There are many examples of Swedish business flourishing in India by focusing on India’s specific needs. Swedish company OMC Power is revamping the consumer market in the rural areas of India, thinking cheap, thinking possible, thinking profitable. Swedish company Truecaller has made India its largest market with 100s of millions of people signing up. In India, the subscriber base of Facebook and LinkedIn together has surpassed 100 million mark; and the mobile Internet user base has surpassed 140 million. How do you tap the Indian consumer? India has unlimited brains and skilled manpower while Sweden has long been a leading innovation nation known for its excellent technology and systems. Can the complementary strengths be combined for a brighter future? Can Sweden and India become partners in progress? Can India be the platform to bring this together?

SPEAKERS

• Kjell Håkan Närfelt (Opening Remarks) – Chief Strategy Officer, Vinnova
• Pavan Sukhdev (Keynote Speaker)– CEO, GIST Advisory
• Lars Winter (Keynote Speaker)– CEO, Domsjö Fabriker AB
• Alan Mamedi (Panel Member)– Co-Founder, Truecaller
• Anil Raj (Panel Member) – CEO and Co-Founder, OMC Power
• Fredrika Ornbrant (Panel Member) – Consul General of Sweden to Mumbai, India
• Niklas Jungegård (Panel Member) – CEO, Sqore
• R Srikar (Panel Member) – Innovation Manager, Godrej Group
• Dr Soniya Billore, PhD (Panel Member) – Doctoral Degree in Marketing Management, Senior Lecturer, Linnaeus University

Moderator: Mikolaj Norek – Forum for Innovation Management (FIM)

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• GE’s Annual Global Innovation Barometer named India the world’s sixth most innovative country
• Firms are delegating responsibility of complete product responsibility to their offshore offices in India
• India’s increasing demand for innovative products and services is a result from a rapidly growing middle class with greater purchasing power
• Demand for solutions to some of India’s domestic challenges such as pollution, health care and education, infrastructure and more provides significant opportunities for Swedish companies to renew their businesses and drive global growth using the power of the Indian market as an innovation hub.
• “Frugal Innovation” is driven by Indian price-sensitive markets and encouraged by Indian innovativeness