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Welcome
Team BizLitFest invites you to the 12th Edition of India’s most loved and widely attended Business Literature Festival.
Celebrate the power of ideas and inspiring stories with the best of writers across business, culture, innovation, leadership, technology, talent, and society.
Meet your favourite authors.
Discover new books at the bookstore.
Attend workshops to enhance your writing skills.
Pitch your book idea and connect with publishers.
If you believe that an idea, a book, or even a single new connection can shape your career, grow your business, or inspire change for a better community and planet, this is where you belong.
See you soon.
Benedict Paramanand
Festival Curator
Who Should Attend
Authors
Coaches
Consultants
Executives
Business Leaders
Aspiring Authors
Graduate Students
Entrepreneurs
Human and AI Conundrum
Rich Founder Stories
Career Transition Dilemma
Unravelling Market Truths
Unconventional Entrepreneurship
Self-help amidst VUCA
Business Turnaround Stories
Inspiring Biographies
Themes
Speakers
Ajay Sharma
Author, Good to Great to Gone: Why the Most Successful Investors Say No and You Should Too
Amarja K Puranam
Founder, Coconut Thinking
Anish Bafna
Chairman, Healthium
Avni TCA
Commissioning Editor, Penguin Business
Benedict Paramanand
Author, Co-founder BizLitFest
Biju Varghese
Business Leader
Deepti Bhaskaran
Editor, Mint Money
S Devarajan
Author, Designed to Win: The Tata Elxsi Story, Former MD, Tata Elxsi
Prof. U Dinesh Kumar
Professor of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, Acting Director, IIM Bangalore
Harish Bhat
Author, Doing the Right Thing: Learning from Ratan Tata, Director, The Tata Group
Indrazith Shantaraj
Author, Let Money Chase You!, Trader & Retail Investor
Jayant Mundhra
Author, The IPO Trap
Kashyap Kompella
Educator, Author, AI Governance and Regulation, Columnist
Lokesh Venkataswamy
MD and CEO, Innomantra
Madanmohan Rao
Author, Research Director, YourStory, Team BizLitFest
Manish Sabharwal
Co-author, MADE IN INDIA: The Story of Desh Bandhu Gupta, Lupin and Indian Pharma, Vice-Chairman, Teamlease
Milen Anugraha Paul
Festival Host
Meera Shenoy
Co-author, You Can Be Smarter & Wiser, Founder, Youth4Jobs, Social Entrepreneur
Murali Sunderraghavan
Founder KLib
Phanindra Sama
Founder, redBus
V Raghunathan
Author, Cost of Capital: What Every Business Leader Needs to Know, Former Faculty, IIM Ahmedabad, Chair, BizLitFest
Reena Pereira
Author Management, Team BizLitFest
Rohini Srivatsa
Former CTO, Microsoft India
Rukmini Rao
Co-author, Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Café Coffee Day Founder V. G. Siddhartha, Financial Journalist
Sairam Krishnan
Author, Super Cool Startup: Get Your Early-Stage Marketing Right for the AI Age, VP, Blume Ventures
Sandhya Vasudevan
Author, Hatching Butterflies: Transitioning from Corporate Career to Self-Determined Future, Former MD, Deutsche Bank
Sanjiv Sarin
Author, The Other Side of the Mountain: A CEO's Journey through Spirituality, Former MD, Tata Coffee
Santhosh Jayaram
Author, Operating from the Zone of Incompetence: Why Not-Knowing Is the New Intelligence, Professor of Practice at Amrita University
Shankar P
Writer/Editor, Knowledge@Wharton
Shanti Mohan
Author, Business of Belief - Angel Investing Stories of Fear, Risk and the People We Bet On, Founder and CEO of LVX, a marketplace for startup funding
Shweta Taneja
Author, Journalist, AI, Deeptech, Columnist Hindustan Times
Shyam Srinivasan
Author, Better Never Stops: Leadership Insights from Life’s Unscripted Moments, Former MD, Federal Bank
Subhash Bhaskaran
Author, Seal The Deal: Close Sales Like a Pro!, Global Sales Architect
Sudhakar Rao
Co-author, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, The Untold Story of of N J Yasaswy, The Founder of ICFAI Group; Branding Director at ICFAI Group
Tushara Reddy
Author, Hired. Fired. Tired: What No One Tells You Before Choosing a Career, AI Product Leader, Career Mentor
Vishwanath Mallabadi
Contemporary Eco-artist, Founder The Upcycle Store, Creative Director at ABHA Creations
Prominent Past Speakers BizLitFest Bangalore
NR Narayana Murthy
Co-founder, Infosys
Ramachandra Guha
Author, Historian
Subroto Bagchi
Author, Co-founder, Mindtree
Vinita Bali
Former CEO, Britannia Industries
Kris Gopalakrishnan
Co-founder, Infosys
Malavika Harita
Mentor, Evangelist, Brand Strategist, Teacher
Manish Sabharwal
Co Founder, TeamLease Services Limited, Columnist
Mukund Rajan
Author
Ankur Warikoo
Founder @WebVeda, @IndiaGeniusChallenge @Monzy
Devdutt Pattanaik
Author
Captain Gopinath
Founder and CEO, Deccan Aviation, Air Deccan
Gurcharan Das
Curator, Editor of The Stories of Indian Business Series
Past Sponsors - BizLitFest Bangalore
Past Partners - BizLitFest Bangalore
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Ticketing Partners
BizLitFest CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award
Longlist
Jury 2026
BizLitFest Highlights
Meet The Team
Dr. V Raghunathan
Co-founder, BizLitFest
Benedict Paramanand
CEO, BizLitFest, Festival Curator
P Shankar
Writer/editor at Knowledge at Wharton, Former Resident Editor, The Economic Times
Madanmohan Rao
Research Director, YourStory, Co-founder, MXR.world
Kashyap Kompella
Author, CEO, RPA2AI Research
Vinay Dora
Marketing Support
Vinay Prashant
Founder, Tamaala
Debrati Ghosh
Business Researcher,
Curator - BizLitFest CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award
Reena Pereira
Author Management
Adity Bangia
Head - Marketing & Sales
Shalakha Kulkarni
Festival Design & Operations
Sheetal KN
Social Media Support
Milen Anugraha Paul
Festival Host
Ganesh Keerthi
Technical Support
Pradeep Kumar
Design & Social Media Professional, Creator, Reacxn Digital
Abhishek Bendigeri
Arts, Literature & Cultural Technology Advisor
Kartik Shukla
Digital and Events Support
Impact 2015 - 2025
11
Editions
60+
Books Launched
350+
Authors/ Speakers Hosted
10K+
Audience
500K+
Social Media Engagement
Testimonials
Dear Benedict
Many thanks for the photos and ofcourse for having me over as a speaker at the Biz lit fest which was very well organised and a treat for all of us. Greatly enjoyed soaking in all the illuminating presentations.
Look forward to the next edition.
Bests and warm regards to you and Reena
Raman Mahadevan
Author, Fortune Seekers: A Business History of the Nattukottai Chettiars
