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Cognixion 2021

Welcome to COGNIXION 2021, an all-India High-School Virtual Business Conclave.

We put forth a platform for the brightest budding business professionals, from across the country, to demonstrate fine business acumen and forthwith thinking. With two days of startup ideations, intense negotiations and rigorous crises, get ready to bear witness and compete against some of the best students of the country!

Use out opportunities to network, receive feedback from pioneers in the world of business and challenge yourself with life-like simulations.

Prepare to test yourself and truly CREATE, COLLABORATE AND CONQUER!

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CATAPULT - Sales Pitch

"Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell."

Date: Sunday, 27th June, 2021.

Time: 11 am to 1 pm

 

Catapult, our sales pitch event, will encourage you to tap into your creative side. Pitch the most bizarre products and demonstrate your conviction, by selling your ideas with eloquence and confidence.

Harmless roasting of other products and receiving live feedback on your pitches are just some of the many elements Catapult has in store for you!

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CONFLUENCE - Joint Venture

"Creativity thrives best when constrained."

Date: Saturday, 26th June, 2021.

Time: 2 pm to 4 pm

 

Confluence, our Joint Venture event, puts your marketing skills to the test. You’ll be challenged to showcase your creative side: come up with a way to create a product with two absolutely unrelated companies.

In this fun and fast paced event, let your imagination run wild and present your quirkiest business ideas. Our judges look for out-of-the-box thinking and conviction to make a difference.

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CONUNDRUM - Management Consulting

"Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet."

Date: Saturday, 26th June, 2021.

Time: 2 pm to 4 pm

 

Conundrum, our Management Consultancy Event, is where you assume the role of a management consulting firm and provide solutions to crises. The future of the company is in your hands. An eye for detail and a mind that questions is what we are looking for, in Conundrum.

Conundrum requires you to analyze, innovate and help navigate the problems portrayed in the case studies and devise methods to help your clients out.

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CROSSHAIR - Shark Tank

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

Date: Saturday, 26th June, 2021.

Time: 5pm to 7 pm

 

Crosshair, our start-up event, is where you assume the role of an entrepreneur. Innovate to leave a lasting impression on the world! Prepare to dive into the ‘shark tank’ with your product as bait.

Crosshair is a place for you to test your skills in developing products and make the world believe in your vision!

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CAULDRON - Stock Market

"Tactics without strategy is just noise before defeat."

Prizes will be announced on Sunday, 27th June, 2021.

Time: 5 pm to 7 pm

 

Cauldron, our Stock Market event, let’s you engage in a 5 day trading event. Show us how you grow your money and live the life of a stock broker. Without the risks involved in the actual world, Cauldron is your space to test out a combination of analysis and speculation.

Financial instruments and risks can be daunting to many. A simulated environment is perhaps the best chance for you to hone your skills, before you join the real market.

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CONNEXIONS - Social Media

"Engage rather than sell, work as a co-creator not a marketer."

Prizes will be announced on Sunday, 27th June, 2021.

Time: 5 pm to 7 pm

 

Connexions, our Social Media event, is where you take on the role of an influencer. The importance of Social Media in today’s world cannot be challenged. The ability to get people to view and interact with your content is a skill that businesses are willing to invest in.

Connexions tests your ability to create content, ‘influence’ the masses and gather a following for your ideas.

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Canvas - Social Entrepreneurship

"The power of Social Entrepreneurship is to identify resources where people only see problems."

Date: Sunday, 27th June, 2021.

Time: 2 pm to 4 pm

 

Canvas, our video case event, encourages you to explore your entrepreneurial skills, in a post-pandemic world. Assume the role of a social entrepreneur to build business models that aid a community’s problems in innovative ways. In Canvas, join the dots between the aspirations and the needs of the world, to reconstruct our world.

Use your innovative and creative side in this brand new event, combine a community’s history and culture to its present and use your business to unite the world.

Meet the Team

Available anytime, just reach out to them.....
Dhruv Sadani

Dhruv Sadani

Event In-Charge: Cauldron, Confluence

Logistics: Operations (Tech)

Jahnavi Garg

Jahnavi Garg

Event In-Charge: Conundrum, Catapult

Logistics: Social Media

Kriti Gupta

Kriti Gupta

Event In-Charge: Canvas

Logistics: Operations (Communications)

Arya Vardhan Gupta

Arya Vardhan Gupta

Event In-Charge: Conundrum, Confluence

Logistics: Social Media

Ashwin Subramanian

Ashwin Subramanian

Event In-Charge: Crosshair, Connexions

Logistics: Social Media

Mehul Bhattacharya

Mehul Bhattacharya

Event-in-Charge: Connexions

Logistics: Social Media

Devanshu Choudhary

Devanshu Choudhary

Event In-Charge: Canvas

Aritra Mookherjee

Aritra Mookherjee

Logistics: Operations (Tech)

Dhruv Saraf

Dhruv Saraf

Event-in-Charge: Conundrum, Crosshair

Karan Kapur

Karan Kapur

Event In-Charge: Cauldron

Logistics: Operations (Tech)

Uddhav Beriwala

Uddhav Beriwala

Event-in-Charge: Crosshair, Cauldron

Logistics: Sponsorships

Simran Khanna

Simran Khanna

Event-in-Charge: Crosshair

Logistics: Social Media

Shreyas Sreenivas

Shreyas Sreenivas

Even-in-Charge: Catapult, Cauldron

Logistics: Operations (Tech)

Shria Gupta

Shria Gupta

Even-in-Charge: Confluence, Catapult

Logistics: Social Media

Reva Sharma

Reva Sharma

Event-in-Charge: Conundrum, Canvas

Annika Goenka

Annika Goenka

Event-in-Charge: Connexions

Kushal Kothari

Kushal Kothari

Logistics: Social Media

Meet the Mentors

Guide and Support to our Genius Team at all times.
Eshan Toshniwal

Eshan Toshniwal

The self-proclaimed Operations & Tech Head, Eshan is set to pursue a degree in Computer Science at UC Davis, so that he can make better Zoom links for us! That’s super nice of him, but he actually wishes to make a replacement for Google Forms (you’re also invited to fund ToshniForms).

Arryan Kanodia

Arryan Kanodia

A science student, Arryan soon regretted his choice when he fell in love with Shark Tank. Laziest of the lot, he’s still working hard to become an Industrial Engineer at UIUC. We are sure he will make it to the Tank one day, but probably to sell a book of horrible Hindi punchlines.

Parikshit Roy Chowdhury

Parikshit Roychowdhury

For a person who barely sleeps, Parikshit (aka Pari) finds the energy to talk an awful much (of nonsense). His love for Cognix is so deep that he’s decided to take a gap year and not attend college at all. While he enjoys politics, we hope he never runs in an election – he’s really bad at realizing that nobody wants him to make people stay up at night and work.

Aditi Agarwal

Aditi Agarwal

Kind of our Marketing Head, Aditi prefers preventing us from goofing around, under the pretense of being creative. So, we are glad Aditi will bring order to the chaotic world of Economics, after she finishes college at Denison University. You know you’ve made a ghastly mistake when she decides to scream at you, but be assured that if any pranks are played, she’s the elder sister who’s responsible for it.

Nirmal Agarwal

Nirmal Agarwal

The founder of Cognix and the reason why Cognixion is a reality, finds himself in a tough spot everyday – waking up to a 1000 messages. Nirmal Uncle, a Stanford grad, loves golf and loves his pet Oreo even more. He’s a career counselor because he loves being around youngsters (although we’re sure he questions his own career choice, when he’s subjected to our daily dose of drama). He’s our sounding board, the person we bounce ideas off but most importantly, the man who tries to help us fix our sleep schedules.

Oreo

Our motivation to work! Send dog biscuits for Brownie points 😉