10th Bangalore Business Literature Festival
Saturday, 14th September 2024 @ Catholic Club, 9.30 am onwards
Agenda
9.15 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
WORKING LUNCH
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
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
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
3.20 pm to 4.00 pm
NETWORKING TEA
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
The City of New Beginnings
5.45 pm to 6.15 pm
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