South India · AI Confluence · 2026
Founders, enterprise leaders, and the next generation of builders converge in Coimbatore.
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The Confluence
TiE Kovai Con'26 is South India's flagship AI confluence — a gathering of founders shipping AI products, enterprise leaders deploying AI at scale, and the builders writing the next chapter.
Coimbatore is the right place to hold it. Manufacturing depth, decades of engineering talent, and a startup community that builds vertical AI for the real economy — not just chatbots for chatbots.
Two months of weekly community sessions. One flagship event in September. One unmistakable signal that the AI wave in South India has its center of gravity.
For
Founders
Pre-seed to Series A. The room where your next hire, your next investor, and the founders ahead of you in the cycle are all in the same place.
Enterprise
CTOs, AI leads, innovation teams — sharing what's actually working in production, not vendor pitches dressed up as panels.
Builders & Students
Workshops, AMAs, and frank conversations with the engineers and researchers driving real systems. No gatekeeping.
Sessions
Weekly community sessions in the lead-up to TiE Kovai Con'26 — open to founders, enterprise leaders, builders, and students.
A 30-hour weekend buildathon organized by GDG Coimbatore, bringing together developers, students, and founders to build GenAI solutions for real-world civic, agricultural, healthcare, and sustainability challenges using Google Gemini and Vertex AI.
Building AI First Teams was a practitioner-focused session that brought together builders from the Coimbatore tech community to explore Spec-Driven Development through practical discussions and demonstrations. Additional session details and resources will be added soon.
A hands-on session exploring how smaller AI models can deliver powerful real-world results through optimization techniques, enabling faster, more efficient, and reliable AI systems without relying on large-scale models.
Speakers
Waitlist members hear first — before social, before press. Every Friday until September.
Venue & City
Manufacturing depth. Generations of engineering talent. A startup community that has always been about building real things.
The next wave of AI is vertical — agents in supply chains, AI on factory floors, models that move atoms not just tokens. Coimbatore is where that story gets written.
Venue announcing soon · TieKovaiCon'26.
FAQ
September 2026 in Coimbatore. The exact dates and venue will be announced soon — join the waitlist to hear first.
Founders building AI products, enterprise and corporate AI leads, and builders/students serious about the AI wave in South India.
Registration opens after the lead-up community sessions begin in May. Join the waitlist to be first in line.
Yes. Weekly sessions in the lead-up to the flagship event are free to join — RSVP per session.
Waitlist
Speakers. Sessions. Registration. Drop your email — we'll send the next session your way and tell you when registration opens.
