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What is happening in Coalescence ’15?
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\n• A .C.T (The Conference) - A.C.T stands for Aspire. Create. Transform. At Coa lescence we wish to let the future Zuckerbergs of the country learn from t he current ones. A conference that brings together people that have challe nged the stereotypes and changed them\, people who had the courage to do s omething\, to change something\, to make an impact. Some of our past speak ers include:
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\n1. Alok Shetty\, Architect\, Innovator and Fou nder\, Bhumiputra Group
\n2. Biswa Kalyan Rath\, Engineer and Standup Comedian
\n3. Vijay Anand\, The Startup Guy
\n4. Kunal Shah\, F ounder\, Freecharge
\n5. Dr. Pawan Agarwal\, CEO\, Mumbai Dabbawala A ssociation
\n6. Sanjay Nath\, Co-Founder\, Blume Ventures
\n7. R itesh Agarwal\, Thiel Fellow and Founder\, OYO Rooms
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\n• No vatia (The B-Plan Competition) – Novatia is the premier B-Plan competiti on of India where top-notch innovators are given an opportunity to present their business models to a panel of experts from various industries. Nova tia has 2 categories: Social and Enterprise. The participants are screened in 3 stages.
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\n Round 1 invites applications in the forma t of Executive Summaries from various startups from all over the country. These applications are then shortlisted by our partner incubators/accelera tors
\n Round 2 invites a complete Business Plan from the startups that are selected from Round 1. The top 20-25 teams among them are again screened by our partner incubators/accelerators.
\n These 20 teams receive a month long mentorship period with mentors from one of our partn ers to improve and curate their business plans further. Then these teams a re invited to Coalescence to present their Business Plans in front of a pa nel of experts from various fields. Finally 2 teams from each category are declared winners.
\nPast References –
\n Last year\, Novat ia saw participation of over 200 teams from all over India.
\n Par ticipants were from colleges as reputed as IIMs and IITs.
\n The w inners received cash prize of INR 150\,000.
\n All the finalists h ave the opportunity to get funded upto INR 2 million.
\n Partner i ncubators/accelerators included the likes of CIBA\, MyDea Ventures\, Seedf und\, TiE\, TLabs\, Collabrant Incubators etc.
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\n• Hackatho n – A hackathon is being conducted in this edition of Coalescence in ass ociation with HackerEarth. It will consist of 3-4 problems of various diff iculties to be solved in a particular time period. It will be conducted on the platform of HackerEarth. Top 3 winners will be awarded cash prize and other goodies.
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\n• Workshops – The first steps in shapin g an idea are gaining the required knowledge and have a know-how of the fi eld. To do the same\, Coalescence organizes a series of workshops aimed at helping upcoming leaders keep an edge. Some of the workshops we had are:< br />\n
\n Art of elevator pitching
\n Finance of startups
\n Small business simulations
\n Principles of supply cha in management
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\n• Events – Aimed to provide real life sim ulation of entrepreneurial challenges to the thinkers of tomorrow\, Coales cence organizes events for the brightest minds to meet up and evince thems elves. In the last edition\, some of the events in this segment were:
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\n Last Entrepreneur Standing – An event that brings out the best in an entrepreneur through creative ideation
\n Bid n Barter – A business game that sharpens your negotiation skills
\n Beer Game – An interactive game that teaches you the principles of supply ch ain management
\n Bluechip Beatdown – An event that involves han ds on interaction with customers in real time market scenario
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\n• Startup Expo – (Will send the details later)
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\n• N etworking Dinner – A dinner that brings together the entire community\, speakers\, mentors\, future entrepreneurs. A completely open interaction a imed at providing an opportunity to interact/discuss/debate/learn from som e of the most experienced and accomplished people in Indian Startup Ecosys tem.

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