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The event opened with Mantavya Gajjar, Managing Director of Odoo India, walking the room through what’s actually new in Odoo 20, and it wasn’t a slide deck of feature names, it was live demonstration after live demonstration. He showed how AI now handles website design natively inside Odoo, effectively working as a built in odoo website builder that turns a prompt into a fully built layout, content, and system integration in seconds, with no manual building required. From there, he demonstrated how entering a product name and a few details in the product master now generates photorealistic, studio quality product images in real time, the kind of thing that used to need a photography team.
The keynote’s most unexpected moment was Odoo 20’s new voice note and IVR capability, native multi language voice notes, call flow configuration that routes callers by region or time of day, and a simple keypad based language menu for incoming calls. Paired with AI assisted project creation, where a single prompt can generate an entire project, its stages, tasks, and even employee assignments, the keynote made one thing clear. This version of Odoo is leaning hard into AI doing the busywork, not just assisting with it.
Away from the main stage, the two days were packed with over 200 sessions running in parallel, far too many for any one attendee to catch. A few that stood out: a hands on walkthrough of building a dashboard from scratch in Odoo 20, from raw data pipelines to choosing the right visualization; a deep dive into Odoo’s new Textile Manufacturing Industry Pack, digitizing everything from raw material traceability to production scheduling; and a genuinely popular session on odoo customization without writing code, using Odoo Studio, led by Jeet Kanabar.
What made this year genuinely interesting was who showed up beyond the technical crowd. Popular creators TechBurner, Flying Beast, and Ranveer Allahbadia were part of the event, bringing India’s creator economy into a room usually dominated by ERP consultants and developers. Ghazal Alagh delivered one of the event’s more memorable business talks, built around taking smart, calculated risks, constantly hunting down and fixing operational errors, and using AI across day to day operations to actually free up time rather than add to the workload. Her point about using data tools to spot real demand, instead of guessing at market trends, was the kind of practical advice that clearly landed with a room full of founders and operators.
Away from the stages, exhibitor floors were where a lot of the real, practical conversations happened, and Greytrix Business Solutions‘ booth at E1P45 was no exception. From early on Day 1, visitors were drawn in by a simple combination, a clear manufacturing focus and 25 years of hands on ERP experience as an erp implementation consultant. It wasn’t a hard sell that caught attention. It was specificity.
The booth carried a lively, interactive atmosphere all day, with visitors genuinely curious to see how Odoo connects different business operations and integrates with third party applications to streamline what they already have running. The conversations that followed matched that tone. Visitors came in already frustrated with juggling multiple disconnected tools and still not getting the reports they needed out of any of them, genuine, specific problems, not general curiosity.
What stood out most on Day 1, though, was how prepared visitors already were. Most understood concepts like APIs, integrations, automation, workflows, and customization well enough that conversations went deep quickly. One visitor described a very specific technical issue involving fetching data through an API and displaying it correctly inside the Odoo interface. He clearly understood the technical flow behind the integration and could explain exactly where things were breaking down, the kind of conversation that only happens when someone has actually built something before, exactly the kind of exchange an erp technical consultant lives for.
Another conversation, this time with a General Manager at a global manufacturing company, went deep into the differences between Odoo’s Community and Enterprise editions, server infrastructure, cloud deployment, and development approaches. It was less a sales pitch and more a peer to peer technical discussion between two erp business consultants comparing notes, and it was one of the more genuinely enjoyable exchanges of the day.
By the end of Day 1, it was clear this year’s crowd was different, the kind that goes looking for the best erp consulting firms instead of just browsing booths. More purposeful, more technically fluent, and less “just browsing” than in years past.
Day 2 carried the momentum forward at the booth, with continued interest from SMEs and MSMEs, steel manufacturing and food businesses among the most engaged, alongside detailed, technical conversations with visitors from the construction sector working through government contract based project requirements.
The highlight of the day, though, was on stage. Nitin Chandure, EVP at Greytrix, delivered The Secret Ingredient to Scale, An Odoo Success Story in Food Manufacturing, a real account of how one manufacturer moved from disconnected systems to a single, unified platform. The session did more than fill seats. It sent people directly to the booth afterward, including a startup founder who came specifically asking for a food industry product demo, wanting to understand how Odoo could support the business as it grows, the exact kind of question an erp consultant hears on repeat at events like this. A talk about one transformation story ended up sparking conversations about several more, still in progress.
What worked especially well in the session, by most accounts, were the practical examples grounded in real business problems. Visitors could see themselves in the scenarios described, which made the idea of managing everything in one place feel a lot less abstract.
By the time the two days wrapped, Odoo Experience 2026 had delivered exactly what an event at this scale promises and rarely fully achieves. Genuine business conversations, a first hand look at where Odoo is headed with the Odoo 20 reveal, and an audience that showed up, whether founder, developer, creator, or first time visitor, because they had something real to contribute or something real to solve.
For the businesses and partners who spent two days at Mahatma Mandir Convention Center, this wasn’t just India’s biggest tech and business event checking a box. It was two days of proof that the conversations worth having in this industry still happen best in person, especially once you realize how much the audience itself already knows.
We’re already looking forward to next year.
Keynote content, session details, and event program information referenced in this post are drawn from firsthand notes taken by the team at Odoo Experience 2026 India.
