Twelfth India Innovation Summit
“The Spirit of Innovation - Celebrating the Entrepreneur”

The theme of the 12th Innovation Summit is “The Spirit of Innovation – Celebrating the Entrepreneur” and it reflects the current mood and context of the younger population in the country. This theme strives to address the spirit of an innovator, the trigger for doing something different and the zeal to make it is as a scalable business in spite of numerous challenges faced by the innovator both at the personal level and ecosystem level. It takes much more to be an entrepreneur than coming up with an interesting idea as an innovative thinker. It is somewhere along this journey, the innovator in the person transforms into an entrepreneur in terms of overall mission market, and model.

The event addresses the journey of different entrepreneurs across various sectors in India to unravel the motivation, purpose and impact and therefore celebrate the spirit of those innovators. There are many nuances in the lives of these entrepreneurs, and there are many types of successes or failures; ups and downs and lessons from these trials and tribulations.

It is a great learning experience for anyone to listen to these inspiring stories of grit, determination and perseverance to achieve audacious goals. The events and actions may differ by the stage of their journey as well as the scope and sector of their operating arena and those contrasts make them an interesting study of innovation models.

The theme covers the industry verticals of Hospitality, Digital media, Transport, Finance, AI/Robotics, Cleantech, Food & Fashion and Healthcare. These industries form the core of the innovation areas in India today, and the players include startups, corporate outreach programmes, venture capital, consumers, and government. The entrepreneurs are drawn from these sectors across various stages of their journey of innovation and entrepreneurship for sharing their experience and insights.