Faculty Development Programme on Transforming Faculties into Entrepreneurs and Innovators

On 20th & 21st Dec 2021 Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Institution’s Innovation Council organized a two days Faculty Development Programme on Transforming Faculties into Entrepreneurs and Innovators for the 23 staff members of Francis Xavier Engineering College, 12 staff members of SCAD College of Engineering Technology and 11 staff members of St.Mother Terasa Engineering College. The meeting started with a welcome note by Dr.Lourdes Poobala Rayen. Followed by this Dr.K.Jeyakumar addressed the gathering and thanked the Skill Byte founders for the cooperation extended by the Skill Byte team for organizing the program.

The first session was handled by Dr.Arjun, the Co-Founder of Skill Byte. He handled the session on Startup. The Second session was handled by Mrs.Sakthi Arjun, Founder of Skill Byte. She handled Design Thinking concept. The third session was also handled by Mrs.Sakthi Arjun on the topic Lean Start-Up. The fourth session was handled by Dr.Arjun on the topic Rapid Prototyping and Minimum Viable Product. The fifth session was handled by Mrs.Sakthi Arjun on the topic Business Model Canvas. At the end of this session the resource person gave an exercise to be completed and to be presented by all the staff members tomorrow.

The last session was handled by Dr.B.Sathiya Bama, Faculty In-charge, IPR Cell, Associate Professor of ECE, Thiyagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai on IPR. On the second day Dr.Arjun explained about Market Sizing approach, Customer acquisition metrics, Customer Traction, Financial modelling, Incubators, accelerators, Venture capitalists, Angel Investors, Crowd Funding, Government grants, Different startup funding, Building investor deck and the purpose of investor deck. The next session was handled by Mrs.Sakthi Arjun, Founder of Skillbyte. She explained Business Models, Most common Business Models. Afternoon session was handled by Mrs.Sakthi Arjun. She explained Pitching, why to pitch, Different types of pitching, Elevator pitch, short form pitch, traction, pitch deck and investor pitch.