Techspark event

Day 1

Time Stage 1 Stage 2
9:00 AM Registrations -
10:30 AM Welcome Address -
10:45 AM India’s Space Story: A view from the topSpeaker: Dr. Sreedhara Panicker Somanath (Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation) -
11:25 AM Building the backbone of India’s AI revolution: A Fireside Chat with Sharad SanghiSpeaker: Sharad Sanghi (Founder & CEO, Neysa) -
11:55 AM Building for Bharat, together with Anupam MittalSpeaker: Anupam Mittal (Founder & CEO, People Group) -
12:45 PM A new era of excellence: Building Bharat 3.0Speaker: Subbu Iyer (Founder & CEO, Giggr Technologies) -
1:50 PM Money matters: Reimagining investments for IndiaSpeaker: Nithin Kamath (Founder & CEO, Zerodha & Rainmatter) Sky’s not the limit: Innovating boldlySpeaker: Sanjay Srikanth Nekkanti (Co-founder & CEO, Dhruva Space)
2:15 PM - Women in AISpeaker: Ritwika Chowdhury (Founder & CEO, unScript.ai)
2:40 PM India calling: Why reverse flipping is the next big move for startupsSpeaker: Anshul Khemuka (Partner, Khaitan & Co) -
3:05 PM Riding India’s innovation wave: Maruti Suzuki’s startup agenda with Dr. Tapan SahooSpeaker: Dr. Tapan Sahoo (Executive Officer, Head of Digital Enterprise, Maruti Suzuki India Limited) Fueling innovation: Venture capital insightsSpeakers: Mandeep Julka (Vice President, Chiratae Ventures), Sandeep Sinha (Co-founder & Co-CEO, OISTER), Alok Goyal (Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners), Bikram Mahajan (Partner, Unicorn India Ventures)
3:30 PM Democratising financial services for a billion through effective product buildingSpeaker: Lalit Keshre (Co-founder & CEO, Groww) -
4:15 PM Startup to impact: Building sustainable venturesSpeakers: Tanuj Choudhry (Co-founder & COO, Homelane), Shashi Kumar (Founder & CEO, Akshayakalpa Organic) Galvanizing the Digital District Economy through EntrepreneurshipSpeaker: Madan Padaki (Founder & CEO, 1Bridge)
4:35 PM - Wealth for all: Transforming investments for the average IndianSpeakers: Ujjwal Jain (CEO, Share.Market), Ashish Singhal (Co-founder & Group CEO, PeepalCo)
4:50 PM Scaling secrets: Art of growth hacking for startupsSpeakers: Dr. Rohini Srivathsa (CTO, Microsoft India and South Asia), Srikanth Iyer (Co-founder & CEO, Homelane) -
5:05 PM - Building digital redress for the billion users in UPISpeaker: Deepti George (Deputy Executive Director & Head of Strategy, Dvara Research)
5:20 PM Investors speak: What are India’s VCs betting on now?Speakers: Siddarth Pai (Founding Partner, Chief Financial Officer & ESG Officer, 3one4 Capital), Shanti Mohan (Co-founder & CEO, LetsVenture & trica) -
5:45 PM - Behind the scenes of building India’s 100th unicornSpeakers: Mabel Chacko (Co-founder & COO, Open Financial Technologies), Deena Jacob (Co-founder & CFO, Open Financial Technologies), Anish Achuthan (Co-founder & CEO, Open Financial Technologies)
6:20 PM - Legal lens: Advising VCs and startups in the new Indian economySpeaker: Shivaarti Bajaj (Founding Managing Partner, RSD Bajaj Global Law Firm)
6:45 PM - India’s data revolution: What should startups prepare for?Speaker: Rajiv Khaitan (Senior Partner, Khaitan & Co)

Day 2

Time Stage 1 Stage 2
9:00 AM Registrations -
10:30 AM InMobi’s journey from B2B to 300M+ mobile screensSpeaker: Naveen Tewari (Founder & CEO, InMobi Group) -
12:05 PM TECH 30 Launch & Awards -
12:30 PM Swiggy: The secret to India’s leading on-demand convenience platformSpeakers: Phani Kishan Addepalli (Co-founder & CGO, Swiggy), Rohit Kapoor (CEO - Food Marketplace, Swiggy) -
1:50 PM Reimagining the future of retail payments: Innovations shaping tomorrowSpeaker: Ankit Jhingran (Director Engineering, JCPenney India) Building and Scaling Payments for Bharat: The Challenges and OpportunitiesSpeakers: Pooja Gulrajani (Head of Engineering, PhonePe), Sravanthi Pasumarthi (Director - Consumer Payments Growth, PhonePe), Priya Patankar (Head of Corporate Communications, Phonepe)
2:10 PM GitHub Copilot: Code Smarter, Innovate FasterSpeaker: Divya Krishnamurthy (Senior Technical Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, India) -
2:25 PM Cross-border fintech: Setting up for global successSpeaker: Souparno Bagchi (COO, Balancehero India) -
2:45 PM - Building scalable and transformative AI systemsSpeakers: Yogesh Agarwal (Founder & CEO, Locomo), Sanjay Koppikar (Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, EvoluteIQ), Brajesh De (Managing Director, Blue Altair)
3:20 PM - Insuring India: Breaking barriers with digital innovationSpeaker: Vishal Gupta (CEO, PhonePe Insurance)
3:45 PM - Women in tech: Driving innovation with empowermentSpeaker: Dr. Rohini Srivathsa (CTO, Microsoft India and South Asia)
4:15 PM A billion trees and beyond: Climate action meets social responsibilitySpeakers: Raj Mohan (Founder Director, Sustainable Green Initiative), Pratyush Kumar Panda (Sectoral expert ESG, Founder Basudev Panda Foundation) Scalable fintech products: Building for a billionSpeaker: Rohan Khara (Chief Product Officer, BharatPe)
5:10 PM Next-gen talent: Building the workforce of tomorrowSpeakers: Kaushik Das (Vice President & Managing Director, JCPenney India), Rakesh Ravuri (CTO & Engineering leader, Publicis Sapient) -
5:20 PM - Consent, Control, Compliance: Building a business of trustSpeaker: Keshav Reddy (Founder, Equal)
5:55 PM Cracking the serial entrepreneurship code: Ronnie Screwvala’s playbookSpeaker: Ronnie Screwvala (Co-founder, upGrad & Swades Foundation) -
6:15 PM - An ecosystem of opportunities: How international startups can expand to IndiaSpeakers: Reiji Kobayashi (CEO & Director, Hakki Africa Inc), Jagjeet Singh (Managing Director, Digireha), Suguru Kawashima (CFO & Head of Global Business, Findy)

Day 3

Time Stage 1 Stage 2
9:00 AM Open for Registrations -
10:30 AM How do you build the world’s most valuable AI company?Speaker: Vishal Dhupar (Managing Director, Asia South, NVIDIA) -
11:35 AM Zero to Rs 100 crore: Playbook to building brands from BharatSpeaker: Ananth Narayanan (Founder & CEO, Mensa Brands) -
12:30 PM Building a fair playground for competition in IndiaSpeaker: Anil Agrawal (Member, Competition Commission Of India) -
1:50 PM Building a global fintech empire from Bharat: Razorpay march into the futureSpeaker: Harshil Mathur (Co-founder & CEO, Razorpay) Digital sanctuaries of Bharat: Rise of devotional techSpeaker: Prashant Sachan (Founder & CEO, AppsForBharat)
2:05 PM - From private equity to public markets: Awfis’ life after IPOSpeaker: Amit Ramani (Founder & CEO, Awfis Space Solutions)
2:25 PM - Offline vs online: What’s working for digital commerce brands?Speaker: Aditya Ruia (Co-founder, BECO)
2:50 PM Real Indicorns, mythical unicorns: India’s new era of growthSpeaker: Kunal Bahl (Co-founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital) Trial and error: Journey to successSpeaker: Vikas D Nahar (Founder & CEO, Hapilo)
3:25 PM Incredible India’s incredible policymakerSpeaker: Shri Amitabh Kant (G20 Sherpa, Government of India) -
4:15 PM Under the hood: Indian tech innovators driving AI use casesSpeakers: Krishnendu Majumdar (CPTO, Yubi), Madhusudhan Rao (CTO, Swiggy), Ajit Narayanan (CTPO, Licious) -
5:05 PM Building a global manufacturing powerhouse out of IndiaSpeakers: Amrit Acharya (Co-founder & CEO, Zetwerk), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Co-founder & COO, Zetwerk) -
5:30 PM Kal, aaj, aur kal: Top investors spill the beans on investments, returns, and what it takes to succeed in Indian marketSpeakers: Ashutosh Sharma (Head of Growth Investments, India & Asia, Prosus Ventures), Mukul Arora (Co-Managing Partner, Elevation Capital), Aditya Soni (Founder & CEO, CheQ) -
6:10 PM Meet the new digital industrialist of India -