The final day of Nasscom InnoTrek marked a high-impact culmination for the cohort as they stepped onto Silicon Valley’s main stage with visits to FalconX and Cognizant AI Labs. At FalconX, a premier cross-border accelerator, the founders engaged with market-entry advisors and ecosystem leaders to gain critical insights on US market expansion, cross-border scaling, and refining their go-to-market strategies. The delegation then transitioned to Cognizant AI Labs, where the team officially pitched and showcased their solutions directly to enterprise AI architects, researchers, and innovation executives. This pitch and demo session allowed them to stress-test their technical architectures against enterprise-grade standards, multi-agent frameworks, and responsible AI principles—effectively bridging strategic market immersion with direct technical validation and potential enterprise partnership pathways. #Nasscom #Startups #IndiaUS #InnoTrekUSA2026 #Innotrek2026 @FalconXGlobal @cognizantailab @MokkaSpeaks @nasscomai @doshikavita @nasscomdeeptech

Nasscom, in collaboration with Meity, is organising a nationwide workshop series on DPDPA readiness and operationalisation for industry and goverment stakeholders New Delhi | 7 October 2026 | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM For more information, you may write to policyevents@nasscom.in #MeitY #DPDPA #DataProtection #Privacy @SecretaryMEITY @RNamb @AA_speaks @GoI_MeitY @_DigitalIndia @NeGD_GoI @nasscomfdn @DSCI_Connect @nasscomai @NasscomPolicy

India’s ER&D capabilities take centre stage at ELIV 2026 in Baden-Baden, Germany. Nasscom is bringing together 10 leading Indian ER&D organizations, showcasing expertise across SDV, software, AI, embedded systems, electronics, digital engineering, simulation and validation. India × Europe | Engineering the next era of mobility. #ELIV2026 #nasscom #ERD #SDV @Siva_Polimetla1 @KPIT @MahindraRise @vvdntech @LnTTechservices @Quest_Global @boschindia @TCS @arai_india @Wipro @sasken

The Nasscom National GCC Council brought together GCC leaders in Chennai to review progress on key initiatives and chart the next steps under the Council’s 5C framework. Discussions focused on sustaining the global competitiveness of India’s GCCs, deepening international corridors, and strengthening domestic clusters and ecosystems. These priorities reflect the Council's shared commitment to positioning India as a leading global hub for innovation and strategic decision-making. The Council has aligned on a dedicated action plan to take these priorities forward, with skilling programmes, cross-country pilots and industry-academia forums forming key areas of focus. #Nasscom #GCC #NationalGCCCouncil #GlobalCapabilityCenters #india @RNamb @MKritika_ @HSBC

What will drive Tamil Nadu’s next phase of growth in the AI era? At the recent Nasscom CXO Dinner Meet, Rajesh Nambiar, President, Nasscom, led a fireside conversation on Tamil Nadu’s next phase of growth with Dr. S. Vijayakumar, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Industries, Investment Promotion & Commerce Department; Dr. Atul Anand, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, IT & Digital Services Department; Srikanth Velamakanni, Chairperson, Nasscom; and Rajesh Varrier, President, Operations and CMD, Cognizant India. Together, they explored the opportunities AI presents for the state and the role of government and industry in supporting that growth. Key highlights from the discussion: - AI and new business opportunities: How AI could expand opportunities for technology services even as it reduces coding and implementation effort. - Tamil Nadu’s AI focus: The opportunities in industrial AI, deeptech, AI products and GCC-led innovation. - The vision for Arivagam: What would distinguish it from a conventional IT park and encourage AI companies to build there. - What businesses need to grow: Talent, compute, research and infrastructure, supported by faster, more predictable investment and expansion processes. - Government–industry collaboration: Where joint action is needed, and where industry can take greater responsibility. Nasscom continues to work with the Government of Tamil Nadu to strengthen industry–government collaboration and support the state’s technology growth. #Nasscom #TamilNadu #Technology @RNamb @srikanth @iamvarrier @Cognizant @Guidance_TN @TNITDepartment

Growth in the early days isn't about perfecting every channel. It's about finding the first signs of market pull. In conversation with the Nasscom #InnoTrek2026 delegation, Andrew Davies, Chief Innovation Officer at Paddle, shares why founders should focus on securing their first customers, often through existing networks, before building structured growth motions. For technical startups, a strong developer experience can be a powerful differentiator, making it easy for users to discover, try, and trust the product. As startups scale, product-led growth can create a strong foundation for adoption, while enterprise sales adds a new layer of complexity involving multiple stakeholders and buying decisions. #Nasscom #Startups #IndiaUS #InnoTrekUSA2026 @andjdavies @PaddleHQ @doshikavita @nasscomdeeptech

How can AI make digital communication more accessible, actionable, and inclusive across India’s multilingual reality? Daakia Private Limited, part of the Nasscom GenAI Foundry programme - an initiative by Nasscom dedicated to nurturing India’s generative AI startups and helping them develop solutions for global markets, is building an AI-powered intelligence layer for video communication, combining speech AI, contextual translation, Generative AI and context-aware agents. #GenAIFoundryStories #GenAI #NasscomGenAIFoundry @DaakiaConnects

For Indian startups, building for the world starts with looking beyond the familiar. At the #InnoTrek2026 delegation, Ketan Bhagwate, CEO & Co-Founder, @Mysellercentral, and Sheetal Arora, CEO & Co-Founder, Uptroop, share how the US journey has opened up conversations with investors, potential partners and advisors, while offering insights into GTM, taxation and setting up businesses in the US. More than access, the programme is helping founders broaden their perspective and think about what it takes to build from India for a global market. #Nasscom #InnoTrek2026 #Startups #IndiaUS #InnoTrekUSA2026 @_SheetalArora

India’s DeepTech opportunity is increasingly global, translating strong technology and IP into enterprise adoption, capital and scale. As part of Nasscom InnoTrek USA 2026, we hosted the India DeepTech Confluence in California, bringing Indian DeepTech founders together with enterprise leaders, investors and the US innovation ecosystem. The conversations focused on what it takes to scale in the US market: - building enterprise trust - securing the first pilot - moving deployments from pilot to production - strengthening commercial readiness, and - accessing the right capital and partnerships. At the centre of the Confluence 18 Indian innovative DeepTech startups, showcased solutions across enterprise AI, industrial technology, healthcare, energy, robotics, logistics and other emerging areas. The founders had the opportunity to engage directly with potential customers, partners and investors on their technology, differentiation and US market strategy. The opportunity ahead for India’s Deeptech ecosystem is to turn innovation into global businesses. #Nasscom #InnoTrek2026 #Startups #IndiaUS #DeepTech #InnoTrekUSA2026 @SAP @Hitachi @satishtalluri @VentureDock @doshikavita @nasscomdeeptech

Every technology that moves India forward begins with an engineer who imagined what could be possible. The #NasscomMakersHonor 2026 celebrates the engineers, researchers and technology builders turning ambitious ideas into meaningful progress, and strengthening India’s place in the world through technology. This is their moment to be seen, recognised and celebrated. Nominate yourself. Nominate a peer. Nominate the engineers behind India’s progress. nasscom.in/makers-honor-awar… #MakersHonor2026 #EngineeringExcellence #IndianTech @RNamb @sangeetagupta29 @doshikavita

As organizations move from traditional Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC) to AI-Driven Life Cycles (ADLC), engineering is evolving from human-led processes to AI-first, agentic systems that drive innovation, efficiency, and scale. The Nasscom AI Platform Pulse report explores the next phase of AI-assisted product engineering and what it means for businesses building the future. Survey findings indicate that seventy-one percent of respondents favor human-in-the-loop agent systems as the operating model they will comfortably adopt over the next three to five years. The future of engineering lies not in simply adding faster co-pilots, but in reimagining how humans and AI create together. Read the full report: nasscom.in/knowledge-center/… #NasscomReport #HumanAI #Nasscom #AIPlatformPulse #AgenticAI @NasscomR @siva_polimetla1

The Nasscom delegation of DeepTech startups visited Snowflake at the SV AI Hub in Silicon Valley for an immersive session on enterprise scale and AI infrastructure. From gaining technical exposure to exploring synergies across Snowflake's AI Data Cloud, the session offered founders an opportunity to learn what it takes to build, deploy and scale solutions for the global enterprise ecosystem. A big step in powering India’s deep tech innovators with access to global technology ecosystems. #DeepTech #AI #IndiaUS #Startups #Innovation #InnoTrekUSA2026 #InnoTrek2026 @doshikavita @MokkaSpeaks @nasscomdeeptech @Snowflake

Indian deeptech startups are taking their innovations to global markets through Nasscom’s InnoTrek program. As part of this global market-access initiative, a delegation of high-potential founders had the opportunity to pitch at the Consulate General of India in San Francisco. Building across AI, semiconductors, robotics, climate tech and other frontier technologies, these startups presented their solutions to Silicon Valley investors, enterprise leaders and ecosystem partners. By bringing together Nasscom’s industry network and the institutional support of Indian diplomatic missions, InnoTrek creates credible pathways for Indian deeptech ventures to access capital, forge strategic partnerships and build their presence in the US market. #DeepTech #IndiaUS #Startups #Innovation #InnoTrekUSA2026 #Innotrek2026 @augmentappzai @yodaplustech @marbleshealth @doshikavita @nasscomdeeptech @CGISFO

What does it take to turn enterprise AI pilots into real business value? In this episode of Nasscom Conversations, Sameer Raje, General Manager and Head of Business, India & SAARC at @Zoom, joins Kavita Doshi, Head of Corporate Communications at Nasscom, as they unpack the critical decisions enterprises need to make before scaling AI, from measuring ROI beyond time saved and building trust, to understanding privacy, accountability and the operational context that AI can unlock. The conversation also explores why embedded AI across workplace conversations could reshape how enterprises work with information, and what India’s complexity can teach organisations building for global scale. Watch the full conversation: piped.video/watch?v=q7sTNBfP… #EnterpriseAI #AITransformationInServices #NasscomConversations #nasscom @sameraje @doshikavita

How do deeptech startups build for longevity in a rapidly evolving AI landscape? Nasscom’s 18-startup #InnoTrek2026 delegation visited StartX - Stanford University's non-profit, zero-equity founder community (home to 1,500+ startups and 30+ unicorns) - to unpack what it takes to scale global ventures. 3 Strategic Takeaways: • Build for tomorrow's AI, not today’s gaps: Avoid merely "plugging current holes" in AI models. Focus on core value propositions that compound as foundation models advance. • Embrace AI as an empirical science: Traditional playbooks are shifting. Success demands hands-on experimentation with frontier models and rapid adaptation to emergent properties. • Leverage cross-border networks: Bridging Indian tech talent with Silicon Valley’s mentors, strategic partners, and investors accelerates global market reach. A powerful exchange reinforcing India’s role in shaping the global deeptech ecosystem #DeepTech #IndiaUS #Startups #Innovation #InnoTrekUSA2026 @StartX @turingcom @doshikavita @nasscomdeeptech