Agenda – Day 2

• Learning from the past to better the future
• Mentoring Programs Exclusively for Women Leaders
• leading several generations of women leaders besides just being an inspiration
• Views on leadership traits and competencies and how they intersect with gender
• Targeted Development of Women’s Leadership Capabilities is Minimal, what are we achieve the goal
• Why it’s more important to be brave, not perfect
• Breaking the stereotype thinking: inspiring the next generation of Men

• How diversity and inclusion will be part of the future of work
• How can we mobilize businesses to respond to the risks of climate change?
• How leadership will be influenced by technology
• Turnaround, growth & holistic transformation: Reinventing towards a customer driven and nimble organization
• Business Excellence, Innovation, and Competence: Scaling for Competitive Advantage
• Diverting from earning profits to employing profits at the right place
• Sustenance the Key: Build, transform and reinvent your brand positioning, purpose and customer connection
• Transition stage: Constructing your Brand from local to global worth
• Digital Transformation: Reimagining Business for the Digital Age

Leaders are those who inspire & courage others to take a chance, are willing to take risk & bold steps and have constant urge to keep learning and growing. Every challenge involves confronting the status quo. This precept means we must test the unproven, dive deep in the unspoken, and challenge the unchallenged.

They have the choice to make things better. Challenging the status quo is inspiring ordinary people to become extraordinary leaders. In this series of quirky, edgy and motivating talks, hear from the leaders who decided to do things their way and what inspires them to keep going. These talks are aimed at changing the way you think and help you reimagine your profession.

• Changing lifestyles has led to expansion of wardrobe and hence lower usage
• Sustainability options must be explored at par cost or minimal premium, like in cotton BCI Cotton pricing is almost similar (just 0.5% plus) to normal cotton leading to very quick adoption by brands
• Options for pushing quicker adoption of sustainability solutions – social awareness, minimum upcharge or legal enforcement?
• Can a second-hand garment market be created – is it ripe for start-ups? How will brands see this – a threat to their sales, lowering brand esteem or giving competition to the large piracy market prevailing?
• The sustainable fashion revolution is well underway –The upcoming trends

• Improved decision making – changing the face of business to reinvent the future
• Steering business performance by connecting data, people and plans across function
• Improving agility and cost efficiency through collaborative planning
• Result oriented – Productive, Swift & Connected

• Around $1.4-trillion worth of investments to be spent on infrastructure improvement across multiple sectors, with an end goal of making India a $5 trillion economy by the year 2025.
• What should be the strategy and prioritization?
• Can this serve as an engine to revive Indian economy?
• Public v/s Private Investments or PPP- What is the winning formula?
• What is the top of the mind issues/priorities for key stakeholders to actualize NIP?
• How can we incubate higher gross fixed capital formation? • Rise of sector-specific and region-focused funds.
• Will foreign Investments in projects effect India’s Economic Growth Story?
• Why do the investors shy away from Infusion of Funds in big infrastructure projects? What is their risk appetite?

• Intelligent Automation: Why is this the Future of Work, how it’s transforming sectors/organizations, what are the best practices/pitfalls in starting and scaling the journey?
• Improving efficiency and productivity with IA
• Impact of Intelligent Automation on Indian Economy
• How can industrial sectors and organisations harness the maximum benefits of their automation efforts?
• Factors affecting pace and extent of automation
• How business leaders, policy makers, and workers can prepare for the new automation age?
• How to make RPA a success in your organization?
• Future of Work – Collaborating Humans with Bots in building a better future
• How to establish a workforce culture that embraces changes versus fearing it?
• How to utilize IA as a Strategic Tool to Improve Operational Efficiency and Increase Revenue?

• The Power of Integration in the Built Environment
• How can we mobilize businesses to respond to the risks of price variations due to long development cycles?
• Long-Term business strategies to increase ambition and concrete actions to project delay
• Reality Capture: Pairing the Platform to Value Proposition ensuring full Transparency
• Share the vision: Screening tool for design-build delivery
• Collaborative approach to maximize the benefits: Building information modelling (BIM)
• Automation from design through construction and life-cycle management

• Why are corporate entities adapting the co-working concepts?
• Building technology infrastructure for remote access and scalability
• Decoding the future of workspace – flexible workspace + varied work environments + community feel leading to better productivity
• Millennials – What’s fuelling the demand for “cool” offices?
• Adoption of workplace shift in Indian scenario