Sankalp 2009: Nationwide MSME Business Plan Competition

Event: Sankalp 2009

Organized By: India Development Gateway (IDG)

Key Dates:

• Round 1 Submission Deadline: December 29th 2008
• Round 1 Results Announced: January 16th 2009
• Round 2 Opens: January 16th 2009
• Round 2 Submission Deadline: February 10th 2009
• Round 2 Results Announced: February 24th 2009
• Final Awards Event: April 2009

L’attitude 13°05` 2008: B-Fest, Great Lakes institute of Management

Event: L’attitude 13°05` 2008

Organized By: Great Lakes institute of Management, Chennai

Key Dates:
Registrations for the events are now open.
Event date: December 20, 2008
Deadline for Submissions for Dvija: December 2, 2008

The mai Bangkok Business Challenge @Sasin 2009

Event: The mai Bangkok Business Challenge @Sasin 2009

Organized By:
The Market for Alternative Investment (mai) and
Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University

Key Dates:
Deadline for Application & Submission of first round Summary Business plan: December 15, 2008

For whom:
All full-time and part-time graduate students in business administration programs (enrolled in the 2008 calendar year) are eligible to participate.

2009 The Global Social Venture Competition

Event: The Global Social Venture Competition

Organized By:
Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley in partnership with

• Columbia Business School,
• London Business School,
• Indian School of Business, and
• Yale School of Management

Key Dates:
Asia Region- Submit to the Indian School of Business

• Executive Summary Deadline (optional): November 30, 2008
• Full Business Plan Submission Deadline: January 21, 2009

SE Asia Region – Submit to Thammasat University, Thailand

• Executive Summary Deadline: January 9, 2009

Intaglio: IIM-Calcutta’s International Business School Meet

Event: Intaglio 08-09 (Website)

Organised By: IIM-Calcutta

Key dates:
Fest: January 8-11, 2008

Ventura: The International Business Plan Competition

Event: Ventura 09 B-Plan Competition (Website)

Organised By: E-Cell, NIT-Trichy

Key dates:
Deadline for submission of Executive summary: December 5, 2008
Mentoring Process: Till January 31, 2009
Final Presentation: February 28, 2009

Ethon 08: An Entrepreneurship Conclave

Event: Ethon 08 International Business Plan competition 2008

Organized By: IFIM Business School

Key dates:
Deadline for Submission of Business Plan: November 30, 2008
Event Dates: December 15-16, 2008

Global Challenge Awards

Global Challenge Awards

Organised by: Global Challenge

Key Dates:
Registration is open year around and the main activities run from September to April each year

For Whom:
All students who are not yet in college are invited to participate. Materials are aimed for students aged 14-17, but welcome all who are not yet in college. There are two ways to participate – as an individual or as part of a team. For team projects, you select a friend and, if you would like, an adult (called a Country Team) and then join forces with a similar team from another country (to form an International Team).

Entrepreneurship Summit 2009: IIT Kharagpur

Entrepreneurship Summit 2009

OrganizedBy: Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur

Key Dates:
Summit: January 10-11, 2009

Megabucks 09 – International Business and Entrepreneurship Festival, IIT Kanpur

Event: Megabucks 09 (Website)

Organised By: IIT Kanpur

Key Dates:
Fest: January 8-11, 2009
More latest updates can be found here.

Confluence 08: Asia’s largest and best business school summit

Event: Confluence 08 (Website)

Organized By: IIM-Ahmedabad

Key dates:
Fest: November 20-23, 2008
For more event updates visit here.

i2I Business Plan Competition: E-Cell, IIM Calcutta

Event: i2I Business Plan Competition 

Organized by: Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) at IIM Calcutta

Key Dates:
Deadline for Executive Summary Submission: October 31, 2008
More key dates here. 

Conquest 2009 : The International Business Plan Competition

Conquest 2009 and efactor

Organised By: BITS Pilani

Key Dates:
Deadline for submitting the Summaries: November 22, 2008
eFactor Conference dates: Feberuary 7, 2009

TiE-ISB Connect 2008: The Next 800 Million Opportunity

Suggested by Sai Chandra Shekar

Event: TiE-ISB Connect 2008 (Website)

Organised By:
TiE, Hyderabad Chapter and the Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED), ISB

Key Dates:
Conference Dates: November 6 and 7, 2008
JumpStart your Venture worksho: November 5, 2008

National inter-collegiate Green Venture Competition

Event: National inter-collegiate Green Venture Competition (Website)

Organised By: NITIE (National Institute of Industrial Engineering)

Key dates: November 17-19, 2008

Crescita: Annual Conference, Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy

Suggested by Sharan Kumar R

Event: Crescita ’08 (Website)

Organized by: Bharathidasan Institute of Management

Key Dates:
Fest: October 17-19,2008
Last date for registration for BIZZ-ART: October 14, 2008

Samadhan 08 – Social Entrepreneurship B-Plan Competition

Event: Samadhan 08 (Website)

Organised by:
Entrepreneurship Development Cell(EDC) IIT-Roorkee

Key dates:
Submission of Executive summaries: September 25, 2008
Final Presentation at IIT-Roorkee: November 2, 2008

Pan-India Business Plan Competition

Event: Pan-India Business Plan Competition (Website)

Organised By:
Loyola Institute of Business Administration
IDG Ventures
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE)

Key Dates:
Deadline for registration: September 23, 2008
Deadline for Submission of Executive Summary: October 03, 2008
More Details here.

Eureka 08 – The International Business Plan Competition

Event: Eureka 08 (Website)

Organised By: E-Cell, IIT-Bombay

Key dates:
Last date for submission of Executive entry- October 4, 2008.
More deadlines here.

Avenues 2008- Annual International Business Festival

Event:Avenues 2008 (Website)

Organised By: SJMSOM, IIT Bombay

Key Dates:
Deadline for Quadriga: September 6, 2008
Deadline for VC Challenge: Spetmeber 6, 2008
Deadline for Submission of Entries for B Plan: September 10, 2008
Fest Dates: October 18-19, 2008