The response for participation at the "Global Capability Centers ( GCC) - Startup network platform"' that is planned for the 16 th of March at Novotel Bangalore, has been great and we look forward to more registrations!

This program exclusively aims at facilitating conversations between GCCs and Start-ups. This program is also aligned with the goals of NASSCOM Industry Partnership Program (NIPP), which is today India's largest Industry backed corporate innovation program. This initiative will scale up under the cross pollination agenda of NIPP and be a national board to champion open innovation within GCCs. 

The GCCs in India have come a long way from Cost arbitrage to Value addition to garner path breaking Innovation's. GCCs have been one of the early adopters of engaging with the Start-up community to propel External acceleration and digital transformation. NASSCOM and the GCC community, with this common goal of getting the Enterprises and Start-ups together have created a platform GAIN - (GCC Accelerated Innovation Network).

GCCs will Gain from GAIN in multiple ways :

• Learn and leap frog from each other's experience of engaging with startups.
• Exchange of ideas and explore various models used successfully to collaborate with the start-up ecosystem.
• Create collaborative opportunities amongst the GCC's

The GAIN platform is being launched on the 16th March, 2018 at Bangalore where our endeavor is to bring all the stake holders under one roof , i.e .- GCCs , Enterprises, Start-ups, VCs, Accelerators to foster innovation and make the necessary connects to facilitate partnerships ,collaborations or M&A's.

In case you are already running an accelerator /startup engagement program, we request you to identify 2 of your most prominent startups to showcase their innovation during the conference. Request you to kindly share details of your Star Start-ups with us over email.