DAY TWO: JUNE 8, 2007 / DAY ONE: JUNE 7, 2007

INDIA: CRITICAL FUTURES LECTURE »
9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.
Keynote speaker: Former Law Minister & Legal Luminary, Shri Ram Jethmalani

Break: 10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.

Panel 3: POTENTIAL TRIPS: HOW YOU CAN FLY, HOW YOU CAN FAIL »
11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.

India is a land of interpretation – even for Indians. What’s good for its metropolises may not work for its small towns. What’s good for urban India might be suicidal for its rural half. Are there any common indices crucial to the Indian success story? As India stands poised at the edge of immense change, some things could trip it up. A big political misstep. A resurgence in communalism. Unimaginative economic policies.

Confirmed Speakers:
Gurcharan Das, Management Guru & ex-CEO Procter & Gamble
Kamlesh Sharma, Indian High Commissioner, UK
Praful Patel, Minister of State for Civil Aviation with Independent Charge, Government of India
H S Narula, Chairman of the D S Group and Ebony Retail Holdings Ltd
Manoj Badale, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Blenheim Chalcot

Lunch: 12.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.

Panel 4: ROUGH WEATHER: INDIA’S ROLE IN GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE »
1.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Recent reports have made the issue of global climate change a matter of urgent international attention. Although the USA also violates important environmental protocols, global attention is turning towards India and China - two economies on the brink of exponential growth. What path should India set for itself? As its economy opens up to global forces, how much culpability lies at its own door and how much at others?

Confirmed Speakers
Bittu Sahgal, Editor Sanctuary Magazine
Professor Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography, University of London; formerly Head of Geography SOAS
Dr Ritu Kumar, Director TERI, Europe
Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economic Service, Advisor to the UK Government on Economics of Climate Change and Development and former Chief Economist of the World Bank
Vikram Mehta, Chairman Shell Group of Companies

Break: 3.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.

Panel 5: NEW PASSAGES TO INDIA »
3.30 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.
India and Britain are strongly linked by their colonial past. But this shared history has been transformed by the course India has taken since Independence, and by the increasingly influential Indian community in Britian. Does it view India as an ally or a threat? Will it leverage its historic ties? In what areas does it seek economic collaboration? What changes would it like to see in Indian policy?
British policy makers, political leaders, media and business heads share their views.

Confirmed Speakers:
Anshu Jain, Head of Global Markets, Deutsche Bank
Bill Emmott, Former Editor, The Economist
Lord Karan Bilimoria, CBE and CEO, Cobra Beer
Nikesh Arora, Vice President of European Operations, Google
Stefan Kosciuszko, Chief Executive, Asia House