Past Events

Title: Title: Visit of the College students from Truba Institute of Pharmacy, Bhopal to the IICE, IISER Bhopal to explore entrepreneurship and incubation facilities.

On April 11^th 2023, the college students from Truba Institute of Pharmacy, Bhopal (M.P.) along with their faculty members visited Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal. The objective of this visit was to gain knowledge about entrepreneurship and understand the functioning of an incubation centre.

During the visit, the students were provided with an overview of the essential aspects of entrepreneurship and the start-up ecosystem, in addition to the tour of Incubation centre's facilities. They also had the opportunity to visit the Institute's Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF), where they learned about the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Mass facility, Single Crystal and Powder facility (XRD), and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) facilities.

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Title: IICE presents "The Start-up Studio" webinar on Lab to Market - Path and Opportunities for Commercialization

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal launched its new online webinar series "The Start-up Studio" in which they organized their first virtual talk on the topic - Lab to Market - Path and Opportunities for Commercialization by Ms. Poyni Bhatt, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), SINE, IIT Bombay

About the Speaker

Speaker – Ms. Poyni Bhatt, Ms. Poyni Bhatt, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), SINE, IIT Bombay

Poyni Bhatt is a qualified legal and compliance professional - A fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), turned to dealing with entrepreneurship and technology business incubation, helping entrepreneurs for over a decade. She has an experience over 3 decades in industry and academia.

She is a founding team member and the Chief Executive Officer of SINE, the technology business incubator at IIT Bombay. She has been involved in more than 200 start-ups supported by SINE since 2004 and actively mentoring start-ups and innovators outside SINE as well. She has handled several collaborative international programs for innovators and entrepreneurs, most recently with Switzerland and Canada. Start-ups supported by SINE have collectively raised approx. USD600 mn. with a collective valuation of USD2.48 bn. SINE's portfolio also includes a unicorn. SINE also got partial exits of its equity holding in more than one-third of the startups supported by it.

Prior to SINE, Poyni had a corporate experience of over a decade in the manufacturing and investment banking sectors, where she headed secretarial, legal, and compliance functions. She has handled IPOs and fundraising, structured corporate M&A deals, and also dealt with various Indian regulators.

She is a member of several committees of government and trade associations for innovation, entrepreneurship, and incubation, and also a member on the boards of several incubators.

Date: March 29^th, 2023 (Thursday), 04:30 PM (IST)

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Title: 8^th India International Science Festival (IISF) 2k22

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) and its Incubatees participated in the 8^th India International Science Festival (IISF) 2k22 Start-up conclave held in Bhopal (M.P.) from 21^st – 24^th January2023 showcasing various technologies and innovations developed with various facilities offered at the Incubation Centre.

IISF is an annual celebration of Innovations in Science & Technology to create the common platform for the incubators and startups to discuss the innovative ideas, translating them to technologies/ products & grant , investment,  business opportunities organized every year by the Ministry of Science & Technology along with Ministry of Earth Science and other Scientific Ministries /Departments of Govt. of India, in association with Vijnana Bharti (VIBHA) - Marching towards Amrit Kaal with Science, Technology and Innovation with Department of Biotechnology as lead organizer. Celebrating IISF 2022 during India's Presidency of the G20 summit provided an additional edge to showcase Indian scientific accomplishments at global level. The activities during the festival fostered the global theme of G20 "One earth, One Family, One Future".

Title: IICE- CurveBall'22

"CurveBall - 2022", the most awaited student entrepreneurial competition was conducted by the Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal. The event received a proactive response from the student’s community and many potential business ideas were presented during the competition. IICE thanks all the respected judges for critical evaluation of business proposals and valuable inputs for the success of event. After judging the presentations from the selected teams, the judges recommended to declare the pre-qualifiers as finals.

The details of the event are as follows:

Deadline for Application: : 11^th October 2022, 11:59 PM (IST)

CurveBall Finals:: October 15^th, 2022 (During Singularity)

Judges of Finals (October 15th, 2022)

• Professor Aasheesh Srivastava – Professor, Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal
• Dr. Debasis Nayak – Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Bhopal
• Dr. Nabamita Banerjee – Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IISER Bhopal
• Dr. Mitradip Bhattacharjee – Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, IISER Bhopal
• Dr. Paramita Das – Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IISER Bhopal

Results of CurveBall-2022

• Winner: Team Enigma (IISER Bhopal)
• 1st Runner-up: Team Avantika - 1 (Avantika University, (M.P.))
• 2nd Runner-up: Team Vaijks (Mandsaur University, (M.P.))

IICE, IISER Bhopal congratulate winners of the competition and heartily thanks all the participants to make this event a success.

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Title: IICE Entrepreneurship talk on “Start-up Canvas - 9 Steps To Startup Success

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal in continuation to its Entrepreneurship Talk series organized a webinar on Start-up Canvas - 9 Steps To Startup Success. The session focused on How to build a successful start-up from scratch and solve a bigger problem. It was explained by a tool called “Startup Canvas” by Mr. Saurabh Jain. It helped the audience to learn about the process to follow to create a winning start-up.

About the Speaker

Mr. Saurabh Jain (Founder, Fun2Do Labs, and Ex-Vice President, PAYTM)

Saurabh is the founder of Fun2Do Labs and Open Class, it is an EdTech Start-up which is pioneering research into “Transmedia Education”. He was the Ex-Vice President at Paytm and was heading “Paytm – Build for India” program.
He is a Chartered Accountant with a keen interest in technology. Saurabh has authored 2 books on mobile application technology. He wrote “Mobile Phone Programming”, which was India’s first book on mobile app programming. The book was published in 2003 and was a technical book on J2ME technology. He is the inventor of “PERSONAL PERSISTENT MESSAGING SYSTEM (PPMS)” and “NEURO SYMBOLIC NETWORK GENERATION AND EXECUTION SYSTEM”.
He is a speaker at various Government start-up events by Government of Rajasthan, UP, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Gujarat, Goa, Telangana, etc. He was a speaker UN Events: UNESCO MGIEP TECH 2017 and UN Global Compact events. He is a speaker at most of the IITs and IIMs, and at more than 20 national and international Institutions. He has addressed many international events as well as a keynote speaker in Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, USA etc.
He is a member of National Expert Advisory Committee (NEAC) on Innovation, Incubation, and Technology Entrepreneurship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, and a Charter Member of TiE.
He has been awarded as the “BlackBerry Elite” by BlackBerry and “Nokia Developer Champion” by Nokia. He has written many articles for India’s leading Media brands such as The Economic Times, CNBC TV18, Outlook Money etc.
He has been included in ‘Inspiring Entrepreneurs of India’ book by The Economic Times.

Date: September 1^st, 2022

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Title: IICE, 2-days workshop on Entrepreneurship and Related Activities with Future Career Opportunities

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal conducted a 2-day workshop on “Entrepreneurship and Related Activities with Future Career Opportunities” on 25th & 26th August 2022 at Udgam – an Incubation Centre of the Institute for Excellence in Higher Education (IEHE), Bhopal. The event helped the students to learn the technical know how about start-ups, and technicalities of Entrepreneurship. Students had an excellent interactive learning experience where they understood how to develop a business plan, nuts and bolts of setting up a start-up, and case studies of successful business ventures. The 1st day session was conducted by the following speakers:

• Professor Deepak Chopra
• CS Arun Thapar
• Mrs. Anuja Patnaik
• Mr. Pravas Ranjan Behuria

The second day of the workshop was activity based where the students of the IEHE presented their start-up ideas in front of the expert panel, the panel evaluated their ideas and suggested them on how to nurture them into a successful venture. The expert panel members were:

• Professor Aasheesh Srivastava
• Dr. Mitradip Bhattacharjee
• CS Arun Thapar

The workshop got media coverage from the leading newspapers of Bhopal (M.P.).

Date: August 25^th, 2022 (Thursday) and August 26^th, 2022 (Friday)

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Title: IICE, CS2 webinar on "Bridging the Gap from Research to Impact

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) and Centre for Science and Society (CS²) IISER Bhopal conducted an Online webinar on “Bridging the Gap from Research to Impact” by Dr. Himani Nailwal, Innovation Manager, Innovate Calgary, University of Calgary, Canada. The session focused on using intellectual property as a tool for creating impact beyond research publications. She discussed about the ways to leverage research skills for navigating entrepreneurship. In addition, got to know how technology transfer offices support university researchers in bringing their research out of the lab into the market. The session included:

• Best practices for protecting your intellectual property
• Technology transfer process
• Navigating entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial resources in Canadian ecosystem
• Funding/exchange opportunity for international students in Canada

About the Speaker

Himani Nailwal, Ph.D. Innovation Manager- Innovate Calgary

Himani is a technology transfer professional, currently working as an Innovation Manager at Innovate Calgary, the technology transfer office at the University of Calgary, Canada. In this role, Himani provides strategic guidance to University of Calgary researchers to translate high impact research-based clinical, therapeutic, and medical inventions into commercially viable solutions. She is responsible for intellectual property assessments, market research and analysis, licensing contract negotiations, partnership management for facilitating academic and industry partnerships for technology development and commercialization. Himani’s background and expertise include a PhD in Biological Sciences from Monash University and postdoctoral training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the University of Calgary.

Speaker: Dr. Himani Nailwal, Innovation Manager, Innovate Calgary, University of Calgary, Canada.

Date: August 25^th, 2022 (Friday) at 10:00 AM IST)

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Title: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India invited IICE at the DST’s Start-up Utsav - 2022

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) at IISER Bhopal was invited by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in DST’s Start-up Utsav on the occasion of 75 years of independence “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” on 12th August 2022 at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.

The event was commemorated for the completion of five years of NIDHI and featured top 75 impactful start-ups supported under NIDHI from across the country, including women-led start-ups, in various domains were showcased in 50 physicals as well as 25 digital mode in the Expo.

The presence of the Hon'ble Minister of State (IC) for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh as the Chief Guest added a great value to the Incubator and to the ecosystem at large. 4 publications featuring promising Start-ups under various components of NIDHI including flagship program of Technology Business Incubator (TBI) and a coffee table book of 51 CAWACH funded start-ups was also released by him.

As a pre-event of the Start-up Utsav, a master class for the DST supported Incubators was also organised by the Indian STEP & Business Incubator Association (ISBA) with the support of National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India on 11th August 2022 at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.

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Title: Invitation as the distinguish panelist for a Round Table Interaction session in the Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), regional meet – 2k22

Ministry of Education’s (MoE) Innovation Cell and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) organized Fifteen (15) Institutions’ Innovation council (IIC) regional meets in different cities across the country to promote a platform for sharing I&E knowledge and best practices in HEIs, to celebrate the achievements and impact created by the IIC Institutions and to witness successful emergence of innovators and start-up founders from HEIs.

The event was organized to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of India’s Independence under the banner of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.
IICE team was invited as the distinguish panelist for a Round Table Interaction Session in “IIC, Regional Meet-2k22” as regional ecosystem enablers for an effective collaboration and knowledge sharing on various Tracks such as

The event was scheduled on 22nd July 2022 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM. The event was hosted by the Oriental College of Technology, Bhopal (M.P.) in association with MoE’s Innovation Cell and AICTE.

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Title: Patent Filing Process in India, International Patent Application Process and Importance in Start-ups

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) and Centre for Science and Society (CS 2 ), IISER Bhopal organized a seminar for Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Awareness in association with Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. The event was organized to celebrate the 75 th Anniversary of India’s Independence under the banner of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, and the Government of India had taken initiative of National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) to create awareness and training on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs).

About the Speaker

Speaker: Mr. Arpit Jain

Date: July 15^th, 2022 (Friday) at 03:00 PM IST)

He works as an Examiner of Patents & Designs, at the Patent Office, Mumbai, Government of India. He primarily deals with examination of applications filed and is the editor for IPR Newsletter for the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM).

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The event was especially for the IISER Bhopal community.

All the registered participants who attended the seminar in person were awarded E- certificates issued by DPIIT, Govt. of India

Title: IICE-Mentoring session with Career College, Bhopal

The Innovation fellows and Faculty Coordinators of the Career College, Bhopal visited IICE on June 20, 2022 to understand how an Incubation Centre works and promotes start-ups, facilities at the Centre, and translate “Skills to Start-up”

Date: June 20^th, 2022

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Title: IICE-Interactive Session with Faculty

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) has started an interactive discussion session with specific Faculty weekly in order to promote awareness regarding the Entrepreneurship and Incubation Centre, its role, and how it can help Faculty in their career development. Faculty also provide feedbacks to IICE.

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Title: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India nominated IICE, IISER Bhopal @ Biotech Startup Expo 2022 which was graced by Honourable Prime Minister and Union Ministers of India

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) at IISER Bhopal was nominated by Department of Science and Technology (DST) to participate in the Expo of 75 Specialized Biotech Incubation Centres which took place on 9th & 10th June 2022 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. The event was organized by BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
The Expo provided an opportunity for biotech community to network and witnessed 2500+ biotechnology stakeholders which included representation from Central & State Ministries, SMEs, Large industries, Bio-clusters, Research institutes, Venture Capitalists (VCs) & Angel Investors (AIs), Start-ups, Incubation Centres, Entrepreneurs, NGOs, Philanthropic organizations and others.

Date: June 9^th & 10^th, 2022

The Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s and Union Ministers (Shri Jitendra Singh, Shri Piyush Goyal and Shri Dharmendra Pradhan) presence added a great value to the Incubator and to the ecosystem at large.

Title: IICE Entrepreneurship Start-up Symposium (Industry-Academia Connect)

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) and Enthuzia at IISER Bhopal organized an Entrepreneurship Symposium for Industry-Academia connect where several start-ups exhibited their models and presented their ideas.
The event was graced by Mr. Pradeep Karambelkar (Angel Investor, MD Vision Invest Tech Pvt Ltd | Director VASPL Initiatives | ED BNI Bhopal| TiE MP President | chairman BMA, Start-up coach), and Mr. Anshuman Sharma (Manager - VASPL Initiatives Private Limited).

Date: March 24^th, 2022

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Title: IICE-Skills to Start-up Series

Do you want to use skills (like coding, research, crypto, blockchain, tinkering) to start a company but do not know how to do it? Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) at IISER Bhopal organized Workshop on “Entrepreneurship and Start-up Opportunities Using 3D Printing Technologies” in its series to transform “Skills to Start-up” in association with Enthuzia on March 23, 2022.
Demonstration of 3D Printer, 3D scanning technologies and advanced 3D Printing pen was conducted in the workshop and business ideas using these technologies were discussed. Overview of advanced technologies, like 4D printing, 3D Bioprinter, Food bioprinters and start-up ideas associated with these technologies were also talked through.

Date: March 23^th, 2022

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Title: IICE- SCIPRENEUR Competition in association with Chrysalis, IISER Bhopal

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal organized Science Entrepreneurship Competition in association with Chrysalis for students in its "skills to Start-up" series with flair for innovation, translational research, and propensity for commercialization.
Scipreneur received proactive response from the student community and many potential business ideas were presented during the competition. IICE thanks all the respected judges for critical evaluation of business proposals and valuable inputs for the success of Scipreneur.

Judges of IICE-Scipreneur Competition

• Dr. Rati Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of chemistry, IISER Bhopal
• Dr. Debasish Manna, Assistant Professor, Department of chemistry, IISER Bhopal
• Dr. Mitradip Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and computer science, IISER Bhopal

Results of IICE Scipreneur competition

Winner: Arkaprabha Giri (IISER Bhopal) (Team Leader), Team Members {Swarna Naidu, Tapas Kumar Dutta, G Shreeraj}

1^st Runner up: Amey Danole (IISER Bhopal) (Team Leader), Team Members {Pushkar Wagh, Sakshi Wagle, Sampurna Roychaudhari}

2^nd Runner up: Sparsh Aggarwal (University of Delhi) (Team Leader), Team Members {Kaushal Grover, Shreva Malik, Gungun Saini}

IICE-IISER Bhopal congratulate all the winners of the competition and heartily thanks all the participants to make this event a success.

Date of finals: March 30^th, 2022

All the finalists got certificate of participation and winners got prize money and certificates.

Winner: ₹ 2,000/-

1^st Runner-up: ₹ 1,500/-

2^nd Runner-up: ₹ 1,000/-

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Title: How to be a Student Entrepreneur and Build a Start-up

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) organized a seminar on “How to be a Student Entrepreneur and Build a Start-up”. The seminar was conducted by the IICE team. Ms, Anuja Patnaik, Managing Director of Adit Bioscience Private Limited, (an Incubatee at IICE) and Mr. Yash Saxena, Director of Cultext Technologies Private Limited (Student, IISER Bhopal) shared their experiences on building a start-up. The seminar was conducted to bolster start-up culture at the campus and promote innovation and entrepreneurship related activities among students at the Institute. The seminar provided information such as nuts and bolts of entrepreneurship, preparation for the start-up, how to raise funds, case studies etc. Students also discussed their start-up ideas with the IICE team.

Date: March 11^th, 2022 (Friday) at 06:15 PM IST)

Venue: L-2 Classroom, Lecture Hall Complex (LHC), IISER Bhopal.

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Title: Challenges and Opportunities for women entrepreneurs in establishing start-ups

IICE-Entrepreneurship Talk to celebrate International Women’s Day

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, IICE organized an Entrepreneurship talk. The webinar encouraged in building an entrepreneurship culture at the Institute and its vicinity and also created an awareness among women entrepreneurs about the impediments in building a company and how to overcome it. The details about the speaker and the schedule are given below for your kind information.

About the Speaker:: : Ms. Anuja Patnaik (Founder & Managing Director, Adit Bioscience Private Limited, an Incubatee at IICE-IISER Bhopal)

Date: March 09^th, 2022 at 05:00 PM

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Title: Cancer Therapeutics: Innovation to Market

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal in continuation to its Entrepreneurship Talk series organized a webinar on “Cancer Therapeutics: Innovation to Market”. The event was organized to celebrate the National Science Day.

About the Speaker: Name: Dr. Pradip K. Majumder (Entrepreneur, Former Principal Investigator Merck Research Laboratories and Harvard Medical School, Leader in Cancer Drug Development, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Pradip K. Majumder is an innovative product oriented Scientific Leader with 20+ years of experience in discovery and development of anti-cancer drugs (both NCEs & NBEs) and platform technologies, designing products for clinical validation, maintaining cross-functional cross border collaboration and successfully establishing clinical proof of concept. As a member of BOD, Dr. Majumder has guided organizations on multiple value inflection scientific milestones and have worked with CXOs to raise private funds (from Seed to Series C). He has led a team of 40+ scientists and built a collaborative infrastructure with ~50 cancer centres all over the globe and executed the company's R&D objectives. He has headed a joint team of two big Pharmaceuticals for the development of combinatorial strategies of different drugs.
Dr. Majumder has published more than 60+ research articles in high quality peer-reviewed scientific journals and six patents

February 28^th, 2022 (Monday) at 05:00 PM (IST)

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Title: IPR for young entrepreneurs and Start-ups

IICE, IISER Bhopal is organizing an IPR webinar in association with Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM), Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India E-Certificates of Participation will be provided by Office of CGPDTM to the registered participants who attend the webinar The details about the speaker and the schedule are given below for your kind information. 

About the Speaker

Mr. Arpit Jain Mr. Arpit Jain is working on the post of Examiner of Patents & Designs, at the Patent Office, Mumbai, Government of India. He primarily deals with examination of applications filed for Patents and his field of expertise is Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. He is the editor for IPR Newsletter for the office of CGPDTM. He is also working on the Enforcement aspects of the IPR and PATENT AGENT examination to be held in May,2022.

Speaker: Mr. Arpit Jain (Examiner of Patents and Designs, Ministry of commerce and industry, Government of India)

Date: Fabruary 11^th, 2022 (Friday) at 4:00 PM IST)

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Title: Operations of a Start-up Promoting Indigenous Designs

In order to promote “Make in India” IICE, IISER Bhopal is organizing a Talk by Ms. Umang Shridhar (Founder, Umangshridhar Designs Pvt. Ltd. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh).  Forbes has recognized Ms. Umang Shridhar in its prestigious list of 30 under 30 Asia 2019 under Social Entrepreneur category.
The details about the speaker and the schedule are given below for your kind information. 

About the Speaker

Ms. Umang Shridhar Ms. Umang Shridhar has started Umangshridhar Designs Pvt. Ltd. (formerly KhaDigi). Her startup is working in the area of design and fashion promotion of indigenous crafts and fashion. Her start-up’s intervention has helped the local artisans in improving their monthly income with a significant rise of over 300 percent. In addition to getting recognition by Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, Ms.Umang Shridhar was also nominated for the prestigious list of WISE 100 by NatWest London in 2017. Technology Development Board has recognized her startup as a top 15 startup led by women commercializing it successfully in 2018.

Speaker: Ms. Umang Shridhar, Founder at Umangshridhar Designs Pvt. Ltd. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Date: January 28^th, 2022 (Friday) at 12:00 PM IST)

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Title: Putting Your First Employee Stock Option Plan into Action

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE),
IISER Bhopal is organizing a Careers Talk by Mr. Jalaj Sinha (Head, Business Development, KP Corporate Solutions Limited, Maharashtra, India). 
The webinar is being organized in association with the Institute Career Development and Placement Council (ICDPC) and the focus of the talk will be on moulding the career from lab to industry. The details about the speaker and the schedule are given below for your kind information. 

About the Speaker

Mr. Jalaj Sinha Mr. Jalaj Sinha heads Business Development of KP Corporate Solutions Limited. He is Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of Sales, Consulting, Marketing, Partnership & Alliances, Relationship Management and New Market Development Experience. He also contributes to strategic projects, research and innovation.

Speaker: Mr. Jalaj Sinha, Head, Business Development, KP Corporate Solutions Limited, Maharashtra, India

Date: January 21^st, 2022 (Friday) at 04:00 PM IST)

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Title: Intellectual property Rights, Patent process and Designs filing process

IICE & Technology Development Centre, Centre for Science and Society (CS2), IISER Bhopal organized an IPR workshop in association with Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management (RGNIIPM), Nagpur, Ministry of Commerce & Industry Government of India.
Certificates of Participation was provided by IICE to the registered participants who attend the workshop.

About the Speaker

Dr. Pankaj Prabhakar Borkar is working as Deputy Controller of Patents & Designs, Patent office Mumbai & Head, RGNIIPM Nagpur. Dr. Borkar has published papers in national & International journals. He has delivered many lectures on IPR, and conducted multiple IPR workshops in other national level institutes in various parts of the country.

Speaker: Dr. Pankaj P. Borkar (Dy. Controller of Patents & Designs, GL-Mech. IPO Mumbai and RGNIIPM, Nagpur)

Date: 09^th December, 2021

Time: 03:00 PM (IST)

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Title: CurveBall 2021

"CurveBall" the most awaited student entrepreneurial competitive event is back this Singularity 2021 in association with the Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal.

The competition provides an excellent platform to present innovative business ideas and to test the market potential of the same. Showcase your inner entrepreneur and pitch your idea to a panel of judges. The winners get the prize money!  

CurveBall Prelims: 3^rd October 2021 (Singularity)

CurveBall Finals: 21^th October 2021

Deadline for Application: 24^th September 2021, 11:59 PM (IST)

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Title: Start-up Operations: More than Managing Day-to-Day Activities

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal organized an Entrepreneurship Talk by Dr. Colleen Janczak (Chief Operating Officer (Scintillation Nanotechnologies, Tucson, AZ, USA)). The details about the speaker and the schedule are given below for your kind information.

About the Speaker

Colleen Janczak earned a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at the University of Arizona. Her research is specifically directed toward the development of new biocompatible nanoparticle sensors and biomarkers. Later as a scientist in industry, she gained significant experience regarding the interface between science, industry, manufacturing, and regulation. In 2018, Colleen co-founded Scintillation Nanotechnologies Inc. and is currently the Chief Operating Officer in the company working on developing nanoparticle-based scintillators.

Speaker: Dr. Colleen Janczak, (Chief Operating Officer (Scintillation Nanotechnologies, Tucson, AZ, USA)

Date: 9^th October , 2021

Time: 10:00 AM (IST)

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Title: workshop on “Entrepreneurship and Related Skill Development with Future Career Opportunities

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal conducted a three-day workshop on “Entrepreneurship and Related Skill Development with Future Career Opportunities from 28.09.2021 to 30.09.2021 at Sagar Public School Rohit Nagar. The session was conducted by Dr. Amjad Husain, CEO, IICE & Dr. Udeep Chawla, Project Manager, IICE, IISER Bhopal.
The event helped the students to learn the technical know how about start-ups, and technicalities of Entrepreneurship. Students had an excellent interactive learning experience where they understood how to develop a business plan, how to conduct the SWOT analysis, nuts and bolts of setting up a start-up, and case studies of successful business ventures.

Date28-09-2021 to 30-09-2021

Title: International Outreach Program "Microsphere"

About the Speaker

Dr, Amjad Husain enlightened the students and other participants about Entrepreneurship, IICE (Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship) ecosystem, microbiology based successful start-ups, and how IICE can help students from different streams to kick off a start-up and become a successful entrepreneur.

Speaker: Dr. Amjad Husain (CEO, IICE, IISER Bhopal)

Date: 17-09-2021

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Title: DICCI NextGen Online Outreach Program

About the Speaker

Dr, Amjad Husain discussed about role of IICE (Innovation and Incubation centre for entrepreneurship) in promotion of entrepreneurship among the underprivileged society. The facilities available at IICE for the support and development of young entrepreneurship. The technicalities involved in setting up the start-up and the entrepreneurship policy of the institute were also mentioned during the talk.

Speaker: Dr. Amjad Husain (CEO, IICE, IISER Bhopal)

Date: 08-09-2021

Title: IICE -Kala Kaushal

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal is happy to invited you to showcase your creative marketing skills by participating in IICE-Kala Kaushal competition 2021.
(A) A promotional video of IICE (about 1-minute duration) where you can mention about IICE, and how it adds value for the promotion of entrepreneurship.

(B)  A blog writeup on (i) “Technology Entrepreneurship” (ii) “Startups – Need for Atmanirbhar Bharat”

The winner will be awarded a certificate, a prize of Rs. 1000 and an opportunity to work as an Innovation fellow at IICE. . 

Date: 12^th September, 2021 (Sunday)

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Title: Skills for Entrepreneurship: The nuts and bolts of starting a business

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal organized an Entrepreneurship Talk by Dr. Iman Daryaei (CEO and Co-founder of TheraCea Pharma LC, Arizona, USA). The details about the speaker and the schedule are given below for your kind information. 

Speaker: Dr. Iman Daryaei, CEO and Co-Founder of TheraCea Pharma LC, Tucson, AZ, USA)

Date: 10^th August, 2021 (Tuesday)

Time: 10:00 AM (IST)

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Title: IPR and Innovation Landscape in India

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal organized a Workshop on “IPR and Innovation landscape in India” by Mrs Cheshta Sharma (Director, IIPTA).
The workshop focused on how to select patentable ideas before publications, and role and potential of IPR. The details about the event are given below for your kind information. 

Speaker: Mrs. Cheshta Sharma (Director, IIPTA)

Date: 6^th August, 2021 (Friday)

Time: 11:00 AM - 1 PM (IST)

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Title: Starting up a technology venture from Academia: A Global perspective

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal organized an Entrepreneurship Talk by Dr. Keeper Layne Sharkey (Founder and Director at ODE (L3C) USA).
The webinar focused on US perspective on transition from academia to Industry. The details about the speaker and the schedule are given below for your kind information.

About the Speaker

Dr. Keeper L. Sharkey is a Quantum chemist and machine learning consultant working through ODE, L3C which she founded in December of 2018. She holds a BS in both mathematics and chemistry from the University of Arizona (UA), and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (2015) also from UA. During her academic career at UA, she published 26 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. Her postdoctoral faculty appointment at Washington State University in 2016/17 was focused on deriving algorithms for learning the physical properties of metallic hydrogen. She has also spent time on machine learning sequential marketing programs in the insurance and FinTech sector. She is highly interested in applying her expertise in atomic and molecular Quantum physics to Decision Intelligence as well as contributing to the chemical design of Quantum computers.

Speaker: Dr. Keeper Layne Sharkey, Founder and Director at ODE (L3C), Montana, United States

Date: 29^th July, 2021 (Thursday)

Time: 10:00 AM (IST)

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Title: Transformation from Lab to Industry and Shaping up your career

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal organized Careers Talk by Dr. Varuni Livera (Senior Process Engineer, Intel, Oregon, USA). 
The webinar organized in association with the Institute Career Development and Placement Council (ICDPC) and the focus of the talk was on moulding the career from lab to industry. The details about the speaker and the schedule are given below for your kind information. 

About the Speaker

Dr. Varuni Livera is currently working as a Process Manager, Intel (USA). Intel Corporation designs manufacture and sells computer, networking, and communications platforms worldwide. She is associated with Intel for the last 5 years. Dr. Livera joined Intel after completing her Ph.D. (Inorganic Chemistry) at the University of Arizona, from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Dr. Varuni Livera is a multitalented person with a blend of teaching, research, and industrial expertise.  Dr. Livera utilized her skills and technical expertise gained from research to begin a career in the industry. She has also published some very good research papers during her graduate studies. In addition to the research, she has immense teaching experience in Sri-Lanka (her native country) and USA (internationally).
She served as a temporary assistant lecturer at the University of Columbo (Sri Lanka) where she supervised and coordinated sophomore inorganic labs. At the University of Arizona, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, she has expertise in teaching general chemistry and senior-level advanced inorganic chemistry courses. She has also received several honors and awards during her professional career. Some of her notable awards include the Graduate & Professional Student Council (GPSC) Travel Grant, Chemistry and Biochemistry Departmental Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Teaching, Award for Valuable Contribution to UA Peer Integrator Programme, Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, and Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Teaching Program.
Dr. Varuni has received 5 divisional awards from Intel LTD - logic technological Development in multiple areas namely 14 nm and 10 nm process implementations, Automation implementations, and Training library Development.

Speaker: Dr. Varuni Livera, Senior Process Engineer, Intel, Oregon, USA

Date: 22nd July, 2021 (Thursday) at 10:00 AM (IST)

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Title:Patent Filing Procedure in India

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) and Centre for Science and Society (CS 2 ), IISER Bhopal organized a webinar on “Patent Filing Procedure in India” on January 29, 2021. The webinar covered all the details of the Patent filing process in India, including forms, fees, timelines and related technicalities.

About the Speaker

Dr. Gargate has over 23 years of experience in academia and industry to execute various innovative projects as an IP teacher, researcher, consultant, information scientist, and law & management professional. She has created two self-explanatory NPTEL courses: 1. Roadmap for patent creation and 2. Entrepreneurship & IP strategy.

Dr. Gargate has PhD in IP Management from IIT Bombay, LLM (IPR) from Mumbai University and PG Diploma in Patent Law from NALSAR Hyderabad. She is recipient of several awards and honours including Late Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Gold Medal, Late Justice M. C. Chagla Gold Medal, Y. V. Chandrachud Award, M.Sc. Microbiology - Gold medal, etc.

Speaker: Dr. Gouri Gargate

Date: 29 January 2021 (Friday)

Time: 03:00 PM

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Title:Patent Search and Patent Filing

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE) and Centre for Science and Society (CS2), IISER Bhopal organized a Workshop on “Patent Search and Patent Filing” on December 23, 2020. The interactive session cum workshop was conducted by Dr. Rahul Kapoor, Founder and Director, Turnip Innovations Private Limited. The workshop introduced different platforms for prior art search and also explained the procedure of patent filing in India.

About the Speaker

Dr. Rahul Kapoor, Founder and Director of Turnip Innovations Private Limited, has over a decade of experience in Patent Information Science, Searching and Consulting large conglomerates. He obtained his Ph.D. in Innovation Management from LUT University, Finland and has over 15 research articles published on innovation management in reputed international journals. He is the data architect of IPGRAM, a global patent analytics platform covering over 100 million patents from over 100 countries. The details about the session are as follows

Speaker: Dr. Rahul Kapoor

Date: 23 December 2020 (Thursday)

Time: 11:00 AM

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Title: Values of entrepreneur filters in the selection of translational research problems

About the Speaker

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal conducted the 3rd Entrepreneurship Talk under the virtual Entrepreneurship Talk Series started by IICE to promote and encourage innovative entrepreneurship. Our invited speaker for the talk was Dr. Vishal Rai, an Associate professor and Swarnajayanti Fellow at the Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal.

Dr. Rai is a faculty entrepreneur, and the Founder & Director of Plabeltech Private Limited, the first start-up incubated at IICE, a technology business incubator of IISER Bhopal.

Speaker: Dr. Vishal Rai, Founder, and Director, Plabeltech Private Limited

Date: 23-10-2020

Time: 11:00 AM

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Title: CURVEBALL-2020: An annual institute level Entrepreneurship Competition

Curveball, an annual institute level entrepreneurial competition is a flagship event of IICE- IISER Bhopal organized in collaboration with Student Activity Council (SAC). CurveBall- 2020 consisted of the grilling pre-qualifier and final round of well-prepared business pitches, judged by the panel of esteemed judges with rigorous Q&A sessions. Winners of the CurveBall-2020 are selected as student pre-startups for business incubation support at IICE, in addition to the collaborative prizes by IICE and SAC-IISER Bhopal.

CurveBall-2020 received proactive response from the student community and many potential business ideas were presented during the competition. IICE thanks all the respected judges for critical evaluation of business proposals and valuable inputs for the success of CurveBall- 2020.

Judges of Pre-qualifier (October 17, 2020)

Dr. Aasheesh Shrivastava, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal

Dr. Kushal Kumar Shah, Associate Professor, Dept. of EECS, IISER Bhopal

Dr. Vineet Kumar Sharma, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, IISER Bhopal

Judges of Finals (October 31, 2020)

Dr. Pankj jain (IAS), Collector and District Magistrate - Vidisha, MP

Mr. Rajat Jain, Founder - Padup Ventures

Ms. Surabhi Sharma, Director (Project Leader) at Sanofi

Ms. Khair-Ul Nissa, Executive Director at World Trade Center India Services

Results of CurveBall-2020

Winner: Team Azalea Books (Team Members: Yash Saxena & Shivam Shukla)

Runner Up-1: Team Marshmallow (Team Members: Sneha Thomas, Nileena Ranjith & Goury Poornima P)

Runner Up-2: Team Dream Makers (Team Members: Shrujan Rajdeep & Gopika S R)

Special Appreciation: Team iGEM IISER Bhopal (Representatives: Archit Devarajan & Shashaank G)

IICE-IISER Bhopal congratulate winners of the competition and heartily thanks all the participants to make this event a success,

Title: INK WITH IICE- A Doodle Making Competition

The Student Innovation Club of IICE organized “Ink with IICE: The doodle making competition” on the occasion of World Doodle Day. The theme of the doodling competition-2020 was “Entrepreneurs: Turning Crisis into Opportunity”.

Result of the Competition

Winner: : Kaushal Kenjale - 19162

Runners-up 1: : Fathima Sahala - 17089

Runners-up 2: : Shreya Dhopte - 19105

IICE-IISER Bhopal congratulate winners of the competition and heartily thanks all the participants to make this event a success,

IICE thanks respected judges of "INK WITH IICE", for their valuable time and critical assessment of entries.

Title: Lifecycle of a start-up

About the Speaker

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal had organized an Entrepreneurship web talk by Garima Mitra, Co-founder Treelife Consulting. Garima Mitra is a Lawyer by profession & leads the legal and compliance segment for the emerging businesses and start-ups in the Technology space at Treelife Consulting in Mumbai. She also advises multiple emerging businesses and start-ups in developing the best and most effective legal frameworks from inception until raising the funds and making it successful.

The talk was being organized as a part of the virtual “Entrepreneurship Talk” series started by the IICE to promote the start-up culture and encouraging innovative entrepreneurship among students, researchers, and faculty members at IISER Bhopal and in the vicinity.

Speaker: Garima Mitra, Co-Founder Treelife Consulting, Mumbai

Date: 19th September 2020 (Saturday)

Time: 11:00 AM

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Title: A Scientist Entrepreneur - How to Create Successful Business in Life Sciences?

Innovation and Incubation Centre for Entrepreneurship (IICE), IISER Bhopal had conducted a Keynote Talk by Dr. Anand Anandkumar, Founder & CEO, Bugworks Research. Dr. Anandkumar is a role model and a true inspiration for Indian Science Entrepreneurs. The talk had been organized as a part of the opening ceremony of CurveBall-20, an Institute level entrepreneurial competition coordinated by IICE and Science Council of IISER Bhopal. The details about the talk are as follows

About the Speaker

Dr. Anand Anandkumar is the founder and CEO of Bugworks Research Inc (https://bugworksresearch.com/), a growing drug discovery company that aims to discover novel treatment options for resistant bacterial infections. Dr. Anand has received his Master’s and PhD. in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from the George Washington University, Washington D.C. Before co-founding Bugworks, Dr. Anand was the founding Managing Director of the India operations of Magma Design Automation, where he was responsible for setting up and driving many aspects of the Operations.

Speaker: Dr. Anand Anandkumar, Founder & CEO, Bugworks Research, Bengaluru

Date: 15th September 2020

Time: 6.15 PM

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