Telangana Global Summit registrations open; six expo hangars, 52 sector sessions planned
Hyderabad, Nov 10 (TNT) : The Telangana government has opened registrations for the ” three-day Invest Telangana Global Summit 2026″, scheduled to be held at Bharat Future City here from December 7 to 9, with six exhibition hangars, 52 sectoral sessions and nine major events and pavilions planned.
The summit, being organised by Invest Telangana under the Industries and Commerce Department, aims to attract global investments and promote the State as a major investment destination as part of the Telangana Rising 2047 vision of transforming Telangana into a USD three trillion economy by 2047, an official release said on Tuesday.
Delegates, investors, industry representatives, entrepreneurs and startups can register through the official portal, invite-itgs2026.telangana.gov.
The 2026 summit will be significantly larger than last year’s event, with the exhibition area expanded to 72,250 square metres from 27,500 square metres in 2025.
More than 60,000 square metres of exhibition space will be allocated across 12 sectors and specialised pavilions.
The programme will feature an inaugural plenary and 52 sectoral sessions across four parallel halls, focusing on the Engines of Telangana, the Wider Economy, the Telangana Stack and the Social Sector. A CEO-Minister Deal Floor and a Government-to-Business desk will facilitate direct interaction between investors and the government.
The summit will follow a five-stage investment framework — Pledge, Plot, Plant, Payroll and Product — to track investment commitments from announcement to implementation.
A Pledge-to-Product Scorecard will be released at the valedictory session on December 9 to monitor the progress of commitments.
Among the major attractions will be Raksha Expo 2026, covering defence, aerospace, space, internal security, cyber security and artificial intelligence.
The exhibition will feature 14,400 square metres of indoor display space, five sectoral pavilions, outdoor displays and live demonstrations of counter-drone, unmanned aerial systems and robotics technologies.
Business sessions will be held from December 7 to 9, while the public exhibition will continue until December 13.
The other attractions include an acrobatic airshow on the inaugural day, a startup pavilion featuring 136 startups, IndiaJoy 2026 and Creators Corner, a Pharma and Life Sciences Expo, Telangana Pavilion, Industrial Expo, Telangana Climate Conclave and an Education, Research and Skilling Expo.
The startup pavilion will showcase innovations across nine sectors, with defence, space and aerospace accounting for 35 startups and healthcare, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals for 30.
IndiaJoy 2026 will cover animation, visual effects, gaming, comics and extended reality across 16,800 square metres, including a 300-seat esports arena.
The Pharma and Life Sciences Expo will feature 60 companies across 7,000 square metres.
The Telangana Pavilion will showcase the State’s industrial, cultural and technological strengths through five thematic zones, while the Industrial Expo will highlight the participation of micro, small and medium enterprises and large industries.
A special Shakti Pavilion will showcase women-led enterprises.
The Telangana Climate Conclave, scheduled for December 8, will deliberate on climate preparedness, particularly in view of the possibility of an El Niño year, and formulate a resilience agenda for the next one, five and ten years.
The Education, Research and Skilling Expo on the same day will bring together 47 institutions and organisations, including IIT Hyderabad, ISB, BITS, NALSAR and Young India Skills University, besides UK and European pavilions.
The government has also invited startups and independent innovators to participate in the Telangana Innovation Startup Challenge, which seeks technology-based solutions to challenges in agriculture, energy, healthcare, education and public infrastructure.
Applications will close on November 20, and selected innovations will be showcased at the summit.
An advisory council comprising around 200 industry leaders from more than 25 sectors has been constituted to anchor plenary discussions.
Those confirmed include Mahindra Group’s Anish Shah, ITC’s Sanjiv Puri, TCS chief K. Krithivasan, NVIDIA’s Vishal Dhupar, GE Aerospace’s Vikram Rai, Apollo’s Dr Sangita Reddy and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories’ Satish Reddy.
The summit will focus on key sectors including aerospace, defence and space, life sciences, automobiles and electric vehicles, information technology, global capability centres, data centres, food processing, logistics, energy, cleantech, tourism, education, textiles, electronics, semiconductors and the animation, visual effects, gaming and comics sector.
The 2025 edition attracted more than 10,000 delegates and over 500 companies from more than 44 countries, resulting in investment announcements exceeding USD 69 billion and the signing of over 75 strategic memoranda of understanding.
The 2026 summit is being held under the leadership of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, with a Cabinet Sub-Committee chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka overseeing the preparations. Ministers N Uttam Kumar Reddy, D Sridhar Babu and Gaddam Vivek are its members.
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