Over 2000 attendees join, work together, and interact in sideline conversations, creating alternatives to foster a worldwide community of innovation.

PanIIT Alumni India concludes the “PIWOT – Global Technology Summit,” a groundbreaking two-day occasion held in bodily (bodily and digital) format on 8^th and 9^th December 2023, at Taj, Yeshwantpur, Bengaluru. As a worldwide platform for sharing ideas, collaborative conversations, and ground-breaking outcomes, the summit served over 2000 delegates dedicated to fostering innovation for constructive societal change.

The summit commenced with a keynote session on “GenAI: The Next Frontier of Human-Centric Creativity and Innovation”, which was adopted by periods on an array of themes starting from “Digital First India” to “Enabling Social Impact.” These periods contributed to collective insights propelling us in direction of a extra sustainable and technologically superior future.

The summit additionally hosted a vibrant Hackathon – Hack of Pi, the place gifted builders collaborated to resolve trade and governance-defined issues with constructive social affect options. Over 27 groups from throughout the nation participated within the Hackathon and group from IIT Guwahati received the primary prize for his or her – Smart Farming Thing app. The app goals to enhance conventional farming with exact management in greenhouses. It focuses on rising crop yields (8-10 instances extra) by giving the precise vitamins primarily based on real-time plant suggestions and automating temperature management. It’s not only for rural areas—folks with out farming expertise can apply it to their balconies. Plus, it helps minimize down on carbon emissions by utilizing energy extra effectively in gear.

The Startup Conclave’s Mega Investor Startup Meet offered rising startups with the chance to take part in a Live Pitch program, providing on-the-spot funding of as much as USD 500k. More than 500 startups in fields resembling DeepTech, Fintech, AI, and Agritech registered for demos and reside pitching periods to have interaction with traders. Out of those, 16 startups had been chosen for demos, leading to 8 reside pitches. The occasion attracted 100+ traders, together with VCs and Angels like Matrix, Bloom, Sama Nexus, and so forth. The Demo Day allowed startups to pitch for funding starting from USD 1M to 5M, whereas the Startup Expo showcased 45 cubicles that includes modern merchandise, companies, and enterprise concepts.

Reflecting on the success of the summit, Debashish Bhattacharyya, Chairman, PanIIT, shared, “The PanIIT – World of Technology Summit has not only inspired but has also ignited a beacon for the future. The collaborative discussions and valuable insights shared during the event showcased how technology can revolutionize various sectors and influence government policies. We take pride in hosting this international summit, contributing to the collective insights that will propel us towards a more sustainable and technologically advanced future.”

“We are thrilled with the overwhelming success of PIWOT 2023,” mentioned Pradeep Bhargava, General Secretary, Pan IIT. “The event not only brought together industry leaders and startups but also facilitated meaningful conversations and collaborations that will undoubtedly drive the industry forward.”

About Pan IIT

PanIIT Alumni India (PanIIT) is an umbrella group, representing alumni of all Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). PanIIT is a not-for-profit Society beneath the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 with Registration No. S-56680 of 2006 dated 20 September 2006 duly registered with the Registrar of Societies, Government of NCT of Delhi, Delhi. It is the Indian authorized entity of the worldwide Pan IIT Alumni motion. The motion, through the years, has developed and unfold to varied elements of the world.  Besides India, PanIIT has a really energetic presence within the United States, Europe, Canada, United Kingdom, Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Australia.

About PIWOT

PanIIT World of Technology (“PIWOT”) is the Flagship Global Technology Summit of PanIIT comprising Conference, Startups, Hackathon, Exhibition, sideline conversations focussed on know-how and the affect of know-how, with the purpose of enabling interactions and conversations between the contributors and various stakeholders to create modern concepts, merchandise, processes, or companies that result in constructive change in society in a collaborative method. In right this moment’s quickly evolving world, innovation has grow to be a survival talent for companies, governments, and people alike, and this occasion goals to foster this means.

The Summit is structured across the themes of dialogue, sensible software, and exhibition and serves as a hub for know-how professionals, innovators, researchers, startups, lecturers, traders, and policymakers. Its major focus is on selling collaboration to develop a recent strategy to operations.