Along with our weekly #CoRise programs in association with VentureStudio on Thursdays , #eChaiSalesEvenings in association with Infigic on Fridays #eChaiUXMornings in association with All Events in City on Saturdays and DesignYourCity at HappyStreets on Sundays - now we will be hosting weekly #eChaiRoundTable programs in association with GBG Ahmedabad & Gtu Innovation Council at S4,GTU on every Tuesday evening.

eChai RoundTables are theme-based/sector specific knowledge sharing programs i.e. Agriculture, Cleantech, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Food & Beverages, Sports, Media & Entertainment, Education, Arts & Culture, SMAC & many others.

eChai Ventures, GBG Ahmedabad and GTU Innovation Council are hosting the 'eChai RoundTable - Theme - Health & Wellness' where we'll have Entrepreneurs building businesses around 'Healthcare & Wellness' sharing their entrepreneurial journey, insights and perspective about future trends which will be followed by interactive dialogue.

Venue : S4, Room# 126, ACPC Building, L. D. College of Engg. Campus, Ahmedabad 380015, Gujarat, India.
Date : 14th July, 2015, Tuesday Time : 6.45 pm to 8.30 pm

Speakers for eChai RoundTable - Theme - Health & Wellness :

  • Krutika Katrat & Sneh Bhavsar, Co-Founders, OoWomaniya.com
  • Rohan Desai, Binal Doshi, Kinnar Shah, Co-Founders, PlexusMD
  • Parth Shah, Co-Founder, Vivez LifeSciences
  • Sneha Thakker, Founder, KnocDoc
  • Sagar Brahmbhatt, Co-Founder, HealthPlacid.com

This program is open for all. All are welcome!

Join the conversation at eChai.in to get connected with fellow entrepreneurs from all over the world.

Feel free to ask any specific question to any of the above entrepreneurs here in the comment section. Do checkout the QnA in comments, this is on of the most interesting part of the eChai programs.

GTU Innovation Council :

GTU Innovation Council has been designed to establish close linkages with industries and businesses to make research and development at the University relevant to the needs of industries at national and international levels. It aims to involve the industries, along with the students and faculty members, in an innovation campaign, whereby GTU rejuvenates technology education and develops quality research at the University and helps create a culture of design, new and improved products and processes in our industry.

GBG Ahmedabad :

GBG ( Google Business Group ) Ahmedabad is a community where entrepreneurs and start-ups from Ahmedabad share and learn web technologies.

eChai Ventures :

eChai is an offline-online social network of entrepreneurs who believe in Co.Rise. — Collaboratively rising together. eChai helps entrepreneurs to connect with each other with offline events and online co.rise social network. It’s a platform to share insights, have discussions, to collaborate with fellow entrepreneurs, and help each other to grow and succeed in their ventures.

Offline Social Network part :

- We host quarterly eChai Demo Days - which is the quarterly showcase of innovative products & ventures in front of the large entrepreneurial community. eChai Demo Day provides an opportunity to entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, professionals, and students to share, connect and collaborate with each other. We also host eChai Women In Business n eChai Business For Good programs. All these programs do 3 things well - they provide an opportunity to young entrepreneurs to showcase what are they upto, platform for experienced/successful entrepreneurs share their experiences and insights and it gives a feel of being part of the community.

- Theme-based knowledge/insights sharing sessions - Team Building, Growth Hacking, UI/UX, Sales, Communications, Digital Media, Legal & IP & many others.

- Skill-based challenges/hackathons - eChai App Challenge, Marketing Challenge, Content Challenge, UI/UX Challenge, Business Model Challenge, Business Case Challenge etc.

- Sector specific eChai RoundTables - Agriculture, Cleantech, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Food & Beverages, Sports, Media & Entertainment, Education, Arts & Culture, SMAC & many others.

- eChai After Hours aims to engage entrepreneurs, professionals and students to find solutions for other's businesses challenges in a collaborative way. At eChai After Hours entrepreneurs present their business model, their work culture and couple of significant challenges they are facing / struggling with or want to have people come up with better solutions for that. It can be anything – design challenge, business challenge, tech challenge, people challenge.

eChai After Hours is an amazing way to foster the collaboration among entrepreneurs, as they would be spending significant time and energy to help the fellow entrepreneurs.

Online social network part :

- Explore the sector wise list of entrepreneurs from the community

- Find people with same interest areas and skills set. Now that we will be hosting offline eChai programs across 100 Cities and all over the world - it will be interesting to get connected with people from the community across the world.

- Write insightful posts on eChai.in & your recommendations i.e. from where I get my business card printed, from where I get travel service provider for our group travel for eChai Diaries, our preferred hosting provider, our preferred CA and many others.

- eChai Interviews where you can ask a public question to any entrepreneur just like the QnA at eChai programs.

- Talent and Offers section where you can post your talent requirement and offers for the community.

- Featuring entrepreneurs daily with their detailed interview and what kind of support they seek from the community.

- You can follow particular entrepreneurs and get regular updates.

- We are working on a #CoRiseWall where once in a week you can post a significant update from your side which you really want to share with large number of people from the community i.e. Product Update, Hiring Requirement, Company Culture etc. - #CoRiseWall will be prominently displayed in eChai.in and showcased at eChai programs for more visibility.

- Online eChai Skills Challenges - App Challenge, Marketing Challenge, Business Model Challenge, Content Challenge etc.

- An online eChai Demo Day - where we will have 10 entrepreneurs building interesting and innovative businesses from 10 different cities/countries presenting their ventures in front of the community. We will select these 10 demo companies who will present about their ventures online ( 5 mins ) which will be followed by an interactive dialogue ( 10 Mins ) and also each of these company will will have other 20+ people from their city who'll be physically participating the program along with the demo company of the respective city. Basically they can have the good conversations after the online demos get over. This one will be broadcasted online at http://YouTube.com/eChaiTV and we'll build an interesting thing for Co.Rise. at http://eChai.in/ for better engagement among participants.

- Better integration with online-offline eChai programs.

Along with the Online social network part and offline social network part we have 3 initiatives as part of eChai Ventures.

Sweetly - where we enable 50+ rural women living in Dangs District, Gujarat to make hand-made jewelry and market these products in US & Canada. These 50+ Rural women get some sort of economic benefits from this venture and we run it as full fledged for-profit venture.

Design You City/Village - aims to to bring together Entrepreneurs, developers , designers, professionals, academicians and concerned citizens to build solutions for the society. There can be wide ranging solutions for various problems existing in the society - education, civic issues, healthcare, employment, sanitation and many others. The city has several issues that need immediate intervention. And there are budding entrepreneurs and concerned citizens with ideas that can solve these problems.With Design Your City/Village programs n online platform we aim to share and collaborate with communities to come up with ideas and sustainable solutions for the problems faced by different communities.

The Loo Project - helps you find clean loo around you by creating digital public toilet map. It Includes public toilets and shops, cafes, institutions which can let anyone use their facilities. The Information is gathered by Municipal Corporations, Village Councils, Open Government Data, Partner organizations, and citizens.

Mapping of data is just the beginning and there are many amazing things can be done once we have that data. 'Design Your Loo' initiative to bring people together to build affordable toilets and coming up with actionable data insights to build solutions for public toilets and sanitation.

eChaiTV : A web television featuring inspiring entrepreneurs.

Initially when we started up six years back, we used to eChai meetups at roadside Tea Stalls. When we started getting momentum we started hosting eChai programs at friends' office premises. They were pretty generous to extend their resources for our programs. After some time we started collaborating with educational institutions, industry associations and incubators to host our programs. earlier collaborated with some of India’s most prestigious educational institutions ( MICA, IIM Ahmedabad, S P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Vivekanand Education Society, Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Ahmedabad ( EDI ), CEPT University, icreate, Nirma University, NID and many others ) and industry associations & accelerators ( Assocham, CII, GCCI, FICCI, Startup Oasis, TLabs, IAMAI, Sankalp Forum, and many others ) for various entrepreneurial programs.

If we count the number of cities where we have a presence ( 30+) and the cities where we will be launching eChai chapters in upcoming couple of months ( 20+) - we'll have presence in 50 Cities in India.

In last 6 months we've also led a delegation of entrepreneurs to Singapore, Sri Lanka and Bhutan to explore the possible collaboration opportunities and connect with the entrepreneurs from all over the world.

We are pretty hopeful to have #eChai100Cities by the end of the year 2015 to spread the idea of doing good things.

eChai more like a gSchool - A School of Doing Good Things which has #CoRise - Collaboratively Rising Together in it's DNA.