IIT Madras Global is partnering with GATES to organize ‘GATES India ICT Channel Summit 2025’ from 5th to 7th November 2025 at the IIT Madras Research Park.
The Summit will convene over 250 ICT (Information and Communication Technology) channel leaders along with technology innovators, policymakers, and growth-stage startups for a high-impact programme of strategic dialogues, curated business matchmaking, product showcases, workshops, and networking platforms — all anchored in advancing India’s position as a global technology orchestrator.
The event is facilitated by IITM Global and supported by IITM Research Park and IITM Incubation Cell.
The flagship session titled “India Inc at Full Throttle: From Innovation to Global Impact” will be held on 6th November 2025, bringing three forces of India’s innovation economy together on a single stage:
IIT Madras: Where breakthrough research transforms into scalable technologies
Redington Group: The distribution backbone powering access to innovation across 40 global markets
Zoho Corporation — a self-sustaining R&D powerhouse proving that world-class products can be built from Indian soil.
The conversation will explore how India is shifting from service provider to solution architect, and how academia, enterprise, and homegrown innovators are aligning to shape the country’s next leap in technological leadership.
Elaborating on the outcomes expected from Event, Mr. Thirumalai Madhavnarayan, Chief Executive Officer, IIT Madras Global, said, “At IIT Madras Global, we see innovation as a shared journey — one where research meets entrepreneurship and industry partnership. Hosting the GATES India ICT Channel Summit 2025 at IIT Madras Research Park reflects that belief. It connects brilliant minds who build with enterprises that scale, showing how India’s innovation ecosystem can truly create global impact. This collaboration extends IIT Madras’ mission beyond the campus — to shape the future of technology, industry, and entrepreneurship together.”
Further, Mr. Ashish Kapahi, Executive Director, GATES, “The GATES India ICT Channel Summit 2025 at IIT Madras Research Park marks an important milestone in India’s innovation journey. Bringing together pioneers like Zoho, Redington, and IIT Madras shows what’s possible when academia, enterprise, and entrepreneurship align with purpose. Our aim is to bridge technology creators with the ICT channel community — helping India move from a market of potential to a market of real influence. It’s exciting to see how this collaboration is giving shape to a confident, homegrown innovation narrative ready to scale globally.”
Also, Mr. Nat Malupillai, Group CEO, IIT Madras Research Park, “IIT Madras Research Park is pushing the boundaries on Deep-Tech wherein we find purpose for science, engineering, and technology through our talented innovators and entrepreneurs. I’m glad to see IITM Global and GATES host their ICT Channel Summit 2025 at IITM Research Park, wherein their technology innovators and vendors will have a chance to collaborate with some of the brightest minds from the IITM and IITM Research Park ecosystem and create positive societal outcomes.”
Likewise, Prof. Thillai Rajan A, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, “Start-ups are going to play an important role in the evolution of India as an innovation architect. Collaboration between academia, industry and innovators would play an important role in enabling this transition. Apart from access to technology, capital, and scientific expertise, start-ups need market access to become global players. Events such as the ICT Channel Summit play an important role in facilitating this market access, by facilitating dialogues between creators of innovation and channels of innovation, so as to access the consumers of innovation.”
Across its three-day agenda, the Summit will feature curated 1-to-1 meetings between ICT channel stakeholders and vetted startup innovators besides panel discussions on AI-led go-to-market strategies, Made-in-India platforms, women leadership in ICT, and partner ecosystem transformation.
Further, Skill-building sessions for Young Founders and channel professionals will also be held besides other events to spotlight excellence across India’s ICT growth narrative.
With participants from more than 30 cities, leading OEMs across Cloud, Security and AI, and startups incubated and validated by IITMIC, the Summit reinforces IIT Madras’ role as a national convergence point for research, entrepreneurship, and enterprise-scale transformation.
IITM Global extends IIT Madras’ mission to build a globally connected innovation ecosystem. By leveraging world-class faculty, deep-tech research infrastructure, strong alumni networks, and strategic industry partnerships, it accelerates science-led entrepreneurship and international technology collaboration.