The Coalition 2 Announces full Line Up of Speakers

 The Coalition - India’s first dedicated platform to support creative entrepreneurs has announced its entire line up of speakers and other activities that will surround the upcoming three day annual event. TC/2 provides young creative entrepreneurs a platform to connect with link minded people, skills and knowledge that can turn their passion into profitable, scalable and sustainable businesses. It will kick start from February 27 – March 1, 2015 and will be held at the Buddh International Circuit in Delhi NCR.

The extensive three day event will have varied entrepreneurs from all over the country join in speakers who will share their inspiring stories and expert advice through a series of workshops and discussions. TC/2 will also give entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their ideas to investors, mentors and incubators. Some of the notable speakers that have been finalized are Justin Bolognino - Creative Director, SFX Entertainment; Prof. V. Adimurthy and Prof. Satish Dhawan- VSSC Senior Advisory (Interplanetary Missions), ISRO; Satya Raghavan- Head of Content Operations, YouTube India, Google; Anshoo Gupta - Founder Director, Goonj; Sameer Pitalwalla – CEO & Co-founder, Culture Machine; Sonal Bhatia - Head of Marketing, Koovs.com.

The panel discussions that will aim at providing a better insight to the business world will focus on some of the most interesting talking points in the industry like Transforming Creative CEO fireside chat - What It Takes To Be A Creative CEO , Creative Business: Is It The Riskier Investment?, Pricing In The Creative Businesses, Creative Companies & Brands, Working Together, Passion Vs. Profit: The Balance In Running A Creative Business.

Investors like Shailesh Vikram Singh - Executive Director, Seedfund Ventures; Plus representatives from CA Media, and Zodius; Prajakt Raut - Angel investor; Nitin Shakhder - ‎Founder & CEO, Green Capital; Sheetal Bahl - Managing Director & CEO, growX ventures will be a part of TC/2 to provide a chance to budding as well as established entrepreneurs to seek financial backing for their businesses.

One of the highlighting aspects of TC/2 will be the wide range of workshops which will mostly be business skills boot camps and industry master classes covering a range of topics relevant to creative entrepreneurs in the present scenario. Some of the prominent sessions have been listed below:

·         We're In This Together: How to Bring your Dream to Life Through Crowdfunding
By: Wishberry (Anshulika Dubey, Mame Khan, Anjuli Chakraborty-Landers)
·         Decked Up: The Art of Presenting Your Business
By: Roshan Abbas (Managing Director, Encompass Events)
·         Masterclass: Conceptualising & creating great festival experiences
By: Vijay Nair (Founder, Only Much Louder)
·         PR Prose: How to Infuse Storytelling into Your PR Strategy
By: Step Up (Vishal Gaba, Associate Partner at Genesis Burson Marstellar)
·         In Search of Jetpacks: How to Win the Interest of Investors
By: Prajakt Raut (Founder, Applyifi)

There are some other innovations that surround the three day event. The creators have come up with few out of the box ways to provide a window of thoughts to the attendees of TC/2
·         Investment Pitch Rooms for attendees to pitch their creative businesses for seed and VC money to various investors out of which a few will take place on the stage while some selected ones will be pitched in private sessions

·         Open Floors so that the attendees can present their ideas, projects or businesses in the fun interactive sessions to gather the feedback of the experts at TC/2
·         Clinics in which Creative entrepreneurs get the opportunity to pre-book 20 minute appointments and discuss their businesses and seek advice from industry experts over tea/coffee, to facilitate speed mentorship of sorts!

While there are quite many activities that concentrate on purely the business angle, TC/2 also has in store for its attendees TC/Unwind that will be a good change of mood amongst the speaker sessions and workshops

Creative lunches, snack, and drinks by Social
Artisan Chai & Coffee from India and around the world, by Jugmug Thela
Bhane will be bringing their luxury ice cream truck and a mini-golf station
3D Printing: Solidry will be setting up a 3D-Selfie Printing station.
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