The latest edition of OPEN INNOVATORS MEET was held on 18th November in Bangaluru. The event aimed to promote Innovation and explore potential synergies between innovators, investors, and corporates.
The meet brought together Investors, Industry Partners, Innovators, and Enablers from IoT, AI, ML, Robotics, and other deep tech domains.
Entrepreneurs addressing the meet
Some notable names that attended the event were Anurag Dutta, Rightbot; Rahul Ranganatha, Nugenomics ; K Radha Narayan Rao, Srikanth Sola, Devic Earth ; Sriram, Vidya, Dave AI ; Jayakanth, zMed ; Mahek Mody, Up ; and Pushkar, 4MirrorTech.
At the Open Innovators Meet, noteworthy individuals, authorities, and leaders from illustrious organizations offered their expertise. Investors and thought leaders highlighted growth prospects and provided guidance on further boosting the startup ecosystem through in-depth conversations and entertaining keynotes.
The gathering gave attendees a chance to make long-lasting connections, while the young entrepreneurs got the opportunity to network with seasoned experts in the industry.
Innovators and Investors address the meet
Other attendees of the event were Timiresh, medtel ; Arjun, Syook ; Vijay, Vyli ; Thilak, Vinayaka, Tsalla Aerospace ; Udaya, Nautilus Hearing; Manjunatha NS, PepperTree; Raghavendra, Rezler Systems; Chinnayya Math, Nimble Vision; and others.
There were also panel discussions on relevant topics where eminent personalities, authorities, and leaders from notable organizations shared their knowledge and experience on corporate venture capital and investing strategies. One such panel discussion was moderated by Naveen Kashyap, VP, Digital Innovation, Yokogawa Electric, and the speakers were Bhavesh K Jatania, Head, Startup Banking, IDFC FIRST Bank, Kavin KK, Managing Partner, IDFC First Bank, and others.
Collaboration and consensus is essential for innovation, there are firms successfully innovating openly for years and have phenomenal growth rates that show the advantages of open innovation. Important issues like these were discussed at the Open Innovators Meet with leading experts from across the Industry, Investors, and Innovators.
Open Innovators Meet aims to help organizations embark on a new adventure towards innovation through Corporate Entrepreneurship to become a future-ready company and generate growth to thrive in the new socio-economic context.
For collaboration and partnership opportunities please write us at open-innovator@quotients.com
The latest edition of the Open Innovator Meet was held in Mumbai. The event provided young entrepreneurs with access to influential investors, mentors, and new markets in an effort to aid firms in scaling and growing.
Investors and thought leaders highlighted prospects for development and offered suggestions for how to further improve the startup environment via in-depth conversations and riveting keynotes. The gathering facilitated the development of strong bonds among attendees and the young founders were given the opportunity to network with seasoned experts in the industry.
Open Innovator Meet brought the various stakeholders of the startup ecosystem at one place and allowed the participants to network, and exchange information and ideas, fostering dialogue and business.
The event also saw an impressive display of products and solutions from various innovators. The eminent speakers from industry and investors highlighted the latest trend forecasts, developments, and challenges in the respective sectors through presentations, case studies, and best practice examples.
With the goal of assisting startups in scaling and expanding, Open Innovator Meet provided young entrepreneurs with exclusive access to global clients, influential investors, and new markets. The young founders had the chance to network with seasoned professionals in the field while making sense of the world and their place in it. The event helped guests form strong ties that benefited their goals for both their professional and personal lives.
The meeting provided the perfect setting for young innovators to present their solutions. The young founders had the opportunity to network with more seasoned business personnel and impart their unique viewpoints. Startups from a range of industries pitched their ideas to investors and business leaders in search of their next round of funding.
Furthermore, there were in-depth discussions and captivating keynotes delivered by investors and thought leaders who highlighted opportunities for growth and suggested ways to further enhance the startup ecosystem.
Debashish Roy, Director – Digital Excellence & Strategic Initiatives, Pfizer, at Open Innovator Meet, underlined the importance of meaningful value creation through partnerships as the key to – scale, sustain, and stay ahead of the curve.
Debashish Roy, Director – Digital Excellence & Strategic Initiatives, Pfizer.
“Today when everyone is talking about connected ecosystems open innovation can provide opportunities to reduce research costs, offer ways to differentiate your product or service offerings in the market, and create new revenue streams, ” he said at the event. “It’s the new way to achieve bigger and greater success for business and stay relevant,” he added.
Prakash Jaiswal, Managing Director, India Head of Business Banking (MSME, Startups) at HSBC, pressed on the need for the financial services sector to innovate and transform its technology and processes to enhance customer experience by reducing friction and to innovate new customer propositions using data. This would need to be done in collaboration with technology partners & platforms.
Prakash Jaiswal, Managing Director, India Head of Business Banking (MSME, Startups) at HSBC
He said “HSBC has been a pioneer in this space with numerous cases across the globe. Our extensive global network coupled with our banking and financial capabilities has proved our ability to take on the role of a ‘partner in growth’.”
“HSBC wants to become a lifecycle bank for small & medium businesses and early-stage startup/tech companies. We aim to solve banking problems and focus on offering customer-centric unique solutions,” said Prakash at Open Innovator Meet.
Anjali Sharma, Head – Enterprise Architecture, Strategy and Innovation, General Mills India Centre, at Open Innovator Meet, talked about assessing an innovative idea whether it is sustainable innovation or a disruptive one.
Anjali Sharma, Head – Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, and Innovation, General Mills India Centre
“An innovative idea has a structure to it, having patterns. Whenever an idea is pitched it needs to be assessed if it is sustainable innovation or disruptive innovation. Sustainable innovations primarily benefit the industry and organizations but disruptive innovations benefit the consumers at large” she said addressing the young entrepreneurs.
“Disruptive innovation serves the latent unmet need of an overserved consumer market, through a product with limited features today, lower profit margins, and a limited consumer base. But as it continues to add features, it disrupts the incumbent players” she added.
She suggested Clayton Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation framework as one such tool that can help innovators, startups, and investors assess their ideas, products, and solutions.
The OpenInnovators’ Meet is organized every month in a different city so as to bring entrepreneurs and investors together to promote emerging innovations and technologies that are transforming our future. Reach out to us at open-innovator@quotients.com to know more about corporate open innovation updates, events, programs, and for collaboration opportunities.
As part of the Open Innovator- Spotlight Series, on Sept 14th, we had a Metaverse Edition that explored topics like the building of the metaverse and the future of augmented and virtual reality.
Spotlight Series is an online event aimed at introducing ideas that can have an impact and potentially challenge established incumbent businesses and processes. This insightful and thought-provoking event welcomes speakers from top startups to share brief talks about their technology solutions, and different aspects of their business that serves as a blueprint for building innovative, future-forward collaborations.
Faisal Galaria, Blippar
As Metaverse is on the verge of bringing a disruptive wave that promises to radically change business operations across organizations, the online event had leaders from Blippar, Merkel Haptics, and XR Labs showcase their next-level solutions in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Immersive Environments, Computer Vision, Haptic Technology, etc.
Padma Priya PV, Merkel Systems
The speakers discussed the development of augmented reality (AR) designs for sectors including eCommerce, marketing, advertising, tourism, and education that seamlessly connect the physical and digital worlds to encourage deeper customer engagement, increased footfall, and sales.
Thirukumaran Saravanan,XR Labs
Haptic technology, which tracks head and eye movements to create immersive settings where users may virtually feel and experience them, was also a topic of discussion. Applications of this technology in healthcare and other industries were covered. The use of AR to enhance processes in Industry 4.0 as well as other fields including manufacturing, defense, support and maintenance, work, and safety was a significant part of the discussion.
It was another great event that had a wide presence of an audience interested in knowing more about the Metaverse, its applications, and market projections. The attendees also had an excellent chance to participate and also discuss with the open innovators topics related to this upcoming technology.
Open Innovators’ Meet was successfully hosted in Chennai on July 1st. The meet had the presence of investors, industry partners business professionals, and innovators from IoT, AI, ML, Robotics, healthtech, and other deep tech domains.
The theme of the foregathering is “Meet the Innovators and the Innovation,” a one-of-a-kind initiative for bringing the three I’s of the ecosystem. i.e. the Industry leaders, investors, and innovators together to stimulate technology-driven innovation (Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of things (IoT) and unleash cocreation & entrepreneurial creativity.
The Startups, Humors, Vyli, Reprosci, Nautilus, Heaps.ai, Aikenist, RHEMOS, Arficus, Dnome, Medtel, Neodocs, TeraLumen, MedloTek Health, eVitalz, Mocero Health, Vulhunt, Inaluz, zMed, Luecine Rich Bio, Frinks, Tagbox, Neurostellar, Punar, Padmaseetha, pwens, and Nura, pitched their products before the investors. Most of the 25 startups that participated were from Healthtech industry, few startups were from Robotics and Cybersecurity.
The Meet hosted speakers Mr. Chandra Mouleshwaran S from GAVS, Prof. Nandan; Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Mr. Chandramouli; Ex-CIO of Sankar Nethralaya, Mr. Balaji Upili; CEO of GS Lab and GAVS, Mrs. Kushboo Goel; Senior Consultant Healthcare and Navaratan Kataria; Director, Startup Engagement Innovation & International partnerships, NASSCOM COE.
Attendees from startups included Ankur Jaiswal, Pooja H S, T Udaya Raga Kiran, Apurva Sule, Ashwin Amrapuram, Aamod Wagh, Sandeep Singh, Divya Sriram, Dr Lalit Ranjan, Pratik Lodha, Dr Jyoti Dash, Sharmila Devadoss, Nanda Kumar, Palaniappan N, Akash, Deepak Gupta, Jayakanth, Kumar Aditya Agarwal, Adarsh Kumar, Dhanushya, Charmi, Gowri, Joseph Jegan, and Dr Tausif.
Some notable attendees included Muthu Singaram; CEO, IIT Madras HTIC Incubator, Akhilesh Agarwal from Pi Ventures, Adarsh B N from Derbi Foundation, Sanjay Selvan; Speciale Invest and Himanshu Sikka from IPE Global.
The OpenInnovators’ Meet will be organized every month at a different city so as to bring entrepreneurs and investors together to promote emerging innovations and technologies that are transforming our future.
The OPEN INNOVATORS MEET was held on 5th August at Le Méridien, Gurugram. The event aimed to promote Innovation and explore potential synergies between innovators, investors, and corporates.
Investors and Industry leaders at the Meet
The meet brought together Investors, Industry Partners, Innovators, and Enablers from IoT, AI, ML, Robotics, and other deep tech domains. The Startups, Jetbrain Robotics, Incredible Devices Syook, Things Go Social, MedTel, Third Eye, Heliware, Intents, Medhini, Zest IoT, Road Cast, Beagle Security, MHealth, Vani Meetings, Aerosys, Elecbits, Advid Technologies, Synq.fit, Answer Genomics, attended the event.
Innovators and Investors address the Meet
The Startups pitched their products and briefed the audience on their vision and future plans. HSBC, Mumbai-based retail banking and financial services provider, also had a presence in the event. From the corporate side, the event saw participation from Bacardi, Radcliffe Diagnostics, USHA, Qualcomm, and CNH Industrial. The dignitaries from the organizations expressed their views and ideas to stimulate technology-driven innovation and unleash cocreation & entrepreneurial creativity.
