E-Cell, IIT Bombay
Sumitra Charan's work experience includes being the Head of Public Relations and Coordinator at The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay from March 2018 onwards. Sumitra also held the role of Convener at Vaani IIT Bombay starting from April 2017. Additionally, they were the Logistics and Operations Coordinator at Mood Indigo IIT Bombay from June 2017 to January 2018.
Sumitra Charan completed a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, from 2016 to 2020.
E-Cell, IIT Bombay
The Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) is a non-profit organization run by students of IIT Bombay. We create awareness among students & professionals about Entrepreneurship through our various programs like workshops, speaker sessions, business plan competitions, and other such events. We support upcoming Entrepreneurs by providing them necessary resources such as mentors, consultancy, seed funds and networking. We conduct Asia's largest B-Model competition Eureka! with prize money of INR 65 Lakhs and incentives worth 50 Lakhs. The last edition of Eureka! received 15,000+ entries from India and abroad. Seven tracks were formed to allow startups to compete in their own domain. Over the years, Eureka! has received huge attention from national and international media being featured in reputed newspapers like Hindustan Times and Indian Express. E-Summit is the annual flagship event of E-Cell IIT Bombay organized in February each year. The purpose of the summit is to bring together all the stakeholders of the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The summit has an attendance of 35,000+ people, most of them being professionals, entrepreneurs and college students. The two-day event is filled with activities like speaker sessions, on-the-spot funding competitions, networking arena, and other events to encourage the idea of starting up among the attendees. The summit has had speaker sessions from great entrepreneurs like Travis Kalanick, Kiran Majumdar Shaw, Sachin Bansal, Ritesh Agarwal, Bhavish Aggarwal, Bharat Desai, and personalities like Rajat Sharma, Nandan Nilekani, Amitabh Kant, Anurag Kashyap and Ashish Chanchalani.