★ eChai Summer School - Ahmedabad Edition ★

Name: ★ eChai Summer School - Ahmedabad Edition ★
Start: 2017-04-06T00:00:00+05:30
End: 2017-04-19T02:00:00+05:30
Location: Ahmedabad

Happened

Thursday, 6 April 2017, 12 am - 2 am

Ahmedabad

About

We are delighted to announce the first edition of eChai Summer School to be held during April/May 2017 in Ahmedabad. This will be more of an extended version of our weekly eChai programs and also next phase of our yearly #eChaiFest - which coincides with the foundation day of eChai. We'll be hosting the series of sector/theme specific eChai programs as part of the eChai Summer School. Over the period of two months - we'll be having specific summits for 20+ Industry verticals and engaging programs around key skills needed to build the successful venture. Here's the schedule of series of programs to be held as part of eChai Summer School. For each of the industry specific summit - we'll have engaging & insightful panel discussion with experienced founders & key professionals with relevant industry experience which will be followed by Demo pitches from startups focused on a particular sector. For each of the program, we'll have relevant #eChaiQnA session on eChai.in where you can ask any Qs to speakers and/or community. For example, #eChaiQnA about eCommerce. Also you can checkout the explore the entrepreneurial eco-system in Ahmedabad @ http://eChai.in/Ahmedabad Week 1: 5th April, Wednesday - eCommerce Summit @ icreate 6th April, Thursday - Virtual Reality Summit @ VentureStudio 7th April, Friday - EdTech Summit @ GUSEC 8th April, Saturday - Failures Summit 8th April, Saturday - Building A WOW Product - Startup Saturday ( Partner Program) Week 2: 12th April, Wednesday - SaaS Summit @ icreate 13th April, Thursday - FoodTech Summit @ VentureStudio 14th April, Friday - HealthTech Summit @ GUSEC 15th April, Saturday - Sales & Marketing Summit Week 3: 19th April, Wednesday - IoT Summit @ icreate 20th April, Thursday - FinTech Summit @ VentureStudio 21st April, Friday - Social Entrepreneurship Summit @ GUSEC 22nd April, Saturday - Design Summit Week 4: 26th April, Wednesday - AI Summit @ icreate 27th April, Thursday - Entertainment Summit @ VentureStudio 28th April, Friday - AgriTech Summit @ GUSEC 29th April, Saturday - UX Summit Week 5: 3rd May, Wednesday - CleanTech Summit @ icreate 4th May, Thursday - Media & Publishing Summit @ VentureStudio 5th May, Friday - Mobile Apps Summit @ GUSEC 6th May, Saturday - Scale Up Summit Week 6: 10th May, Wednesday - Travel & Tourism Summit @ icreate 11th May, Thursday - HardwareTech Summit @ VentureStudio 12th May, Friday - CyberSecurity Summit @ GUSEC 13th May, Saturday - Co-Founders' Summit Week 7 : 17th May, Wednesday - Sharing Economy Summit @ icreate 18th May, Thursday - Arts & Culture Summit @ VentureStudio 19th May, Friday - Smart City Summit @ GUSEC 20th May, Saturday - #CoRisers Summit Week 8 : 24th May, Wednesday - Hospitality Summit @ icreate 25th May, Thursday - Real Estate Summit @ VentureStudio 26th May, Friday - Defense Summit @ GUSEC 27th May, Saturday - Angel Investors Summit Also, in addition to these programs we'll be hosting the TalenTech Summit, FashionTech Summit, SportsTech Summits, CSR Summit and many other interesting series of programs. Do suggest us any other interesting formats, which you would like us to host during the eChai Summer School. For sponsorship & partnership opportunities, you can contact us at [email protected] or 08238968939. Apart from the amazing series of programs in Ahmedabad - we'll be hosting our flagship eChai Demo Days in other cities as well. 1st April, Saturday - Delhi Edition of eChai Demo Day at IAMAI 8th April, Saturday - Mumbai Edition of eChai Demo Day at Zone Startups 9th April, Sunday - Bangalore Edition of eChai Demo Day at Kalaari Capital's KStart Instiute About eChai Ventures: eChai is an amazing Startup Social Network which hosts engaging entrepreneurial programs across 40+ cities in India, a powerful online social network with members from across the world and also contextually curates info about global startup trends. eChai has recently introduced eChai Membership Program - where one can pay Rs.500/per year to become the eChai Member. Checkout the membership benefits and all the other things about eChai at http://eChai.in/

Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.