India's leading pharma & lab expo · Gandhinagar
PharmaTech Expo 2026
You came to source machines. Everything around them still runs on people.
The floor was full of machines: granulators, packaging lines, cleanroom equipment, analytical instruments. The work around those machines is a different story. Deviations, CAPAs and OOS investigations, quotes, orders, customer replies, vendor follow-ups. All of it still done by hand, by the same few experienced people. That is what we brought to Gandhinagar. AI co-workers built for each department, following the plant's own SOPs and working from the records it already keeps. They do the drafting. Your team signs every decision.
About the show
PharmaTech Expo runs alongside LabTech Expo and is India's leading show for pharma manufacturing and lab technology. The 2026 edition brought together more than 400 exhibitors covering formulation and processing machinery, packaging, cleanroom equipment, analytical instruments, bulk drugs and excipients, and software for pharma. It was held at the Helipad Exhibition Centre in Gandhinagar, the largest exhibition and convention centre in Gujarat.
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The jars, third show running
We set out the same two jars we ran in Delhi and Mumbai. One for “I'm worried about risk with AI,” one for “I'm excited about AI agents.” The excitement jar filled first again, this time on the most closely regulated floor we have taken them to.
Not one tool. A whole workforce.
The people who stopped were plant heads, quality heads and company owners. None of them were looking for a single tool. So the side wall laid out the whole team: quality drafting deviations, CAPAs and OOS investigations, sales drafting quotes, operations chasing open POs, finance reconciling invoices, customer service answering inquiries. Every one of them sends its work to one place, where a person signs it off.
AI anxiety relief, take one
Next to the jars sat a bowl of sachets, with a card above it: “AI Anxiety Relief? Take One. The real medicine: Clarity + Guardrails + Proof.” A pharma joke with a straight answer behind it. Facts come from your own data, not from a model's guess. Every action is logged. And it only does what you have allowed it to do.
Start with one process, live in 4–8 weeks
We put the plan on the wall instead of saving it for the meeting. Pick one process to hand over, which takes a week or two. Your first co-worker is live on your real SOPs and records in four to eight weeks. It runs alongside the way you work today, with nothing ripped out. Then you add more, at a cost you can predict.
They do the work. Your team approves.
The Avesta Labs stall at PharmaTech Expo 2026
