CII 12th India Innovation Summit 2016 at Bengaluru

BENGALURU:
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organizing its annual flagship event “12th India Innovation Summit 2016” on 28th and 29th July 2016 at Hotel Sheraton at Brigade Gateway, World Trade Centre in Bengaluru.
The theme of the 12th innovation summit is “The Spirit of Innovation – Celebrating the Entrepreneur” and it reflects the current mood and context of the younger population in the country. The theme strives to address the spirit of the innovator, the trigger for doing something different and the zeal that make it is as a scalable business in spite of numerous challenges faced by the innovator both at the personal level and ecosystem level.
It takes much more to be an entrepreneur than coming up with an interesting idea as an innovative thinker. It is somewhere along this journey, the innovator in the person transforms into an entrepreneur in terms of overall mission, market, and model.
The suggested session topics for the Summit are: (1) Hospitality in Digital World – The Game Changers; (2) Digital Media – The New Gurus in Education and Entertainment; (3) Online Retail – Fashion and Food; (4) Redefining Mobility – The Rise of Transport Aggregators; (5) Intrapreneurship and Open Innovation (6) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; (7) Fintech and Payment Systems and (8) Healthcare Delivery on Cloud. There will be a Banquet Session with 3M-CII Innovation Challenge Award ceremony and a Dinner Talk on ‘Innovation in Passion beyond profession’ by an eminent personality – apart from Inaugural Sessions and Valedictory sessions of the Summit.
Some of key Speakers confirmed/confirmation awaited are:
K Siddaramaiah, Chief Minister, Government of Karnataka
R V Deshpande, Minister for Large and Medium Industries and Tourism, Government of Karnataka
Amitab Kant, CEO, Niti Ayog, Government of India
Gaurav Gupta, Commissioner for Industrial Development & Directorate of Industries & Commerce, Government of Karnataka.
Ravi Raghavan Chairman, CII Karnataka State Council & CEO & Managing Director, BFW Ltd
Kamal Bali, Vice Chairman, CII Karnataka State Council & Managing Director, Volvo India
Dr Gopichand Katragadda, CTO, Tata Group
Rekha M. Menon, Chairman, Accenture in India
Prof. S Sadagopan, Director, IIIT-B
Debarati Sen, Managing Director, 3M India Limited
Rajni Mishra, CGM – Bangalore, State Bank of India.
Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi (IVK),Co-founder and CTO, Crayon Data
Avnish Sabharwal, Managing Director, Growth & Strategy, Open Innovation & Deal Origination, Accenture in India
K R Sanjiv, CTO, Wipro Limited
Mayank Kumar, Co-Founder & MD, UpGrad
Ashwini Asokan, Co-Founder & CEO, MAD Street Den
Piyush Singh, Managing Director, Lead Financial Services, Accenture in India
Sivan Menon, CTO, GE Healthcare India Pvt. Ltd, John F Welch Technology Center
Priyanka Agarwal, Co-Founder & CEO, Wishberry
Rahul Narayan, CEO, Team Indus
Nitin Gupta, CEO, NavStik Labs
Kunal Shah, Co-Founder and CEO, FreeCharge
Ritesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, Oyo Rooms
Parminder Gill, Co-Founder & CEO, Edusports
Brijraj Vaghani, Co-Founder and CEO, Birdseye systems
Shobu Yarlagadda, Producer- Baahubali & Co-founder and CEO, Arka Mediaworks
Keshav Prawasi, Co-Founder & CTO, Niki.ai
Sameer Sawarkar, Co-Founder & CEO, Neurosynoptics Communications

The two day Summit will bring together more than 500 participants including; CEOs, CXOs, Senior executives, R&D and IT professionals, Start-ups, Entrepreneurs, Heads of Institutions, Faculties and Senior Students, Government Departments, PSUs, Media, Trade officials, NGOs, etc., There will be an exhibition of innovative products and services by various innovative organizations/Start-ups, etc.