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Plenary

Opening Remarks

Balasubramanian Muthuraman
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
13:45
Plenary

Samaj, Sarkar, Bazar for India's development: Opening plenary

Amitabh Kant
Rohini Nilekani
Renu Sud Karnad
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
14:15
WASH

Session 1: Jal Jeevan Mission – A game changer for the provision of assured and safe drinking water at a household level

Mr Bharat Lal
Dr E. Revati
Jaspreet Talwar
Ms Padmaja Nair
Mr VK Madhavan
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
15:00
Energy

Centre for Policy Research- Re-Powering Agriculture: Energy transition for an agricultural transformation

Priya Jadhav
Harish Damodaran
Ashwin Gambhir
Aditi Mukherji
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
15:00
Education

Schooling and Learning Post-Covid: Experience and Expectations

Vishal Talreja
Dr Rukmini Banerji
Shaveta Sharma Kukreja
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
15:05
Health

The Forgotten Amidst the Pandemic: Keynote Address

Dr. Srinath Reddy
Dr. Shailendra Kumar B. Hegde
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
15:05
Gender

The changing face of gender identity and perceptions in India

Urvashi Butalia (she/her)
Zakia Soman (she/her)
Dr. Akkai Padmashali (she/her)
Pragya Tiwari (she/her)
Sonal Giani (she/her)
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
15:15
Rural Development

Community Institutions: The Next Horizon

Isabel Guerrero
Reema Nanavaty
Parmesh Shah
Vijay Mahajan
Dr. Meenakshisundaram
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
15:30
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Skilling to create the future ready worksforce

Mr. Pradeep S Mehta
Lt. Col. Sreekumar (Retd.)
Dr. Srinivasa Rao
Ms. Juthika Patankar
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
15:30
Resilient Societies

हम लोग : An Examination of Civic Engagement in India

Shradha Vaid
Anurati Tandon
Gautam John
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
16:00
Energy

Asian Venture Philanthropy Network: Deconstructing Climate Finance for Decentralized Renewable Energy

Deepali Khanna
Shirish Sinha
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
16:00
Education

NIPUN Bharat Mission: An Opportunity to Reform the Education System

Sourav Banerjee
Seema Bansal
Dr. Asyia Kazmi
Amitav Virmani
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
16:05
Health

Recognising Differences

Dr. Nirmala Nair
Shanti Raghavan
Priti Patkar
Dr Thelma Narayan
Pritha Venkatachalam
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
16:05
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Skill development for a gig economy

Mr. Prasad Routray
Mr. Sandeep Ahuja
Mr. Manas Singh
Mr. Mithun Srivatsa
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
16:30
WASH

Session 2: Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0: Opportunities and challenges with regards to liquid waste management

Mr. Arun Baroka
Mr Prasanna R
Ms Nidhi Nivedita
Dr Meera Mehta
Mr VR Raman
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
17:00
Disrupt Philanthropy

Jumpstarting Philanthropy

Shilpa Kumar
Ganesh K
Mekin Maheshwari
Abha Thorat Shah
Ingrid Srinath
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
17:00
Equitable Cities

Innovations for Informal Settlements

Geetanjali Jha
Dr. Anirudh Krishna
Rajyalakshmi Cyanam
Antarin Chakrabarty
Shalmoli Halder
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
17:00
Energy

India Climate Collaborative: DRE Solutions at the Agriculture - Energy Nexus

Shambhavi Sharma
Hemendra Mathur
Alok Verma
Huda Jaffer
Devendra Gupta
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
17:00
Resilient Societies

Lights, Citizenship, Action

Hansal Mehta
Anushka Shah
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
17:00
Education

Build Back Better: School Education Post-Covid

Sonali Saini
Madhukar Banuri
Ashok Kamath
Safeena Husain
Anustup Nayak
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
17:05
Gender

In search of a story: Lives of women journalists

Jahnavi Sen (she/her)
Kalpana Sharma (she/her)
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
17:30
Gender

Championing others' rights and their own: How gender and sexuality have shaped the experiences of lawyers

Jayna Kothari (she/her)
Saurabh Kirpal (he/him)
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
17:30
Rural Development

Multifaceted Rural Transformation

Prof. Achyuta Samanta
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
17:30
Resilient Societies

Ear to the Ground: Grassroots Media and Active Citizenship

Meera Devi
Dhanya Rajendran
Barkha Dutt
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
18:00
Energy

Institute for Sustainable Communities: Strengthening the Decentralized Renewable Energy Ecosystem in Rural India

Jaideep Mukherjee
Chhavi Rajawat
Vijay Bhaskar
Adwait Joshi
Deeohn Ferris
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
18:00
Education

Engaging Parents as a Key Stakeholder in their Child’s Education

Sashwati Banerjee
Azeez Gupta
Dr Venita Kaul
Merlia Shaukath
Krishnan S
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
18:05
Health

Mind the ‘Mind’

Dr. Soumitra Pathare
Dr. Radha Valaulikar
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
18:05
Gender

Transforming women's lives: Grassroots experiences from leaders of civil society organisations

Shraddha Joshi (she/her)
Sohini Bhattacharya (she/her)
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
18:30
Plenary

Emerging role of Science and Technology in India's growth

Prof. K. VijayRaghavan
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
19:00
Plenary

Day's Closing Event

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session date
13th August 2021
session time
19:30
Plenary

The role of science and technology in India's Development

Debjani Ghosh
Dr. Chitra Rajagopal
Priya Sahgal
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session date
13th August 2021
session time
19:30
Plenary

Accelerating India's transition to a new economy through development of human capital

Ashish Dhawan
Lakshmi Puri
Jeanette Rodrigues
Arun Maira
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
09:00
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

What does it mean to be skilled?

Prof. Neharika Vohra
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
10:00
Education

Delivering on EdTech’s Promise of Improved Student Learning

Jairaj Bhattacharya
Dr. Sahana Murthy
Mansi Kasliwal
Nitin Kashyap
Rashi Dhanani
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
10:05
Health

One-health Approach

Dr Vandana Shiva
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
10:05
Rural Development

FPOs 2.0

Neelkamal Darbari
Pravesh Sharma
Usha Devi Venkatachalam
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
10:15
Gender

Shaking up social spaces - perspectives from trailblazers

Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal (she/her)
Gazal Dhaliwal (she/her)
Sushant Divgikar AKA Rani Ko-He-Nur (they)
Nazni Rizvi (she/her)
Shaili Chopra (she/her)
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
10:15
Birds of a feather (BoF)

Rethinking Education in India: Social and Emotional Learning in the Pandemic

Vaishnavi Srinivasan
Malavika Srivathsa
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
10:15
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

On ground perspectives on skilling

Rachana
Nanditha
Himani Sharma
Manisha Shankala
Neha Chande
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
10:20
WASH

Session 3: Hygiene and infection prevention: Bringing back the missing ingredient in primary health care

Dr Rasheed Hussain
Dr M Prakasamma
Dr PV Ramesh
Mr Job Zachariah
Dr Deepak B. Saxena
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
11:00
Collaboration

Working together: Learnings from Collective Impact journeys

Vignesh Shankar
Priyanka Dutt
Madhushree Narayan
Vikas Gora
Nalini Shekar
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
11:00
Equitable Cities

Strengthening First-Mile Governance

Dr. K. Rajeswara Rao
Abhishek Singh
Poonam Mahajan
Aijaz Dhebar
Mahesh Krisnamurthy
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
11:00
Education

Making EdTech Accessible at Scale - How to Bridge the Digital Divide

Aditya Chopra
Anvar Sadath
Dayoung Lee
Shubhra Mittal
Nishant Baghel
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
11:05
Rural Development

FDRVC: Vision, Opportunities and Challenges

Mr. Alok De
Shri Jugal Kishore Mohapatra
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
11:20
Gender

A seat at the table

Aniket Doegar (he/him)
Abhina Aher (she/her)
Ankiti Bose (she/her)
Parmesh Shahani (he/his)
Medhavi Arora (she/her)
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
11:45
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Keynote Address

Dr. K.P. Krishnan
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
11:45
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Skill Development: Key to Inclusive Growth

Ms. Meera Shenoy
Mr. S.V. Krishnan
Ms. Aradhana Lal
Ms. Kanta Singh
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
12:00
Education

Importance of Data for Education Reform

Dr Abhijeet Singh
Gaurav Goel
Ben Piper
Sandhya Rani
Rahul Ahluwalia
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
12:05
Health

NCDS: The Impending Wave

Dr. Anand Bang
Dr. Prabhakaran Dorairaj
Dr. N Devadasan
Dr Ravi Kannan
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
12:05
Plenary

The emergence of Purposeful Philanthropy

Amit Chandra
Anu Aga
Shaheen Mistri
Arghya Sengupta
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
13:00
Plenary

Fireside Chat

Kunal Kapoor
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
13:00
Disrupt Philanthropy

Next Philanthropy

Anshu Gupta
Dr Syed Sultan Kazi
Raj Mariwala
Srilatha Batliwala
N Paul Divakar
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
14:00
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Integrating TVET / Vocational Training in Schools

Dr. Sridhar Srivastava
Dr. Rajesh Khambayat
Ms. Leena Wadia
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
14:00
Gender

Voices from the ground: थोड़ा है, थोड़े और की ज़रूरत है

Anita Nawle
Anjum Shaikh
Anwari Khan
Sushma Mohirle
Sujata Khandekar
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
14:15
Birds of a feather (BoF)

Everyone Making Justice: Why only population-scale citizen agency can close the justice gap in India

Akshetha Ashok
Sultan Ahmad
Aniket Doegar (he/him)
Abhay Jain
Renu Mishra
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
14:15
WASH

Session 4: Challenges and solutions for the provision of safe drinking water in water quality affected geographies

Dr Ashok Kumar Ghosh
Mr Ajay Kumar
KK Songariya
Anita Sharma
Dr Robin Kumar Dutta
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
14:30
Equitable Cities

Urban Governance and the Role of the Citizen

Milind Mhaske
Srinivas Alavilli
Dr. Akkai Padmashali (she/her)
Abhishek Dutt
Tariq Musthafa
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
14:30
Rural Development

Graduation Approach: Bringing the most vulnerable communities into the mainstream

Dr Shagun Sabarwal
John Paul
Mr. Balamurugan D.
Jasveen Bindra
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
14:30
Collaboration

Collaborations: Ushering in a new way forward in India

Gautam John
Pritha Venkatachalam
Donald Yeh
Oliver Karius
Geeta Goel
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
15:00
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Edtech and digital skills to maximise learning outcomes

Mr. Venkatesh Sarvasiddhi
Ms. Ishita Agarwal
Mr. Bhaskar Gandhavadi
Ms. Geeta Gurnani
Ms. Ruchee Anand
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
15:00
Education

What Lies Ahead for the Affordable Private School Sector Post-Covid?

Vikas Jhunjhunwala
Rajendra Singh
Prof. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
Vardan Kabra
Dr Amit Chandra
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
15:05
Gender

CORO-Dalberg workshop: Moving towards equity centered research

Sujata Khandekar
Mumtaz Shaikh
Prerak Mehta
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
15:30
Rural Development

MGNREGA Asset Creation: A Practioner's Perspective

Shri Arvind Choudhary
Ms. Sufiyah Faruqui Wali
Mr. Zulfiquar Hiader
Ms. Sowmya Kidambi
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
15:45
Resilient Societies

लगे रहो: Building on Civic Engagement after the Second Wave

Gayatri Nair Lobo
Gayatri Divachi
Ved Arya
Smarinita Shetty
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
16:00
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) creating impact through Skill Development

Dr. Vikas Yadvendu
Dr Vinitaa Malhotra Jha
Ms. Prerna Tandon
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
16:00
Birds of a feather (BoF)

Building Resilience Inside-Out: Supporting our own teams during a crisis

Medha Uniyal
Toral Parmar
Neeraj Trivedi
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
16:00
WASH

Session 5: WASH in Small and Medium Towns: A call for Immediate Attention

Ms Amulya Miriyala
G Mathi Vathanan
Dr Deepak Sanan
Mr Nesar Ahmad
Dr Manvita Baradi
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
16:30
Resilient Societies

CaaS – Citizenship as a Service

Aniket Doegar (he/him)
Anisha Gopi
Viraj Tyagi
Sarayu Natarajan
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
17:00
Disrupt Philanthropy

Tearing up Philanthropy’s rulebook

Phil Buchanan
Pradeep Nair
Pritha Venkatachalam
Arif Ekram
Ingrid Srinath
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
17:00
Equitable Cities

Empowering Voices on the Ground

Rajesh Kasturirangan
Divya Varma
Rwitwika Bhattacharya
Tikender Singh Panwar
Rakhi Ravikumar
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
17:00
Collaboration

The role of collaboratives during the COVID-19 pandemic in India

Dhanya Rajendran
Mekin Maheshwari
Ashif Shaikh
Uma Mahadevan
Shama Karkal
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
17:00
Energy

Shell Foundation: Mainstreaming Gender across the Energy Value-Chain

Sasmita Patnaik
Nidhi Pant
Abhishek Pathak
Adritha Subbiah
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
17:00
Health

Periods Don’t Pause for a Pandemic

Radhika Chabria
Sumegha Asthana
Srilekha Chakraborty
Dr Arundati Muralidharan
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
17:05
Rural Development

Natural Farming (Importance and Path Forward)

Mr. T Vijay Kumar
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
17:30
Resilient Societies

लिफ्ट करा दे: A Funder’s Perspective on Civic Engagement

Sameer Shisodia
Varad Pande
Natasha Joshi
Tarun Cherukuri
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
18:00
Plenary

Resilient Health Systems

Dr Devi Shetty
Dr. R.S. Sharma
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session date
14th August 2021
session time
19:15
Plenary

An institutional approach to sustainable development

Sonam Wangchuk
Dr Madhav Chavan
Renana Jhabvala
Kruti Bharucha
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
09:00
Disrupt Philanthropy

Supercharging philanthropy through technology

Donald Lobo
Rekha Koita
Gayatri Nair Lobo
Bindi Dharia
Atul Satija
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
10:00
Birds of a feather (BoF)

Impact investing - the new mainstream

Anjali Bansal
Vineet Rai
Sonal Khetarpal
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
10:00
Career Connect

Building your Purposeful Career

Rahul Balakrishnan
Ridhika Bagga
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
10:00
Rural Development

Credit Mobilisation

Dr. G R Chintala
Arun Raste
Mr. Anil Kumar SG
Rahul Gupta
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
10:05
Resilient Societies

Uncommon Ground - Coexistence between a Strong Society and a Strong State

Yamini Aiyar
Jasmine Shah
Gopal Sankaranarayanan
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
11:00
Equitable Cities

Equal Cities

Anindita Mukherjee
Madhav Pai
Srikanth Viswanathan
Viraj Tyagi
Sudipto Dey
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
11:00
Career Connect

Coffee Chat on Transitioning into the Social Sector

Vasudha Chakravarthy
Kruti Bharucha
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
11:00
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Investing for Impact | The case of India

Mr. Arunesh Singh
Mr. Saleem Khan
Dr. Maneesh Mishra
Seema Bansal
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
11:00
Rural Development

Innovations in Agriculture: The Adoption and Scaling Challenge

Mark Kahn
Dr. Kalpana Sastry
Ezhil Subbian
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
11:15
Birds of a feather (BoF)

The Missing Billion - How technology is transforming the lives of people with disabilities

Prateek Madhav
Bonny Dave
Janhavi Joshi
Rishi Iyer
Anand Kutre
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
11:30
Resilient Societies

Charcha पे चर्चा

Aprajita Pandey
Avijit Michael
Trina Talukdar
Kuldeep Dantewadia
Tarun Cherukuri
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
12:00
Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

Preparing a world-class skilled workforce for International Mobility

Ms. Seeta Sharma
Mr. Abbagani Ramu
Mr. Basab Banerjee
Mr. Amit Saxena
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
12:00
Health

Pandemic: Individual Rights vs Collective Responsibilities

Dr Pavitra Mohan
Dr. Gagandeep Kang
Dr Anant Bhan
Dr Purnima Menon
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
12:05
Plenary

Closing Plenary: Solving critical problems of development, the startup way

Prashanth Prakash
Nithin Kamath
Meena Ganesh
Sujit John
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session date
15th August 2021
session time
13:00

sessions

Samaj, Sarkar, Bazar for India's development: Opening plenary

with
Amitabh Kant, Rohini Nilekani & Renu Karnad
on
August 13, 2021
02:00 PM

Session 1: हम लोग : An Examination of Civic Engagement in India

with
Shradha Vaid & Anurati Tandon
on
August 13, 2021
04:00 PM

लगे रहो: Building on Civic Engagement after the Second Wave

with
Gayatri Divecha, Ved Arya & Gayatri Lobo
on
August 14, 2021
04:00 PM

Tearing up Philanthropy’s rulebook

with
Phil Buchanan, Pradeep Nair, Pritha Venkatachalam & Arif Ekram
on
August 14, 2021
04:00 PM

Gender and Energy

with
Shipra Nayyar, Adritha Subbiah, Nidhi Pant & Abhishek Pathak
on
August 14, 2021
05:00 PM

लिफ्ट करा दे: A Funder’s Perspective on Civic Engagement

with
Varad Pande, Natasha Joshi & Sameer, Rainmatter
on
August 14, 2021
06:00 PM

Resilient Health Systems

with
Dr Shetty & Dr R S Sharma
on
August 14, 2021
07:15 PM

Accelerating India's transition to a new economy through development of human capital

with
Ashish Dhawan, Lakshmi Puri & K Subramanian
on
August 14, 2021
09:00 PM

Supercharging philanthropy through technology

with
Donald Lobo, Rekha Koita, Amit Chandra & Rostow Ravanan
on
August 15, 2021
10:00 AM
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Schedule | Friday, August 13th, 2021

Opening Remarks

Plenary
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13:45
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Samaj, Sarkar, Bazar for India's development: Opening plenary

Plenary
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14:15
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Emerging role of Science and Technology in India's growth

Plenary
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19:00
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Day's Closing Event

Plenary
starts at
19:30
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The role of science and technology in India's Development

Plenary
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19:30
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Schedule | Saturday, August 14th, 2021

Accelerating India's transition to a new economy through development of human capital

Plenary
starts at
09:00
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The emergence of Purposeful Philanthropy

Plenary
starts at
13:00
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Fireside Chat

Plenary
starts at
13:00
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Resilient Health Systems

Plenary
starts at
19:15
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Schedule | Sunday, August 15th, 2021

An institutional approach to sustainable development

Plenary
starts at
09:00
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Closing Plenary: Solving critical problems of development, the startup way

Plenary
starts at
13:00
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Plenary
hosted by
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Plenary
hosted by
Piramal Swasthya
Career Connect
co-hosted by
Piramal Swasthya
Health
co-hosted by
Piramal Swasthya
Education
co-hosted by
Central Square Foundation
Rural Development
hosted by
Ministry of Rural Development
WASH
co-hosted by
Water Aid
Skill development
co-hosted by
National Skill Development Corporation
Disrupt Philanthropy
co-hosted by
Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy
Resilient Societies
co-hosted by
Rohini NIlekani Philanthropies
Gender
co-hosted by
Dalberg
Energy
co-hosted by
The Rockefeller Foundation
Collaboration
hosted by
The Rockefeller Foundation
Equitable cities for the next half billion
co-hosted by
Omidyar Network India
Birds of a feather (BoF)
Omidyar Network India

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