ABOUT IDEAS 2021
This is a flagship initiative by TiE Delhi-NCR and QGLUE (Strategic Design and Innovation firm of QAI) to incite, inform and inspire design and innovation-driven entrepreneurship within the country. The 2 half day virtual summit brings together organizations, experts, speakers, and leaders from across the country to facilitate discussions and to collaborate on design, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
The objectives for this conference is to:
Empower start-ups to maximise their success and impact.
Enable startups and corporate to collaborate and co-innovate
Establish a powerful platform for celebrating design-driven entrepreneurship


Untapping the potential of startups and corporate collaboration to foster innovation by leveraging each other's strengths.

Panel Discussion
Myriads of keynotes and panel discussions by diverse design luminaries and thought leaders to inspire founders on design and innovation for business growth.

Entrepreneurship Awards
A premier annual awards program keenly contested by thousands of early to mid-stage startups worldwide.

Case Studies and IDEA Talks
An opportunity for attendees to actively learn-through-examples to practise design and innovation driven methodologies for businesses.



CEO QAI | Founder QGLUE Conference Chair
Fallacy of the Next Big Thing

Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California Formerly with Microsoft for 14 years

Chairperson Quattro Ex-Chairman, NASSCOM
Agile Innovation in the Post-Covid World:
A Case Study

Chairman- i3G Advisory Network
Creative User Research Techniques to Fool-proof
your Product Market Fit

Founder Potentials & Possibilities
Embracing Uncertainties for Innovation

Innovation Lead @ Brink & COVIDaction
Design Your Thinking

Co-Founder- Now Floats
Design for Inclusion Powered by FCDO -
UK Govt - Startup Showcase

Co-Founder - I-Stem

Co-Founder & CEO - GingerMind.ai
Live Brand Design

Partner/ MD, Spread Design BV

Founding Partner, Spread Design & Innovation (Moderator)
Designing Great Experiences

Founder CRED

Head of Design. CRED
TiE Delhi NCR and QGLUE (the Design Venture of QAI)
Design-Led Entrepreneurship Awards

Chief Design Officer - IBM INteractive Experience

Group Design Director - Fjord

President - NEC- Asso. of Designers

HOD Product Design - Pearl Academy (Chair) Finalists Presentations & Award Giving
Corporate StartUp Innovation : A Perspective

Head of Global Corporate Growth, 500 Startups Ecosystems

CEO QAI | Founder QGLUE
Crossing Boundaries: Corporates-Startups
Partnerships for Modern Innovation

Chief Commercial Officer, MG Motor India

Global Head - Innovation- Accelerator KMart Australia

Netapp Accelerator

Country Head-Venture Capital & Private Equity Partnerships- Microsoft (Moderator)
Open Innovation Success Stories

Founder & CEO - IncubateHub (Moderator)

Head of Digital, Innovation & Architecture at DCB Bank

Founder, Aurigraph.io
Innovation In Times Of Disruption :
The Open innovation Way

Head of Startup Accelerator @ Maersk OceanPro India | AIM China

General Manager, Innovation Mgt & Digital Business - Siemens Healthineers

Head of Open Innovation at Societe Generale Global Solution Centre

(F6S) (Moderator)
Co-Innovation Network (COINTM) :
Understanding TCS's Global Open Innovation Initiative

VP, Co-Innovation Network (COIN TM) Tata Consultancy Services

Innovation Consultant, Business & Technology Services, Corporate Research and Innovation, TCS.

Global Vice-President-GSI Business at Cohesity

Director of Channels and Alliances, Americas at Kore
TraceX and Olam Agro -
A Case Study

Co -Founder, TraceX Tech

Vice President at Olam Agro

SVP & Chief of Staff to CEO & MD - Tech Mahindra (moderator)

Principal Partner EY, Innovation Realized Practice, Pennsylvania USA Formerly with IDEO

Research Director YourStory Media Innovation Officer, Big Asia Pacific Consulting, Singapore

Senior Partnerships Manager / Program Director - Plug and Play, California







































The Delhi-NCR Chapter of TiE, one of the biggest and most vibrant of the TiE chapters, has unique significance. It seeks to engage not only with entrepreneurs but also with policy makers, in order to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship. In the last 10 years, it has emerged as the forum of choice for startups, serial entrepreneurs, VC and angel investors, policy makers and academia. TiE Delhi-NCR conducts over 50 events every year covering aspects of entrepreneurship like funding and finance, marketing and sales, expanding into new geographies and business and organization management.
To know more about us : https://delhi.tie.org

QGLUE is a venture promoted by QAI. QGLUE helps businesses design services that people love and also impact the world around us. Using a human centered approach with robust framework rooted in design research, analytics and process modelling and through inculcating a design mind-set within the stakeholders. QGLUE equips people to solve wicked problems by helping them seek the problem, and reach a solution that betters the world around us.
To know more about us : https://www.q-glue.com/








