A number of the most precious enterprise concepts don’t begin inside boardrooms, investor conferences or rigorously ready pitch decks.

Typically, they start with a easy dialog.

A founder meets a enterprise chief between classes. An investor hears about an issue being solved in an business they’d by no means checked out intently. Two folks alternate concepts, keep in contact and, months later, that dialog turns right into a partnership.

That risk is on the coronary heart of International Enterprise Conclave 2026, which can convey entrepreneurs, buyers, company leaders and innovators collectively in Mumbai on October 8, 2026.

Among the many distinguished names set to affix the gathering is former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes, alongside senior enterprise leaders together with Tarunesh Mathur of Schindler India, Kiran Komatla of Restaurant Manufacturers Asia, Ashit Kukian of BIG FM and Gaurav Tanna of Godrej Finance.

The lineup additionally consists of founders Sowmya Iyer, Shveta Raina, Vinay Pushpakaran and Chandan Polekar, bringing collectively folks from completely different industries, companies and phases of their entrepreneurial journeys.

However the thought behind this GBC shouldn’t be merely to place achieved folks on a stage and have an viewers pay attention.

The conclave is being constructed round one thing extra primary, and infrequently extra useful in enterprise: placing the appropriate folks in the identical room and giving them the area to speak.

Organised as an initiative of International EDu Crew, GBC describes itself as a management discussion board that brings collectively entrepreneurs, enterprise leaders, buyers, innovators, policymakers and business specialists to alternate concepts, construct significant connections and discover new alternatives.

Its bigger message is summed up in three strains: “Constructing Communities. Inspiring Change. Creating Affect.”

For an entrepreneur, that might imply assembly somebody who understands a problem they’ve been scuffling with.

For an investor, it might imply discovering a enterprise they might not have come throughout in any other case.

And for an skilled company chief, it might merely imply listening to a contemporary perspective from somebody constructing from the bottom up.

These trying to attend can register for Global Business Conclave 2026 here.