The India Global Innovation Connect is a two-day annual meeting to foster and promote technological innovation in India by discussing the issues and policies involved, identifying the openings and challenges brought by disruptive technologies, while creating a channel of interaction between technology developers and business end-users. The India Global Innovation Connect is an opportunity for Bangalore, as a high-tech hub, to join other global event hosts with a top level annual platform for Indian executives and academics to engage in a dialogue with their foreign peers and partners to initiate new ideas and relationships.
The Coming of Age of a Global Innovation Hub.
Speakers:
BJ Arun, Chairman of the Global Board of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) USA
Umang Bedi, Co-Founder Dailyhunt, Ind
Derick Jose, Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist, Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics, India/USA
Mohandas Pai, Co-Founder & Partner Aarin Capital, India
Pratik Pal, Chief Executive Officer, Tata Digital, India
Moderated by:
Ralph C. Voltmer, Partner, Head of India Practice, Covington & Burling USA
Breakout session
Speakers:
Arun Chandru, Co-founder & Director, Pandorum Technologies, India
Satoshi Nagata, Executive Director India, Japan/India
Manish Singhal, Founding Partner, PI Ventures, India
Pradeep Vajram, Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Alpha ICs, India/USA/Japan
Breakout session
Speakers:
Anand Anandkumar, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Bugworks, India
Jagadeesh Gopalan, Senior Professor Dept. of. Aerospace Engineering, Chairman, Center of Excellence in Hypersonics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Co-Founder Ykrita Life Sciences, India
Manoj Gopalkrishnan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Algorithmic Biologics, India
Anandi Iyer, Director, Fraunhofer Office India, Germany/India
Shrikumar Suryanarayan, Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Sea6Energy, India
Moderated by:
Woosuk Kenneth Choi, Editor, Future Planning Desk, The Chosun Ilbo Group, Director General, The Asian Leadership Conference, Republic of Korea
Plenary luncheon
A conversation with:
Jonathan Medved, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, OurCrowd, Israel
Startup founders take turns to present their company, highlighting the innovative, transformational impact of what they...
Startup founders take turns to present their company, highlighting the innovative, transformational impact of what they are creating. They also share how they address the challenges of skills and the product-market fit.
Presenters:
Ankit Anand, Vice President - Software and India Business, Sleepiz, Switzerland
Neils Delore, APAC Head, Flyability, Switzerland
Ramkumar Govindarajan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Wizfreight, India
Nakul Kukar, Cofounder & CEO, India
Aneesh Reddy, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Capillary Technologies, India
Yuval Regev, Vice-President, Myorcare, Israel
Moderated by:
Shaili Chopra, Founder Gytree & SheThePeople, India
Breakout session
Speakers:
Hari Menon, Chief Executibve Officer Big Basket, India
B V Naidu, Chairman Karnataka Digital Econopmy Mission (KDEM) India
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program Director, MIT Media Lab, USA
Sharad Sharma, Co-Founder, Indian Sopftware Product Industry RoundTable (Isprit), India
Breakout session
Speakers:
Anirudh Pandita, Founder, Pocket Aces & Loco, India
Nitin Sharma, Co-Founder & General Partner Antler India, India
Ashish Singhal, Co-founder & CEO, CoinSwitch, India
Sign-up bilateral discussions
Breakout meetings:
Entrepreneurs and investors initiate contact and engage in on-demand, bilateral, “behind closed doors” discussions to explore potential collaboration.
Breakout session
Speakers:
Sanjeev Gupta, Managing Director & CEO Lahari (A GoI Initiative), Chief Executive Officer Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM)
Amit Kalra, Managing Director, Swiss Re Global Business Services, India
GNV Subba Rao, Global Head of Quality & Operation Centers, Process Automation Director – ABB Innovation Center. Switzerland/India
Hemanth Sheelvant, Head - Corporate Innovation with Startups Bosch GMBH India
Masayuki Toriumi, Managing Director Sony India Software Center (SISC), Japan/India
Moderated by:
Julian Zix, Head, The German Indian Startup Exchange Program (GINSEP), Germany
Breakout session
Speakers:
Achim Burkart, Consul General of Germany, Germany
Neeraj Kumar Dasila, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, SmartHelio, Switzerland
Oded Distel, Chief Executive Officer, Tal-Ya Agriculture Solutions, Israel
Anandhi Gokhale, Investment Manager, Emerald Technology Ventures, Singapore
Shreyas Shibulal, Founder & Director, Micelio - Micelio - Electric Vehicles, India
Sign-up session
Small, dedicated, roundtable discussions between specific group of startup founders to share experiences and explore potential synergies
A conversation with:
Paul Saffo,Technology Forecaster, Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University on the future of engineering and the impact of technological change on the future.
Sign-up session
Plenary dinner
A conversation with:
Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande, Co-Founder Sycamore Networks, Founder the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, Founder Deshpande Foundation, USA
Prashanth Prakash, Partner Accel Partners