Registration and Breakfast

Welcome Address by MIT-India

S P Kothari

Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance and Director, MIT India Program

Keynote Address (via Videoconference)

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Current Union Minister of Information Technology and Law and Justice

Break

Panel: Startup India: Envisioning The Next Chapter

What’s the next chapter of the startup ecosystem in India: can it continue to grow or will it shrink? Will moonshot ideas gain prominence or will 2017 be the year of consolidation and inevitable correction? What sectors will enable the next wave of billion-dollar valuations? What aspects of this year’s Union budget impact the startup scene in India and how? What’s the best advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and investors?

Ananth Narayanan

CEO, Myntra and Jabong and ex-director McKinsey

Kartik Varma

Investor and Co-founder PropTiger.com

Mahesh Murthy

Marketer, Investor, and Commentator; Cofounder and Managing Partner, Seedfund

Vish Mishra

Venture Capitalist, seasoned entrepreneur, Director & Charter Member - TiE

Gita Rao

Senior Lecturer in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Founder and President of Aspari Capital (Moderator)

Panel: Leveraging Technology for Social Impact

Can technology serve as a catalyst to alleviate some of India’s biggest problems? How can it enable change at the bottom of the pyramid? What are the latest technologies that are disrupting poverty and what are their limitations in creating a lasting impact? Leaders from the for-profit, non-profit, and public sector discuss how they are leveraging technology and digitization to impact millions of lives.

Karl Mehta

Founder & CEO, EdCast; Founder Code For India and Co-Author of ‘Financial Inclusion at Bottom of the Pyramid’

Santhosh Mathew

Former Joint Secretary of Ministry of Rural Development and current chairperson, National Council for Teacher Education of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

Venkat Srinivasan

Vice-Chair of the Board of the American India Foundation [AIF]; CEO & Chairman RAGE Frameworks

Anjali Sastry

Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management & Lecturer at Harvard Medical School (Moderator)

Lunch

Product Demo and Networking Session

Working Lunch Series

Parallel Sessions

Keynote Address: Fireside Chat

Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Renowned Indian Economist and Former, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission

Break

Independent Remarks

Sanjay Sarma

Vice President of Open Learning, co-founder of the Auto-ID Center at MIT and Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT

Panel: Imagining India 2030: Building Innovative Corporations

Technological disruption is fundamentally transforming how major industries operate. How are big corporations innovating to remain relevant in the game? How will India’s role change in the world economy in the next 15 years? Which sectors will drive growth and innovation? Senior leaders from big corporations discuss the opportunities and challenges created by the current wave of digital transformation, IoT and other disruptive technologies.

Amit Midha

President and EVP, Dell, Asia-Pacific and Japan Comm

Anish Shah

Group President (strategy), Mahindra Group

Nishith Acharya

CEO, Citizence; former senior advisor in Obama Administration and Author of “The India-US Partnership: $1 Trillion By 2030”.

Sudhanshu Vats

Group CEO, Viacom 18 India

Sanjay Sarma

Vice President of Open Learning and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT (Moderator)

Break

Keynote: The Disruptive Future of Media

Shraysi Tandon, a new york based filmmaker and journalist discusses the ‘disruptive future of media in this digital era’ with two award winning film makers and producers – Shekhar Kapur and Anurag Kashyap

Shekhar Kapur

Director, Producer, and Actor

Anurag Kashyap

Film Maker, Producer, and Actor

Shraysi Tandon

New York-based Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist

Closing Remarks