About ‘BEOT Summit 2026’

India is entering a new phase of enterprise growth. New-age startups, MSMEs, and mid-sized businesses are expanding their ambitions beyond survival and scale. They are looking to build businesses that can compete, adapt, and endure.

At the same time, the operating environment is becoming more complex. AI is reshaping business models. Competition is intensifying. Access to markets, technology, talent, and capital is becoming a bigger differentiator.

For many businesses, the challenge is no longer starting up. The challenge is scaling up. How do companies move from innovation to execution? How do they grow without losing focus, agility, or competitiveness?

Against this backdrop, Dun & Bradstreet’s ‘Business Enterprises of Tomorrow 2026’ summit will bring together founders, business leaders, policymakers, investors, and ecosystem partners to discuss the next playbook for enterprise growth in India.

3000+

Attendees

200+

Knowledge Sessions

400+

Sponsors

350+

Speakers

The Next Growth Playbook:From Innovation to Scale

This year’s theme reflects the realities of building businesses in a rapidly changing world. Growth today requires more than ambition. It requires competitiveness, adaptability, capital, technology, and execution discipline. The theme follows the enterprise journey from innovation and early growth to institutional maturity. It highlights the capabilities needed to build businesses that can scale and endure.

VISION — The Enterprise Ambition

Building the next generation of enterprises through innovation, scalable business models, AI-led decision-making, and disciplined execution.

MOMENTUM — Accelerating MSME Growth

Strengthening competitiveness through productivity, quality, market access, financing, and digital enablement to unlock the next phase of growth.

MATURITY — Mid-Sized & Rising Giants

Building institutional strength through governance, technology, risk management, and capital readiness to support sustainable scale.

Key Dignitaries

Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran

Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance

Government of India

Shri Mihir Kumar, IDAS

Chief Executive Officer

Government e Marketplace

Shri Ateesh Kumar Singh IRTS

Additional Secretary - DPIIT

Government of India

Our Speakers

Ashish Pradhan

Chief Executive Officer

Siegwerk India

Dinesh Goyal

Chairman

CAPEXIL, Government of India

Harshal Akhouri

Co-Founder & Director

Strolar Mounting Systems

Jayanti Goela

Chief Executive Officer

GAS LAB Asia

Jim Rakesh

Chief Executive Officer

Rox Hi-Tech Limited

Saurabh Munjal

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Archian Foods Pvt Ltd (Lahori Zeera)

Naynesh Pasari

Chief Executive Officer

Shree Krishna Paper Mills

Shri Akhilesh Kumar, ISS

Deputy Director General, Ministry of Textiles

Government of India

Saurabh Verma

Senior Digital Transformation Specialist

Highbar Technocrat Limited

Raman Bhatia

Founder & Managing Director

Servotech Renewable Power System Limited

Sundeep Mohindru

Chief Executive Officer

M1Xchange

Shaily Mehrotra

Founder & CEO

Fix Derma

Pankaj Gupta

GM and Global Head - Governance & Transformation Global Procurement, Finance

Wipro Limited

Sandeep Puri

Executive Director

ALP Overseas Private Limited

Bhadresh Pathak

EVP and Business Head

L&T-SuFin

Jogendra Singh

President & Group CFO

Hero Enterprise

Kanika Tekriwal

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

JetSetGo India

Mayank Sharma

Regional Lead

Android Enterprise Partnerships

Parvathi Moorthy

Head – SME Listings

NSE

Rohit Ambosta

Chief Delivery O­fficer – Cyber Operations & Engineering

63SATS Cybertech

Sagar Rameshrao Kadu

Director – DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce & Industry

Government of India

Sumit K Arora

VP, Android Business Group

Redington Ltd

Syed Zubair Noqvi

Director - Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance

Government of India

Gaurav Mangla

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Shiprocket and Pickrr

Mithileshwar Thakur

Secretary General

Apparel Export Promotion Council

Pranay Garg

Managing Director

Advance Valves Private Limited

Sudhir Dhingra

Chairman & Managing Director

Orient Craft Limited

Sumeet Bansal

Head of Marketing (MHE)

Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited

Pankaj Agarwal

Dy. General Manager, SME

State Bank of India

Siddarth Jain

Director and Founder

MLJ Industries Limited

Amit Anand

Managing Director

Apis India Limited

Vinamra Mishra ,IRSME

Joint Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Government of India

Julian Prower

Managing Director & CEO

Dun & Bradstreet India

Preeta Misra

Vice President - Commercial Business

Dun & Bradstreet India

Govind Joshi

Chief Operating Officer

Dun & Bradstreet India

Dr Arun Singh

Chief Economist

Dun & Bradstreet India

Hitesh Sethi

Senior Director, Analytics and Business Advisory

Dun & Bradstreet India

Somnath Talukdar

Director

Dun & Bradstreet India

Ankush Tandon

Director

Dun & Bradstreet India

Souma Kanti Paul

Director Data & AI

Dun & Bradstreet India

Ajay Mahashur

Director - Sales

Dun & Bradstreet India

Umang Sood

Senior Sales Leader

Dun & Bradstreet India

Our Partners

Why Attend?

Why Attend?

Key Discussion Areas

BEOT Award Winners 2026

Sr. No.

Category Name

Winners

1

Automobiles: OEM & Components (SME)

Chamundi Die Cast Private Limited

2

Automobiles: OEM & Components (Mid-Corporate)

Henkel Anand India Private Limited

3

Chemicals (SME)

Chemico Chemicals Private Limited

4

Chemicals (Mid-Corporate)

Acutaas Chemicals Limited

5

 Capital Goods (SME)

Advance Valves Private Limited

6

Capital Goods (Mid-Corporate)

KP Green Engineering Limited

7

Food & Agro Processing (SME)

Kisan Fodder Mills Private Limited

8

Food & Agro Processing (Mid-Corporate)

Nuziveedu Seeds Limited

9

Leather, Wood & Paper Products (SME)

Talin Modular Office Furniture Systems Private Limied

10

Leather, Wood & Paper Products (Mid-Corporate)

Stylam Industries Limited

11

Light & Heavy Engineering Products (SME)

Pandrol Rahee Technologies Private Limited

12

Light & Heavy Engineering Products (Mid-Corporate)

Oswal Pumps Limited

13

Pharmaceuticals (SME)

Ananta Medicare Limited

14

Pharmaceuticals (Mid-Corporate)

Concord Biotech Limited

15

Plastic & Rubber Products (SME)

Udyogi Plastics Private Limited

16

Plastic & Rubber Products (Mid-Corporate)

K.L.J. Polymers Private Limited

17

Textile & Textile Articles (SME)

Suam Overseas Private Limited

18

Textile & Textile Articles (Mid-Corporate)

Kapoor Industries Limited

19

Digital Solutions (SME)

Pennant Technologies Private Limited

20

Digital Solutions (Mid-Corporate)

Amnex Infotechnologies Private Limited

21

Engineering Services (SME)

RBM Infracon Limited

22

  Engineering Services (Mid-Corporate) SCON Projects Private Limited 

23

  Education (SME)  Jaro Institute Of Technology Management And Research Limited

24

  Health Services (SME)  Metro Medical Services Limited

25

  Health Services (Mid-Corporate)  Lifenity Health Limited

26

  Information Technology Services (SME)  E2E Networks Limited

27

  Logistics & Shipping (Mid-Corporate)  Mundra International Container Terminal Private Limited

28

  Packaging (SME)  Dawer Propack Private Limited

29

  Packaging (Mid-Corporate) YUTO Printing & Packaging (India) Private Limited 

30

  Professional Services (SME) Concept Consilio India Private Limited 

31

  Professional Services (Mid-Corporate)  Intertek India Private Limited

32

  Travel, Tourism & Hospitality (SME)  FlySBS Aviation Limited

33

  Travel, Tourism & Hospitality (Mid-Corporate)  Travel Food Services Limited

About Report - ‘Business Enterprises of Tomorrow: The AI Moment for India’s MSMEs’

A research-led report that examines how India’s MSMEs are adopting AI, the value being realized, and what businesses must do to turn early use into sustained advantage. The report will cover:

  • Current AI adoption, deployment and business outcomes across India’s MSME landscape

  • Five critical gaps between AI use and AI advantage through D&B’s RIFTS framework: Reliability, Integration, Future Value, Talent and Safeguards

  • The economic opportunity from deeper AI adoption, including pathways to unlock productivity, cost, financing and growth value through 2030

  • D&B’s LEAP framework, outlining four sequential moves to build stronger data foundations, organization-wide capability, system-level integration and differentiated customer journeys.

Agenda

  • How do successful founders spot problems worth solving at scale?
  • Innovation in business models, pricing, distribution, and execution — not just products.
  • What makes a business model truly scalable from day one?
  • Building the MVP- How minimal is "minimum viable" — speed vs perfection in early product builds.
  • Signals that indicate readiness to move from MVP to growth.
  • Managing rapid growth while protecting product quality, culture, and unit economics.

Moderator: Mr. Umang Sood, Senior Sales Leader, Dun & Bradstreet India

Panelist:

  • Mr. Gaurav Mangla, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Shiprocket and Pickrr
  • Mr. Harshal Akhouri, Co-Founder & Director, Strolar Mounting Systems
  • Ms. Jayanti Goela, Chief Executive Officer, GAS LAB Asia
  • Mr. Sundeep Mohindru, Chief Executive Officer, M1Xchange
  • Mr. Siddarth Jain, Director and Founder, MLJ Industries Limited
  • Competitiveness - Driving productivity, consistency, and cost excellence to compete at scale
  • Leveraging Platforms as Growth Multipliers - Using ONDC, GeM and digital marketplaces to expand reach and efficiency
  • Building Institutional Capability - Strengthening compliance, governance, and process maturity for sustainable growth
  • Policy & Ecosystem Alignment -Enablers required to unlock MSME scale and global competitiveness

Moderator: Mr. Ankush Tandon, Director, Dun & Bradstreet India

Panelists:

  • Mr. Amit Anand, Managing Director, Apis India Limited
  • Mr. Jim Rakesh, Chief Executive Officer, Rox Hi-Tech Limited
  • Ms. Kanika Tekriwal, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, JetSetGo India
  • Mr. Naynesh Pasari, Chief Executive Officer, Shree Krishna Paper Mills
  • Mr. Saurabh Munjal, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Archian Foods Pvt Ltd (Lahori Zeera)
  • How MSMEs can leverage strong local capabilities to compete internationally
  • Quality, price, functionality, productivity, and cost excellence as entry tickets for global scale
  • Choosing the Right Global Pathways - Selecting the right markets and modes of entry
  • Building Trust and Credibility Across Borders - Role of quality standards in winning global customers
  • Navigating Trade, Policy, and Market Realities
  • Handling supply chain complexity, operations, partners, and working capital across markets

Moderator: Mr. Somnath Talukdar, Director, Dun & Bradstreet India

Panelists:

  • Mr. Mithileshwar Thakur, Secretary General, Apparel Export Promotion Council
  • Mr. Pranay Garg, Managing Director, Advance Valves Private Limited
  • Mr. Rajeev Kapur, Managing Director, Steelbird Hi-Tech India Limited
  • Mr. Raman Bhatia, Founder & Managing Director, Servotech Renewable Power System Limited
  • Mr. Sagar Rameshrao Kadu, Director – DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India
  • Mr. Sudhir Dhingra, Chairman & Managing Director, Orient Craft Limited
  • Cash-flow vs collateral-led lending
  • Embedded finance, invoice discounting, supply-chain finance
  • Role of data, GST, and alternative signals
  • Blended capital: debt, equity, venture debt

Moderator: Ms. Preeta Misra, VP - Commercial Business, Dun & Bradstreet India

Panelists:

  • Mr. Bhadresh Pathak, EVP and Business Head, L&T-SuFin
  • Mr. Pankaj Agarwal Dy. General Manager, SME, State Bank of India
  • Mr. Syed Zubair Noqvi, Director - Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
  • Managing Emerging & Non Traditional Risks: Addressing financial, regulatory, cyber, supply chain, and technology risks that intensify with scale.
  • Enterprise Data & Emerging Technologies for Scale: Strengthening enterprise data and technology platforms to enable efficiency, visibility, and scalable operations.
  • Institutional Readiness for the Next Growth Phase: Preparing for partnerships, larger balance sheets, and expansion through stronger financial and organizational maturity.

Moderator: Mr. Ajay Mahashur, Director - Sales, Dun & Bradstreet India

Panelists:

  • Mr. Govind Joshi, Chief Operating Officer, Dun & Bradstreet India
  • Mr. Jogendra Singh, President & Group CFO, Hero Enterprise
  • Mr. Pankaj Gupta, GM and Global Head - Governance & Transformation Global Procurement, Finance, Wipro Limited
  • Ms. Parvathi Moorthy, Head – SME Listings, NSE
  • Mr. Sandeep Puri, Executive Director, ALP Overseas Private Limited

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