BBLF 2024 Sessions - Tenth Bangalore BizLitFest

Saturday, 14th September 2024 @ Catholic Club, 9.30 am onwards

9.15 to 10.00 am

Registrations and Networking Tea

10.00 am to 10.15 am

Welcome

V. Raghunathan, Prolific Author, Chair, Bangalore Business Literature Festival

10.15 am to 10.45 am

Secrets of Success in Career and Writing

Harish Bhat, Former Brand Custodian, Tata Sons, Author, Office Secrets: 50 Human Truths You Should Absolutely Know

Host - Shankar P., writer/editor, Knowledge@Wharton

10.45 am to 11.25 am

AI & You – Fear, Anguish, Hope

Tanuj Bhojwani, Co-author, The Art of Bitfulness: Keeping Calm in the Digital World

Shalini Kapoor, Author, AI for You: The New Gamechanger

Host - Kashyap Kompella, Analyst, Author, Educator

NETWORKING TEA

11.40 am to 12.05 pm

The Spirit of India

Sriram Devatha, Author, Amrut – The Great Churn: The Global Story of India’s First Single Malt

Host - Mohua Chinappa, Founder, The Mohua Show, Author, Branding Expert

12.05 pm to 12.45 pm

Crafting Career and Life in the VUCA World

Pavan Soni, Author, Designing Your Career: Lead Self, Lead Others, Lead Change

Prof Surjyabrat Buragohain, ICFAI Business School, Bangalore

Host - Maria Shah, Founder - Infinite Mindset Consulting, Coach

12.45 pm to 1.15 pm

The Food Start-up Stories

Ravi Wazir, Author, Beyond the Menu - A Restaurant Start-up Guide

Sudhakar Rao, Director, ICFAI Group

WORKING LUNCH

2.00 pm to 2.40 pm

Where is the ESG Party Headed?

Vipul Arora, Author, The Essence of ESG: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Radhica Kanniganti, Leader ESG & Sustainability at Wipro

Host - Madhur Singh, Former Managing Editor, IndiaSpend and India Editor, Eco-Business, Festival Curator, Climate Communicator

2.40 pm to 3.20 pm

Unravelling Indian Unicorns – Few Hits, Many Misses

Pradip K. Saha, Author, The Learning Trap: How Byju’s Took Indian Edtech for a Ride

Dhruv Nath, Author, The EARNICORNS – Stories of Rare, Profitable Unicorns

Host - Stuthi Vijayaraghavan, Founder, Urban Venture Labs, former analyst, McKinsey US

​3.20 pm to 4.00 pm

Investigative Business Writing in India

Nitin Sethi, Founding Editor and Member - The Reporters' Collective

V Pattabhi Ram, Co-author, The Great Bank Robbery: NPAs, Scams and the Future of Regulation

Host - Sitaraman Shankar, Former Editor, Deccan Herald

NETWORKING TEA

Book Launches / Awards

4.15 pm to 5.00 pm

Rapid New Book Launches

Guest of Honour - Karthik Venkatesh, Executive Editor, Penguin Random House, India

Host - Sharanya Haridas, Independent Writer of Design Focused Books

5.00 pm to 5.45 pm

Book Launch

The Lion, The Admiral and a Cat Called B. Uma Vijayalakshmi: Learnings from Life and Management, by V. Raghunathan

Launch by Ramachandra Guha, Historian and Environmentalist

5.45 pm to 6.15 pm

The City of New Beginnings

Malini Goyal, Co-author, Unboxing Bengaluru: The City of New Beginnings

Host - V. Ravichandar, Civic Evangelist, Chairman, Feedback Consulting

6.15 pm to 7.00 pm

2024 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award

Host - Benedict Paramanand, CEO, Bangalore Business Literature Festival​​

Ajai Chowdhry, Co-founder - HCL Technologies

Sudhakar Rao, Director, ICFAI Group

Jury 2024

Prof. Mukesh Sud, Visiting Faculty, IIM Ahmedabad, Ashoka University, Author, Entrepreneur

Madhur Singh, Former Managing Editor, IndiaSpend and India Editor, Eco-Business, Festival Curator, Climate Communicator

Bhupendra Sharma, Business Leader Coach

7.00 pm to 8.00 pm

​Networking Cocktail with Authors, Award Winners and Invitees