Institution's Innovation Council (IIC) of Heritage Business School organized the global E-Summit in collaboration with Computer Science and Engineering, AI & ML and CSBS of Heritage Institute of Technology on April 9, 2024. The venue was Heritage Campus. Above 510 registrations were done for this event.

The Ministry of Education, through MoE's innovation cell (MIC), launched the IIC program in collaboration with AICTE for Higher Education Institutions to systematically foster the culture of innovation and startup ecosystems in education institutions. HBS has established its own IIC to tackle prevalent challenges in entrepreneurship. The global E-Summit Square 1 celebrates the new beginning. The objective of the event was to create a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem within the Heritage Group of institutions as well as society. For this particular e-summit, the special focus was AI and getting insight from Silicon Valley and India.

The speakers were
1. Shashank Gondala, co-founder of Further AI, San Francisco, California, US

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashank-gondala-083132a0?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
2. Aman Gour, co-founder of Further AI, San Francisco, California, US

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amangour?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
3. Sayan Ghosh, who invested in five unicorns & an angel investor, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayanvc?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
4. Anirban Dutta Gupta, VP at Ekaimpact, CPO at Ecowiser, co-founder of Altor, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirban-datta-gupta-527964167?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
5. Soumyodeep Das, co-founder of VBRIDGE, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/soumyodeep-das-23915999?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
6. Ayan Roy, co-founder of VBRIDGE, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayan-roy-42780b41?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
7. Animesh Mishra, Founder of Gully-Labs, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/animesh-mishra-b6b964b5?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
8. Rajarshi Dhar, Director of Buyer Forsight, India

Square One's nerve-wracking event was "B-Plan," where the brightest entrepreneurial minds converged to ignite the start-up revolution.


Participants in this event:.
1. Jutaji
2. CUTSPay
3. DO Sports
4. Wah Puchka Wah litti.


The winner was Mr. Punit Gupta, partner and CEO at DO Sports.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/punit-gupta-17b29a119?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app

Several business games were played by the students from other B-schools, likely Mock Barter, Piranha Tank, and Guardians of Lucifer. The entire event, guided by Prof. Rimu Chaudhuri, President of IIC-HBS, ended successfully and received high appreciation.