Every journey has a moment that marks it — not just in memory, but in momentum. For QONG Systems, that moment arrived at the Platinum Jubilee Industrial Exhibition hosted by UBDTCE (Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi). It was our very first startup stall, and it turned out to be everything we hoped for, and more.
Walking in, setting up our banners, watching the live platform demo play on the screen, and seeing the first curious visitor approach — that feeling is hard to describe. What followed was a full day of conversations that reminded us exactly why we built QONG in the first place.
"Each conversation added a fresh layer of perspective — the kind you don't get in a boardroom. You get it by being present, listening, and letting the real world shape your thinking."
QONG Founding TeamThe mix of visitors was extraordinary. Customers who carry the weight of manual engineering documentation every day. Industry veterans from Oil & Gas EPC who've seen it all. Alumni engineers who bridged past and present with sharp, candid questions. And bright, energised students — the next generation — who challenged us to explain our technology in its clearest possible form.
Exhibition in Pictures
Five frames from our first stall at the Platinum Jubilee Industrial Exhibition. Click any photo to view in full.
What QONG Actually Does
For those hearing about us for the first time: QONG Systems is an AI-powered engineering intelligence platform built specifically for the Oil & Gas sector. Our core product, QONG Drive, reads P&ID drawings and automatically generates a full suite of engineering deliverables — Instrument Index, Datasheets, Control Narratives, Cause & Effect matrices, and I/O Lists — in a fraction of the time of manual methods.
The status quo is genuinely painful. Engineers maintain dozens of interdependent documents by hand. A single change on a P&ID ripples through every discipline — mechanical, instrumentation, electrical, civil — and every document needs manual revision. Projects average five or more revision cycles. QONG eliminates that cascade. One upload. One source of truth. All documents in sync.
The Need Is Real
Across every conversation at the stall — with industry veterans and fresh graduates alike — one theme was consistent: the engineering documentation problem in Oil & Gas FEED and EPC is enormous, deeply felt, and overdue for a solution. That validation was our most important takeaway from the day.
QONG BOX — AI That Never Leaves Your Plant
One of the most popular conversations at the stall was around QONG BOX — our on-premises AI hardware device. The entire QONG AI stack runs locally on your hardware. Your P&IDs and deliverables never leave your plant boundary. For industries where data sovereignty isn't a preference but a hard requirement, this matters enormously — and visitors felt that immediately.
Backed by the Best
We're proud to be part of the NVIDIA Inception programme — a global community of cutting-edge startups supported by NVIDIA's deep computing ecosystem. The GPU-accelerated infrastructure underpinning QONG's AI engine is a direct reflection of that partnership.
We're equally proud of our association with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Centre of Excellence in Design. IISc's rigorous research environment has shaped the foundational thinking behind our AI models, and being connected to one of India's most respected institutions gives our work both credibility and depth.
This Is Just the Start
We left the exhibition with notebooks full of insights, a CRM that's a little fuller, and — most importantly — a stronger conviction that what we're building is needed, wanted, and ready for the world. The conversations didn't just validate the problem. They gave us texture, nuance, and direction.
To the faculty, students, professionals, and visitors at UBDTCE who stopped by, asked sharp questions, pushed back, and engaged with us genuinely — thank you. You made our first stall worth every banner we put up.
And to every engineer out there still maintaining instrument lists by hand at midnight — we're coming for that problem. QONG is in active development, and we're onboarding pilot customers now.