08:00 – Onwards

Roshanara

Participants registration
 
08:30 – 09:30

Mumtaz

Sign up breakfast
(BY INVITATION ONLY)
India’s new investment picture.

Framework conditions for investment have significantly improved in India, with the latest changes being announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during his presentation of the budget for FY 2017/18.

  • What are the latest liberalization and bureaucratic simplifications measures?
  • How could foreign and domestic investors leverage them in an optimum way?
  • Where are the key areas where progress still needs to be made?

Guest of Honour:
Ramesh Abhishek, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Investment Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India

Moderator:
Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India

 
08:30 – 09:30

Jehangir

Sign up breakfast
(BY INVITATION ONLY)
Dealing with the cybersecurity threat as a corporate priority.

We are just beginning to realize the acuity and the extent of the threat created to corporations and nations by the increasing activity and efficiency of hackers – whether private individuals or agents of national governments. Given the growing vulnerability of countries and corporations that comes from the greater and greater reliance on ICT, the threat of subversion or disruption of
IT/software-dependent systems is now assuming in many cases an existential dimension.

  • What preventive measures should corporations take to ensure their cybersecurity and avoid making it too easy for hackers?
  • How should government policies com into the picture in the fight against hacking?

A discussion with:
Tal Mozes, Partner, Hacktics Leader, Advisory Services, Ernst & Young LLP, Israel
Manish Tiwari, National (Information ) Security Officer – Microsoft India

Moderator:
Yaël Smadja, Chief Executive Officer, Smadja & Smadja USA, USA

 
09:45 – 10:00

Durbar

Welcome to the participants
 
10:00-11:00

Durbar

Opening plenary session
How can Key Emerging Markets countries become a global growth drivers and how should the private sector play a central role in this?
Emerging markets are regaining momentum, helped by the rise of commodities prices, by the stabilization of economic activity in China with GDP growth at the 4.5-6.5% range (depending on how it is calculated) but still at a much higher level than the developed economies and India ending its fiscal year at a higher than expected growth rate of 7%. Barring major unsettling development on the global economic and trade scene the economic momentum for many Emerging Markets – even for Brazil and Russia – is expected to consolidate and even to accelerate in the course of 2017. More importantly, the long-term drivers which are sustaining the course of emerging markets are still there.

  • So, can we assume that emerging markets are resuming the role of global growth driver they had previously?
  • What is needed, in terms of policies to strengthen economic fundamentals and improve framework conditions, to allow the private sector to be the engine of growth that its need to be?

Keynote Speaker:
S. Iswaran, Minister for Trade and Industry, Singapore

Special Address:
Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Railways, Government of India
Arvind Panagariya, Vice-­‐Chairman, NITI Aayog, Government of India

Chair:
N K Singh, Chairman, Steering Committee, The Growth Net; Senior Member, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha; India

Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman of the Board, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited and Chairman, Ananta Centre; India
Naushad Forbes, Co-Chairman Forbes Marshall and President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India
Claude Smadja, Founder and Chairman, Smadja & Smadja, Switzerland

Moderator:
Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC-TV18, India

 
11:00 – 11:15

Foyer

Tea break
 
11:15-12:30

Jehangir

Stimulating the private sector investment that generates growth and demand.
The lingering effects of the Great Recession have highlighted the indispensable l role that the private sector plays in economic growth and job
creation. Sustained, and inclusive, global growth cannot be achieved unless the private sector is fully mobilized – which requires that policies are set and implemented efficiently – to stimulate private sector investment. But past experiences in some emerging market countries have also shown that not all investments are optimally efficient to generate the kind of economic activity, jobs and consumer demand able to sustain growth.

  • What kind of private sector investments are the most susceptible to generate sustainable growth and jobs creation?
  • How can public-private partnerships facilitate the development of SMEs, as a key job and demand generator?
  • How would investment in the financial and banking sectors advance the necessary financial inclusion of broader segments of the population in Emerging Markets?

Rajesh Aggarwal, Chief, Trade Facilitation and Policy for Business, International Trade Centre (UN-WTO), Switzerland
Jaspal Bindra, Executive Chairman of the Centrum Group, India
Manuel Cavazos Lerma, Chairman of the Special Committee for the Analysis and Monitoring of Public Finances of the Mexican Senate, Mexico
Stephane Lauret, Chief Executive Officer, Safran India, India
Lisa Robins, Managing Director, Vice Chair of Corporate and Investment Banking Asia-Pacific, regional Head of Global Transactions Banking, Asia Pacific, Deutsche Bank, Germany

Moderator:
Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India

 
12:45 – 14:15

Shah Jehan

Plenary Luncheon

From lack of…to infrastructure as a full growth driver

If it is common wisdom that the lack of adequate infrastructure is a major impediment to sustainable growth, a key element for policy-makers is to determine the priorities and modalities of infrastructure development so as to create a multiplier impact, in which infrastructure building generates an expansion of the industrial base of the country, and contributes – not only to overall growth creation – but also to the wider integration into economic life of segments of the population left previously on the sidelines.

Keynote speaker:
Nitin Jairam Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping (TBC)
S. B. Nayar, Chairman and Managing Director, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL), India

Moderator:
Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Ambuja Neotia Group, India

 
14:30-15:00

Jehangir

Tomorrow Now
Space technology for agriculture: The way ahead.Shibendu S. Ray, Director, Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC) Ministry of Agriculture, India
 
14:30-15:00

Mumtaz

Tomorrow Now
A.I. as a crucial shaper of national and corporate futures.Deepak Loomba, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, AICorps EPL, India
Meetul Patel, General Manager M&O, Microsoft India
 
15:15-16:45

Durbar


What does a volatile new global landscape mean for business strategies
Business leaders around the world are up in arms looking at the dramatic changes reshaping the global economic and geopolitical environment in which they operate and trying to figure out how to manage the new risks – business and non-business ones – and how to leverage potential opportunities that might be created by the new developments. What are the key risks we need now to worry about? How does – or should – the new global environment impact on corporate decision-making processes? What new opportunities could this new volatile environment create?

  • Opening analysis setting the framework for the discussions:
  • Discussions among the participants addressing the risks, opportunities and corporate strategy implications
  • Drawing up the outcomes of the brainstorming.

Jehangir Aziz, Economist, JP Morgan, Singapore
Gopinath Pillai, Ambassador-at-Large, Special Envoy to Andhra Pradesh and Chairman, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), Singapore
Frederico Gil Sander, Senior Country Economist – India, World Bank
Rajiv Kumar, Founding Director, Pahle India Foundation, India

Moderator:
Govindraj Ethiraj, Co-Founder, Ping Digital Broadcast, Boom Live and IndiaSpend, India

 
16:45 – 17:00
Tea break
 
17:00-18:15

Durbar

Plenary session
What the new US administration mean for the global economy… and for Emerging Markets
While some segments of the US business community have been heartened by – and supportive of – President Trump’s plans to lower corporate taxes, reduce bureaucratic encroachment and invest heavily in infrastructure, the new administration’s protectionist orientations, its aversion for multilateral trade agreements and its will to pressure US companies to repatriate activities in America have raised alarms in many parts of the world.

  • What kind of impact could the US economic policy shift have on emerging markets?
  • What would the intensification of trade frictions mean for countries which have been endeavoring to integrate into global supply chains?
  • Should we expect further restrictions to technology transfers?

Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Foreign Editor, Hindustan Times, India
Hong Hao, Managing director & Head of Research, Bank of Communications (International), Hong Kong
Shoeb Kagda, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Synthesis, Indonesia
Clyde Prestowitz, Founder and President, The Economic Strategy Institute, USA

Moderated by:

Siddharth Varadarajan, Editor, The Wire, India

 
18:30-19:30

Durbar

What businesses need to do to ensure crucial sustainable productivity gains?

In the last few years, total factor productivity has declined in most Emerging Markets countries, including China and India, with growth requiring more and more capital. If this trend is not reversed the threat of floss of competitiveness, growth stagnation and falling into the middle income trap will intensify with dreadful consequences for social stability.

  • Leveraging Technology and the Internet of Things for productivity gains
  • Other priority actions to move from resources-driven to productivity-driven growth.
  • While productivity remains a business challenge, what policy framework improvements are required to sustain growth?

Sean Dougherty, Senior Economic Advisor, International Trade and Development, OECD
Joseph Klafter, President, Tel Aviv University (TAU); Israel
Rafael Funes, Executive Chairman Lovis Holdings, United Kingdom
Don Gao, Founder & CEO Positec China, People’s Republic of China
Guo Chao, Director, Overseas sales and marketing, BOE Technology, People’s Republic of China
Manuel Cavazos Lerma, Senator, Chamber of Senators of Mexico

Moderator:
Arunabha Ghosh, Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), India

 
19:30 – 20:00

Shah Jehan

Reception
 
20:00 – 21:45

Shah Jehan

Opening Dinner

India’s opportunities and challenges in a new global context: Role of Government and Business in seizing the moment

Chief Guest:
Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance, Government of India

Chair:
N K Singh, Chairman, Steering Committee, The Growth Net; Senior Member, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha; India

Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman of the Board, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited and Chairman, Ananta Centre; India
Naushad Forbes, Co-Chairman Forbes Marshall and President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India
Claude Smadja, Founder and Chairman, Smadja & Smadja, Switzerland

Moderator:
Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC-TV18, India

 
08:30-09:30

Jehangir

Sign up breakfast (INVITATION ONLY)

Indonesia: Tackling the challenges to leverage the opportunities.

As Southeast Asia largest economy, and with the economic reforms launched by President Joko Widodo underpinning growth, Indonesia represents a potential that cannot be ignored. However, sustaining higher growth in the future will require a shift from the reliance on the commodities sector – which has been declined over the last few years – to higher end manufacturing and services activities. Indonesia has been put in the MINT group of countries, along with Mexico, Nigeria, and Turkey, expected to generate high growth over the next decade. However, while Indonesia can count on some strong assets such as its demographics, much will depend on how reforms conducive to economic restructuring and sustainable growth will be implemented.

An Interaction with:
Shoeb Kagda, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Synthesis, Indonesia
Gita Irawan Wirjawan, Founder, PT Ancora Indonesia Resources Tbk, Indonesia

Moderator:
Reshmi Khurana, Managing Director and Head of South Asia Kroll Inc

 
08:30 – 09:30

Mumtaz

Sign up breakfast (BY INVITATION ONLY)

How can business deal with the challenges of global regulatory compliance?
Over the last decade, a significant array of new rules and regulations has been set by national governments as well as by international organization on issues as diverse as anti-corruption, food safety, banking standards, consumer protection… As importantly national regulations in many domains now tend to converge into the same direction. How can companies operating at the global level ensure that they are fully compliant in the different countries and regions where they operate and that any failure of compliance in one domain in one country will not put them into trouble elsewhere? In that respect, one just needs to consider how, for instance, the Anti-Bribery Act in the UK or the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in the US have been conceived to have an extra-territorial reach.

Guest of Honour:
Ajay Tyagi, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), India

Moderator:
N K Singh, Chairman, Steering Committee, The Growth Net; Senior Member, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha; India

 
09:45-10:45

Durbar

Plenary session
Enhancing Japan strategic role in Asia’s Emerging Markets growth.
From capital to technology, and its very rich domestic consumer market, Japan has a lot to offer to emerging markets countries – not mentioning its expertise in energy efficiency. As Japanese corporations continue to expand their operations abroad, they can be a relevant contributor to a number of emerging market economies. However, the sustainability of Japan’s role in this categories of countries as well as in international markets in general will also be dependent on the success of the revitalization drive launched by Prime Minister Abe.Yasushi Akahoshi, President, Japan External Trade Organization, Japan

Yasushi Akahoshi, President,
Japan External Trade Organization, Japan
Koki Hirota, Chief Economist, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan
Tadashi Kageyama, Regional Managing Director Head of Asia operations, Kroll Associates (Asia) Ltd, Hong Kong
Shishir Sharma, Founding Partner, Tatva Legal, India
Gita Irawan Wirjawan, Founder, PT Ancora Indonesia Resources Tbk, Indonesia

Moderator:
Henny Sender, Chief Correspondent for International Finance, The Financial Times, United Kingdom

 
10:45 – 11:15

Foyer

Tea break
 
11:15-12:15

Durbar

Plenary session
China’s crucial year: The economic and geopolitical implications.China’s 19th National Party Congress will take place in the fall of 2017 deciding on the replacement of a substantial number of members of the top leadership structure, and making some major decisions on economic policy and on the way to address social problems. The timing is crucial for President Xi to form his own team. It is also crucial to see if the leadership has been able to ensure the level of growth it needs and whether it can manage the balancing act of providing more leeway to the private sector, while pursuing its priority of maintaining the strategic role for the state sector.

  • What kind of power picture can we expect to emerge from the 19th NCCPC?
  • How is corporate China adjusting to the country’s “new normal”
  • How effectively is the government managing the balancing act between restructuring and keeping growth at a socially and politically acceptable threshold?

Naushad Forbes, Co-Chairman Forbes Marshall and President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India
Hong Hao, Managing director & Head of Research, Bank of Communications International, Hong Kong
Lisa Robins, Managing Director, Vice Chair of Corporate and Investment Banking Asia-Pacific, regional Head of Global Transactions Banking, Asia Pacific, Deutsche Bank, Germany
Timothy Stratford, Managing Partner, Beijing Office, Covington & Burling, USA
Kobus van der Wath, Founder & Group Managing Director The Beijing Axis, Peoples’ Republic of China

Moderator:
Indrani Baghi, Diplomatic Editor, The Times of India, India

 
12:30-13:00

Jehangir

Tomorrow Now
Welcome to the era of the robotics

Speaker:
Rohit Gupta, General Manager Manufacturing Engg. & Projects, JCB India

Moderator:
Govindraj Ethiraj, Co‐Founder, Ping Digital Broadcast, Boom Live and IndiaSpend, India

 
12:30-13:00

Mumtaz

Tomorrow Now

The Millennials: A new breed of employees, a new breed of consumers, a new breed of leaders.

Arun George, Founder CEO – Avant Garde Innovations, India
Mark Hannant, Founder, Teammagenta, India

 
13:15 – 14:45

Durbar

Plenary Luncheon

Getting FDI right

  • How to ensure that FDI promotion policy be part of a coherent national development strategy?
  • How to make FDI work for sustainable growth, for instance looking not only at the quantity of jobs that this would create but also at the quality of these jobs?
  • How to ensure that FDI also becomes a way to create new local entrepreneurship capabilities?

Keynote Speaker:
Shaktikanta Das, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Yasushi Akahoshi, President, Japan External Trade Organization, Japan
Clyde Prestowitz, Founder and President, The Economic Strategy Institute, USA

Moderator:
Tarun Das, Founding Trustee, Ananta Centre and Former Chief Mentor, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India

 
15:00-16:15

Mumtaz

Mapping out the new consumers: How are they impacting on growth, business models, social changes

Domestic consumption has remained a strong growth driver in most Emerging Markets – especially in countries such as China and India (at least until the demonetization initiative of the government) – proving quite resilient despite the economic slowdown in many countries. In fact, the trend of a growing emerging middle-class remains intact with the role of young consumers growing significantly and confidence in present and future income continuing to drive new consumption patterns, tastes and expectations. In the same way, the increasing importance of Ecommerce in online shopping has helped offset the impact of slowing growth, sustaining and spurring consumption and generating new consumer behaviors.

Feng Xi, Senior vice president, Dataway Horizon & President, Future Business School, People’s Republic of China
Memduh Karakullukçu, Vice Chairman and President Global Relations Forum, Turkey
Michael Wu, Manage Director of UCT. Shenzhen United Creation Technology Co., People’s Republic of China
Malini Goyal, Senior Editor, The Economic Times, India

 
15:00-16:15

Jehangir

Harnessing the transformative impact of the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is becoming a new game changer for many Emerging Market countries, with a leap-frogging impact for business from the new opportunities it opens, the consumer’s behavior evolution it generates. While governments have to deliver the proper regulatory environment for the development of IOT, one key challenge for the private sector is to identify innovative ways to leverage new technologies and to nurture the new activities and the start-up companies that will help sustain growth and the distribution of technology benefits for society as a whole.

  • How IoT is reshaping businesses.
  • Smart cities and more affordable healthcare; Ecommerce as a growth booster and social transformer.
  • Fintech as a golden opportunity to integrate more people in the financial circuits and economic life.

Lisa Peets, Head, Technology and Media practice, Covington & Burling, United Kingdom
Stefan Sjöström, Vice President Asia, Public Sector, Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd
Veer Sagar, Chairman, Selectronic, India
Dony Zhang, Group Vice President Inspur Group Co, Ltd, CEO Inspur India
Zhao Hejuan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, TMT Post, People’s Republic of China

Moderator:
Yaël Smadja, Chief Executive Officer, Smadja & Smadja USA, USA

 
16:15 – 16:45

Foyer

Tea break
 
16:45-18:00

Durbar

Plenary session
Is India reaching the inflection point towards double digit growth?
The signing of the GST law by President Pranab Mukherjee last September was a game-changer for the Indian economy, creating at long last a single Indian market, and reducing the cost of doing business and eliminating opportunities for corruption. While important measures such as land and labor reforms are still on hold, the huge step represented by the GST law comes in addition to a number of important improvements in the ease of doing business and to significant openings of new opportunities for foreign investors. This is now bringing the Indian economy at – or very close to – a kind of inflection point.

  • How can infrastructure building measure up to the growth ambitions of India and is double digit growth now really at hand?
  • The increase of FDI shows the confidence of foreign investors. Will the domestic ones follow suit and even take the lead?
  • How could exports become a greater contributor to growth?
  • How can India profit of a global economic context that provides the country with some interesting advantages?

Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy, Government of India

Andreas Bauer, Senior Resident Representative, International Monetary Fund, Chile
Uday Kotak, Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank, India
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon Limited, India
Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, London School Economics and Political Science; United Kingdom

Moderated by:

Henny Sender, Chief Correspondent for International Finance, The Financial Times, United Kingdom (speaker in one and moderator in another)

 
18:00 – 19:00

Durbar

Closing Plenary
Connecting the dots: What we are taking home on the opportunities, the risks, and the strategies.

Keynote Speaker:
Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India

B J Panda, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha; India
Claude Smadja, Founder and Chairman, Smadja & Smadja, Switzerland
Lisa Robins, Managing Director, Vice Chair of Corporate and Investment Banking Asia-Pacific, regional Head of Global Transactions Banking, Asia Pacific, Deutsche Bank, Germany
Ralph Voltmer, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP, US

Moderated by:

N K Singh, Former Member of Parliament , Rajya Sabha, & Chairman FRBM Committee, India

 
19:00 – 19:30

Lawn

Cocktails
 
19:30 – 21:00

Durbar

Closing Dinner

A time for key emerging market countries to assert their role on the global scene
Keynote speaker:
S Jaishankar, Foreign Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India (TBC)

N K Singh, Former Member of Parliament , Rajya Sabha, & Chairman FRBM Committee, India
Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman of the Board, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited and Chairman, Ananta Centre; India
Claude Smadja, Founder and Chairman, Smadja & Smadja, Switzerland

Chair:
S K Lambah, Chairman, Ananta Aspen Centre and Former Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India