Entrepreneur 2026: New Delhi Summit to Spotlight Fintech, AI and Future-Ready Finance

September 19, 2026 • Upcoming Events

Basic Event Information

Event Name: Entrepreneur 2026
Edition: 16th edition
Date: October 5, 2026
Venue: Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
Event timing: The registration page currently lists 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Official theme: “Innovating and Thriving in the New Era of Entrepreneurship”
The conference is also built around the broader theme “Viksit Bharat: How Entrepreneurs Will Shape the Future of India.”

What Entrepreneur 2026 Is About

Entrepreneur India positions the 2026 edition as a gathering focused on the businesses, technologies, and entrepreneurs shaping India’s next phase of growth.
The official agenda says the event will examine:
- Future sectors
- Investment trends
- Sustainable business building
- Life and work in the age of AI
- Startup-corporate collaboration
The event’s broader framing connects entrepreneurship with technology, innovation, investment, digital transformation, and inclusive economic growth.

Scale of the Event

Entrepreneur India currently lists the following headline figures:

1,500+ attendees
150+ speakers
250+ startups
75+ award categories
6 summits/stages on the main conference overview.
The exhibition page separately refers to 120+ speakers, 5 summits, and 30+ sessions, so there is currently a difference between the headline conference and exhibition figures. For a TheFinRate article, I would use the main conference figures and avoid presenting the exhibition numbers as the overall event total.

Why the Event Is Relevant to the FinRate

The biggest reason to cover Entrepreneur 2026 on TheFinRate is that the agenda goes beyond general entrepreneurship.

There is a dedicated session:

“Future-Ready Exchanges: Scaling for Speed, Resilience & Global Integration”

Scheduled for:

3:35 PM–4:15 PM
Main conference agenda
Topics include:
- Embedded finance
- Digital financial services
- Exchange and market infrastructure
- Cybersecurity
- Operational resilience
- Trust in digital finance
- India’s fintech ecosystem
- Future-ready capital markets
- Transparency and financial inclusion.

This gives TheFinRate a direct financial-services angle instead of treating the event as a general startup conference.

Key Fintech and Financial Services Themes

For TheFinRate, these are the most important themes to highlight:

Embedded finance: The agenda specifically discusses how financial services are becoming integrated into everyday customer experiences.
Fintech infrastructure: The conference examines how technology is changing financial-market infrastructure.
Cybersecurity: Digital financial ecosystems, operational resilience, and trust are explicitly included.
Capital markets: The agenda addresses the evolution of exchanges and future-ready capital markets.
IPO and M&A: A separate 4:15 PM–4:50 PM session focuses on IPO preparation, M&A, governance, profitability, and India’s changing capital markets.
Investment: The 5:25 PM–6:00 PM session examines where investors are placing capital and how businesses can prepare for sustainable growth and future fundraising.
AI: AI-first enterprises, autonomous AI agents, responsible AI, and AI-enabled product development are also major themes.

Important Speakers for TheFinRate

Entrepreneur India’s current speaker list includes a large number of business, technology, investment, and fintech leaders.

Particularly relevant names for TheFinRate include:

Bipin Preet Singh—Managing Director, Co-Founder & CEO, One MobiKwik Systems Ltd.
Dr. Raj P. Narayanam—Founder & Executive Chairman, Zaggle
Vikram Gupta—Founder & Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures
Vineet Rai—Founder, Aavishkaar Group & Managing Partner, Aavishkaar Capital
Ishpreet Singh Gandhi—Founder & Managing Partner, Stride Ventures
Gopal Srinivasan—Chairman & Managing Director, TVS Capital Funds
Anuj Kumar — Managing Director, CAMS
Sundeep Mohindru—Promoter & Director, M1xchange Group
Siddharth Sureka — Chief AI Officer, Motilal Oswal Financial Services
Ramanan Ramanathan—Mission Governing Board Member, India AI Mission
C.P. Gurnani—Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, AIonOS
Rajiv Kumar — Managing Director & President, Microsoft India Development Centre
Vibhor Jain—Managing Director & CEO, ONDC.

The speaker roster continues to include senior figures across technology, venture capital, startups, manufacturing, consumer businesses, and financial services. Entrepreneur India says the current conference has 150+ speakers.

Main Conference Agenda

The official schedule currently includes:

10:00–10:10 AM: Lamp Lighting & Welcome Address
10:10–10:25 AM: Opening Keynote — Viksit Bharat 2047: Powering the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
10:25–11:00 AM: Policy to Progress: Building an Entrepreneur-Friendly India
11:00–11:35 AM: Leading Through Change: The CEO as Chief Storyteller
11:35 AM–12:10 PM: Tomorrow Inc.: Next Generation in Legacy Biz—Custodians or Disruptors
12:10–12:40 PM: Session on Indian automakers, quality, safety, and sustainability
12:40–1:00 PM: Winning in the New Economy: Leadership Lessons for India’s Next Decade
1:10–2:00 PM: Networking Lunch
2:00–2:35 PM: Reinventing Growth from Within
2:35–3:00 PM: From One Venture to the Next: The Art of Reinvention
3:00–3:35 PM: From Global to India: Why the World Is Betting on India
3:35–4:15 PM: Future-Ready Exchanges: Scaling for Speed, Resilience & Global Integration
4:15–4:50 PM: IPO & M&A: Building the Next Generation of Market Leaders
4:50–5:25 PM: AI-First Enterprises: Think. Learn. Scale.
5:25–6:00 PM: Capital for the New Economy: Where Investors Are Placing Their Bets
6:00–6:30 PM: Beyond Success: Building Influence, Purpose & Legacy.

The AI Angle

AI is one of the strongest cross-sector themes at Entrepreneur 2026.

The AI-first enterprises session covers:

Changing workforce skills
Autonomous AI agents
Responsible AI
AI governance
Transparency and trust
AI-enabled “vibe coding”
Multilingual AI
How AI changes business creation and product development.

This makes the event particularly relevant to TheFinRate’s coverage of AI in financial services, even when the individual session is broader than fintech.

Investment and Capital-Market Angle

Another major reason to cover the event is the strong investment agenda.

The “Capital for the New Economy” session looks at:

Where investors see future opportunities
What investors expect beyond rapid growth and headline valuations
Venture capital
Private equity
Family offices
Institutional investors
IPO readiness
M&A
Long-term value creation
AI, DeepTech, manufacturing, and climate technology.

For TheFinRate, this creates opportunities to connect entrepreneurship with fintech funding, venture capital, capital markets, and financial innovation.

Entrepreneur 2026 Awards

The awards are another important component.

Entrepreneur India says the 2026 awards recognize entrepreneurs, innovators, and businesses contributing to India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Of particular relevance to TheFinRate:

Fintech Startup of the Year
- Payments
- Digital lending
- International money transfers
- Personal finance
Entrepreneur of the Year — Innovation in Financial Services
Tech Startup of the Year
- Artificial intelligence
- Big data
- Blockchain
- IoT
- Security
- Machine learning
- Virtual reality
Venture Capitalist of the Year
Angel Investor of the Year
Innovative Startup of the Year
Cloud Startup of the Year
InsureTech Startup of the Year.

The dedicated fintech award specifically recognizes fintech startups offering technology-led solutions in payments, digital lending, international money transfers, and personal finance.

Who Will Attend

Entrepreneur India’s attendee profile includes:

CEOs
Co-founders
C-suite executives
VC funds
Investors
Managing Directors
Senior Vice Presidents
Executive Directors
Partners.

This is useful for TheFinRate because the audience overlaps strongly with people involved in:

Fintech investment
Financial services
Startup funding
Banking technology
Payments
AI
Corporate innovation
Venture capital
Business development.

Startup and Exhibition Component

The exhibition is designed to give entrepreneurs and startups an opportunity to showcase products and capabilities to investors, venture capital firms, and other members of the startup ecosystem.

Entrepreneur India specifically highlights:

Investor connections
Startup visibility
Industry networking
Technology discovery
Business opportunities
Exposure to entrepreneurs and investors.

That is useful for TheFinRate because the event is not limited to conference-stage discussions; it also creates a potential pipeline of Indian fintech and financial-technology companies worth monitoring for future company profiles and news coverage.

Registration and Access

The official conference registration page currently lists:

October 5, 2026
Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
9:00 AM–6:00 PM
Registration is currently open through the official website.
Entrepreneur India states that seats are limited and directs attendees to book passes.

The site also provides separate options related to:

Conference passes
Awards nominations
Partnerships
Speaking applications
Volunteer participation
Media passes.

Best TheFinRate Editorial Angle

For TheFinRate, I would not write the article as a generic startup-event announcement.

The strongest angle is

Entrepreneur 2026 Brings Fintech, AI, Capital Markets, and Investment Leaders to New Delhi

The article can then focus on:

Embedded finance
Fintech infrastructure
Future-ready exchanges
Digital financial services
Cybersecurity
AI in finance
IPO and M&A
Venture capital
Fintech awards
Financial-services innovation.

This gives the event a genuine financial-services news angle.

Recommended TheFinRate Headline

Entrepreneur 2026: New Delhi Summit to Spotlight Fintech, AI, and Future-Ready Finance

Other options:

Entrepreneur 2026 New Delhi: Fintech, AI, and Capital Markets Take Center Stage
Entrepreneur 2026: Bharat Mandapam Summit Brings Fintech and AI Leaders Together
Entrepreneur 2026 to Explore Embedded Finance, AI, and India’s Next Capital Markets

Key Takeaway for TheFinRate

Event: Entrepreneur 2026
Date: October 5, 2026
Location: Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
Format: Conference + startup/exhibition ecosystem + awards
Scale: 1,500+ attendees, 150+ speakers, 250+ startups, and 75+ award categories, according to the main event page.
Core themes: Entrepreneurship, AI, investment, sustainability, technology, startups, corporate innovation
TheFinRate relevance: Very strong, particularly through embedded finance, fintech, financial-market infrastructure, cybersecurity, capital markets, IPO/M&A, and investment sessions.
Most relevant session: Future-Ready Exchanges: Scaling for Speed, Resilience & Global Integration
Most relevant award: Fintech Startup of the Year
Strong speaker connections: MobiKwik, Zaggle, IvyCap Ventures, Aavishkaar Capital, Stride Ventures, TVS Capital Funds, CAMS, M1xchange, and other technology/financial-services leaders.