POST EVENT
DMA Organized
the 9th Women
Entrepreneurs
Conference 22nd Feb
2019 New Delhi
L to R: Ms. Richa Gupta, Dr. Sunita Sanghi, Ms. Veena Swarup, HE Ambassador Nina
Vasunlah and Mr. Rajan Pandhi
‘W
omen entrepreneurship’ is like a discipline
that begins at home. Women have been
entrepreneurs in different ways. A homemaker
is an entrepreneur as she manages her time, strategizes and
plans on ways to secure her children’s future; passionate
about her home and family, hence wearing different hats
for a successful life.
Today, we have given it a name ‘Entrepreneur’, as she
steps out into the mainstream. In today’s world, women
have scaled greater heights in different industries. Finally,
we can see that the glass ceiling is being broken, with many
woment reaching the apex level of management in global
organisations.
Women entrepreneurs have to fi nd a balance at both the
family and business or career front. It is always a great idea
to be active in local networks of women entrepreneurs. This
helps to enhance the area for women entrepreneurship,
where you get to see that their self-owned business gets
directly involved with the policy makers at local, regional
and national levels.
Growth and development of any country lies in the
entrepreneurial ability of its citizens. With the motive to
appreciate women entrepreneurship, Delhi Management
Association organized the 9th Women Entrepreneurs
Conference on ‘Defi ne Your Roadmap – Innovate, Create,
Celebrate & DMA All India Women Entrepreneurs Award
2019’; under the guidance & leadership of Ms. Veena
Swarup, Former Director HR, EIL and Chairperson, DMA
Women in Management Committee.
Ms. Richa Gupta, Senior Director, Transfer pricing
& Senior Economist, Deloitte and the organizing team
lit the ceremonial lamp. Guest of Honor Dr. Sunita
Sanghi, Sr Adviser, Ministry of Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship delivered the Keynote address and
the Chief Guest, H.E. Nina Vaskunlahti, Ambassador of
Finland, delivered the Inaugural Address.
To make the event memorable, a Souvenir was
distributed for all the attendees, by the Chief Guest.
The fi rst plenary session was on Building up as a woman
entrepreneur. Ms. Shweta Punj, Senior Associate Editor,
India Today Group, chaired the session on Leveraging Your
Ecosystem. The eminent speakers were:
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• Dr. Unnat Pandit, Senior Member at AIM, NITI Aayog
• Dr. Poonam Sinha, Director (Entrepreneurship
Education), The National Institute for Entrepreneurship
& Small Business Development (NIESBUD)
• Dr. Prarthana Kumar, Assistant Professor Marketing,
Institute of Public Enterprise
• Hyderabad and Dr. Manish Diwan, Head – Strategic
Partnership & Development Biotechnology Research
Assistance Council.
Speakers from BIRAC also shared their views on how
Government policies have evolved to facilitate women
entrepreneurs in their endeavour to launch startups.
Dr. Anita Tripathy Lal, Prof-in-Charge Centre for
Entrepreneurship Development (CED) FORE School of
Management chaired the second session on Building your
Financial Capability.
The speakers of this session were:
• Dr. Shikha Sharma, Managing Director
• NUTRI-HEALTH, Mr. Digvijay Singh, COO, Indian Angel
Network
• Dr. Roopak Vasishtha, CEO & Managing Director Apparel
Made-ups & Home Furnishing Sector Skill Council
(AMH SSC)
• Ms. PrithaDutt, Director, Empower Foundation India
• Mr. Sameer Garg, Vice President, New Economy Group
Representatives from the AXIS Bank were the eminent
speakers, who shared various funding opportunities for
the Entrepreneurs.
The third session was themed as Entrepreneurship
– A Global Overview. Ms. Moutushi Sengupta, Country
Director, MAC Arthur Foundation was the Session
Chairperson.
Esteemed panelists for this session were Mr. Kelvin A
Sergeant, Sustainable Enterprise Development Specialist
ILO DWT for South Asia and Mr. Gautam Pandey, Director
– Talent, Deloitte Shared Services India LLP. They shared
their thoughts on ‘New Business Models’ that are emerging,
Changing the face of Entrepreneurship and Technological
disruptions that are shaping the future of work,
Ms. Marianne Karmarkar, Dy. General Manager
(Information Service), BPCL, chaired a special session
on ‘Innovative Ways to Build Brand Equity’. The session