Peoples’ Festival of Innovations PFI 2023 opens its 2nd year by calling for Deep-Science and Grassroots Innovations
Innovation has been the backbone of the Indian growth story in the last decade. But beyond its role as an economic accelerator, innovation connects with society, changes lives and solves challenges. Its objective is for and with people. The People’s Festival of Innovations, a celebration of India’s innovative spirit, conceptualized, curated and mentored by doyens of the country’s innovation landscape and organized as an annual initiative by C-CAMP (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms) and GIAN (Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network) is set in this context.
After a fantastic kick-off in 2022, this much-awaited festival has announced a second edition, PFI 2023, themed as Scaling Innovations: From Idea to Impact. It is returning to India International Centre, New Delhi from Nov 28th to Dec 2nd, 2023.
PFI 2023 is envisaged as an exciting science innovation platform for both Deep Tech and Grassroots innovations addressing needs across Healthcare, Agriculture & Animal Health, farming machinery, natural resource management, environment & clean energy sectors. It will bring together innovators and various stakeholders from the national and global innovation ecosystem presenting a unique opportunity to showcase, accelerate, and amplify up scale and impact of breakthrough ideas.
The Festival is conceived primarily as a platform for fostering high-impact engagements, where innovators will meet not only experts but also the public creating wider awareness and a more inclusive, people-centric innovation culture. The Festival will also have networking opportunities, one-on-one sessions, plenary talks, panel discussions as well as informal story-telling sessions. It is expected to be attended by innovators, scientists, domain experts, policy makers, international organizations, government departments, delegations, and investors. A High level Discussion Summit is also on the cards, involving Innovators, Industry, Investors, Policy makers, International organizations and ecosystem players and stakeholders including Investors and regulators that will ponder on the successes as well as emerging challenges of India’s deeptech and grassroots innovations ecosystem.
This year the Festival is extending its invite-only participation by opening up registrations by both deep tech and grassroots or frugal innovators. The festival is curated by visionaries like Dr Renu Swarup, Former Secretary to the Govt of India, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Prof. Anil Gupta, Founder, Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, GIAN and NIF, Visiting Faculty, IIMA & Niper-A, Academy Professor, ACSIR, Dr Swati Basu, Former Scientific Secretary, Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt of India and Dr Taslimarif Saiyed, Director-CEO of C-CAMP.
Innovators will get the opportunity to interact and network with leading Investors & Investment Networks, International and National Health Agencies, National Public Health Departments and agencies, Embassies, Regulatory and Policy Experts and Technical Experts
Curated sessions for innovators will include Innovation Showcase, One-on-one sessions with experts, Dialogues for scaling Innovations and market deployment and Networking Sessions for building partnerships
