BITS Pilani Alumni Association

Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL)
BITS Pilani Alumni Association (BITSAA) Entrepreneurship Initiative

After a successful launch of Plan E through a series of entrepreneurship-education events, we plan to widen the scope of this initiative to include all BITS alumni as well as collaborate with the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) at BITS Pilani. As the first step, we will rename the "Plan E" initiative to "CEL-BITSAA". The alumni initiative will become a virtual organization linked with CEL. Over the next few weeks, we will announce more information on the upcoming CEL-BITSAA events and the details on the collaboration with CEL.

The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership was set up encourage the students of BITS to hone their latent entrepreneurial skills, think out of the box, to show exemplary leadership in all walks of life; to be Entrepreneurial Leaders. It is one of the Centers for Excellence at BITS Pilani, and one of the top 5 centres of Entrepreneurship among Indian Universities. It organizes very popular events such as Conquest, the I4RI and Prayag.

Provide a forum for building relationships between aspiring and successful BITSian entrepreneurs
Stimulate entrepreneurial thinking amongst BITSians

Create value through a network of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-to-be for the BITSAA-SVC network
Foster collaborative entrepreneurial initiatives through an open, inclusive and transparent framework
Leverage the possibilities of team teaching, guest lectures and mentorship programs through the network members
Provide strong leadership role models and mentors.
Sustain entrepreneurial thinking among members
Conduct ten or more educational cum networking events by May 2007
Attract five BITSian startup ideas for an idea pitching event by May 2007

For the complete proposal, click here.

Periodically organize educational events - panel discussions or guest speaker presentations.
Each event will have one theme/topic and will have one to two speakers or three to four panelists to cover enough breadth as well as potentially differing viewpoints.
Select interesting and relevant topics for the target audience and invite panelists/speakers who have relevant experience and credentials to talk about these topics.
Timeline: Every 3 to 4 weeks depending on the speaker availability and level of participation.

Target Audience

BITSian entrepreneurs
BITSians with startup ideas ready to start an entrepreneurial venture
BITSians who are new to entrepreneurship and want to learn and prepare to become entrepreneurs

        Ashish Shah (ashishbshah AT gmail DOT com)
        Badhri Varanasi (badhri_034 AT yahoo DOT COM)
        Himani Apte (himaniapte AT yahoo DOT com)
        Pradheep Elango (pradheep.elango AT yahoo DOT com)
        CEL BITSAA-SVC Team (plan.e.svc AT gmail DOT com)