E Week is the flagship event of Wadhwani Foundation's National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). E Week 2018 was the 10th edition and was Asia's biggest entrepreneurship event which covered 45 cities, 5000 events and 800,000 participants over one week - 10-16 February 2018. It was designed to encourage educators and students to become innovation catalysts and job creators by making deep investments in ideas and innovations that guarantee market success, E Week 2018 culminated into a mega finale and awards ceremony at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi on 24th Feb 2018. The gathering of 1800 comprised of students, faculty, mentors, E-Cell members, E-Leaders, other representatives of the entrepreneurial community and the media.
Santosh Palavesh did mechanical engineering from Velammal College of Engineering, Chennai and in 2010 founded UMM Studios (now UMM Digital) which provides various creative services such as design, branding, ad films, corporate films, visual effects and animation, and has worked with many big names like Larsen and Toubro Ltd, Royal Bank of Scotland Plc., HCL Technologies Ltd, Royal family of Rajasthan, Mercedes Benz and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. UMM Digital also has a technology division which looks into web designing, web hosting, software solutions and now Block chain and Machine-learning. The idea of a creative services firm arose from his hobby to make short films on the handycam.

Santosh credits a part of his success to the business fundamentals he learnt as an active member of the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). “It was here that I saw young entrepreneurs talking about their ideas and experience. I was totally awestruck by it, and learnt to implement those ideas”, say Santosh on his experience with NEN. Speaking at E Week 2018, Santosh said that “NEN is an entrepreneurial garage that provides tools to crack the market”. He adds, “Do not go for the first hire unless you have learnt the tricks of the trade”. “Startup early as the sooner you fail, the sooner you learn -bigger the risk, bigger is the reward”, he adds.

About Wadhwani Foundation:
Wadhwani Foundation was founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley based entrepreneur and philanthropist, Dr. Romesh Wadhwani with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging economies through large-scale job creation and job fulfilment. The Foundation is present in Asia, Africa and Latin America operating in association with governments, educational institutes, corporates, mentors, and investors. Its Initiatives are driving job creation and jobs fulfilment through entrepreneurship, skills development and innovation.

About National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) :

NEN inspires, educates, and supports student entrepreneurs, startups, and SMEs for creating high-value jobs. NEN creates city-based entrepreneurial ecosystems consisting of institutes that teach NEN courses, NEN run or supported accelerators and a network of mentors, investors, service providers supporting startups and SMEs.

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