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of one’s career. He also explained that India is a service country, and a product mindset must be instilled to provide an environment conducive for entrepreneurs, which he stated that could depend on a lot of factors such as industry-academia collaboration, policy making, etc. He summarised by saying that any entrepreneur or intrapreneur needs to primarily have a Vision, which should have been derived out of a Passion which in turn must be supported by Clarity of thought and clarity of purpose.

5:00 pm – 6:10 pm- Valedictory & Award Ceremony

Chief Guest: Ms. Parinitha Mishra, the Deputy Regional Head, Bengaluru Central Region, Bank of Baroda Guests: Prof. Dr. Anil Rao Paila, Senior Dean & Senior Vice President - Strategy & Branding Bengaluru Campus, Dr. Sonia Sandeep Mehrotra, Professor – Centre of Excellence for Case Development & Case Studies (Mumbai/Bengaluru) and Prof. Dr. Madhumita Guha Majumder, Professor & Program Incharge Research & Business Analytics

Dr. Sonia Mehrotra presented the conference report by summarising the entire conference. She provided quick briefs on all the sessions and speakers, and on how entrepreneurship and leadership matters, especially in relation to women in India. She thanked everyone for being a part of the conference. She also acknowledged the efforts put in by all the participants in the practitioner, academician, and student tracks of the conference.

Dr. Anil Rao Paila, began by thanking everyone who contributed to the success of the conference. He expressed gladness that all the sessions were insightful. Based on the theme of the conference he stressed on two take aways. Firstly, understanding that change is constant, women entrepreneurs must encounter it with a positive outlook and become catalysts to change. He said this was because today we live in a VUCA world, and the pandemic has had its impact on the economy too. Secondly, the need to be Innovative and Disruptive; according to Dr. Anil this is possible by channelling change in the right direction.

Ms. Parinitha Mishra was the chief guest for the evening. During her chief guest address she spoke about the importance of women workforce. The 8000 branches of BOB across India have a workforce of more than 81,000 employee, of which about 26% are women. She also stressed on how in the late 1990s only 2% of the probationary officers in women. But, today, out 20 departments under her purview, about 10-12 departments are led by women. He also stressed that the women workforce is rising rapidly in the in the banking sector and that higher education is enabling women to take up specialised services in banks. She also spoke about the various schemes provided by the government to encourage women towards entrepreneurship. She emphasised that by giving equal opportunity to women the economy could gain by $770 billion and reiterated the fact that still a lot of the women entrepreneurial ideas are untapped and unexplored. She concluded by saying that all BOB wanted to be a bridge to reach out to those who are in need of assistance toward realising their entrepreneurial dream.

Dr. Sonia Mehrotra, declared the list of winners in all the category and Dr. Madhumita G Majumder rendered the vote of thanks.

Valedictory Session : L-R: Dr. Anil Rao Paila, Sr. Dean & Director, WeSchool, Ms. Parinitha Mishra, the Deputy Regional Head, Bengaluru Central Region, Bank of Baroda, Dr. Madhumita Guha Majumder, Conference Co-Convenor, Dr. Sonia Mehrotra, Conference Convenor