AI x Marketing : Ahmedabad edition

Name: AI x Marketing : Ahmedabad edition
Start: 2026-07-03T19:00:00+05:30
End: 2026-07-03T21:00:00+05:30
Location: House of Starts

78 RSVPs Happened

Friday, 3 July, 7 pm - 9 pm

House of Starts

Sindhu Bhavan Road, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

About

Marketing is changing faster than it has in years, and AI is a big reason why. This eChai conversation brings founders and marketers together to talk about how AI is actually showing up in their work. Writing and shipping content faster, running campaigns with smaller teams, making sense of data, and trying things that were not possible a year ago. Some of it works, some of it is hype, and a lot of people are still figuring out the difference. So this is less about tools and more about what people are really doing, what is paying off, and where it still falls short. If you are using AI in your marketing or trying to figure out where to start, come join the conversation.

Hosts & speakers

Host

Apoorva Bhayani

Vice President · House of Starts

Director of Product and Growth · Rocket

Who was there

Abha

AI Developer · Team Pumpkin

student · LJ university

Atharva Bendre

Co-founder · zeyro

Ayaz Amdani

Co-Founder · Prestix Hospitality

Ayush Saxena

Student

Bhargav Joshi

Co-founder · Buoy! Pencils

Bhavesh Talati

co-founder · clickreach.io

Founder · Hyperdream.co

Divyam Sharma

GTM growth freelancer

product manager · Dexlyn Labs

Kaival Mehta

Operations Lead & Specialty Coffee Roaster · Specialty Coffee Entity

Kushal Doulatani

Manish Nayee

Founder & CEO · Wority Technology

Mehdi Hasan

CA Finalist

Mihir Patel

Founder · Graylemon Ventures Private Limited

Nihal Patidar

Student · Digital marketar

Nishith Vasavada

Co-Creation Partner · House Of Starts

Om Patel

Managing Director · Rajat Paint and Inks

Parth Parmar

Founder & CEO · Jalebi Venture

Presh Chopra

Co-Founder and CEO · Algothm LLP

Prince Sharma

FOUNDER · SHARMA GROUP

Priyank Pateliya

Puja Patel

Freelancer · Education

Riddhi Desai

Security Advisor · RiSec Intelligence

Riya Shahane

Co-Founder · Cibos

Rohit Jain

Founder & Full stack developer · Code Customs

Rohit Raval

Catagory Head · Jadeblue

Sakshi M

Growth & Strategy · Brainy Neurals

Sanjay Dhamecha

Entrepreneur · Premium Places

Satyen Engineer

Founder · Yhonk Tech Pvt Ltd

Saurav Dodiya

Product owner · Wolftech

Shiddhant Gautam Gautam

Sumit Kasardekar

Founder · The Harsmit Ventures

Swaraj Chouriwar

Co-founder · Zeyro

Tushar Prajapati

Founder, CEO · Shivaanshartvision

Urvashi Khandhediya

Sales & Marketing Consultant · Self Employed

Vansh Darji

Founder · NexoraTech

Vishal Savani

Co-Founder & CEO · buoy! Pencils

Yashdeep Zala

Founder · Locaura Media

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Psychologist & Founder · OneWithOneself

Brajrajsingh Rao

Founder · RK Enterprise

Jignesh Thakkar

Founder · LoudRevel

Kunjan Atara

Freelance Graphic Designer · Freelancer

Ashutosh Raval

Cyber Security Professional ( Offensive Security) · Redhacks1 IT security pvt ltd

Manan Maheshwari

Growth Strategist | AI Practioner | Business Consultant · Consultriva

Bhargav Raviya

Raviya Fitness · Raj Technologies

Founder · NV HR Solutions

Digital Marketing Executive · Infinity Globus

Pooja (Raycha) Somaiya

Content Creator · TFOC

Rathor Shivam

CFO · Nextcode Placement

Saumya Dave

Students

Shlok Chauhan

Founder · Blameless Skincare

Simmy Gupta

Chhota Break Trip Planner

Tanya Sharma

Marketing executive · Motnic

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Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.