THE EARTH
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY
VENTURE COMPETITION™
An Intitiative of the Earth Sustainable Technology Movement™
Asia • Americas • European Union • Australia • Africa
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Prof. Oopali Operajita
Chair & Founder
Senior Adviser to India's Parliamentary Leaders
Distinguished Fellow (1989-99)
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Core Committee for the 2012 Competition
Patron
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi
Director, IIT Madras
Prof. R. Nagarajan
Convenor
Dean, International & Alumni Relations
Professor of Chemical Engineering
IIT Madras
Prof. Job Kurian
Member
Dean, IC & SR
IIT Madras
Dr. Sudhir Chella Rajan
Co-Convenor
Head, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences
IIT Madras
Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam
Co-Convenor
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Madras
Aditya Sriganesh
Mukesh Manjunath
Umashankar
Suthirth Vaidya
Student Coordinators
Board of Advisers
The Honourable Suresh P. Prabhu
Member of Parliament, India
Former Union Cabinet Minister, Environment
& Forests
Former Union Cabinet Minister, Power,
Heavy
Industries &
Public Enterprises
Chairman, Task Force on Interlinking of Rivers
(with cabinet minister rank)
Dr. Wilfried Aulbur
Managing Partner
Roland Berger, India
Dr. Abhay Abhyankar
Baillie Gifford Chair of Financial Markets
School of Management & Economics
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Prof. Damodar Acharya
Director
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
India
Dr. Vijayakumar Bhagavatula
Associate Dean for Graduate & Faculty Affairs
College of Engineering
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
The Honourable Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, India
Dr. Prodipto Ghosh
Distinguished Fellow,
The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), India
Former Secretary, Environment & Forests
Government of India
Dr. Kenneth Goldberg
Director, Berkeley Center for New Media
(BCNM)
Professor, Industrial Engineering
& Operations Research (IEOR)
Professor, Electrical Engineering
& Computer Sciences (EECS)
University of California at Berkeley, USA
Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar
President, Global Research Alliance
Former Director General
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
Former President, Indian National Science Academy
Fellow, The Royal Society, UK
Dr. Veer Bhadra Mishra
President, The Sankat Mochan Foundation
Retired Professor of Hydraulic Engineering
Retired Head, Department of Civil Engineering
Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India
Dr. Baldev Raj, FTWAS, FNAE, FNA, FNASc., FASc.
Distinguished Scientist & Director
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India
Honorary Member, International Committee on NDT
Member, German Academy of Sciences
Member, Academia NDT International
Mr. R. Ramaraj
Senior Advisor
Sequoia Capital India
Mr. Ranjit Shahani
Vice Chairman & Managing Director
Novartis India Private Ltd., India
Mr. Sandeep Singhal
Managing Director & Co-Founder
Nexus Venture Partners, India
Mr. Gopal Srinivasan
Chairman & Managing Director
TVS Capital Funds Ltd., India
Nihit Desai
Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Madras
(Class of 2013)
Web & Technical Manager
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The Earth Sustainable Technology Venture Competition for MBA, engineering, science and technology and other graduate and undergraduate (final year) students, focuses on bringing new, sustainable technologies to market through entrepreneurship. Asia's first sustainable technology venture competition was founded by Prof. Oopali Operajita in February 2007. The competition has been a runaway success and received international acclaim. We are now going global after producing winner after international winner, and receiving accolades worldwide, as well as support from educational institutions, venture capitalists, industry, and leaders and governments around the world! Succinctly, we have become a sustainable technology movement, with a footprint of some 60,000 students. We are honoured that India's legendary, flagship Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), continue to be our education partners. |
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Education Parter
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras , Chennai, India
Saturday, November 3, 2012
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Winners of the competition will receive:
- Cash Awards of Rs. 2,00,000 (Two Lakhs)
- The opportunity to be mentored by and interact directly with top-tier venture capitalists, angel investors and entrepreneurs
- Valuable intellectual property services and the opportunity to raise capital.
Schools may send up to two representative teams to the competition.
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| Plans being accepted: July 30- September 16, 2012 |
Deadline for Electronic Submission of Plans to ersustvec (at) gmail (dot) com:
September 16, 2012 (11:59 PM)
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Declaration of Finalists: September 30, 2012
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Mentoring Period: October 1-30, 2012
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Intensive Mentoring at IIT Madras, India: November 1 - 2, 2012
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Live Presentations to the IIT Madras Judges’ Panel: November 3, 2012
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| Awards Ceremony at IIT Madras: November 3, 2012 |
Download Rules and Regulations for the competition here.
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Download a Sample Business Plan here.
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For further enquiries, please email us at: ersustvec (at) gmail (dot) com
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| Success Stories |
We list a few of our outstanding winners from past competitions:
Vivek Nair, Team Leader of Nairao Inventions, winners of the 2010 competition at IIT Madras, is featured in the energy category on Forbes' prestigious “30 Under 30” awards for the very technology that won his team first prize (transforming industrial carbon emissions into carbon nanotubes). To present this technology, and transmute their idea into a viable business plan, the team was mentored rigorously by the competition's excellent mentors. Also featured on the list is Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. View Nair on Forbes' list here.
Team Arid Energy (IIT Kharagpur), finalist at the 2010 Competition, won one of two Special Student Awards at Ecomagination Challenge 2010, and was awarded a grant of US $10,000 by General Electric. Here's the link to General Electric's press release in India's leading daily, The Times of India, Bangalore, 17th Nov, 2010.
The IIT Madras Finalist Team (Greenext Technology Solutions) from the 2009 competition won the first coveted 'Next Idea' Prize from New York City. Mayor Bloomberg personally awarded them the prize.View the coverage from the mayor's office here.
Team Eventure, from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong (Neeraj Sharma and Hari Krishnan), a finalist at the 2009 competition, won the prestigious WagonR Think Big Challenge Competition. Here's the story in one of India's leading dailies, the Times of India.
Team Canopus India, finalists at the 2009 competition was one of the few teams worldwide selected to compete at the Rice Business Plan Competition, the world's largest business plan competition, April 15-17, 2010, at Rice University, USA. Team Canopus India officially represented India and India's flagship institute: the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
Manoj Kumar Mandelia of Team Canopus India, IIT Kharagpur, second prize winners at the 2009 competition at IIT Kharagpur, was declared one of MIT Technology Review's TOP 20 Innovators of India at MIT's EmTech Conference, Bangalore. Here is a link to the story. Mandelia is the youngest of MIT's Top 20 Innovators in India.
Winners of the 2009 competition secured $2.1 million in VC funding.
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