Fidelity Innovation Challenge
CEDI partnered with Entrepreneurship Cell (E-cell) of NIT-Trichy in co-sponsoring an Innovation Challenge contest promoted by Fidelity Investments. The event was organized at NIT-Trichy on 25th August 2014 for Pre final Year B.Tech students. More than 150 students participated. The event empowered students to form Mock start-up ventures with real-time problems and arriving at a solution as a team of Fund Manager, Financial Advisor, Leader, Enthusiast, Designer, Developer, etc.
Startup Weekend
Google Powered Startup Weekend, a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding start-ups and launching successful ventures. One such licensed event was co-sponsored by CEDI and organized at NIT Trichy from 12 – 14 September 2014 with more than 100 participants, where the participants were required to pitch their raw ideas which could be in any vertical/theme like Technology, Education, Health, Disability, Environment, etc. and work on building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) thus propelling them to take their ideas to the next stage.
Seminar on Social Thinking
Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society's most pressing social problems. E-Cell NIT Trichy & CEDI in association with IIM Calcutta gave all the students of NIT Trichy an opportunity to interact and learn from the experts in the field of Social Entrepreneurship on 21st March 2015. TATA Social Enterprise Challenge, a Joint Initiative with IIM Calcutta presents THINKING - A Seminar on Social Entrepreneurship, connecting youth to social enterprise.
CEDI has conducted the following promotional and awareness events at Trichy, Coimbatore and Chennai:
Past Events
|
S.No |
Name of the promotional Event |
|
Date & Location |
Number of attendees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1. |
CEDI Facilitation Meeting at Chennai |
|
19.1.2013 at CII Chennai |
25 |
|
2. |
CEDI Awareness Event at Trichy |
|
02.02.2013 at SRM hotel, Trichy |
25 |
|
3. |
CEDI Awareness event for NITT Faculty and students at Trichy |
|
21.02.2013 at NIT-Trichy |
80 |
|
4. |
CEDI Facilitation Meeting at Coimbatore |
|
16.3.2013 at CII Coimbatore |
30 |
|
5. |
CEDI Awareness Event for NITT Faculty |
|
30th Sep 2013 at NIT-Trichy |
25 |
|
6. |
Awareness Event on seed funding at Trichy |
|
21st Dec 2013 at NIT – Trichy |
25 |
|
7. |
Facilitation Meeting at Chennai |
|
1st Feb 2014 at IIM – Trichy Chennai Campus |
25 |
|
8. |
Facilitation Meeting at Chennai |
|
10th Oct 2015 at Bangalore |
25 |
|
9. |
Facilitation Meeting at Chennai |
|
05th Dec 2015 at PRSG College, Coimbatore |
26 |
|
10. |
CEDI - Information Event |
|
12th Dec 2015 at Ramyas Hotel, Trichy |
90 |
|
11. |
CEDI - Information Event |
|
7th Aug 2016 at Sonata Software, Bangalore |
25 |
|
12. |
CEDI - Information Event |
|
15th Oct 2016 at Loyola college, Chennai |
28 |
|
13. |
CEDI - Information Event |
|
7th Jan 2017 at Ardra Hotel, Coimbatore |
45 |
|
14. |
CEDI - Information Event |
|
21st Jan 2017 at Deccan Plaza, Chennai |
40 |
