New Delhi: Indian Navy will host Swavlamban 2025 on November 25-26, 2025 at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi — a premier forum bringing together innovators, startups, industry and the Armed Forces.
The 2025 edition will spotlight breakthrough technologies, indigenous solutions and the Navy’s drive towards Aatmanirbharta — contributing to India’s march toward Viksit Bharat.
The Curtain Raiser press conference for the fourth edition of Indian Navy’s Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Organisation (NIIO) Seminar, Swavlamban 2025, was conducted at New Delhi on November 20, 2025, under the chairmanship of Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (VCNS).
While highlighting key features of Swavlamban 2025, VCNS remarked that the event will highlight the Navy’s innovation and indigenisation efforts alongside the contributions of the Indian industry, with a focus on technological advances that can significantly enhance the nation’s defence capabilities.
He shared that, Swavlamban 2025 will focus more on emerging and disruptive technologies to keep pace with the country’s changing security needs.
VCNS Vice Admiral Vatsayan outlined the Navy’s steady strides toward Aatmanirbharta in defence technologies, aligned with the Swavlamban 2025 theme, “Strength and Power through Innovation and Indigenisation”, which highlights the Navy’s focus on collaborative and cutting-edge solutions for operational challenges.
This year’s seminar will include dedicated exhibit zones highlighting products that have emerged as success stories and those realised through the ‘ideation to induction’ cycle.
The seminar will also host in-depth brainstorming sessions and discussions on policy frameworks and procedures to accelerate adoption of indigenous technologies. Expert-led panels will provide insights into emerging technologies, disruptive trends and their relevance to the maritime domain.
In addition, a dedicated interactive session with venture capitalists would explore avenues for funding, scaling and nurturing innovative ideas.
The 2025 edition will include a wide range of activities such as launch of the “Innovathon’’, release of the Compendium of Technology Challenges and Problem Statements, unveiling of the Swavlamban 4.0 document, and the Armament Indigenisation Compendium.
The event aims to bring together innovators, industry partners, academia, MSMEs and Start-ups, enabling them to collaborate, deliberate and contribute towards shaping future naval capability development.
