Finally, Announcing The Junction –  Inc42’s Flagship Conference

India needs another tech conference like it needs another foodtech startup. There are enough startup events out there that one could last most of the year without ever having to buy dinner! And yet I’ve always known that designing a kickass conference would inevitably be a big part of our business.

I wasn’t sure how to reconcile these two realities. For almost 2 years now, I’ve told my investors, peers and my team the same thing: When we do an event of this scale, I want people to be wowed and say, “Yep, that was an Inc42 conference.”

Imagine an intimate gathering of hand-picked people, away from the hustle & bustle of daily life; imagine a royal getaway in a historical castle; imagine 300 global influencers staying together under one roof for three days; imagine a delicate mix of new age platforms and old-school conversations; a treasure trove of deep scientific and psychological insights, game-changing connections and collaborations – packed into a three-day bootcamp designed to catalyse personal, professional, & collective growth.

Actually don’t imagine any of that, because we built it, and it launches today.

Today I’m happy to announce the first of its kind conference, The Junction 2017, Inc42’s first flagship conference, to be held on 12-14th January, 2017 at Fairmont Jaipur.

The Junction is an exclusive invite-only gathering of 300 entrepreneurs, corporates & investors with a mission to unite the leaders of the global & Indian startup ecosystems looking to tap into the massive growth potential of India.

Set in the surreal backdrop of the enthralling historical city of Jaipur, The Junction promises to be a three-day conclave packed with insights, innovations & inventions in a setting designed to address business opportunities & challenges, leading to a highly interconnected landscape around startups, innovations, & linkages.

You heard that right – our first ever flagship conference and it’s not in Delhi, Mumbai or Bengaluru.

Since the day we decided on turning this into a destination conference, we knew it wasn’t going to be an easy endeavour. At Inc42, we’ve always tried to challenge the conventional – be it hacking the media business, be it through stories, be it through our designs, be it through our events like Pulse42 and now through our first conference. You can call it our naivety or you can call it gutsy, but what’s the fun in doing something easy?

The idea is to create such a high-value, high-intent private community of global tech influencers that people are compelled to take the pain to come down all the way to Jaipur, disconnect from their routine, spend over two days of their valuable time and also pay us for this at the same time :). And so we have booked out the complete venue so that we can get all our delegates to stay at the same place for the conference and create amazing personalised experiences.

Convinced? So Here’s What You Can Expect From The Junction

The Junction’s purpose is to bring together minds that run the business ecosystem in as many as 50 countries! ‘The Junction’ may be considered a proliferation of what Inc42 stands for – connecting ideas that have the power to change the way we live and businesses that will make way for the ecosystems of the future.

Anyone looking at India as a potential market for investments or market expansion? The Junction is the place to be. We have carefully curated the focus sectors, topics, and panels to enable delegates to get a deep dive into the Indian Startup Ecosystem.

The program will feature game-changing talks, demos, stay and gala dine-in experiences, Jeffersonian lunches and parties, experience zones, high-spirited night summits, private investor and corporate mini-conferences and a showcase of 42 pre-growth Indian startups in front of the movers and shakers of the global startup ecosystem.

We have handpicked key influencers from various ecosystems and created private roundtables and settings to catalyse real business & conversations to happen. Delegates will take back invaluable partnerships, access to syndication deals, market insights and overview of trends as well as potential deal flow from our chosen 42 startups!

You won’t find speakers dropping by for just two hours, no trade-fare style exhibitions, no stuffy networking events nor the same old rehashed content. Our idea of a conference is when people see it and are wowed, awed by the sheer perfection of content, experience, venue, ambience, networking, quality of people and more.

Last but not the least, we’d like to thank some amazing people who’ve shown their support since the inception of the conference. The Junction’s advisory include our patrons our power-panel of catalysts.

The experience is open to a curated audience and will feature bespoke brands and speakers. Some of the speakers so far include:

The slots are limited to 300 people and participation is by invitation only with delegate passes starting from $1199 (INR 82,500). For a change, how about skipping on buying that new iPhone and investing in your business?

For more details, speakers, updates and agenda, head over to our website (which, by the way, just went live) JunctionConf.com. Join us to witness the story of “New India” in the making.

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