Tech4democracy Venture Day New Delhi

On March 2nd at 10:00 am, IE University and the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) will host the fourth Tech4Democracy Venture Day at the Taj Palace Hotel (Shah Jahan Hall) in New Delhi, India.

Tech4Democracy is a global initiative by IE University, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State and with the support of Microsoft. The New Delhi Venture Day will feature a competition of 5 Asia-Pacific startups that are pioneering the development of usable democracy-affirming technologies.

This event will take place in conjunction with the Raisina Dialogue.

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Agenda:

10h00 Institutional Welcome

• Anirban Sarma, Chair, T20 Task Force, Observer Research Foundation
• Irene Blázquez, Director, Center for the Governance of Change, IE University
• Arati Prabhakar, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Ashutosh Chadha, Country Head Government Affairs & Public Policy, Microsoft

10h30 Opening Comments by the Competition Judges:

• Gabby Bush, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, University of Melbourne (Australia)
• Ko Fujii, Founder and CEO, Makaira (Japan)
• Vrinda Kapoor, CEO and Co-Founder, 3rdiTech (India)
• Nayani Nasa, Innovation evangelist, Microsoft (India)
• Gautam Saxena, Founder and Managing Partner, Pegasus 7 Ventures (Singapore)
• Priya Shah, General Partner, Theia Ventures (India)

10h50 Competition of democracy-affirming startups: 5 companies will pitch their innovations and have a Q&A with the judge panel:

• Right2Vote (India)
• Ringaze (Nepal)
• SafeToOpen (New Zealand)
• Smile (Singapore)
• Suarise (Indonesia)

11h50 Winner award

12h00 Lunch

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Part of President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, the initiative’s purpose is to mobilize democratic governments, the private sector, and civil society to defend democracy today and safeguard it for future generations.

This event is also supported by Woxsen University.

The location of the Tech4Democracy Asia-Pacific Venture Day is the same as the Raisina Dialogue. Additional accreditation is required to access Raisina.