We are currently living in unprecedented times where a deadly global pandemic is causing global recession resulting into mass unemployment and companies closing down their businesses. Amidst this emerging grim economic reality, now more than ever, entrepreneurs are called to rise to the challenge and capitalize on the crisis and turn it into an opportunity. As Linda Rottenberg, the co-founder of the non-profit Endeavor, once said: “When economies turn down, entrepreneurs turn up.”
The Employers Confederation of the Philippines, in partnership with Wadhwani Foundation, a non-profit organization with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging economies by driving large-scale job creation through entrepreneurship, innovation and skills development, is launching a program called Prescriptions for Business Survival and Sustainability in a Pandemic with the goal of helping start-up entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs learn the necessary skills in identifying and developing an opportunity into a new business venture especially during challenging times.
The series will touch on 4 key topics namely:
- Episode 1- Starting and Redesigning Your Business During a Pandemic: Using Design Thinking Principles and Applications
- Episode 2- Building a Sustainable Business Model: Business Opportunities During Times of a Pandemic
- Episode 3- Building an “A” Team for your Enterprise: Getting the Right People to Do the Job
- Episode 4- Getting Venture Capital for Your Enterprise: Finding Capital to Start Your Business
These sessions will be conducted in a talk-show format with local and foreign resource persons and entrepreneurship experts from Wadhwani Global University who will provide the theoretical framework.
SCHEDULE
| Session | Schedule | Time | Speaker | Session objectives
By the end of the session, the participants are expected to |
| 1. Redesign your business and survive a pandemic
(Design Thinking Principles and Applications)
|
May 1 |
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. |
Dr. Kaustubh Dhargalkar
|
· Recognize the importance of design thinking and its importance to one’s business.
· Describe the common problems that entrepreneurs face during a pandemic. · Explore various ways to solve these problems using design thinking. · Identify the uses of design thinking principles for business continuity |
| 2. Business Opportunities in Times of a Pandemic
(Building a Sustainable Business Model for your Business) |
May 8 |
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. |
Mr. Raj Bhat
|
· Discover the various entrepreneurship opportunities during this pandemic.
· Describe a business model and examples of models that came about during this pandemic. · Evaluate ways to sustain the current business model after the pandemic. |
| 3. Getting the Right People to Do the Job
(Building an ‘A Team’ for your Enterprise)
|
May 15 |
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. |
Dr. Vinod Shastri
|
· Know the importance of building the right team
· Identify ways of getting the right people to do the job · Identify best practices in protecting your people during pandemic season |
| 4. Finding Capital to Start my Business (Getting Venture Capital for your Enterprise)
|
May 22 |
3:00 – 5:00p.m. |
Mr. Vikrant Potnis |
· Know the various options of getting initial capital.
· List the sources of capital · Describe the role of venture capital · Identify the best way to finance one’s business during the pandemic |
Resource Persons from the Wadhwani Global University:
MR. RAJ BHAT
Practise Head – Entrepreneurship Education, Wadhwani Global University at Wadhwani Foundation
Raj, dons various hats as speaker , thinker, author, researcher, and teacher. He is one of the most popular speaker and teacher in the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in the country. He is very passionate about addressing the growth challenges faced by Indian Entrepreneurs and the evolution of online education trends globally, especially Massive Online Open Course (MOOC)
He has conducted over 200 workshops for Entrepreneurs, Faculty Leaders and Students in India , Indonesia and Malaysia and Phillipines
Raj is currently involved in various educational initiatives spanning across industries and knowledge sectors
DR. KAUSTUBH DHARGALKAR
Dr. Kaustubh Dhargalkar is an entrepreneur-turned-academician & Innovation evangelist, founded three companies from 1990 to 2005 in the domain of productivity enhancement technologies for manufacturing. Exited all his companies in 2005, he took a year off to learn the science of Yoga.
He holds a Ph.D. in Corporate Innovation & Design Thinking.
Currently, Kaustubh consults large corporates (HP, Daimler India, Mercedes Benz, Citibank, Mahindra Group, Capgemini, Eaton, etc.) on ‘How to Enhance their Innovation Quotient’.
He trains executives in Design Thinking and Breakthrough Concept Creation. His views on innovation and strategy are sought by publications such as Knowledge@Wharton, Springer, E&T-Europe, etc.
Kaustubh has been recognized as the Top Seven Global Innovators at the Smart City Congress, Barcelona-2015 for his paper titled, “A collaborative business model for reducing the REAL carbon footprint of electric vehicles”
He has been a runner-up at the Wharton School’s prestigious Global Innovation Tournament in 2010.
He has two TEDx talks to his credit.
He has trained more than 5000 individuals over 50000+ hours of training in the space of Design Thinking, Creative Problem Solving, Breakthrough Ideation.
A teacher at heart, Kaustubh is a visiting faculty at IIT-Bombay, IIM-Siramur, ICT-Mumbai, NMIMS, WeSchool, etc. He is a mentor at various startup incubators and has mentored more than 150+ startups over the last decade, helping them scale by building robust business models.
He is the recipient of the ‘Entrepreneurship Educator & Mentor Award by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship- Government of India jointly with Intel, British Council, EDII & NEN in March 2015
DR. VINOD SHASTRI
Dr Vinod Shastri, Currently the Head of Academics & Research at Bennett University’s Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE), Dr. Vinod Shastri brings with him close to three decades of entrepreneurship development experience across multiple organizations including MCED, NIMID, NEN, and SIBM.
At SIBM-Pune campus, Dr. Vinod was instrumental in launching pioneering academic programmes like a PG Diploma in Innovation & Corporate Entrepreneurship and a full-fledged residential MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Belonging to the rare breed of educators who practice what they preach, he has conceived and co-founded a successful brand of innovative egg-specialty restaurants named Yolkshire.
A post-graduate in Management and Commerce from Pune University, he holds a doctorate in Entrepreneurship from Symbiosis International University, where he studied the phenomenon of Intrapreneurship. He is an EDII-Ahmedabad accredited Entrepreneurship Trainer and also a Certified Trainer in Marketpl
MR. VIKRANT POTNIS
Vikrant is the Managing Director of Fortemagna Advisors Pvt. Ltd – a company focused on corporate finance advisory, venture capital training, and Incubation & Innovation management. Latest funding by Fortemagna includes WorkIndia – India’s largest blue and grey collar platform. WorkIndia raised US$ 6 million from Xiaomi.
Vikrant is also the founder of Indian Academy of Venture Capital (IAVC) which is an initiative to plug in the gaps in understanding the capital raising process for startups and angel investors.
Vikrant has experience across Venture Capital and Investment banking and has worked on transactions upwards of INR 200 Cr. He was closely involved in equity fundraising execution across sectors such as consumer, pharma, technology, healthcare, etc.
Earlier, Vikrant has worked with organizations such as Springboard Ventures, JP Morgan, Mumbai Angels, etc.
He is a visiting faculty of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at CIIE IIM Ahmedabad, SPJIMR, The Bombay Stock Exchange Training Institute, V.J.T.I, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, PDPU etc.
For more info please contact the ECOP Training and Development Department through Mr. Ray Tadeo at [email protected]
Prescriptions for Business Survival and Sustainability in a Pandemic
EPISODE 1: Business Opportunities in Times of a Pandemic (Building a Sustainable Business Model for your Business)
1 May 2020 (Friday) | 3:00pm to 5:00pm | Registration: http://tiny.cc/RedesignYourBusiness
EPISODE 2: Business Opportunities in Times of a Pandemic (Building a Sustainable Business Model for your Business)
8 May 2020 (Friday) | 3:00pm to 5:00pm | Registration: http://tiny.cc/BusinessOpportunitiesC
EPISODE 3: Getting the Right People to Do the Job (Building an ‘A Team’ for your Enterprise)
15 May 2020 (Friday) | 3:00pm to 5:00pm | Registration: http://tiny.cc/BuildingTeam
EPISODE 4: Finding Capital to Start my Business (Getting Venture Capital for your Enterprise)
22 May 2020 (Friday) | 2:30pm to 4:30pm | Registration: http://tiny.cc/FindingCapital
