India Scale-Up Summit 2025: An ASPIRE Convening

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Location:
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
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The India Scale-Up Summit 2025: An ASPIRE Convening is a day-long, immersive experience that brings together leaders from governments, philanthropy, academia, and the civil society to explore pathways for scaling evidence-based programs.  

The Summit is both a celebration of our collective successes and a moment to bring together leaders committed to advancing the next chapter of scaling evidence-based programs. Across 10 power-packed sessions, fireside chats, and an interactive 'ASPIRE Experience Center,' participants will unpack: 

  • What does it take to scale through government systems?
  • How philanthropy fuels scaling?
  • Why is there no one-size-fits-all approach?

Speakers: 

  • Noam Angrist, Academic Director, What Works Hub for Global Education; Co-founder, Youth Impact
  • Rukmini Banerji, Chief Executive Officer, Pratham
  • Vikrant Bhargava, Founder, Veddis Foundation
  • Amit Chandra, Managing Director, Bain Capital; Co-founder, ATE Chandra Foundation
  • Iqbal Dhaliwal, Global Executive Director, J-PAL
  • Vijayalakshmi Iyer, Associate Director - Policy (Scale-Ups); Unit Director - ASPIRE  
  • S. Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics Information and Technology, Government of India
  • John Floretta, Global Deputy Executive Director, J-PAL  
  • Shankar Maruwada, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, EkStep
  • Sunita Menon, Chief Thematic Officer, Breakthrough
  • Robyn Mildon, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Evidence and Implementation
  • Shobhini Mukerji, Executive Director, J-PAL South Asia
  • Mangal Pandey, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Key Education Foundation
  • Shagun Sabarwal, Regional Director, Asia, Co-Impact
  • Smriti Sharan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
  • Murugan Vasudevan, Chief Executive Officer, Veddis Foundation 
India Scale-Up Summit

 

ASPIRE Experience Center

The ASPIRE Experience Center at the Summit featured some of the seminal projects that have been successful in driving impact at scale, reaching more than 26 million people and unlocking US$425 million in government co-funding. The featured projects include: 

The event will be livestreamed. A link will be made available soon. 

 

 

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