| Prof. Noshir Contractor |
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From Disasters to WoW: Enabling Knowledge Networks in the 21st century
Recent advances in digital technologies invite some reflection on organizing as a process that is accomplished by global, flexible, adaptive, and ad-hoc networks that can be created, maintained, dissolved, and reconstituted with remarkable alacrity. A central challenge, spurred by these developments, is the nature of teams and how their way of assembly has changed radically. Using examples from his research in a wide range of activities such as disaster response, Communities of Practice at Procter & Gamble, public health and massively multiplayer online games (like World of Warcraft), Mr. Noshir Contractor will present a visual-analytic framework to Discover, Diagnose, and Design our 21st century knowledge networks.
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| Bindu Ananth |
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 Bindu Ananth is currently the President of IFMR Trust. She worked with ICICI Bank in the microfinance practice between 2001 and 2005 and was head of the new product development group within the bank's rural finance business in 2007. She is also the founder of the Centre for Micro Finance, IFMR where she worked briefly as the Coordinator.
Bindu has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Madras University and Masters degrees from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and Harvard University's Kennedy School. She has published in the Small Enterprise Development Journal, the Economic and Political Weekly, the OECD working paper series and the IFMR working paper series.
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| S. Sivakumar |
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 Mr. S. Sivakumar is the Chief Executive of the Agri Businesses Division of ITC Limited, India. He has conceptualised the path-breaking eChoupal model and is spearheading its roll out across the country.
Topper of the Class of 1983 from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), Sivakumar served a farmers' cooperative for six years before joining ITC in 1989.
Sivakumar is a Director on the Boards of NABARD, ITC Infotech India Ltd., Indo-US Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture, IRMA, Centre for Collective Development, and Charities Aid Foundation India. He is on the Executive Committee of India's National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) and on the Private Sector Committee of CGIAR. He is an active member of the management committees of various industry bodies and several taskforces of Government of India.
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| Mr. Sitaram Rao |
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 Sitaram Rao is a Development Consultant, Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant. He has held senior management positions in financial services, pharmaceuticals, food processing and IT industries in India, Oman and USA.
Early in his career, he had decided to spend the last 15 years of his working life in education, microfinance and developing livelihoods.
He has been associated as an Advisor, a CEO and then as a member of the Board of SKS. He has seen SKS as an entity grow from a two table not for profit outfit into a for-profit, sustainable company. Today SKS is the largest microfinance company in India serving 3.36 million micro entrepreneurs in 16 states.
He is associated as Director or Advisor with several institutions in microfinance, education and promotion of livelihoods. He has been a speaker and a visiting faculty both in India and overseas.
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| Mr. Rakesh Rewari |
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 Mr. Rakesh Rewari is the Deputy Managing Director, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and is a well experienced banker.
Mr. Rewari joined IFCI Ltd. as a Management Trainee and from there, he gained experience in SME lending, corporate finance, and follow-up & monitoring. He served as Industrial Finance Officer in IDBI Bank.
From IFCI, Mr. Rewari moved to SIDBI where he held various high level positions, and finally became its DM. He also heads the SIDBI Venture Capital Ltd.
Mr. Rewari also chairs the following companies: SIDBI Trustee Co. Ltd., Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Small Industries (CGTS); and India SME Technology Services Ltd. Mr. Rewari obtained his MBA from the University of Delhi and is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB).
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| Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan |
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| Infosys was started with a focus on being a global leader, despite its origins in the pre-liberalization era. Infosys signed up its first international client in its year of incorporation and has progressed since then to opening its first international office in Boston by 1989, touching revenues of $ 100 million and being listed on NASDAQ by 1999, and today,
to surpassing revenues of $ 4 billion with 40 offices worldwide. All through this journey, it has consciously stayed away from inorganic growth, and still achieved its global stature in a short timeframe. Today, the paradigm is shifting, as emerging economies are playing a larger role in wealth creation. Indian companies, for whom operating in global markets was a conscious choice from day one, are uniquely positioned in this new paradigm and global scenario.
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| Mr. Girish Reddy |
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| "Goldman Sachs is one of the most successful and innovative global investment banks (now a global bank holding company since September 2008) with a long tradition dating back to 1869. The firm was a major player in establishing the IPO market and managed one of the largest IPOs, Sears, Roebuck and Company as early as 1906. It was one of the longest serving partnerships among investment banking institutions, and maintained a unique entrepreneurial culture balancing risk taking and conservatism in a highly effective manner. The talk will focus on Goldman Sachs' entrepreneurial culture, and the experience of expanding Goldman Scahs' business overseas. The speaker will also discuss his own entrepreneurial experience with Prisma Capital Partners LP, a firm he founded in 2004, after he exited Goldman Sachs. Prisma Capital Partners is an alternative investment specialist managing multi-manager portfolios of hedge funds for institutional clients globally."
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| Mr. G. V. Prasad |
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| Dr. Reddy's built its competitive advantages by focusing on the domestic market first and then expanded to overseas markets, in contrast to the IT services companies. The challenges of building such a company are also different from those experienced by the outward looking IT majors. Dr. Reddy's has gone through these different stages of its growth... becoming publicly listed first in India and then on the NYSE, entering the export market for the first time, building global partnerships and making overseas acquisitions. Dr. Reddy's organizational focus has had to change during each of these stages - establsihing viability, scaling up, building people resources, to greater corporate governance, and finally driving competitive advantages in the global market, etc.
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| S. Sivakumar |
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| I intend to share our experiences in working with farmers & traders and assisting them in improving their entrepreneurial capabilities, as they become Sanchalaks & Samyojaks in the ITC eChoupal initiative.
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| Vineet Rai |
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| Microfinance believes that ever poor man is an entrepreneur, and thus, expects each one of them to generate business returns on micro loans. Truly such entrepreneurs have proved their mettle in so far as their ability to pay back the loans they take for the business they carry out.
What has however been limited in experience is the depth of these businesses, and the ability of these entrepreneur to really build strong brands and businesses that go beyond trading and have the scale and replicability that can reduce risks for new entrants as well as create employment for others.
So while Microfinance has created entrepreneurs, despite its "collateral free" nature, it does not provide real risk sharing to an entrepreneur, which a risk-shared equity like an instrument can provide, mixed with mentoring and handholding support. That is what we believe is need of the hour for a million entrepreneurs to be launched and nurtured.
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| Mr. Sitaram Rao |
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| I will briefly talk about the success of microfinance in India, specifically referring to SKS. Mere microfinance will not eradicate poverty. MF is like a 'pipe to thousands of villages and slums in India providing credit, insurance and other services.' These 'pipes' could also be used to deliver other services like vocational education, healthcare, energy etc. Technology and social capital of the member networks of MF institutions could be leveraged to tap greater entrepreneurial opportunities, demand better quality of service delivery from both the public and the private sectors.
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| Dr. B. V. Phani |
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 Dr. Phani has a doctorate from IIM Calcutta in finance with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering. He has worked in sales and marketing after undergraduate in start up firms and was the CEO of BCIT Ltd before he resigned and joined the doctorate program at IIM Calcutta. He worked as a consultant for various organisations during his doctoral studies and joined IIM Calcutta as faculty. He is currently with IIT Kanpur as a faculty and also heads the SIDBI incubation centre at IIT Kanpur. He has a strong interest in mentoring entrepreneurial firms and is on the board of a few. He is actively involved in NEN activities and provides his support as and when required in promoting entrepreneurship in the Indian sub continent. Dr. Phani is also involved in intellectual property management and spearheads the patenting and technology transfer activity at IIT Kanpur.
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| Ashank Desai |
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 Ashank Desai, Founder and Ex-Chairman is the chief architect of catapulting Mastek into the Top 20 software companies in India.
Mr. Desai is a leading light of the IT industry in India. He is the founder member and ex-President of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). He has also been the Vice President of ASOCIO (Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation). He is the only Indian to be presented with the Honourable Contributor's Award for his outstanding contribution to ASOCIO's growth in 1994.
Mr. Desai, M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai (ranked 3rd among Technology and Science Institutes by Asiaweek in its Special Report on Asia's Best Universities 2000) and MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad (IIM-A ranks among the Top 5 management institutes in India) was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT, Mumbai for his contribution as a software entrepreneur.
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| Sushanto Mitra |
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 "Sushanto Mitra, Chief Executive Officer of Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, IIT Bombay, is a management graduate with over 20 years experience in technology and finance. Prior to his current position Sushanto was with Techcap India, a human resources and financial consulting services firm which he founded in 1999. His earlier roles included stints at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and HCL Infosystems.
He has been a regular contributor to Dataquest a leading technology fortnightly from India since 1996. He is also a contributor of articles and an active participant in industry related events."
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| Sushanto Mitra |
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 "Sushanto Mitra, Chief Executive Officer of Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, IIT Bombay, is a management graduate with over 20 years experience in technology and finance. Prior to his current position Sushanto was with Techcap India, a human resources and financial consulting services firm which he founded in 1999. His earlier roles included stints at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and HCL Infosystems.
He has been a regular contributor to Dataquest a leading technology fortnightly from India since 1996. He is also a contributor of articles and an active participant in industry related events."
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| Mr. Shirish Purohit |
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 Shirish B. Purohit is the CEO and a founding director of Midas Communication Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Mr Purohit oversees all organisational and operational aspects of the company including business development, project management, technology, applications development, finance and administration.
Mr Purohit has over 15 years of experience managing design and development activities in industrial automation, monitoring and control systems, telecom and networking products.
Before Midas, Shirish B. Purohit founded Texel Systems, which specialised in automating test and measurement systems. In 1994, Shirish co-founded Midas. Mr Purohit holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Power & Electronics from REC, Nagpur, and an M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Madras. Mr Purohit specialised in integrated circuits and systems design.
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  The objective here is to identify major gaps in this area for India, and see how solutions can be found in general and in particular by IIT's/ IITians. The two primary issues fall into building entrepreneurship/ self employment at the grass roots level; second, in building indian global leaders from an early/growth stage state. This would be followed by the final session on how IITs/ IITians can find solutions.
Session I: Enabling/ launching a million entrepreneurs
Session II: Building global leaders from early & growth stages of a business
Session III: IIT's Role in Nation Building through support of entrepreneurship
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Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He directs the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University and is a Research Affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
RK has been a serial entrepreneur, having established, acquired and exited 3 technology businesses. His first venture was in Tokyo Japan. Then he started a telecom venture named, Tenet Telecom. Tenet was merged with Hughes Software, which was later acquired by Flextronics. He also founded India's first travel portal called 'Traveljini.com', which was acquired by ICICI Ventures.
RK is an IIT Kanpur graduate, with a Masters Degree from Tokyo University, Japan. He is also a fellow of Harvard Kennedy School of Government-Leaders in Development program.
RK left the corporate world midway to devote his time and resources to the issues of Public Policy and Social Entrepreneurship. He works to promote Public-Private Partnerships in the areas of Public Policy and Program Implementation.
RK founded SAHYOG - Indian Council for Public Private Partnership, which works with various Governments and Private Enterprises for efficient urban infrastructure, sustainable rural livelihood, skill development & employment generation.
RK won the Lead India initiative of the Times of India and has started the "Change India" movement. He is also the Charter President of Rotary Bangalore IT Corridor and founder Trustee of the environmental initiative - Pragati.
Vineet has over 15 years of experience in leading innovative interventions in development finance sector including venture capital, Microfinance; SME Banking and Micro and Small Scale Businesses.
Sarath has been focused on venture capital/ private equity in India for more than ten years, investing in rapidly growing businesses across tech, biotech, and manufacturing sectors. He is the Managing Partner of VenturEast Funds which has over $300 million under management. VenturEast has consistently raised funds with a pioneering investment focus.
Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and one of the 7 founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India.
Mr. Girish Reddy is a founder and Managing Partner of Prisma Capital Partners, a US$ 4 billion asset management company providing fund of hedge fund services to institutional investors.
Mr. Prasad has been Vice-Chairman and CEO of Dr. Reddy's since 2001, when Cheminor Drugs Ltd, the company of which he was then Managing Director, merged with Dr Reddy's. He nurtured new lines of business, helped to build a high-talent organization, and was instrumental in introducing best-in-class practices in corporate governance.
Siddhartha Das is a General Partner at Ventureast Fund since 2006. Prior to that, he spent 19 years at Intel Corporation in engineering, business development, and strategic investing. He headed Intel Capital-South Asia from 2000-2003 and established Intel Capital as the "leading technology investor" with more than 15 investments in telecom, software services and consumer internet.
Gopal Srinivasan is the Chairman & MD of TVS Capital Funds Limited, that has launched an India focused growth private equity fund. The vision is to develop and nurture India's mid-cap businesses into world class companies. The fund will make investments in companies that are at the intersection of high growth consumer consumption driven opportunities and a developmental theme, such as organizing the unorganized/ inefficient sectors. The fund aims to source proprietary investment opportunities, especially from emerging, high growth cities across India; and be a strategic partner to the entrepreneur and the enterprise to help expand businesses beyond their existing roots, professionalize their operations and enhance their management team.
Dr. Martin Haemmig specializes as an international researcher, lecturer and advisor on "The Globalization of Venture Capital" focusing on the industry trends, best VC practice, and benchmarks sector developments across geographies with investments, valuations, exits and performance data covering 13 countries in Asia, Europe, and the United States. While traveling throughout the world, he undertakes research and teaches in conjunction with leading schools around the world. They are in U. S. (Stanford University, University of California Berkeley & Davis), Europe (INSEAD, ETH Zurich, UniBW Munich, Leiden Univ.), China (Tsinghua, Peking, Renmin, Fudan, SH-Jiaotong) and in India (IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IISc & IIM Bangalore, ISB Hyderabad).
R. K. Misra
Bindu Ananth
Vineet Rai 
S. Sivakumar
Mr. Sitaram Rao
Mr. Rakesh Rewari
Mr. Sarath Naru
Dr. Siddhartha Das
Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan
Mr. G. V. Prasad
Mr. Girish Reddy
Dr. B. V. Phani
Prof. Noshir Contractor
Ashank Desai
Shirish Purohit
Prof. Martin Haemmig
