Agenda

Attendees

REGISTER

400+

400+

Incubators

Incubators

100+

100+

Curated Startups

Curated Startups

80+

80+

Investors

Investors

Location

Location

Chandigarh University

Chandigarh University

Date

Date

08-11 October, 2026

08-11 October, 2026

Agenda & Timings

Agenda & Timings

About the summit

What is Incubator &

Capital Summit 2026?

What is Incubator &

Capital Summit 2026?

What is Incubator &

Capital Summit 2026?

The place where India's incubators and early-stage capital meet on purpose.

Two programmes across four days:

incubator leaders and policymakers with ISBACON 2026 on 8-9 October, then founders and investors at the Capital Summit on 10-11 October.

The place where India's incubators and early-stage capital meet on purpose.

Two programmes across four days:

incubator leaders and policymakers with ISBACON 2026 on 8-9 October, then founders and investors at the Capital Summit on 10-11 October.

Incubators & accelerators

Incubator heads from across India, together for ISBACON 2026 - 8-9 Oct

Incubators & accelerators

Incubator heads from across India, together for ISBACON 2026 - 8-9 Oct

Incubators & accelerators

Incubator heads from across India, together for ISBACON 2026 - 8-9 Oct

Startups & Founders

Selected ventures, not open registration, plus founders across four tracks . 8-10 Oct

Startups & Founders

Selected ventures, not open registration, plus founders across four tracks . 8-10 Oct

Startups & Founders

Selected ventures, not open registration, plus founders across four tracks . 8-10 Oct

Investors & Industrialists

Thesis-matched panels and a meeting desk running all day · 10-11 Oct

Investors & Industrialists

Thesis-matched panels and a meeting desk running all day · 10-11 Oct

Investors & Industrialists

Thesis-matched panels and a meeting desk running all day · 10-11 Oct

If AI is part of your strategy, product, research,

or responsibility. This fest is for you

If AI is part of your strategy, product, research, or responsibility. This fest is for you

Why attend

  • Chief AI Architect

  • Program Manager

  • CEO

  • CTO

  • COO

  • CFO

  • Head of Compliance & Risk

  • Chief AI Architect

  • Program Manager

  • CEO

  • CTO

  • COO

  • CFO

  • Head of Compliance & Risk

Tentative-Speakers

The 2026 Speakers Line-Up Is Now Taking Shape

The 2026 Speakers Line-Up Is Now Taking Shape

Connect with

Guests & Founders

Connect with

Guests & Founders

Shri Naveen Jindhal

Chairman

Jindal Steel Ltd

Mr. Tanmay Bhat

Youtuber, Comedian, Script Writer

& Entrepreneur

Mr. Yoav Fekete

Innovation Attaché

Embassy of Israel In India

Shri Gaurav Gautam

Minister of State

Youth Empowerment & Entrepreneurship and Sports minister of state govt of haryana

Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood

Principal Scientific Adviser

Govt. of India

Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan

Co-Founder

Infosys

Prof. V. Kamakoti

Director

IIT Madras

Prof. Abhay Karandikar

Member

NITI Aayog

Shri Himanshu Joshi, IAS

Deputy Secretary

Government of India

Mr. Rikant Pittie

Co-Founder

EaseMyTrip

Mr. Saurabh Munjal

Co-Founder & CEO

Archian Foods Pvt Ltd (Lahori Zeera)

Mr. Vinayak Godse

CEO

DSCI

Dr. PS Madanagopal

CEO

Meity Startup Hub

Shri Praveen Roy

Scientist ‘G’ & Head

TTI Division,DST, Government of India

Dr. Nikhil Aggrawal

Managing Director

FITT - IIT Delhi

Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta

CEO

iHub

Mr. P J Singh

CMD

Tynor

Mr. Manipal Dhariwal

Co-Founder & CEO

Netsmartz Group

Mr. Sanjeev Rathour

CEO

ADSL, JCBL

Mr. Sachin Jain

Regional CEO India

World Gold Council

Mr. Subhash Aggarwal

Chairperson & MD

SMC

Mr. Amit Singhal

Founding & GP

Fluid Ventures

Mr. Prasad Menon

President

ISBA

Founders

Investors

Incubators

Corporates

Academia

Govt.

Industry

COEs

Mr. Sahil Mantri

Founder

Entropy

Mr. Sandeep Kumar

Founder

Ention

Mr. Nivedan Rathi

Founder

Future&AI

Mr. Ayush Bansal

Vice President and General Manager

Razorpay Ventures; Rozorpay

Mr. Ankit Aggarwal

Founder

Unstop

Gursaurabh Singh

Founder and Inventor

Dhruv Vidyut

Mr. Paritosh Anand

Content Creator & Founder

Content Creator (1.4M FOLLOWERS) / Founder - We Smile India, Believe Clothing, Introvert to icon

Gaurav Khatri

Founder

Noise

Mr. Tarun Gupta

Founder & CEO

VaidyaRx

Mr. Pawas Jain

Founder

BCC Media Network

Sahil M

Founder

Entropy

Mr. Devesh Mishra

CEO

SketchMind.ai

Mr. Arush Lakhani

Founder

SpurlQ.ai

Mr. Ketan Kalra

CEO

SuperDonut

Akshay Chaturvedi

Founder

Leverage Edu

Mr. Chandan Perla

Founder

Podcast Circle

Mr. Shekhar Mazumdar

Patent Engineer

Metayage Private Limited

Brought to you by

Our Partners

Our Partners

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18th

18th

Incubator Summit with

ISBACon

Incubator Summit with

ISBACon

8th October

8th October

-- 002.

Capital Summit

Capital Summit

9th & 10th October

DeepTech & Applied AI

DeepTech & Applied AI

D2C & Consumer Tech

D2C & Consumer Tech

Vertical SaaS & Fintech

Vertical SaaS & Fintech

CreatorTech & Content

CreatorTech & Content

About event

Three days. One ecosystem.

Explore What's Inside

The Incubator & Capital Summit 2026, in collaboration with ISBACON 2026, unites incubators, founders, investors and policymakers. Institutions meet on 8–9 October, founders and capital on 10th and 11th October. Curated content and booked meetings, not stalls and brochures.

The flagship executive AI summit brings together global innovators, leading UAE institutions, government decision-makers, and world-class researchers shaping the future of intelligent technologies. The attendees will explore frontier science, scalable AI adoption, and real-world applications aligned with the UAE’s 2031 AI Strategy and its ambition to build the world’s first AI-native government.

ICS 2026 - Keynotes

Keynotes & Fireside

Keynotes & Fireside

The Chancellor's address and inaugural programme open the national conference. A policy roundtable brings state startup missions and central agencies onto one panel. On 10 October, a marquee fireside anchors the Capital Summit.

Hear from the world’s leading AI pioneers and business leaders as they share the breakthroughs, strategies, and real world playbooks transforming industries from global research labs to the region’s fastest-growing enterprises.

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ICS 2026 - Announcements

Institutional Announcements

Institutional Announcements

CU-IRP research park, C-Hub, the CII industry plug-in and Campus Tank Season 2, launched before the national delegation.

ICS 2026 - Showcase

Demo Day & Showcase

Curated startups present to a jury and arriving investors, with an incubated-ventures floor across both conference days.

ICS 2026 - Session

Masterclasses

Masterclasses

Incubator teams learn how peers run cohorts, governance and policy, and see a working incubation facility at CU-TBI.

Incubator teams learn how peers run cohorts, governance and policy, and see a working incubation facility at CU-TBI.

ICS 2026 - Capital

Investor Tracks & Meeting Desk

Investor Tracks & Meeting Desk

Four thesis-led panels pair investors with founders on the same problem. Pitching happens in one-to-one meetings booked in advance, beside the main stage.

Pitch battles where bold ideas face market reality and sometimes outthink the machines themselves with emerging as the TOP 10 startups for DEMO DAY.

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Why
Incubators
Join Us?

Why
Incubators
Join Us?

Discover a trail that fits your pace, leave the planning to us, and spend your time where it belongs—out on the trail.

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01

National Visibility

Position your institution before the country's incubation, capital and policy establishment. ISBACON is where reputations in this field are made.

02

Peer Network & Capability

Build relationships with incubation leadership beyond your own region, and see the practices peer incubators are running nationally — shown at a working facility, not described from a stage.

03

Co-Incubation Partnerships

Extend your cohorts, mentors and infrastructure through shared arrangements with peer incubators and CU-TBI, formalised as agreements rather than intentions.

04

Capital Access for Your Portfolio

Put your ventures in front of 80+ investors actively deploying at early stage, without having to build those relationships fund by fund.

05

Institutional Partnerships

Open conversations with corporates, research institutions and innovation hubs — the delegates who become co-located R&D tenants and programme collaborators.

06

A Policy Voice

Direct access to DST, DPIIT, MeitY, NITI Aayog and the state startup missions, in a forum built for discussion rather than representation.

07

The Conference Finally Comes North

For incubators across Punjab and the northern belt, this is the first time the national conference is within reach without a flight.

01

Sourcing Above the Metros

The incubator layer is the discovery channel for ventures that never reach a Bengaluru or Mumbai inbox. 300+ incubators is reach no single fund can cover.

02

Curated, Not Open, Deal Flow

100+ startups screened and selected before the day, so the meetings are with companies worth an hour.

03

Scheduled Meetings

One-to-one meetings booked in advance and run from a staffed desk, instead of business cards and chance encounters.

04

Co-Investment & Syndication

Angels, UHNIs, family offices, seed funds, institutional VCs, government-backed funds and corporate venture arms — the full cap-table stack for an early round, in one room.

05

Alignment with Public Capital

Government seed capital deploys through incubators. Being in the room is how private capital plugs into that flow rather than meeting it later.

06

Thesis-Matched Sessions

Four domain tracks mean the day is spent with founders working the same problem, not a general funding panel.

07

Structured Early Access

C-Hub joint cohorts and Campus Tank Season 2 give participating funds a standing channel into CU-incubated ventures after the summit ends.

Why
Investors
Join Us?

Why
Investors
Join Us?

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Why
Founders
Join Us?

Why
Founders
Join Us?

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01

Meet Investors Who Actually Write Cheques

80+ investors across angels, seed funds, VCs, family offices and corporate venture arms, curated against your track’s thesis.

02

Thesis-Matched Track Panels

Hear investors get specific about what changes their mind in your exact domain — not a general panel on “the funding environment.”

03

Scheduled One-to-One Meetings

Pitch in booked meetings that run alongside the main stage, tracked and followed up within 72 hours of the close.

04

Demo Day & Showcase

Present to a jury and the arriving investor delegation, with visibility on the showcase floor across the summit.

05

A Marquee Fireside

Be in the room for the headline interaction — the single biggest draw of the Capital Summit day.

06

Structured Access After the Summit

Get considered for C-Hub joint cohorts and Campus Tank Season 2, both launched on stage on 10 October.

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Whether you run an incubator, back early-stage companies, build one, or want to be seen by the people who do, there is a way in. Participation is curated, so every room stays worth being in. Request Information

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