Power2SME & Wadhwani Foundation present Webinar on
Innovation & Capacity Building for SMEs: Key to Survive amid Crisis
Mr. Rahul Savoor
Session Moderator
Dr. H P Kumar
Former CMD - NSIC and Director, External Affairs - Power2SME
Mr. Ramanathan Ramanan
Mission Director - Atal Innovation Mission
Mr. Sandeep Barve
Co-Founder & Managing Director, In-Unison Pvt. Ltd
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- Saturday, June 13 2020
- 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm IST
- Google Meet
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Points of Discussion
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Need for Innovation in Manufacturing SMEs for Self Reliance & capacity Building
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Streamlining the Procurement & Supply Chain processes
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Role of ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs
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Enabling Hyper Local Commerce – Need for e-commerce Linkages
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Innovative preventive, assistive, curative deployable/scalable solutions to beat the COVID19 crisis in India
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Role of AIM in Promoting the Innovative industrial culture in Small Businesses.
Speaker Profile: Mr. Rahul Savoor
Session Moderator
Rahul is the Director of the Wadhwani Advantage program. He has over twenty four years of diverse global experience and a record of success in strategic business development, finance, and general management. Experience working with all sizes of corporations – from startups to large multinational corporations. He has worked as the MD for New Mark Ventures, as a Director for Universal Consulting India, as the co-founder of Trica Retail Ventures. He has also worked with Accenture and Huges.
Speaker Profile: Dr. H P Kumar
Former CMD - NSIC and Director, External Affairs - Power2SME
Dr. H.P. Kumar is Director External Affairs at Power2SME and he is spearheading the organization’s objective of building alliance network in the industry. Dr. Kumar will design innovative programmes and framework to enhance Power2SME’s value proposition for SMEs, Suppliers and financial institutions. With rich experience in leading successful and profitable campaigns to benefit SMEs, Dr. Kumar comes with deep knowledge of SME market. Dr. Kumar has extensive experience in dealing with promotion, development and financing of MSMEs, exports and other small & large projects. Prior to joining Power2SME. He was the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NSIC (National Small Industries Corporation), a govt. of India enterprise engaged in development and financing of SMEs in India. Under his leadership, NSIC was able to achieve a turnover of 17400 crores and became a dividend paying entity with an excellent MOU rating continuously for 7 years, a spectacular shift, from a loss making CPSU prior to his successful tenure.
Speaker Profile: Mr. Ramanathan Ramanan
Mission Director - Atal Innovation Mission
R Ramanan is the Mission Director of the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) – a flagship national Innovation initiative of the Prime Minister and the Government of India of India under the NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). AIM’s goals are to establish and promote a vibrant culture of innovation and entrepreneurship nationwide.
As the Mission Director of AIM, Ramanan has been instrumental to date in the launch and execution of several nationwide innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives resulting in
– 10000+ Atal Tinkering Labs being established in schools nationwide with 5000+ operational in 650+ districts and over 2 million students having access to innovative tools and technologies like 3d printers, robotics, miniaturised electronics do it yourself kits
– 102 Atal Incubation Centers being established in Univ / industry fostering Startups
– 24 Atal New India Challenges to stimulate product innovations along with Ministries of India
– one of the largest mentorship networks with over 10000+ registrations nationwide AIM iNNONET to mentor young school students and Startups in the Tinkering Labs and the Incubators.
R Ramanan was previously Managing Director & CEO of CMC Ltd, a subsidiary of the globally acclaimed Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Ramanan led CMC’s rapid transformation from a domestic government organization to a global IT private sector organization. Under his leadership CMC share price grew over 2100% between October 2001 to 2014, its operating profits over 1338%, 72% of its business coming from the overseas markets and leading to its successful amalgamation into TCS in 2015
Speaker Profile: Mr. Sandeep Barve
Co-Founder & Managing Director, In-Unison Pvt. Ltd
In-Unison helps Entrepreneurs, Business Owners & Leaders to improve business performance, define & implement change initiatives & establish new capabilities.