The conference would comprise of keynote addresses, panel discussions and academic thought sharing presentations. Keynote speakers and members of panel discussions include faculty from various business schools, entrepreneurs, policy makers, VCs and angel investors. Mr Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice Chairman, Cognizant Technology will give the inaugural keynote address.

According to Dr Bala V Balachandran, Founder & Dean, Great Lakes Institute of Management, aEntrepreneurship is at the heart of economic growth of any nation, and India must also create and nurture entrepreneurs in large numbers in order to sustain the enviable growth it has been able to generate in the last decade, and to reach the global economic leadership status that it is expecting to achieve. In this endeavor the Business Schools have a significant role to play, by way of developing and disseminating the requisite knowledge, models, methods and processes, besides training and developing the entrepreneurs and Entrepreneur inside existing organizations.a