Young Founder Summit 2025
Runway Incubator, UPES · 2025
Runway Incubator, UPES · 2025
The Young Founder Summit at Runway Incubator, UPES, brought school students from Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh to the campus for a three-day introduction to entrepreneurship.
The summit opened with an address by the Vice Chancellor of UPES on the university's commitment to innovation and the role of Runway in supporting start-ups in their early years, followed by a session from the CEO of Runway on the start-up ecosystem and how ideas become ventures. The first day continued with a hands-on workshop on start-up fundamentals and a tour of the Runway campus.
On the second day, students pitched their ideas in an elevator pitch round, attended a marketing session on positioning their ideas, and visited UCOST, Dehradun, to see how innovation is supported in practice.
