9:00 A.M. | Registration
10:00 A.M. | Opening Keynote
Sandip Somany | President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Krishnamurthy Subramanian | Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India
Moderator: Milan Vaishnav | Director and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace South Asia Program
Sponsored by FICCI
11:00 A.M. | From the Campaign Trail: Jayant Sinha
Jayant Sinha | Minister of State for Civil Aviation; MP, Hazaribagh
11:30 A.M. | Keynote: The Modern Media Landscape
Barkha Dutt | Journalist; Author
Moderator: Irfan Nooruddin | Director, Georgetown University India Initiative; Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Indian Politics
12:30 P.M. | 2019 Elections
Rick Rossow | Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Seema Sirohi | Columnist, Economic Times
Moderator: Milan Vaishnav | Director and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace South Asia Program
1:30 P.M. | Lunch Break
2:00 P.M. | Breakout Session:
Social Impact at Scale
Prerna Mukharya | Founder, Outline India
K. Thiagarajan | COO, Agastya International Foundation
Elizabeth Vazquez | CEO and Co-Founder, WEConnect International
Moderator: Roopal Shah | Education Advisor, Embassy of India; Co-Founder, Indicorps
2:00 PM. | Breakout Session: Philanthropy for Impact
Megha Desai | President, Desai Foundation
Suresh Shenoy | Board of Directors, WHEELS Global Foundation; EVP, Alyx Technologies
Smita Siddhanti | Founder, EnDyna
Moderator: Alex Counts | Former President and CEO, Grameen Foundation
Sponsored by Indiaspora
3:00 P.M. | Breakout Session:
Building India
Sujoy Bose | CEO and Managing Director, National Investment & Infrastructure Fund of India (NIIF)
Penny Ann Bodle | Partner, Head of EMEA IR, Softbank Investment Advisors
Rajan Bharti Mittal | Former President, FICCI; Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises
Moderator: Sunil Madan | Adjunct Faculty, Steers Center for Global Real Estate
3:00 P.M. | Breakout Session:
The Rise of Health-tech
Shelley Saxena | Founder, Sevamob
Sara Eapen | VP, Aetion Inc.
Moderator: Rajesh Veeraraghavan | Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
4:00 P.M. | Plenary Session: Crisis Diplomacy in South Asia
Ambassador Hussain Haqqani | Former Pakistani Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the United States
Ambassador Teresita Schaffer | Former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka
Dhruva Jaishankar | Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings India and the Brookings Institution
Moderator: Ambassador Richard Verma | Former U.S. Ambassador to India
Sponsored by McLarty Associates in memory of Ambassador Howard Schaffer
5:00 P.M. | Closing Plenary: The Significance of a Century
Ramachandra Guha | Historian; Author
6:00 P.M. | Reception and Research Showcase