Lightspeed x OpenAI: The India AI Playbook

For the first time, Indian founders have access to the same frontier AI tools on day one as anyone in the Valley. The question is no longer access; it’s what you build, how you ship, and how you win. Join Lightspeed and OpenAI for a morning with the founders, operators, and investors shaping the next generation of AI-native companies across India and Asia-Pacific. We’ll unpack what separates enduring AI companies from impressive demos - how to build products people want, take them from prototype to production, create real defensibility, and compete globally. We’ll also explore where India has an edge, and what it will take to build globally significant AI companies from here.

Speakers: Thomas Jeng, Head of Startups - APAC, OpenAI Rohil Bagga, Investor, Lightspeed India Sarthak Arora, Applied AI Engineer, OpenAI

Agenda: 8:30 - 9:30 AM: Breakfast and Networking 9:30 - 10:15 AM: Fireside Chat 10:15 - 10:30 AM: Q&A

Who Should Attend: Founders and operators building AI-native products, or bringing AI into existing ones, who want a candid, practical conversation with the teams at the frontier.

About Lightspeed: Lightspeed India is an early-stage venture capital firm, partnering with outlier founders at Seed and Series A since 2007 across India and Southeast Asia. The firm aims to work with category-defining companies and has invested in companies such as Acceldata, Airbound, Darwinbox, Emergent, Exponent Energy, IEX, Innovaccer, Mstack, Physics Wallah, Pixxel, Pocket FM, Portkey, Prism (formerly OYO), Razorpay, RedotPay, Sarvam AI, ShareChat, Snabbit, SolarSquare, Stable Money, Udaan, Yubi, Zepto, and Zetwerk. Lightspeed aims to back the next generation of AI-native companies solving nation-scale problems, building for India's evolving consumer, and taking Indian innovation to the world. Learn more at lsip.com. Read more from us on Substack: https://lsip.substack.com/