Great Books. Great Ideas. Great Businesses @ EThames Business School, Rai Durg Program September 5, 2026 - 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm Registration, Networking, Explore Books at the Festival Bookstore 2.00 pm to 2.05 pm Welcome Benedict Paramanand, Festival Curator, Author, CK Prahalad - The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Society | SMASH! The Rise of Indian Badminton: Stories of Grit and Triumph 2.05 pm to 2.30 pm Gen Z and the Convenience Economy - The...

August 2, 2025 - 9.30 am to 7.00 pm @ The T-Hub, Knowledge City Fostering Entrepreneurship through Business Literature SCHEDULE Marvel - 5th Floor 9.30 am to 10.20 am Registration and Networking 10.20 am to 10.30 am Inauguration and Welcome Benedict Paramanand, Festival Curator 10.30 am to 11.30 am The Making of Hyderabad as the Global Innovation Hub Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group BVR Mohan Reddy, Author of Engineered in India: From Dreams to Billion-Dollar...

CEO and GCC Leader Credera India - An Omnicom Company Gaurav Mathur is the Chief Executive Officer of Credera India, Omnicom’s digital transformation consultancy, where he leads Credera’s largest global delivery center, headquartered in Hyderabad. A transformational technology leader, he operates at the intersection of strategy and execution. He is currently spearheading the build-out of an AI-native global capability center — embedding Generative AI, agentic workflows, and intelligent...