BBLF 2022 Sessions
Updated: Sep 15
13 September 2022 - Online
4.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Inaugural
Welcome by V Raghunathan, Chair - Bangalore Business Literature Festival.
Host - Ganesh Vancheeswaran, Author; Advisor - Bangalore Business Literature Festival.
5.00 pm - 5.30 pm
New Age Literature - Content in all its Forms
Ankur Warikoo understands modern storytelling, social media, and content like no other. His millions of followers across YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter are proof of that.
Now, his debut book ‘Do Epic Shit’ has outsold the biggest names in Indian publishing.
Ankur Warikoo, author of Do Epic Shit, in conversation with Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-founder, CEO - Pratilipi
5.30 pm - 6.00 pm
The Westland Saga – From Tatas to Amazon to Pratilipi
Gautam Padmanabhan has seen it all, and done it all. He took Westland from a small family concern to one of India’s top publishing houses. Westland was acquired by the Tatas, then by Amazon and now is reinventing itself at Pratilipi. He published best-selling works of Chetan Bhagat, Ashwin Sanghi, Devdutt Pattanaik, Amish Tripathi using his ‘author happiness’ mantra.
Gautam Padmanabhan, Publisher of Bestsellers; Business Head - Pratilipi, in conversation with Benedict Paramanand, Co-founder - Bangalore Business Literature Festival; Author of CK Prahalad - The Mind of The Futurist
6.00 pm - 6.45 pm
Mining Real Data – Navigating Convenient Untruths
Governance needs transparency. When data is brazenly manipulated to serve vested interests and for spreading half-truths, what hope do Indian businesses and civil society have?
Rukmini S, Author of Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India, and Govindraj Ethiraj, Journalist; Founder - IndiaSpend, in conversation with Debleena Majumdar, Author; Co-founder - Kahaniyah
14 September 2022 - Online
Host - Subha Chandrasekaran, Founder - RainKraft Creative Solutions
5.00 pm - 5.30 pm
The Shark Tank Tales
Namita Thapar, Author of The Dolphin and the Shark: Lessons in Entrepreneurship, in conversation with Rupangi Sharma, Author of Young Indian Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Change-makers; Editor; Founder & CEO - EFG Learning: Education for Growth
5.30 pm - 6.00 pm
How to Build a Prosperous India
R N Bhaskar, Author of Game India: Seven Strategic Advantages That Can Steer India to Wealth, in conversation with Rajashekar Iyer, Expert in Equity Research, Advisory and Investment Management
6.00 pm - 6.30 pm
An Insider's Lens into the Indian Corporate Frauds
Smarak Swain, Author of The Great Indian Fraud: Serious Frauds Which Shook the Economy, in conversation with Subha Chandrasekaran, Founder - RainKraft Creative Solutions
6.30 pm - 7.00 pm
From High-Fliers to Fallen Angels - Stories of Cafe Coffee Day, Reliance (ADAG), Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines
Nandini Vijayaraghavan, Author of Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World's Largest Democracy, in conversation with Raghuvir Srinivasan, Editor - Business Line; Chartered Accountant
15 September 2022 - Online
Host - Meena Raghunathan, Author; Editor
5.00 pm - 5.30 pm
Indian CSR 2.0
Meena Raghunathan, Author of Doing Good – Navigating the CSR Maze, in conversation with Shantheri Mallaya, Editor - News ETCIO; Trustee - Chiranthana
5.30 pm - 6.00 pm
Embracing The Man-Machine Tango
John C Havens, Author of Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines, in conversation with Kashyap Kompella, CEO - RPA2AI Research
6.00 pm - 6.30 pm
The Future of Money
Eswar Prasad, Author of The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance, in conversation with Shankar P, Editor - Knowledge at Wharton; Former Resident Editor - The Economic Times
6.30 pm - 7.00 pm
India's Energy Future and the Built Environment
Reshma Singh, Senior Advisor - U.S. Department of Energy, in conversation with Vijaya Bhargav, Partner - Ostraca
16 September 2022 - Online
Host - Benedict Paramanand, Author; CEO - Bangalore Business Literature Festival
5.00 pm - 5.40 pm
Behavioural Economics Decoded for Business
V Raghunathan, Author of Irrationally Rational: Ten Nobel Laureates Script the Story of Behavioural Economics; Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are, in conversation with Divya Kumar, Group Digital CFO - IKEA Retail
5.40 pm - 6.20 pm
How to be Comfortable with Technology
Siddharth Pai, Author of Techproof Me: The Art of Mastering Ever-Changing Technology, consultant, in conversation with Madanmohan Rao, Research Director - YourStory
6.20 pm - 7.00 pm
Social Purpose of Business
Melodena Stephens, Author of Business With Purpose: Advancing Social Enterprise, in conversation with Aarti Mohan, Co-founder - Sattva Consulting
17 September 2022
Startup Literature For Founders
Read to Grow. Write to Lead.
Offline at Bangalore International Center, Domlur, Bengaluru. Also to be Streamed Live.
10.30 am - 11.00 am
What is the Most Enduring Question of Business Literature
Manish Sabharwal, Chairman - TeamLease Services, in conversation with V Raghunathan, Chair - Bangalore Business Literature Festival
11.00 am - 11.45 am
Chronicling the Startup Life
TN Hari, Author of From Pony to Unicorn – Scaling a Startup Sustainably; Co-founder - Artha School of Entrepreneurship; Angel Investor, in conversation with Ganesh Vancheeswaran, Author of The Underage CEOs: Fascinating Stories of Young Indians Who have Become CEOs in their Twenties; Branding Specialist; Book Coach
11.45 am - 12.00 pm
How to Make Business Schools Startup-Friendly
Sudhakar Rao, Director - ICFAI Group, in conversation with Kashyap Kompella, CEO - RPA2AI Research
12.00 pm - 12.30 pm
Success Secrets of 15 Entrepreneurs
Ujwal Kalra, Author of Startup Compass – How Iconic Entrepreneurs Got it Right, in conversation with Shoaib Ahmed, Founder - Catalyster; Former President - Tally; Co-founder - iSpirit
12.30 pm - 12.45 pm
Networking Break
12.45 pm - 1.15 pm
Investing in Student Startups
Suresh Narasimha, Founder - CoCreate.ventures; CEO - JustBooks, in conversation with Anaya Jethanandani, Student - Indus International School; Founder - FINWIN, and Maanya Singh, StartupYou Student Entrepreneur; Founder - Incuba-Naari
1.15 pm - 1.45 pm
Stories of Resilience During the Pandemic
Rashmi Daga, Founder - FreshMenu, in conversation with Suviggya Bansall, Owner - Gopaljee Café
1.45 pm - 2.15 pm
What Makes Social Startups Tick
Nagaraja Prakasam, Author of the forthcoming book Back To Bharat – In Search of A Sustainable Future; Angel Investor; Mentor; NSRCEL - IIMB, in conversation with Vinay Prashant, Social Entrepreneur; Co-founder - Tamaala
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