About VNIT

Established in 1960, we are the torch bearers of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru's dream of making India technically literate. We were established as the Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering and rechristened as the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology. We bring together the best minds in the country and abroad to our shores and train them to be the leaders of the world. Located in the heart of the vibrant Nagpur city, the institution has seen many of the best corporate honchos and technical brains pass out of its corridors that reek of the very best of everything at the Under Graduate and Post Graduate level.

We aim at making every single student a force to reckon with and with a dream so irresistible that it is worth every single second that makes it. And now we are standing with open arms to welcome all with our very own Management Fest. We liberate minds out of the shackles of conventional thinking and resound in the words of Rabindranath Tagore "…into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake...." So come, live the dream and experience the freedom.

About CONSORTIUM’10

CONSORTIUM is the annual Management and Business Fest of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. In its introductory year, CONSORTIUM’10 was aimed at manifesting the latent Entrepreneurial spirit of young students and opening new ways of success as well as providing a pathway for an entrepreneurial success. CONSORTIUM’10 was an event that created waves in its thinking and innovation. In its inaugural run, it was an example of excellent management and healthy participation. With events made to test

• Theoretical business strategies - ‘B-Plan’,
• Crises management - ‘24’,
• Marketing skills - ‘Bizmantra’,
• Debating and law - ‘Sansad’ amidst various others.

The star attraction, E-Summit saw various big minds in business coming together on one platform to discuss ‘Entrepreneurship vs. Intrapreneurship’. It saw a congregation of students from top B-Schools as well as elite engineering colleges.

CONSORTIUM’11

In its score times larger format and packed with multitudes of new things CONSORTIUM’11 is expected to be several steps beyond its precedent. Taking a more holistic approach to business, events this year will test business ethics, inventory management and even CSR schemes. We have decided to add more events, seminars and guest lectures throughout the year as a build-up to the final event CONSORTIUM’11. We plan to do the following before the final event in January 2011:

• Guest Lectures on various topics related to entrepreneurship, management, finance, communication skills etc.
• Workshops on topics like ‘Cracking the Stock Markets’ and ‘You in an Interview’
• Visit a few villages in the vicinity of Nagpur for the purpose of identifying potential problematic areas which can be managed for the betterment of everyone. We have created a new event - ‘Sosyal Manoos’ for the same.

Theme ‘CHOTTI SI AASHA’

This year we being at the heart of business festival have decided to do our bit of corporate social responsibility. It is said that ‘charity begins at home’ and hence through Consortium’11 we want to help, by whatever means we can, to those individuals who want to set up their small business. A sewing machine to a tailor, a cart to a vendor- is a investment which hinders their start to their dream of earning and living a livelihood and here we want to help them materialize their dream so. We want to be for them, that ray of hope and help that may change their lives.

E-Summit

E-Summit dives into the depths of, the process of, and every iota of becoming an entrepreneur. It is planned to be an ensemble of entrepreneurs from various aspects of life and will help carve a path of success for the younglings and to discuss the topic- “Energy- for the future”.

E-Summit’10 saw dignitaries like Mr. Jay Gupta (M.D.The Loot), Mr. B.N.Singh (ex-Vice President of SAIL), Mr. Shashikant Choudhary (President- GlobalLogic, India), Mr Uday Kamat (MD UMRED AGRO) etc. sharing the same dais and giving their insight on entrepreneurship to the crowd of more than 1500 present in full packed auditorium.

B-Plan

The Business Plan event is the primary event of CONSORTIUM’11 and we aim to provide the ideal platform to the participants so that their Ideas reach to the Potential people.

We plan to have broadly two categories for the event, viz:

·        TECHNICAL 

·        NON-TECHNICAL

under which there will be subcategories. The event has already been launched and we have roped in Nurture Talent Academy and TiE as our Mentorship Partners and CIIE-IIMA as the Incubator for the event.

Other Events in CONSORTIUM’11

• Sosyal Manoos – Social Entrepreneurship
• Max-Pro – Maximum Profit & Cost Optimization
• Kaizen – Inventory Management
• Sansad – Mock Parliament
• 24 – Crisis Management
• BizMantra – Marketing Event
• Radio-FM – Auction and Bidding
• HR Management
• Corp-Wars – Run to the top of the company
• Entrepreneur – ‘One man army’
• Crowd-Magnet – Management Games
• Informals

Dignitaries we are in talks with for CONSORTIUM

·        Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam                                                  

·        Mr. Rahul Gandhi     

·        Mr. Chetan Bhagat                                                    

·        Mr. Ashok Chavan

·        Mrs. Sudha Murthy…..   

Association with TiE for E-Summit

We are very pleased to announce that we have successfully associated with TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) for E-Summit. Eminent personalities like Aditya Mittal (CFO ArcelorMittal), Anand Mahindra (VC & MD of Mahindra and Mahindra group), Arun Sarin (ex-CEO of Vodafone), C.K.Prahlad, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Chairperson & MD Biocon Ltd.), Nandan Nilekani (Infosys), Narayan Murthy (Infosys), Shiv Nadar (HCL) are distinguished members of this organization and we hope to have such personalities in our college to make the event more successful.

BUILD UP EVENTS:

Various events have already started for the festival. Through E-cell we have begun the Lecture and Seminar series focusing on various topics like customer importance, stock market, financial auditing, communication, techno-management and b-plan & m-plan writing.

Apart online events like ‘JUGAAD’ and ‘BIZZ-QUIZZ’ have started. Through ‘CHOTTI SI AASHA’ potential individuals are being helped in setting up their business.

Partnership Avenue

CONSORTIUM started big last year with a participation of 2500 from institutes like IITs, NITs, IIMs and BITS Pilani. This year as we try to extend its limits, we look forward to a partnership with Edzeal for publicity of CONSORTIUM. Certainly with your help we expect the event to be a greater success than it was in its opening year.