Yuukke Artha Summit 2026 to bring together 150 women entrepreneurs in Chennai on 7 October

Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India, October 3: Yuukke Global Ventures, a women-powered unified marketplace, will host the Yuukke Artha Summit 2026 on Wednesday, 7 October 2026 at Hyatt Regency Chennai. Themed “Building India’s Next Generation of Financially Independent Women,” the day-long Summit brings together around 150 women entrepreneurs with leaders from Government, industry, finance, and the development sector.

The Summit marks the launch of Yuukke Artha, Yuukke’s livelihood and financial-independence program, which aims to enable 10 million women to achieve financial independence by 2030 by helping women-led small businesses, artisans and grassroots entrepreneurs build independent incomes.

The program features a fireside conversation on building pathways to financial independence and three leadership panels: What Will It Take to Build India’s Next Generation of Financially Independent Women?; Future-Ready Women: The Skills Women Need to Learn Today to Earn Tomorrow; and Markets, Money & Opportunity: What Women Need to Build, Sustain and Grow. Speakers include Pallavi Tewari Madhok (Women’s World Banking), Shalini Warrier (Gosree Finance; former Executive Director, Federal Bank), Shobhana P Ravi (TAFE), Dr. Mahalakshmi G S (Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Anna University) and Savitha K Jagadeesan (Kochhar & Co), among others.

The day closes with the Yuukke Awards, recognising 11 women across categories including Financial Independence Champion, Yuukke Phoenix Woman, Changemaker of the Year and Young Woman Achiever of the Year. For many recipients, it will be the first time their work is recognised in public.