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
26 – 28 September, 2024 | 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM (IST)
Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI)
Hyderabad, India (View Map)
RECAP ISF 2023
Revisit the exciting moments and highlights from past events. Explore the vibrant history of ISF 2023.
Round Tables & Other Activities
ISF 2024 Hyderabad – Conference
Join the brightest minds in AI at ISF Hyderabad. Learn, network, and ignite your entrepreneurial spirit. Your idea might be the next big thing!
Explore more to know this year’s theme and focus areas.
INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AI ERA
Fin Tech
Agri Tech
Health Tech
Showcase your innovation to judges, investors, and mentors. Hone your skills with their guidance for entrepreneurial success. As young individuals, validate your concepts and seek mentorship.
Not everyone may win the first prize, but you can always gain constructive feedback, renewed spirit, resilience, and determination. It’s worth a try, isn’t it?
Allow your product to gain visibility and immediate validation. Showcase your product to potential customers and investors. Create brand awareness and take it to the next level. Network, associate, and interact with great mentors.
Hurry and book your space, or you might miss a great opportunity to showcase your brand in front of 5000+ business delegates.
Observe expert speakers discussing the current situations and complexities in government and business. Ask and imbibe to gain a new perspective. Transform your ideas into potential solutions in a whitepaper. Present and share them with government authorities to evoke change. It’s a lifetime opportunity; if you want to bring change, let’s begin here. Explore to know more about the focus areas and speakers.
The Biggest and Most Awaited Start-Up Festival is Here
Three Days of Innovation, Inspiration, and Networking
FinTech Roundtable
- Tarun Ghulati
Chairman, President, CEO, Board Member and Strategic Advisor - Anil Philip
GM, OSB - A Balasubramanian
MD & CEO, Aditya Birla Sun Life MF - Akhil Handa
Former Chief Digital Officer, bank of Baroda - Prasanna Lohar
Chief Innovation Officer, Diamante Blockchain - Ramakanth Desai
Founder CEO, Ttatva Innovation Labs - Sunali Rohra
Senior EVP, HDFC Bank - Vishnu Chundi
Founder & CEO, AssetVault
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 - Naresh Nekkanti
MD, Bhavani Bio Organics - Ram Kumar Varma
Founder & CEO, Native Araku Coffee - Vishala Reddy Vuyyala
Founder, Millet Bank - Dr Manasa Reddy
- Sirish Reddy Y
GCC Roundtable
- Sri Atluri
MD, Global Head of Enterprise Quality, BNY, Chair - Ravi Tangirala
Head of Mass Mutual India, Co-Chair - Commander Divya Prakash Joshi
VP & Site Leader, Medtronic - Girish Raghavan
VP Engineering, GE Healthcare - Maneesh Sehagal
CEO, DBS Tech India - Manish Verma
India Head, India Development and Innovation Hub , VP Engineering, Warner Bros. Discovery - Nilesh Biniwale
GM, MD, VP Engineering, Pattern - Prakash Bodla
Global Software & Controls Leader, Carrier - Sundeep Bedi
GM, Shell Business Operations - Sidhu Sridhar
CVP-CyberSecurity, AT&T
HealthTech Roundtable
- Dr K Hari Prasad
Group Chairman, Quality CARE India, Chair - Dr Guna S Muppuri
Founder CEO, Indies Pharma - Dr Kurapati Krishnaiah
CEO, Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital - Ram Chilukuri
Former Founder & CEO, Symantic Bits - Dr Ramesh Kekunnayya
Network Director, Technology Innovation Director, The Child Sight Institute, LVPEI - Dr. Ravindranath Chowdhary
Owner, Global Hospitals - Dr Srinivas Chilukuri
Radiation Oncologist, Apollo Hospitals - Dr. Viswanadham Duppatla
Vice President, Biopharma Innovations & Biomanufacturing, IKP Knowledge Park, Genome Valley - 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
- Dr. JA Chowdary
Founder & Chairman, International Startup Foundation, Chair - Capt Bobby Ajmera
Advisor to CM of Tripura, Tribal Development Mission - Manisha Saboo
Head, Infosys Foundation - Priya Gazdar
COO, RBC Worldwide - Dr. Ravishankar Gundlapalli
Founder CEO, MentorCloud - Sandeep Paidi
Managing Partner, KPMG - Sidharth Shankar Tripathy
Director, SRM University AP - Srini Raju
Founder Chairman, iLabs Capital & Sri City
Global CXO Roundtable
- Sanjeev Deshpande
EVP-APAC, MD-India NTT DATA Business Solutions - Adit Subedi
Chief Growth Officer, HackTech USA - Chaitanya Gorrepati
MD, DEShaw - Dennis Vermeulen
CEO of House of Companies - Edward Cole
CEO, Katlas Technology - Kiran Darisi
Founder & CTO, Atomicwork - Manohar Reddy
Founder, Feuiji - Pradeep Rao
Director & Chief Architect, Kyndryl - Ravi Nimmagadda
CEO & CTO, Intelligent Design - Satya Tadimeti
Founder CEO, StartupCrafters - Srinath Prankusam
Partner, Siri Advisory - Sumeet Mathur
SVP & MD, ServiceNow - Venkat Rajaraman
CEO, Cygni Energy - Prasad OSS
CMD, Kakatiya Group of Industries
LifeSciences Roundtable
- Dr. Viswanadham Duppatla
Vice President, Biopharma Innovations - Usha
Founder, 6D, Future Scientists Forum
Junicorns Roundtable
- Ajit Rangnekar
Director General, RICH, Chair - Anil Pradhan
Founder CEO, Young Tinker - Deepu S Nath
MD, Faya - Krishnakanth Barri
President & CEO, WB Solutions - Ramakrishna Lingireddy
Gaudium School - K Renuka Raju
CMD, EKSAQ India & Kovida - Sashi Gundala
Director of Curriculum, Nano School - Seetha Murty
Director Education, Silver Oak Group of Institutions - Sheshankh Reddy
Technology Entrepreneur - M Srinivas Rao (MSR)
CEO, THub - 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
- Emmanuel Gosula
Senior Talent Development Manager, EPAM, Chair - Venu Madhav Gottupulla
Deputy CEO, IFIN Global Group, Co-Chair - Abdul Qadir
Talent Acquisition Partner, Confidential, Speaker - Arun Boda
CEO & Founder, ANG Infotech, Speaker - Arun Prasad
Head of Talent Acquisition, Flutter, Speaker - Chakravarthy NCJ
Talent Acquisition Specialist, GE Healthcare, Speaker - Deepa Jagarlapudi
Senior Director & Head of Talent, Valtech, Speaker - Dr. Venu
Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR, Speaker - Majid Ali Khan
Head of Human Resources, CMS IT Services, Speaker - Mandan Harati
Founder CEO, Empower, Speaker - Praveen Chanda
Head of Human Resources (India & APAC), GlobalData Plc, Speaker - Ram Meesala
TA Leader – Technology Hiring for India & Philippines, CITCO, Speaker - Rohit Bharadwaj
Head of Talent Acquisition (India), ICE, Speaker
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 - Sreedevi Reddy
CEO, Zithara Group - Sundari Patibandla
Founder & CEO, iSprout Managed Office Space - Sundari R Pisupati
Co-Managing Partner, Tempus Law Associates - Swathi Atluri
Founder, Sidhendra Kuchipudi Academy
ISF Talk
- Dr D Nageshwar Reddy
Chairman, AIG Hospitals - Amit Gupta
President, Founder & Group CEO, Ecosystm 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)
DAY 2 – 27 Sept 2024 (Friday)
Investor Connect – DeepTech – Seminar Hall, Chanukya Building
Investor Connect – HealthTech – Seminar Hall, Chanukya Building
Fireside chat – Startup-2-Scaleup: Story of Resilience, A Relentless Pursuit – Seminar Hall, Chanukya Building
Investor Connect – AgriTech – Seminar Hall, Chanukya Building
DAY 3 – 28 Sept 2024 (Saturday)
INTERNATIONAL STARTUP FESTIVALS 2024
Distinguished Guests at ISF Conference
Minister of IT of Telangana
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
EVP-APAC, MD-India NTT DATA Business Solutions
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
MP, Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh
Member of Parliament for Zahirabad
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
MD, DEShaw
Founding Partner,
108 Capital
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
Principal Secretary Agriculture Minister,AP
Chairman, AIG Hospitals
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
Blockchain | Fintech | Investments, ICICI Ventures
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
CEO, THub
Chief Global Officer & Country Head, Providence
Director & Chief Architect, Kyndryl
Chairman, Inspira Enterprise
Executive Director, IMF (earlier Chief Economic Advisor, GoI)
Founder & CEO, Native Araku Coffee
Head of Mass Mutual India, Chair
Director of Curriculum, Nano School
Director Education, Silver Oak Group of Institutions
CVP – Cybersecurity at AT&T
CEO WEHub, Chair
Founder Chairman, iLabs Capital & Sri City
Group Head, Agri & IT Businesses, ITC
SVP & MD, ServiceNow
Founder & CEO, iSprout Managed Office Space
Co Managing Partner, Tempus Law Associates
Chairman, President, CEO, Board Member and Strategic Advisor
CEO AP & International, Apollo Hospitals
Founder & CEO, AssetVault
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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.
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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
Co-founder, ISF
Flt Lt Bipin Chandra Dutt Pendyala
Strategist, Entrepreneur, Thinker & Doer, Program Chair for ISF