Surat. 13 October, 2023 : Nilesh Shukla, President of TiE Vadodara said TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) (www.tie.org) is a Global non-profit organization devoted to fostering entrepreneurship across all Industries with its unwavering support at all levels, from Incubation to throughout the entrepreneurial lifecycle. There are currently 15,000 members (including over 3000 mentors) in 61 chapters across 14 countries. TiE Vadodara is the most recent addition to the TiE Family
TiEcon is an Annual Flagship to provide opportunities to all stakeholders in the entrepreneurial & startup ecosystem, to learn from experiences shared during the event and leverage the network for scaling up existing businesses and nurturing start-ups. The 1st TIEcon Vadodara is being held on 20th- & 21st Oct 2023 at The Grand Mercure, Vadodara, Gujarat, on the theme of ‘Opportunities Unlimited’. It aims to bring together the best of the foundational programs and resources for fostering the Entrepreneurial and Start-up ecosystem of Vadodara and Gujarat, by Mentoring, Networking, Education, Investing, & Incubation, which are Pillars of TiE
Maulik Bhansali, Sr Vice President of TiE Vadodara said that the event will be inaugurated by Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Honorable Union Minister of state for Electronics, IT, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship & there are more than 30 high profile & diverse set of speakers lined up for the day some consisting of Decacorn founders to Unicorn founders to many highly successful women entrepreneurs too, to share their wisdom, knowledge & experience – 1st time in history of Vadodara. Some of the names are T V Mohandas Pai, Srikanth Velamakanni, Vikram Gupta, Harish Mehta, Shraddha Sharma , Mahavir Sharma & Sunny Vaghela
Bharat Bafna, Co-Chair of TieCon Vadodara further went into details of program and informed that such line of speakers which has got mix of Startup founders, 1st Gen & 2nd Gen highly successful leaders from large corporates to TiE Global Members to Best brains for AI, Best of Venture Capital cos Founders will be getting together for gripping panel discussions & fireside chats as well as Key note address on wide ranging topics to make the programme highly inclusive covering FMB’s to AI for scale-ups as well as start-ups to Funding Winter to Deeptech to How Founder has a partner in Angel/VC etc. while bringing the best speakers from India yet making sure that stories of Gujarat aren’t missed.
Honorable union minister will also launch VEiN (Vadodara Exclusive Investors Network) and Match-a-thon (TiE-India Co- Creation Platform between Industry and Startups), two very unique platforms which have the potential of making Vadodara & Gujarat emerge higher in overall start-up ecosystem in India. TiE –VEiN will be launched connecting the whole investing fraternity of Central Gujarat on single platform and will be doing yearlong sessions with HNI’s and Angels of Vadodara for providing them quality startups to invest in, thereby creating pool of investors who can become important pillar for start-up ecosystem from Gujarat as well as India
The day will be fully action packed with parallel sessions consisting of Pitch-a-thon, Match-a-thon, Startup Awards, Expo, Master classes and Round Table all very carefully put-together to let the delegates, start-ups and entrepreneurs enrich and get inspired. Master classes and Round tables which will run concurrently on topics like ChatGPT & Angel Investments. TiEcon also offers excellent networking opportunities – close to 100 charter members from across the globe are likely to fly into the city of Vadodara.
For awards a Stringent competitive selection process is adopted at Idea, POC & Revenue stage each from Vadodara, Gujarat & India has been followed with PwC aiding the same & there are cash rewards, awards and trophies – to make sure that while there is focus on Vadodara, larger eco-system is included too.
TiECon is Organized in partnership with MeitY & Govt of Gujarat’s start-up ecosystem I-Hub and several other professional and business associations across different domains and Industries and has got immense support from all eco-system partners like IIMA Incubation Cell, IIT Gandhinagar Incubation cell etc. Its Gujarat Startup Partner is TiE Ahmedabad and Surat apart from around 20 TiE Chapters supporting for outreach. The event has got PwC as Knowledge Partner to make sure the quality of event is absolute world class and will witness 500+ attendees, including start-up founders, successful entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, leadership teams from VCs, product developers, incubators, government functionaries, and academicians, This scale was not possible without wide collaborations and support of all
In all, the First TiECon at Vadodara shall become the launchpad for creating and sustaining a unique entrepreneurial ecosystem for Central Gujarat with some Unique launches for India’s Startup Ecosystem.
