

Welcome and talk on Impact of Covid Pandemic on Publishing
V Raghunathan – Chair, Bangalore Business Literature Festival, Former Professor, IIM Ahmedabad, Columnist and Author of best-sellers like Games Indians Play, Ganesha on the Dashboard, The Corruption Conundrum and Other Paradoxes and Dilemmas, Locks, Mahabharata And Mathematics : An Exploration Of Unexpected Parallels
Branding Challenges in a Polarised World
Sudhakar Rao, Director-Branding, ICFAI Group
Entrepreneur Professionals – A Well-kept Secret of Big Businesses & How to Grow This Tribe in India
Sudhir Sitapati, Author of The CEO Factory: Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever, VP, Hindustan Lever Ltd
In Conversation with Srinivasa Addepalli, Co-founder of GlobalGyan, Former Chief Strategy Officer, Tata Communications
Decoding India's Mega Scams
K Giriprakash, Author of The Vijay Mallya Story, Chief of Bureau Hindu Businessline
Pavan C Lall, Author of Flawed: The Rise and Fall of India’s Diamond Mogul Nirav Modi, Senior Journalist
Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Author of Sahara: The Untold Story, Senior Journalist
In conversation with Shankar P, Editor at Knowledge@Wharton, Former Resident Editor, The Economic Times

An Expat’s Desi Chronicle
Vladi Ruppo, Author, Russian Expat, Senior IT Professional, Entrepreneur.
In conversation with Sumathi Chari, Co-founder PRHUB
Writing on the Wall – How Authors are Influencing Climate Change & Sustainability Discourse
Navi Radjou, Co-Author of Do Better With Less – Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Growth, Winner of Thinkers 50 Award. Innovation and leadership advisor based in New York
Meghaa Gupta, Author of Unearthed – An Environmental History of Independent India
Harini Nagendra, Author of Cities and Canopies, Faculty at Azim Premji University
In conversation with Benedict Paramanand, Editor, SustainabilityNext
Indian Start-Ups – Adventures and Lessons from the Trenches
Sidharth Rao, Author of How I Almost Blew It – Incredible Lessons from India’s Most Successful Digital Entrepreneurs, Founder of Webchutney
Rahul Chandra, Author of The Moonshot Games – Adventures of a Venture Capitalist, Founder of Arkam Ventures
Karthik Kumar, Author of Don’t Startup: What No One Tells You About Starting Your Own Business, Actor, Director and Comedian
In Conversation with T N Hari, Author of Say No to Jugaad – The Making of Big Basket, Advisor & Mentor to Startups
Social Entrepreneurship – How to Get the Best of the Two Worlds
Madan Padaki, Serial Social Entrepreneur, Co-founder Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) & Head Held High
Madhukar Shukla, Author of Social Entrepreneurship in India : Quarter Idealism and a Pound of Pragmatism, faculty XLRI
Anuja Master Bose, Independent Advisor for Social Enterprises and Philanthropy
In Conversation with Smarinita Shetty, Co-founder and CEO, India Development Review
Becoming You – The Inner Journey Chronicles
Alok Kejriwal, Author of The Cave - An Internet Entrepreneur’s Spiritual Journey, founder of Games2Win
In conversation with Caroline Cares, Author of Becoming You – Stories of Courage & Vulnerability, Founder of Vibha – Community for Inclusion
Non-Obvious Trends Shaping Businesses, Careers & Societies
Rohit Bhargava, Author of Non-Obvious Trends – WSJ Bestseller
Prateek Raj, Author of Evolution of Business and Markets – How Free and Inclusive Societies Emerge, Prof. of Strategy, IIM Bangalore
Sandeep Das, Director PWC, Author of Hacks for Career and Life – A Millennials’ Guide to Making it Big
In conversation with Madanmohan Rao, Research Director, YourStory
2020 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award Ceremony
Introduction to the award by Benedict Paramanand, Author of CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist, Smash! The Rise of Indian Badminton: Stories of Grit & Triumph
Relevance of late Prof. C K Prahalad’s Ideas today by Narayanan Ramachandran, CK's student and former head of Morgan Stanley India
Presentation of the award by Mrs. Gayatri Prahalad and Deepa Prahalad
Award Acceptance speech by Mihir Dalal, Author of Big Billion Startup – The Flipkart Story
Fireside chat with the Jury Prof. Rishikesha Krishnan, Director IIM Bangalore, one of the 4 Jury members, about how the jury picked this book and not the others in the shortlist