Chief Guest
New Delhi
Shri Giriraj Singh
Minister of State (Independent Charge), MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES, Government of India.
Keynote Address
New Delhi
Shri Ram Mohan Mishra
Additional Secretary and Development Commissioner (MINSTRY OF MICRO, SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES) Government of India.
Keynote Speaker
Chennai
Mr C K Mohan
General Secretary,
Tamil Nadu Small and Tiny Industries Association (TANSTIA)
Speakers
Ketan Kapooor
Techpreneur, Co-Founder,
Mettl
K.V.Jagannath
CEO & MD,
Choice Solutions Ltd.
Prasad Y Ajgaonkar
CEO,
iRealities PVT Ltd.
John Baby
Director & CEO,
Funskool
Dr. Anuradha M V
Assistant Professor, GLIM
Vinita Surana
Creative Director & Life coach,
vinvinsituation.com
M. Yeshwanth Nag
Founder
The ThickShake Factory
Ramita Chaudhuri
Chief Marketer
Mahou India
Mr. Manohar Samuel
President - Marketing,
Birla Cellulose
Ajay Kolla
Founder & CEO,
WisdomJobs.com
Robin Banerjee
Managing Director,
Caprihans India Ltd
Bharat Chabbra
Head of Department, L&D(HR),
TATA Powers
Sri Charan
founder and CEO,
Stumagz
Sudhir Rao
VP and CTO for India, China & Middle East, Pearson
Ravichandran Purushothaman
President,
Danfoss
Sunil Khosla
Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, India Transact Services
Manasije Mishra
Managing Director,
Indian Health Organisation
Dhruv Desai
Director,
Tradebulls Securities
Shubika Bilkha
Business Head,
The Real Estate Management Institute- REMI, The Annet Group
Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Group Chairman,
Inditrade
Amit Ramani
Founder & CEO,
AWFIS
Vikramjeet Singh
Chief Human Resource officer,
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
Viraj Kalyani
CEO,
Kalyani Studio
Rohit Manglik
CEO,
EduGorilla
Amit Tripathi
Founder & Managing Director,
IdeateLabs
Samir Dhingra
CEO,
NETSPIDER
Raju Moza
CFO,
Zentrix
Ravi Vasantraj
Global Head – BFSI,
Tech Mahindra
Kunal Sen
MD,
Korn Ferry Futurestep
Damodar Vaidya
Executive partner,
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
Jatin Ahuja
Founder,
Big Boy Toyz
Mukul Chopra
Director HR – India Device Business, Huawei Telecommunications (INDIA) Co.Pvt.Ltd
Shriranga K. Sudhakara
Founder & Managing Director,
Vyoma Media
Colonel Prakash Tewari
Executive Director, CSR,
DLF Ltd
Kalyan Ram Challapalli
Founder,
Wolfzhowl Strategic Instigation
Rajat Garg
Director, Global Board,
International Coach Federation
Bharat Verma
CEO,
Plutoexchange
Suresh Reddy
Chairman & CEO,
Lycos
Akhil Gupta
Co-founder,
NoBroker.com
Jay Thadeshwar
Founder and CEO,
Poised Media
Sushanto Mitra
Founder & CEO,
Lead Angel Network
Tulsi Das Tawari
CEO & Chief Strategist,
Alternate Approaches
Ramnath Subramanian
ED, Maha Metro and CEO,
Village Social Transformation Foundation
Manashi Kumar
Head People Operation,
BARC India
Mandar Gadkari
Head of Investor Engagement,
Cross Border Angels,(CBA)
Mrigank Tripathi
Vice President,
PeopleStrong
Manav Sethi
CMO,
ALTBalaji
Maninder singh Juneja
MD & CEO,
National Bulk Handling Corporation
Alok Gautam
Country Head - Logistics,
Dow India
Sanju Ballurkar
CEO,
Magna Infotech
Vikas Chadha
Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer,
Berggruen Hotels Pvt Ltd
Sri Gowra Srinivas
President,
Federation of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FTAPCCI)
Amitabh Biswas
Founding Partner and CMO,
Avantura Choppers
Abhijit Saxena
Founder,
Mobilox
Archibald Serrao
Business Manager,
Oracle Netsuite
George Varghese
Head- Solution Consulting,
Oracle Netsuite
Ravi Kaklasaria
CEO,
SpringPeople
Vipin Pathak
Cofounder,
Care24
Pawan Gupta
Co-founder,
Curofy
Sumit Singla
National Sales Manager – North,
Polycom
G V Anand Bhushan
Partner & Head,
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Neeraj Sharma
Senior Director of HR,
FourKites
Amit Ghosh
HR Leader, Central Engineering Centre, Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd.
Navneet Ganpathi
Founder,
Sportainment
Ganapathi
Senior V.P., Southern India Chamber of Commerce
Industry & Chairman of Trigyn Technologies Limited
Indraneel Ganguli
Senior VP & Global Head - Brand Marketing & Communications,
Tech Mahindra
Smita Venkataraman
Vice President HR and Corporate Communications,
AGS Health
Vinita Venkatesh
Director, Krishnapatnam Port Container Terminal
Managing Director,
Ocean2Door
Karishma Kirpalani
Founder,
Kwink Digital
Kunwer Sachdev
Managing Director,
Su-Kam
Amit Boni
Vice President, Sales and Marketing,Smartron
Priti Gulati
Founder,
EXPERTIES
Lohit Bhatia
CEO,
IKYA Human Solutions Ltd
Srikanth Natarajan
Director Channels India and SAARC,Ruckus Networks
Amarjeet Manchanda
Director - Solution Architecture, Red Hat India/South Asia
Nikhil Arora
vice president and managing director,GoDaddy
Saurabh Marda
Founder and Managing Director,
Freyr Energy
Mr. Alok Mittal
CEO & Co-founder,
Indifi Technologies
Sanjay Sharma
Co-founder & managing director,
Aye finance
Som Shekhar Singh
Director, Technology,
Sapient Consulting
Ayushi Gudwani
Founder & CEO,
FableStreet
Dr. Shalini Lal
Founder & CEO
,
Infinity OD
Partners
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Sensex Partner
Associate tech Partner
Human Capital Partner
TV Partner
Webcast Partner
Supporting Partners
Launching SME Whitebook 2017-18
The Hashtag Sector of India, Encapsulating the Mood of Economy
The essential handbook for the SMEs and Startups, BW Businessworld SME Whitebook 2017-18 is the latest in 8th edition of our endeavor to highlight the potential of the SME sector which is the growth engine of modern Indian economy. The guiding theme for this book is to give an insight into and highlight the new challenges and possibilities for the SME sector in the years to come.
Sections Covered
- SME Sector in India - An Overview
- Technology
- Risk Management
- GST - A potent challenge and opportunity for the SME sector
- Indian SMEs - Integrating and enhancing roles in global value chains
- Looming trends
- Stumbling Blocks - Plugging the hitches
- Improving and Sustaining the Financing Ecosystem
- E-Commerce and Start Ups Stepping Up the Game
- Focal Point- The Sunrise SME sectors
Five Reasons to Partner
- Esteemed as one of the top 10 bestsellers in India for last 2 years
- Contributions from experts and thought leaders cutting across various verticals of the SME sector in India.
- A sharp focus on the emerging challenges and possibilities for the SME sector in India.
- Four-city mega launch events.
- Industry captains convene to deliberate on what next.
Agenda
Registrations
Keynote Address
- Mr. C K Mohan, General Secretary, TANTSIA, Proprietor, Power Grid
- Mr. Ganapathi, Senior VP, Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Adaptability - An Important Business Attribute: By a Power Speaker
With a rapid and constantly changing business environment, one of the key factors to growth and survival comes from the ability to adapt to the changing environment. Our expert will explain the importance of this and how to make rapid changes to stay ahead of the curve in the current environment
- Address by Mr. Ravichandran Purushothaman, President, Danfoss
Ready. Set. Grow with # 1 Cloud ERP
- Address By Mr. Archibald Serrao, Business Manager, Oracle NetSuite
Tea Break
Training and Competitiveness - Building Small business as a Learning Organisation
Talent normally prefers to work for the larger and more established corporates. Our panel of experts will share with the audience on how to attract talent and retain them by necessary interventions such as training to keep them and the organization competitive
- Dr. Anuradha M V, Assistant Professor at GLIM
- Mr. Amit Ghosh, HR Leader, Central Engineering Centre, Dow Chemical International (Moderator)
- Ms. Smita Venkataraman, Vice President and Head of HR and L&D, AGS Health
- Mr. Neeraj Sharma, Senior Director HR, FourKites
Finance made easy
Is there an optimum level of financing for SMEs? What is it? And how do SMEs keep themselves adequately capitalized? How do their run their cash flows effectively? How do they raise funds be it equity or debt? Our panel will answer these and other questions from the audience
- Mr. Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Group Chairman, Inditrade
- Dr. (Col) John Chenetra President, SecUR Credentials
- Mr. Inderjeet Singh Gill, Managing Director, OneEarth Projects
Lunch
Building, Sustaining and Scaling Organizations
- Special Address by Mr. John Baby, CEO, Funskool
Smarter marketing for ambitious SMEs
Budgets are always a constraint for SMEs however the need for communication, be it marketing or PR or sales remains high. This session by our experts will help SMEs understand how to communicate and sell their offerings within a limited budget
- Ms. Srividya Kannan, Founder, Avaali
- Mr. Sashi Kumar, MD, Indeed
- Mr. Ravi Kaklasaria,CEO, SpringPeople
- Hoshie Ghaswalla, BW Businessworld (Moderator)
- Karishma Kirpalani, Kwink
Tea Break
Can Blockchain be a Game Changer
Technology has been a major game changer for all sizes and types of organizations. Most organizations have adopted technology and evolved their business models and processes. Blockchain is a new and much spoken about technology that is seen much traction for the past couple of quarters. What is this technology? What functions can it be deployed in? And how can it make a change to this segment? This session will demystify Blockchain and speak of the changes it can bring for these companies
- Address by Mr. GV Anand Bhushan, Partner & Head, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Using Supply chain Smartly
Supply chain is a critical process in any business. From stocking pricing to cash flow management can be better handled by having an efficient supply chain. Our expert will speak about how to smartly handle supply chain and improve efficiencies, cash flow and bottom-line
- Address by Ms. Vinita Venkatesh, Director, Krishnapatnam Port Container Terminal & Managing Director, Ocean2Door
The Road to Greatness - Resilient Entrepreneurs
This will be a panel with A class leaders on how to achieve new levels whilst maintaining a high level of quality and growth
- Dr. Balakrishna Shetty, MD, DNB
- Mr. Pawan Gupta, Co-founder, Curofy
- Mr. Navneet Ganpathi, Founder, Sportainment
Closing Note
* Awaiting Confirmation
Registrations
Keynote Address
Shri Ram Mohan Mishra, Additional Secretary and Development Commissioner (MINSTRY OF MICRO, SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES) Government of India.
Oracle NetSuite
George Varghese, Head- Solution Consulting, Oracle Netsuite
Training and Competitiveness - Building Small business as a Learning Organisation
Talent normally prefers to work for the larger and more established corporates. Our panel of experts will share with the audience on how to attract talent and retain them by necessary interventions such as training to keep them and the organization competitive
Panellists:
- Mr. Ketan Kapoor, CEO and Co-founder, Mettl
- Mukul Chopra, Huawei
- Bharat Chhabra, TATA Powers
- Mr. Rajat Garg,India Spokesperson of ICF
- Lohit Bhatia, CEO, IKYA Human Solutions Ltd
Polycom - Video adoption and benefits for SMB
Finance made easy
Is there an optimum level of financing for SMEs? What is it? And how do SMEs keep themselves adequately capitalized? How do their run their cash flows effectively? How do they raise funds be it equity or debt? Our panel will answer these and other questions from the audience
Panellists:
- Raju Moza CFO, C-Zentrix
- Mr. Alok Mittal, CEO & Co-founder, Indifi Technologies Private
- Mr. Kailash Vaswani, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, ReNew
- Mr. K. Paul Thomas - MD & CEO at ESAF Small Finance
- Mr. Sanjay Sharma- MD and CO-Founder, Aye Finance
Lunch
Special Address on Indian SME Trends and Recommendation
Shobhit Mathur, Director at EY
Smarter marketing for ambitious SMEs
Budgets are always a constraint for SMEs however the need for communication, be it marketing or PR or sales remains high. This session by our experts will help SMEs understand how to communicate and sell their offerings within a limited budget
Panellists:
- Mr. Amit Boni, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Smartron
- Ramita Chaudhuri, Chief Marketer, Mahou India
- Abhijit Saxena, Founder, Mobilox
- Mr. Manasije Mishra, Managing Director, Aetna India
- Ms. Priti Gulati, Founder, Experties
- Shrikanth Natarajan, Director Channels India and SAARC, Ruckus Networks
- Sameer Sikka, Group Chief Operating Officer at BW Businessworld – (MODERATOR)
Tea Break
Can Blockchain be a Game Changer
Technology has been a major game changer for all sizes and types of organizations. Most organizations have adopted technology and evolved their business models and processes. Blockchain is a new and much spoken about technology that is seen much traction for the past couple of quarters. What is this technology? What functions can it be deployed in? And how can it make a change to this segment? This session will demystify Blockchain and speak of the changes it can bring for these companies
- Hitesh Arora, Director Strategy & Customer Advocacy, CRMNext
- Mr. Amarjeet Manchanda, Director - Solution Architecture, Red Hat India/South Asia
- Anjan Lahiri, CEO, Birlasoft
Using Supply chain Smartly
Supply chain is a critical process in any business. From stocking pricing to cash flow management can be better handled by having an efficient supply chain. Our expert will speak about how to smartly handle supply chain and improve efficiencies, cash flow and bottom-line
The Road to Greatness - Resilient Entrepreneurs
This will be a panel with A class leaders on how to achieve new levels whilst maintaining a high level of quality and growth
Panellists:
- Mr. Jatin Ahuja founder, MD Big Boy Toyz
- Mr. Amit Ramani – Founder & CEO, Awfis
- Mr. Kunwer Sachdev, Managing Director, Su-Kam
- Nikhil Arora, Vice President and Managing Director, GoDaddy
- Mr. Rohit Manglik, CEO, EduGorilla
- Colonel Prakash Tewari, Executive Director, CSR, DLF ( Moderator)
Networking Tea Break
Special Session
Special Address by Shri Giriraj Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge), MINISTRY OF MICRO, SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES, Government of India.
Launch of SME Whitebook 2018
Growth Leadership Awards 2018 Ceremony
* Awaiting Confirmation
Registrations
Introduction to The Growth and Leadership Conclave
Anurag Batra, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, BW Businessworld and Exchange4Media Group
Special Address by FTAPCCI
Gowra Srinivas, Chairman – Gowra Group, Managing Director - Gowra Petrochem Pvt. Ltd. & Gowra Leasing & Finance Limited And President, FTAPCCI
Nothing Succeeds Like Success
Address by K V Jagannath, Founder and Chairman, Choice Computers and White Board Café
Tea Break
Panel : Training and Competitiveness - Building Small Business into Learning Organizations
- Ajay Kolla, Founder & CEO, Wisdomjobs.com
- Shubika Bilkha, Business Head, The Real Estate Management Institute- REMI, The Annet Group
- Kunal Sen, Managing Director, Korn Ferry Futurestep India
- Manashi Kumar HR Head, BARC India
- Kapil Mishra, MD, Columbus Global
Quest for Business Growth and Strategies to Achieve Them
Address by Suresh Reddy, Chairman & CEO, Lycos
Lunch
Panel : Smarter Marketing for Ambitious SMEs
- Ashwin Mocherla, Co Founder, The Thickshake factory
- Rahul Paith, COO, DocOnline
- Vamsi Chalagulla, Founder, ThirdLeap Inc.
- Hoshie Ghaswalla, BW Businessworld (Moderator)
Address by Sudhakar Rao, Director Branding, ICFAI Group
Panel : Can Blockchain be a Game Changer?
- Bharat Verma, Plutoexchange (moderator)
- Charan Lakkaraju, Founder, Stumagz
- Sudhir Rao, VP & CTO, India, China & Middle East, Pearson Inc
Tea Break
Panel : The Road to Greatness - Resilient Entrepreneurs
- Sanju Ballurkar, CEO, Magna Infotech
- Yeshwanth Nag, Founder, The Thickshake Factory
- Saurabh Marda, Founder & MD, Freyr Energy
- Vinita Surana, ED, Surana Group
- Anjani Mandal, Co Founder & CEO, Fortigo, The Truck Network
Closing Note
* Awaiting Confirmation
Registrations
Introduction to The Growth and Leadership Conclave
Hoshie Ghaswalla, CEO, BW Engage
Panel : Training and Competitiveness - Building Small Business into Learning Organizations
- Mr. Hoshie Ghaswalla, CEO, BW Engage (Moderator)
- Mr. Vikramjeet Singh, CHRO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
- Mr. Mrigank Tripathi, Vice President - Human Capital Management, PeopleStrong
- Mr. Tulsi Tawari, CEO & Chief Strategist, Alternate Approaches
Panel 2: Finance Made Easy
- Mr. Sushanto Mitra, Founder & CEO, Lead Angel Network (Moderator)
- Mr. Maninder Singh, National Bulk Handling Corporation
- Dr Dhruv Desai, Director, Tradebulls
- Mr. Samir Dhingra, CEO, Netspider
- Mr. Vikas Chadha, Executive Director and CFO, Berggruen Hotels
- Mr. Ramnath Subramanian, ED, Maha Metro and CEO, Village Social Transformation Foundation
- Mr. Mandar Gadkari, Head of Investor Engagement, CBA
- Mr. Robin Banerjee Managing Director, Caprihans India
Lunch
Panel 3: Smarter Marketing for Ambitious SMEs
- Mr. Hoshie Ghaswalla (Moderator)
- Mr. Sunil Khosla, Sr. Vice President, India Transact Services
- Mr. Amit Tripathi, Managing Director, IdeateLabs
- Mr. Manav Sethi, CMO, ALTBalaji
- Mr. Jay Thadeshwar, Founder and CEO, Poised Media
- Mr. Kalyan Ram Challapalli, Founder, Wolfzhowl Strategic Instigation
- Mr Rakesh Wadhwa, Chief Marketing Officer & EVP, Retail Assurance
Tea Break
Panel 4: Can Blockchain be a Game Changer?
- Mr. Sangram Aglave, Consulting Editor, BW CIO World (Moderator)
- Mr. Damodar Vaidya, Executive Partner, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
- Mr. Prasad Ajgaonkar, CEO, iRealities
- Mr Akhil Gupta, Co-Founder, NoBroker.com
- Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Founder, XOXO day
Special Presentation: Using Supply Chain Smartly
Mr. Alok Gautam, Country Head – Logistics and Supply Chain, Dow India
Panel 5: The Road to Greatness - Resilient Entrepreneurs
- Mr. Viraj Kalyani, CEO, Kalyani Studio
- Mr. Shriranga Sudhakara, Founder & MD,Vyoma
- Mr.Tushad Dubash, Director, Duville Estates
- Mr. Prasar Sharma
Closing Note
* Awaiting Confirmation
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