On 20 November at Taj West End, Bengaluru, 75 education owners with live projects and 50 architects, PMCs and consultants sit down one to one with 25 companies whose capability fits what is being built. No stalls. No badge scanning. Nobody walks past you. And 17 of the 25 places are already gone.
Representation at the edition or partner network. Not an endorsement.
Tired of finding the tender after the specification was written around your competitor's catalogue?
Fed up with trustees who do not take calls, and projects heads who only take them at L1?
A trust decides to build. The architect is appointed. Eleven months later the design is frozen, and somewhere inside it is a specification with an approved make: the brand whose rep took the design lead to lunch in year one. Then the tender goes out. You find out about the campus the day the BOQ lands in your inbox, with your competitor's part numbers already in it, and a procurement head whose only remaining question is price.
Every campus has six appointments and forty packages, and the packages are decided in a window you are never in. Between design development and tender, in a room with the owner, the architect and the PMC. By the time the market hears about it, the window is shut.
So companies do what they can. They book a stall, put up a banner and wait for someone with a project to walk past. They buy lists of upcoming schools where half the campuses are already appointed. They hire telecallers to chase trustees. None of that puts you in the room while your package is still open. Expand does exactly one thing. That.
EduInfra spent six months finding education owners who are building right now, and the architects, PMCs and consultants who shape what those campuses buy. Not a database. Owners with land, a board decision, a timeline and open packages. That is the 125 buyers and specifiers in the room. Not the ones who registered. The ones who passed.
Then it is filtered to you. You complete a Capability Passport: what you supply or execute, best fit project types, ticket size, delivery coverage, education references, and who normally influences your sale. When the marketplace opens three weeks before the day, you see only the requirements where your category is still open, at a stage where the decision can still move, in a geography you can deliver. A K12 group evaluating lab furniture across four campuses. Not a school that fitted out last year.
A meeting only exists when both sides said yes. The owner sees why your capability may matter to his requirement. You see the requirement, the stage and who holds the decision. Nobody can buy a slot on a buyer's calendar, and no buyer can be cornered at a stall. The requirement speaks first. The meeting happens second.
No stalls. No badge scanners. Just requirements, at the stage where your package is still open.
Every trade show puts you in front of a buyer at stage six, when the package is awarded and the only thing he wants from you is a lower price next time. Expand puts you into the project at stages two to five, while the specification is still being written.
Two are defined today. Two are being structured. None is a claimed RFQ, and no category is called open until the brief supports it.
Project information is not an open lead list. Public pages establish relevance. Institution identity, deeper requirement detail and counterpart names are shared selectively as capability fit and mutual interest are established. That protects the buyer. It also protects you, because nobody can lobby around you, and nobody is scraping the room for a cold call list.
You are outnumbered five to one by buyers and specifiers. On purpose. At a trade show the ratio runs the other way: three hundred sellers, and the four buyers who came are hiding from all of you. Here, 125 of the 150 people in the room either own a requirement or write the specification for one. And 25 is the cap. It does not move.
Selected confirmed organisations, as published by EduInfra. The list grows as registrations complete.
Project references published by EduInfra with the partners' consent. This is the standard of work the buyers in the room expect to see in a Capability Passport.
EduInfra Connect, Mumbai, 17 March 2026, Jio Convention Centre.
The format is intense, and the room is exactly right. The entire education operator ecosystem, primary and secondary, with developers, architects and service providers in one room.
The event uniquely brought education organisations and real estate developers together, enabling interactions and understanding collaborations.
Vibrant. It brought investors, operators and service providers together.
Well curated, with great networking and valuable insights from both the higher education and K12 sectors.
A platform to connect with industry peers, investors and partners, with valuable insights into the future of education.
Insightful discussions on the future of education infrastructure, valuable data, and networking with leading professionals across the sector.
EduInfra Expand is curated by AlphaGamma Market Ventures, the team behind the EduInfra Series: Circle, Forums, Connect, Expand and Scale, one audience, the people planning, funding, designing, building and operating education infrastructure in India. Ganesh Babu, Founder and Chief Editor, curates every one of the 150 seats personally. Not a registration desk. A person, deciding who gets in.
So the fair question is not what does the place cost. It is what does it cost my company to reach the same buyers before the specification is written.
| A Project & Solution Partner place includes | Arranged independently |
|---|---|
| Six months of requirement mapping, already done. 75 live projects and the 50 people who specify for them, found, qualified and profiled before you arrive. Compare: one 9 sq m stall, built and staffed for two days. | ₹4,50,000+ |
| Three weeks of category filtered discovery. Only the requirements still open in your category, at a stage that can move, where you can deliver. Compare: six months of telecalling. | ₹1,80,000 |
| Buying centre mapping on every requirement. Who owns it, who specifies it, who signs, and which one you should be talking to. | ₹1,50,000+ |
| Up to 10 double opt in conversations with owners and specifiers whose requirement matched your category. | ₹2,00,000+ |
| A Capability Passport the curation team builds with you. Your category, references, coverage and ticket size, in the form buyers actually read. | ₹60,000 |
| The 50 architects, PMCs and consultants in the room, the people who decide the approved make. | Not purchasable |
| Follow through owned by the curation team, so the conversation has a next step by Monday. | ₹30,000 |
| Indicative cost of doing this yourself | ₹10,70,000+ |
Independent figures are indicative market ranges for comparable stall, telecalling, buying centre research and business development work. Shown to frame the decision, not as a quotation.
Plus 18% GST. One participant. One Capability Passport. One full day in front of buyers and specifiers, not a stall they walk past.
CHECK IF MY COMPANY QUALIFIES →Ten qualified conversations on the day is ₹4,000 per conversation with a buyer or specifier whose requirement was checked against your category before you ever saw them. Now divide what your last stall cost, with the build, the travel and three people for two days, by the real conversations it produced. Ten qualified conversations for ₹40,000 is not the expensive option.
One campus package in your category is worth what it is worth. You know the number. We will not pretend to. What we will say is this: ₹40,000 is smaller than the cost of one tender you found out about too late, and it is the only line in your sales budget that puts you in the room before the specification is written.
EduInfra also builds curated programmes: 5 conversations at ₹3.15 lakh, 10 at ₹5.90 lakh, 15 at ₹9.05 lakh and 20 at ₹11.80 lakh, plus GST, each with the research, buying centre mapping and pre meeting context done by the team. Fifteen and twenty run two delegates in parallel. Most companies start with the ₹40,000 place, see the marketplace, then decide. If you upgrade, the full ₹40,000 is credited against the programme. Nothing is lost by starting small.
The marketplace opens three weeks before 20 November. You log in and see the requirements matched to your category, stage and delivery coverage.
If there are fewer than five open requirements in your category, tell us, and we refund the place in full. Every rupee, GST included.
You find out in October, at your desk, before you have booked a flight. No forms. No arguments. The only way you lose ₹40,000 is if you see five or more open requirements and decide not to meet the people who hold them.
Why we can offer that. Because the room is built from the buyers' requirements outward, and we will not sell a place to a company we cannot match. And to be plain about what this is not: it is a guarantee that you will see relevant, open requirements. It is not a promise of an order, a tender win or a purchase decision. Nobody honest can promise you that, and the buyers would not come if we tried.
The ratio is three to two to one. Seventy five owners, fifty practices, twenty five suppliers. Add a twenty sixth supplier and every buyer in the room meets one more seller and one fewer peer, and the room starts turning into the thing it was built to replace. So the number is fixed, it is not a marketing device, and when the last place goes the room closes.
There are 8 places left as of today. Selling closes when they are gone or on 31 October, whichever comes first, because the marketplace needs three weeks to run before the day.
Seven questions and your details. No payment, no call booked, no obligation. At the end you will be told plainly whether a place makes sense, and if it does not, we will say so.
17 of those places are taken. If you are one of the rest, the ninety second check above is the only thing between you and knowing.
CHECK IF MY COMPANY QUALIFIES →P.S. Read the guarantee again. You see the open requirements three weeks before you travel. Fewer than five in your category, full refund, GST included, no argument. So the decision is not "should I spend ₹40,000." It is "should I find out, for free, whether the campuses buying in my category this year are already in this room." Put that way, there is only one answer.