To keep them engaged and increase customer retention, Evoma is now implementing a strategy in which the real estate requirements come last. Before that, we want to provide you with everything you need to arrive at a point where you need more and better office space.

The core and essential element of this new strategy is to organise and host events that are actually helpful to our potential, new and existing members. They don’t want more of the same “gyan” that they get at every startup or SME event in Bangalore.

Every business executive, owner and founder that comes to our events has pretty much the same focus – help me get more sales, show me the money, and how do I meet the important people and be seen with them.

It is with this focus that Evoma hosted the Biz Summit event organised by Yomillio. Organising a business event is not an easy task. It involves a great deal of hard work and advance planning, and you have to call in some favours and use all your contacts.

There were around 200 participants who attended to and participated in the panel discussions, presentations and networking sessions. The event was a smashing success, with positive feedback from attendees as well as organisers.

In this post, I’m going to share a few tips on how to organise a successful business event, and what we learnt from this wonderful opportunity of business event management.

Firstly, we decided on what kind of event and when. We realised that there are no major business events in Bangalore that provide a platform for startups and SMEs to network and form complementary partnerships. They’re all either startup events or events by and for SMEs and their organisations / associations.

Yomillio is a business community for SMEs to get more leads, sales, funding, branding and business support services, and Evoma is a Business Center that has hundreds of startups as well as SMEs as members across our centers in Bangalore.

So we thought it might be interesting to jointly bring all these startups and SMEs together so that they can meet, network and find opportunities that are as yet untapped. For example, startups can provide SMEs the technological support needed, while SMEs can provide startups access to the established distribution networks.

Based on this unique idea, we started doing some preliminary event planning, starting with a checklist to maintain and follow step by step. You can use this event planning checklist that is available here. Keep this checklist handy and plan the details step by step.

The first thing to decide was the event location. For this kind of business event, the Evoma Hotel and Business Center in OMR (KR Puram) was the perfect location, with a huge hall for the event, plenty of parking space, luxury dining restaurant and catering services for all kinds of corporate events.

Next came the agenda, panel discussion topic, networking schedule, registration desks, menu for catering, and complete event management strategy and time slots to be filled.

Then we got started on the list of speakers and panellists, and made invites accordingly. The speakers and panellists included top industry leaders, CEOs and spectacularly successful startup founders.

Next up came the marketing and promos for the event. We decided to post it on all the marketing channels that needed to be tapped, and started by creating event posts on many online event sites in Bangalore. We posted on Meetup.com, along with Townscript, Eventbrite, Eventshigh, Allevents, etc., and got an immediate stream of RSVPs and registrations that pretty much filled the hall.

A point that needs to be highlighted is that the event was free to attend for every one. There wasn’t much space left even to stand in the hall, but you cannot put a price on the invaluable experience of these business leaders, and the hundreds of business leads and partnerships that were formed amongst the participating SMEs and startup founders.

Another point that needs special mention is the cooperation we received from others in the Bangalore office space sector, such as BHIVE’s Vijeta Shastry.

Considering that every business needs to be prepared to raise funding, we also wanted to give a chance to the startup attendees to showcase their startup ideas to investors and mentors present at the event. Here‘s a roundup of the startups that got a chance to pitch their ideas to the assembled crowd.

Given the great feedback and the record attendance, we are planning many more such events in the near future. Most importantly, we are planning to follow up on all the leads generated from the event, and urge all the businesses who got leads from their networking and pitches to do the same.

It’s great to see everyone who attended the event at Evoma benefiting and getting a chance to grow their business so easily.

The event, Biz Summit 1, will bring entrepreneurs, startups and businesses together with investors, enablers and innovators to provide the infrastructure, funding, sales, branding and networking support needed for growth.

Connect with panelists, expert speakers and veterans who can act as mentors and help you build and grow your business.

In addition to the panels, workshops and expert speakers who will share their experience and success stories, the Biz Summit also includes a very special session – A WILD CARD ENTRY PITCH ARENA of Startups Club.

This will take you to the Startups Club Demo Day 2017 Finale in December in Bangalore, to win a prize of INR 10 Lakhs and possibilities to get funded as well.

Partners and Sponsorship Opportunities:

• Stalls and exhibition booths;
• Business showcase branding; and
• Special access to VIP guests.

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to confirm your attendance or ask about partnership opportunities.

Date: Nov 4, 2017

Venue: Evoma Hotel, #14, Near Pashmina Waterfront, Bhattarahalli, KR Puram, 560069; Tel: 080-41903000

Timing: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm

For more information, email to bizsummit@startupsclub.org or call 9845572820.

The event offers excellent entrepreneurship opportunities including talent pitching, one on one discussion and networking with investors, founders, entrepreneurs, and top executives. Startup founders can validate your startup idea, pitch to the top VCs, watch and learn from the industry veterans, get inspired from the success stories, and just connect at Arise.

Evoma is one of the sponsors of this event. Prizes sponsored by Evoma include:

• 3-seater private office for free for 3 months at Evoma’s Bangalore Business Centre in Whitefield or K.R.Puram;
• 4-seater private office for free for 3 months at the Evoma Business Centre, Outer Ring Road-Marathahalli;
• 2 Agile Workspaces (cowork desk space) free for 2 months at Evoma Smart Working Centre at Borewell Road, Whitefield.

Event Registration Links:

Alumni register on

http://www.startupmasterclass.in/

Startups please put your details on

STARTUPS REGISTER HERE

What: Startup Master Class ARISE

When: 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Dec 17, 2016

Where: Bengaluru Marriott Hotel Whitefield, Plot No 75, 8th Rd, EPIP Zone Whitefield

On Friday, Dec 07, 2018, Evoma is hosting the 3rd Annual BEETF Symposium. BEETF is the Bangalore Effective Education Task Force, a project with a mission to provide all urban poor children in Bangalore an effective education.

The theme of the event is “BRIDGING GAPS IN EDUCATION: CREATING SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL EQUITY” and is being organised by Let’s Do Some Good Foundation, Samridhdhi Trust, Manipal Foundation & LetsEndorse.

Corporates, NGOs, Government Departments, Funding Agencies, Academia, Philanthropists, Social Clubs, & Volunteers will come together at this event.

Freshly released Census data reveals two alarming facts: as many as 78 lakh Indian children are forced to earn a livelihood even as they attend schools while 8.4 crore children don’t go to school at all. The latter group constitutes nearly 20 per cent of the age group covered under the Right to Education Act (RTE).

Poverty and increasing cost of education, among many other contributing factors, exacerbate the problem as more and more children join the workforce, never join school, or drop out of school. The 2015 UNESCO e-atlas on out-of-school children (OOSC) reports that India has one of the highest OOSC population worldwide. Bangalore itself has thousands of children who fall under this category.

To address this issue, Let’s Do Some Good Foundation and Samridhdhi Trust started an initiative to provide access to universal effective education to all underprivileged children in Bangalore through collaboration between multiple stakeholders.

The first Symposium was conducted in December, 2013 as a fall-out of which, Let’s Do Some Good Foundation and Samridhdhi Trust formed the Bangalore Effective Education Task Force (BEETF), a voluntary consortium that comprises many corporates, NGOs/NPOs, academia, and individuals who work/support work in this space.

BEETF works very closely with Sarva Shikshya Abhiyan (SSA) and the Department of Public Instruction, Karnataka to complement their efforts to make this dream a reality. Manipal Foundation is a key partner for this project. Currently BEETF has 75 organisations in its network and this number is growing rapidly.

BEETF’s vision is to provide access to universal effective education to all urban deprived children in Bangalore, with the long-term goal of denting the vicious cycle of poverty through education and employment, leading to social and economic upliftment of the under-privileged sections of society.

The objective of this symposium is to bring together like-minded NGOs/NPOs, corporates and individuals working on the common goal to eradicate illiteracy and to showcase the good work being done in this space and:

• Facilitate networking
• Promote Knowledge and best practice sharing
• Explore funding opportunities
• Promote collaboration for wider, faster, deeper impact

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