People's Festival of Innovations
About PFoI
A Unique oppurtunity for participation of young students and researchers who are budding entrepreneurs, young start ups and innovators taking their ideas forward to create enterprises and organizations. An Excellent platform to engage and network with best national and international experts and other ecosystem stakeholders.
It is a platform that catalyzes the convergence of deep-tech and grassroots innovations from across India, focusing on affordable and inclusive solutions for unmet social needs. The Festival brings together innovators, startups, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, domain area professionals, academicians, investors, and policymakers to discuss the success stories, challenges, and future trends for taking these innovations forward to address local and global challenges.
Objectives
a) To create wider awareness about the emerging inclusive innovation ecosystem, including high-tech bio-enterprises and grassroots innovations.
b) To help connect innovators across this spectrum so that mutual learning and collaboration take place. To link the frugality and groundedness of grassroots innovations with high-tech applications for social impact.
c) To expose young college and school students to a wide range of innovations and facilitate their interactions with innovators so that they aspire to be creative, innovative, and empathetic in addressing unmet social needs.
d) To connect investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and other important stakeholders with innovators to accelerate value chain development for wider social impact.
e) To identify opportunities for strengthening the inclusive innovation ecosystem further, making India more creative, collaborative, and compassionate.
