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All of us have been told about women empowerment and women in entrepreneurship but, how many of us have seen or experienced it being implemented on a first-hand basis? A very few…and hence wanting to inspire and encourage as well as educate students about entrepreneurship we had arranged a speaker session on 26th February at 4 pm using Google meet as the platform with 60+ participants. The purpose of this session was to help all the aspiring Womenpreneurs in their way towards success!
The speaker for the session is none other than the eminent Entrepreneur Mrs. Amishi Parasrampuria. She is a TEDx Speaker, NAAEE 30 Under 30, Founder at Upcycler's Lab, Global Shaper, and a Sustainability Consultant. She guided the audience through her journey in Entrepreneurship, the difficulties she faced, how she overcame them, and advice for fellow young budding female Entrepreneurs.

The meeting started with a discussion about Amishi Ma’am’s Entrepreneurial journey and how her Never give up attitude helped her conquer various upcoming challenges. She further walked us through the process of forming her BoTo project with Global Shapers and founding Upcycler's Lab. Moving on she shared about the amazing experiences she had in this journey like in particular she shared her wonderful experience at the World Trade Fair and how she got a Successful response on her first visit itself.

Later, Amishi Ma’am shared her views on the Impact of Shark Tank India amidst the Entrepreneurship Boom phase. Further answering questions, she shared her insights on the Importance of Networking and Ways to start with it. She also emphasized the importance of listening to Podcasts and Reading Books and shared her recommendations about them.
For all the aspiring entrepreneurs in particular out there, this was an amazing opportunity to gain special and useful insights into the world of entrepreneurship through a woman's eyes.

Date of Event:

Feb. 26, 2022

Details About Event:

In accordance with the changes in the world that took place because of the Covid-19 pandemic, BloomBox organized a virtual B-Plan competition in September 2021. The event was announced on 3rd September 2021 on various social media platforms and registrations were started. The second event of BloomBox this year received over 80+ registrations from around the country. As people adapt to the new normal - "Life after Pandemic" they will face various problems in all sectors of work and life. We aimed to generate innovative entrepreneurial solutions for these problems through this competition. The aim was for the teams to ideate and come up with a feasible and viable business solution(Start-up Idea) to the given problem statements. Sectors of Focus were Education, Entertainment and Recreation, Jobs and Unemployment, Mental and Physical Health Care, Privacy and Information Security, Environment and Sustainability.
Students were asked to register as a Team of 1-4 members for the competition and it was kept open to all students from all colleges. The event consisted of 2 rounds where the teams had to send in their solutions in the form of pdfs for a particular problem statement for the first round. The top 7 teams from round 1 were shortlisted by the Plan-Demic Planning Team and the results were announced on our social media. The winning teams had to present their ideas in the form of presentations to the panel of judges on 18th September 2021 on Zoom platform.
Our sponsors Ensemble, MILD, Mabb Infinity, EasyShiksha, Foxmula, LetsUpgrade, CertifyMe have played a key role in making the event successful and BloomBox is grateful to them for doing so. With the help of our sponsors, we had many prizes worth up to Rs. 30,000 for the winners as well as all our participants including Internships, Free Courses and Training, Free Workshops, and Discount Coupons.
The winners of the event were announced on the very same day by the judges and the session ended on a good note highlighting the fact that it doesn't matter whether it's a win or not the important lesson that everybody learned here was that we all can come together and innovate different solutions to a common problem, the diversity that our ideas present for a single cause is what keeps us united and humanity alive and by experience is how we learn.

The Winning Teams were:
1st Prize: Team BlisCare from GHRCE
2nd Prize: Team Labourious from Poona College of Pharmacy
3rd Prize: Team SUVJ from KJSCE

Date of Event:

Sept. 18, 2021

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As a part of The Studentpreneur Series: a social media campaign celebrating and
fostering the spirit of Entrepreneurship wherein we brought to you some amazing facts
about Student Entrepreneurship, Campus Companies, Steps to start a Campus Company as
well as its numerous benefits throughout the month of July, BloomBox organized a the Campus
Company Panel Session as its grand culmination on 31st July 2021 at 5pm.

The Event was announced on 25th July, 2021 on various social media platforms like
WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook and registrations were started. This event of
BloomBox for the Studentpreneur Series witnessed a whopping 120+ registrations.

Panelists for the session were :
Mr. Dhruman Gohil- Founder, Nurturing Lives
Ms. Heeral Dedhia- Founder LaunchIT
Ms. Ruchira Joshi- Co-Founder,&Evolve,
Mr. Akshat Kacheria: Founder ArchTech Venture | Currently pursuing MAM at London Business School
Mr. Abhishek Trivedi: Founder, Branding Catalyst (A former Campus Company Now Converted to Startup)

The panelists shared their journey, how their experience helped them to shape themselves, the challenges they faced, and how they overcame them by adapting. The session was concluded on a high note that there are various approaches to go out your Entrepreneurial journey and there is no single, ideal method of practicing Entrepreneurship.
Everyone has their own way of starting and running their own venture and Campus Company,
offered by our E-Cell to our college students is one of the guided and hassle-free ways to begin
and gain immense experience with minimal risk involved.

Date of Event:

July 31, 2021

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A good Speaker shares relevant information and facts, but a Great Speaker Shares a Story, an Emotion engaging the Crowd to the end which is why BloomBox had Mr. Dhruvam Thakkar, Founder of The Smart Taxi to motivate the attendees of the E-Summit. The speaker session was conducted on zoom on the 25th of April at 11:00 am and got 100+ participants from not just KJSCE but from all over India. Mr. Dhruvam shared his story and told us about how he struggled and gave his everything to make his dream come true. He drove taxis by himself in The Smart Taxi’s initial years and motivated the crowd by telling how he’s fearlessly competing with the giants in the space. The speaker session lasted for more than an hour throughout which Mr. Dhruvam was patient enough to answer every doubt asked. He encouraged people to follow their dreams irrespective of the conditions and made people learn the importance of hard-work and sheer dedication through his inspiring story.

Date of Event:

April 25, 2021

Details About Event:

BloomBox organized its flagship event Ennovate as a part of the first ever E-Summit in KJSCE’s history. The idea behind this event was to give participants hands-on experience in the world of entrepreneurship. Participants were given various domains like Fintech Solutions, Women Safety and Empowerment, Rural Area Development, HealthCare, IOT Solutions to daily life problems, Tech-based Solutions for Disabled, Agriculture Technology, Security and Surveillance Protection of private property, Sustainable Environment,Solar Cell Technology, Tackling fake information online, online data privacy, Open Innovation. Ennovate has always been a techno-business competition this year was no different. We focussed primarily on making our participants ready for the real world entrepreneurship challenges.

Every business needs mentors to guide them through all the ups and downs so to make it more realistic we provided our participants with an excellent set of mentors consisting of Dr. Irfan Siddavatam - Head of Department, KJSCE, Prof. Ashwini Dalvi - Assistant Professor, KJSCE and Prof. Dipti Pawade Assistant Professor, KJSCE. These mentors helped participants build their business plan from 24th of March and out of those participants finalists were shortlisted on the 16th April and were asked to present their business plan in front of our very talented judges. The judges, Mr. Adnyesh Dalpati - a technologist and enterprise architect, Mr. Hariharan Mahadevan - an accomplished BFSI professional and Dr. Prashant Singhal - Founder of Cosmic Neurons. Participating teams came up with excellent ideas that were brainstormed by them and by the end of the final round we found our top four teams, two for the first and second prizes and the other two for Best business plan and best innovation plan respectively. Prizes worth INR 50,000 were distributed among these teams.

Date of Event:

April 25, 2021

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Financial Planning once understood well helps in working wonders and what better time to learn about finance than in college itself. BloomBox organised a Financial Planning in Student Life webinar to make people understand how smart financial decisions will help them shape their future the way they want. The webinar was conducted by Mr. Mandeep Gill on the 25th of April at 4:00pm. The event had a footfall of 80 people and each one of them were amused by his thoughts.
Mr. Mandeep is a youtuber with 1.6 million subscribers along with that is a labour law advisor and aims to simplify labour laws and various benefits of security schemes. He also Co-founded one of youtube's biggest conclaves, ThinkVid.
Mr. Mandeep engaged in conversations with almost everyone who had doubts regarding personal finance. He cleared everyone’s doubts and made a systematic plan that would benefit us in the near future. He unlocked the roadmap to financial stability and helped us develop knowledge about financial planning.

Date of Event:

April 25, 2021

Details About Event:

As a part of the first ever E-Summit in the history of KJSCE, BloomBox organized a
design thinking and idea generation competition IDEATHON on 24th and 25th April 2021. The
Event was announced on 31st March, 2021 on various social media platforms like Instagram,
LinkedIn and Facebook and portals and websites like Dare2Compete, TownScript,
Thecollegefever, Knowafest, Eventbrite and Evvnt and registrations were started. This event of
BloomBox for the grand E-Summit witnessed a whopping 120+ registrations from around the
country. The participating teams consist of 1 to 3 members each. For Round 1, the participants
were given four day-to-day life problem statements with a time limit of 20 mins to brainstorm on
each of them, and 20 mins in the end for uploading their innovative and feasible solutions in a
Google form. The MS Teams platform used for Round 1 facilitated the feature of Breakout
Rooms: a meeting within the main meeting where each participating team could discuss their
solutions with complete privacy. The winning teams were awarded a total cash prize worth Rs.
1200 in addition to vouchers and winning certificates while all participating teams were given a
digital participation certificate for each team member.
The Round 1 of the event took place on 24th April, 2021 and the Final Round on 25th April,
2021. The top 7 teams from round 1 were shortlisted by the Ideathon Planning Team from a
raging participation of 36 teams on the day of the event and the results were announced via mail
on 24th April itself. The winning teams were judged on the basis of their investment pitch on any
one problem solution from Round 1 by 5 judges namely: Prof. Sagar Korde, Prof. Inderjit Singh
Dhanjal, Dr. Kashinath Patil, Mr. Mahesh Patil and Mr. Sandeep Parmar, who acted as potential
investors in their proposed idea, on Google Meet Platform. The top 3 teams winning Ideathon
were announced by the judges on the same day in the Closing Ceremony of the E-Summit and
were posted on the website along with a feedback form within the same week.
The Winning Teams were:
1st Prize: Team Enigma from KJSCE
2nd Prize: Team Ideators from KJSCE
3rd Prize: Team MSquare from KJSCE

Date of Event:

April 24, 2021

Details About Event:

BloomBox came up with a Fun Learning and Informal Event, E-Chase where the Participants competed against each other based on their Business and Entrepreneurship Knowledge and the skill of applying it quickly to find solutions of problems handcrafted by the BloomBox Team. E-Chase was a team event with team sizes ranging from one to three. The competition was conducted in two rounds where the first round was a quiz based on entrepreneurship and the participants that qualified for the second round competed in an online treasure hunt which had clues in linked pdfs and the teams had to compete against time to win. The event was conducted on the 24th of April, 6:00pm and the winning teams were rewarded with vouchers worth INR 1200.

Date of Event:

April 24, 2021

Details About Event:

Cryptocurrency Trading is the future of Investments in today's World. Due to its high volatility, there are frequent fluctuations of the Prices of these Currencies, making investment in them a Task requiring High Skill and Study. For this, BloomBox organised its Virtual Cryptocurrency Trading Event where the Participants got a Hands-on Experience with Cryptocurrency Trading without Actually Investing their Money. The event was conducted on the Roosto app and the participants had to participate in the BloomBox page on the app. Before the competition began participants were provided with a tutorial for understanding the basic fundamentals of crypto trading. The Participants got 5 days’ time to Trade Cryptocurrency on the App with the Virtual Cash given to them in the App. Participants were able to view their Profits & Leaderboards on the app. After a week, the Top 3 Traders according to the Leaderboard were be Rewarded with Vouchers worth INR 1200.

Date of Event:

April 24, 2021

Details About Event:

BloomBox organized an event to promote the awareness of Social Entrepreneurship in students in collaboration with Enactus Somaiya Social Cell, the Social Entrepreneurship Cell of K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. Students of Enactus Somaiya social cell are involved in various community outreach projects to empower the people of underprivileged sections of the society, to spread the spirit of free enterprise and to provide a sustainable means of livelihood. Rising Entrepreneur, conducted on the 24th of April was an event for a cause. We promoted the idea of social entrepreneurship by engaging participants in a speaker session about the importance of Social Entrepreneurship, the session was conducted by Ms. Prachi Shroff - Product developer at Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance. Participants had to come in teams of one or two to pitch a product provided by us along with sample documents for the first round. Teams for the final round were shortlisted on the very same day and were given a problem statement on Social Entrepreneurship and were asked for a solution. Solution to the problem statement was to be pitched in front of the judges’ panel on the 25th of April.
The judges’ panel included Mr. Mehul Marshrani - senior consultant at Kantar and Mr. Mithun Poojary - Imperia Manager at HDFC bank. The judges did an excellent job in shortlisting the top three teams who were rewarded with vouchers worth INR 1200.

Date of Event:

April 24, 2021

Details About Event:

As a part of Ennovate’21, a Business Model Canvas workshop was
organised on 9th April, 2021 by Mr. Arjun Panchal, a mentor at IIT Bombay, SIBM and
StartupWeekend Pune. He provided guidance to the attendees about how to make a B-Plan from scratch which helped the Ennovate participants to draft their own B-Plan in the best manner. The workshop proved highly useful as it provided participants a better prospect of getting selected in the final round of Ennovate by submitting their B-plan for evaluation.

Date of Event:

April 9, 2021

Details About Event:

The Digital Gambit - A Beginner's Guide To Digital Marketing is not like any other Digital Marketing course but is a Complete Package of an Introductory and Informative Webinar followed by a Competition to experience Hands on Digital Marketing!

Webinar:
The First Event of The Digital Gambit is an edifying Webinar by 2 of our eminent Alumni giving us insights and teaching us the ABCs of Digital Marketing.

1. Ms. Damini Arora
Digital Marketing Manager, White Rivers Media

2. Ms. Komal Desai
Digital Communication Leader, Decathlon Sports India

What you will Learn:
Overview of Digital Marketing
SEO and SEM
Paid vs Organic Digital Marketing
Social Media Marketing

The Webinar is Scheduled on 18th February, 2021 at 6:30 pm.

Competition:
It is rightly said that a Skill is of No Worth unless you Implement it Yourself!
On this very thought, The next part of the Event is
The Digital Gambit Competition

In this Competition, the participants get a Hands On Experience of implementing their skills of Digital Marketing, learnt in the Webinar.

Timeline:
19th February - Last Day to Register for the Competition in Teams of 1-3 Members'

24th February - Last Day to Submit a Digital Marketing Strategy (PPT), along with a Creative Poster/Video for your choice of Problem Statement from the list to be given by Us

25th-27th February - Digitally Promote and Market your Creative which will be Uploaded on our Page and get Maximum Likes and Comments

27th February - Results of Round 1 will be Declared based 20% on the Likes and Comments and 80% on the Quality of the Content submitted.

28th February - The Final Round where the Top Teams will present their Strategies in front of a Panel of Judges. Winners to be Declared on the Spot

Date of Event:

Feb. 18, 2021

Details About Event:

HULT Prize Somaiya Vidyavihar is the Campus Round for HULT Prize which is an annual competition that crowd-sources ideas from MBA and college students after challenging them to solve a pressing social issue around topics such as food security, water access, energy, and education. The Prize is a partnership between Hult International Business School and the United Nations Foundation. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton selects the challenge topic and announces the winner each September.

HULT Prize 2020-21 was directed by Campus Director Shantanu Valdamani. HULT Prize Somaiya Vidyavihar was organised by the E-Cells in Somaiya Vidyavihar Campus i.e. Pathfinder, E-Cell SIMSR, BloomBox, E-Cell KJSCE and E-cell KJSSC.

The main motive of HULT Prize is to test the minds of young individuals to build them and make them ready for the entrepreneurial challenges. The HULT Prize 2021 challenge was 'Food for Good'.
Since the competition was online as we are in a global pandemic the event was on online mode. There were 25 participating teams on board which were then shortlisted to 10 by Radha Iyer ma’am from SIMSR. The 10 teams presented their ideas in front of an amazing panel of judges which included Mr Gaurang Shetty, Chief Innovation Catalyst, Riidl & Founder of Maker Mela, Mr. Amitabh Vyas, National Scouting Lead, UnLtd India, Mr. Satish Kumar Gupta, Principal Assessor and Food & AYUSH Scheme Manager, Indian Register of Quality System (IRQS), Mr. Nilesh Lele, Founder and MD of Exelon Foodbio Advisors Pvt. Ltd.

Including the Top 3 there were 9 members from the BloomBox team who were a part of the organising team of HULT Prize. The members of BloomBox were divided into various verticals according to their will Marketing, Content, Creative and External Communication. The organising team will be getting certificates with signatures of UN and Bill Clinton.

Date of Event:

Nov. 21, 2020

Details About Event:

BloomBox as a Council has always looked forward to give back to the society and on the insistence of our Faculty Coordinator, Prof Inderjit Singh Dhanjal, BloomBox conducted an uplifting webinar named "Love You Zindagi" with the intention to inculcate positivity among everyone in these tough COVID times along with an essence of Entrepreneurship in them. The webinar got a footfall of 60+ interactive participants as an audience on the 2nd of October, 2020 at 5:45 pm.
Mr Rakesh Chopra, the speaker for Love You Zindagi is an International Soft Skill Trainer and Motivational Speaker. Apart from all the learning he had hands on experience on mentoring as he served as a Faculty/Trainer at Bank of Baroda Apex Academy. He also conducted international training assignments across globe.
Online publicity for the webinar was done for a week and registrations were taken on the official BloomBox website. The Webinar was conducted on Microsoft Teams for the first time. Sir addressed the crowd and kept everyone engaged with some relevant movie scenes and couplets along with the valuable presentation and his words of wisdom. At the end, sir answered the questions and doubts from the audience in a positive and detailed manner and the webinar came to an end. A feedback form was floated the next day to get the views of audience on our room for improvement in further events.

Date of Event:

Oct. 2, 2020

Details About Event:

In the current light of the pandemic, BloomBox organized a virtual B-plan competition BINOVATION in August 2020. The Event was announced on 12th August, 2020 on various social media platforms and Dare2Compete website and registrations were started. The second event of BloomBox for this year witnessed a whopping 100+ registrations from around the country. For this event, 5 domains hit hard due to the pandemic caused by the Novel Coronavirus/Covid-19 were released on 15th August, namely Health, Agriculture, Entertainment, Education and Employment. The participating teams consisting of 1 to 4 members each were then sent a minimum of 2 problem statements in every domain through mail communication. The partners of the event were MILD who provided internships worth ₹5000 to every winning team member. Our second sponsorship partner was HEADSTART India who offered mentorship to the winning team helping them make their ideas a great success and making it ready for the real world along with special discounts to all participants on their mentorship programs.

The event consisted of 2 rounds where the teams had to send in their solutions in the form of pdfs for a particular problem statement for the first round. The top 10 teams from round 1 were shortlisted by the Binovation Planning Team and the results were announced on the official BloomBox website on 26th August, 2020. The winning teams had to present their ideas in the form of presentations to the above listed judges on 29th August, 2020 on Google Meets platform. The top 3 teams winning Binovation were announced by the judges on the same day and were posted on the website along with a feedback form on the very next day.

The Winning Teams were:
1st Prize: Team Titans from KJSCE
2nd Prize: Team Arth from KJSCE
3rd Prize: Team Novus from XIME, Bangalore

Date of Event:

Aug. 29, 2020

Details About Event:

BloomBox started off this year with an interesting webinar on the topic “How Will Global Crisis Help or Challenge Entrepreneurship Activities”. The webinar was hosted by Gaurav Mishra sir, (Founder, CEO – Navayuvak Entrepreneurs). Online publicity was done since a week prior to the event and registrations were taken on our website. 50 plus registrations were received. The webinar took place at 4pm on 9th July, 2020 with 52 participants on Zoom Meetings App.
Before beginning the webinar, our chairperson, Krunal Dattani welcomed the crowd and introduced our speaker with the help of a presentation. The webinar started off interactively with sir asking some questions as to who all are interested in entrepreneurship. It proceeded with sir sharing his views on the current situation and guiding us about the current entrepreneurship scenario. Finally some questions were asked by the students and they were gracefully answered by sir. The event concluded with a vote of thanks from our chairperson. A feedback form was floated amongst the webinar participants the next day in order to get their views on the webinar and to improve our further events based on that.

Date of Event:

July 9, 2020

Details About Event:

Bloombox, the Entrepreneurship Cell of KJSCE conducted a Mock Crypto Trading Contest in association with Roostoo, a cutting-edge startup from the University of Southern California in the USA. Students were provided a platform where they could trade in cryptocurrency, an exciting and up and coming avenue for trading. Each participant started out with $50,000 in virtual currency and the person at the top of the leaderboard was declared the winner.

Students were provided a platform where they could trade in cryptocurrency, an exciting and up and coming avenue for trading. Each participant started out with $50,000 in virtual currency and the person at the top of the leaderboard was declared the winner.The contest got a lot of positive responses from everyone and a total of 147 participants took part in the contest.

Date of Event:

April 25, 2020

Details About Event:

BloomBox, the E-cell of KJSCE organised Ennovate’20, a techno-business competition blending together both Entrepreneurship and Innovation with the aim ‘Make your work know it’s Worth!’.
BloomBox, the E-cell of KJSCE organised Ennovate’20, a techno-business competition blending together both Entrepreneurship and Innovation with the aim ‘Make your work know it’s Worth!’. The participants had to develop a prototype of the technical product for an innovative idea and also a business plan for their product.
Whether through developing an app, demonstrating the use of machine learning, developing hardware prototypes, developing helpful websites or working on open source technology, this challenge was for innovators who had to translate the Language of code into revolutionary solutions for real-world problems. Participants took away indelible knowledge by our judges and an astounding experience of participating in a techno-business competition.

Date of Event:

Feb. 6, 2020

Details About Event:

The panel session titled 'Entrepreneurship, Engineering and Innovation- the pillars of a successful start-up' was conducted by BloomBox on 21st January 2020. The reputed panelists were the alumni of different branches from our own college.

The panelists answered a variety of questions that our young entrepreneurs had in their minds and also shared stories of their invaluable experiences. They answered critical questions like how to come up with a breakthrough idea for their start-up, whether it was necessary to have a mentor to guide you along the tough path of building one's own company, if they should have a co-founder for better growth and support, where to get the required financial resources and how to overcome the daunting fear of failure. Our panelists came up with relatable and witty answers, which did not only answer the questions thoroughly but also captured the attention of our young motivated student entrepreneurs.

Date of Event:

Jan. 21, 2020

Details About Event:

HULT Prize Somaiya Vidyavihar is the on campus round for HULT Prize Challenge, an initiative by UN and Bill Clinton. The stages are On campus, Regional , National and Global The final global round winners win $1 million and a chance to be a part of an international community of changemakers, become a social entrepreneurship leader in your country, launch disruptive start-ups and introduce social change.

HULT Prize Somaiya Vidyavihar was organised collaboratively by the E-Cells in Somaiya Vidyavihar Campus i.e. Pathfinder, E-Cell SIMSR, BloomBox, E-Cell KJSCE and RedF from SK Somaiya. The campus director for this event was Mustafa Tarwalla from SIMSR.

HULT Prize is an annual business plan competition that crowd-sources ideas from college students after challenging them to solve a pressing environmental issue. The HULT Prize 2020 challenge was ' Building Startups that have a positive impact on our planet with Every Dollar Earned '.

Date of Event:

Nov. 5, 2019

Details About Event:

Ideation workshop was conducted on 24th September’19 at Riddl by Mrs Hetal Doshi for students. She helped the students gain knowledge through group activities and inculcating the importance of working in a team at the same time.

The students were also given problems statements as challenges to encourage them to come up with new ideas according to the social needs. The students learned a lot about the process of generating ideas and thinking rationally at the same time. The workshop was extremely beneficial for the budding entrepreneurs of the college who needed help to channelize their ideas.

Date of Event:

Sept. 24, 2019

Details About Event:

Aditya Save is a Mathematics graduate & holds a Masters degree in Marketing. He is currently pursuing a Doctoral course in Business Administration (DBA) from WestCliff University in California. The seminar was conducted to provi de students insight into the basics of starting up as an entrepreneur and a lso provide them with a platform to seek advice from our guest speaker.

Mr Aditya focused on the most important questions an entrepreneur needs to ask himself/herself. The reason behind the start up is the primary foundation of a successful business venture. The target population and the necessity of the product is equally important. Basically we need to have a meaningful answer to the ‘why’ aspect of our business model.

Once that is done, we need to do extensive research and acquire a basic knowledge of economics, math, psychology and taxation. Life isn’t about regretting the decisions that went wrong, it’s about learning from those mistakes and emerging stronger than before.

Date of Event:

Aug. 28, 2019

Details About Event:

Ennovate is an absolute blend of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, where students from every background can come together to innovate and mould their ideas to realistic solutions and progressive business plans.

Ennovate’19 is a Techno-Business event with a tagline ‘Make your work know its worth’. Participants are asked to build a prototype of website/ web application demonstrating the use of any technology and provide innovative solutions for real-world problems through their prototype. Along with the prototype, the teams are also asked to provide a business plan for their prototype.

Gaurang Shetty has been part of the startup ecosystem through RiiDL for some time now and he said that the students were fortunate enough to be in a campus where they have an incubator inside the campus so they can spend some time and learn, shadow there and see how their lives are like.

Statisitcs
1. Prize Money: 1st place – Rs. 7000 + Goodies.
2nd place – Rs. 5000
3rd place – Rs. 1500 + Goodies.
4th place – Rs.1500 + Goodies.
2. Number of Participants: Total 18 teams participated in the competition from colleges all over Mumbai with major participation from K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering.
3. Duration: The participants were given a time of 15-20 days to build their prototype. The event was held on 5th April 2019 in K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering.
4. Specifics:
Round 1 (Elimination Round) : 5th April 2019
The competition started with the elimination round. Each team were given 7 minutes (5 mins for presenting and 2 mins for Q&A) for Round 1 where they had to pitch their ideas through their prototype.
Round 2 (Final Round) : 5th April 2019
The top 8 selected teams were then given 12 minutes per team (7 mins for presentation and 5 mins for Q&A) for presentation. In this round, participants presented their problem statements, their respective solutions to it using technology and their business models.
5. Judges: Our highly recognized panel of judges for this event were -
1. Mr. Rohit Kilam (CIO/ CTO, Aditya Birla Finance Ltd.)
2. Mr. Neil Savant (Founder & CEO, NUOS Home Automation)
3. Mr. Raj Dhiravani (Incubation Manager, riidl)
4. Mr. Mehul Ved (Founder, Stratahive)
5. Ms. Avani Sakhapara (Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, KJSCE)
6. Ms. Sunayana Jadhav (Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, KJSCE)

Date of Event:

May 5, 2019

Details About Event:

The session was conducted by Neha Chatterjee (Founder, Wopreneur) who is currently driving a community of 6000+ women entrepreneurs Wopreneur is an organization to facilitate the growth of women in their chosen field and help them reach their potential

The session started with the life story of the speaker who was brought up in a middle class family, seeing domestic violence against women in the society, she grew up with the dream to change the system. She also spoke about her previous career as an investment banker in London then battling with cancer, heart attack and stroke.

The session was an interactive one and many points were discussed with the students like the limitations faced by women start-ups, ecosystem required to help them realize their potential and so on.

Date of Event:

Jan. 29, 2019

Details About Event:

It was the ultimate event with an aim to provide a platform to invite solution creators and visionaries to explore technology and business innovations to help shape the future!

Statistics:
Prizes:
First Prize - Worth INR 50,000
Second Prize - Worth INR 30,000
Third Prize - Worth INR 20,000

Number of Participants: 41 teams from all over the country participated in Global Blockchain Hackathon.
Duration of Event: 19th, 21st and 22nd December 2018.
Specifics:
19th December, 2018: Garage Session (Hands-on workshop on Blockchain Technology)
The Hackathon started with a Hands-on workshop on Blockchain Technology so that the students could clear their doubts and could understand more about Blockchain Technology. This workshop was held on 19th December to prepare the participants for the Hackathon.
19th December, 2018: Panel Discussion
A panel session on ‘Blockchain: The Future of Money, Governance and Law’ was organized to cover Blockchain Technology advertising implications to potential regulation to security concerns, its applications in the start-up world and its pitfall as well.
The panel was as follows -
1. Mr. Saurabh Ambwani (Blockchain Head, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd.)
2. Mr. Ritesh Kakkad (Co-founder, XinFin).
3. Mr. Amol Dethe (Editor, FinBizness)
4. Mr. Prasanna Lohar (Head Innovation & Architecture, DCB Bank Ltd.)
Moderator - Ms. Nehha Wadhwa (Founder, The Pink Table).
21st December, 2018: Hackathon
The Global Blockchain Hackathon commenced at 11:30 AM on 21st December, 2018. 4 problem statements were given to the teams. They were free to choose and work on any one of the problem statements. It was a 24 hours hackathon.
22nd December, 2018: Evaluation of teams
The teams stayed back overnight and worked on their products. The evaluation of the teams was done to filter out 10 best teams for the pitching round.
22nd December, 2018: Pitching Session
The 10 teams were allotted time slots of 10 minutes each where they had to present their idea/ product and propose a business pitch to the judges. The criteria of judging was -
Innovation Deploy Ability Entrepreneurial Opportunity Presentation + Timing
The esteemed judges for the Hackathon were as follows:
Mr. Rohit Kilam (CIO/ CTO, Aditya Birla Finance Ltd.)
Mr. Prasham Rambhia (Assistant Vice President, Nomura)
Mr. Irfan Siddavatam (Assistant professor, Information Technology Department, KJSCE)
Mr Vineet Parikh (Co-founder, tradescrypt.com)
Mr. Chintan Ghelani (Co-founder, tradescrypt.com)
22nd December, 2018: Closing Ceremony and Announcement of Winners
After all the assessments, the closing ceremony was followed by a speaker session on ‘Business models in digital Era and Blockchain Technology’ by Mr Rohit Kilam. He spoke about various fields in which Blockchain can be diversely implemented. He passed on a very insightful message to our participants stating ‘Focus 99% on the problem and you will get your solution.’

Date of Event:

Dec. 19, 2018

Details About Event:

Hack-IoT (Hackathon based on IoT) conducted by BloomBox, Entrepreneurship Cell KJSCE and RiiDL, the aim is to provide a platform to design and create innovative solutions that can directly impact millions of lives.

Statisitcs
1. Cash Prize worth INR 15,000
2.Incubation Facility (RiiDL)
3.FabLab (RiiDL) membership worth INR 6,000
4.Two Months Internship Opportunity at VPS Techub Private Limited
5.Goodies & Gift Voucher from Facebook Developer Circle, Pizza Hut and many more
Round 1 (Elimination Round) : 5th April 2019
Specifics:
1. Speaker Session by Neil Savant (Founder & CEO, NUOS Home Automation) – 30th October 2018.
Topic: Internet of Things: A new growing field
A brief on the real world implementations of IoT and it's modules were given by Mr. Neil Savant. An insight on how having a start-up business is different from a corporate job was also given and a few challenges faced by budding startups were also addressed.
2. Hands on Workshop by Prof. Irfan Siddhavatam – 2nd November 2018.
Irfan Sir explained how to demonstrate a working IoT model. He also gave a brief idea about the judging criteria of the prototypes and some helpful insights on how the teams can make maximum utilization of 30 hours of the hackathon.
3. Speaker Session by Mr. Gaurang Shetty (Chief innovation catalyst and CEO, riidl) – 3rd November 2018.
Topic: How to deliver a business pitch
Mr. Gaurang Shetty gave detailed analysis of start-up community. He explained a few problems faced while launching a product and also how product market compatibility plays a crucial role in making it a success. He threw light on the aspects of a business pitch and how important it is to have a concise, crisp and self-explanatory tagline. He also spoke about elevator pitches and concluded the session by giving insights for an ideal product presentation and business pitch.
4. Hackathon – 3rd November 2018.
The teams were given their components and the Hackathon commenced at 12:30pm on 3rd November, 2018.
5. Submission of Prototypes – 4th November 2018.
The teams stayed back overnight and worked on the prototypes. At 6:30pm the Hackathon was over and the teams submitted their prototypes.
6. Pitching Session – 5th November 2018.
The teams were allotted time slots of 15 minutes each where they had to present their product and propose a business pitch.
7. Closing Ceremony and Results Declaration – 5th November 2018

Date of Event:

Oct. 30, 2018

Details About Event:

BloomBox, E-Cell KJSCE in collaboration with E-Cell, SIMSR organized a B-plan workshop by the RedBull Basement University

The workshop was conducted by -
1. Mr. Romil Shah (A Business Analyst and a Headstarter)
2. Mr. Abhishek Barari (Head of Operations and Finance, MycuteOffice)

Mr. Romil Shah gave an overview of three waves of Entrepreneurs. The interactive discussion facilitated by Mr. Abhishek Barari included the concept of Lean Canvas which was demonstrated using a real life example which covered the problem statement, solutions to it, it’s feasibility, the customer segments correlating to the problem statement directly, key metrics, various channels to publicize, revenue systems, unique value propositions (UVP) and unfair advantages to the idea.

Date of Event:

Oct. 13, 2018

Details About Event:

Nisarg Bavishi said passion and a drive to achieve something is what they look in individuals for their company. Mr. Puru Gupta spoke about how startups are dynamic, how they keep changing and that, change is good in this field. He talked about the challenges they faced in the last few years in True Elements

Tushar Saxena talked about the archetype of his biggest target market and the latent demand he is experiencing in this new era of online rentals and fashion. Dr. Dhaval Shah engaged the audience by sharing his struggles on restrictions and regulations for pharma companies in India and his journey right from college to developing his interest in startups

Gaurang Shetty has been part of the startup ecosystem through RiiDL for some time now and he said that the students were fortunate enough to be in a campus where they have an incubator inside the campus so they can spend some time and learn, shadow there and see how their lives are like.

Panelist
1. Dr. Dhaval Shah (Co-Founder, Pharmeasy).
2. Mr. Tushar Saxena (Co-Founder and CTO, Flyrobe).
3. Mr. Gaurang Shetty (Chief Innovation Catalyst, riidl).
4. Mr. Puru Gupta (Co-Founder and CEO, True Elements).
5. Mr. Nisarg Bavishi (Leads Operations and Client Solutions at vPhrase Analytics Solution Pvt. Ltd.)
Moderator: Mrs. Hetal Mundra (Founder, BloomBox,E-Cell KJSCE and Community Architect, riidl).

Date of Event:

Aug. 23, 2018

Details About Event:

This was a fun event where BloomBox hosted few games highlighting important Entrepreneurship qualities like Teamwork, Time Management, Coordination, Alertness, etc.

This event took place at Gargi Plaza Amphitheatre, Somaiya Vidyavihar.

Date of Event:

April 13, 2018

Details About Event:

A two day workshop was conducted on 'Fundamentals of Coding and Dynamic Programming by a Third Year Computers student.

GyaanBox is a workshop conducted with an aim to give some bright students a platform to spread their knowledge to others acting as a freelancer i.e. for the students, by the students.

Date of Event:

March 23, 2018

Details About Event:

BloomBox in association with KJSCE Symphony conducted Chefpreneur’s second version for the year during Symphony, annual cultural festival of KJSCE on 9th February, 2018.

Top 5 teams of Somaiya Vidyavihar Campus selected from Chefpreneur Round 2 (MakerMela) were given again a chance to showcase their marketing & culinary skills. The team with highest sales was adjudged winners.

Date of Event:

Feb. 9, 2018

Details About Event:

Entrepreneurship Day was conducted on 3rd February, 2018 with an aim to enhance and expand the Entrepreneurship culture. This event commenced with a speaker session by Mr. Angad Nadkarni who spoke about Startup Planning. He enlightened the audience on the factors which play a key role in Startup Planning. There was also a workshop conducted by Seema Agarwal and Vijal Sejpal, co-founders of iThrive, on Leadership and Communication. The winner of Why Dont YouTube was also announced which was THE SARCANEERS. A simultaneous Career Counseling session was also held during the day.

Date of Event:

Feb. 3, 2018

Details About Event:

A Digital Marketing Event (or a Social Media Marketing Contest) was conducted during Abhiyantriki, annual technical festival of KJSCE. Participants had to upload a video on any social media platform possible, and to win this competition, they were required to digitally market the video.

There was an interactive Question and Answer session taken by a famous Spoken Word Poet, Mr. Yahya Bootwala who entertained all the questions asked by the audience. Also, There was a speaker session by Mr. Chirag Warty who shared his expertise on Digital Marketing. The winning team was announced during our event ‘Entrepreneurship Day 2018.

Date of Event:

Oct. 7, 2017