Megabucks : International Business and Entrepreneurship Festival

[bhartiya]

We are pleased to inform you that IIT Kanpur, India is going to celebrate its 10th Annual International Business and Entrepreneurship Festival – Megabucks from 8th Jan to 11th Jan 2009.
Megabucks is one of the biggest business and entrepreneurship festivals held in India. Over the years, Megabucks, has gained great recognition among the academia and the corporate world and can boast of building a strong network of businessmen, venture capitalists, angel investors and academia.
Last year, Megabucks saw total participation of 2000 students from more than 50 technical and 70 business schools. The event receives regular participation not only from prestigious Indian Institutes like IIMs, XLRI, SP Jain, IITs but also from internationally renowned universities like Stanford, Purdue, Chicago University, McMaster University Canada and National University of Singapore.

Key Highlights of the festival this year are:
1. Forum, a conference on "Young Guns and Pioneers" with Sachin Pilot- Youngest Member of Parliament of India, Amit Kumar- Country Head, Grail Research, Saloni Malhotra- Founder and CEO of DesiCrew Solutions, Naveen Tiwari- Founder and CEO of mKhoj.
2. Lecture and Workshop from National Stock Exchange (NSE) and National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd. (NCDEX).
3. India Inspired, a conference on “Social Entrepreneurship” with eminent Social Entrepreneurs and their rich experiences.
4. Megaworld, a three day long real life financial game. Its a virtual Economy complete with its very own currency “Megabucks”. There are assets you can buy, stocks you can trade and much more. Laptop, Ipods, Digicams and loads of exciting goodies to be auctioned with the virtual currency.
5. Impresario, the Entrepreneurial Expo is going huge this time with over more than 30 startups and 10 Venture Capitalists. This year we focus on the growth of IT industry in India and how it can be inculcated everywhere in the country.
6. Battlefield, the Case study Competition has cases from reputed firms namely Xerox, Technopak and Avaya.

Do get your team registered online at Megabucks 2009 - International Business and Entrepreneurship Festival. We look forward to your enthusiastic participation in Megabucks’09.

Thank you.

Cheers,
Ankur Bhartiya
Festival Coordinator
Megabucks 09
+91 9415181979

[discountedclothing]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful news and congratulations to megabucks on its 10th year anniversary. more power to all of you!

[entreprenueur3]

Thanks for the info dude sounds very interesting

[Josephmjackson]

Thanks for the info, hoping to attend one, well done

[Josephmjackson]

When is the next one by the way?