India Global Innovation Connect (IGIC) 2024: 3rd edition of global conference to be held in Bengaluru on 6th- 7th June 2024
IGIC 2024 is being convened by global strategic advisory firm Smadja & Smadja. Karnataka Digital Economy Mission is a strategic partner of IGIC which benefits also from the official support and involvement of government and business organizations such as Swissnex , Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) German Entrepreneurship, French Tech India and Business France, Enterprise Singapore, etc.
Bengaluru : The third edition of the high-profile India Global Innovation Connect (IGIC) will be held at Hilton Manyata Business Park, Bengaluru on 6th and 7th June 2024.
The India Global Innovation Connect (IGIC) is a Bengaluru-based annual event to foster and promote technological innovation in India, bringing together Indian and global startup founders, VC’s and investors, corporate and government leaders, technology, and public policy experts under one common platform.
The IGIC mission is to expand and deepen the technology and business interaction and synergies between India’s ecosystems and a number of foreign ecosystems, to identify and assess new opportunities created by the fast evolution of disruptive technologies and to explore new opportunities for business partnerships.
Building on the success of the previous two editions of IGIC in 2022 and 2023, IGIC 2024 will feature over 500 participants, bringing together leading VC’s executives, entrepreneurs, innovators, and corporate leaders from countries such as the US, Japan, Korea, Germany, Singapore, Israel, Switzerland, France, the UAE, etc.to engage in technology and business interaction with their peers in India.
Shri Siddaramaiah, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka, is expected to grace IGIC 2024 with his presence as Guest of Honour. Some of the other notable delegates participating at the event include Shri Priyank Kharge – Minister for IT/BT & Rural Development & Panchayat Raj, Government of Karnataka, Amitabh Kant – G2O Sherpa, India, Chintan Vaishnav – Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, Anshuman Tripathi – Member, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), India, Jonas Brunschwig, Chief Executive Officer, Swissnex in India & Consul General of Switzerland, , Mohandas Pai, Co-Founder & Chairman, Aarin Capital, Prashanth Prakash, founding partner Accel Partners, Ganapathy Venugopal – Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Axilor Ventures, Sudhir Rao, Senior Partner, Celesta Capital, USA/India, Thierry Porté, Managing Director & Vice Chairman, JC Flowers & Co LLC, USA, Utpal Tatu – Professor and Chairman at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Soumitra Dutta – Dean and Professor of Management, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK, David Passig – Futurist, Professor Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Member, Israel National Council for Research & Development, Israel, Mikihide Katsumata – President & Chief Operating Officer, Member of the Board, Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), Japan, Shalini Pillay – India Leader, Global Capability Centers, KPMG, UK, Pankaj Vyas – Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Technology & Services, Germany, Derick Jose – Managing Director, Industrial AI, Accenture, Ireland, Andreea Danila, Founder & General Partner, Global Millennial Capital, UAE, Madhu Gupta Khandelwal Managing Partner EthAum Venture Partners, Singapore, Takeshi Ebihara, Founding General Partner, Rebright Partners, Japan, Ramakant Sharma – CTO, COO & Co-Founder, Livspace, India, and many other eminent speakers from around the world.
The key partners associated with India Global Innovation Connect 2024 include: Founding Sponsor – Tata Digital Private Limited; Strategic Partner – Karnataka Digital Economy Mission; Sponsor – Axilor Ventures; WizFreight; Knowledge Partners – Covington & Burling, Swissnex; Partner Organizations – Japan External Trade Organization, Start2 Group; Enterprise Singapore; French Tech India; Business France.
India Global Innovation Connect is the brainchild of Claude Smadja and Yael Smadja, CEO of Smadja & Associates USA. Claude is the founder of Smadja & Smadja, a global strategic advisory firm. Claude has also been involved with the World Economic Forum for 14 years and has previously served as the Managing Director of the World Economic Forum from 1995 to 2001. The first edition of India Global Innovation Connect (IGIC) was held in Bengaluru in 2022 and saw 360 participants, followed by IGIC 2023 which attracted over 400 participants.