NCF 2014

India’s National Competitiveness Forum (NCF) 2014 will assemble top private sector leaders, renowned thinkers and select government leaders to assess the state of the nation’s competitiveness, and explore pressing and emerging issues. The NCF 2014 would look at deliberating on:

Economic geography and Competitiveness: Looking at various levels of geography to ascertain the factors that make cities, states and India competitive. Some of the pressing issues at the various levels of geography include preventing the demographic dividend to turn into demographic disaster, reducing India’s infrastructure deficit, better resource utilization, strengthening the financial system both from the point of access and vulnerability, etc.
Technology and Competitiveness: Technology is widely considered to be a requisite part of every strategy and plays a major role for all the organizations in a unique way. For some its an enabler, for some to bring them par with their competitors and for many it plays the role where it takes the organizations ahead of the curve. Understanding how technology can drive competitiveness is important for the country and organisations to understand in order to pave way for the next innovation cycle.
Enabling industrial development: The country’s industrial development has traditionally lagged behind service sector. Some of the pressing issues include dependent high energy and power deficits due to coal and energy linkage issues; land procurement problems for manufacturing sector, and poor state of doing business in India due to red-tapism etc. We would look at deliberating on issues that would define the next stage of industrial development.
Realigning Institutions: Institutions are powerful mechanisms to bring about not just an economic but also a societal change. Various institutions have had a direct/indirect impact on economic growth. The institutional arrangements reflect priorities and mechanisms to address these. Realigning institutions deals with institutional reforms needed to address challenges to India’s growth and competitiveness.
Competitiveness Decoder: This is a first of-its-kind, data based tool developed in order to visualize they key drivers of a nation’s competitiveness.

In order to address these pressing issues we must adopt a pro-growth strategy that is aimed at driving innovation in order to create shared value of economics and the society. This would help to generate an ability to steer the nation across to safer shore as opposed to emerging risks or disruptions and would eventually help the country to emerge as leader in the global economy.

Agenda

Board Meeting AND Registration

Time: 08:00 – 09:30

Opening Address

Time: 09:30 – 09:35
Welcome Address by Dr. Amit Kapoor, President and CEO of India Council on Competitiveness

Keynote

Time: 09:35 – 09:45
Keynote by Wilfried Aulbur, Chairman, India Council on Competitiveness & Managing Partner & CEO, Roland Berger

Keynote

Time: 09:45 – 10:00
Keynote by Honorable Deborah L. Wince-Smith, President and CEO, US Council on Competitiveness

Inaugural Session

Time: 10:00 – 10:40

Economic Geography and Competitiveness
Looking at various levels of geography to ascertain the factors that make cities, states and India competitive. Some of the pressing issues at the various levels of geography include preventing the demographic dividend to turn into demographic disaster, reducing India’s infrastructure deficit, better resource utilization, strengthening the financial system both from the point of access and vulnerability, etc.

Pirojshaw Sarkari, CEO, Mahindra Logistics
Harvinder Singh, Country Manager, United Airlines
Kevin Stolarick, Director, India Institute for Competitiveness, Toronto
Trond M. Bredesen, Director, Telecom, Ramboll India
Poul Jensen, Director, EBTC

Moderated by Dr. Amit Kapoor, President and CEO of India Council on Competitiveness

Keynote

Time: 10:40 – 11:00

Keynote by Mark Goyder, Founder Director, Tomorrow’s Company

Tea/Coffee Break

Time: 11:00 – 11:20

Panel

Time: 11:20 – 12:00

Technology and Competitiveness
Technology is widely considered to be a requisite part of every strategy and plays a major role for all the organizations in a unique way. For some its an enabler, for some to bring them par with their competitors and for many it plays the role where it takes the organizations ahead of the curve. Understanding how technology can drive competitiveness is important for the country and organisations to understand in order to pave way for the next innovation cycle.

Gerd Hoefner, MD, Siemens
Dr. Alok Bhardwaj, Executive Vice President, Canon
N N Subramanian, Director, Financial Services, Maveric Systems
Girish Nayak, CTO, ICICI Lombard
Vishwanath Madhugiri, Chief Innovation Officer, LYCRUM GROUP

Moderated by Sundeep Khanna, Leadership Team, Mint, HT Media Limited

Keynote

Time: 12:00 – 12:20

Keynote by Maarten Koomans, Chief Global Healthcare & Global Clients, BusinessModels Inc

Panel

Time: 12:20 – 13:00

Realigning the Institutions
Institutions are powerful mechanisms to bring about not just an economic but also a societal change. Various institutions have had a direct/indirect impact on economic growth. The institutional arrangements reflect priorities and mechanisms to address these. Realigning institutions deals with institutional reforms needed to address challenges to India’s growth and competitiveness.

Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore
Rupali Basu, CEO, Eastern Region of Apollo Hospitals India
Nagendra Palle, CEO, Mahindra First Choice Wheels
David Wittenberg, CEO, The Innovation Workgroup
Angara Venkara Girjia Kumar, CEO, National Insurance Company Limited

Moderated by Vinay Hebbar, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Harvard Business Publishing

Lunch

Time: 13:00 – 14:00

Session

Time: 14:00 – 14:40

The Inner Game of Success- Mindfulness for Leaders
In this session Santhosh Babu takes you to an inside out approach to Personal and Organisation Transformation. In the world of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) creating an inner core that could navigate us through difficulties is extremely important. You will also see Santhosh Demonstrating Hypnosis in this session.

Session Chair: Santhosh Babu

Session

Time: 14:40 – 15:00

Competitiveness Decoder
Analyzing location Competitiveness Outcomes. This is a first of-its-kind, data based tool developed in order to, analyse and visualize the key drivers of a nation’s competitiveness.

Session Chairs: Roberto Alvarez & Chad Evans

Session

Time: 15:00 – 15:10

Showcasing the reality of Indian Districts

Session Chairs: Viraj Desai, GroupM and Sankalp Sharma, Senior Researcher, Institute for Competitiveness, India

Panel

Time: 15:10 – 15:50

Enabling Industrial Development
The country’s industrial development has traditionally lagged behind service sector. Some of the pressing issues include dependent high energy and power deficits due to coal and energy linkage issues; land procurement problems for manufacturing sector, and poor state of doing business in India due to red-tapism etc. We would look at deliberating on issues that would define the next stage of industrial development.

Anita Arjundas, CEO, Real Estate Sector and Managing Director, Mahindra Lifespace Developers
Sunand Sharma, President, Alstom International, India & South Asia
Himanshu Jain, MD & VP – Indian Subcontinent, Sealed Air
Anuj Mehra, CEO, Mahindra Rural Housing Finance
Kevin Stolarick, Director, India Institute for Competitiveness, Toronto

Moderated by Pranjal Sharma, Consulting Editor, Businessworld

Closing Remarks

Time: 15:50 – 16:00

Closing Remarks

Dr. Amit Kapoor, President & CEO, India Council on Competitiveness
Wilfried Aulbur, Chairman, India Council on Competitiveness & Managing Partner & CEO, Roland Berger

Section

Porter Prize 2014

Registration

Time: 16:00 – 16:30

Registration for Porter Prize

Opening Remarks

Time: 16:30 – 16:35

Opening remarks by Dr. Amit Kapoor, Honorary Chairman, Institute for Competitiveness, India

Panel

Time: 16:35 – 17:20

Economics, Social Progress & Creating Shared Value
Building a clear understanding of shared value, how is the concept beyond corporate social responsibility, enhances the organizations ability to contribute to communities and enhancing social conditions by reconceiving products & markets and redefining productivity in the value chain.

Aditya Vij, CEO, Fortis Healthcare Limited, India
Ajay Vir Jakhar, Chairman, Bhartiya Krishak Samaj
Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, Director General & CEO, IICA
Shelly Batra, Co-Founder & President, Operation Asha
Rakesh Amol, President- Infrastructure, KEC International representative
R. S. Subramanian, Senior Vice President & MD, DHL Express India

Moderated by Sundeep Khanna, Leadership Team, Mint, HT Media Limited

Panel

Time: 17:20 – 18:05

Strategy & Competitive Advantage
The idea  is to understand issues pertaining to offensive and defensive action, how entrepreneurs find unique value, drive change within the industry, exploit change & influence the balance. How trade offs define consistency in a strategy with choices and how fit defines competitive advantage by building a deeper understanding of activities.

Vipul Shah, President, CEO and Chairman, Dow Chemical International Pvt. Ltd.
CVL Srinivas, CEO, GroupM South Asia
Richard Rekhy, CEO, KPMG
CP Gurnani, MD and CEO, Tech Mahindra
Rehan A Khan, Managing Director and Executive Director, Abbott India

Moderated by Anurag Batra, Chairman, BW | Businessworld and Exchange4Media

Keynote

Time: 18:05 – 18:25

Keynote by Shashi Ruia, Chairman, Essar Group

Keynote

Time: 18:25 – 18:40

Keynote by Etienne Benet, CEO, Nestle India Limited

Keynote

Time: 18:40 – 19:00

Keynote by Sanjiv Mehta, CEO and Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever Limited

Introducing

Time: 19:00- 19:05

Introducing Professor Michael E. Porter

Keynote

Time: 19:05- 19:45

Keynote Address by Professor Michael E. Porter

Q&A

Time: 19:45- 20:00

Q & A with Michael E. Porter by Analjit Singh, Chairman, Max India Limited

Porter Prize Ceremony

Time: 20:00- 20:25

Remarks for Winning Enterprises

Time: 20:25- 20:30

Remarks for winning enterprises by Professor Michael E. Porter

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Conference Chairs

Deborah L. Wince-Smith

President and CEO, US Council on Competitiveness

Deborah L. Wince-Smith is the President & CEO of the Council on Competitiveness (Council). Founded in 1986, this unique coalition of leading CEO’s, university presidents and labor union leaders puts forth actionable public policy solutions to make America more competitive in the global marketplace. An internationally renowned, leading voice on competitiveness, innovation strategy, science and technology, and international economic policy.

Wilfried Aulbur

Managing Partner and CEO, Roland Berger – India

Dr. Wilfried Aulbur holds the position of Managing Partner for Roland Berger in India, based in Mumbai. Professionally, Dr. Aulbur brings with him a wealth of international experience and extensive business exposure to a variety of functions and activities within the automotive industry. Prior to joining Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, he was the Managing Director and CEO of Mercedes-Benz India where he was responsible for the production, sales and after sales of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars, buses and trucks (2006-2010).