Bhubaneswar: Startup Odisha, an initiative of the MSME department of the state government, is all set to organise Startup Utsav 2024 in Bhubaneswar from January 31.
The event, which is dedicated to recognising and celebrating the state’s spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, will be marked by awards, felicitations and the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) with industry leaders including ICAI, NIF, ISBA and NRDC.
The event organisers have line up several sessions on various issues including Blockchain Ecosystem of India, Masterclass on Design Thinking, Masterclass on Role of Academic Institution & Incubators, Innovation, Technology, Intellectual Property, Institutional Support for Entrepreneurship, Success Stories and Ask Me Anything.
Highlighting the achievements of the Incubator of the Year, Supportive Incubator of the Year, and Emerging Incubator of the Year as well as commending successful incubators will be focus of the Utsav. Besides, the event will feature acknowledging externally funded startups, recognising top innovators from Odisha Startup Yatra and Odisha Startup Xpress, and rewarding the top ten innovators from each programme.
It will highlight student-led enterprises, women-led startups, and showcase the outstanding achievements of 122 Startup Odisha Grantees from 2022-23 and 51 Startup Odisha Grantees from 2023-24. Startup Yatra Booklets and Brochures will be launched and top 50 innovators from both Startup Yatra and Xpress felicitated on the occasion.
Notably, both Startup Yatra-2023 and Startup Xpress -2023 were inaugurated by the Chief minister on September 11, 2023. Covering over 200 colleges and 60 schools, these initiatives garnered a total participation of over 36,535 students. Both initiatives saw collection of over 4,436 ideas, surpassing the target of 3,500 ideas.
Pratap Keshari Deb, Minister of Industry, Energy, and MSME; Subroto Bagchi, Chief Advisor, Odisha government (Institutional Capacity Building); Pradeep Kumar Jena, Chief Secretary; Omkar Rai, Executive Chairman, Startup Odisha; Anu Garg, Development Commissioner and Saswata Mishra, Principal Secretary, MSME will participate in the event.
