in the UK, is sending a high-level
delegation led by its UKTI’s dealmaker Alpesh Patel, to the TiEcon.
Dr Robert H. Gertner, Professor and Deputy Dean at Chicago University’s Booth School of Business will
expound time-tested mantras of entrepreneurial strategy and social
entrepreneurship.
Several American
fund houses specializing in early stage and growth stage start-ups in the
Technology, Internet, Mobile, Education, Media
and Lifestyle domains will participate in the deliberations and share their
funding experience in India
while unveiling their future strategy for the country.
Large US fund
houses are expected to announce their India investment plans as well.
This may add significantly to the overall investor confidence in Indian
start-ups.
Dwelling on the conference theme “Entrepreneurship
-Thriving in Chaos”,
Mr Sanjeev Bikhchandani, President, TiE Delhi-NCR said, “TiEcon Delhi 2012 is a celebration
of dreamers who, unmindful of a hazy future, are striving to push the bar of
economy through innovation, perseverance and determination.
“The TiEcon Delhi 2012 organising team is putting together
an agenda that will showcase innovators, risk takers and doers who have created
opportunities out of nowhere. The event offers an opportunity to hear
inspirational success stories of entrepreneurs and TiE Charter Members,” he added.
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