The Entrepreneurs’ Committee of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized ‘The Business Conclave on Entrepreneurship and Start-Ups’ at Williamson Magor Hall, The Chamber Premises, on 27th October 2017. The objective of the Conclave was to encourage, support and help the entrepreneurship ecosystem and provide budding entrepreneurs an opportunity to understand different stages, challenges, available support and government policies which would help them to achieve success in their journey to excellence. With government policy makers, business leaders, other stalwarts sharing their experience and support system available to help entrepreneurs, it was a vibrant platform for encouraging and supporting entrepreneurship ecosystem in general. Speakers at this event were:

● Mr Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, President, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry & Managing Director and CEO, Bandhan Bank Limited
● Mr Abhijit Hazra, Chairperson – The Entrepreneurs’ Committee, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Managing Director, Touchstone Tie-up Pvt. Ltd.
● Mr Ambarish Dasgupta, Senior Partner and Founder, Intueri Consulting & Past President, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry
● Dr Alok Roy, Past President, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry & Chairman, Medica Group of Hospitals
● Shri Debashis Sen, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Information Technology & Electronics, Government of West Bengal; Chairman and Managing Director, Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited, Government of West Bengal; Chairman, Nabadiganta Industrial Township Authority
● Mr Deepak Daftari, Director & CEO,DD Web Vision Pvt Ltd
● Mr Ravi Jagannathan, Founder Managing Director, KrypC Tech, Founder and former Managing Director and CEO, e-mudra, Founder MD & CEO, YPayCash
● Mr Jayanta Ghosh, Co-Founder and Director, Microtalk Group Ltd
● Ms Devi Murthy, Founder, Kamal Kishan
● Mr Gautam Dey, Managing Director & CEO, ICT Health, Dubai
● Mr Venkatakrishnan , Managing Partner, Vaninfosys Technologies
● Mr Miftaur Rahaman, Co- Founder CFO, Wow Momo Foods Pvt Ltd
● Mr Jaydeep Mandal, Managing Director, Aaakar Innovations
● Mr Sameer Nagpal, Director- Employability solutions, CoCubes- an Aon Hewitt Company

Successful Promoters/Stalwarts of various industriesshared their story of journey to success which inspired budding entrepreneurs and young start-ups to strive for professional excellence and also motivated them to be more focused in their professional careers. They were also of the opinion that every country, whether developed or developing, needs entrepreneurs. Whereas, a developing country needs entrepreneurs to initiate the process of development, the developed one needs entrepreneurship to sustain it. In the present Indian context, on the one hand, employment opportunities in public sector and large-scale sector are shrinking, and on the other, vast opportunities arising from globalization are waiting to be exploited; hence entrepreneurship can really take India to the heights of becoming an economic superpower.