AIMA organised its 7th National Leadership Conclave in a hybrid mode on 12th April 2022 at New Delhi on the theme ‘A New Thrust: Reimagine, Reform, Redesign, Rebuild’. The discussions focused on the challenges faced by Indian enterprises and the role of the management leaders in rejuvenating and transforming the Indian business and economy.
Mr C K Ranganathan, President, AIMA and Chairman & Managing Director, CavinKare Pvt Ltd; Mr Shrinivas Dempo, Senior Vice President, AIMA and Chairman, Dempo Group of Companies; Mr Nikhil Sawhney, Vice President, AIMA and Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Triveni Turbine Ltd were the panellists of the inaugural session and Mr Harsh Pati Singhania, Immediate Past President, AIMA and Vice Chairman & Managing Director, JK Paper Ltd moderated the CEOs Panel. The introductory remarks were delivered by Ms Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA.
Some of the other eminent speakers included Mr V Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India; Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, Chief of the Indian Air Force; Mr Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises; Mr Anil Agarwal, Founder and Chairman, Vedanta; Mr Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer, Serum Institute of India; Mr Sanjiv Goenka, Chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group; Ms Sudha Murty, Chairperson, Murty Foundation & Author and Social Worker; Ms Loveleen Tandan, Film Director (Co-Director, Slumdog Millionaire); ; Ms Vinita Bajoria, Chairperson, Nicco Cables Ltd; Ms Sanjukta Prashar, IPS Officer; Mr Alok Bansal, Whole-time Director & CFO, Policybazaar; Mr Pranjal Sharma, Economic Analyst, Advisor and Writer & Author-India Automated; Ms Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC-TV18; Mr Harsh Jain, CEO & Co-founder, Dream11 & Dream Sports; Mr Bhavit Sheth, COO & Co-founder, Dream11 & Dream Sports; Ms Bindu Subramaniam, Co-Founder and CEO, SaPa; Ms Shinjini Kumar, Co-founder, SALT amongst others.
The AIMA KPMG Management Capability Development Index India 2022 Report - AIMA’s sixth such initiative - was also released at the event. The report measures and evaluates management capability across industries and sectors.
The conclave was physically attended by more than 300 delegates from industry, government, media and academia. Live streaming on AIMA’s YouTube, Facebook and Twitter channels also increased viewership by several thousand and crossed over 1.85 lacs views on all platforms.
AIMA organised its 6th National Leadership Conclave on 19-20 April 2021 online on a specially curated digital platform. The theme for the Conclave was ‘The Big Disruption: Leadership in the post- Covid world’. Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, Past President, AIMA and Chairman, Hero Enterprise and Mr Sanjiv Goneka, Chairman, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group were the Conclave Co-Chairs. The two-day conclave was addressed by iconic leaders, policymakers, global thought leaders and eminent speakers. Mr Harsh Pati Singhania, President, AIMA & Vice Chairman & Managing Director, JK Paper Ltd delivered the welcome address. Mr Sunil Kant Munjal conducted the conversation with Dr S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, Government of India and Mr Sanjiv Goenka introduced the minister.
Dr Jaishankar said that there was a lot of business to be done by India with each of the QUAD countries, and there would be others too, including the UK, France and the EU. "By and large, the world trusts us, and it is time for us to step up," he said, adding that India is a good platform for global production. He also added that the pandemic was a wake-up call for India to change its development and business models advocating Atmanirbhar Bharat which was employment centric providing more capacity and more possibilities.
Mr Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons who has written the book 'Bridgital Nation: Solving Technology's People Problem', said that India's two biggest problems were access to resources and jobs, and technology could solve both the problems. He had a fireside chat with Mr Vikram Chandra Founder, Editorji Technologies. Mr Harsh Pati Singhania introduced the session.
Some of the other eminent speaker included Dr Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament (INC); Mr CK Ranganathan, Senior Vice President, AIMA & Chairman and Managing Director, CavinKare Pvt. Ltd.; Dr Krishna Ella Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Biotech International Ltd; Dr Shiv Sarin, Director, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences; Mr Sanjiv Puri, Chairman and Managing Director, ITC Limited and Mr TV Narendran CEO and Managing Director, Tata Steel Limited; Mr Sanjay Kirloskar, Immediate Past President, AIMA & Chairman and Managing Director, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd; Mr Shrinivas Dempo, Vice President, AIMA & Chairman, Dempo Group of Companies; Mr Ajay Bijli, Chairman and Managing Director, PVR Limited and Mr Uday Shankar, President, FICCI and Former President-Asia Pacific, Walt Disney Company and Former Chairman, Star and Disney India; Mr Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, CEO, Rare Enterprises; Mr Shashwat Goenka, Vice Chairman, CESC Ltd; Ms Shefali Munjal Executive Director, Hero Enterprise; Mr Alok S Kirloskar, Managing Director, SPP Pumps Limited; Mr Pranjal Sharma, Economic Analyst, Advisor and Writer & Author-India Automated; Ms Nayantara Rai Chief of Delhi Bureau, ET-Now.; Mr Sreenivasan Jain, Group Editor, NDTV.; Mr Rajiv Makhni, Group Managing Editor - Technology, NDTV; Mr Prashant Nair National News Editor, CNBC TV-18 and Mr Rajdeep Sardesai, Consulting Editor, India Today Group.
This year’s online conclave was very well received with participants joining the proceedings. Live streaming on AIMA’s YouTube, Facebook and Twitter channels also increased viewership by several thousand which crossed over views on all platforms.