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All sessions are at the Leela Kempinski, Gurgaon

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BRIEFING SESSION
The World Economic Forum's Vision and Mission
08.15 - 09.00
Yamuna/WorkStudio Room

  • Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum 

OPENING ADDRESS
Special Address by Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
09.15 - 09.45
Indus/Plenary Hall

INTERACTIVE SESSION
I2I: Indian to Indian — Solutions to Transform India
10.00 - 11.00
Godavari/Arena Room

  • Neelam Chhiber, Managing Director, Industree/Mother Earth, India; Social Entrepreneur;
  • Mallika Dutt, President and CEO, Breakthrough, USA
  • Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Group CEO, Bharti Enterprises, India
  • Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Minister of State for Power, India
  • N K Singh, Member of Parliament, India

SOUTH ASIA’S CHILDREN — ARE WE THINKING ABOUT SOUTH ASIA’S TOMORROW?
10.00 - 11.00
Kaveri/Solution Room

 
  • Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Artistic Director, Little Theatre, India
  • Sarah Brown, Executive Chair, The Global Business Coalition for Education, UK
  • Jane Marie Chen, Co-Founder and CEO, Embrace, USA
  • Kiran Walia, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Women and Child Development, and Languages, Government of Delhi, India
  • Ulhas Yargop, President, IT Sector, Group Chief Technology Officer and Member, Group Executive Board, Mahindra & Mahindra, India

BUILDING INDIA’S RISK RESILIENCE
10.00 – 11.15
Yamuna/WorkStudio Room

  • Reuben Abraham, Executive Director, Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions, Indian School of Business, India
  • Nisha Agrawal, CEO, Oxfam India, India
  • Kanan Dhru, Founder and Managing Director, Research Foundation for Governance in India, India
  • Debasish (Dev) Sanyal, Executive Vice-President and Member of the Group Executive Committee, BP, UK
  • W Lee Howell, Managing Director, Member of the Managing Board, WEF 

PLENARY SESSION IN PARALLEL
Inclusive Governance: Enabling Capability, Disabling Resistance
10.00 – 11.00
Ganga

  • Kris Gopalakrishnan, Executive Co-Chairman, Infosys, India; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on India
  • Manjeet Kripalani, Executive Director, Gateway House, India
  • Siddhartha Lal, Managing Director and CEO, Eicher Motors, India; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum on India
  • Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Supreme Audit Institution of India, India
  • Ramesh Ramanathan, Chairman, Janalakshmi Financial Services, India 

OPENING PLENARY
REBOOTING INDIA
11.15 – 12.30
Indus/Plenary Hall

  • Rahul Bajaj, Chairman, Bajaj Auto, India
  • Paul Bulcke, CEO, Nestlé, Switzerland; Co-Chair of the WEF on India
  • Natarajan Chandrasekaran, CEO and Managing Director, Tata Consultancy Services, India
  • Gita Gopinath, Professor of Economics, Harvard University, USA
  • Chanda Kochhar, Managing Director and CEO, ICICI Bank, India 

INTERACTIVE LUNCH SESSION
Insights into Pakistan
12.45 – 13.45

INTERACTIVE SESSION
FINANCING NEXT-GENERATION CORPORATIONS
14.00 – 15.15
Godavari/Arena Room

  • Pratip Chaudhuri, Chairman, State Bank of India, India
  • Ashish Chauhan, Interim CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange, India
  • Aashish Kamat, CEO, India, UBS, India
  • Rana Kapoor, Founder, Managing Director and CEO, YES BANK, India
  • Manish Kejriwal, Founding Partner, Kedaara Capital, India 

PLENARY SESSION IN PARALLEL
SPURRING THE GROWTH OF SOUTH ASIA’S SOCIAL ECONOMY
14.00 – 15.15
Ganga

  • Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Executive Director, Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS), Sri Lanka
  • Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO, Telenor Group, Norway
  • Kasim M Kasuri, CEO, Beaconhouse School System, Pakistan
  • Imran Khan, Chairman, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Pakistan
  • Rohini Nilekani, Chairperson, Arghyam Foundation, India 

INAUGURAL SESSION
A VISION FOR INDIA
15.45 – 17.00
Indus/Plenary Hall

INTERACTIVE SESSION
GATEWAY TO INDIA: OPEN?
17.15 to 18.15
Kaveri/Solution Room

  • Ankur Bhatia, Executive Director, Bird Group, India
  • Sandeep A Naik, Managing Director, General Atlantic, India
  • Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Executive Director, Corporate and Legal Affairs and Member of the Board, Tesco, UK

FOOD FOR ALL: ACHIEVING FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA
17.15 – 18.15
Yamuna/WorkStudio Room

  • Sudhir Kumar Goel, Additional Chief Secretary of Agriculture, Government of Maharashtra, India
  • Ajay Vir Jakhar, Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj (BKS), India
  • Adarsh Kumar, Founder and Executive Director, Livelihoods Equity Connect, India
  • Thomas Nagy, Executive Vice-President, COS, Novozymes, Denmark

HEALTH COLLABORATION AS A BRIDGE
17.15 – 18.15
Godavari/Arena Room

  • Nadeem Ul Haque, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Pakistan
  • Vikram Kumar, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Dimagi, USA
  • Sania Nishtar, Founding President, Heartfile, Pakistan
  • Prathap C. Reddy, Executive Chairman, Apollo Hospital Enterprise, India
  • Naresh Trehan, Chairman, Global Health Private, India

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First Published: Nov 07 2012 | 12:55 AM IST

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