08:00 – OnwardsRoshanara |
Participants registration |
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08:30 – 09:30Mumtaz |
Sign up breakfast
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08:30 – 09:30Jehangir |
Sign up breakfast
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09:45 – 10:00Durbar |
Welcome to the participants |
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10:00-11:00Durbar |
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.
Keynote Speaker: Special Address: Chair: Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman of the Board, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited and Chairman, Ananta Centre; India Moderator: |
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11:00 – 11:15Foyer |
Tea break |
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11:15-12:30Jehangir |
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.
Rajesh Aggarwal, Chief, Trade Facilitation and Policy for Business, International Trade Centre (UN-WTO), Switzerland Moderator: |
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12:45 – 14:15Shah Jehan |
Plenary Luncheon
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14:30-15:00Jehangir |
Tomorrow Now Space technology for agriculture: The way ahead.Shibendu S. Ray, Director, Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC) Ministry of Agriculture, India |
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14:30-15:00Mumtaz |
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 |
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15:15-16:45Durbar |
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?
Jehangir Aziz, Economist, JP Morgan, Singapore Moderator: |
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16:45 – 17:00 |
Tea break |
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17:00-18:15Durbar |
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.
Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Foreign Editor, Hindustan Times, India Moderated by: Siddharth Varadarajan, Editor, The Wire, India |
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18:30-19:30Durbar |
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.
Sean Dougherty, Senior Economic Advisor, International Trade and Development, OECD Moderator: |
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19:30 – 20:00Shah Jehan |
Reception |
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20:00 – 21:45Shah Jehan |
Opening DinnerIndia’s opportunities and challenges in a new global context: Role of Government and Business in seizing the moment Chief Guest: Chair: Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman of the Board, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited and Chairman, Ananta Centre; India Moderator: |
08:30-09:30Jehangir |
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: Moderator: |
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08:30 – 09:30Mumtaz |
Sign up breakfast (BY INVITATION ONLY)How can business deal with the challenges of global regulatory compliance? Guest of Honour: Moderator: |
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09:45-10:45Durbar |
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 Moderator: |
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10:45 – 11:15Foyer |
Tea break |
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11:15-12:15Durbar |
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.
Naushad Forbes, Co-Chairman Forbes Marshall and President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India Moderator: |
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12:30-13:00Jehangir |
Tomorrow Now Welcome to the era of the robotics Speaker: Moderator: |
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12:30-13:00Mumtaz |
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 |
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13:15 – 14:45Durbar |
Plenary Luncheon
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15:00-16:15Mumtaz |
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 |
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15:00-16:15Jehangir |
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.
Lisa Peets, Head, Technology and Media practice, Covington & Burling, United Kingdom Moderator: |
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16:15 – 16:45Foyer |
Tea break |
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16:45-18:00Durbar |
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.
Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy, Government of India Andreas Bauer, Senior Resident Representative, International Monetary Fund, Chile Moderated by: Henny Sender, Chief Correspondent for International Finance, The Financial Times, United Kingdom (speaker in one and moderator in another) |
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18:00 – 19:00Durbar |
Closing Plenary Connecting the dots: What we are taking home on the opportunities, the risks, and the strategies. Keynote Speaker: B J Panda, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha; India Moderated by: N K Singh, Former Member of Parliament , Rajya Sabha, & Chairman FRBM Committee, India |
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19:00 – 19:30Lawn |
Cocktails |
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19:30 – 21:00Durbar |
Closing DinnerA time for key emerging market countries to assert their role on the global scene N K Singh, Former Member of Parliament , Rajya Sabha, & Chairman FRBM Committee, India Chair: |