Pitch Your Startup Ideas To India's Best Investors & Win 16 Lakh At IIT Bombay's E-Summit 2018

If there's one thing that has pushed technological advances forward is a spirit of pioneering and entrepreneurship, without which it would be difficult to enable all of our digital indulgences. 

From booking cabs to reading news in 60 words to learning new skills, there is an app for everything and what was just a dream a few years ago is turning into reality today, all thanks to entrepreneurship. And it doesn't get any better than IIT Bombay's Entrepreneurship Summit (E-Summit) 2018 taking place later this weekend.

The Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Bombay is hosting the 13th edition of Entrepreneurship Summit (E-Summit) 2018: 'A Zenith of Innovation' on 27th-28th January. E-Summit 2018 is the place where prominent voices from India's startup ecosystem will converge for the two-day summit.

Prominent speakers at this year's E-Summit include Former Chairman of SBI Arundhati Bhattacharya, Indian economist Dr. Subramanian Swamy, CEO of Directi & Media.net Divyank Turakhia, Country Head of LinkedIn Akshay Kothari, VP of Netflix Michael Spiegelman, CEO & Co-Founder of Ola Cabs Bhavish Aggarwal, Indian Author & Business Coach Shiv Khera and Founder of AIB Tanmay Bhat to name a few.

In addition to this list of personalities, one of the prominent speakers this E-Summit is Mr. Bhavish Aggarwal, IIT-Bombay alumni and CEO of India's most popular cab aggregator Ola Cabs. Also expected to grace the event are CEOs of startups like Oyo Rooms, Hike, Freecharge, Snapdeal, Zoomcar and much more.

Here's what else is happening at this year's IIT Bombay E-Summit 2018.

For the first time, E-Summit is organizing a competition which aims at evoking the entrepreneurial spirit among young school going kids. Students will gain a first hand experience of the challenges faced while running a startup by creating their own business models.

Ten startups get 10 minutes to pitch in front of a panel of India’s best investors to score an on the spot financial backing of INR 16,00,000. All one needs to do is convince our panelists that their idea is the best.

Passionate about building, designing, or innovating? Then i_Hack 2018 is definitely for you. Here we bring India’s best coders, developers, designers, innovators, creators under a roof who can inspire tomorrow’s entrepreneur.