# Startup & founder events in Chennai

Curated by [foundercal.com](https://foundercal.com/). Only events worth a founder's time: conferences, demo days, founder dinners, meetups and workshops. Generic networking filler is filtered out. Updated daily.

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8 upcoming events as of 16 September 2026.

## Startup Founder War Room | Chennai Edition.

- Date: Saturday 19 September 2026, 16:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
- Type: Workshop
- Price: Free
- Registration: Application
- Founders can pitch or demo: yes
- Venue: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, TN
- Organizer: [Scenius School](https://foundercal.com/organizers/scenius-school)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/startup-founder-war-room-chennai-edition-316568388
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/11101?p=md

A war room is where the important decisions get made. Traditionally it is the room where leaders gather before a critical move, lay the situation out on the table, pressure-test the plan from every angle, and walk out with a clear head about what to do next. No noise, no spectators. Just the people…

## CLiMAFiX 2026 Summit

- Date: Friday 25 September 2026, 09:30 (Asia/Kolkata)
- Type: Conference
- Registration: RSVP
- Founders can pitch or demo: yes
- Venue: Central Lecture Theatre, IIT Madras, IIT Madras, Sardar Patel Road, Adyar, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
- Organizer: [CLiMAFiX](https://foundercal.com/organizers/climafix)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/climafix-2026-summit-2026-09-25
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9157?p=md

India's climate innovation summit, run by the Energy Consortium at IIT Madras with EAI, now in its fifth year and reshaped into a year-round platform called i3. The day is built around two startup showcase sessions where climate founders present working solutions in storage, green hydrogen, carbon…

## AI in Action: RAG, Chatbots & Agents with MongoDB & Grafana

- Date: Saturday 26 September 2026, 13:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
- Type: Meetup
- Price: Free
- Registration: RSVP
- Venue: Zoominfo Chennai, 11th Floor, A, GLOBAL INFOCITY PARK, Kodandarama Nagar, Perungudi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600096, India, TN
- Organizer: [Grafana & Friends Chennai](https://foundercal.com/organizers/grafana-and-friends-chennai)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/ai-in-action-rag-chatbots-and-agents-with-mongodb-and-grafana-316503156
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/10677?p=md

📢 Registration Please register for the meetup through the MongoDB User Group – Chennai page: 👉 https://www.meetup.com/mongodb-usergroup-chennai/events/316460911/ Click “Attend event” on the MongoDB Meetup page to register. We look forward to seeing you there! 🚀 From RAG to Agents: Building…

## Global AI Conference Chennai 2026

- Date: Sunday 27 September 2026, 09:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
- Type: Conference
- Price: Free
- Registration: RSVP
- Venue: Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Chennai, Sardar Patel Road, Little Mount, Guindy, Chennai 600015, Tamil Nadu, India
- Organizer: [Global AI Chennai](https://foundercal.com/organizers/global-ai-chennai)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/global-ai-conference-chennai-2026-2026-09-27
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8066?p=md

The annual full-day gathering of Chennai's AI builder community, run by the local chapter of the Global AI Community and free to attend. It splits into two parallel tracks, talks and live demos on one side, hands-on labs on the other, with the whole thing aimed at getting an idea from prototype…

## India Blockchain & AI Tour 2026 · Chennai Node

- Date: Saturday 10 October 2026, 10:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
- Type: Conference
- Registration: Open
- Investors: in the room
- Venue: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Organizer: [Octaloop](https://foundercal.com/organizers/octaloop)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/india-blockchain-and-ai-tour-2026-chennai-node-2026-10-10
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/6982?p=md

The Chennai stop of Octaloop's India Blockchain & AI Tour, a ten-city circuit that drops the national web3 crowd into each hub for a day: the same team behind India Blockchain Week and Metamorphosis. It is the one date in the year when protocol founders, crypto funds and Chennai's local builder…

## TechXConf 2026

- Date: Saturday 24 October 2026, 09:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
- Type: Conference
- Registration: Open
- Venue: IIT Madras Research Park, Kanagam Road, Taramani, Chennai 600113, Tamil Nadu, India
- Organizer: [TechXConf](https://foundercal.com/organizers/techxconf)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/techxconf-2026-2026-10-24
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9156?p=md

Chennai's biggest technical conference on AI, cloud and data, a single dense day at IIT Madras Research Park with around 40 speakers and 30 sessions. It grew out of the AZConf community and the room is engineers, architects and data people rather than a pitch crowd, which is the point: this is…

## India Game Developer Conference (IGDC) 2026

- Date: 28 October 2026 – 31 October 2026
- Type: Conference
- Registration: Open
- Investors: in the room
- Venue: Chennai Trade Centre, CTC Complex, Nandambakkam, Chennai 600089, Tamil Nadu, India
- Organizer: [India Game Developer Conference](https://foundercal.com/organizers/india-game-developer-conference)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/india-game-developer-conference-igdc-2026-2026-10-28
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/6980?p=md

India's oldest and largest game developer conference, now in its 18th edition and anchored in Chennai. The real draw is not the keynote stage but I/P Connect: an invite-only matchmaking track where pre-screened studios get curated one-on-one meetings with global publishers, investors and angels who…

## UmagineTN 2027

- Date: 8 March 2027 – 9 March 2027
- Type: Conference
- Price: Free
- Registration: RSVP
- Investors: in the room
- Venue: Chennai Trade Centre, CTC Complex, Nandambakkam, Chennai 600089, Tamil Nadu, India
- Organizer: [ELCOT](https://foundercal.com/organizers/elcot)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/umaginetn-2027-2027-03-08
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9158?p=md

Tamil Nadu's own technology summit, fifth edition, run by ELCOT for the state government at the Chennai Trade Centre. It is the two days a year when the state's IT ministry, StartupTN, the large Chennai product companies and the startups that want their business are all in one hall, so it is worth…