On August 21 and 22, 2021, the students of the Post Graduate Program in Management at IIM Bangalore hosted the 14th edition of one of its largest entrepreneurship summits, Eximius 2021.
This year’s theme was “Thinking. Restart. Rebound’. The event aims to celebrate entrepreneurship and foster entrepreneurial talent among attendees, with more than 20 competitions, more than 15 speaker sessions, fireside chats and panel discussions, seven workshops and product demonstrations from startups. The talks focus on strategy, start-up fundraising, IPO pitch, public policy, product management, pitch for business ideas and more. Some of the conversations focus on the lessons learned from the pandemic, last year’s innovations and the recovery of the sectors.
Eximius 2021 hosted speakers such as Prof. Rajeev Gowda, Ex-MP, Rajya Sabha, Prashant Tandon, Co-Founder and CEO of 1MG, Ankit Gupta, CEO, Franchise and Frontier, OYO India, Satya Tripathi, Secretary General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet, Vikram Vaidyanathan, Managing Partner, Matrix Partners India, Tarun Sharma, CEO & Co-Founder of mCaffeine, to name a few.