AIMA's 2nd National Leadership Conclave Breaking Through: Making India a Creative Superpower March, 2016: Hotel Le-Meridien, New Delhi

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1 Day 1: Thursday; 03 March, 2016 AIMA's 2nd National Leadership Conclave Breaking Through: Making India a Creative Superpower March, 2016: Hotel Le-Meridien, New Delhi CONCLAVE AGENDA (As on 2 nd March 2016) 0830 hrs onwards Registration and Networking Tea/Coffee hrs Plenary Session 1 Budgeting for Growth: Balancing Discipline and Stimulus The Union Budget for has tried to balance fiscal discipline and stimulus. Given the state of the economy, the government has to stimulate investment and demand but at the same time it has to avoid creating long-term risks to the economy. The budget has tried to accelerate economic growth without compromising the fundamental strength of the economy. How can the government create more room for increased public spending without breaching its fiscal deficit target? How are the tax proposals of the government going to influence industrial and consumer demand? Has the Budget done enough to accelerate private and foreign investment? Does the Budget give adequate boost to the Make in India, Skill India and Digital India programmes? Moderator Panelists Supriya Shrinate Chief Editor-News, ET NOW, The Economic Times Channel, The Times of India Group Sunil Kant Munjal N.K. Singh Former Member (Rajya Sabha), Economist and Senior Member, BJP Shubhashis Gangopadhyay Managing Trustee and Research Director, India Development Foundation hrs Networking Tea Break hrs Plenary Session 2 Make in India: Building for Long-Term Growth India s infrastructure lags economic growth and catching up has proved to be complicated and expensive. The country needs to change its habit and build infrastructure that facilitates growth for a few decades. India also needs to improve the political and financial conditions for timely and viable creation of such infrastructure. Further, the productivity of infrastructure has to be enhanced through smart technologies and imaginative governance. India has to promote the use of intelligent and flexible machines and prepare suitable workforce to make, run and maintain such machines. India can extend its proven excellence in IT to the shop floor and become a global manufacturing option How can India plan and build infrastructure for future growth and not just for catching up with present needs? How can the political and policy environment be reformed for quick and easy implementation of infrastructure and industrial projects? 1

2 How can India use technology to improve productivity of the existing and the new infrastructure? Panelists Rahul Bajaj Chairman, Bajaj Auto Limited, India and Head, Bajaj Group R C Bhargava Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, Maruti Suzuki India Limited hrs Plenary Session 3 Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India The debate on whether to privilege economic growth over ecological security is passé. Environmental considerations must be at the heart of economic growth, especially for a country of 1.25 billion people destined to add another 400 million by the middle of the century. Green Signals chronicles the 1991 moment in India s environmental decisionmaking, telling the story of how, for the first time, the doors of the environment ministry were opened to voices, hitherto unheard, into the policy-making process. It details efforts to change the way environment is viewed both by proponents of environmental security and those who prize economic growth at all costs. T K Arun Editor, The Economic Times Jairam Ramesh Senior Leader, Indian National Congress, Member of Parliament, (Rajya Sabha) hrs Lunch hrs Plenary Session 4 Budget 2016: A Boost for the Economy Address Presentation of Awards Citations read by Firdose Vandrevala Conclave Chairman and Chairman, RP- Group AIMA Life Time Achievement Award for Management for the Year 2015 Rahul Bajaj Chairman, Bajaj Auto Limited, India and Head, Bajaj Group AIMA JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award for the Year 2015 Uday Kotak Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank AIMA Public Service Excellence Award for the Year 2015 Amitabh Kant CEO, NITI Aayog Address Introduction of Chief Guest Sanjeev Bikhchandani Founder and Vice Chairman, Naukri.com Jayant Sinha Minister of State for Finance, Government of India 2

3 Concluding Remarks Sunil Kant Munjal hrs Plenary Session 5 Talent Economy: Creating Global Knowledge & Skills Hub India s large young population is a timely asset in an ageing world that is running short of skilled workforce. However, the bulk of India s half a billion workforce is raw and needs substantial education and training to become economically relevant. Even the existing skilled workforce needs to be reoriented and retrained for the emerging economy that will be dominated by rapid technology changes and high skill obsolescence. How can India s demographic dividend be turned into a key asset for durable growth and global competitiveness? How can India upscale and upgrade education and training to allow the vast young population to have better economic opportunities and contribute to national prosperity? How can India combine technology and skills to ensure that economic growth and job growth move in tandem? Session Chairman Sunil Kant Munjal S Ramadorai Chairman, National Skill Development Agency & National Skill Development Corporation Vineet Nayar Former CEO of HCL Technologies and Founder of Sampark Foundation hrs Networking Tea Break hrs Plenary Session 6 India Ventures: Becoming Entrepreneurial Nation While the policy focus is on job creation, it is the job creators who need greater priority. India needs millions of entrepreneurs of all kinds and sizes to create jobs for the other millions of young Indians. The society needs to promote entrepreneurial attitude and the leadership needs to facilitate an ecosystem for start-ups with suitable permissions, funding, taxation and infrastructure. What kind of policy, administrative and taxation reforms are required to foster a culture of entrepreneurship in India? How can Indian youth and professionals be trained and mentored for entrepreneurship? What innovations are required in India s infrastructure and financial sectors to encourage startups and support their growth? Session Chairperson Pranjal Sharma Host, The Appointment, Zee Network Patu Keswani Chairman and Managing Director, Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd Rajesh Magow Co-Founder & CEO India, MakeMyTrip India Pvt. Ltd Raaja Kanwar Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Apollo International Limited hrs Plenary Session 7 Energizing Growth: Powering Productivity Conclave Chairman and Chairman, RP- Group 3

4 Piyush Goyal Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, Government of India END OF DAY ONE Day 2 : Friday; 04 March, hrs Networking / Tea / Coffee hrs Plenary Session 8 Pax Indica: Shaping a New World Order Firdose Vandrevala Shashi Tharoor Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha and Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs hrs Plenary Session 9 Exponential Technology Advances, Disruptions of Industries, and Opportunities for India Vivek Wadhwa Fellow, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University Followed by a discussion with CP Gurnani CEO and the Managing Director of Tech Mahindra hrs Networking Tea Break hrs Plenary Session 10 Indestructible Brands: Building Brands to Survive Disruption Brands mortality rate has gone up as disruptive competition and technologies are changing the markets and building new brands has become very risky and expensive. As entry barriers to markets fall and innovation accelerates, brands require inbuilt flexibility and mobility. Also, marketers have to keep up with the growing technologies, such as big data and social media, in creating, tracking and managing brands. What marketing innovations are required to build new brands in a crowded marketplace? How can marketers reduce disruption risks to brands in the developing business environment? What new skills and tools must the marketers acquire to be effective in an increasingly digital world? Moderator Supriya Shrinate Chief Editor-News at ET NOW, The Economic Times Channel, The Times of India Group D Shivakumar Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt Ltd Santosh Desai Managing Director & CEO of Futurebrands India Ltd Author, Columnist, Social Commentator 4

5 hrs Plenary Session 11 Valedictory Session Introduction Valedictory Address Conclave Chairman and Chairman, RP- Group Rajiv Pratap Rudy Minister of State (IC) of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India Concluding Remarks Firdose Vandrevala hrs National Leadership Conclave Concludes with Lunch *Confirmation Awaited 5