Free sessions where people who do the work answer your questions.
GullyFuture is run by Gully Future Foundation in Bengaluru. Working professionals talk to students, job seekers and first-time entrepreneurs, then stay to answer questions. It costs nothing to attend.
Have something to share? Speak, mentor or volunteer.
Email me when the next session opens
The GullyFuture way
Turn up. Ask. Pass it on.
So far: one session, a design-thinking workshop for more than 200 engineering students at Jain University, Kanakapura, on 8 October 2026. Read what happened.
What we do
Three areas, one community
The same people show up across all three. A professional who mentors a student on Monday is asking an entrepreneur about hiring on Thursday.
Education
Bring the real world closer to students.
GullyFuture complements formal education by creating opportunities for students to learn directly from professionals, entrepreneurs, mentors and experts.
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Careers
Prepare better for the opportunities ahead.
GullyFuture brings freshers, job seekers, professionals, recruiters, mentors and industry experts together for practical career learning.
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Entrepreneurship
Building a business does not mean figuring everything out alone.
GullyFuture brings entrepreneurs together with experts, experienced professionals and other business owners to share practical knowledge and perspective.
Explore EntrepreneurshipFor colleges
Formats we can run for your final-year batch
We have not yet run these; here is what you provide and what we bring.
Project Clinics
A working professional looks at your project and asks what an interviewer would.
See how it worksMock Interview Drives
One-to-one mock interviews with industry volunteers, with written feedback.
See how it worksPlacement Readiness Weeks
A planned run of sessions for a final-year batch, built with the college.
See how it worksSessions are free for the students who attend. Your college provides the room and a staff member for the day. If anything about a programme would cost your institution money, we tell you in writing before you agree to anything.
Not sure which fits? Read how booking works or ask for a session.
How this works
Turn up, ask, and pass it on
There is no membership fee and no application to attend. The only thing we ask is that when you can help somebody, you do.
Come to a session
A talk or a workshop by somebody who does the work, with time for questions built in. Each session page says when, where, and how to register.
Ask the questions you actually have
The useful part of a session is rarely the talk. It is the forty minutes afterwards when somebody answers honestly.
Then help somebody behind you
Most of our speakers started as participants. You do not need to be senior — you need to have done a thing they have not seen up close.
Upcoming
Next session: not scheduled yet
Leave your email and we will write when one is listed.
No session is scheduled right now
We list a session as soon as the date and venue are confirmed.
Email me when the next session opens
Every number on this site is something that already happened.
We count sessions actually held and people who actually turned up — never a reach figure, never a projection. We are at the beginning, so the numbers are small.
The people
Nobody here is doing this for a fee
Working professionals who give their time because somebody once gave them theirs. Each profile says what the person does and what they can speak on.
Amruta Mudakavi
Founder, 5th Quadrant Consulting
Handles the compliance and finance questions a large company simply pays somebody to take care of — for the businesses that cannot.
Ankita BM
Co-founder, AggiCA Law Associates
A lawyer who works on the part of workplace law most organisations only think about after something has gone wrong.
Rajesh M
PM, Digital Application Engineering, Indiumsoft
Spent twenty-two years in software, most of it responsible for the people doing the work rather than doing it himself.
Blog
Things you can use today
Guides for freshers, job seekers, college placement teams and small-business owners, written by the GullyFuture team.
Where your first customer comes from
The business plan says marketing. The first paying customer usually comes from somewhere closer to home. Where to look, how to ask, and why the first sale looks nothing like the hundredth.
Why am I not clearing interviews? Seven causes
Getting interviews and failing them is a different problem from getting none, and it has different causes. Seven of them, and how to find which round and which cause is yours.
Why am I not getting interview calls? Six causes
Applying everywhere and hearing nothing? The six most common reasons, in the order they usually turn out to be the cause, how to tell which one is yours in a week, and what to change.
Questions
Questions people ask us
What is GullyFuture?
A free community-sessions programme run by Gully Future Foundation, a not-for-profit company in Bengaluru. Working professionals talk to students, job seekers and first-time entrepreneurs about the work they do, then stay to answer questions.
Does it cost anything to attend?
No. There is no membership fee and no application to attend a session. Sessions for schools and colleges are free for the students who attend.
Is there a session I can attend now?
Only when one is listed on the Sessions page. If none is scheduled, leave your email there and we write when one is listed. So far we have run one session, a design-thinking workshop at Jain University, Kanakapura, on 8 October 2026.
Can you run a session at my school, college or company?
Yes, that is the main thing we do. You provide the room, the audience and a member of staff for the day; fill in the session request form with the group, roughly how many people and when, and we reply by email with a format and a suggested speaker.
Will it cost my institution anything?
Sessions are free for students. If anything about a programme would cost your institution money, we tell you in writing before you agree to anything.
I work in industry. Can I speak or mentor?
Yes. You do not need to be senior or well known; you need to have done something the people asking have not seen up close. The Contribute page lists the ways to help, so you can pick the smallest commitment you can keep.
You know something somebody else needs
Speak at a session, mentor one person, run a mock interview, or help at an event. Tell us what you can give and how often — that is the whole form.