BizLitFest Bangalore
Great Books. Great Businesses
@ Koramangala Club
October 31, 2026 - 9.30 pm to 8.00 pm
Program
Tentative
Registration, Networking, Explore Books at Atta Galatta Bookstore
The True Cost of Capital
V Raghunathan, Author, Cost of Capital: What Every Business Leader Needs to Know, Former Faculty, IIM Ahmedabad, Chair, BizLitFest in conversation with Anish Bafna, Chairman, Healthium
Making Sense of Market’s Madness
Jayant Shilanjan Mundhra, Author, The IPO Trap: How Smart Money Play the IPO Game, and How You Can Too
Ajay Sharma, Author, Good to Great to Gone: Why the Most Successful Investors Say No and You Should Too
Leaders Reveal Legends
Harish Bhat, Author, Doing the Right Thing: Learning from Ratan Tata, Director, The Tata Group
Manish Sabharwal, Co-author, MADE IN INDIA : The Story of Desh Bandhu Gupta, Lupin and Indian Pharma, Vice-Chairman, Teamlease
Biographies of Business Leaders in Comic Style
by Amar Chitra Katha
The Coffee Coffee Day Saga
Rukmini Rao, Co-author, Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Café Coffee Day Founder V. G. Siddhartha, Financial Journalist
Leadership from the Trenches
Shyam Srinivasan, Author, Better Never Stops: Leadership Insights from Life’s Unscripted Moments, Former MD, Federal Bank
Business & Spirituality
Sanjiv Sarin, Author, The Other Side of the Mountain: A CEO's Journey through Spirituality, Former MD, Tata Coffee
Hall - 2
The Founder Stories - Dream. Build. Scale
Shanti Mohan, Author, Business of Belief - Angel Investing Stories of Fear, Risk and the People We Bet On, Founder and CEO, LVX, a marketplace for startup funding
Meera Shenoy, Co-author, You Can Be Smarter & Wiser, Founder, Youth4Jobs, Social Entrepreneur
Phanindra Sama, Founder, redBus
Vishwanath Mallabadi, Contemporary Eco-artist, Founder, The Upcycle Store, Creative Director, ABHA Creations
Women & Career Traps
Tushara Reddy, Author, Hired. Fired. Tired: What No One Tells You Before Choosing a Career, AI Product Leader, Career Mentor
The Power of Incompetence
Santhosh Jayaram, Author, Operating from the Zone of Incompetence: Why Not-Knowing Is the New Intelligence, Professor of Practice, Amrita University, Former Head Sustainability, HCL Ltd.
How AI Makes Marketing and Sales Work Better
Sairam Krishnan, Author, Super Cool Startup: Get Your Early-Stage Marketing Right for the AI Age, VP, Blume Ventures
Subhash Bhaskaran, Author, Seal The Deal: Close Sales Like a Pro!, Global Sales Architect
The Chase
Indrazith Shantaraj, Author, Let Money Chase You! Smart and Simple Ways to Build Lasting Wealth, Trader, & Retail Investor
Back from the Brink
S Devarajan, Author, Designed to Win: The Tata Elxsi Story, Former MD Tata Elxsi in Conversation with Biju Varghese, Business Leader
Career Transition Pangs
Sandhya Vasudevan, Author, Hatching Butterflies: Transitioning from Corporate Career to Self-Determined Future, Former MD, Deutsche Bank
Flagship Session - Making Sense of AI
Rohini Srivatsa, Former CTO, Microsoft India
Prof. U Dinesh Kumar, Professor of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, Acting Director, IIM Bangalore
Kashyap Kompella, Educator, Author, AI and Governance, Columnist
Shweta Taneja, Author, Journalist, AI, Deeptech, Columnist Hindustan Times
Pitch Your Book Idea to
The Commissioning Editor of Penguin Business
Awards Session
Workshops
60 Minutes Each
How to Write a Great Business Book and Market it Effectively
Avni TCA, Commissioning Editor, Penguin Business and Lipika Bhushan, Founder, MarketMyBook
Marketing for Early Startups
Sairam Krishnan, VP, Blume Ventures
The Art and Science of Climate Storytelling for Marketing and Communication Professionals, Startup Founders and Graduate Students
Amarja K Puranam, Founder, Coconut Thinking
Seal the Deal: Close Sales Like a Pro! | Leverage AI to Close More Deals | Modern Sales Tactics | Proven Systems, Tools & Strategies
Subhash Baskaran, Author, Creator of Modern Sales Frameworks, Global Sales Architect
Pitch Your Book Idea to Penguin
BizLitFest is offering a rare opportunity for aspiring authors to pitch their book ideas to the Commissioning Editor, Penguin Business.
Two winners from the 5 shortlisted will get a second round with the Penguin Business Team.
Book Launches
