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The Indian Woman of today is harnessing the digital advantage to maximize their potential in order to realize the goal of a Digital India. This over-arching point emerged from the summit organized by SHEROES.in in Bangalore on Wednesday.
The SHEROES Summit, themed Women Make Digital India, was the concluding session of the tri-city event. The summit emerged as a platform for women from various professional backgrounds to connect and share their experiences, explore monetizing avenues for themselves beyond the nine-to-five work cycle in order to contribute to national development in the current technology-driven times.The first and second sessions of the SHEROES
Summit was held in Delhi on 18th December,2015 and Mumbai on 10th December,2015 respectively.
As per SHEROES.in’s mission statement, the summit deliberated upon potential career paths, transformation, growth opportunities and professional journeys of successful women entrepreneurs.
Flipkart Co- Founder, entrepreneur, and investor, while extrapolating how SHEROES make a difference in the current innovative environment said: “We (Flipkart) are open to hiring women who have been on break and are skilled. We don’t look at experience; our HR process is focused on hiring problem-solving people.”
His message to fellow entrepreneurs was loud and clear: “Decision making needs to be swift and fast on building the right teams, hiring talent and including women in the team; and that “technology can change the current supply-chain challenges”.
“We look at the entrepreneur and the mission before deciding to invest,” Bansal added.
On the success of the summit, Sairee Chahal, Founder and CEO, SHEROES.in, “Digital India is making women independent in many ways and at SHEROES.in we are putting women’s careers on the map by using digital to speed up the pace of change. The Summit is an extension of our goalto encouragewomen to take charge, and contribute to the India’s growth story.”
The event saw a line-up of business personalities, including BinnyBansal (Co-founder, Flipkart) as the keynote speaker; along with Raj Kundra (Founder- Best Deal TV); Mahima Kaul (Public Policy Lead, Twitter India); Anju Maudgul Kadam ( Founder &Director, WebTv.in); AjithKarimpana (CEO & Founder, Furlenco); Nidhi Agarwal (Founder, KAARYAH.com), Ashwani Asokan (Co-Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den), T.V Mohandas Pai (Chairperson, Manipal Global Education Services) and Pallavi Gupta (COO, Spring Leaf Retail).
