Bengaluru has moved beyond the label of “tech city” to become a global decision-making hub for digital innovation. Strategies, products and platforms that impact the world are being built here every day. And this November, much of that momentum converged at one place.
The Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025, held from 18–20 November at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, brought together the brightest minds from the technology ecosystem and beyond. The Industry Outlook team was at the BTS with more than the usual event-day curiosity. This year’s edition marked a new chapter for BTS — bigger in scale, sharper in intent and unapologetically business-focused.
BTS 2025 welcomed the ecosystem with a clear, almost provocative theme: “Futurise.” On paper, it is defined as the ability to shape the unknown, scale the unimaginable and shift the world forward.
On the ground, it translated into three packed days where quantum, spacetech, healthtech, AI, fintech and deeptech didn’t sit in separate silos but flowed into one another in conversations, keynotes and corridor debates.
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Manu Saale, Managing Director & CEO, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, used his session at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2025 to flip the usual script on automotive tech.
He said, “This isn’t just about flashy videos, futuristic cars and where mobility is headed. It’s really about people – the engineers, leaders and teams who are quietly reshaping that future every day.”
Pointing to Mercedes-Benz’s 140-year legacy since inventing the car in 1886, he reminded the audience that today’s vehicles are no longer just machines that move you from one place to another. They’re always-on, rolling data systems – constantly sensing, learning and connecting.
And that changes the responsibility on engineers. Every line of code, every design decision now touches user privacy, safety and trust. With regulations like GDPR in Europe, new data laws in India and strict frameworks in markets like China, he stressed that data protection isn’t a legal formality anymore – it’s a leadership question.
His message was clear: engineers today can’t stop at “my code works” or “my design is done.” In this era of intelligent, connected cars, they are not just builders of technology – they are custodians of consumer trust. And that, he said, is the real heart of modern mobility leadership.
Viren Shetty, Vice Chairman of Narayana Health, brought the conversation back to something very personal and uncomfortable: trust.
He spoke about the messages he receives almost every day – from people who’ve just been told they need a heart surgery, a major cancer procedure, or some serious intervention. They all sound the same: “Please help me. Please guide me. Is this the right thing to do?” And yet, he said, most of these patients end up going to one of the big, well-known hospitals anyway.
His point was blunt: after decades of private healthcare growth, thousands of doctors, and massive investments worth thousands of crores, India still hasn’t solved the most basic human question in healthcare – “Can I trust that what I’m being asked to do is truly what I need?”
That, he said, is the real gap Narayana Health wants to address: not just performing more procedures, but rebuilding the confidence that patients have in the decisions being made about their bodies and their lives.
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The global presence this year was unmistakable. Leaders from Europe, North America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia stepped onto the BTS stages — not just to present, but to share the hard lessons, failures and breakthroughs that shaped their journeys.
Their stories added a global context to Bengaluru’s momentum, proving that innovation today is borderless.
If there was one takeaway from BTS 2025, it was this: the future isn’t something we wait for — it’s something we build. And in Bengaluru, that future is being built every single day by people who dare to stretch what’s possible.
Three days. Thousands of minds. One shared belief — that technology, when guided by purpose and trust, can truly change the world.
As the summit wrapped up, one thing was unmistakable: the next chapter of innovation isn’t coming someday. It’s already here, and Bengaluru is writing it in real time.
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