Ahmedabad:  The whatnext 2016 is like to bring in a variety of opinion leaders, policy designers, successful entrepreneurs, academicians and leading investors to share the experiences and their vision in creation of a world class startup ecosystem. The theme of the event is “Startup Ecosystems – Learn, Shape and Benefit”. Experts from the US, Israel and India will highlight how their respective ecosystems have matured and provide insight into what they believe India should do to build its ecosystem in record time to support large number of entrepreneurs.

Mr. Pablo Brenner, one of the keynote speaker, has a wide experience in US and Israel entrepreneurial ecosystem and currently involved in Uruguay startup ecosystem, will share his experience at the conference. Prof. Eugene Kandel and Dr. Harry Yuklea will share insights on Israel startup ecosystem and Indian entrepreneurs can learn and get benefit from it.Mr. H.K Mittal will present the emerging Indian Startup Ecosystem and how it can be shaped into a successful ecosystem vis a vis US and Israel. Mr. Arvind Agarwal will focus on startup ecosystem of Gujarat.

Mr. Pablo Brenner, BDE at Globant, Partner at Prosperitas Capital Partners, and Director at CPGSoft and Junar Data:

‘I am very excited about India. In last few weeks, I have come to know a lot about India’s emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem. I am looking forward to my visit to India and share my experience at icreate’s whatnext 2016’

Mr. Parag Amin, Covener (whatnext 2016) & Founding Director, icreate:

‘As an early contributor to the development of entrepreneurial ecosystem in Gujarat, each year, icreate invites global experts to speak at WhatNext about cutting edge technologies, ‎global best practices, future of entrepreneurial pursuits, and the required policy framework.’

Given the importance of the event, Mr. Saurabh Patel, Finance Minister, GoG and Mr. Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Education Minister, GoG will be participating at whatnext 2016.

Continuing the tradition of whatnext, focusing on technology trends and emerging entrepreneurial opportunities, whatnext 2016 will also have sessions on 4th Industrial Revolution – A WEF, Davos calling; CleanTechnology and IoT& Cutting Edge Technologies.

With increasing focus on entrepreneurship across India, icreate promises to play an important role in shaping the Indian Entrepreneurial ecosystem. With campus and corpus coming in, icreate is poised for various initiatives for different stakeholders of the entire ecosystemto build entrepreneurial capital that leverages emerging technologies.