Bangalore to host Asia's largest entrepreneurial summit

BANGALORE: TiE Entrepreneurial Summit (TES 2008), a top-ranking global entrepreneurial event positioned as the largest in Asia, would be held here from December 16 to 18, it was announced here on Wednesday.

More than 1400 delegates and 100 speakers would attend the event, which would be a meeting place for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, academia, industry, thought leaders and other stakeholders from various industries and verticals, organisers TiE said.

TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley in the US by a group of entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in teh Indus region. TiE's mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, and education.

Pradeep Kar, President TiE Bangalore Chapter, said the summit features successful and experienced entrepreneurs, sharing their knowledge on global entrepreneurship over three days across 50 sessions.

"After two very successful shows in the past, this year's summit will be more comprehensive. More so because it will involve a wider segment of the entrepreneurial landscape, be more global, as well as encourage the participation of other start-up support organisations", he told reporters.

According to TES 2008 Chairperson Ravi Narayan, the theme of TES 2008 is "inclusive entrepreneurship". More than 30 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and thought leaders including Prof. C K Prahalad, Carl Schramm, Nandan Nilekani, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Apurv Bagri, J P Solomon, Prof Martin Haemmig, David Brophy, Naren Gupta and Nirmal Jain have confirmed participation.