{"id":56269,"date":"2026-02-03T14:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/?p=56269"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:14:32","slug":"boeing-invites-applications-for-fifth-edition-of-build-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2026\/02\/03\/boeing-invites-applications-for-fifth-edition-of-build-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Invites Applications for Fifth Edition of BUILD Program\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In five years, Boeing University Innovation Leadership Development (BUILD) has rapidly emerged as a leading national platform turning university-led and early-stage startup innovation into scalable business solutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>DELHI,February 3,2026\u2014<\/strong>Boeing [NYSE: BA]today announced the opening of applications for the fifth edition of its Boeing University Innovation Leadership Development (BUILD) program for 2025\u201326, reinforcing its long-standing support for India\u2019s student innovators and early-stage startups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56270 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boeing-Invites-Applications-for-Boeing-University-Innovation-Leadership-Development-Program-2026.jpg-300x107.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boeing-Invites-Applications-for-Boeing-University-Innovation-Leadership-Development-Program-2026.jpg-300x107.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boeing-Invites-Applications-for-Boeing-University-Innovation-Leadership-Development-Program-2026.jpg.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Launched in 2019, BUILD enables graduates and early-stage startup entrepreneurs from across India to pitch and develop their ideas by connecting them with incubators, investors, and Boeing\u2019s industry expertise \u2013 helping concepts mature into market-ready solutions. By bringing together academia, industry, incubators, and investors within a structured and integrated platform, BUILD helps de-risk early innovation, strengthens startup readiness, and accelerates the journey from concept to deployment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over five editions, the program has supported thousands of graduates and startups nationwide, accelerating ideas and solutions in the India\u2019s startup ecosystem across aerospace, defence, technology, sustainability, and social impact sectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill McSherry, vice president, State Advocacy and Global Engagement, Boeing said, \u201cFor over a century Boeing has led global aerospace innovation, turning bold ideas into solutions that improve lives. We understand what it takes to turn an idea into a solution and the passion behind it. With BUILD\u2019s proven track record in helping shape students\u2019 and entrepreneurs\u2019 dreams and ambitions, we are proud to support the next leap this program is set to take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Salil Gupte, president, Boeing India and South Asia said, \u201cIndia\u2019s startup community brings bold thinking and deep technical capability. Over the past five years, BUILD has nurtured this capability \u2013 givingwings to ideas, offering mentorship, industry expertise, and opportunity to scale up \u2013 to thousands of students, and enabledconcepts to mature into capabilities.We deeply value the partnership of our incubator ecosystem, which has been integral to this journey of nurturing innovators and entrepreneurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boeing continues to partner with seven incubators, namely, Society for Innovation \u2013 IIT Mumbai, Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer \u2013 IIT Delhi, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center \u2013 IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Madras \u2013 Incubation Cell, Society for Innovation and Development \u2013 IISC Bengaluru, T-Hub Hyderabad, and Technology Business Incubator \u2013 KIIT Bhubaneshwar, to organize BUILD in India. Applicants are now invited to submit ideas in the fields of aerospace and defense, technology, social impact, and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shortlisted teams will compete at a regional-level boot camp, and the finalists will pitch their ideas to subject-matter experts on Boeing Immersion Day and BUILD finals, to be held in July 2026. The winners will get a grant ofINR 10 lakh each to support the development of their ideas. Boeing mentors and industry experts will interact and closely work with the finalists to refine and suggest ways to convert these ideas into viable business offerings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interested students and entrepreneurs can apply here &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeing.co.in\/boeing-in-india\/build\">https:\/\/www.boeing.co.in\/boeing-in-india\/build<\/a>. The deadline for submissions is April 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In five years, Boeing University Innovation Leadership Development (BUILD) has rapidly emerged as a leading national platform turning university-led and early-stage startup innovation into scalable business solutions \u00a0DELHI,February 3,2026\u2014Boeing [NYSE: BA]today announced the opening of applications for the fifth edition of its Boeing University Innovation Leadership Development (BUILD) program for 2025\u201326, reinforcing its long-standing support &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56272,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56269\/revisions\/56272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}