Agenda

Prominent Speakers & Agenda Focused On

Intellectual Convergence

Global Market Access

GenAI & AI Driven Innovations

Live VC Pitch-Investments

ENGAGING THEMES

AI, Quantum, Automation, Saas

Agri Tech & Food Technology

Energy Transition & Climate Tech

BioTech & Pharma Manufacturing

Manufacturing & Semiconductors

Core Research & Real World

Emerging Technologies & Trends

Resilience & Sustainability

Our Event Schedule

Day 1 (October 4, Friday),
Invitation Based/ Limited Seats

A Dialogue on Academic Cooperation
AND
India-Netherlands Business Corridor

Venue: Novotel Hotel, Europaboulevard 10, 1083 AD Amsterdam

13:30- 17:00 Shaping Tomorrow: A Dialogue on Academic Cooperation

Multiple panels followed by Networking Drinks

17:00- 17:45 Break

Break/ Free time

17:45- 18:00: Welcome Back to Conference: India - Europe Business Corridor

Welcome Back to Conference: India – Europe Business Corridor

18:00 - 18:05 Welcome & Opening Address

Nikhil Rastogi

Managing Director, Dyson & Co-Founder, PanIIT Europe

18:05 - 18:15 Welcome & Insights into Economic & Commercial relationship & policies between India & Netherlands

Mr Gince K. Mattam,
Charge d’ Affaires a.i. EMBASSY OF INDIA, Netherlands

18:15 - 18:25 MoU Signing between Vrije University, Netherlands and IIT Roorkee, India
Margrethe Jonkman,
President, Vrije University

Prof R.D. Garg
Dean of Alumni Relations, IIT Roorkee
18:25 - 18:35 Address by City of Amsterdam

Adam Elzakalai,

Deputy Mayor, Amsterdam Region

18:35 - 18:45 Address by Amsterdam inBusiness

Jolanda van der Aart,

Head of Foreign Investments, Amsterdam inBusiness

18:45 - 18:55 Opportunities for Indian origin Startups & Investments in Netherlands

Kshitij Garg,

Chief Product Officer, TFT.ai

18:55: Vote of Thanks and Conclusion

Kshitij Garg,

Chief Product Officer, TFT.ai

19:00 - 20:00 Networking Dinner

Networking Dinner

Our Event Schedule

Day 2 (October 5, Saturday)

Address: Vrije University, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam

8:00 - 9:30 - Arrivals & Registrations

Arrivals & Registrations

9:30 - 9:40 Conference Opening
  • Dr Gunjan Joshi, Alumni IIT Roorkee
  • Namrata Vora, Alumni IIT Madras
9:40 - 10:00 Welcome Address

Nitesh Saini & Nikhil Rastogi, PanIIT Europe Management Board

10:00 - 10:05 Inauguration & Diya Lightning

Distinguished Plenary Guests and IIT Directors

10:05 - 10:15 Welcome Address

Mr. Gince K. Mattam,

Charge’ d Affaires a.i, Embassy of India, Netherlands

10:15 - 10:25 Welcome Address

Margrethe Jonkman, President, Vrije University 

10:25 - 10:35 Opening Plenary Keynote

Rajat K Gupta, Worldwide Managing Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Chairman, PanIIT

10:45 - 10:55 Opening Plenary Keynote

Ambassador Saurabh Kumar, 

Ambassador of India to Belgium and Luxembourg and Ambassador to the European Union

10:55 - 11:15 Break

Break

11:15 - 11:45 Fireside Chat: The Next Decade - Innovate Anywhere, Opportunities Everywhere

Panelists

  • Dr Vinod Subramaniam, Voorzitter, College van Bestuur Universiteit Twente
  • Prof. Deepak B Phatak, Professor Emeritus, IIT Bombay & Padma Shri Awardee
11:45 - 12:15 Fireside Chat: India Rising and its Repositioning as a Global Powerhouse

Panelists

  • Ravi Srivastava, Partner, Leo Capital
  • Yashish Dahiya, Co-Founder & Group CEO at PolicyBazaar.com

Moderator

  • Nikhil Rastogi, Managing Director, Dyson Benelux
12:15 - 12:45 Fireside Chat: Megatrends, Today & Tomorrow addressing Geopolitical resilience, Open Innovation, Tech & Capital

Panelists

  • Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities & Honeywell Automation India Ltd.
  • Dr Anand Deshpande, Founder and Chairman of Persistent Systems

Moderator

  • Yogesh Sharma, Chairperson & Co-Founder, Mamsys
12:45 - 13:30 Networking Lunch: Bites & Discussions with IIT Deans and Academic Heads (Sponsored by Ariqt International)

Panelists

  • Prof R.D. Garg, Dean, IIT Roorkee
  • Jaison A Manjaly, Dean, IIT Gandhinagar
  • Prof. Mahendrakumar Madhavan, Dean, IIT Hyderabad
  • Prof. Sasidhar Gumma, Dean, IIT Tirupati
  • Prof. Suman Mukhopadhyay, Dean, IIT Indore
  • Prof. Sumana Dutta, Dean, IIT Guwahati
  • Prof. P.V Madhusudhan Rao, Dean, IIT Delhi
  • Prof. Mahesh Panchangnula, Dean, IIT Madras
  • Prof. Rintu Banerjee, Deputy Director, IIT Kharagpur
  • Prof. Goutam Saha, Dean (R&D), IIT Kharagpur
  • Prof. Rabibrata Mukherjee, Dean International Relations, IIT Kharagpur
  • Prof. Upendra V Bhandarkar, Dean R&D, IIT Bombay
  • Shaji Varghese, Society of Innovation & Entrepreneurship – SINE, IIT Bombay (Tech Incubator)
  • Dr. Nikhil Agarwal, MD, Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi

Moderator

  • Pradeep Gupta, Chairman, Cyber Media Group
13:30 - 14:10 Panel Discussion: Industry 5.0 & the Future of Automation and relations between Humans, our Health and AI (Hosted by Ariqt International)

Panelists

  • Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities & Honeywell Automation India Ltd
  • Witty Bindra, Global Business Executive, Kyndral
  • Avinash Vashistha, Chairman and CEO – Tholons; Partner- Arise Ventures: Ex Accenture Chairman and CEO
  • Wilfred de Graaf, Partner at Heights Al
  • Ana Lucia Lind, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder Swiss Financial Engineering AG
  • Satish Kumar, Chief Innovation & Growth Officer, GYT Workz

Moderator

  • Rupesh Kumar, Founder & CEO, Ariqt
14:10 - 14:50 Panel Discussion: Innovation & Academia - Initiative by IITs (Hosted by IvyCap Ventures)

Panelists

  • Prof V.K. Tiwari, Director, IIT Kharagpur
  • Prof Manoj Singh Gaur, Director IIT Jammu
  • Prof. Dhirendra S Katti. Director, IIT Goa
  • Prof. Rajeev Ahuja, Director, IIT Ropar
  • Prof. Rajiv Prakash, Director, lIT Bhilai
  • Prof. B S Murty, Director, IlT Hyderabad
  • Dr. Kalidindi N. Satyanarayana, Director, IIT Tirupati
  • Rajat Gupta, Woridwide Managing Director, Emeritus, McKinsey &Chairman, PanlIT

Moderator

  • Vikram Gupta, Founder & Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures
14:50 - 15:30 Panel Discussion: Empowering India’s Silicon Dreams: Leveraging the European experience and markets to foster Indian Semiconductor Industry (Hosted by Innatera)

Panelists

  • Harsh Chitale, CEO, Professional Business, Signify
  • Abhishek Kaushal, Global HR Director, ASML
  • Atul Sinha, Entrepreneur and board member of deep-tech ventures in Semiconductor industry

Moderator

  • Sumeet Kumar, Founder & CEO, Innatera
15:30 - 15:40 Break

Break

15:40 - 16:20 Panel: Driving value through innovation in Sustainability (Sponsored by Leo Capital)

Panelists

  • Monika Shukla, Co-founder and CEO, HumbleBee
  • Prateek Srivastava, Vice President, EMEA, Cropin
  • Dr Ram Ramanan, Co-founder and CSO, Impact Edge
  • Kunal Chandra, Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer, RWE AG
  • Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partner and Clean Energy Investor

Moderator

  • Rohit Toshniwal, Co-founder, Sprih
16:20 - 17:00 Panel Discussion: Cross Border Startup Incubation & Funding: Let’s get it right! (Sponsored by HCLTECH)

Panelists

  • Sudip Lahiri, Executive Vice President & Head – Europe & UK, HCL
  • Dr Mahesh Panchagnula, Head of Incubation, IIT Madras & Professor, IIT Madras
  • Shaji Varghese, Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship – SINE IIT Bombay (Tech Incubator, IIT Bombay)
  • Dr. Nikhil Agarwal,   Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfrer, IIT Delhi
  • Thijn van Helvoirt, Partner, No Such Ventures

Moderator

  • Ravi Srivastava, Partner, Leo Capital
17:00 - 18:00 Closing Session of the Day! Live VC PITCH (Primary Investor & Sponsor - IvyCap)

Panelist

  • Vikram Gupta, Founder & Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures
  • Thijn Van Helvoirt, Partner, No Such Ventures
  • Ravi Srivastava, Partner, Leo Capital
  • Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partner and Clean Energy Investor
  • Pieter de Bont, Investor, Orient Growth Ventures
  • Ashish Wadhwani, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures

Moderator

  • Kshitij Garg, Chief Product Officer, TFT.ai
18:00 - 18:30 Closing Remarks & Raffle Draw (Sponsored by Mamsys)
  • Aditya Dalakoti, Principal Manager, Innatera
  • Yogesh Sharma, Chairperson & Co-Founder, Mamsys
  • Raffle Draw
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner (Sponsored by HCL Tech) and Hosted by: Mr Sudip Lahiri, Executive Vice President & Head - Europe & UKI, Financial Services at HCLTech
Dinner (Sponsored by HCLTech) and Hosted by:
Mr Sudip Lahiri, Executive Vice President & Head – Europe & UKI, Financial Services at HCLTech
18:30 - 20:00 After Party

After Party with DJ Mous