Annual Session 2020

“Getting Growth Back”

Tuesday, 2 June 2020: Virtual Platform

Program

1030-1130 hrs Inaugural Session

Chief Guest: Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India

• Mr Vikram Kirloskar, President, CII

• Mr Uday Kotak, President Designate, CII
• Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII

Plenary Sessions in Parallel

1400 - 1515 hrs 1400 - 1500 hrs
Across the Aisle - Blurring the Political Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
Lines to Develop a Common Agenda of Nations - The Future Trends
• Mr Manish Tewari, Member of • Prof K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific
Parliament, Indian National Congress Adviser to the Government of India
• Mr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Member of • Dr Amiram Appelbaum, Chairman, Israel
Parliament, Bharatiya Janata Party Innovation Authority, Government of Israel
• Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya,
Member of Parliament, Communist Party
India (Marxist) Moderator : Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan, Past
• Mr Jayadev Galla, Member of President and Chairman, Axilor Ventures
Parliament, Telugu Desam Party

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 • Ms Sunita Duggal, Member of
Parliament, Bharatiya Janata Party

Plenary Sessions in Parallel

1500 - 1600 hrs 1500 - 1600 hrs 1500 - 1600 hrs
Reconfiguring agriculture and food supply Shaping sustainable businesses amidst
Youth: Building Engagement, Creating
chains to deliver resilience and nutrition the pandemic
Opportunities
• Dr Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Keynote Address: Mr Suresh Prabhu,
• Mr Ravi Venkatesan, UNICEF Special India's Sherpa to the G20
Director, Food Loss and Waste, World
Representative for Young People &
Resources Institute
Founder, GAME (Global Alliance for
• Dr Johan Swinnen, Director General, • Mr Sanjiv Puri, Chairman, CII-ITC
Mass Entrepreneurship)
International Food Policy Research Institute Centre of Excellence for Sustainable
• Mr Alex Mitchell, Founder and Chair,
• Mr Sean de Cleene, Head of Future of Development & Chairman and
Institute of Directors 99 Network & Vice
Food and Member of the Executive Managing Director, ITC Limited
President, European Confederation of
Committee, World Economic Forum • Mr Tai Lee Siang, Executive Director,
Young Entrepreneurs
• Dr Ashok Gulati, Chair professor for BCA, Singapore & Past Chair, World
• Ms Chong Ee Rong, Chairperson, SBF Green Building Council
Agriculture, Indian Council for Research on
– Young Business Leaders Forum
International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
(YBLF), Singapore Business Federation
Moderator: Mr Jamshyd N Godrej, Past
Moderator: Mr Sudhir Sitapati, Executive President CII and Chairman & Managing
Moderator: Mr Rajan Navani, Chairman, CII
Director, Foods & Refreshment, Hindustan Director, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing
India@75 Council; Chairman, CII Future
Unilever Company Limited
Businesses Group and Vice Chairman and
Managing Director, Jetline Group of
Companies

1530 - 1630 hrs

CEO’s session on Getting Growth Back
• Mr Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal
Group
• Mr Uday Kotak, President Designate, CII
• Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson
& Managing Director, Biocon Limited
• Mr Rajnish Kumar, Chairman, State
Bank of India

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1600 - 1715 hrs 1630 - 1815 hrs 1645 - 1745 hrs
Indian Financial Sector: Re-plotting the Making Indian SMEs Globally Competitive Growth & Beyond: Getting the Math
New Normal Right for the New Growth Order
Keynote Address: Shri Nitin Gadkari,
• Mr Sanjiv Bajaj, Chairman & Managing Hon’ble Minister of MSMEs and Road,
• Dr Shankar Acharya, Member Board of
Director, CII National Committee on Transport & Highways, Government of India
Governors and Honorary Professor,
Insurance & Pensions and Managing
ICRIER
Director, Bajaj Finserv Ltd. • Ms Dorothy Ng'ambi Tembo, Executive
• Dr Ashok Kumar Lahiri, Member,
• Mr Sanjay Nayar, Chairman, CII National Director ad interim, International Trade
Fifteenth Finance Commission
Committee on Private Equity & Venture Centre (ITC), Geneva
• Dr Rathin Roy, Director, National
Capital and CEO, KKR India • Mr Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance
Institute of Public Finance and Policy
• Mr Abhimanyu Munjal, Co-Chairman, CII Forum, International Finance Corporation
(IFC) • Dr Ajit Mishra, Director, Institute of
Forum on NBFCs & HFCs and Joint
Economic Growth
Managing Director & CEO, Hero Fincorp • Mr Prakash Mallya, Managing Director,
Ltd. Intel Technologies India
• Mr Amit Chandra, Managing Director, • Mr James Anderson, Executive Vice
Bain Capital Private Equity President-Commercial Products, Mastercard
• Mr Krishnan Ramachandran, Managing International LLC, USA
Director & CEO, Max Bupa Health • Mr Shreekant Somany, Chairman, CII
Insurance Co. Ltd. National MSME Council & Chairman &
Managing Director, Somany Ceramics Ltd
Moderator: Dr Janmejaya Sinha, Chairman,
CII National Committee on Financial
Inclusion and Digitization and Chairman -
India, The Boston Consulting Group India
Private Limited

1700 - 1830 hrs

India Inc 2.0: Driving Benchmarks of
Global Competitiveness
• Mr Alan Rosling, Chairman, Griffin
Growth Partners
• Mr Al Faber, President & CEO, Baldrige
Foundation
• Dr Calzidlla Sarmiento, Director, TII,

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 UNIDO
• Mr Sunil Sinha, Resident Director,
MENA, Tata Sons

Moderator: Mr R Mukundan, Chairman

CII Institute of Quality & Managing Director,
Tata Chemicals Ltd

Plenary Sessions in Parallel

1800 - 1900 hrs 1800 - 1900 hrs 1815 - 1915 hrs
In conversation with In conversation on “A more integrated and Future Stakes - Collaboration or
sustainable global economy: Possible to Alienation?
• Mr Ashley J Tellis, Tata Chair for
realize post COVID?”
Strategic Affairs and Senior Fellow, • Mr Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished
Carnegie Endowment for International • Dr Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National
Peace economics at Columbia University & Former University of Singapore
• Mr Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog • Ambassador Nicholas Burns,
Australia and President Asia Society • Dr Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor and Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy
Policy Institute Director of the Center for Sustainable and International Politics at the Harvard
Development, Columbia University Kennedy School
• Dr Soumitra Dutta, Professor of
Management, SC Johnson College of
Business, Cornell University

1900 - 2000 hrs Plenary Sessions in Parallel

Words and Bytes- The power of pens and
voices in shaping the public narrative
• Mr Martin Wolf, Chief Economic
Commentator, Financial Times
• Mr Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-
Chief, India Today Group
• Mr Prabhu Chawla, Editorial Director,
The New Indian Express

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