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GBI is a boutique international technology management & consulting entity with expertise in sectors

Global Business Inroads is a boutique international business and project management consulting entity with a specialization in the energy and environment sector. At GBI we combine years of expertise, extensive domain knowledge, strategic innovation, benchmarked creativity and professional instincts that culminate into a unique value proposition for all your consulting requirements.

13/03/2026

🌍 Looking for sustainable technology partners or solutions?

Join Sustainable Solutions

Match 2026 — a global online matchmaking event connecting companies, startups, and experts working on sustainability and circular economy solutions, hosted by the Enterprise Europe Network.

As an International Partner of the Enterprise Europe Network, Global Business Inroads (GBI) is pleased to support this initiative and help companies connect with global innovators and technology providers.

📅 16–27 March 2026
💻 Online | Free participation

What to expect

💡 Thematic pitch sessions (16–24 March) showcasing innovative sustainability solutions
🤝 1:1 virtual B2B meetings (16–27 March) with international companies and technology providers
🌐 Opening session (16 March) on international collaboration and business opportunities

Why join?

✔ Discover innovative sustainability solutions
✔ Connect with global partners and innovators
✔ Explore collaboration, technology, and business opportunities

👥 Ideal for companies, startups, and innovators working on sustainability, circular economy, energy, materials, agriculture, and digital solutions.

🔗 Register here (free):
https://www.globaltechinterface.com/events/693c0405fd25a178ef1f0a85

⏳ Registrations are now open — register early to secure your meetings!

Leena Pishe Thomas

12/03/2026

EEN’s EU–India Battery Technology Platform | Webinar Successfully Conducted

The introductory webinar under the EEN EU–India was successfully conducted on 6 March 2026, bringing together European battery technology providers and innovation interested in exploring in the Indian market.

The session provided an overview of the evolving battery and manufacturing landscape in India, highlighting emerging opportunities across , energy storage, materials, and advanced manufacturing. Participants also received insights on collaboration pathways with Indian industry, including technology licensing, co-development, and commercialization models.

The discussion also covered key intellectual property considerations, regulatory aspects, and market entry strategies, with guidance provided through the India IP SME Helpdesk to support European SMEs in protecting and managing their technology while engaging with partners in India.

The webinar marked an important first step in facilitating EU–India technology partnerships in the battery sector, with further engagement activities and targeted industry interactions planned to support technology deployment and collaboration.

Leena Pishe Thomas

10/03/2026

Unlocking India’s E-Mobility and Logistics Market Opportunities

Leena Pishe Thomas, Director at Global Business Inroads (GBI) – EEN India and implementer of the India IP SME Helpdesk, will be speaking at the eMobility Expo World Congress & MOW 2026 in Málaga, Spain.

The session will focus on India’s market opportunities in the e-mobility and logistics sector, including developments in battery technologies, energy systems, and logistics infrastructure. As one of the world’s fastest-growing markets, India offers a conducive policy and regulatory environment for international companies.

With the recently signed EU–India Free Trade Agreement, which strengthens the focus on intellectual property protection, European companies will gain practical insights into opportunities, incentives, regulatory frameworks, and strategies to access the Indian market while safeguarding their IP.

09/03/2026

Strengthening IP Readiness for Global Expansion

Leena Pishe Thomas, Director at Global Business Inroads (GBI) – EEN India, will be speaking at an upcoming training session in Madrid on 10 March, organized in collaboration with Enterprise Europe Network Madrid and the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM).

The session will focus on and enforcement in India, offering practical guidance for European and looking to protect their technologies while entering the Indian market.

Drawing on insights from the India IP SME Helpdesk, the training will also present practical case studies, helping participants better understand the Indian IP landscape, enforcement mechanisms, and key strategies for safeguarding intellectual property while expanding globally.

02/03/2026

EEN's EU- India Battery Technology Platform

As EU–India industrial cooperation accelerates under priorities, has emerged as a key area for collaboration across , , and clean technologies.

The EEN Battery Technology Access Virtual Mission on March 6, 2026, will connect European companies and technology centres holding proprietary battery solutions with Indian industrial players actively seeking mature, differentiated, and licensable technologies.

Phase 1: Market, IP & Collaboration Framework Briefing

Selected European participants will join a structured briefing and webinar in Mar 6, designed to provide strategic clarity before engagement. The session will present the current demand landscape within the Indian battery ecosystem, highlighting priority technology gaps across mobility, cell components, materials, and advanced manufacturing. The session will also cover implications under EU-India FTA and TTC.

It will also outline collaboration pathways such as licensing, co-development, and technology assignment, along with key Intellectual Property considerations, regulatory aspects, and commercial structuring approaches in India. Insights from the India IP SME Helpdesk will guide European SMEs on IP protection strategies, enforcement mechanisms, and risk mitigation while entering the Indian market.

Phase 2: Confidential Technology Assessment

One-on-one discussions with the GBI–EEN team will evaluate each company’s technology readiness level, differentiation, scalability potential, and preferred transfer model (licensing, assignment, sale, or co-development). This phase enables a targeted partner identification process.

Phase 3: Market Access & Deployment Support

Physical visit to India, Marquee Events, Identification of aligned Indian industrial partners, facilitation of direct meetings, and structured support toward industrial validation, commercial negotiations, and long-term technology deployment in the Indian market.

European SMEs interested in structured India market access and technology partnerships are invited to express interest at [email protected].

An online link will be shared to join the first webinar and virtual session on March 6, 2026.

Leena Pishe Thomas

26/02/2026

India–EU Semiconductor Platform at India Electronics and Semiconductor Association Vision Summit 2026

GBI-EEN India is pleased to share that Harsha Lingam, COO, Global Business Inroads (GBI), will be speaking at the India–EU International Roundtable during the IESA Vision Summit 2026, hosted by India Electronics and Semiconductor Association in Bengaluru.

🗓 25 February 2026
📍 The Leela Bhartiya City Convention Centre

The roundtable “India–EU FTA: From Vision to Implementation” will focus on strengthening India–EU hashtag across the semiconductor hashtag hashtag , trusted supply chains, hashtag -hashtag , and skills development.

As India accelerates its journey from design to hashtag , strategic EU hashtag will be key to building a resilient and globally competitive hashtag .

Looking forward to meaningful dialogue and actionable collaborations.

Leena Pishe Thomas

30/01/2026

EU-India Semicon Platform: Powered by EEN and Global Business Inroads (GBI)

India’s Emerging Semiconductor Landscape

With the renewed momentum around the EU–India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and deeper cooperation under the Trade and Technology Council, strengthening industrial and technology partnerships has become more timely than ever.

Against this backdrop, a training webinar “India’s Emerging Semiconductor Landscape: Opportunities and Pathways for European Companies” was successfully conducted on 29 January 2026, for 60 European SMEs snf semiconductor ecosystem players, by key Indian stakeholders.

Organised by the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) through its Sector Group Electronics and facilitated by EEN India – GBI, the session offered a structured overview of India’s rapidly evolving semiconductor ecosystem, national programmes, and collaboration opportunities for European companies and semicon ecosystem.

The agenda featured insights from the EU Delegation to India, Indian and European government bodies, industry associations, and state-level missions, covering policy frameworks, investment pathways, ecosystem readiness

Key discussions focused on:

1. India’s semiconductor ambitions across design, manufacturing, testing, and advanced packaging
2. Practical pathways for EU–India technology collaboration
3. Partner identification, regulatory navigation, and market entry considerations
4. Opportunities for European SMEs, suppliers, and innovation clusters within India’s growing ecosystem

Training on IP management and India market access for EU SMEs and start-ups
The webinar marked an important step towards setting up an EU-India Semicon Platform, follow-up engagement, including one-to-one partnership development and planning physical EU business missions to India. The Platform will also facilitate India to EU training, market access and India Business missions to EU opportunities in the coming months.

Leena Pishe Thomas

28/01/2026

🇮🇳🤝🇪🇺 Portugal–India Industry Delegation to India for advanced manufacturing

With the recent signing of the India–European Union Free Trade Agreement, momentum for deeper industrial collaboration between India and Europe is accelerating. Against this backdrop, a focused Portuguese industry delegation was hosted in Bengaluru, India.

The was organised in partnership with AIMMAP and PRODUTECH, and included innovative Portuguese SMEs such as Softi9, MUVU, Infinite Foundry, and CEI Group, engaging with India’s manufacturing and innovation ecosystem.

Global Business Inroads (GBI) supported the mission end-to-end, including delegation structuring, , coordination, and the curation of high-quality interactions with relevant Indian , , and innovation platforms. The engagement was focused on creating practical pathways for , , and long-term India market engagement.

The mission also included targeted site visits and ecosystem interactions with key industry associations, innovation platforms, and state-led institutions to better understand India’s manufacturing and innovation landscape. A big thanks to nasscom, Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM), ELCIA - Electronics City Industries Association, ARTPARK, Government of Karnataka - KITS and FKCCI - Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce & Industry

GBI ensures continuity for these businesses by bridging science, industry, and policy, and by supporting companies through concrete deployment actions even after their visit to India.

Leena Pishe Thomas

13/01/2026

🇵🇹🤝🇮🇳 Portugal–India B2B Engagement at IMTEX 2026 | Bengaluru

Global Business Inroads Pvt. Ltd. is pleased to support a Portuguese industry delegation coordinated by AIMMAP and PRODUTECH, who will be visiting Bengaluru during IMTEX 2026 for focused B2B interactions with Indian companies.

The delegation comprises four innovative Portuguese SMEs working across industrial , , , -led manufacturing support, and services:

Softi9
Muvu Technologies
Infinite Foundry
CEI Group

📍 B2B Venue: IMTEX 2026, BIEC, Bengaluru
📅 B2B Dates: 21st & 22nd January 2026

These curated B2B meetings are aimed at Indian SMEs, system integrators, engineering firms, and manufacturing companies interested in:

1. Business partnerships and supplier relationships
2. Joint pilots and co-development opportunities
3. Cross-border market exploration between India and Europe

If you are looking to engage with the European companies, we would be glad to explore your participation.

For further details or to express interest, please contact:
Debayan Bose, Ph.D. Bose ([email protected])

We look forward to enabling meaningful Portugal–India industry collaborations during IMTEX 2026.

Leena Pishe Thomas

22/12/2025

As we wind down 2025, I am thoughtful of how well the global innovation community has come together to understand the importance of being aware about new technologies, to being open to learn, to engage in a process to scout for new tech, build platforms, adapt to local business models and deploy. More interestingly, 2025 has revealed to us that finance and investors are also opening up to realise the real value in global tech access and deployment strategies.

I am delighted to share that in 2025, GBI succeeded in helping innovators expand to 7 different markets across EU, India, UK, US, Brazil, Africa, SE Asia. Building awareness about new greentech, digital or healthcare solutions to business adopters around the world, making it easy to have the knowledge, building trust and credibility between innovators and markets, facilitating internationally valid and viable agreements and structures to create investable projects helped build global capacity to understand and act in a step by step manner.

From our global online platform- Global Tech Interface (https://www.globaltechinterface.com/) - to strong teams across the world, the mission and vision of GBI to scale tech access and deployment for the UNSDGs has become business as usual.

We believe that 2026 and the years ahead will see more of this with more and more case studies that will get more stakeholders joining to harness the impact business and investment opportunities.

For all the aforementioned reasons and for your close association with Global Business Inroads (GBI), we thank you and look forward to further enhanced collaborative action in 2026.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year 2026!!

Leena Pishe Thomas

12/12/2025

Strengthening Impact Through Manufacturing Partnerships in India

Global Business Inroads(GBI) was delighted to support The Washing Machine Project (TWMP) during their recent visit to India from 24th–28th November. TWMP’s mission to deliver affordable, off-grid washing solutions for underserved communities aligns closely with GBI’s commitment to enabling meaningful global collaborations across India’s innovation and industrial ecosystem.

Represented by David Poole and Laura Tuck, TWMP explored Chennai and Pune — two of India’s most robust manufacturing clusters — to identify suppliers with strong multi-process manufacturing capabilities, including:

✔ Sheet metal forming
✔ Metal spinning
✔ Plastic injection moulding
✔ Rotational moulding
✔ Thermoforming

As TWMP scales its efforts globally, building a reliable and efficient supplier base in India will be crucial for the production of their manual, low-cost washing machines designed to uplift economically vulnerable communities.

GBI was proud to act as the local partner, supporting:

✔ Strategic planning and coordination of the entire visit
✔ Identification and shortlisting of qualified manufacturers
✔ Facilitating supplier engagements in Chennai and Pune
✔ On-ground support throughout the delegation

A special acknowledgment to Leena Pishe Thomas and Harsha Lingam from Global Business Inroads for their leadership and support in making this engagement seamless and productive.

We are grateful for the support of Innovate UK and appreciate the continued vision of Dr Navjot Sawhney in driving this impactful initiative forward.

GBI looks forward to strengthening this collaboration and contributing to TWMP’s mission of improving lives through simple, human-centred design.

02/12/2025

🌏 GBI is pleased to participate in the ANDE South Asia Convening 2025.

We are delighted to share that Leena Pishe Thomas, Managing Director, GBI, will be speaking in at the South Asia Convening 2025, on Dec 4, 2025

SESSION 3 — What’s Influencing Impact Investment: Capital, Conscience, or Context?

🕕 6:00–7:15 PM IST | Anchored by Bangladesh

This high-level panel will explore the forces shaping impact investment across South Asia — including how capital flows, value-driven priorities, and contextual realities are influencing funding trends, local capital mobilisation, and the future of sustainable development finance.

Leena will contribute insights on mobilising capital for the deployment of green and climate-related technologies in South Asia, and the investment mechanisms needed to accelerate scalable climate solutions.

We look forward to a thought-provoking discussion with ecosystem leaders and partners driving meaningful impact.

Register Now: https://aspeninstitute.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R9vY2O17QmmxXFZ0eusRDg #/registration

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