Nasscom

Connect with industry leaders, access research, raise your profile, and engage in policy, innovation, skilling, and market opportunities.

Helps technology-industry stakeholders contribute to policy discussions and advance a more trusted, innovative, and business-friendly operating environment.

Gain clear, research-backed perspectives on technology industry trends and developments shaping India’s tech sector.

Builds future-ready technology skills and strengthens employability through industry-aligned learning, certifications, and collaboration across the talent ecosystem.

Connect with technology leaders, explore industry insights and global opportunities, and gain recognition through Nasscom events and awards.

Helps Indian technology companies access global markets, build strategic relationships, and pursue sustainable business opportunities while strengthening India’s position as a trusted technology partner.

Helps organizations and talent build AI capabilities, adopt AI, collaborate across the ecosystem, and access learning and responsible AI resources.

Helps deeptech startups develop products, connect with research and enterprises, access capital, and pursue adoption and growth in global markets.

Helps technology SMEs build capabilities, strengthen leadership, develop talent, gain visibility, and access new markets and growth opportunities.

Connect with technology leaders and explore how frontier technologies can drive innovation, enterprise execution, and business growth.

Connects attendees with global technology perspectives, focused leadership conversations, and curated networking on the forces shaping innovation and industry.

Nasscom membership

Nasscom membership is for organizations in India’s technology ecosystem. Members can access industry research and insights, connect with peers and leaders, showcase their brand through events and community platforms, and engage in policy discussions. Membership engagement options include global trade delegations, co-innovation with startups, skilling programs, and opportunities to contribute to the ecosystem. Applicants submit an online application and provide company and revenue information for membership review.

Category: Trade Association Memberships

• Build Industry Connections
  Connect with peers, innovators, and leaders through Nasscom networking events and meetings.
• Access Industry Research
  Use Nasscom’s industry research and insights to understand current trends and inform market analysis.
• Engage On Policy Issues
  Bring organizational interests into engagement with Nasscom on key policy issues.
• Apply As An Organization
  Submit a company membership application with organization details for Nasscom’s review.
• Showcase Your Brand
  Raise organizational visibility by participating in events and the community platform.
• Explore Startup Co-Innovation
  Pursue co-innovation opportunities with startups through Nasscom’s member engagement options.
• Explore Global Trade Delegations
  Select participation in global trade delegations as an area of interest for engagement with Nasscom.
• Leverage Nasscom Skilling Programs
  Indicate interest in leveraging Nasscom’s skilling program through the membership application.
• Contribute To The Ecosystem
  Participate in Nasscom’s technology ecosystem and indicate interest in actively contributing to it.

Policy Advocacy

Nasscom’s public policy team represents India’s technology industry and works with industry, government, and other stakeholders to shape policies, laws, and regulations. Through collaboration and dialogue at local, national, and international levels, its advocacy supports user trust, market innovation, and ease of doing business. The service shares policy insights, industry feedback, and recommendations on regulatory developments.

• Represent Industry Priorities
  Provides the technology industry with a collective voice in policy discussions and advocates for policy conditions that support its growth.
• Contribute Informed Regulatory Feedback
  Enables industry perspectives to be presented on proposed rules and regulatory frameworks through submissions, recommendations, and consultation requests.
• Engage Across Policy Levels
  Creates opportunities for dialogue with relevant stakeholders across local, national, and international policy settings.
• Advance Business-Friendly Policies
  Promotes policy and regulatory conditions intended to support a more conducive business environment for the technology industry.
• Support Trust And Innovation
  Keeps user trust and market innovation among the stated aims of Nasscom’s work to shape technology policy and regulation.
• Access Policy Insights
  Provides industry stakeholders with policy updates and resources on issues affecting the technology sector.

Industry insights and publications

Nasscom’s Insights & Perspectives collection provides reports and industry perspectives on India’s technology sector and the global economy. It covers technology trends and topics including AI, deeptech, cybersecurity, GCCs, engineering, and workforce transformation. The publications turn complex data into useful information for industry insiders and innovators, with reports available to explore and download.

• Explore Technology Industry Trends
  Explore reports and perspectives across technology topics, global markets, talent, skills, and technology services.
• Make Complex Research Easier To Use
  Readers can engage with complex technology topics through accessible industry information and analysis.
• Review Research Findings And Evidence
  Reports provide research and analysis in formats that can include survey findings, methodologies, validated recommendations, case studies, and assessments.
• Find Publications By Topic
  Use topic tags, categories, and date sorting to find publications relevant to specific technology and industry interests.
• Download And Share Reports
  Access available reports as downloads and share publications through the options provided on report pages.
• Choose From Free And Paid Reports
  Listings indicate whether a report is free or paid, and some report pages display regular and member pricing.

Nasscom Talent Development Initiatives

Nasscom’s talent development initiatives bring together industry, academia, and government to address skilling, employability, and workforce readiness. They include the Talent Council’s work on talent strategy and AI-ready skills, along with AI Pathshala, FutureSkills, TalentX, and IT-ITeS Sector Skills Council certifications. Initiatives offer industry-aligned learning, certification-based upskilling and reskilling, and connections between training and employment. Programs also support regional skilling, academic partnerships, and access to future-ready digital skills.

• Inform Workforce And Skills Strategies
  Industry leaders can shape talent priorities and use research and benchmarks to guide workforce and skilling strategies.
• Develop AI-Ready Talent
  Cross-sector skilling and project-based learning are designed to build AI capabilities that support adoption across services companies.
• Learn Emerging Technology Skills
  Curated learning paths help students and professionals build industry-relevant skills across emerging technologies.
• Build Foundational And Advanced AI Skills
  Learners and professionals can develop AI capabilities through hands-on training and industry-aligned content.
• Prepare Deployment-Ready Engineers
  TalentX connects education with real-world engineering needs through structured programs and industry involvement.
• Validate And Upgrade Job Skills
  Industry-validated curricula and certifications help learners develop and demonstrate skills relevant to IT-ITeS roles.
• Connect Certification To Interviews
  Certified candidates can use Talent Connect to prepare for and access relevant job interviews.
• Expand Access To Digital Skills
  The initiative supports underserved youth with future-ready digital skills and assistance toward entering the job market.
• Develop Data Protection Expertise
  The certification develops knowledge across privacy, governance, compliance, and risk management.

Nasscom Events & Awards

Nasscom Events & Awards brings together technology companies, industry leaders, innovators, policymakers, and other stakeholders through events, forums, delegations, and awards. The events directory lists forthcoming programs and provides filters for event status, awards, and technology or industry tags. Programs include conferences and forums with expert discussions and networking, international market-access opportunities, and awards recognizing achievements across areas such as BPM excellence, inclusion, and engineering.

Category: Industry Conferences

• Connect With Industry Leaders
  Meet industry leaders, changemakers, technology companies, and other stakeholders through Nasscom events, forums, and conferences.
• Gain Industry Recognition
  Showcase organizational or individual achievements through awards recognizing excellence and impact.
• Find Relevant Events And Awards
  Browse upcoming listings and use event, award, and topic filters to find relevant programs.
• Explore Industry Insights
  Attend sessions, discussions, and masterclasses addressing industry priorities, emerging technologies, and practical use cases.
• Submit Evidence-Based Nominations
  Present an initiative, explain its outcomes, and provide supporting material for evaluation against relevant criteria.
• Explore International Business Opportunities
  Participate in programs designed to connect Indian technology companies with international customers, partners, and ecosystems.
• Hear From Industry Experts
  Gain perspectives from speakers and experts representing technology, business, government, and academia.

Global Trade Development

Nasscom Global Trade Development supports the global growth of India’s technology industry through market development, thought leadership, and ease-of-doing-business initiatives. It helps Indian technology companies, particularly SMEs and scale-ups, pursue international market access through business delegations, market access programs, enterprise connections, strategic partnerships, and soft-landing support. It convenes industry leaders, policymakers, enterprises, investors, academia, and innovation ecosystems through global forums, and works with the Government of India and international stakeholders on trade dialogues, Free Trade Agreements, bilateral partnerships, and policy engagement. Its work spans the US, UK, Europe, Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and other priority markets.

• Expand Into Priority Global Markets
  Companies can pursue market access across the US, UK, Europe, Australia, Asia, the Middle East, and other priority geographies.
• Build Cross-Border Partnerships
  Companies can build relationships with international stakeholders and innovation ecosystems to support collaboration and business opportunities.
• Advance Cross-Border Trade Priorities
  Trade dialogues and policy engagement provide a way to advance shared priorities with government and international stakeholders.
• Navigate International Market Entry
  Soft-landing support helps Indian technology companies pursue international expansion.
• Connect With Global Technology Leaders
  Forums provide platforms for engagement around technology partnerships, digital trade, innovation, and international collaboration.
• Advance India’s Global Technology Narrative
  Forums and dialogues help position India as a trusted partner for innovation, co-creation, and long-term digital growth.
• Improve Conditions For Global Business
  Policy and regulatory engagement addresses cross-border business conditions and supports market access.
• Create Curated International Connections
  Curated engagements connect Indian technology companies with global enterprises, governments, investors, industry associations, and innovation ecosystems.

Nasscom AI

Nasscom AI is an initiative to strengthen AI capabilities and development across sectors through programs and ecosystem collaboration. It brings together industry leaders, startups, academic institutions, research bodies, government stakeholders, and domain experts to advance AI development and create actionable roadmaps and tools. Activities include capability-building and learning programs, support for MSMEs adopting and building with AI, and the Nasscom Responsible AI Hub’s work to raise awareness, build capacity, and influence AI policy. Its related AI Champions program supports MSMEs with practical AI adoption, learning, mentoring, enterprise partnerships, community access, and patent-filing assistance. The Nasscom AI Community provides developer-focused learning, resources, networking, and opportunities to work on practical challenges.

• Connect AI Ecosystem Stakeholders
  Collaborate across industry, startups, academia, research, government, and expert communities to advance AI development and capabilities.
• Build Practical AI Capabilities
  Access learning and practical sessions designed to strengthen AI understanding and skills, including courses, tutorials, use cases, and certification opportunities.
• Apply AI And Pursue Business Opportunities
  MSMEs can explore AI for business productivity, efficiency, cost optimization, and new offerings, with program guidance on strategy, responsible AI, data governance, ROI, technology, and team development. Participants may also access enterprise go-to-market opportunities and conditional patent-filing assistance.
• Advance Responsible AI Practices
  Access initiatives focused on responsible AI awareness and capacity building, alongside efforts to influence domestic and international AI policy.
• Build Practical AI Skills
  Develop AI capabilities through expert-led sessions, courses, tutorials, hands-on learning, and certification opportunities.
• Explore AI Tools And Resources
  Access curated AI tools, libraries, frameworks, datasets, use cases, and updates to explore relevant resources and knowledge.
• Join AI Community Events
  Participate in meetups, Devcons, discussions, and knowledge-sharing events to connect with the community and follow AI developments.
• Solve Practical AI Challenges
  Apply capabilities to real challenges, draw on industry expertise, and explore enterprise AI applications.
• Connect With AI Experts And Peers
  Build connections with AI practitioners and industry experts, collaborate with peers, and access personalized guidance from senior professionals through program sessions.
• Develop Actionable AI Roadmaps
  Support the development of roadmaps and tools intended to help scale AI technologies through cross-sector engagement.
• Showcase And Share AI Capabilities
  Present capabilities through a member profile and contribute to community initiatives through participation roles suited to different levels of involvement.

Nasscom Deeptech

Nasscom Deeptech is an ecosystem platform connecting science, startups, enterprises, capital, and policy to advance India’s deeptech movement. Its programs support startups from early-stage product development through growth, spanning research commercialisation, funding, infrastructure, responsible innovation, enterprise adoption, and international market access. Initiatives include the Nasscom Innovation Partnership Program, Global Market Access Program, DeepTech Club and its Launchpad and Accelerate offerings, Nasscom Grant Repository, Applied Research Bridge, Future Forge, and Emerge 50. The platform aims to catalyse 1,000+ world-class deeptech startups.

• Celebrate Startup Achievements
  Promising Indian technology startups can gain recognition through a program celebrating their achievements.
• Move Deeptech Solutions Toward Adoption
  Startups can engage with enterprise use cases and pursue structured pathways from collaborative solution development and pilots toward scaling and contracts.
• Build International Market Readiness
  Startups can develop market understanding, international connections, and access to pilot opportunities through programs focused on global ecosystems and market discovery.
• Connect Research With Market Needs
  Companies can find academic research that may address technical problems, while researchers can discover potential industry applications for their technologies.
• Connect Deeptech Stakeholders
  Innovators, technologists, and ecosystem enablers can engage in strategic dialogue and collaborative work on the future of India’s deeptech landscape.
• Discover Capital And Funding Opportunities
  Startups can explore patient capital, grants, deeptech funds, investor connections, and a curated repository of funding and support programs. Repository information is for awareness; applicants should verify details with official program sources.
• Build Deeptech Startup Capacity
  Startups can access support focused on infrastructure, talent, mentoring, ecosystem connections, and capabilities needed to develop and scale.
• Access Stage-Based Startup Support
  Founders can access support for early-stage validation, product development, growth milestones, investor connections, mentoring, and ecosystem relationships.
• Support Trustworthy Innovation
  Governance frameworks, IP standards, sandboxes, and benchmarking support responsible innovation and the positioning of Indian deeptech for global markets.

Nasscom SME Initiatives

Nasscom SME initiatives support India’s small and medium technology enterprises in becoming resilient, future-ready, and globally recognized. The portfolio addresses market access, emerging technology adoption, talent development, and sustainable growth through mentorship, market connections, skilling, AI and cybersecurity programs, networking platforms, awards, and research. Initiatives include DISHA mentorship, SME Confluence, SME Inspire Awards, GTM Edge, Vertical Connect, SPARK, ReAignite, Enterprise Connect, global delegations, go-to-market sessions, C3 SME–Academia Connect, CyberShield, and more.

• Strengthen Business Growth
  SME leaders receive expert guidance and peer support to clarify goals, address business challenges, and pursue growth. DISHA offers a defined three-month mentoring format, and its first cohort reported continued engagement beyond scheduled sessions.
• Develop Future-Ready Leaders
  Participants can build the strategic thinking, execution capability, and leadership mindset needed to support growth and transformation.
• Access New Markets
  SMEs can gain international exposure through delegations and expos, while domestic connections and partnerships support new business opportunities.
• Build Strategic Connections
  Engagement platforms bring SMEs together with industry leaders, enterprises, and partners for knowledge exchange, networking, and collaboration.
• Gain Practical Growth Insights
  Explore perspectives on growth models, capabilities, and talent strategies, and connect with founders, industry leaders, and ecosystem enablers. The program also identifies opportunities for cross-border partnerships.
• Address Sector Challenges
  SMEs and other participants can exchange insights, showcase solutions, and collaborate with industry leaders and technology innovators around sector-specific needs.
• Create Enterprise Partnerships
  Showcase solutions and connect with enterprises and ecosystem partners to build business collaborations and explore digital transformation and technology adoption opportunities.
• Advance Practical AI Adoption
  The program helps SMEs build AI capabilities and explore practical adoption for business efficiency and external innovation.
• Build Go-To-Market Expertise
  SMEs can apply practical frameworks, best practices, and emerging trends to inform go-to-market activity and pursue sustainable growth.
• Showcase SME Excellence
  SMEs can present achievements for recognition through award categories covering business, technology, leadership, innovation, and implementation. Award recipients are honored at the Nasscom SME Confluence.
• Develop In-Demand Skills
  Curated learning content helps students build skills in AI, cybersecurity, and other in-demand areas relevant to technology work.
• Strengthen Cybersecurity Readiness
  SMEs can build cybersecurity capabilities and access tools and response frameworks through CyberShield.
• Explore AI Use Cases And Guidance
  SME members can discuss AI questions with the Nasscom AI team, explore practical use cases, learn from peers, and follow current trends and opportunities.
• Build Job-Ready Talent
  Connect SMEs with colleges to support collaboration on developing a technology workforce prepared for employment.
• Access SME Insights
  Reports and compendiums share trends, transformation stories, and examples of SME capabilities to inform the community.
• Support Social Development
  Participating technology SMEs can co-fund skilling and social development projects, including programs supporting underserved students.

Nasscom Technology Confluence 2026

Nasscom Technology Confluence is a multi-city event bringing together technology leaders, innovators, enterprises, and startups. Under the theme “Redefining Value in an Intelligent World,” it explores how frontier technologies are reshaping business operations, innovation, and growth. The event addresses the shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-grade execution, including innovation-led value creation, IP ownership, and operational reorganization across industries such as BFSI, healthcare, retail, automotive, manufacturing, energy, and telecom.

Category: Industry Conferences

• Explore Enterprise-Grade Technology Execution
  Engage with discussions on turning technology and AI experimentation into enterprise-grade execution and innovation-led value creation.
• Connect With Technology Leaders
  Meet leaders, innovators, enterprises, and startups participating in the Confluence.
• Discover Cross-Industry Technology Priorities
  Explore technology-led value creation across the industries covered by the Confluence.
• Join A Multi-City Confluence
  Take part in a Nasscom Technology Confluence organized across multiple cities under one shared vision.
• Experience Technology In Action
  Explore technology showcases and demonstrations presented as part of the Confluence.

Nasscom Technology & Leadership Forum

Now in its 35th edition, the Nasscom Technology & Leadership Forum is a platform at the intersection of technology, innovation, and leadership. The February 24–25, 2027 event in Mumbai brings global perspectives and focused conversations to explore AI strategy, enterprise AI, talent and leadership, and science and deep tech. Attendees can join spotlight sessions and curated speed networking, with participation from industry leaders and speakers.

Category: Industry Conferences

• Explore Technology And Leadership Shifts
  Engage with conversations on AI strategy, enterprise reinvention, talent and leadership, and science and deep tech.
• Gain Global Technology Perspectives
  Hear perspectives from global technology leaders and broaden understanding of developments in technology and leadership.
• Build Valuable Business Connections
  Take part in curated speed networking intended to help attendees make valuable business connections.
• Explore AI Strategy And Competitive Advantage
  Discuss AI’s implications for global power and competitive advantage, including trusted, secure, and sovereign AI.
• Examine Enterprise AI Reinvention
  Explore enterprise AI through customer value, organizational reinvention, growth, and differentiation.
• Explore Human-AI Workforce Readiness
  Discuss workforce governance, human-AI collaboration, leadership, decision-making, and how organizations can build adaptable talent.
• Explore Frontier Technology Opportunities
  Examine emerging science and deep tech, technologies that could reshape industries, and development of frontier-tech capabilities.