The India Global Innovation Connect is a Bengaluru-based annual meeting to foster and promote technological innovation in India and to expand the business and technology interaction between the Indian VC/Startup ecosystem and other relevant ecosystems. It is a platform for an outcome-oriented dialogue between technology developers and business end-users, bringing together top Indian business leaders, startup founders executives and technology thought leaders with their foreign peers and partners. As a landmark global event, the India Global Innovation Connect highlights the emergence of India as a global innovation and startup hub.

Program

08:30 Am

Registration of participants

09:30 Am

Welcome to participants
Official opening plenary

10:15 Am

A startup founders-VC executives Roundtable

The road to profitability and resilience in a new funding era:
A leaner, even more innovative startup ecosystem

  • The new metrics for funding
  • What kind of startups will thrive through the downturn and how?
  • A more arduous path towards unicorn status?
  • Will the momentum towards the expansion of India's startup ecosystem be sustained in the new context?

11:45 Am

Innovation partnerships: Creating an innovation dynamic through ecosystems collaboration

  • How can Indian incubators curate suitable collaboration platforms between different startup ecosystems?
  • Key success factors for successful innovation partnerships
  • Addressing the IP ownership allocation issue
  • Leveling the playing field between established businesses and new players

11:45 Am

Meet the disrupters

Selected, highly innovative, startup founders present their company, highlighting the transformational impact of what...

Selected, highly innovative, startup founders present their company, highlighting the transformational impact of what they are creating.

11:45 Am

Brainstorming
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Ahead of the curve
Operationalizing the Metaverse to deliver sustainable business outcomes

Whether it is for improving education and training, enhancing customer experiences, improving business operations...

Whether it is for improving education and training, enhancing customer experiences, improving business operations efficiency, or enterprise applications, the business applications of the Metaverse are beginning to be leveraged by established companies and startups.

 

  • How far can companies go already in Metaverse use for business creation and as growth engine?
  • Making the difference between the hype and the already actionable Metaverse business use
  • What challenges still to overcome to achieve the full operationalization of the Metaverse for business?

13:00 Pm

Buffet lunch

14:00 Pm

Striving for leadershipin the Clean Tech sector

Part one:
Leveraging the drivers in India's sustainability/Clean-Tech sector:

  • What factors are sustaining the expansion of startups in the Clean Tech sector?
  • What assets could India leverage more?
  • How does India compare to what is happening in that sector in other parts of the world?

 

Part two:
What policies and actions to join the sustainability/Clean-Tech global leaders club:

  • What role for startups in upping India's global role in the sector?
  • How could corporate/startup partnerships contribute?
  • What additional policies are needed?

14:00 Pm

Striving for leadership in the Fintech sector

Part one:
Leveraging the drivers in India's Fintech sector:

  • What factors are sustaining the expansion of startups in the Fintech sector?
  • What assets could India leverage more?
  • How does India compare to what is happening in that sector in other parts of the world?

 

Part two:
What policies and actions to join the Fintech global leaders club:

  • What role for startups in upping India's global role in the sector?
  • How could corporate/startup partnerships contribute?
  • What additional policies are needed?

15:45 Pm

Networking break

16:15 Pm

Becoming an Innovation leader? industry and academia partnerships as a MUST.

The inescapable lesson from successful innovation leader countries is clear: No innovation leadership without strong...

The inescapable lesson from successful innovation leader countries is clear: No innovation leadership without strong R&D, no strong R&D without widespread, efficient, industry/academia partnerships.

 

  • What has made so far industry-academia R&D partnerships so weak in India compared to other countries?
  • How to accelerate the change of mindset across India's academic world towards reorienting R&D more towards economic growth and social needs?
  • Corporate India has not been spending much on R&D, rather shopping for available technologies. How is the perception now evolving for the need for more funding of research programs in business relevant technolgy platforms developed in academic ecosystems?
  • Government policies and funding have been redirected towards supporting R&D in technologies identified as important for India's technology overhaul. How can industry and academia leverage that trend to boost R&D partnerships?

16:15 Pm

Making India a global hub for digital talent:
The concerted policies and actions

  • Beyond the budget 2023 measures for digital skilling and upskilling what initiatives to accelerate the creation of the digital skills to make of India a 5 trillion dollars economy by 2025?
  • Digital talent creation as a key area for PPPs
  • Learning from some pilot practices in digital skilling, re-skilling, and upskilling

16:15 Pm

Brainstorming
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Ahead of the curve
Towards the second wave of Health Tech innovation

Covid 19 generated the emergence of a number of Health Tech startups - with many of them scaling up their...

Covid 19 generated the emergence of a number of Health Tech startups - with many of them scaling up their activities since the end of the pandemic.

 

  • What new care models or specialized services are emerging to provide patient-centric solutions?
  • What assets to leverage to provide “made in India” Health Tech for the world?
  • What could be the impact of the new funding conditions on the Health Tech sector development?
  • What specific challenges do Health Tech startup founders still need to overcome?

17:30 Pm

Striving for leadershipin the Aerospace sector

Part one:
Leveraging the drivers in India's Aerospace sector:

  • What factors are sustaining the expansion of startups in theAerospace sector - especially drones and rocket launchers?
  • What assets could India leverage more?
  • How does India compare to what is happening in that sector inother parts of the world?

 

Part two:
What policies and actions to join the Aerospace global leaders club:

  • What role for startups in upping India's global role in the sector?
  • How could corporate/startup partnerships contribute more totechnology innovation in the sector?
  • What additional policies are needed?

17:30 Pm

Striving for leadershipin the Digital Public Goods sector

Part one:
Leveraging the drivers in India's Digital Public Goods sector:

  • How are the Technology Innovation Platforms launched twoyears ago fulfilling their mission?
  • What assets could India leverage more?
  • How does India compare to what is happening in that sector inother parts of the world?

 

Part two:
What policies and actions to sustain leadership in the Digital Public Goods:

  • How are India's startups leveraging the existing PublicInnovation Platforms to develop new activities?
  • How could Public/Private partnerships contribute more totechnology innovation in the Digital Public Goods domain?
  • What additional policies are needed to support the creationand leveraging of more Digital Public Goods?

19:15 Pm

Networking reception

19:45 Pm

Seated official dinner

With keynote speaker

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