Kartik is a seasoned development finance leader with 17 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital and economic policy and is considered a pioneer of impact investing in India.

The panel focused on How to look at demographic dividend as an opportunity to bring in millions of youth under the productive workforce through education, skill development and entrepreneurship.

Dr TR Ramadas, Professor Emeritus at the Chennai Mathematical Institute and Chair of the Apex Committee of the National Centre for Mathematics, IIT, Bombay will be giving a talk on Mathematics and Computer Science in India.

Dr Rajesh Gopakumar is Senior Professor and Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR). He was also a visiting long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton from 2001-2004.

The panel talked about the key Challenges in the agriculture ecosystem that hampers, slows the growth of the sector. The role that businesses can play beyond business as usual to enhance the agriculture ecosystem or to address a few of the challenges

The panel discussed around how healthcare has been impacted post Covid and the key factors that need immediate attention for us to be able to fight COVID19 effectively and build the resilience of vulnerable communities.

G S Naveen Kumar is serving as Special Secretary of Health, overseeing complete digitization of all operations in government health facilities. He has vast experience in managing complex IT projects and unites an array of stakeholders.

Mr. Vishal Bharadwaj, Group Head- CSR, Dalmia Bharat Ltd and CEO, Dalmia Bharat Foundation (Award Presenter for CSR Impact Awards. Vishal is Group Head, CSR, at Dalmia Bharat Limited and CEO, Dalmia Bharat Foundation.

Professor Prana Krishna Biswas holds 38 years of academic and administrative experience. He has served as the Dean for IMT Ghaziabad for various projects. Among many other prestigious positions

Gauri is a global IDEO U (Founded By David Kelley, Head of d.school, Stanford University) Coach for Design Thinking, Innovation, Strategy & Org. Culture Design with 19+ years of diversified experience, played IT and business centric roles globally.

Joe Fernandes is the co-promoter of Bioman Technologies, a microbial technology for wet waste management. He is also the CEO of Mukti Lifestyle Pvt Ltd. where he mentors and advises a portfolio of smart technologies.

The panel talked about how businesses look at profit with purpose and how has the pandemic impacted their views on this? Also about how the board-room discussion has shifted towards purpose & what all it takes to convince shareholders for this shift

The panel discussed intricacies about how COVID19 has disrupted India’s education delivery system to a great extent, impacting the children in government schools most. Also discussing how to ensure safety with the quality education delivery on camp

The panel discussed the impact of technology on the learning landscape of India. It unravels the factors to ensure equity and equality that should be considered while digitizing the education system and many more questions on similar lines.

The panel discussed the role of the New Education Policy in improving the learning outcomes among the learners. The existing best practices among businesses and nonprofits that can be seen as future models of better education.

The panel discussed about identifying the adequate social and sustainability issues to tackle in CSR project design. Building capacities of implementation partners to think, design and implement projects with impact measurement

The panel discussed the innovative avenues that the CSR landscape is adopting to enhance this access. Discussion on the kind of commitments, institutional and systemic changes are required from the CSR fraternity to drive this change and much more

This panel talked about the Key models and approaches for empowering women in urban and rural areas. Also about investing in nurturing an ecosystem for inclusive social programs, from sports to entrepreneurship.

The intent of this masterclass was to share Genpact’s first-hand learnings from GSIF where Genpact have successfully applied business frameworks for process transformation in the social sector.

The panel focused on the key factors that CSR and development managers should look at while working on rural development projects. The key models for creating local livelihood opportunities as base of multiplier effect for rural development

The panel discussed about the experiences of working with large, medium & small non-profit organisations in the recent past and where do we see dearth of capacities. The key areas where investment of both time and resources are required to make.