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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.

• What answers to the questions still on the mind of some foreign investors about involvement in India’s startup ecosystem?
• What complementarities and synergies can be created between foreign and Indian investors?
• How does India figure in the global startup ecosystems landscape? The Pluses and the minuses?

Speakers:

Satya Bansal, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Blue Ashva Capital, Singapore
Andreea Danila, Founder & General Partner, Global Millennial Capital, UAE
Takeshi Ebihara, Founding General Partner, Rebright Partners, Japan
BV Naidu, Chairman, Karnataka Digital Economy Mission, India
Anand Prasanna, Managing Partner, Iron Pillar Capital Management, UAE
Dana Taigman Koren, Managing Partner & Board Investor, Q Fund Ventures, Israel

Moderated by:

Jonas Brunschwig, Chief Executive Officer, Swissnex in India & Consul General of Switzerland

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Hari Menon, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, BigBasket, India

In conversation with:

Claude Smadja, Chairman, Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory, Switzerland

• What implications of India’s emergence as the world’s 3rd largest E-commerce market? Beyond the economic growth factor, assessing the impact on innovation development, on financial and social inclusiveness
• With already 950 million internet-connected people and the E-commerce market size expected to cross the US$ 400 billion by 2026, what trends will continue to shape the evolution of digital commerce?
• How will technologies such as AIO, AR, VR shape the evolution of digital commerce? What should startups keep in mind as they develop activities in these domains?
• When should we expect to see the Indian equivalent of Amazon or Alibaba?

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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, Arkni PhotoBioLife and NeuroLeap, India
Yoni Ben Zaken, Co-founder & Chief Business Officer, NOF- Natural Offset Farming, Israel
Rachelle Jensen, Chief Executive Officer, Luminis Water Technologies, Singapore
Alexander Kübler, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, RoBoa, Switzerland
Hyerin Park, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Enomad, Republic of Korea
Avinash Sharma, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, ElectricPe, India

Moderated by:

Gaurav Choudhury, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Earshot Media, India

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An increasing number of Indian and foreign MNCs operating in India have been sourcing innovation from startups in various domains to integrate in their global products and services offerings. The driver for this is the emergence of India as a global 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, the expanding partnerships between foreign and national MNCs and the startups contributing to source products and service innovation in their global offering is now transforming the overall picture of India’s corporate innovation.

• What conditions for the innovation interaction between startups and corporations to work best?
• How does the rise of GCCs impact on the expansion of the IT sector with respect to product development, innovation, and research?

Speakers:

Vic Bhagat, Senior Vice President and Global Advisor, Kyndryk, USA
Shivi Jain, Program Director German Accelerator India, Start2 Group, Germany
Shalini Pillay, India Leader – Global Capability Centers, KPMG, UK
Aruna Schwarz, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Stelae Technologies, UK
Pankaj Vyas, Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Technology & Services, Germany

Moderated by:

Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory Media, India

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India is emerging as one of the world’s top innovation hubs, 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.

• The government as an innovation agent
• What factor to add or to strengthen for the sustainability of India’s innovation model?
• Addressing the perennial issue of corporate R&D weakness
• What distinctive role for India in the global innovation landscape?

Speakers:

Rajeev Banduni, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, OpenI Partners, India
Sanjeev Gupta, CEO Karnataka Digital Economy Mission, India
Mohandas Pai, Co-Founder & Chairman, Aarin Capital, India
Avinash Vashistha, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Tholons, USA

Moderated by:

Claude Smadja, Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory, Switzerland

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Healthcare technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace with a growing number of startups and corporate players worldwide developing innovations and leveraging the tremendous potential of AI, Bid Data and other disrupting technologies to provide healthcare services and support to huge segments of population which were deprived of them or were getting them in a very limited way. The Digital Health market worldwide is growing 10% a year and is projected to be at around US$ 280 billion by 2028.Digitization, virtual care, medical robotics and embedded devices, healthcare data intelligence are having a genuine transformative impact in the way healthcare is being approached today.

• What are the trends – technological, societal, economic – shaping up the evolution of the healthtech sector?
• What new innovations/developments can we expect in the coming years?
• How to assess and protect healthtech IP

Speakers:

Shashank Avadhani, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Alyve Health, India
Kenneth Barr, Senior Vice President, Syngene International Limited, India
Sowjanya Kallakuri, Associate Director of Future Health Technologies, ETH Centre, Singapore
Peter Ling, Partner, Lenz & Staehelin, Switzerland

Moderated by:

Florin Müller, Head of Swiss Business Hub India, Switzerland

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The global fintech market is today estimated at about US$ 230 billion and is expected to reach US$ around US$ 910-920 billion by 2032, and Financial technologies keep evolving while new industry regulations also keep emerging. India’s fintech sector is growing at an even faster pace, recording an increase of 59% from last quarter of 2023 to the 1st quarter 2024.

• What are the technology trends in the sector?
• Where do Indian and foreign players stand?
• What opportunities to leverage and challenges to address?
• How, and at what precise moment?

Speakers:

Amreesh Kher, Chief Business Officer – Insurance, Tata Digital, India
Murali Nandini, Head of strategy, Zoth, Singapore
Ryotaro Tsukii, Director – Corporate, Ginco Technologies, Japan
Nandan Venkatachalam, Head B2B Fintech Investments, Axilor Ventures, India

Moderated by:

Mahima Marin, Head – Strategic Partnerships, W Beyond Private Limited, India

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• What are the technology trends in the sector?
• Where do Indian and foreign players stand?
• What opportunities to leverage and challenges to address?

Speakers:

Rakshit Daga, Chief Technology Officer, Big Basket, India
Manan Mehta, Co- Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Solar Ladder, India
Ranjith Mukundan, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Stellapps Technologies, India
Ankit Sharma, Practice lead digital Supply Chain, Capgemini Invent India, France

Moderated by:

Vishal Krishna, Founder, Editor and Head of Content & Media, UpStream Life, India

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Thierry Porté, Managing Director & Vice Chairman, JC Flowers & Co LLC, USA

A conversation with:

Prashanth Prakash, founding partner Accel Partners,India, co-founder UnboxingBLR Foundation, India

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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.

• How are the government policies working in terms of developing a top-level chip manufacturing capability?
• How to expand the proven semiconductor design capabilities of Indian engineers? What actions to address the scarcity of cutting-edge infrastructure labs in the country’s universities?
• How to capitalize optimally on the increasing involvement of semiconductors manufacturers giants in India?

Speakers:

Pankaj Gupta, Co-Founder & Partner, AlphaGen Venture Capital, Singapore
Udit Sood, Associate, Covington & Burling, USA
Anshuman Tripathi, Member, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), India
Pradeep Vajram, Partner, 7Rays Ventures, India
V. Veerappan, Chairman India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), India

Moderated by:

Mahima Marin, Head – Strategic Partnerships, W Beyond Private Limited, India

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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:

• How, and at what precise moment?
• What does it take to go public at time of uncertainty and volatility

Speakers:

Anjani Bansal, Partner and India Country Head, Global Brain Venture Capital, Japan
Prem Barthasarathy, Managing Partner & Founder, Pontaq, United Kingdom
Derick Jose, Managing Director Industrial AI, Accenture, USA/India
Varada Rajan Krishna, Co-Founder The 100 Open Startups, India

Moderated by:

Kenneth Woosuk Choi, Deputy Managing Editor, Chosun Ilbo Group, Republic of Korea

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What vision for India’s technology future for the next five years?

With keynote speaker:

Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa, India

In conversation with:

BV Naidu, Chairman Karnataka Digital Economy Mission, India