IIT – Kharagpur – MBA / Engineering Technology Venture Competition 2009

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The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition : IIT Kharagpur

Institute Name:
Assocham and IIT
Kharagpur

About ASSOCHAM and IIT :
Cicero, A Trans National Advisory, is a sole proprietary, founded in 2004 by Oopali Operajita, one of India’s Senior Political and International Affairs Advisers, to foster understanding and partnerships between nations and cultures, and top international political and business leaders, with special focus on education, leadership, the environment, sustainable development and climate change.

In the recent past, Operajita has been invited to meet with, among others, the following leaders and the top ranked delegations that have accompanied them to India: Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of UK, President Hu Jintao of China, President Dr Anabel Cavaco Silva of Portugal, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Prime Minister Matti Van Hanen of Finland, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain, President Chirac of France, Premier Dalton McGuinty of Ontario, Canada, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, US Assistant Secretary of State, Rick Boucher, former US Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Dr Henry Kissinger; CEO’s such as Rick Wagoner of GM and the delegation led by Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia to India.

Details:
The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition for MBA, Engineering, and Science & Technology undergraduate (Final year), and graduate students focuses on bringing new sustainable and clean technologies to market through innovation and entrepreneurship. It invites students from India’s apex institutes of engineering, science and technology, and management, such as its fabled IITs, IIMs and NITs to come up with new and renewable sustainable technology business plans to combat climate change and fortify India’s — and, by analogy, the world’s — crucial energy security.This is a pan India event which would propel an entire generation of India’s best and brightest students into thinking of climate change mitigation and coming up with alternative energy solutions for the future of humankind on our endangered planet.Schools may send up to two representative teams to the competition.

The business plan must meet traditional return-on-investment and profitability standards, while demonstrating eco-friendliness and eco-sensitivity by increasing sustainability. Approximately eight qualifying teams will be selected to make their presentation and compete at the Finals in the host/partner institution. The panel of judges will be composed of eminent faculty, venture capitalists and industrialists.Winners of The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition will receive: Cash awards, opportuntiy to interact with top tier venture capitalists.

The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition, India, is the brainchild of Oopali Operajita, CEO, Cicero, A Trans National Advisory, a former Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and a Senior Political and International Affairs Adviser to several of India’s prominent political leaders. Operajita thought up an exclusive All India Sustainable Technology Venture Competition, in honour of Vice President Al Gore.

She named it for Al Gore, with considerable encouragement and support from some of Gore’s closest colleagues from his White House days, and launched the First Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition on February 11-12, 2008, in New Delhi. The impetus and motivating force lay in Operajita’s wish to galvanize an entire generation of India’s formidable engineering, science, technology and management students – widely acknowledged as some of the brightest in the world – from its leading institutions, such as its legendary Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), as she says, “into thinking sustainability, and incorporating it into their mindsets, and coming up with sustainable technology solutions, for the future of the imperilled planet.”

Eligibility:
Open to Engineering/Science/Technology and MBA students .

Important Dates:
Deadline for electronic submission of business plans: September 30, 2009
Live presentations at the IIT, Kharagpur: November 6, 2009
Live presentations at the IIT, Kharagpur: November 6, 2009

For More Information Visit: http://www.cicerotransnational.com/agstvc.html