Vedatya Institute, Gurugram Presents
(27th & 28th October, 2026)
India is the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem, with over 1.6 lakh recognized startups and more than 100 unicorns, and the country has also launched the India Semiconductor mission to build an end-to-end semiconductor ecosystem. The nation has already achieved some of the ground-breaking milestones that postively lead to the accomplishment of the Viksit Bharat dream 2047.
Building Pathways to Viksit Bharat (Developed India) by 2047 involves a multi-pronged strategy centered on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership, requiring a whole-of-nation approach to foster economic growth, digital transformation, and inclusive development through robust startup ecosystems, advanced digital infrastructure (like DPI), skill development (NEP 2020), research, and sustainable practices, turning India into a global economic powerhouse by its centenary.
The conference’s goal is to investigate how leadership, innovations, and the startup environment can propel the country towards development. For survival in the competitive and incessant world, entrepreneurship and innovations are the robust drivers. The context of ecosystem has shifted from a simple traditional ecosystem to a global ecosystem and now a startup ecosystem, which is a dynamic and complex process. “Innovation” describes how a strong, domestic innovation ecosystem is essential to making India a developed country by the time it celebrates its centenary of independence.
The plan integrates technology, talent development, and sustainability across several sectors, emphasising a whole-of-nation approach. The conference shall provide research insights on how to interact with difficult and unpredictable economic environments to build resilient economic ecosystems through scholarly discussion, policymaking contributions, and business engagement. In orderto support Bharat’s transition to Viksit Bharat@2047, we would want to bring together academics, industry professionals, policymakers, and students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
The listed themes and sub-themes are indicative and not exhaustive and industry/segment specific. We encourage research papers and contributions from other relevant areas as well.
Interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral studies that align with the broader vision of India’s development, innovation, sustainability, inclusive growth, and contemporary issues are also welcome.
Vedatya institute is an educator for the service industry. The institute was founded in the year 2000 with a long term objective to provide best-in-class, internationally recognized, unergraduate, post graduate, doctoral and executive education programmes of study in the service sector related areas of hospitality, business and culinary arts. It currently offers undergraduate programmes in Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Business Management in partnership with Gurugram University as their Off-site Campus.
Vedatya is an initiative of IIT & the Wharton School alums who wish to replicate their quality educational experience for the benefit of students in India.
Journal of Services Research is more than a two decade old, a bi-annual double blind peer reviewed journal. JSR has produced 48 regular issues and 3 special issues till date. The first issue of the JSR was published in the year 2001. JSR since then has grown significantly and has paved an enormous platform for cutting-edge research in the fields like hospitality services, Culinary, Business management and technology and innovations. The journal is currently indexed in ABDC.
Prospective researchers and authors are invited to submit their original research papers and/or case studies for presentation at the conference. The two day international conference aims to bring together domain experts academicians, industry practitioners, key note speakers, delegates from academia and industry, research scholars and faculty members. The discussion and presentations will be centred on Agility, Resilience, Sustainability and technological innovations in Business and Service industry. Research paper/case study/ article submission are invited for sub-themes given below.
• Women entrepreneurship & leadership in Bharat
• Rural and Tribal Entrepreneurship
• Social entrepreneurship & community-based enterprise models
• Blending Traditional Knowledge with Modern Innovation
• Youth entrepreneurship & skill-based start-ups
• Green Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
• Urban, semi-urban, and rural start-up ecosystems
• MSMEs as engines of employment generation
• Policy frameworks & credit support
• Global competitiveness and Export promotion
• Bridging the Startup Bharat-Startup India divide
• Digital entrepreneurship & tech-enabled scaling
• Customer Experience in the Digital Age
• FinTech for financial inclusion
• Digital literacy & Education Innovation
• Supply Chain and Logistics Transformation
• Data privacy, ethics, and AI governance
• Leadership in public policy for entrepreneurship
• Future of Governance in the Digital Era
• Human-Centered Leadership in a Digital Age
• Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion (DEBI) 2.0
• Role of entrepreneurship in SDGs
• Building an Agile and Innovative Organizational Culture
• Rural & urban market penetration: Strategies for Bharat’s diverse consumer base
• E-commerce & omnichannel marketing: Integrating online, offline, and marketplace channels
• Sustainable & ethical marketing: Green branding, purpose-driven campaigns
• Future of work: Remote & hybrid models for start-ups and MSMEs
• AI & automation in HR: Recruitment, virtual onboarding, predictive analytics
• Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Workplace
• Each submitted paper should contain an abstract not exceeding 300 words and should be sent in MS Word format to the conference ID: conference@vedatya.ac.in
• The author(s) are required to send the abstract and full paper in 12-point font size, Times New Roman Font in MS Word with 1.5 line spacing. The first page of the manuscript should include the title of the paper, name of the author(s), organization affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number and e-mail address.
• Tables, illustrations, charts figure etc. should be serially numbered and duly acknowledged. Sources of data need to be mentioned below each table.
• The references which are used in-text should be alphabetically arranged in APA format in the Reference List.
• An Internal Expert Committee will screen the abstract on the basis of certain parameters like research content, originality and concept clarity.
• Once the abstract is accepted, the full paper should be sent on/before the due date and the word limit of the full paper should not exceed 6000 words.
The papers will be published in the conference E-proceedings. The selected papers will be given an opportunity to be published in a peer-reviewed ABDC listed journal.
One paper from each sub-themes will be shortlisted for the Best paper Award.
Abstract Submission:- 15 June 2026
Notification of Acceptance:- 30 June 2026
Author Registration:- 05 July 2026
Paper Submission:- 15 July 2026
Paper presentation(s):- 27 & 28 October 2026
Mr. Amit Kapur Promoter
Vedatya Institute, Gurugram
Prof. Sandeep Munjal
Director, Vedatya Institute, Gurugram
Prof. (Dr.) Anita Sharma
Dean (Academics) Vedatya Institute
