Top guns to sponsor IIM meet

On January 19, business leaders and management students from all over the country and abroad, will converge in Lucknow for Manfest 2007""IIM Lucknow's flagship event.

Manfest 2006 was one of the largest B-school events in the country, with a budget of Rs 60 lakh and participation of over 1,000 management students. Manfest 2007, to be held from held during January 19-21, promises to be even bigger, with a budget much beyond before and covering 25 events.

Manfest 2007 is being sponsored by firms like Reliance ADAG, Cognizant, Mahindra & Mahindra, Contact Singapore, the Aditya Birla Group, Reliance Industries Limited, SBI, Ernst & Young, PwC, Virtusa, Baring Private Equity, FINO, Nirma Labs and many more.

Chairman Students Affairs (IIML) Dharmendra Singh Sengar said, "We would like to see Manfest as the biggest B-School event in Asia by 2010."

Nirvaan 2007 one of the events, is being conducted by Abhiyan, IIM Lucknow's entrepreneurship cell. Nirma Labs, a leading incubator for high tech ventures, is providing incubation to the winning team in the form of seed funding up to INR 20 Lakhs.

The top three teams of Nirvaan-2007 will be offered incubation worth Rs. 7.5 lakhs from IndiaCo, which is a private equity investment holding company that invests in hi-tech companies.