Ready for the Run is not another conference tour. It is a community-first, multi-city circuit moving across India to capture real sentiment, data and collective intelligence straight from the trenches of the country’s AI and Web3 ecosystem – no scripted keynotes, no polished slide decks, no corporate theatre. At the helm is Shantanu Sharma, known on X as @Shaanush, the creator behind Infini3 and the driving force behind the Ready for the Run tour.
The crypto and AI landscape is changing faster than ever, and the format of the conversation is changing with it. Instead of top-down presentations, Ready for the Run puts builders, founders, traders, funds and researchers in the same room for open, unfiltered dialogue – with every topic chosen by the community itself through pre-event surveys, live polling and room-wide conversation.
What Is Ready for the Run?
Designed as a structured 9-city roadmap, Ready for the Run travels across India’s technology hubs to prepare market participants for the next cycle. The circuit follows a rigorous data-collection framework – Meet, Measure, Listen, Track, Compare and Prepare – and culminates in India’s comprehensive AI & Web3 Preparedness Playbook: a transparent, community-owned record of where the ecosystem actually stands rather than where the hype says it should be.
Key People, Co-Hosts and Organizers
- Shantanu Sharma (@Shaanush) – Creator of Infini3 and Ready for the Run.
- Raajeev Anand – Co-host and founder of TechHybr, driving deep tech and Web3 synergy.
- Local chapter and community leads – Regional engagement across every stop, including prominent contributors from DAO chapters and regional Web3 initiatives.
Partners and Ecosystem Supporters
Media partners: Cryptonite, TheBlockopedia, CoinsCapture and TechHybr.
Ecosystem allies: Bitrefill, Minds By Animoca Brands, KoinX and QuillAudits.
City and community partners: Web3 India, Bhopal DAO, Lucknow DAO, Hyderabad DAO, Coditas HQ (Trackside Partner in Pune), Longbook (powering the Mumbai stop) and India Blockchain Week as an official event partner.
The Road Ahead: Five Stops Down, Four to Go
Gurugram, Delhi NCR, Jaipur, Pune and Mumbai are already in the books, staged during high-profile tech weeks. With the 9-city roadmap ahead, Ready for the Run is rewriting how Indian communities gear up for market cycles – prioritising ground-level data over empty hype, and building a playbook the community owns rather than one handed down from a stage.
For an ecosystem that has heard every variation of “this time is different,” a circuit that answers with surveys, polling and measured comparison might be the most refreshingly unglamorous thing in Indian Web3 right now. That is exactly the point.
