Events

Startup Weekend Women

SACC and SUS launch, IDEAHUB@SUS, A unique gift for students!

SACC conducted Startup Weekend Women, BOOTCAMP

Startup Weekend Kanpur

Startup in a box, Mohali

Startup in a box, Mohali

Startup in a box, Mohali

SME & Start-up Investment Opportunities in Ontario

Startup in a box, Mohali

Startup Weekend, Mohali

Happening Haryana Bootcamps

Session on Investments and Savings for Life by Ms Monica Dhillon

Prize Distribution Function of Happening Haryana Winners

Fitness an Imperative Professional Trait – Mr Meharban Singh Virk

CNBC Awaaz Pehla Kadam TV Show

Boost Your Business - Women Entrepreneurs Meet

MOU SIGNED WITH CAN (Chandigarh Angel Network) FOR FUNDING

North India's Largest Start-Up Summit, Expo & Tech Awards, 2016

NETWORKING – ITS IMPACT and DOMINO EFFECT – Round Table Discussion and Networking TEA

Karwachauth Celebration by SACC at Sebiz

Josh Talks 2016

Diwali Celebration at SIB

M.O.U signed with AIESEC

Executive Director SACC “Ekant Agarwal addressing “MAKE IN INDIA”- live with Doordarshan Chandigarh – 16th Dec 2016

“Attain Your Ekant” – workshop on health and happiness

Entrepreneur Startup Summit 2017

On 16th Jan 2017 SACC through its Executive Director “Ekant Agarwal” addressed 500 students on “Motivating Youth Towards Self Employment Ventures” At Apeejay Institute of management Technical Campus - Jallandar

SACC and its members as stakeholders in Innovation & Startup Policy 2017 – Government of Haryana

SACC in association with Cashkaro.com brings #SheCEO “Empowering women entrepreneurs”

Startup in a box signs a MOU with STAN professionals to cater the professional service needs of their Startups.

SACC Director distributing certificate’s to participants at a workshop “Importance of IPR” organized by PHD Chamber of Commerce.

SACC Executive Director delivered lecture on entrepreneurship “Future is calling : are we ready” at Rayat and Bahara Ropar Campus.

Women’s Day Celebration by SACC at Startup in a box

SACC Executive Director – Delivered lecture on Leadership at HR Symposium conducted by IKG PTU at CGC Landran

SACC Executive Director – Judge for Startup of the Event competition at UDYAMI 2017

SACC conducted Legal and Constitutional Rights awareness session for women at Netsmatz for their employees.

Investor and Chai pe Charcha meet organized for Startup in a box by SACC.

SACC powered event – Banking Made Easy was held on 21st April 2017 at Startup in a box for its entrepreneurs.

The Entrepreneurs B.A.S.H ( Business Associates Social Hour )

SACC Organized KHOJ “Startup Pitch Competition” as Knowledge Partner to Z-Nation Labs at ISB Mohali

Understanding GST
SACC organized an event on 14th of July 2017 for its entrepreneurs housed at Startup in a box and also for the entrepreneurs/professionals of the region on Goods and Service Tax, A new Tax law which came into force on 1st July 2017 to reform how people do business and the way goods and services are taxed in India, C.A Abhinav Gupta, an associate member of ICAI, also speaker of the event, focused on the impact of GST on startups and how they can be benefitted from it. #SACC #SACCevents #UnderstandingGST #GSTForStartups

Effective Communication, Presentation Skills and Mind Management
SACC organized a workshop on “Effective Communication, Presentation Skills and Mind Management” on July 21, 2017. The workshop aimed to exhibit immensely powerful tools and techniques for budding entrepreneurs. #SACCWorkshop #SACC #Startups

SACC's 3rd Anniversary
This month marks the 3rd year anniversary of SACC’s founding and it is amazing to see how much it has grown in this short time. Thanks for all the love and support over the years. We have done great things together, but the best is yet to come. #SACCTurns3 #3YearsOfSuccess #SACC3Anniversary

“You must have a social media presence. Everyone is talking about it. But nobody knows where to start from ?"
SACC hosted an event “Decrypt Social Media Marketing” for Entrepreneurs on 27th Oct, 2017. The expert talk was facilitated by Amit Doda,VP- Digital Marketing, Netsmartz as a Guest Speaker. The session aimed to help entrepreneurs to learn the real-world state of social media with compelling stats, examples and best practices. #DecryptSocialMediaMarketing #StartupInaBox #SACCIndia

Chandigarh’s first ever event on Angel Investment: CANNABLE 2017 turned out to be a great success.

“Building Startup Knowledge has been on our radar, for helping startups grow vertically. We aim to promote quality entrepreneurial knowledge in the region by nurturing more and more Startups and build a sustainable ecosystem for them"
said Manipal Dhariwal, CEO and co-founder of Netsmartz, Chapter President of SACC and an Investor for Cannable in a statement in an event.
#SACCIndia #Cannable2017

Representatives of Embassy of United States of America Stewart Davis, Director of Programs, North India and Robin Bansal, Cultural Affairs Specialist, North India visited SACC Incubator and interacted with their Startups.

An interactive session exhibiting the possibilities of expanding business in the US markets for Indian startups was held with Steward Davis from Embassy of the United States of America, Robin Bansal, Cultural Affairs Specialist, North India and Manipal Dhariwal. The dignitaries from Netsmartz and SACC were invited for the 8th Annual Global Entrepreneur Summit in Hyderabad. “Women First, Prosperity for All” is the theme of the summit to support women entrepreneurs.

#SACCIndia #entrepreneurship #GES

Startup in a Box organized friendly #SIB family get together “Connecting Dots” on 15th November 2017 at Chandigarh Club. This friendly get together of #entrepreneurs was an amazing networking platform, it also linked CEOs of various companies resulting in indirect increase of #business.
This initiative is the initiation of "Entrepreneurship Club" which aims at building an #entrepreneurial ecosystem in such a manner that the entire city of entrepreneurs and business people feels like they are part of the same family. This get together was received very well by the entrepreneurs and the feedback has encouraged #SACC to arrange more of such informal and friendly meets wherein entrepreneurs of the tricity can communicate, gel, increase the scale of their business and grow.

#ConnectingDots #StartupInaBox

“Ms. Sharon Jandu from University of Huddersfield , Ms. Sharon Gorman from Association of International Accountants and Mr. Adrian Waddell from NE1 – Business Improvement District were keen for an association with Indian entrepreneurs who could innovate and could be given support from UK. They also looked out for an association with Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce , to share content and expertise with SACC.

Mr. Manipal Dhariwal, Chapter President - SACC expressed his gratitude towards Mr. Andrew Ayre Deputy British High Commissioner, Chandigarh for appreciating the efforts of SACC INDIA and his willingness to support the initiatives of UK government whole-heartedly.

#SACCINDIA #Entrepreneurs #Startups #SACCOnlineUniversity

On 27th Dec 2017 Ekant Agarwal Executive Director Start-up in a box "most professionally managed co-working space of the town" today signed MOU with Cheema Medical Complex, Phase 4, Mohali to provide medical services at discounted prices to their start-ups, to meet medical emergencies and to educate start-ups on health related issues by doctors from CMC.

#Startupinabox #Healthiswealth #wecareforourstartups #MOUsigningceremony

The second edition of TEDx-Chandigarh, an event that encompasses people to share their entrepreneurial experiences was organized on 21st Jan, 2018 at Inderdhanush Stadium, Panchkula.

SACC being the infrastructure partner for TEDx - supported the team throughout their preparation. Team TEDx was provided with a free workspace for two months at Startup in a Box. It was this infrastructural support that played a deciding role in writing the success of the main event by providing tremendous support to the TEDx team in the form of arranging speakers and providing sponsorships.

#TEDxChandigarh #SACC #StartupInaBox

Ms. Jyoti Arora, IAS, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Haryana unveiled the Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence on 28th November 2017 at Government College Sector 1 , Panchkula , catering to four government colleges in the District of Panchkula (Haryana)

On 15th February 2018, a boot camp to sensitize students on entrepreneurship and facilities at Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence was conducted by Special Guest Speaker Wing Commander. Pradeep Prem, Executive Director SACC Adv. Ekant Agarwal and Community Manager SACC Ms. Isha Handa. Specially for the students of Government Post Graduate College for Women, Sector 14, Panchkula at their campus.

On 20th February 2018, boot camp to sensitize students on entrepreneurship and facilities in Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence was conducted by Adv Ekant Agarwal and Ms. Isha Handa for students of Smt. Aruna Asaf Ali Government Post Graduate College, Kalka at their campus.

On 22nd February 2018, a boot camp to sensitize students on facilities available at Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence and Entrepreneurship was conducted by Mr. Pradeep Prem ( CEO International Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Center, Netsmartz), Advocate Ekant Agarwal ( Executive Director, SACC), and Madam Isha Handa (Community Manager, SACC) for the students of Government College at Barwala, Panchkula in their campus.
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On 27th February 2018, a boot camp to sensitize students on facilities available at Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence and Entrepreneurship was conducted by by Mr. Pradeep Prem ( CEO International Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Center, Netsmartz), Advocate Ekant Agarwal ( Executive Director, SACC), and Madam Isha Handa (Community Manager, SACC) for the students of Government P.G. College, Sector 1, Panchkula at their campus.
Visit: http://www.saccindia.org/india/upcomingevents

A My Story Session was organized for budding entrepreneurs of Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence on 16th March 2018 wherein Mr. Rajpal Ghai, Founder and CEO, WhiteSparrow Communications, a company dealing in branding shared his entrepreneurial journey. Mr. Rajpal shared his 12 year journey from being an employee in a small company in Mumbai to being an employer with a team of almost 20 people in Punjab. He shared real life experiences of his journey which was highly appreciated and imbibed in by the budding entrepreneurs who were attendees of the session.

On 6th April,2018 Startup in a box conducted a major mentoring session for the Women Entrepreneurs from PAN India competing for selection as incubates under all India competition by IIM Banglore . There were almost 20 semi-finalist women entrepreneurs who attended this mentoring session covering – How to pitch and live chit chat with entrepreneurs from Startup in a box, Guest Speaker in this session was Mr. C. J. Singh, Founder of CorePR and board member of #SACC.

Mr Ekant Agarwal , Executive Director #SACC, conducted a workshop on “How to Pitch for entrepreneurs and interns, ready to be consumed by the industries “at Punjabi University on 7th April,2018. The purpose of workshop was to inspire young entrepreneurs to become change makers. Taking forward, out of the batch of 200+ students , 4 are selected for mentor-ship by Ekant Agarwal.

Department of Higher Education in association with Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce (SACC) launched its first Startup Incubator cum Center of Excellence of Haryana, at Govt PG College, Sector 1, Panchkula on 10th April, 2018. Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma in the presence of Gian Chand Gupta, MLA, Panchkula, Latika Sharma, MLA, Kalka, Jyoti Arora (IAS), Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Manipal Dhariwal, SACC President, CEO and Co-founder Netsmartz and Shri Nitin Monga, Vice President, SACC inaugurated the Centre.

Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence hosted its second My Story Session on 20th April 2018 at the Centre of Excellence, Sector 1, Panchkula, where Mr Vikrant Shukla, Founder Envision Ecommerce shared his journey from being a student to running a successful business. He shared that his zeal to make everyday a new learning day helped him conquer all the challenges that came across his way. His story inspired many students to step out of their comfort zone and work towards achieving their goals and ambitions.

Share Hope - Tricity Biggest donation drive in association with Shoutlo.com at Startup in a box. #venuepartner #Startupinabox #sharehope #donationdrive

On 26th April, Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with British High Commission organized a round table conference on Promotion of Women Entrepreneurship, 10 delegates from UK and 6 women entrepreneurs of region were a part besides SACC team.

On April 30, 2018, the second mentoring session was conducted by Mr. Gagandeep Sawhney (CEO Fine Creations) at the Centre of Excellence, Panchkula. Mr. Gagandeep has more than 14 years of multifaceted corporate exposure in verticals like Media, Logistics and the Financial. The session revolved around creating financial literacy and its importance in today’s competitive world. This mentoring clinic series will continue every month with a new mentor for three years.

#SACC organized a #session on Financial management conducted by Mr. Gagandeep Sawhney (Founder of Fincreations) on 07th May 2018. Mr. Gagandeep Sawhney has more than 14 years of multifaceted corporate exposure in verticals like Media Logistics and the Financial. The session revolved around ways of managing money to convert into wealth.

Looking at the needs of the concerned strata, SACC arranged a Personality Development Session at Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence on 8th May 2018. The session sensitized students about the importance of creating a positive first impression, body language, and confidence building. Looking at the way session was received by students these sessions will be organized more frequently.The main motive of SACC here was helping students at the incubator in developing their soft skills so that they can become confident and well-equipped entrepreneurs.

Startup in box , best co-working space of tri-city got appreciation from Share-Hope Tricity Biggest donation drive in association with Shoutlo.com for being the topmost contributor in the Tri-City.

Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence hosted its third My Story Session on 17th May 2018 at Centre of Excellence, Sector 1, Panchkula. Mr. Himesh Sharma, Founder SkillLabs was the guest speaker wherein he shared his journey from being an employee to an employer. He also shared how his passion to solve a problem made him become a successful entrepreneur.

Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce in association with Sebiz Infotech Private Limited organized a workshop on Bitcoin, which was an innovative session hosted by Mr. Dhiraj Agnihotri and Ms. Nidhi Arora (Bitcoin Specialist) on 3rd February 2018.

SACC in association with Sebiz Infotech Private Limited organized the first official Chandigarh Magento Meetup on 17th March 2018 for people who want to grow with the changing technologies.

On 19th April 2018, Team Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce sensitized youth on entrepreneurship and self- employment at Narwana, Haryana catering to 3 government college.

On 27th April 2018, Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce in association with Sebiz Infotech organized an Advance Excel Training Workshop. This workshop was an extraordinary session which led to increase in the productivity to make better reports/ excel files.

On 9th May 2018, Start-up-Accelerator Chamber of Commerce conducted START-UP AWARENESS PROGRAMME for the students of Government Polytechnic Loharu (Haryana), IAS Devender Singh ji Additional Chief Secretary to Government of Haryana was the Chief Guest at the Program.

On 17th may 2018, Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce Conducted a startup awareness program for the students of Industrial training Institute, Assandh at Jaisinghpura, Haryana, Advocate Ekant Aggarwal, Executive Director SACC and Mr. Pradeep Prem CEO Skill Development were the main speakers of the event. Approved by Mr. Ekant.

3rd Mentoring Clinic at the Startup Incubator cum center of excellence, sector 1 Panchkula , was conducted by Team SACC on 25th of May 2018, The key takeaways from this session for the budding students entrepreneurs were Leadership Skills like : Confidence building , Eradication the fear culture , leadership by example “actions speak louder than words”. Students were enlightened on remarkable leadership tips and the importance of stepping up as a leader.

On 30th March 2018, a mentoring session was conducted at the Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence on legal compliance and legalities involved to open a new startup.

On 6th June 2018, our Honorable Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi addressed/ interacted with beneficiaries of various Startup India initiatives such as Atal Innovation Mission, Startup India Yatra, Patent Facilitation. This interactive session was played at the Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence, Sector 1, Panchkula so that the students can take benefit out of these latest policies.

SACC organized a half day session on Communication skills, IELTS and Language learning in association with Beavers Language Academy on 19th June 2018 at Sebiz Square auditorium in which 150 students participated.

On 13th June 2018, Students enrolled with Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence were taken to Sebiz Square, Plot No. C6, Sector 67, Mohali for an Industrial Tour. In the tour students interacted with more than 10 entrepreneurs and CEOs of different companies which gave them high end exposure on How an enterprise works and what are the real aspects of being an entrepreneur.

On 22nd June 2018, Team Startup Incubator cum Centre of Excellence hosted its 4th My Story Session with Mr. Deepak Bansal, Founder & CEO DeCoders Hub. He shared his journey of entrepreneurship which started earlier than anyone else i.e. in third year of engineering itself, today Mr. Deepak has just completed 8 months after education but owns a company, team of 5 people and a Renault Duster car which is actually the result of his hard work and passion (www.decodershub.com).
Listening to his story the students were awestruck and a zeal to become entrepreneur while studying was ignited in their heart.

One of North India’s Largest Startup Summit and Tech Awards 2018 is happening on August 24, 2018. Join Enterprise Leaders, Startup Founders, VCs, Management Gurus.

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Mentoring day with Deepali Nangia-SACC Mentor from London

Celebrating International Women Day

SACC Organizes an Investor connect with Jaarwis Accelerator, Hong Kong.

Event with Canadian Trade High Comm: interaction with Brad Loiselle

Interaction with Sameer Sharma- Trideal @ Startup in a Box

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