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Keynotes Address

Jim Rogers (Investor & Co-Founder of the Quantum Fund)
Chanda Kochhar (Joint Managing Director, ICICI Bank)
Montek Singh Ahluwalia (Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission)
Dominic Barton (Chairman, McKinsey & Company Asia Pacific; named the next Global MD)
Farrokh Kavarana (Director, Tata Sons & Chairman of several TATA group Companies)
Rahul Gandhi (taped / live address)

Panel Speakers
Investing in India: Capital Markets and Hedge Funds
Moderator: Senthil Chengalvarayan - President & Group Editorial Director Business Media, CNBC TV18
Ramdeo Agrawal - Co-founder, Motilal Oswal Securities
Sandeep Naik - Principal, Apax Partners India Advisers Pvt. Ltd.
Seth Freeman, CEO, EM Capital Management

Bollywoods Silver Screen: Pursuit of the Golden Globe
Moderator: Sreenivasan Jain, Managing Editor, NDTV 24x7
Abhishek Bachchan, Actor, Bollywood
Ajay Bijli, Chairman and Managing Director, PVR Limited
Mukesh Bhatt, Director & Producer, Bollywood
Rohan Sippy, Director, Bollywood

Backstage Demand Drivers: The Indian Media and Ad Industry
Moderator: under discussion
Bhaskar Das - Executive President, Bennett Coleman (Times Group); President, Mumbai Ad Club
Colvyn Harris - CEO, JWT India
Ravi Kiran - CEO South and Southeast Asia, Star-com
Arvind Sharma - Chairman & CEO, Leo Burnett India

The Economics of Sports in India: Prospects and Pitfalls
Moderator: Vijay Amritraj- Former Tennis Player, sports commentator
Sunil Gavaskar, Former Cricket Captain, Team India
Geet Sethi, World Professional Billiards Champion

Entrepreneurship
Moderator: Srivastan Rajan, Head of Bain Indias Private Equity practice
Sabeer Bhatia Serial entrepreneur and founder of Arzoo.com, Hotmail.com, among others
Shantanu Prakash - Chairman and Managing Director, Educomp Solutions Limited
Jay Sidhu-Chairman and CEO, Sidhu Advisors, LLC; Former Chairman and CEO, Sovereign Bank
Vikram Shroff- Executive Director, United Phosphorous Ltd.
Chander K. Baljee- Founder and Managing Director, Royal Orchid Hotels

(Sub)Prime Property: Indias Real Estate in the aftermath of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Moderator: under discussion
Pawan Malhotra, Managing Director & CEO, Mahindra Lifespace Developers
Sameer Nayar - MD & Head of Real Estate Finance - Asia Pacific, Credit Suisse
Sanjay Verma, Executive Managing Director, South Asia, Cushman & Wakefield
Samit Chopra, Managing Director, Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj
Aanandjit Sunderaj, Senior Director & Head of ICICI Private Equity Real Estate Investments
The Healthcare Duopoly: India, the Medical Center of the World
Moderator: under discussion
Ms. Shobhana Kamineni, Executive Director, Apollo Hospital Enterprises
Dr. Michael Ross, President, Cadilla Pharmaceuticals Ltd., USA

Raising the Bar Code: Technology beyond Outsourcing 1.0
Moderator: Sanjay Puri, President, Alliance for US India Business
Vijay Thadani - CEO, NIIT
Anand Eswaran- Vice President of Global Professional Services for HP Software
Basab Pradhan, Former Global Head of Sales, Infosys; Chairman and Founder Gridstone Research

Nurturing the National Backbone: Indias Infrastructure, 2020 and beyond
Moderator: under discussion
Farrokh Kavarana Director Tata Sons & Tata Industries & Chairman of several Tata companies
Hari Das Khunteta - Director, Finance, Executive Director, Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd.
T.N. Thakur - Chairman, Power Trading Corporation

The India Express: Tourism in the Time of Turmoil
Moderator: Devika Anand, Head- Travel Programming, NDTV Lifestyle
Sabeer Bhatia Serial entrepreneur and founder of Arzoo.com a leading travel portal
Vikram Madhok, Managing Director, Abercrombie & Kent India Ltd.
Chander K. Baljee- Founder and Managing Director, Royal Orchid Hotels



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