
Hosted By - IIT Kanpur Alumni Association, Delhi Chapter

Humbled to be Sponsored and Endorsed by DST
Objective
Startup Master Class is on a mission to accelerate creation and adoption of world class Deep Tech products from India by leveraging National Missions set forth by the Government of India.
Past & Present Sponsors
Global and National Institutions that have partnered with us






Past Legacy
Entrepreneurs
Speakers
Editions
Years of Legacy

National Missions Overview

National Quantum Mission

NM-ICPS

Waste to Wealth Mission

NGP
Speakers associated with us

Shri
Amitabh kant

Shri
Abhay Karandikar

Prof.
Ashutosh Sharma

Shri
Sanjeev Bikhchandani

Shree
Padmaja Ruparel

Shri
Sunil Singhal

Shri
Dr. JVB Reddy

Shri
Jai Shankar Sharma

Shri
Sumant Parimal

Prof. Dipankar
Bandyopadhyay

Shri
Srikant Sastri

Shri
Roshan Srivastava

Shri
Sanjay Kumar

Shri
Brijesh Damodaran

Shri
Naresh Soni

Shri
Sanjiv Rangrass

Shree
Ekta Kapoor

Shri
Sunil Goyal

Shri
Mukesh Kestwal

Shri
Navin Manaswi

Shri
Dr. Praveen Roy

Shri
Rajat Verma

Shri
Ashish Kumar

Shri
Deepesh

Shri
Lalit Kumar Jaggi

Shri
Mukul Singhal

Shri
Shachindra Nath

Shri
Anant Dutta
Shri
Manish K Gupta

Shri
Chetan Bhatia

Shri
S. P. Singh

Shri
Raghav Saha
Agenda
A Day full of Learnings Insights & Growth
Chief Guest + Opening Ceremony
Amitabh Kant (Chief Guest Speech) | Director IITK, Manindar Aggarwal | Sunil Singhal (Opening Speech) | Jai Shankar Sharma (SMC Kickstart)
⏱️ 9:50 AM - 10:40 AM
Speaker 1
Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (Genesis of National Missions)
⏱️ 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Speaker 2
Prof. Abhay Karandikar (Growth of National Missions)
⏱️ 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Tea Break
⏱️ 11:20 AM - 11:40 PM
Rohit Sood - IBM Quantum Ambassador
⏱️ 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel 1 - NQM
Prof. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay | JBV Reddy (Mission Director) | Sumant Parimal (Innogress Venture) | Amit Dubey (Tech Mahindra)
⏱️ 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Speaker Slot 3
Major General C. S. Mann (Additional Director General, Army Design Bureau) | Himanshu Singhal (NSUT Incubation)
⏱️ 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Speaker 4
Praveen Roy
⏱️ 01:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch Break
⏱️ 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Speaker 5
Srikant Sastri (Chairperson at NGP) | Rohan Srivastava (IIT Tirupati)
⏱️ 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Panel 2 - NGP
Brijesh Damodaran (Auxano Capital) | Naresh Soni (Deepmatrics) | Sanjiv Rangrass (Capria Ventures) | Sanjay Kumar-Program Lead | Rohit Sood- IBM
⏱️ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker 7
Sanjeev Bikchandani + QnA
⏱️ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Panel 3 - NM-ICPS
Sunil Goyal (Yournest VC) | Mission Director | C3HUB (IITK) | Navin Manaswi (GenerativeAI Speaker)
⏱️ 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Panel 4 - Waste 2 Wealth
Sunil Singhal (Chemical Systems Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) | Lalit Jaggi | Rajat Verma (Lohum) | Prof Chander Shekhar Verma-Dean R & D, IITH
⏱️ 5:45 PM - 6:30 PM
How should be Ideation to Product Market Fit journey planned out?
Ashish Kumar (Fundamentum) | Brijesh Damodaran (Auxano Capital) | Mukesh Ketswal (IIT Ropar) | Sanjay Maurya (Ubreath)
⏱️ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
How funding is planned and what investors look for?
Sanjiv Rangrass (Capria Ventures) | Anand Dutta (Nexus Partner) | Ankit (IITD)
⏱️ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
⏱️ 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
How to plan Product Development and what role data plays into?
Sonia Sadhnani (Manager, IIMA Ventures) | Sunil Goyal, Your Nest | Piyush Mishra (IITK) / Ojasvi Babbar (CEO,Amity) | Prof. Pankaj Vajpayee | Saurabh Chaudhary IIIT Delhi
⏱️ 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Capacity Building for Skilled Professionals in Deep Tech
Nikhil Kumar, AGI | Prashant Mathur (CEO,IBITF) | Dr. Manish Gupta (Director Academics, Kaushalya Skill University) | Dr. S. P. Singh (Director General, Kaushalya Skill University)
⏱️ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Tea Break
⏱️ 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
How to plan your Go-To-Market and how it can help you grow your business ? What are External factor like policies affecting your GTM ?
Smita Mishra, ESG | Ritu Sain, IAS, Investment Commissioner, CSIDC Chhattisgarh | Abhinav Ramaria (Accel Partners)
⏱️ 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Startup Demo Day (Slot 1)
Selected startups will demo their product to VCs and incubators
⏱️ 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Lunch
⏱️ 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Startup Demo Day (Slot 2)
Selected startups will demo their product to VCs and incubators
⏱️ 2:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Tea Break
⏱️ 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Workshop
Sumant Parimal will take an insightful workshop for the startups
⏱️ 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Workshop 1: Pitch Deck Creation
An insightful workshop on pitch deck creation by Chetan Bhatia
⏱️ 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Workshop 2: Fundraise
An insightful workshop on fundraise by Shutapa
⏱️ 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Workshop 3: Patent and Trademark
Raghav Saha, Atulya Nath, Konpal Rai, Rajeshwari Hariharan will guide on Intellectual Property Right
⏱️ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
