Innofest is architectured as a festival, in a daring break from a ’traditional event’ format, we will take over the open spaces of a part of Bengaluru, and run a festival celebrating Innovation.

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Innofest 2015
The festival of innovation, showcasing Bengaluru,
with intent to create a thousand Bengalurus.

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Innofest ,Be there!
22nd August, Indian Institute of Science Campus, starts at 10 am

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Indian Tiger- raison ‘d être
• India & the Middle Income
Trap
• Innovation for the next 5
Billion vs Innovation for the
top 1 Billion

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Bengaluru -The bright spot
• The Silicon Valley of India-How
Bengaluru has been the hot bed
of innovation
• The perfect storm conditions
• Indian IT= Tech talent
• Engineering colleges= raw
talent
• Returning NRIs= understand
best of breed
• Every street is creating disruptive
innovation in Bengaluru

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–Gabriel Marcel
“On a grassroots level we say that man can
touch more than he can grasp..”

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The Ecosystem: A Ground -
up, Grassroots movement…
• Has to be a ground up
movement vs a top down
movement
• Importance of grass root
organisation
• Communities of interest
engaging with each other
• Create the ecosystem ,
supported by government
from the outside…

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With the right
kind of talent
supporting- our
patrons
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
Dr. Arvind Panagariya
Shri Jayant Sinha
Shri Nandan Nilekani
Shri Mohandas Pai

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Focused on the person that matters the
most to create grass root innovation…
• (S)He has an idea that needs to be
brought to life
• Young, < 25
• Engineer, not an engineering
graduate
• Quietly self-assured, not brash or
arrogant
• Grew up in Tier 2 town or went to a
Tier 2 college (not part of the IIT
network)
• Example: Hari Prasad, Polymer
Engineer
• Example: Radha (innofest.in)

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They learn to make the Jump
• They learn how to build real
stuff
• They learn how to find a
collaborator
• They learn how to participate
in a Challenge Grants
• They learn how to turn their
innovation into a business
• They learn how to raise angel/
seed money
• They learn to make the jump

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A Festival, not an event
A Celebration, not a series of dull panel discussions…

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#1: Makerspaces
• Feel it, touch it, do it.
• Hands-on Sessions with All
Star Facilitators.
• Space is meant to provide
participants with an opportuni
ty to build, create, connect, i
mprovise, & explore
• Think 3D printers, think touch
and feel…

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#2: Hall of Fame
• A unique art gallery of succes
sful innovators & entrepreneu
rs
• Stories of those who have
made it against all odds with
personal story snippets.
• A curated personal articles fr
om these entrepreneurs at dis
play which could be later auct
ioned off.

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#3- Performances Zone
• A set of small “zones”
• With a brief musical interlude
• From up-and coming startup
musicians
• Musical experiments.
• Multiple such zones…

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#4: TownHall
• Stories, insights, perspectives
• From creative, entrepreneurial
all-stars in the tech space
• From the tech, design,
humanities & social spaces.

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What Radha
thinks, after the
day has ended..
“100 Meetings and 100,000 Ideas
richer, I head back, abuzz, on a high.
Will I be able to sleep? I know not.
However, I do know where I am
headed. And let me give you a hint.
Both of my prospective employers
are going to be disappointed!“

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You can help!
1. Help us find 1 Million youngsters
who will build grass root
innovation…
2. Spread the world
3. Get engaged
4. Help us find the right people
5. Help create 1000 Bengalurus
across India