Hilton Manyata Business Park, Bengaluru, 6-7 June 2024
Thursday 6 June 2024
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08:30 - Ongoing | Registration of participants
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09:30 - 10:00 | Official opening plenary Keynote address by honorary guest: Shri Siddaramaiah, Karnataka Chief Minister TBC
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10:15 - 11:25
| India as a destination of choice for investment in startups
As one of the world’s fastest growing economy leap-frogging the digitization process and a country with the 3rd largest - steadily growing - startup ecosystem, India is increasingly attracting the attention of foreign VCs, PEs, and family offices eager to explore new investment opportunities.
Shri Priyank Kharge, Minister for IT/BT & Rural Development & Panchayat Raj, Government of Karnataka
In conversation with:
David Abikzir, Chief Investment Officer & Executive Director, Jupiter Capital Private Ltd, India Satya Bansal, Founder & CEO, Blue Ashva Capital, Singapore Andrea Danila, Founder & General Partner, Global Millennial Capital, UAETakeshi Ebihara, Founding General Partner, Rebright Partners Japan Anand Prasanna, Managing Partner, Iron Pillar Capital Management, UAE James Tan, Managing Partner, Quest Ventures, Singapore
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11:30 - 12:15 | Riding the wave of the digital consumer revolution
Naveen Tahilyani, CEO Tata Digital, India
In conversation with: Claude Smadja, Chairman, Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory, Switzerland
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12:15 – 13:15 | Buffet lunch
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13:15 - 14:15
| Shapers of the future
Meet the pioneer of new technologies, they are creating new business models, they are one step ahead of new social and consumers‘ trends…. There are on the stage
Speakers: Kumaar Bagrodia, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, NeuroLeap, India Yoni Ben Zaken, Co-founder & Chief Business Officer, Natural Offset Farming (NOF), Israel Avinash Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO, ElectricPe, India
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13:15 - 14:15 | The GCCs dynamic and the startup solutions to boost corporate innovation
An increasing number of Indian and foreign MNCs operating in India are sourcing innovation from startups in various domains integrating it in their global products and services delivery, reflecting the emergence of India as a leading hub for Global Capability Centers (GCCs). A dynamic interaction is at play between GCCs and startups. The former using the relationship to expand and accelerate innovation processes and the latter benefiting from the support of global corporations in validating and scaling up their products and services. Adding to the GCCs dynamic, is the expanding partnerships between foreign and national MNCs and the startups contributing to source products and service innovation in their global offering.
Speakers: Vic Bhagat, Senior Vice-President, and Global Advisor, Kyndryl, USA Shivi Jain, Program Director German Accelerator India, Start2 Group, Germany Shalini Pillay, India Leader – Global Capability Centers, KPMG, Pankaj Vyas, CEO, Siemens Technology & Services, Germany Moderated by: Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory Media
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14:30 - 15:30
| India’s unique innovation model: Getting to the next level
India is emerging as one of the world’s top innovation hubs, l thanks to the cumulative impact of the expansion of Digital Public Infrastructure covering payments, identity, and Data management, of the development of engineering and research talent, and of the emergence of a dynamic startup ecosystem, now one of the top three in the world. Adding to that is the complementarity of a top-down and of a bottom-up approaches between the government and the private sector on innovation development.
Speakers: Rajeev Banduni, Co-Founder & CEO, OpenI Partners Mohandas Pai, Co-Founder & Chairman, Aarin Capital, India Chintan Vaishnav, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, India
Moderated by: Shradha Sharma, Founder & CEO YourStory Media, India |
14:30 - 15:30
| IP and innovation in healthtech
An interaction between startups founders and VC executives involved in Healthtech to create mutually beneficial synergies
Speakers: Shashank Avadhani, Co-Founder & CEO, Alyve Health, India Kenneth Barr, Senior Vice President, Syngene International Ltd, India Sowjanya Kallakuri, Associate Director of Future Health Technologies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Peter Ling, Partner Lenz & Staehelin, Switzerland
Moderated by: Florin Müller, Head of the Swiss Business Hub India, Switzerland
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15:40 – 16:40 | Where is the Fintech sector going?
Speakers: Pritam Dutta, Co-founder & CEO, Zoth, Singapore Yasmeen Thimiri, CEO, MyFundbox, Germany Ryotaro Tsukii, Director – Corporate, Ginco Technologies, Japan
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15:40 -16:40 | Technology Update Where is the supply chain technology sector going?
Speakers: Manan Mehta, Co- Founder & CEO, Solar Ladder, India Ranjith Mukundan, Co-Founder & CEO, Stellapps Technologies, India
Moderated by: Vishal Krishna, Founder, Editor and Head of Content & Media, UpStream Life, India
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16:40 – 17:00 | Networking break
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17:0 - 17:50 | Making intelligent use of intelligent technologies
Soumitra Dutta, Dean and Professor of Management, Saïd Business School, Oxford University, Chair, OECD Taskforce of Experts on AI, UK
In conversation with: Prashanth Prakash, founding partner Accel Partners, India, co-founder UnboxingBLR Foundation, India
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18:00- 19:00 | What does it take for India to join the world’s semiconductors ‘top players league?
India has taken significant steps to create the propitious framework conditions to join the world’s top players in the fields of semiconductor manufacturing, research, and development. The country’s semiconductor market is expected to be at around US$ 80 billion by 2028.
Speakers: Pankaj Gupta, Co-Founder & Partner, AlphaGen Venture Capital, Singapore Gadhadar Reddy, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Nopo Nanotechnologies, India Udit Sood, Associate (Intellectual Property Litigation), Covington & Burling LLP, USA Anshuman Tripathi, Member, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), India Pradeep Vajram, Partner 7 Rays Capital Ventures, India
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19:00 - 19:45
| Reception
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19:45 - 21:45 | Seated gala dinner
Keynote speaker: Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa, India
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Friday 7 June 2024
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09:00 -10:00 | The new technology trends on the horizon: How they will reshape economies, societies, and business
David Passig, Futurist, Professor Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Member Israel National Council for Research & Development, Israel.
In conversation with: Ganapathy Venugopal (VG), Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Axilor Ventures, India
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10:15 - 11:15 |
IPOs were basically nonexistent in 2023 and M&As involving VC-backed companies were also severely hit. However, the context seems to be changing, with a number of public companies and PEs awash with cash to invest. So, the time for a revival of IPOs and M&As may have now come back. And, for many startup investors, the questions might be:
Speakers: Anjani Bansal, Partner and India Country Head, Global Brain Venture Capital, Japan Derick Jose, Managing Director Industrial AI, Accenture, USA/India
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10:15 – 11:15 | Managing the opportunities and challenges of the changing deep tech ecosystem:
Deep tech technologies such as IOT, Blockchain, Robotics, AI and Quantum computing have a tremendous disruption potential on almost every sector of activity. However, developing the potential of Deep tech technologies implies addressing a number of challenges including regulatory uncertainties, bringing together very specialized high-technology skills, high R&D costs in a tighter funding environment and long development cycles,
Speakers: Jonas Brunschwig, Chief Executive Officer, Swissnex in India & Consul General of Switzerland Kalyan Sivasailam Co-founder & CEO 5C Network, India Dana Taigman Koren, Managing Partner & board investor, Q Fund Ventures, Israel
Moderated by: Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory Media
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11:30 - 12:30 | Technology Update Where is the sustainability tech sector going?
Speakers: Sriram Kannan. Founder & CTO, Routematic, India Aris Mukherjee, Co-Founder & CCO, RTDT Laboratories, Switzerland Prasanta Sarkar, Co-Founder & CEO, Newtrace, India Vladas Snieckus, Executive Manager for Sustainable Technologies, Head of Research & Product Development, Waynerr, Switzerland
Moderated by: Jose Jacob Kalayil, Founder, Director & Curator TIA Summit , India
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11:30 - 12:30 | Technology update Biotech and Genomics: Navigating turbulences and seizing opportunities
The biotech and Genomics industry has witnessed remarkable developments globally as well as in India. The Indian biotech and life sciences sector is emerging a hub for pharmaceutical innovation. On the genomics side, The Genome India Project has completed sequencing 10’000 Indian genomes, providing a database for Indian genetic diversity. The biotech and genomics sector is now at an inflection point, with technological advances and evolving market conditions are creating a new paradigm for the sector.
Speakers: Darshan H.V, IAS, Managing Director, Department of Electronics, Information technology Biotechnology & Sciences, Government of Karnataka TBC Vivekanand Tiwari, Co-founder & CSO Climatecrop, Israel Leela Maitreyi Director, BD & Global Alliances, Bugworks Research, India Vivek Mishra, Founder & CEO, Fibreoheal Woundcare, India Utpal Tatu, Professor and Chairman at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India
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12:30 - 13:30 | Buffet lunch
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13:30 - 14:30
| Learning from 2023: The trends shaping the evolution of VC/startup ecosystems and their implications
Speakers:
Madhu Gupta Khandelwal Managing Partner EthAum Venture Partners, Singapore Mikihide Katsumata, President & Chief Operating Officer, Member of the Board, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Japan Pranav Pai, Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer, 3one4 Capital, India Sudhir Rao, Senior Partner, Celesta Capital, USA/India
Moderated by: Vishal Krishna, Founder, Editor and Head of Content & Media, UpStream Life, India
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14:45 - 15:45
| Cracking the code on scaling up: Listen to those who did it
All startups have to address the challenges of time to market and of cracking scale. They have to make do with internal factors they need to manage and external factors such as market readiness or competitive risk on which they have scant control. And the challenge of time to market and scaling up is made more acute in the present context of the decrease of financial resources available to startup founders.
Speakers: Amrit Acharya, Co-Founder & CEO, Zetwerk, India Ezhilan Nanmaran, Head of Product and Strategic Partnerships, IdeaForge, India Ramakant Sharma, CTO, COO & Co-Founder, Livspace, India
Moderated by: Shubhankar Bhattacharya, General Partner, Foundamental, Germany
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16:00 - 17:00 | Building the champions of the AI revolution
India produces 16% of the world’s AI talent pool, making it one of the top three AI talent markets in the world. The number of Gen AI Indian startups has doubled in 2023 and the country’s start-up ecosystems is moving ahead developing AI-powered tools in the development and delivery of their products and services. This is providing a huge addition and complementarity to the AI drive of the country’s public and private sectors.
Opening keynote speech: Ekroop Caur, IAS Secretary to Government Department of Electronics, Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology Government of Karnataka. TBC
Speakers: Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Founder & CEO, EdgeCortix, Japan Vinayak Hegde. CTO-in-Residence Microsoft for Startups, USA/India Francis Rousseaux, Professor University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, French Representative at ISpirit Foundation, France Nitin Sharma, Co-Founder & General Partner, Antler India Senior executive, Corsight AI, Israel
Moderated by: Jose Jacob Kalayil, Founder, Director & Curator TIA Summit , India |
16:30 - 17:30
| Closing plenary
Betting on India’s innovation and growth story
Thierry Porté, Managing Director & Vice Chairman, JC Flowers & Co LLC, USA
A conversation with: Ralph Voltmer, Partner, Head of India Practice, Covington & Burling, USA
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17:30 – 18:15
| Farewell drinks |
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Bengaluru
Karnataka 560045, India