ET Soonicorns Summit 2022: What to expect at Day 1 of India’s first startup initiative to celebrate future unicorns and decacorns

The opening day of the ET Soonicorns Summit 2022, India’s first-ever startup initiative to celebrate the future unicorns of India, will spotlight the ‘India soonicorn opportunity’ as top startup entrepreneurs and key ecosystem stakeholders gather to celebrate the future unicorns of India.

The two-day long ET Soonicorns Summit, powered by AWS and Intel, will commence on Thursday, September 8, 2022 with an inaugural keynote and welcome address by Satyan Gajwani, Vice Chairman, Times Internet, as well as keynote interviews with Kumara Raghavan, India Head, Startup Sales Segment, AWS and Srini Ananth, Managing Director, Intel Capital.

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Day 1 will also feature Shark Tank India judge and D2C unicorn Mamaearth Co-founder Ghazal Alagh who joins Co-founder Varun Alagh in a special Unicorn Playbook session, where the duo will share key learnings from their journey in building and scaling a profitable unicorn.

The event will also feature roundtables focused on high-growth sectors as well as soonicorn and investor panel discussions to understand the opportunities and challenges facing India’s future unicorns and decacorns, and enable them to power the next ‘techade’ for the Indian economy.

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Here’s a look at the tracks, themes, and speakers lined up for Day 1 of ET Soonicorns Summit:

• Inaugural keynote address by Satyan Gajwani, Vice Chairman, Times Internet
  

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  Satyan Gajwani, Vice Chairman, Times Internet will deliver the Inaugural Keynote Address on ‘The ‘Soonicorn Opportunity: Catalysing India’s innovation economy & fueling the birth of new outliers.’

• Unicorn Playbook session with Ghazal and Varun Alagh, Co-Founders, MamaEarth
  In the Unicorn Playbook conversation series – where founders of some of India’s most popular unicorns deep dive into their entrepreneurial journey and share key strategies from their startup growth playbook – watch the co-founders of top beauty startup and unicorn Mamaearth Varun Alagh with Ghazal Alagh who is . also a prominent Shark Tank India judge as they share ‘The playbook for building and scaling a profitable unicorn’ in a conversation with Miloni Bhatt, Editor – Digital Broadcast, EconomicTimes.com.
• Keynote by Kumara Raghavan, India Head, Startup Sales Segment, AWS
  

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Kumara Raghavan, India Head, Startup Sales Segment, AWS will deep-dive on the role that India’s growing number of future unicorns will play in powering India’s Techade during a keynote interview on the topic `Future Unicorns: Enabling the next ‘techade’ of India’. Besides elaborating on the latest trends, challenges and opportunities cropping up in the Indian startup ecosystem, Raghavan will also delve into the kind of support he thinks the future unicorns will require at various stages of their journey to evolve and grow in a sustainable manner.

• Soonicorn Roundtable: Role of future unicorns in shaping the new digital Indian economy
  

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As part of the Soonicorn Roundtable on Day 1 of the ET Soonicorns Summit, Suumit Shah, Founder & CEO, Dukaan; Vineet Sukumar, Founder & Managing Director, Vivriti Capital; Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-founder & CEO, Pratilipi along with Goutam Kurumella Senior Manager, Startup Solutions, AWS will engage in a panel discussion on the topic ‘League of Future Unicorns shaping the new digital economy moderated by Miloni Bhatt, Editor – Digital Broadcast, EconomicTimes.com. The panel will delve into the challenges and opportunities for Indian startups across various sectors.


• Dedicated soonicorn roundtables on healthtech, agritech and fintech themes

The ET Soonicorn Summit features a wide range of dedicated panel discussions on different sectors such as healthtech, fintech, gametech, SaaS, AI/ML, Web 3, and agritech among others. On day 1, the focus will be on healthtech, agritech and fintech themes.

• Future of health and wellness tech sector
  

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  The soonicorn roundtable on healthtech features Vishal Gondal, Founder & CEO, GOQii; Vaibhav Tewari, Co-founder & CEO, Portea Medical; Garima Sawhney, Co-founder, Pristyn Care in conversation with Koushik Rajendran, Solutions Architect, Healthcare and Life Sciences Specialist, AWS and Miloni Bhatt, Editor – Digital Broadcast, EconomicTimes.com on the topic, ‘The future of health and wellness tech: Democratized, connected, convenient.’

• Disruptions re-defining the agriculture sector
  

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The agritech roundtable will feature Mark Kahn, Managing Partner, Omnivore; Rajesh Ranjan, Founder, Krishify, Nikhil Tripathi, Co-founder, Bijak, and Gaurav Malhotra, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS in a conversation with Pranav Balakrishnan, Senior Correspondent, ETtech on the topic ‘Ripe for disruption: India’s agriculture industry’ as they spotlight the latest slew of innovative products and solutions that are re-defining the key elements of the agricultural industry.


• Charting the path to digital financial inclusion in India
  

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Jitendra Gupta, Founder & CEO, Jupiter, Nilay Patel, Founder & Director, easypay, Apoorv Kumar, CTO & Co-founder, Refyne, Reeju Datta, Co-founder, Cashfree Payments and Yogesh Lele Head Startups-North & West AWS will participate in a panel discussion with Tarush Bhalla, Senior Assistant Editor, ETtech on the topic “Scripting the future of digital financial inclusion in India.”

• Investor Roundtable: Enabling sustainable business models for the next 100 Indian unicorns
  

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At a time when global startup funding is witnessing a slowdown and economies are facing volatility due to several factors, Vaibhav Domkundwar, Founder & CEO, Better Capital; Shanti Mohan, Founder, LetsVenture, and Sanjay Mehta, Founder & Partner, 100X.VC will engage in a conversation on the topic ‘Beyond valuations and blitzscaling: Making the case for the next 100 Unicorns from India with sustainable business models.’

• Closing Day 1 session on powering the new India economy with tech led growth
  

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Srini Ananth, Managing Director, Intel Capital will participate in the concluding fireside session on Day 1 of ET Soonicorns Summit on the topic, ‘Setting the agenda for tech-led growth to power the new India economy.’

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