Biographies & Indian Business History
Morning Sessions
09.00 am
Registration
09.30 am – 09.45 am
Welcome
09.45 am – 10.30 am
Timeless Lessons from Business Biographies
Dr. G.Raghuram, Director IIM Bangalore
Ajay Nanavati, Former MD, 3M. Founder Grey Gurus
Joydeep Sen Sarma, Author of Creating a Data-Driven Enterprise with DataOps – Insights from Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn, Twitter, and eBay
Sangeeth Varghese, Founder LeadCap Ventures
10.30 am – 11.15 am
Failing to Succeed – Stories of Start-ups that Gained Big from Initial Setbacks
Vaitheeswaran K, Author, Advisor, Consultant, Mentor
Vidya Laxman, Technology Director at Tesco
Vijay Menon, Author of Innovation Stories from India Inc.
Prof. P D Jose, Faculty at IIM Bangalore
11.15 am – 11.30 am
Network Break
11.30 am – 12.30 pm
Modern Biographies of Indian Entrepreneurs – Success Secrets
Captain Gopinath, Author of Simply Fly – an Autobiography
Rashmi Bansal, Author of Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, I Have a Dream, God’s Own Kitchen: The Story of Akshaya Patra
Alan Rosling, Author of Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise
Benedict Paramanand, Author of C K Prahalad – The Mind of the Futurist
12.30 pm – 01.30 pm
Start-ups Disrupting Publishing
Abhaya Agarwal, Co-founder InstaScribe.com
Gaurav Gupta, Founder & CEO BookBhook.com
Vignesh Ramaswamy, Founder Tartl, Penumbra
Madanmohan Rao, Director @ YourStory.com
01.30 pm – 02.15 pm
Network Lunch
Afternoon Sessions
02.15 pm – 03.15 pm
Learnings from Business Literature for Management Students and Professionals
Ram Nidumolu, Author of Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders
Rakesh Godhwani, Faculty at IIM Bangalore
R Srinavasan, Faculty at IIM Bangalore
Ramya Ranganathan, Faculty at IIM Bangalore
03.15 pm – 04.30 pm
‘The Story of Indian Business’ Tales Of Trade, Adventures In The Bazaar And Romance Of The High Seas
Gurcharan Das, Best-selling Author, conceptualized and curated a 15-volume series being published by Penguin
Lakshmi Subramanian, Author of Three Merchants of Bombay: Business Pioneers of the Nineteenth Century – Tarwady Arjunjee, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Premchand Roychand—founding pioneering business empires based on trade in cotton and opium
V Raghunathan, Author of Beyond the Call of Duty – Less-known Work of Many Englishmen who were Truly Dedicated to Indian Interests
Ganesh V, Author of The Underage CEOs
04.30 pm – 04.45 pm
Network Break
04.45 pm – 05.30 pm
Biographies of Indian Business Tycoons
Kingshuk Nag, Author of KINGFIZZER: The Rise and Fall of Vijay Mallya And The Double Life of Ramalinga Raju – The Story of India’s Biggest Corporate Fraud
K Giriprakash, Author of The Vijay Mallya Story
Shankar P, Editor, Knowledge@Wharton
05.30 pm – 06.30 pm
Closing & Valedictory Talk ‘Making a Living vs. Making a Life’
by Gurcharan Das
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