Startups x AI : Opportunities, Challenges & Breakthroughs - Hyderabad Edition

Happened on August 01, Friday, 2025
5:00pm — 07:00pm (GMT+05:30)
CIE at IIIT Hyderabad
105 slots booked.
Prasanna Kumar Pattam - Nootus AI - CTO Syed Hussaini - Founder, Medstown Private Limited Talib Askari - Co-Founder & CTO, Medstown Private Limited Vishnu Chaitanya - Stealth Startup Ankita Sampat, MBA - Founder/Product Manager Santosh  kumar Thota - "JatayuvAi , founder" Sai Srikar Kadiyam - Founder, Metasai Innovations Naveen Ellanki - Co-Founder, Smatr Balaji Shinde - Developer Sukesh Ghantoji - Cloud Success Manager Capgemini Rishwanth Naguri - NXT WAVE - Student Jogeeswara Puvvala - Co-Founder of ForteAI Technologies Sai Karthik Adla - Co-Founder ForteAI Technologies Srini Rao - Founder, Beacon Technologies Rakesh Kumar Singh - Global Logic, Senior Software Engineer Shujaath Khan - Architect Praneesh Kumar Yadav - Sr Director Gunjan Kumar - Lead Program Manager - JioMart Yashwanth Bondapalli - Ai developer FAYAZ SYED - Freelancer ,malla Reddy group of institutions Arun sai Tadivaka - cloud devops vedanth padigelwar (vedanthp.eth) - founder Udugula Ganesh - Founder,AdOnGlow Dipaali B - Founder Manasa Darni - Developer Vishpath - Founder , Scripto Media Vishnu Chaitanya - Stealth Startup Lekhya Thota - Student at Sandip University Nashik Havinash Gangisetty - Student - nxt wave Satyanarayana Setti - Solution Architect Alexander Seelam - Founder CHALAVADI GOWTHAM SAI - Founder Prudhvi - Technical Trainer, Nxtwave rakesh boppana - Evotech ventures gunwnth reddy - MERN Stack dev SrinivasaRao S - Lead Software Engineer - Dexon pvt.ltd Mohammed Ibraheem - Ceo & developer Siddarth Shrawan Choudhary - Founder&CEO at VerroAI kranthi kiran - AiQulogic Technologies Tanay vel P.R - Co-Founder, Technizee Varun Kumar - PYTHON DEVELOPER Eswari Srinitya Palla - DevOps Engineer,Tata Consultancy Services Subbarayudu Bolisetty - SB Solutions Shreya Koditala - Data Engineer, Synchrony ganesh agurla - Co-Founder, Hotelkart Ankit Chakraborty - Senior AI Engineer Manoj Kumar Pasumarthi - Software Engineer Ashwini Mahendiran - Senior Software Engineer Raghu Charan Kancharla - Ecogenx innovation Raghu Charan Kancharla - Ecogenx innovation Visweswar Reddy - founder Ramakrishna Thota - Full stack developer, Leap robots varsha reddy lambu - student,Gokaraju lailavathi Engineering college Srinivas - Consultant Vikramaditya Gaikwad - Entrepreneurship @IIT, Hyderabad Abdul Aziz - Zyxan technologies yeswanth reddy Gajjala - Vayu Logistics, Sole proprietor Vangari Akhil - ecogenX innovations Vikalp Bagdi - Engineering Lead (Textron Aviation) Yaswant K K - ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDENT Rama satya pavan - Ai engineer Kishore C - M.Tech Student @ IITH Samhita Kiran - IIT Hyderabad Katta Vishwak Sena Reddy - Founder, NexVark Industries Abhiram Ramachandran - Student @ IIT Hyderabad Mamidi Bharath - M.Tech Student @  IIT Hyderabad Kenny Devarapalli - Senior Associate, Cognizant Pranav H V - Founder, EntryXpert and Student of IITH Sudheer Kangala - Founder, nestbookings.com Balusu Bhanu Prakash - Entrepreneurship Student, IIT Hyderabad Amit Vikram - M.Tech Student Omair Khaja Moinuddin - Marketing and Operations Manager Sattwik Singh - Innovation Engineer Tarun Kumar Tella - Senior Software Engineer, ServiceNow Chiranjeevi Maddala - Director - Product Management, AI Ready School Aditya Battula - Automation engineer KINNERA TAMUNDER - Developer Sriram Narra - Developer Anand Prabhala - Co-founder & CEO, kis.ai Balaji Pemmireddi - Developer Manpreet Singh - Technology Consultant Madhur Kannamwar - Fullstack Devloper, Poditivity Vigneshwar Punna - Software Engineer at Poditivity Amit Sharma - Associate Architect, ValueLabs LLP Bablu Bambal - Software Engineer Akash Sharma - Java Backend Developer
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Agenda:

AI is reshaping how startups innovate, scale, and compete.

Startups x AI: Opportunities, Challenges & Breakthroughs brings together founders, investors, and AI practitioners to explore how startups can leverage AI for growth, the hurdles they face, and the next wave of AI-driven breakthroughs.


Join us for eChai for a candid discussion on real-world AI applications, challenges in building AI-first businesses, and insights from founders who are at the forefront of AI innovation. Whether you're building an AI startup or integrating AI into your business, this is where the conversation happens.

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