The winner of aKalpavrikshaa, IRIS flagship event, will get a direct semi-final entry into the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition to be held at Foster School of Business in Seattle, USA. A member from Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund will also be on the judging panel of aKalpavrikshaa to judge the top five finalists who stand a chance to get a non-committal funding of around Rs. 2 million for the execution of their plans.

aAshwamedhaa, search for the aBest Manager of Indiaa title will see over 1000 participants competing for the aAshwamedhaa trophy – ‘Golden Horse’, complimented with prize money of Rs. 1.5 lakhs. The event tests a participant on attributes like teamwork, stress handling, conflict management, decision making and presentation skills and interlinks all of these to their theoretical knowledge. Panel of judges for the evet will be from companies like Cavin Kare, JPMorgan Chase, Kellogg and others. Also, Oct 23 will see the latest edition of aKluelessa going live.

aSanjeevania will give a few participants the opportunity to present their idea to aSeedfunda at its office in Mumbai for a possible funding of Rs 30 million. aBulls and Bearsa and aInvested Interestsa will have participants who are interested in the stock markets. Other events include aAdapta, an advertising game and a marketing competition; aStorewarsa, a retailing game; aMarksmana a strategy game in Marketing; aEntrepida and aChain Reactiona will cover Operations and Strategy; aInsuris and Bank on Usa covers the operations performed by insurance companies and banks. aCerebrate Financea, the case study contest of Finance vertical of IRIS will test the analytical skills of the participants. The highlight of the event is a live case by L&T; Infrastructure, which will be judged by their panel themselves coming down to the campus, with prize money of 1.2 lakhs. Alsom aSplasha is an opportunity to showcase cultural streak in music, art, photography etc.

The event will include lectures and interactive sessions. The guests for the sessions include Mr KS Ramesh, ex CEO of Cavin Kare, Mr Srinivasan Vishwanathan, ex MD, JP Morgan Chase, Mr Neeraj Kanwar, joint managing director and COO of Apollo Tyres and Mr Anupam Dutta, MD, Kellogg India. Also, Rama Bijapurkar will be present at the inauguration ceremony. aLivewirea, a rock show, will have ‘Silk Route’ and ‘T.A.T.V’ performing at the campus on November 9.