Registration
08:00 am – 09:00 am
Sessions start at the Founder's Corner from 9:30 am
Sessions start at the Visionary Stage from 3:30 pm
Masterclasses start at the Guru Guild from 3:30 pm
AI: The New Frontier - Challenges & Opportunities
09:00 am – 09:30 am
Fireside chat (30 min).
Speaker(s) : Prashanth Prakash (Partner, Accel)
Ekaterina Almasque (General Partner, OpenOcean.vc)
Umakant Soni (Chairman, AIfoundry)
How Do We Leverage AI for Creating the Next Shift for Bharat?
09:30 am – 10:00 am
Panel (30 min)
Speaker(s) : Manu Chopra (Co-founder, Karya)
Gaurav Aggarwal (Co-founder & CEO, Ananas Labs)
Subhashis Banerjee (Co-founder & CEO, AIfoundry)
VC: Evaluating AI Startups for Funding
09:30 am - 10:30 am
Panel (60 min)
Speaker(s) : Opening remarks by Hari Balasubramanian (Angel Investor & Mentor)
Suryaprakash Konanuru (CTO, Ideaspring Capital)
Tej Kapoor (Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures)
Rohit Chanana (Managing Partner, Sarcha Investors)
Vinod Keni (Founder, Peachtree Ventures)
No Code AI for the Billions
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Panel (30min)
Speaker(s) : Varghese Cherian (Chief Revenue Officer, Builder.ai)
Jasminder Singh Gulati (Co-Founder, NowFloats (Now Reliance Jio); Founder, Digital Desh)
Creating AI Infra in the Age of Accelerated Computing
10:30 am – 10:45 am
Fireside chat (30 min)
Speaker(s) : Pradeep Gupta (Vice President, WW Solutions Architecture & Engineering, NVIDIA Corporation)
Make In India for the World
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Demos (60 min)
Speaker(s) : Opening remarks by Aditya Agrawal (Founder, SuperU)
Tamanna Dhamija (Co-founder, Convosight)
Nikhil Malhotra (Chief Innovation Officer, Tech Mahindra)
Anshul Vikram Pandey (Founder, Accern)
Saksham Popli (Music Producer , Beatoven.ai)
Amount of Capital Needed to Build Large AI Companies in India
10:45 am – 11:15 am
Fireside chat (30min)
Speaker(s) : Karan Mohla (General Partner, B Capital)
Shubham Sandeep (Managing Director, Pi Ventures)
Ashwin Raguraman (Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund)
AI & Bharat - Shaping the Policy and Future Ahead for Inclusive Growth
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Panel (45 min)
Speaker(s) : Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh (Secretary, DPIIT)
Shri S Krishnan (Secretary, MeitY)
Pramod Bhasin (Chairman, Clix Capital Founder and former CEO, Genpact)
India' s AI Landscape
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Panel (30 min)
Speaker(s) :Nirant Kasliwal (AI Engineer, Qdrant)
Pratyush Choudhary (Investor, Together Fund)
Building AI Research and Innovation Ecosystem for India
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Panel (30min)
Speaker(s) :Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (Former Secretary, DST; President, INSA)
Vishal Dhupar (Managing Director, South Asia, NVIDIA)
Umakant Soni (Chairman, AIfoundry)
Closing Remarks
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
Speaker(s) :Aditya Agrawal (Founder, SuperU)
Archana Jahagirdar (Founder & Managing Partner, Rukam Capital)
Lunch break
12:30 pm – 01:30 pm
AI's Role in India' s March to the Top 3 Economies of the World
02:00 pm – 03:00 pm
Keynote+Fireside chat (60 min)
Speaker(s) :Honourable Union Minister
Debjani Ghosh (President, NASSCOM)
Investing in AI in India - Challenges & Opportunities
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Masterclass
Speaker(s) :Sharad Sharma (Co-founder, iSPIRT Foundation)
Umakant Soni (Chairman, AIfoundry)
Investing in AI in India - Challenges & Opportunities
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Masterclass
Speaker(s) :Sharad Sharma (Co-founder, iSPIRT Foundation)
Umakant Soni (Chairman, AIfoundry)
Investing in AI in India - Challenges & Opportunities
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Masterclass
Speaker(s) :Sharad Sharma (Co-founder, iSPIRT Foundation)
Umakant Soni (Chairman, AIfoundry)
AI and the Indian Economy
03:00 pm – 03:45 pm
Panel (45 min)
Speaker(s) :Sivasubramanian Ramann (Chairman and Managing Director of SIDBI)
Nirmal Jain (Founder and Chairman, IIFL)
Bharat Anand (Partner, Khaitan & Co)
Algorith & Conversation
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm
Panel (30 min)
Speaker(s) :Pushpak Dagade (Founder & CEO, Algo Bulls)
Ravi Shankar (CEO & Co-founder, Active.ai)
Rajesh Vasa (Professor of Software & Technology Innovation, Deakin University)
Understanding the Future of Semiconductors
03:30 pm - 04:15 pm
Masterclass
Speaker(s) :Sudipto Sannigrahi (Managing Director, Matrix Partners)
Vishesh Rajaram (Managing Partner, Speciale Invest)
Planning for the AI age - AI Infrastructure deep dive
03:30 pm - 04.30 pm
Masterclass
Speaker(s) :Pradeep Gupta (Vice President, WW Solutions Architecture & Engineering, NVIDIA Corporation)
Enterprise: Blockchain and Web3's Next Tsunami
03:30 pm - 04:30 pm
Masterclass
Speaker(s) : Lin Dai (founder, Superlogic)
Impactful AI Leverage in Big Companies - Reality or Mirage?
03:45 pm – 04:15 pm
Panel (30 min)
Speaker(s) : Dr. Shailesh Kumar (Chief Data Scientist, Reliance Jio)
Utkarsh B (Ex. Chief Architect, Flipkart)
Jay Jayaraman (Ex-Chief Strategic Innovation, Colgate)
Tea break
04:15 pm – 04:45 pm
Tea break
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm
AI & Deep Tech in Financial Service - A VC lens
04:30 pm - 05:00 pm
Panel (30 min)
Speaker(s) : Tej Kapoor (MD, Ivy Cap Ventures)
Vinod Keni (Founder & Managing Partner, Peachtree Ventures)
Pratekk Agarwaal (Founder, Growth Cap Ventures)
The Future of Electric Vehicle Charging
04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Masterclass
Speaker(s) : John Wheeler (Co-founder, Fermata Energy)
Challenges and Opportunities with Large Language Models
04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Masterclass
Speaker(s) : Amit Kumar (Sr. Enterprise Architect- Generative AI & deep learning, NVIDIA)
Ecosystem Intelligeence: Building AI for Bharat
04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Masterclass
Speaker(s) : Dr. Shailesh Kumar (Chief Data Scientist, Centre of Excellence in AI/ML, Reliance Jio)
Founders @Scale - In Conversation With
05:00 pm - 05:30 pm
Fireside chat (30 min)
Speaker(s) : Rikant Pitti (Co-founder & Coo, Ease my Trip)
Deepak Sharma (Ex-President & CDO, Kotak Mahindra Bank)
AI – Is It Hype or Real?
05:30 pm – 06:00 pm
Panel (30 min)
Speaker(s) : Prof. Francis Rousseau (Professor at University of Reims Champagne Ardenne)
Hitesh Jain (Managing Partner, Parinam Law Associates)
Pratham Mittal (Founder, Masters' Union)
Founders @Scale - In Conversation With
05:30 pm - 06:00 pm
Fireside chat (30 min)
Speaker(s) :Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Founder & CEO, One97 & Paytm)
Sanjeev Bikhchandani (Founder, Infoedge)
AI & India at 2047
06:00 pm – 06:30 pm
Closing Keynote (30 min)
Speaker(s) :Sanjeev Sanyal (Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India)
Manufacturing Innovations for a Sustainable Future
04:45 pm – 05:00 pm
Keynote (15 min)
Speaker(s) :Som Ray (Founder, Clip)
Investing in Deep Tech Companies in India
05:00 pm – 05:30 pm
Panel (30 min)
Speaker(s) :Sudipto Sannigrahi (Managing Director, Matrix Partners)
Naveen Unni (Managing Partner, TVS Capital Funds Ltd)
Vishesh Rajaram (Managing Partner, Speciale Invest)
Archana Jahagirdar (Founder & Managing Partner, Rukam Capital)