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Scaling Up Your Venture

November 03

Saturday

CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad.
Featured participants:
Gaurav Barot - CEO - Tridhya Tech Ltd
Dr Shailendra Somani - Entrepreneur, Academician, Leader and a simple workman
Geetika Saluja - Present Position: (1)  Head Varmora Groups Centre For Excellence, 
(2) Director, Programs and Development, Institue of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar
(3) Director, Cassagroup of Companies
(4) Partner, Boho Homes

Contact No. 9824260880	
Email	geetika.cfe@varmora.com, geetika.saluja@iar.ac.in, geetika.b.saluja@gmail.com
Ph.D.	Education (CTU, 2015)
Post Graduation	M.Sc(Mircobiology), M.Ed
Work Experience	20+ years

Research Interest:
Integration of life skills with academic skills in curriculum designing.
Converting competitive classrooms into cooperative classrooms.
Education in Sustainable Development.
Corporate communication.

Awards/Honours
Evaluator at National Children’s Science Congress for National levels.
ISA coordinator for ISA (International School Awards) an initiative of British Council.
During the IASCE conference at University of Hull, I was awarded the book ‘Finnish Lesson’ for sharing the ‘Best idea on How to incorporate Cooperative learning in the classroom?’ by PasiSahleberg - Director General of CIMO (Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation) at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland.
My research paper on Cooperative learning was acknowledged and has received GTA – Global Teacher Accreditation Award with Commendation by British Council.
Shortlisted for ParyavaranMitra teacher award by CEE and NCERT.
Awarded for Best poster among teachers category at the ParyavaranMitraMela by CEE, NCERT and RTC, Ajmer.
My efforts with my team ensured that our educational institute was awarded by NCERT and CEE as Best ParyavaranMitraschool.
Received appreciation for participating in pilot study of implementation of online diploma programme, ‘Young Masters Programme’ (YMP) on Sustainable Development of Lund University Sweden - endorsed by UNESCO in 2014.
Awarded ‘Create to Inspire’ Exemplary teacher and Exemplary Leaders by Microsoft and CEE Certificate of Appreciation by ‘Wipro Earthian Programme’ for ‘Water and Sustainability’ program.
As Judge for city level school civic project at ‘BalaJaanagraha 2014-15 Civic Project’ at Zydus School of Excellence, Ahmedabad.
Certificate of Appreciation by Pollution Control Board, Gujarat and WastePro for contribution in Conservation of Environment, 2016.

Latest Five Publications
1. Saluja, G. (2014, August). Getting Future Ready, Teacher Plus, Retrieved from http://www.teacherplus.org/teaching-practice/getting-future-ready.
2. Saluja, G. (2013). Teaching Science Through Cooperative Learning Strategies, Reflective Practitioners—Journeys of Action Research from India, British Council. Retrieved from http://issuu.com/britishcouncilindia/docs/action_research_compendium__gta__20/13 https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/sites/so/files/files/Global%20Teacher%20Accreditati on%202013.pdf .
3. Saluja, G. (2015). Teaching Science through Cooperative Learning Strategies’, Innovation in English Language Teacher Education, 213-220, British Council. Retrieved from http://www.britishcouncil.in/sites/britishcouncil.in2/files/tec14_papers_final_online.pdf ISBN 978-0-86355-765-1.
4. Saluja, G. and Yagnik, M.K. (2015). Effectiveness of Co-operative Learning Method on Achievement in Science in Relation to Certain Variables for Upper Primary School Students, Education and Society, APH Publishing House, New Delhi, 4(1), 221-245. ISSN N 2319 -9687.
Saluja, G. (2016, December 20). OPINION | Need of Education for 21st Century. Retrieved from http://www.indrastra.com/2016/12/OPINION-Need-of-Education-for-21stCentury-002-12-20160042.html?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3BUl6%2BveLFQ o2mYyYBYo66pQ%3D%3D ISSN 2381-3652.
5. Saluja, G. (2016, December 27). Benefits of Effective Cooperative Learning, www.indrastra.com, Retrieved from http://www.indrastra.com/2016/12/FEATURED-The-Benefits-of-Effective-CooperativeLearning-002-12-2016-0065.html ISSN 2381-3652.

Additional Information
Member of IASCE: International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education.
Member of ActiveTraffic Consultative Committee, (ATCC).
Member of : GEAERD: Global Educators Association for Educational Research and Development.
Member of Global India Bharat Vikas.
Gujarat Coordinator, TRAX, An NGO working on road safety.

As speaker have shared my views on life skills, enterpreneurs mindset and Works skill on various platforms 

Have organsied varius programs to connect academia-industry, industry-professionals
Hunny Bhagchandani - Founder- Torchit
Abhishek Desai - Founder of @CricHeroes and co-founder @digicorp.
Karan Dangayach - Passionate about cleantech and the environment and trying to build businesses around the same.
Nishant Bhatt - I have 9+ years of experience in IT website development and portal development.
Amarendra Mukherjee - Good Life and Relationship coach. Looking for great tech start up where I can join as a cofounder and take care of sales and marketing and also looking for good start-ups in initial stages to invest .
Jaydip Parikh - Motto: Learn, Unlearn & Repeat. 

Passion: SEO, B2B, eCom & Digital Marketing & @TheSEOTalker

Writes @Entrepreneur @sap @semrush @e27co

B🍞&B🧈:  @tejsolpro
Prafull Billore - Founder of MBA Chai Wala, tea cafe chain based in Ahmedabad India. Had a tea stall earlier, which has emerged as cafe now. Been an MBA aspirant for couple of years and than an artificial drop out.
Jatin Chaudhary - Salesman @eChaiVentures l Good at managing WhatsApp groups n organizing high quality, large gatherings at low cost :-) l Observer l Fmr Global Shaper @WEF
Mehdi Hussen - Recognized as a proficient Digital Marketeer in Search Engine Optimization, Content Marketing, Analytics and Inbound Lead Generation.
Dhanesh Wadekar - Being a B.Tech Chemical engineer and currently working as a Social Media Strategist in a Digital/Advertising agency. The shift is huge, but when it comes to creativity and self-learning, hard work pays off. Having the engineering knowledge of experimenting new things experience into the digital field, creates a good pool of thoughts and strategies for businesses to bloom.
Ruchit Surati - Co-founder, Locanix
Parth Sheth - I m chartered accountant but want to start some venture
Nilay Dhamsania - Co-founder - IntuIONS.com - An EV Deep Tech Startup
rajen patadia - Film Producer / Director
Rohit Shintre - A techpreneur living in the world of design simplification. Have been running a bootstrapped organization for the past 3+ years with YoY 150% growth in revenue.

Focussed on creating world-class skills.

Exploring the right balance of management wisdom and free-form risk taking.
Madhur Thawani  - DoctorBulao is On-Demand, Doctor Home Call Service. (24x7)
Re-Launched the venture in March 2018.
Conceptualized in 2015
Mayannk Koomar - Myself Mayank Patel working as a Co-founder at Unnati InformaticsLLP. Having an experience of 18+ years in the management field.
Prateek - Currently student, pursuing BBA, in 2nd year. Not founder yet, but trying to start soon.
Harshad Patel - Director, Help to develop your dream website, web application.
Harshul Brahmbhatt - Working in the area of rehabilitation , design methodology and renewable energy.
Chirag Patel - I am by profession doctor. Working in civil hospital.
Ronak Patel - CEO and Founder of Aglowid IT Solutions
Hetal Chavda - Founder of Upavidhi Law firm, A one stop solution for all types of litigation and legal advisory services to serve at your doorstep, online and offline.
Ashok Rathod - Co-Founder, AccuStartup and MixCoders
Aishwarya Jain - An enthusiastic student, embracing the chaos of the first step in becoming a women entrepreneur , envisions to give back to the society by inspiring fellow members of Youth to strive for social causes like Gender Equality , Substance abuse , etc
Event Details:

eChai in association with Innocity will be hosting the 'Scaling Up Your Venture' program at CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad on 3rd November, Saturday from 6 pm to 8 pm.

'Scaling Up Your Venture' will have leading founders from the community who've scaled up or are scaling up their ventures to share their scaling up journey and interact with participants.

Startup Growth Summit will have two major tracks:

- Panel with Growth Stage Founders
- Startup Demos

If you want to showcase your startup, then you can email us at [email protected] mentioning your key motivation to do that.

Event Details:

Venue: CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad.
Date: 3rd November, Saturday Time: 6 pm to 8 pm.

Speakers list coming up:

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