In yet another of its initiatives centred on furthering innovation within the city of Vadodara and the State of Gujarat, Parul University successfully put together another of its grand start-up boosting events. Vadodara Start-up festival, one of the University’s flagship events designed to provide a strategic platform for creating an entrepreneurship ecosystem in and around Vadodara and the State of Gujarat. This year’s festival marked the second edition of this event from the date of its inception in 2019, and this year it once again lived up to its mark of providing the most engaging and effective platform for the young entrepreneurs of Parul University and the rest of the Nation. This 3 day festival successfully brought together some of the most prominent personalities within the public,corporate and industrial sectors, including the First Woman IPS Officer Honourable Dr. Kiran Bedi, Former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, Shri. Ramanan Ramanathan, Mission Director - Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Padma Bhushan Shri. Ajai Chowdhry, Founder of HCL, amongst others.

This virtual gathering of minds created the most ideal ecosystem for nurturing and shaping the thousands of budding entrepreneurs who attended this festival, towards a path of start-up success. With the ever-growing trends in the scope of Industry 4.0, coupled with the numerous socio-economic challenges, it is through platforms such as Parul University’s Vadodara Start-Up Festival where students have had the opportunity to engage in mainstream dialogues and take proactive measures towards developing effective business solutions. This festival was composed of various event tracks which include Key Strategic Input Session For Start-ups, Start-up Pitching Sessions, Industry Start-up Connect, Start-up Expo, amongst numerous sessions. Through such a multitude of activities, the student attendees bagged the golden opportunity of interacting with some of the eminent experts from the industry and gained enriching firsthand insights from their experiences in the field.