The Rise 2.0- Bengaluru Edition was organized on 24^th October at Welcome Hotel in Bengaluru. Our partners for the Bengaluru leg include Freshworks, AWS, Peennya Industry Association, Finigenie and Social Beat. The event hosted insightful interactive sessions for technology adaptation, scaling of businesses as well as dynamic networking opportunities.

Industry leaders like Shovankar Roy, Gajendra Vaishnav, Vicky Chauhan, Snehil Sunny, and Vivek Loganathan were present as speakers at the event.

The event provided insights into the step-by-step process of business growth for any business from understanding the market and expanding product lines to enhancing customer experience. It especially emphasized leveraging technology such as AI and digital marketing solutions to increase productivity and sustainable growth in SMBs. There was a specific emphasis on AI adoption for business as the Indian AI market is projected to reach $17 billion with a CAGR of 25-35%.

One of the highlights of the event was the session by the solution engineer of Freshworks, Snehil Sunny. He demonstrated the role Freshworks is playing by providing AI solutions to scale businesses as well as enhanced customer and employee experiences.

For the last decade, SMBConnect organized more than 100 events across 50 cities with nearly 300 panelists and speakers with more than 75000 connections with 6 series of events. Some of its other initiatives are Start-Manage-Expand, Advaita and Bharat D2C meetup.