India to
the World

How AI-Native Indian Brands Are Going Global on AWS + Stripe

Wednesday, 27 May 2026
6:00 PM onwards · Evening
Mumbai · Venue TBD
Co-hosted by
AWS
Stripe
devx labs
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Seats are limited to 25. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. Priority given to founders and operators with active international expansion plans.

27 May 2026 · Mumbai · 25 seats only

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Complimentary — dinner, drinks, and demos included.

Curated room — 25 operators, screened for relevance.

Post-event access — recordings & playbooks.

The Challenge

Three walls keeping
Indian brands local

The opportunity is global. The infrastructure gap is real. Here's what's in the way.

Wall 01

Payment Fragmentation

Multiple gateways, currency headaches, and compliance landmines that compound with every new market. The result: abandoned carts and deferred launches.

23% avg. checkout drop-off from payment friction in cross-border e-commerce
Wall 02

Architecture Lock-In

Legacy stacks weren't built for global scale. As AI rewrites product logic, teams rebuild infrastructure from scratch — a costly distraction when they should be selling globally.

68% of scale-ups cite infra rigidity as the primary barrier to international expansion
Wall 03

AI Capability Gap

Global competitors ship AI-native pricing, churn prediction, and tax reconciliation. Indian brands are adopting AI features but haven't yet wired them into their revenue stack.

4× revenue retention lift for brands with AI-integrated billing vs. manual invoicing
The Playbook

Three pillars for
global growth

The evening is structured around three concrete tracks — real infrastructure, real founders, real revenue outcomes.

Pillar 01

India → World

Cross-border commerce

Take your brand international without rebuilding your payment stack. From multi-currency acceptance to global tax compliance and identity verification — the full cross-border layer, on Stripe.

Stripe Payments Stripe Tax Stripe Identity
Pillar 02

B2B → D2C

Channel transformation

B2B brands adding a direct consumer leg face a different problem: high-converting checkout, one-click returns, and subscription upsells — all within the same revenue infrastructure.

Stripe Payments Stripe Link Stripe Billing Stripe Tax
Pillar 03

Subscriptions
& Retention

Recurring revenue

Subscription is the most defensible revenue model — and the most broken one. Dunning failures, revenue recognition gaps, and invoicing debt eat margin quietly. Wire your billing to your board.

Stripe Billing Stripe Invoicing Revenue Recognition
The Evening

An agenda built
for practitioners

No death-by-slides. Just founders, engineers, and operators having honest conversations about what it takes to go global.

6:00 PM
Doors Open
Refreshments, welcome drinks, and open networking.
Networking
6:15 PM
Welcome
A 5-minute opening — why this room, why now, and what we're here to figure out together.
Welcome
6:35 PM
Indian Brands Going Global
A 30-minute deep-dive from Stripe × AWS × devx labs — the actual playbook, the real stack, and the infrastructure decisions that separate brands that go global from those that stall at the border.
Keynote · 30 min
7:05 PM
Panel Discussion
Founders and operators on stage. Unscripted, specific, honest — what does it actually take to build a global revenue stack from India in 2026?
Panel
7:45 PM
Drinks & Networking
The programme ends — the conversations don't.
Open Networking
Who Attends

Built for
operators

A practitioner room — 25 leaders. If you are making infrastructure or growth decisions at a brand going global, you belong here.

No spectators, no vendors pitching from the floor. Every seat is earned.

D2C Founders Going Global
Building or planning a cross-border revenue channel in the next 12 months.
B2B Brands Adding D2C
Adding a direct consumer leg without rebuilding the entire stack.
SaaS Leaders
Scaling a subscription business internationally with clean revenue recognition.
VCs
Backing Indian brands with global ambitions — understanding what separates breakout brands.