Chandigarh, April 12 -- One has built an AI powered patent intelligence platform, and did it before generative AI was even a buzzword. Another is running a chain of healthcares across the country. The third has turned a university campus into a launchpad for the next generation of founders. At TiECON Chandigarh 2026, these women didn't just attend, they led.

In 2006, Komal Sharma Talwar, (now the founder of TT Consultants and XLSCOUT)a young law student at Panjab University was advised by a senior legal practitioner to get into intellectual property-then a niche, barely explored field in India. She took that advice, started a company with Rs.1,500 in savings and her mother's Rs.1 lakh cheque, and built it into a globally awarded IP consu...