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Special Address
Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam,
former President of India
The highlight of the first day's proceedings was the address by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President
of India. Dr Kalam spoke about his Vision for India, the need for compassionate and creative leaders,
the special role that youth has in shaping the destiny of the country and the need to build appropriate
management structures and systems for effective execution. He had a special word for the students
present at the Conference
Module-2 The Employee of the Future
Dr Kalam's session was followed by a module on "The Employee of the Future" with Dr (Ms) Sujaya Banerjee, Chief Learning Officer of
the Essar Group speaking on "The New Employee Profile" and Mr Pratik Kumar, Executive Vice President, Group HR, Wipro Corporation,
speaking on "The New Employment Contract."
Day 1 concluded with a dinner hosted by Mr. Sarthak Behuria, Chairman, India Oil
Day 2 Module-3
Mr. Debu Bhattacharya,
Managing Director, Hindalco and
Vice Chairman, Novelis
He spoke about the "Challenge of Overseas Acquisitions" on the context of the acquisition of
Novelis by the Aditya Birla Group earlier this year. He shared his insights and learning's from the
acquisition process with the delegates.
Panel Discussions on Global
Survey on Talent Retention
conducted by Summit HR- Ranjan
Sinha, Summit HR, USA
Post Lunch Session
Module-4: The New world of
Retail and MediaMr. Rajdeep
Sardesai, Managing Director, CNN
IBN andMr. Bijou Kurien,
President, Lifestyle Division,
Reliance Retail
Next Session
Mr K V Kamath, Managing
Director and Chief Executive of
ICICI Bank
Day 3
Ms. Poonam Barua
Next Session
Module 6: Building the Indian MNC
Mr. B Muthuraman, Managing
Director, Tata Steel
Module-7: The DNA of Indian
Business Leadership.Prof Peter
Cappelli, Wharton School
Mr. Ranjan Sinha, CEO of Summit HR USA, anchored the session. He shared the findings of the
Research Study and the implications for talent retention arising from this Study.
This session was followed by a very interesting Panel Discussion on "The HR Challenge of Building a World Class Enterprise" brilliantly
moderated by Dr Santrupt Misra, Director of the Adyta Burlap Corporation. Panelists included Mr. G K Agarwal, Executive Director(HRD)
of NTPC, Mr. Rajeev Dubey, President, HR and Corporate Services of Mahindra & Mahindra, Mr Steve Correa, HR Director of Vodafone
Essar, Mr Udai Upendra, Managing Director of The HR Company and Mr T V Mohandas Pai, Director HR of Infosys. The Panel explored
what world class organizations really are, how they are built and what are the HR challenges that need to be addressed in this process.
The Audience was enthralled with the quality of discussions and was fully involved from start to finish.
Mr. Rajdeep Sardesai spoke of the Media and the need for the media to be responsive as well as
responsible. He highlighted thru his experiences the trends and how Indian Media has come of age.
He sounded a word of caution for the media to maintain standards and purity. Mr. Bijou Kurien spoke
on the Sunrise Sectors Modern Retail The opportunities opening up in this sector, the impact they
would have on the business environment and the new challenges arising form the opening of these
sectors were discussed.
He addressed the delegates on the theme "Building a World Class Enterprise" and emphasized the
need of focusing not only on human capital but on speed capital and innovation as well. Mr. Kamath
highlighted that HRD was a unique capital in the sense that it can draw infinite competitive advantage
with proper leveraging of right opportunities.
Module-5: EntrepreneurshipThis session was followed by a Panel Discussion on "Entrepreneurship" moderated by Mr. Sanjeev
Bikhchandani, CEO of Naukri. The other panelists were Mr. Sanjeev Agarwal of Helion Ventures, Mr. Mohan Reddy of Infotech Enterprises
and Mr. R Sashikant of Subiksha. What inspired them to take the road less traveled; the unique challenges of building entrepreneurial
organizations and the HR role in such organizations were discussed.
Day 2 session concluded by a grand Dinner by NHRD Network for all delegates and speakers
She spoke on the "Role of Women in providing Leadership to Business and Industry in the future"
He addressed the delegates on "Building the Indian MNC." Mr. Muthuraman spoke about the
experience of the Tata Group in acquiring enterprises across the globe and how important it was to
allow the managements of these enterprises to continue managing their enterprises within the overall
policy and values framework of the Tata Group.
Two sessions on the "HR Implications of Mergers and Acquisitions" and the "HR Challenge of Managing Across Borders" followed.
These session were addressed by Mr. Marcus Banfield, Chief Executive of Typhoo Tea which has recently been acquired by the Apeejay
Surrendra Group and Mr. Inder Walia, Group HR Director of the Bharti Group who spoke about his learnings whilst managing the HR
responsibility at Arcelor Mittal.
Spoke on "The DNA of Business Leadership," presented the findings of the Study and released the
preliminary report of the Study to Mr. Aquil Busrai, National President and to Mr Vivek Paranjpe, HR
Advisor of Reliance Industries. Reliance Industries had sponsored the Research Study in which
over 100 Chief Executives of Indian corporations participated.
Next session was presented by Dr Pallab Bandyopadhyay, Mr R Vidyasagar and Prof Premrajan of XLRI presented the salient features
of CompMode to the delegates.
| HRD News Letter | December 2007, Vol.23, Issue:9 19 |