Overview Program

Entrepreneurship as a Lynchpin for Development

To enable youth of Sindh to own their own growth prospects and create their own opportunities, it is proposed that an annual sustained effort of developing entrepreneurial and innovation skills within the youth and academia at local universities. The aim is to create examples of successful startups to kick start a positive movement amongst the best minds enrolled in universities to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, take controlled risks and nurture their creativity to find innovative solutions to the problems at hand.

Vision:

To develop spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship in Sindh.

Mission:

• To nurture the local/regional entrepreneurial ecosystem using existing resources through primarily entrepreneurship competitions, seminars, conferences and competitions across Sindh.
• Building Synergies and relationships with international academia and organizations for bringing Sindh at par to cutting edge development in the world.

Objectives:

• To develop mindset for innovation and culture of entrepreneurship.
• To address issues faced by Sindh in various areas of underdevelopment and help support the teams, individuals and mentors that can help solve these issues through innovation and entrepreneurship.
• To diffuse basic skillsets required to identify opportunities, and actualize and grow a venture.
• To identify potential opportunities that might grow to become Pakistani unicorns.

Program:

The program will consist of three activities that will involve ongoing schedule of activities involving awareness sessions, training of youth, online content, and mentoring and coaching competition and also provide a platform for early stage entrepreneurs to validate their ideas. The program is split into Three programs: Innovate Sindh: A series of on ongoing ideathon that will be held every two months to foster exploration of entrepreneurship and innovation Enterprise Sindh: a 16 week (5 month) business plan competition will be held annually to encourage good ideas and startups, and to help nurture fledgling businesses to develop and accelerate. Build Sindh: Build Sindh is a 2 day conference and Expo held as a culmination of celebration of the year-long events leading to recognizing the best districts, startups, entrepreneurs and ideas. As well to develop a forward looking agenda for the next year. The event will include keynotes from various dignitaries and industry experts, panel discussions on the focus areas of the program, result announcements and prize distribution.