FyrstGen hosted its first Innovation Summit on 11 November 2025 at T-Hub in Hyderabad, India — the world's largest innovation centre — marking a defining moment in the platform's journey across the country. The summit brought together leading voices from academia, industry, and innovation under a single banner, and concluded with a landmark outcome: 25 new university partners joining the FyrstGen platform, significantly expanding the reach of its Company Building as a Service (CBaaS®) model across India's higher education ecosystem.

The event was opened by Raj Vangapandu, FyrstGen's President of the Asia-Pacific Region, who welcomed existing and incoming university partners to the summit and set the tone for a day centred on reshaping innovation ecosystems across India and beyond. Held under the theme "Shaping the future of innovation, from Hyderabad to the World", the summit underscored Hyderabad's growing stature as a global innovation hub and FyrstGen's commitment to anchoring a meaningful part of its Asia-Pacific expansion within the city.

FyrstGen CEO and Founder Philipp Assmus delivered the keynote address, "The Impact of FyrstGen: Concept, Progress, and Vision," sharing how the platform is transforming the way companies are created, scaled, and sustained. He outlined how CBaaS® is industrialising company creation, unlocking access for innovators globally, and reimagining how ideas move from the laboratory to the market — ensuring that the reserves of shelved and invisible intellectual property held within universities can finally reach the communities they were meant to serve.

The keynote was followed by a high-level panel discussion featuring thought leaders from education, innovation, and industry, examining how FyrstGen's model is redefining IP monetisation, sustainability, and inclusive entrepreneurship. The conversation reinforced a growing consensus across India's academic and business leadership: that the traditional pathways from research to commercialisation are no longer sufficient, and that platform-based models are essential to unlock the country's full innovation potential at scale. FyrstGen also extended a special acknowledgement to its partners at IES Innovations for their central role in making the summit possible.

As FyrstGen continues to deepen its footprint across India, the Hyderabad Innovation Summit marked a significant milestone in its Asia-Pacific expansion — 25 new universities committing to join a growing movement to reshape how intellectual property is commercialised across the region. With each new partnership, the platform strengthens its capacity to unlock regional innovation potential, build structured companies from academic research, and drive inclusive, impact-driven economic growth — one university, one ecosystem, and one generation of new companies at a time.