The Entrepreneur's Committee of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized 'Entrepreneur's Business Summit' at Williamson Magor Hall, The Chamber Premises, Kolkata on November 16, 2018. 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. It was a unique platform for vibrant networking with the right people in the right atmosphere. Entrepreneurs, Leading Industry Experts, Government Policy Makers, Active Investors - both VCs and Financial Institutions, gathered together with only one agenda - BUSINESS.

Speakers at this event were:

▻ Mr Indrajit Sen, President, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, & Managing Director, International Combustion {India) Limited

▻ Mr Amithabh Roy, Chairperson - The Entrepreneur's Committee, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Founder and CEO, Team Taurus Realty & Infrastructure Pvt Ltd

▻ Mr Abhijit Hazra, Chairperson - Emeritus - The Entrepreneur's Committee, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry & Director, Touchstone Tie-up Pvt Ltd

▻ Shri Sachchidanand Rai, Chairman, Eden Realty Group

▻ Shri James Pangsang Kongkal Sangma, Hon'ble Minister for District Council Affairs, Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Law, Power, Home, Government of Meghalaya

▻ Shri Vincent H Pala, MP (Lok Sabha), Member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, Consulative Committee on Development of North Eastern Region, Committee on MPLADS

▻ Mr Binod Homagai, Co- Chairperson - The Entrepreneur's Committee, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry& Co-Founder & COO, Wow Momo Foods Pvt Ltd

▻ Mr 'Paul Narula' Pornthep SriNarula, Founder & CEO , Syncate Company Ltd. Bangkok, Thailand

▻ Mr Amitesh Anand, Co-Founder & CEO, 366 Pi Companies, Dubai

▻ Mr Gautam Dey, Managing Director & CEO, ICT Health, Dubai

▻ Mr B.P. Mukherjee, CEO, Oroprise Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

▻ Mr Abhijit Basu, CEO, Smartex, California, United States of America

▻ Ms Indrani Sur, Director, Industry Institute Partnership and Talent Transformation, Calcutta Institute of Engineering & Management

▻ Mr Deepak Daftari, Director & CEO, DD Webvision Pvt Ltd & Co-Chairperson, The Entrepreneur's Committee, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry

▻ Mr Sameer Garg, Vice President & Regional Head, New Economy Group, Corporate Banking, Axis Bank

▻ Mr Anil Joshi, Founder & Managing Partner, Unicorn India Ventures

▻ Mr Arpit Agarwal, Principal, Blume Ventures

▻ Mr Anirudh A Damani, Managing Partner, Artha Venture Fund

▻ Dr Rajdeep Chowdhury, Renowned Academician & Author

Successful Promoters/Stalwarts of various industries shared 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 career.

They were also of the opinion that every country, whether developed or developing, needs entrepreneurs. A developing country needs entrepreneurs to initiate the process of development, whereas the developed one needs entrepreneurship to sustain it. In the present Indian context, where 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 a super economic power.

Venture Capitalists and Funding Agencies present at the programme interacted with the budding entrepreneurs and guide them on how to create and pitch successful business ideas in order to get funded for their start-ups. They also shared their key USPs to support Entrepreneurship and Start- Ups.