ISF 2024 – Innovation and
Entrepreneurship in the AI Era
26th September, 2024 – 28th September, 2024
09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (Indian Standard Time)
Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI) – Hyderabad
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STARTUP
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Our gratitude to ISF knows no bounds. They are not just fundraisers; they are partners in success. From crafting a compelling pitch to securing funds, ISF’s dedication was evident. We couldn’t have achieved this milestone without them. Thank you for being the backbone of our success!
Sarath
Founder, Hiring Hood
I can’t thank ISF enough for their unwavering commitment. They stood by us at every turn, ensuring we had the right strategies in place. With their expertise, we secured the funding needed to propel our vision. ISF is the true partner every startup dreams of having!
Ram Kumar Verma
Founder, Native Araku Coffee
I can’t thank ISF enough! How the platform empowers entrepreneurs at every turn is incredible! Those expert “evaluations” are exactly what we needed to secure our funding!
Shaker Dixit
Founder, Amealio
ISF has been our guiding light in our fundraising journey. From the first meeting to the “funds in the bank”, their support has been unparalleled. Kudos to ISF for making our dream a reality!
Venkata Subramanyam
Founder, Atomstate Technologies Private Limited
ISF CXO Summit New Jersey
ISF Team with Sri Kinjarapu Atchannaidu, Agriculture Minister of AP
ISF Team with Australian Delegation
Shri Ponguru Narayana, Cabinet Minister of AP
Inviting Shri Chandrababu Naidu Hon. CM of AP
Inviting Shri Pawan Kalyan Hon. Deputy CM of AP
Inviting Shri Payyavula Keshav Hon. Finance Minister of AP
ISF Road Show in Netherlands
Dr. N. Yuvaraj, Secretary, Department of Industries & Commerce, Govt of AP
ISF CXO Summit at New Jersey
ISF CXO Summit New Jersey
ISF Event at Jamaica
ISF Event at Jamaica
ISF Event at Pune
Inviting Shri Kandula Durgesh Hon. Tourism of AP
Inviting Shri Bala Veeranjaneya Hon. Minister of AP
Meeting Mr.Mayor Robert Dubey at ISF Dallas
South Texas EDC meet with ISF
Inviting Shri Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu Hon. Union Minister of Civil Aviation
ISF 2024 Hyderabad
An Event to Celebrate Your Visions and Ventures.
Don’t miss this opportunity to join the startup community! You’ll get to network with the most brilliant and influential people in the industry, pitch your amazing ideas to top investors, and learn from the experts who have been there and done that. This is your chance to shine and grow!
INTERNATIONAL STARTUP FESTIVAL, 2024
Mark Unmissable Days
26th September, 2024 – 28th September, 2024
09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (Asia/Kolkata)
Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI)
Hyderabad, India (View Map)
The Biggest and Most Awaited Start-Up Festival is Here
Three Days of Innovation, Inspiration, and Networking
FinTech Roundtable
- Nithin Jaiswal
Head of APAC – External Relations, Bloomberg, Chair - Kiran Vasireddy
Partner, Kalari Capital, Co-Chair - A Balasubramanian
MD & CEO, Aditya Birla Sun Life MF - Jayavaradhan Sambedu
Founder & CEO, Curl Analytics - Latha Ayyar
MD, Barclays Global Services - Raj P Narayanam
Founder & Executive Chairman, Zaggle - Sunali Rohra
Senior EVP, HDFC Bank - Vishnu Chundi
Founder & CEO, AssetVault - Vishal Anand Kanvaty
CTO, NPCI - Tarun Ghulati
Chairman, President, CEO, Board Member and Strategic Advisor
AgriTech Roundtable
- Ashar Farhan
Founder & Partner, Daana Farmers Network, Chair - Dr Ashok Sangappa Alur
Vice Chancellor, Kodagu University - Dr Babu UV
Director R&D, Himalaya Wellness - Govinda Rajulu Chintala
Ex Chairman, NABARD - G Krishna Kumar
Vice President – Crop operations and Sustainability, Agri Business Division, ITC - Ram Kumar Varma
Founder & CEO, Native Araku Coffee - Vishala Reddy Vuyyala
Founder, Millet Bank - Naresh Nekkanti
MD, Bhavani Bio Organics
GCC Roundtable
- Kiran Darisi
Co-Founder & CTO @ Atomicwork - Maneesh Sehagal
CEO, DBS Tech India - Sanjeev Deshpande
EVP, Head of APAC, MD India, NTT - Subba Perapa
MD, JPMC
HealthTech Roundtable
- Dr K Hari Prasad
Group Chairman, Quality CARE India, Chair - Dr. Ravindranath Chowdhary
Owner, Global Hospitals, Co-Chair - Dr Guna S Muppuri
Founder CEO, Indies Pharma - Dr Ramesh Kekunnayya
Network Director, Technology Innovation Director, The Child Sight Institute, LVPEI - Dr Shankar Yalamanchili
Alabama Psychiatry - Dr Srinivas Chilukuri
Radiation Oncologist, Apollo Hospitals - Dr Sunita Maheshwari
Founder, The Telerad Group - Dr Kanwaljeet Sunny Anand
Professor of Pediatrics (Pediatric Critical Care) and Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford University - Dr Vishal Rao
Head & Neck Surgical oncology & Robotic surgery, HCG Cancer Centre - Dr S Prakash
Chairperson-Health Committee of General Insurance Council, Advisory Committee Member of NABH, Co-Founder & earlier MD of Star Health Insurance
Rural Economic Roundtable
- Akhil Handa
Founder, Credit Fintech Pvt Ltd - JA Chowdhary
Key Architect, Indian Tech Industry
Founder, ISF
Global CXO Roundtable
- Sri Atluri
MD, Global Head of Enterprise Quality, BNY, Chair
LifeSciences Roundtable
- Dr. Viswanadham Duppatla
Vice President, Biopharma Innovations - Usha
Founder, 6D, Future Scientists Forum
Junicorns Roundtable
- Ajit Rangnekar
Director General
RICH, Chair - Dr Sheshankh Reddy
- Usha
Founder Director, 6D.Varsity - Karthik Sundram
- Krishnakanth Barri
President & CEO, WB Solutions - Nithya Tammana
Founder, Save Drop - Sashi Gundala
Director of Curriculum, Nano School - Seetha Murty
Director Education, Silver Oak Group of Institutions - M Srinivas Rao (MSR)
CEO, THub - Ramakrishna Lingireddy
Gaudium School - K Renuka Raju
CMD, EKSAQ India & Kovida - Vamsi Tammana
Head of IT GRC & AI Governance, Legend Biotech
CyberSecurity Roundtable
- Dr Sriram Birudavolu
CEO, Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, DSCI, Chair
Global Commerce Roundtable
- Dr Sriram Birudavolu
CEO, Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, DSCI, Chair
SET Roundtable
- Chakravarthy NCJ
Talent Acquisition Specialist, GE Healthcare, Co-Chair - Emmanuel Gosula
Senior Talent Development Manager, EPAM, Co-Chair - Arun Prasad
Head of Talent Acquisition, Flutter - Ashwin D
Head TA & VMO, DBS Tech Services - Nishant Sinha
Hoonertek - Rajendra Putta
Manager Talent, Deloitte - Rajita Singh
Chief People Officer-India, Kyndryll - Rakesh Polam
Talent Acquisition Manager, Medteinics - Ramkishore C
Global Head of People Function, Synthesis Systems - Ramkumar Meesala
VP Talent Acquisition, Citco Group - Rohit Bharadwaj
Head Talent Acquisition – India, ICE - Salil Mathew
Head of Talent Acquisition for India, CapGemini - Samatha Prasad
VP Talent Acquisition, Broadridge - Sridhar Reddy
Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant, Cyient - Sunita Lanka
Women in Business Roundtable
- Sita Pallacholla
CEO WEHub, Chair - Harjinder Kaur Talwar
Founder Comvision India - Devika Penekelapati
Founding Partner, Borders Law - Kavitha Rajesh
Properitor, Om Sai Andhra Paints - Rashmi R Kumar
MD, dCode India - Samantha Reddy
- Sreedevi Reddy
CEO, Zithara Group - Sundari Patibandla
Founder & CEO, iSprout Managed Office Space - Sundari R Pisupati
Co-Managing Partner, Tempus Law Associates - Swathi Atrluri
Founder, Sidhendra Kuchipudi Academy
ISF Talk
- Dr D Nageshwar Reddy
Chairman, AIG Hospitals - Amit Gupta
President, Founder & Group CEO, Ecosystem Group - S Siva Kumar
Group Head, Agri & IT Businesses, ITC - Jon Levingston
Executive Director, Crossroads Economic Partnership - Prakash Jain
Chairman, Inspira Enterprise - Subramanyam Y
CEO AP & International, Apollo Hospitals - Dr Krishnamurthy V Subramanian
Executive Director, IMF (earlier Chief Economic Advisor, GoI) - Raj P Narayanam
Founder & Executive Chairman, Zaggle - Dr Anand Agarwal
HOD CARDIAC SURGERY at Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
Entrpreneurship and Innovation in AI Era
ISF 2024 Agenda
DAY 1 – 26 Sept 2024 (Thursday)
Global CXO Roundtable
Lifesciences Roundtable
DAY 2 – 27 Sept 2024 (Friday)
CyberSecurity Roundtable
Investor Connect – Aviation & SpaceTech
Investor Connect – ConsumerTech
Global Commerce Roundtable
Investor Connect – DefenseTech
Investor Connect – HealthTech
Fireside chat: Startup-2-Scaleup: A Relentless Pursuit
Investor Connect – FinTech
Investor Connect – VLSI & Embedded SW
Investor Connect – AgriTech
Investor Connect – EduTech
Investor Connect – EnergyTech
DAY 3 – 28 Sept 2024 (Saturday)
INTERNATIONAL STARTUP FESTIVALS 2024
Distinguished Guests at ISF Conference
Cheif Minister Govt of Telangana
Cabinet Minister (A.P)
Minister of IT of Telangana
DY CM of Telangana
Union Minister of Civil Aviation
Minister of State for Rural Development & Communications Govt. of India
Minister of Irrigation, Food & Civil Supplies Government of Telangana
President, GITAM; Visakhapatnam TDP 2024 Lok Sabha MP
Founder / President &, CEO
BIMS – School of Medicine &, Health Professions
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Director & Professor of Civil Engineering
I.I.T. Tirupati, Yerpedu P.O., Chittoor District, A.P
A Thinker, A Leader
Director-General of Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad, a Telangana Government
Executive Director, PO Box 160, Clarksdale, MS 38614
Chairman, Global Board of Trustees, TiE
Founder & Group CEO, Ecosystm Group
Co-Chair, MIIM
Head of Business Solutions, Asia Pacific, NTT DATA, Inc.
Founder Chairman & Board Member, CYIENT
Padma Shri Awardee
(Vice Chancellor – NFSU & Director General – DFS)
Entrepreneur, Investor and Ex CEO & Co-Founder SemanticBits
Director of Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI)
Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group, Chair – G20 Empower India & Past President – FICCI
Founder, Chairman of iLabs Capital, Sri City, a leading Industrial City started by iLabs Group
Founder CEO, MedPlus Health Services
President, HYSEA
Founder, Aigo.ai
Member of Parliament for Zahirabad
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Executive Director, IMF (earlier Chief Economic Advisor, GoI)
INTERNATIONAL STARTUP FESTIVALS 2024
CXOs (Investors, Mentors & Leaders) at ISF Conference
MD & CEO, Aditya Birla Sun Life MF
HOD CARDIAC SURGERY, Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
Founder, Credit Fintech Pvt Ltd
Founder & CEO, CarDekho
MD, DEShaw
Founder & CEO, Laurus Labs
Founder & MD, Dallas Venture Capital
Founding Partner, Borders Law
MD & Area Vice President India & SAARC, SentinelOne
Vice President, Biopharma Innovations
Vice Chancellor, Kodagu University
Director R&D, Himalaya Wellness
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Principal Secretary Agriculture Minister,AP
Chairman, AIG Hospitals
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Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine, Stanford University
Group Chairman, Quality CARE India, Chair
Network Director, Technology Innovation Director, The Child Sight Institute, LVPEI
Alabama Psychiatry
Chairperson Health Committee of General Insurance Council, Advisory Committee Member of NABH, Co Founder & earlier MD of Star Health Insurance
Radiation Oncologist, Apollo Hospitals
CEO, Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, DSCI, Chair
Founder, The Telerad Group
Head & Neck Surgical oncology & Robotic surgery, HCG Cancer Centre
GBS India COO and Infosec Executive, Bank of America
Vice President Crop operations and Sustainability, Agri Business Division, ITC
Former Chairman of NABARD
Co Chairman, Dr. Reddy’s Labs, Chair
Founder Comvision India
ICICI Ventures
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Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Jamaica (Shullette Coxx, President, JAMPRO)
Properitor, Om Sai Andhra Paints
Co-Founder & CTO @ Atomicwork
Partner, Kalari Capital, Co Chair
CMD, EKSAQ India & Kovida
MD, Barclays Global Services
Indian entrepreneur
MD, Head of HSBC India Global Service Centres, HSBC
CEO, DBS Tech India
Founder, Feuiji
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CEO, THub
Chief Global Officer & Country Head, Providence
Founder & Executive Chairman, People Shores
Head of APAC External Relations, Bloomberg, Chair
Founder, Save Drop
Director & Chief Architect, Kyndryl
Chairman, Inspira Enterprise
SVP and Country Head for Maximus India
Executive Director, IMF (earlier Chief Economic Advisor, GoI)
MD, Churchill Asset Management
MD, Kalaari Capital
Senior MD, CIO, StateStreet
Founder & CEO, Native Araku Coffee
Head of Mass Mutual India, Chair
Director of Curriculum, Nano School
MD, Endiya Partners
Director Education, Silver Oak Group of Institutions
MD, Broadridge
CVP – Cybersecurity at AT&T
CEO & MD, Lloyds Technology Center
CEO WEHub, Chair
Founder Chairman, iLabs Capital & Sri City
Group Head, Agri & IT Businesses, ITC
MD, JPMC
SVP & MD, ServiceNow
Founder & CEO, iSprout Managed Office Space
Co Managing Partner, Tempus Law Associates
Founding Partner, 108 Capital
Chairman, President, CEO, Board Member and Strategic Advisor
Founder Director, 6D.Varsity
CEO AP & International, Apollo Hospitals
Head of IT GRC & AI Governance, Legend Biotech
Chairman & CEO, Suven Lifesciences
Founder, Managing Partner, SucSEED Indovation Fund
Founder, Aavishkar
CTO, NPCI
Founder, Millet Bank
MD, Asia South, nvidia
Founder & CEO, AssetVault
ISF VC & INVESTOR CONNECT
Don’t miss your chance to Impress
International Startup Festival 2024
If you have been a part of ISF previously, then you know the magentic and magnanimous impact we created together, within a short span of time.
Just to remind you that the International Startup Festival’s (ISF) mission is to reimagine the startup revolution by empowering entrepreneurs and fostering a robust startup ecosystem that will enable them to reach their full potential.
This festival is complementary to the great initiatives of Government of India (GOI) such as Startup India, Digital India, Make-in-India, etc and will bring together more than 10,000 startups to advance their missions and drive towards an Atmanirbhar Bharat.
INTERNATIONAL STARTUP FESTIVALS 2024
ISF Conference Team
J A Chowdary
Key Architect, Indian Tech Industry
Founder, ISF
Deenanath Harapanahalli
Founder & CEO, LifeCykul & Ontropi
Co-founder, ISF
Dr. Siva Mahesh Tangutooru
Founder & CEO, Jama Botanics & TurfPearl Agritech
Co-founder, ISF
Seshadri Vangala
Founder and Group CEO IFin Global Group & SGlobal Group
Co-founder, ISF
M. Sathyendra Kumar
Business Unit Head – India, Maccaferri Environmental Solutions Pvt Ltd
Co-founder, ISF
Achyut Yerragangu
Founder, CEO, Nature Quotient Ventures Pvt Ltd
Co-founder & COO,
International Startup Foundation
Sri Atluri
Chief Information & Quality Officer | Board member| Advisory| Strategic Visionary | Empowering Top Talent | Promoting Excellence & Driving Growth | BNY | QEF
President, ISF USA.
Dr. Varla Bhanu Prakash Reddy
Partner & Director- Plural Technology, Chair & Director TiE Grad-Global
Flt Lt Bipin Chandra Dutt Pendyala
Strategist, Entrepreneur, Thinker & Doer, Program Chair for ISF
Partner with ISF for Unmatched Impact
ISF PARTNERS
Sri Sathya Sai University For Human Excellence
TechGnan Solutions
Software Technology Park of India
London Chambers of Commerce and Industry
W-Hub
prashanthi balamandira trust
IIT Madras Alumni Association
TiE-Hyderabad
HYSEA
TiE Bangalore
Jama Botanics
Life Cykul
Times Internet
TV9 Network
IFIN
S Global
MANAGE
Ag Hub Telangana
I-FIN Global Europe
S GLOBAL- Netherlands
T-Hub
AIC SKU
IFIA Bharat
My Anatomy
QEF
SWIO
AICCCMB
Bizz Buzz
NFA POST
Partner with ISF for Unmatched Impact
ISF ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS
Sri Sathya Sai University For Human Excellence
Partner with ISF for Unmatched Impact
ISF MEDIA PARTNERS
Mystartup tv
Cloud Media News
C Venkata Subramanyam
CEO, Atomstate Technologies
T Srikanth Reddy
Founder Axial Aero Pvt Ltd