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Sat, April 18th 2026
Masters' Union Campus, DLF CyberPark, Gurugram
DLF CyberPark, Gurugram
India's Biggest
Institution-led
Tech Startup Summit
Bringing together the Founders, Architects, and Business Leaders at the epicentre of the Agentic Era
SUMMIT AGENDA
- Fireside Chat
- Hands-on labs
- Panels
- Co-founder Mixer
- Shark Tank Pitches
- Filmmaking Hackathon
08:30 - 09:30
Registration and Pre-Summit Networking
10:00 - 11:00
Keynote Address
Theme: Global AI Governance, National Security, and Digital Diplomacy
13:00 - 15:00
Speed Dating over Lunch
11:00 - 12:15
Room 1 | Theme: Build Your First ML Model
Output: A trained model with accuracy metrics and predictions saved as a Jupyter notebook shareable on GitHub using Scikit-learn.
Room 2 | Theme: Data Visualization Dashboard Blitz
Output: A deployable Streamlit dashboard screenshot or HTML file with key insights highlighted using Seaborn/Plotly.
12:30 - 13:45
Room 1 | Theme: Prompt Engineering Mastery
Output: Generate a custom chatbot script handling real queries (eg: startup pitch analyzer) by crafting 20+ LLM prompts on Open AI API.
Room 2 | Theme: Time Series Forecasting
Output: A plot with predictions vs actuals (eg: stock prices or event attendance) using Prophet or ARIMA in Python.
13:00 - 15:00
Speed Dating over Lunch
15:30 - 16:45
Room 1 | Theme: Agentic AI Automation
Output: Build a simple functional agent for tasks like email drafting or data scraping (eg: LinkedIn post generator) using LangChain.
Room 2 | Theme: Gen AI Image Creator
Output: A personal gallery of 5+ branded images exported as PNGs using Stable Diffusion or DALL-E APIs.
17:00 - 18:15
Room 1 | Theme: NLP Sentiment Analyzer
Output: Deploy a sentiment analyzer app classifying 100+ tweets, outputting a csv report by processing social media text using Hugging Face.
Room 2 | Theme: RAG Chatbot Builder
Output: A working Q&A bot prototype querying anything with LLMs for retrieval-augmented generation using vector database FAISS.
11:00 - 12:00
Panel Discussion
Theme: Reimagining the Indian Enterprise from the Product-first Lens
12:15 - 13:15
Panel Discussion
Theme: Inside the Mind of an AI Titan to Build a World-class AI Startup in India
13:30 - 14:30
Panel Discussion
Theme: The Human Side of AI in Balancing Radical Tech Ambitions Vs Moral Imperatives
13:00 - 15:00
Speed Dating over Lunch
15:30 - 16:00
Keynote
Theme: AI for Traditional Businesses (Manufacturing, Retail, and Trading) Can Deploy AI Tools Immediately
16:00 - 16:30
Keynote
Theme: The New Renaissance: Synthetic Creativity and Storytelling Unlocking New Frontiers
16:30 - 17:00
Keynote
Theme: The New Oil is Compute — Who Wins in the Age of AI Infrastructure?
17:00 - 17:30
Keynote
Theme: Building AI Products People Actually Use — Lessons from the Frontlines
11:00 - 13:30
Pre-curated 1:1 Interactions with high-intent Builders, Operators, and Domain Experts.
Designed to go-beyond surface-level networking; discover co-founders based on skills, ambition, and vision.
13:00 - 15:00
Speed Dating over Lunch
15:30 - 18:00
Put your potential Co-founder chemistry to the test in a fast-paced build sprint.
Teams collab to solve a real-world problem - aligning ideas, execution, and decision-making under pressure.
11:00 - 13:30
11 Tech Startups take the centrestage and Pitch in front of India’s Top VCs and Angel Investors
Theme: SaaS, PaaS, AI and Machine Learning, Marketplaces/Platform Models
13:00 - 15:00
Speed Dating over Lunch
15:30 - 18:00
11 Tech Startups take the centrestage and Pitch in front of India’s Top VCs and Angel Investors
Theme: Robotics, Automation, Blockchain, FinTech, HealthTech, CyberSecurity
11:00 - 12:00
Filmmaking Workshop on Morphic and Product Demo
12:00 - 17:00
Hackathon Begins | Themes Drop at 12 Noon
13:00 - 15:00
Speed Dating over Lunch
17:30 - 18:40
Panel Discussion
Theme: Co-Directed Realities: When Humans and AI Share One Lens
18:50 - 18:45
Top 10 Teams | Screening Lights Action
19:00 - 19:45
Cash Prize | Top 3 Best Filmmakers
Institutional Appearances
Ghazal Alagh
Co-founder
Kaivalya Vohra
Co-founder & CTO
Suresh Narayanan
Former Chairman & MD
Shiv Shivakumar
Former Chairman & CEO
Malika Datt Sadani
Founder & CEO
Rohit Kapoor
CEO
Gaurav Khatri
Co-founder
Ashish Singhal
Co-founder
Priyanka Gill
Former Co-founder
Mikhil Innani
Former Co-founder
Kirthiga Reddy
Former MD
Bikram Singh Bedi
Country MD
Kunal Bahl
Co-founder
Upasana Taku
Co-founder & CFO
Ronnie Screwala
Co-founder
Vikram Pawah
President and CEO
Arjun Vaidya
Former CEO
Prashant Tandon
Co-founder
Suhasini Sampath
Co-founder
Midhula D.
Co-founder
Ghazal Alagh
Co-founder
Kaivalya Vohra
Co-founder & CTO
Suresh Narayanan
Former Chairman & MD
Shiv Shivakumar
Former Chairman & CEO
Malika Datt Sadani
Founder & CEO
Rohit Kapoor
CEO
Gaurav Khatri
Co-founder
Ashish Singhal
Co-founder
Priyanka Gill
Former Co-founder
Mikhil Innani
Former Co-founder
Kirthiga Reddy
Former MD
Bikram Singh Bedi
Country MD
Kunal Bahl
Co-founder
Upasana Taku
Co-founder & CFO
Ronnie Screwala
Co-founder
Vikram Pawah
President & CEO
Arjun Vaidya
Former CEO
Prashant Tandon
Co-founder
Suhasini Sampath
Co-founder
Midhula D.
Co-founder
Satish Shukla
Co-founder
Jyoti Malhotra
MD & CEO
Anupam Mittal
Founder
Santhosh V.
MD India
Avnish Bajaj
Founder & Investor
Manoj Kohli
Former Country Head
Dr. Edward Rogers
Former CKO
C. Raghu Raman
Former President
Anand Srinivasan
Co-founder
Vipin Sondhi
Former MD and CEO
Pramod Bhasin
Founder
Jaspreet Bindra
Former CDO
Nidhi Hola
Country Marketing Director
Mukesh Jain
Group CTO
Akash Gupta
Co-founder and CEO
Manpreet Ahuja
CDO
Sanjeev B.
Co-founder
Amitabh Kant
Former CEO
Peyush Bansal
CEO
Shri Nitin Gadkari
Minister of Roads & Transport
Satish Shukla
Co-founder
Jyoti Malhotra
MD & CEO
Anupam Mittal
Founder
Santhosh V.
MD
Avnish Bajaj
Founder & Investor
Manoj Kohli
Former Country Head
Dr. Edward Rogers
Former CKO
C. Raghu Raman
Former President
Anand Srinivasan
Co-founder
Vipin Sondhi
Former MD & CEO
Pramod Bhasin
Founder
Jaspreet Bindra
Former CDO
Nidhi Hola
Country Marketing Director
Mukesh Jain
Group CTO
Akash Gupta
Co-founder & CEO
Manpreet Ahuja
CDO
Sanjeev B.
Co-founder
Amitabh Kant
Former CEO
Peyush Bansal
CEO
Shri Nitin Gadkari
Minister of Roads & Transport
Ghazal Alagh
Co-Founder, Mamaearth
Kaivalya Vohra
CTO & Co-Founder, Zepto
Suresh Narayanan
Former Chairman & MD
Shiv Shivakumar
Former Chairman & CEO
Malika Datt Sadani
Founder & CEO
Rohit Kapoor
CEO
Gaurav Khatri
Co-Founder, Noise
Ashish Singhal
Co-Founder, CoinSwitch
Priyanka Gill
Former Co-Founder
Mikhil Innani
Former Co-Founder
Kirthiga Reddy
Former MD
Bikram Bedi
Country MD
Kunal Bahl
Co-Founder, Snapdeal
Upasana Taku
Co-Founder & CFO
Ronnie Screwala
Co-Founder
Vikram Pawah
President and CEO
Arjun Vaidya
Former CEO
Prashant Tandon
Co-founder
Suhasini Sampath
Co-Founder
Midhula D.
Co-Founder
Satish Shukla
Co-Founder
Jyoti Malhotra
MD & CEO
Anupam Mittal
Founder
Santhosh V.
MD
Avnish Bajaj
Founder & Investor
Manoj Kohli
Former Country Head
Dr. Edward Rogers
Fr. Chief Knowledge Officer
C. Raghu Raman
Former President
Anand Srinivasan
Co Founder
Vipin Sondhi
Former MD and CEO
Pramod Bhasin
Founder
Jaspreet Bindra
Former Chief Digital Officer
Nidhi Hola
Country Marketing Director
Mukesh Jain
Group CTO
Akash Gupta
Co-founder and CEO
Manpreet Ahuja
CDO
Sanjeev B.
Co-founder
Amitabh Kant
Former CEO
Peyush Bansal
CEO
Shri Nitin Gadkari
Minister of Roads & Transport
Tech & AI Awards
Celebrating excellence across 10 categories of AI leadership & innovation
AI Startup of the Year
AI Founder of the Year
Enterprise AI Transformation
AI Innovator of the Year
AI Investor of the Year
AI for Bharat Impact Award
Disruptor in AI Award
Young AI Talent Award
AI in Media & Creativity
Lifetime Contribution to AI
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