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Connecting Innovation Ecosystems Boston and Nashik On October 26th and 27th 2015 a Nashik delegation of about 40 people visited MIT. The group included elected ofcials government leaders business executives innovators and entrepreneurs. They shared their experience with the Kumbh Mela and they learned about the innovation ecosystem at MIT and in Greater Boston. The success of the Kumbh Mela was a result of planning and hard work. The Nashik leadership also gave credit to the creative and effective solutions that emerged from the Kumbhathon. They recognized that close collaboration between the local stakeholders and the team from the MIT Media Lab as well as with the Kumbhathon innovators made a huge difference. Everyone involved was motivated to make the event a success. The festival of 30 million people went smoothly there were no epidemic outbreaks no lost children and no fatalities. The city of Nashik set a high bar for future pop- up cities.