The Gopalakrishnan-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, IIT Madras, has completed 18 cohorts of its flagship I-NCUBATE program. Almost every startup that participated in the eight-week program found it to be transformational. What happens during those eight weeks? Read More

The 20th edition of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) flagship ICT conference, CII Connect, was held in Chennai on November 26th and 27th. The theme of the conference was, “Building a sustainable deep technology ecosystem.” The event was hosted by the Tamil Nadu government and industry experts from across the globe participated via video conferencing. Read More

The 10th Annual Deshpande Symposium was held as an online event in June this year. GDC conducted a panel discussion at the event, on the ‘Emerging role of academicians and researchers in the Indian startup ecosystem’. The panel comprised distinguished academicians from across India – Prof. Ravinder David Koilpillai from IIT Madras, Prof. J. Ramkumar from IIT Kanpur, Dr. Manish Arora from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Ms. Poyni Bhatt, CEO of Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE) at IIT Bombay. The discussion was moderated by R. Raghuttama Rao, CEO, GDC. Read More