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Agenda

Day 1 – March 29, 2018

09:00 AM – 10:30 AM – REGISTRATION

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM – RISE WITH INDIA
Welcome Address: Vineet Jain, Managing Director, Times Group
Opening Address: V.Vaidyanathan Executive Chairman, Capital First
Keynote Address: Shri. Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs
Q&A with Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs
Moderator – Supriya Shrinate Executive Editor , News

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM – THE WORLD IN 2018
Special Address: Nouriel Roubini, Economist and CEO, Roubini Macro Associates LLC
Fireside Chat between Nouriel Roubini and Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor

12:30 PM – 01:00 PM – PARTNER IN PROGRESS
Fireside Chat with Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet, Prime Minister, Head of Government, Gabon and Navika Kumar, Executive Editor (Politics & Investigative Journalism), Times Now

01:00 PM – 02:00 PM – NETWORKING LUNCH

02:0 PM – 02:30 PM – REIMAGINING INDIAN INFRASTRUCTURE
Fireside Chat between: Shri. Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and Coal & Chanda Kochhar- MD& CEO, ICICI Bank. Moderated by Supriya Shrinate, Executve Editor, News, ET Now

02:30 PM – 03:10 PM – THE BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION
Special Address: Don Tapscott, CEO of Tapscott Group and Leading Global Expert on Blockchain
Fireside session with Don Tapscott and Sandeep Gurumurthi Managing Editor , ET

03:10 PM – 03:30 PM – EMBRACING DIGITAL DISRUPTION
In conversation with Peggy Johnson, EVP, Microsoft with Anand Narasimhan, Consulting Editor (Politics, Current Affairs, Sports & Entertainment)

03:30 PM – 04:15 PM – NEW INDIA: UNLOCKING THE DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, Minister of Textiles and Information & Broadcasting on “New India: Unlocking the demographic dividend”

Q & A with Smriti Irani & Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman, Max Financial Services by Navika Kumar, Executive Editor (Politics & Investigative Journalism), Times Now

04:15 PM – 04:45 PM – ENSURING ENERGY SECURITY WITH STRATEGIC DIPLOMACY

Q & A with Shri. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship by Maroof Reza, Consultant & Strategic Affairs Adviser, Times Now

04:45 PM – 05:00 – TEA/COFFEE BREAK

05:00 PM – 05:20 – THE COLLISION OF DEMOGRAPHICS, AUTOMATION & INEQUALITY

Special Address: Manny Maceda, Worldwide MD, Bain & Co on “Labour 2030”

05:20 PM – 05:45 PM – THE FUTURE OF JOBS
Fireside Chat between Manny Maceda and Amitabh Kant, CEO- Niti Aayog.

05:45 PM – 07:00 PM – THE CHANGE AGENTS
Speakers – 
Economy: Race to $10 Trn – Subhash Garg, Secretary Economic Affairs
Ease of Doing Business: Top 50 In Sight – Ramesh Abhishek, Secretary Industry Policy and Promotion
Education: A New Syllabus – Anil Swarup, Secretary School Education & Literacy
Skilling India: Bridging the Deficit – Dr. KP Krishnan, Secretary Skill Development & Enntrepreneurship
Sanitation: Mission Clean India – Parameswaran Iyer, Secretary Drinking Water & Sanitation
Moderated by Supriya Shrinate, Executve Editor, News, ET Now

07:00 PM – 07:10 PM
Special address by MK Anand MD & CEO Times Network

07:10 PM – 07:40 PM  
Special Address: Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Defence
Q & A with Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Defence by Navika Kumar, Executive Editor (Politics & Investigative Journalism), Times Now

07:40 PM – 08:15PM – MIND READING EXPERIMENTS BY THE MENTALIST
Special performance by Lior Suchard, Mentalist

08:15PM onwards – COCKTAILS & DINNER

Day 2 – March 30, 2018

10:00 AM – 11:00AM – REGISTRATION

11:00 AM – 11:50 AM – ANTI-GLOBALISATION IN THE ERA OF TRUMP
Special Address: Joseph Stiglitz, , Nobel Laureate American Economist and Professor at Columbia University
Fireside Chat between Josepth Stiglitz & Shri. Bibek Debroy, Chairman- Economic Advisory Council to PM

11:50 AM – 12:30 PM – CITIES OF THE FUTURE
Talk by Shri. Hardeep Puri, Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Session
Fireside Chat between Hardeep Puri & Vinayak Chatterjee, Chairman- Feedback Infra
Moderator – Faye D’Souza Editor-in-Chief, Mirror Now

12:30 PM – 01:00 PM 
Special Address: Acharya Balakrishna – CEO, Patanjali

01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Networking Lunch and Closing of the Conclave

02:00 PM – 02:45 – INDIAN INDUSTRY: IN SEARCH OF THE ANIMAL SPIRITS
A panel discussion with Shri. Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation; RC. Bhargava, Chairman, Maruti Suzuki; Vijay Karia , CMD Ravin Group companies; Rashesh Shah, Chairman & CEO Edelweiss Group; Kavin Mittal, Founder & CEO, Hike Messanger
Moderated by Nikunj Dalmia, Executive Editor, Financial Markets, ET Now

02:45 PM – 03:15 PM – THE GABON OPPORTUNITY
Fireside Chat with Pacome Moubelet Boubeya, Minister of State in Charge and Enviornment; Regis Immongault Tatagani, Minister of Economy; Biendi Manganga Moussavou, Minister of Agriculture; Madeleine Berre, Minister of Investment Promotion; Liban Soleman

03:15 PM – 03:45 PM – BREAKING BARRIERS
Talk by Saina Nehwal, Olympic Medallist and Former World No. 1 Badminton Player

03:45 PM – SESSION ENDS