The Bengaluru Entrepreneurship Conclave brought together social entrepreneurs, ecosystem leaders, funders, and investors for a high-impact, day-long convening focused on solving India’s most pressing social challenges. Through pitching sessions, skill-building workshops, and intentional networking, the conclave created a platform to catalyse innovation, unlock funding pathways, and strengthen an ecosystem of purpose-driven entrepreneurs working towards large-scale social impact.
Bengaluru Entrepreneurship Conclave
Prabhanshu Singh
Prabhanshu started with a hypothesis worth testing: that if you help children build awareness, agency, and problem-solving, stronger academic outcomes follow. The Community Grant Fund let him put that idea on the ground, treating those competencies not as abstract skills but as ways of noticing problems and acting on them.
The pilot did not stay still. While implementing the SEE stage of the SALD model (SEE, IMAGINE, DO, SHARE), the stage that focuses on Awareness, Prabhanshu watched Students do something the model had not predicted: they imagined problems around them, reflected, brainstormed solutions, and shared ideas with peers all at once, revealing that the four stages build iteratively rather than in a neat linear sequence.
That insight drove a complete redesign. He reimagined Srijan Labs as a 15-day programme running over three weeks, Monday to Friday, with 180-minute days structured as a 60-minute session, a 30-minute break, a second 60-minute session, and 30 minutes of individual Student reflection, scaffolding the competencies day by day and built flexibly enough for facilitators to adapt to their own Students. What began as a single-classroom pilot has become a tested, transferable design. These reimagined materials, together with the handbook and journal already developed, will now anchor the next pilot, run with out-of-school children in partnership with Anubhuti Organisation.
"I hope to build a generation of young people who see themselves as capable, problems as solvable, and agency as a default regardless of their socio-economic background."
