Past events

• 15 November 2010
  Vinita Bali, MD, Britannia Industries Ltd.
  Indian Consumer Packaged Goods Industry
  
  
• 29 September 2010
  Vineet Nayar, CEO, HCL Technologies
  Employees First, Customers Second

• 12 April 2010
  Peter Unsworth, Chief Executive, Tetley Tea
  Drinking the Big Fish
  
  
• 25 March 2010
  Sir Gulam Noon, Chairman, Noon Products
  
  
• 25 January 2010
  S Gopalakrishnan, CEO and MD, Infosys Technologies
  Growth Drivers for Business as we Emerge Out of this Downturn
  
  

• 18 November 2009
  Dr Kiran Bedi, India's first and highest ranking female police officer
  India: The Urge to be Outstanding
  
  
• 11 June 2009
  S Ramadorai, CEO and MD Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
  Surviving a Turbulent Market
  
  
• 8 June 2009
  Harsh Mariwala, Chairman & Managing Director, Marico
  Institutionalising Innovation - The Marico Experience
  
  
• 19 May 2009
  Mike Jatania, CEO, Lornamead Group
  Lornamead - The Story of Adding Value to Brands
  
  
• 27 January 2009
  Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, NASSCOM
  The Crucible of Innovation. A New Churning in a 50 Bn $ Industry
  
  

• 25 November 2008
  Alan Rosling, Executive Director, Tata Sons
  Tata:  The Creation of an Indian Multinational
  
  
• 27 May 2008
  S Ramadorai, CEO and MD Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
  The Future of Globalized Knowledge Services
  
  

• 28 June 2007
  P Chidambaram, Minister of Finance, Government of India
  
  
• 27 February 2007
  Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE DL, CEO, Cobra Beer
  
  
• 2 February 2007 (co-sponsored with the Indian Business Forum)
  Kamal Nath, Minister of Trade & Commerce, Government of India
  
  

• 3 October 2006
  Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro Ltd

10 September 2010
How will India transform the global innovation landscape? (in association with India Business Forum and the Indian Institute of Technology UK Alumni)
The seminar was an interactive debate on the state of innovation in India and why it has in it the potential to transform the global innovation landscape. The session was part of a three day visit to the UK by senior members of the Indian Institutes of Technology.

6 October 2009
Innovation in Education (in association with India Business Forum and the Indian Institute of Technology UK Alumni)
The seminar on innovation in the Indian education sector comes at a very important time as India is about to embark on major reforms in the higher education sector with the IITs playing a crucial role in shaping the landscape. This also opens up unprecedented opportunities for international educational institutions as well as for investors to tap into one of the largest markets in the world.

21 April 2009
Imagining India & India's Global Powerhouses
A panel discussion with Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies and Nirmalya Kumar, Professor of Marketing, London Business School was held to discuss their latest books, Imagining India and India's Global Powerhouses respectively. The discussion was chaired by Robin Buchanan, President of London Business School.

15 May 2008  
Integrating Global Expertise (a seminar in association with Aditya Birla Minacs)
While much is made of the cost savings and political issues that business process offshoring entails, relatively little attention is paid to the fact that the successful offshoring of services also represents a breakthrough in organizational models for integrating globally dispersed expertise. The skills that both client and vendor companies are developing at capturing and transferring knowledge as well as achieving coordination across locations and their relevance in a globalizing economy, where value chains are often distributed across ownership and geographic boundaries were discussed at the seminar. The event included speakers from Deutsche Bank, Nissan Motors, McKinsey and London Business School.

31 October 2007
Made in India Multinationals: Strategies and Challenges
A special dinner, panel discussion and art event, co-hosted by the Aditya Birla India Centre and Harvard Business Review, was held at London Business School on 31 October 2007. The evening was opened by The Hon Apurv Bagri who welcomed guests and introduced the panellists. Followed by Anand Raman (Senior Editor of Harvard Business Review) who presented his survey of "New Champions, Global Challenges".

The high profile panel consisted of Aditya Mittal (Chief Financial Officer of ArcelorMittal), Rajesh Hukku (Chairman & Managing Director, i-flex solutions) and Nirmalya Kumar (Co-Director of the Aditya Birla India Centre), and was moderated by Tom Stewart (Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Business Review). The evening closed with talks by Richard Blurton and Sona Datta from the British Museum on Jamini Roy, the father of modern Indian painting, a selection of whose paintings were exhibited. The exceptional dinner was catered for by the Cinnamon Club.