This year’s edition, themed around building India’s growth story for the next decade, featured Anant Vidur Puri, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, who spoke on venture capital and growth-stage investing; Anu Rathninde, Fortune 500 President and Professor of Practice, on leadership at the intersection of industry and academia; Archana A. Prasad, I&P Global Network HR Lead at Accenture Strategy, on people strategy and inclusive leadership; Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General of CII, on industry policy and India’s economic trajectory; Kinkini Roychoudhary, Global Network – Reinventive Enterprise Lead at Accenture Strategy, on digital transformation; Meeta Sharma, Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, on global banking; and Sunny Goel, Senior Partner at Nomura Consulting & Solutions, on investment strategy.
Each session moved beyond the conventional keynote format, encouraging candid, open dialogue between speakers and students.
Prof. Prem Prakash Diwani, Chairperson of the Corporate Relations Committee, also addressed the students, reaffirming CRC’s continued commitment to bridging classroom learning with industry practice and ensuring students gain perspectives that are current and directly relevant to the world they are preparing to enter.
