eDC Annual Entrepreneurship Summit: Scaling North India's Largest eSummit

Tanmay took on the presidency of eDC IIT Delhi with a clear mandate: grow the Annual Entrepreneurship Summit and deepen the quality of entrepreneurship programming for students across India. The summit was already the largest of its kind in North India, but participation and engagement had plateaued.

He started with research. He interviewed founders across sectors to understand what students actually needed to learn to build companies, not what the cell assumed they needed. He studied which sectors in the Indian market had the most startup activity, what skills were genuinely required to build in those spaces, and where the gaps in student knowledge were sharpest. That research shaped the entire programming calendar, from workshops to podcast series to the summit itself.

He also ran the operational side. He led a team of over 500 people across more than twelve verticals, covering branding, marketing, logistics, finance, admin, and security. When marketing underperformed in the lead-up to the summit, he went back to the founder and sponsor network, reframed the pitch around ROI, and closed a sponsorship budget double that of the previous year.

The summit ran pan-India across more than seven cities. The research-led programming approach paid off: participation and viewership grew two to three times over prior years, and the summit doubled its footfall.