Agenda

Day 1
Day 2

Day 1

09.00 AM - 09.30 AM

Registration

09.30 AM - 10.00 AM

Inauguration & Opening Remarks

10.30 AM - 11.10 AM

A Conversation - Role of AI & Its Impact on Markets

Christopher Wood

Global Head of Equity Strategy

Jefferies

Nilesh Shah

Managing Director

Kotak Mutual Fund

11:15 AM - 12.00 PM

Fireside Chat: A Path Towards A Modern India

Suman Bery

Vice Chairperson

NITI Aayog

12.05 PM - 12.35 PM

Fireside Chat - Reimagining FMCG in Making India Future Ready

Sanjiv Puri

Chairman & MD

ITC

01.15 PM - 02.30 PM

Networking Lunch

02.50 PM - 03.20 PM

Fireside Chat - Making India Future Ready: On Road to 2047

Nitin Gadkari

Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways

Govt. of India

03:00 PM - 03.40 PM

Hall 2

Panel Discussion - Data Centre: A Sustainability Challenge

Manu Srivastava

Additional Chief Secretary (Power)

Madhya Pradesh

Nikhil Dhingra

CEO

ACME Solar

Sunil Gupta

Co-Founder, MD & CEO

Yotta

03.25 PM – 04.00 PM

A Conversation

Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare & Rural Development

Govt of India

04.00 PM - 04.30 PM

A Conversation - Making India Future Ready: The FTA Journey

Piyush Goyal

Union Minister of Commerce & Industry

Govt. of India

04.35 PM - 05.05 PM

High Tea

05:05 PM - 05.40 PM

A Conversation - Electrifying Mobility

Tarun Mehta

Co-founder and CEO

Ather Energy

05:05 PM - 05.40 PM

Hall 2

Fireside Chat - Industry 5.0: Scaling up India’s factories

Atul Lall

MD

Dixon Technologies

06.00 PM – 06.40 PM

Fireside Chat - Reforms Agenda

Prof S Mahendra Dev

Chairman

Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister

06.45 PM

Networking & Cocktails

Day 2

09.00 AM - 09.45 AM

Registration

09.45 AM – 10.20 AM

A Conversation - Aligning India with evolving geopolitics

Amitabh Kant

Ex-G20 Sherpa

Govt. of India

10.30 AM – 10.55 AM

A Conversation - Making India Future Ready

Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs

Govt. of India

11.00 AM – 11.30 AM

Fireside Chat - Data & Dominance in a Digital-first India

Ravneet Kaur

Chairperson

Competition Commission of India

11.00 AM – 11.35 AM

Hall 2

Panel Discussion - AI for India: From Ambition to Execution

Arunima Sarkar

Head, Initiatives, C4IR India

World Economic Forum

Jibu Elias

Country Lead for India

Mozilla

Prof Sandeep Shukla

Director

IIIT Hyderabad

11.30 AM – 12.15 PM

A Conversation - Can India be The World’s Food Factory?

Ashok Gulati

Professor

ICRIER (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations)

Laveesh Bhandari

President & Sr. Fellow

CSEP

Ramesh Chand

Member

NITI Aayog

11.45 AM – 12.20 PM

Hall 2

Panel Discussion - Can Startups Catalyse The Next Green Revolution?

Anand Chandra

Co-founder and Executive Director

Arya.ag

Amith Agarwal

Co-Founder & CEO

AgriBazaar

Adarsh Srivastav

Co-Founder

DeHaat

12.20 PM – 01.15 PM

Fireside Chat - Net Zero in a Viksit Bharat Context: Is India Energy-Ready for the 2070 Target?

Pralhad Joshi

Union Minister of New & Renewable Energy & Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

Govt. of India

12.25 PM – 01.15 PM

Hall 2

Panel Discussion - How Future-Ready are Our Social Infrastructures – Health, Education, Sanitation, and Such?

Archna Vyas

Country Director India

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Ashish Dhawan

Founder & CEO

The Convergence Foundation

Vineet Nayar

Founder & Chairman

Sampark Foundation

01.15 PM - 02.15 PM

Networking Lunch

02.15 PM – 02.45 PM

Hall 2

Panel Discussion - India’s High-Tech Manufacturing Prospects

Abhishek Singh

Sr. VP - Defence (India & SE Asia)

Rolls-Royce

Kollareddy Ramachandra

CEO

Midwest Ltd.

Tushar Vikram

Country Head & CEO

Mashreq

02.50 PM – 03.25 PM

Fireside Chat - From coal to cells, India’s energy journey

Sumant Sinha

Founder, Chairman & CEO

ReNew

03.30 PM – 04.15 PM

Panel Discussion - Smoothing the EV transition

Akash Gupta

Co-Founder & CEO

Zypp Electric

Mahesh Babu

MD

Olectra Greentech

Raghav Bharadwaj

CEO

Bolt.Earth

Saurav Kumar

Founder & CEO

Euler Motors

Tapan Ghosh

CEO

VinFast India

04.15 PM – 04.30 PM

High Tea

04.30 PM – 05.10 PM

Panel Discussion - Maintaining "Strategic Autonomy"

Lieutenant General Deependra Singh Hooda (retd)

Distinguished Fellow

Delhi Policy Group

Rajinder Singh Bhatia

Chairman

Kalyani Strategic Systems Ltd (a defence subsidiary of Bharat Forge)

Ambassador Sujan Chinoy

Director General

Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

05.15 PM – 05.55 PM

A Conversation - Cinema in the Age of AI

Shekhar Kapur

Award-winning Indian Film Director, Actor & Producer

06.00 PM

Closing Address & Vote of Thanks