Inside India's biggest AI festival 👀
(It wasn't all workshops.)
We pulled off hosting India’s biggest AI festival earlier this month!
300+ members repping some of the biggest companies. 48 action-packed hours. At a 5-star resort in Goa.
It took a village, many sleepless nights, and incredible partner support to deliver a state-of-the-art experience.
WisprFlow acted as our voice partner across all our buildathons. We’ve done 50+ of these before, but this was by far the fastest we’ve built — all because we could speak instead of type.
Hissa, our liquidity partner, turned what could’ve been a dry ESOP session into one of the highlights of the event. A live buzzer, lightning-fast market swings, and more drama than anyone expected.
Z21 Ventures, an early-stage VC specifically focused on opening doors for founders, was our VC partner. Sudarshan (their Co-Founder and Partner) showed us how to fundraise and do it well.
And The Silly Fellows, our media partner, helped us preserve every moment in pictures — and made sure the world saw it on Instagram.
Let me set the tone for the event.
9:57 am - Builders pitch their AI projects
11:24 am - 2 founders debate funding an AI startup
5:12 pm - The two founders were spotted enjoying a chilled beer on the beach
Critics turned collaborators in under 10 hours. Not once. Not twice. But multiple times over. Here’s exactly what happened behind the scenes.
AI central
Think AI workshops on steroids — curated rooms, a charged crowd, and hosts who are masters of their craft. Here are the highlights from our 48+ AI hours.
1. The shipper-exclusive AI Builders’ Mixer.
22 founders. One mic. Working demos only.
Members came in with a live build. Left with feedback, collaborators, and people who help you move faster.
2. The AI workshop PMs wish they had at work.
It wasn’t another tool dump. Real-world onboarding and activation workflows that reduce time to value by 2X. Tricks to turn signals into growth. All enterprise-friendly. Vetted by real PMs from ~30+ companies.
3. Positioning → Execution in 120-minutes.
Frameworks got unpacked. Tools were tested live. Workflows built on the spot. Research → outbound → positioning → content → ops. Not as slides. But as working systems.
4. Branding playbooks from the AI age.
How to use AI beyond AEO? For scripts, videos and ad angles. For iterations. What does an AI-first brand playbook look like? Do paid ads fit? And how to think in systems for all of this to work? All answered.
GrowthX builder accelerators
Where members got a front-row seat to how the top 1% actually work. Live. Unfiltered.
1. Trade secrets from India’s best Market Researcher.
The trickiest market research questions got cracked wide open. Insight extraction, high-signal interview building, turning messy inputs into sharp product calls — there was a framework for everything.
2. Battle of the ESOPs. 30* members. One 25,000 cash prize.
Build a startup. Allocate equity. Raise capital. Dodge market conditions. Planned exits. Quick. All for a real cash prize. Members shed sweat, strength and tears. Only one got the crown.
GrowthX Founder Circle
One room for the future founders — to plan the leap. One for the strivers — to pause, reflect, and redirect. One for those taking the big leap, raising funds ft. Sudarshan Ravi. Tea was spilt. Connections were built. And numbers? Exchanged.
FamJam and Chill
When in Goa, you've got to have fun. Cue the ice baths at noon. Slack-lining between palm trees. Beach footy with beers. Calming yoga flows and chill cycling crews. Vision boarding by the bay, a cake ritual no one saw coming, and a themed gala night that turned strangers into your people.
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