Pune (Voice News Service): We are seeing a change in mindset where everybody wants to become an entrepreneur, the excitement is palpable across the country . With no shortage of opportunities, this is the best time to be an entrepreneur . India is in a sweet spot and the next decade is ours said Nandan Nilekani , Co-founder and Non Executive Chairman of Infosys. He was speaking through a virtual interaction with Dr.Ganesh Natarajan ,Chair TiECON 22 at the two day TiECON-2022 Future Achievers Conclave organised by TiECON at Hotel Conrad in Pune .
Nandan Nilekani said that we are seeing the impact of Digital India , all these things are helping people lead a better life and improving the productivity and creating a very fertile ground for innovation . The way the digital India is structured is such that the basic rails are provided for public system . The entrepreneurs can build on that and create applications. I see these compliment each other .
One of the biggest challenges in India is job creation. A large part of it has to come from domestic activity . Small business have to do well which will create jobs. But they need access to capital and market . Account aggregator systems will allows access to capital and will lead to democratization of small businesses. The second challenge is access to markets and there is where ONDC comes in. So Account Aggregator for credit and ONDC for access to markets will allow small businesses to grow and drive India’s economic future .
The conference featured nine masterclasses for founder entrepreneurs under the TiE Education initiative including topics like Validation of an idea, Scaling your company, Organizing your sales to grow, Funding, Marketing, Cyber Security, Design Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and more. The conference also saw discussions on various topics and issues related to startups .
The sponsors of TiECON 2022 including NTT DATA, JetSynthesys, Anand Rathi, Fairfax County Economic Development Authority and the State Bank of India showed interested in the start-up community than just getting visibility that such events typically provide.
