Event Highlights

Sessions

Day 1 Day 2 Team

Inaugral Ceremony It's BiGger, better and Virtual. Watch the inaugural ceremony of the event and listen to the Industry stalwarts and Govt. officials sharing their entrepreneurial journey and reflecting upon how time has changed in last 40 years. PadmaVibhushan Dr Mashelkar gives a glimpse of the future of entrepreneurial world and Former Minister of state for Finance Mr Jayant Sinha insists the need of solving Jhanda Chowk problems rather than Times Square

Inaugral Ceremony : Watch Video Coverage

Speakers

Mr. Jayant Sinha

Member of Parliament and Former Minister of State for Finance and for Civil Aviation, Government of India

Dr. Renu Swarupa

Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and Chairperson

Dr. R A Mashelkar

Former Director General, CSIR

Prof. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Professor In Charge, Startup Incubation and Innovation Center, IIT Kanpur

Fireside Chat | Igniting the Negotiator in You The Art of Negotiation is undoubtedly one of the most important skills for an entrepreneur. Watch this session to learn the art of negotiations from India Inc's most seasoned negotiators and first generation entrepreneurs. Watch them revealing the secret ingredients of negotiation, and personal anecdotes addressing the cross-border cultural differences the startup needs to take care of.

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Speakers

Mr. Saurabh Srivastava

Co-Founder of NASSCOM, IAN and Indian Venture Capital Association

Dr. Ajai Chowdhary

Founder HCL | Chairman, Electronics Skills Council

Moderators

Ms. Deepanwita Chattopadhyay

CEO IKP Knowledge Park

Prof. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Professor In Charge, Startup Incubation and Innovation Center, IIT Kanpur

My Story of Resilience Listen to the inspiring stories of Innovators who sailed their boats in the midst of a pandemic and now continue to achieve many successes in the Healthcare and Biotech space. Speakers describe their journeys as Roller coaster rides, they will take you through the challenges they faced which allowed them to look for solutions relevant in the post-covid scenario, and how they came up with a disruptive range of products in response to this massive catastrophe called COVID-19.

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Speakers

Dr. Anusuya Roy

Founder Nanosafe solutions

Dr. Rachna Dave

Founder MicroGo

Dr. Adarsha K

Founder, Ayu Devices

Ms. Shilpy Kochhar

Senior Manager, Entrepreneurship Development, BIRAC, Moderator

Dr. Viswanadham Duppatla

AVP, IKP Knowledge Park, Moderator

Navigating the way forward post Covid-19: Healthcare Listen to the stalwarts in the Healthcare domain, discussing the aftermath of the COVID and its impact on early-stage startups and the remedies to defend against the tide. You will also get a mantra of three A’s, Affordability, Accessibility, and Appropriateness, to check your preparedness to delve into building solutions for the masses. Panelists speak at length focusing on scenarios Pre and Post-clinical research, Certification, Regulatory framework, and Business aspects as well.

Confab | Healthcare : Watch Video Coverage

Speakers

Mr. Anil Jauhri

Advisor Quality Council of India

Prof. Shervanthi Homer

Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Leeds General Infirmary and Prof. of Engineering and Surgery, University College London

Mr. Yashdeep

Vice President, Global Innovations Program, Stryker

Dr. Jitendra Sharma

Managing Director, AMTZ

Mr. Jayant Karve

CEO, Rcupe Lifesciences

Dr Taslimarif Saiyed

CEO, C-CAMP Moderator

Navigating the way forward post Covid-19: Agriculture Agriculture seeks undivided attention of the policy makers and the innovators, as it continues to face severe hurdles every other day. Watch these brilliant minds who have worked at the grassroot levels, discussing the challenges, initiatives, and realignment in the Agriculture sector. Panelists touch upon all the relevant issues ranging from FPO, FPCs public sector reach, financial assistance, technical validation, sustainability issues, synergies in future innovations, ground-level innovations issues of GMO policies, and CRISPR technology.

Confab | Agriculture : Watch Video Coverage

Speakers

Mr. Hemendra Mathur

Venture Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund

Prof. Anil Gupta

Visiting Faculty at Centre for Management in Agriculture at IIMA and IITB

Dr. Kalpana Sastry

Former Joint Director- NAARM

Dr. Alka Bhargava

Additional Secretary, Dept. of Agriculture, Cooperation and Family Welfare

Mr. Manoj Kumar

Founder, Naturacrop care

Moderator

Mr. Srinivas

CEO, A-Idea NAARM, Moderator

Navigating the way forward post Covid-19: Clean Environment Tune in for a very interesting discussion on the disruptive innovations and technologies in the Clean Environment space, transformative ideas to use mushroom treatment for waste, use of biopolymers, reuse of plastic waste, waste segregation, and the efforts made towards scalable localized solutions. You will also get an insight on how young innovators from a remote location like Tripura, North-East are solving problems related to wastewater, their success is remarkable and a very exciting episode to follow.

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Speakers

Dr. Ganesh Das

COO, Clean Energy International Incubation Centre

Dr. AK Panda

Director, National Institute of Immunology

Prof. Amit Kapoor

Honorary Chairman, Institute for Competitiveness

Dr. Shaon Ray Chaudhuri

Founder, Waste to Wealth Innovative Technologies LLP

Dr. Sanjiv Sambandan

Founder, Openwater.in

Moderator

Dr. Mrutyunjay Suar

CEO, KIIT-TBI-BioNEST, Moderator

Insight into essentials of Entrepreneurship Listen to the 'Man on a Mission' Mr Kris Gopalan, who has not only been instrumental in giving the world a technology giant we call 'Infosys', but his zeal and his selfless efforts towards making India an Innovation factory, makes him a true leader. In this very intriguing session, he shares his opinions on the power of Telemedicine, need for the development of manufacturing capabilities, AI and Machine Learning, and strengthening collaboration between industry and academia to enhance the yield of research multi-folds, through mission mode research programs.

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Keynote Speaker

S GopalaKrishnan

Chairman, Axilor Ventures

Day 1 Day 2 Team

Inspirational Talk on Social Innovation An insightful talk, restorative to the pandemic-hit start-ups, to hope for a light at the end of the tunnel. Dr. Vishal Rao, Head Neck Oncologist - Robotic Surgeon, Innovator, and an expert in Public Health, calls for all the passionate innovators to exhibit resilience and redefine it to become a pandemic stratagem. In this session, watch him submit an interesting analogy over psychological, economic, and behavioural impacts of world wars and suggest to navigate through them to find and get rid of problems, in context to the current pandemic, indeed an eye-opening keynote.

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Speakers

Dr. Vishal Rao

Founder, Inaummation Medical Devices, Head Neck Oncologist - Robotic Surgeon, Innovator

Confab | Resilience Redefined A must watch session for those who want to know what all is there beyond COVID and the challenges it has posed, How can one turn this in his favor, you will get all the answers from those who have already championed this, the startup founders whose journeys are lessons for others, and the policymakers who have learned their way out of it. Hear the speakers talk about scanning the opportunity, cash conservation, and raising money without worrying about the dilution, and many more bits of advice useful for the new players.

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Speakers

Mr. Ashwin Raghuraman

Founding Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund

Dr. Manish Diwan

Head - Strategic Partnership & Entrepreneurship Development, BIRAC

Dr. Rubina Bose

Deputy Drugs Controller (India) at Central Drugs Standard Control Organization

Mr. Mayur Shetty

Founder Blackfrog Technologies

Mr. Abhinav Shreshtha

Dr. Sanjiv Sambandan

Dhiti Life Sciences Private Limited

Moderator

Dr. V. Premnath

Director, Venture Center

The investor-startup Duo Get into this very unique form of discussion where two different pairs of Investor and Innovators talk about every single step of their relationship-building to ensure the successful outcome of the shared journey. One of the investors describes the chemistry as sort of a marriage where the investor is looking for a divorce as the end-game with good alimony whilst growing the joint wealth holdings and assets. Watch these amazing startup founders who have secured a series of fundings, sharing their tips of end-user focus and stressing thorough customer validation for an uninterrupted inflow of cash throughout the different stages of their endeavour.

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Speakers

Ms. Padmaja Ruparel

Founder, Indian Angel Network

Mr. Ankit

Founder Kanpur Flower Cycling

Mr. Rajeev Aiyappa

Plataforma

Mr. Vaibhav Thacker

Founder Terracroft Agritech

Moderator

Mr. Aishwarya Kachhal

Founder & CEO, qQUICK

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Fireside Chat | Product Positioning and Branding Watch this exciting panel discussion and gain multiple perspectives on Product Positioning and Branding, to unlock astonishing opportunities for your business in strained conditions. In this confab, speakers talk about the importance of a perfect blend of Efficacy, Brand-communication, and Continuous changes in the Branding Strategy for the success of Startups in the Healthcare and Agriculture domain.

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Speakers

Mr. Pavan Chowdhary

Chairman, Medical Technology Association of India (MTAI) and M.D, Vygon India

Mr. Subhadeep Sanyal

VC Partner at Omnivore

Moderator

Ms. Poyni Bhatt

CEO, SINE-IITB

Maestro Speaks | Nurturing Ignited Minds Tune in to an eye-opening session on Mental health, an issue which is considered a taboo, but as this crisis posed a plethora of uncertainties, a subtle discussion is the need of the hour. Dr Pathare tried to address this topic on a platform dedicated to technology and young innovators, with his years of research, his depth of understanding of the ground reality, and with his ability to present the subject in such an interesting way produced one of the most memorable sessions in BIG conclave’s history.

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Keynote Speaker

Dr Soumitra Pathare

Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy at ILS

Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks Who won this year’s Visitors’ Choice Award for the most popular startup booth? Want to peek into the brief history of BIG program? Watch the closing ceremony session to see your answers. Prof G.Padmanabhan walks us down the memory lane of how BIG was conceptualised and executed and Dr Diwan shares his BIG plans for BIG program.

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