Agenda

Confluence 2018

Agenda

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Registration

16:00 - 16:45

Welcome Address

Sapnesh Lalla

CEO, NIIT Ltd.

16:45 - 17:00

Vision Keynote 1: Achieving Learning Outcomes at Scale - A Curtain Raiser

Vijay Thadani

Vice Chairman and Managing Director, NIIT Ltd; Co-Founder, NIIT University

17:00 - 17:40

Vision Keynote 2: Learning Outcomes at Scale - Transformation of Corporate Learning

AN Rao

Senior Vice President, Global Head: Cognizant Academy, Cognizant

17:30 - 18:00

From Learning to Learning 4.0 – A Paradigm Shift

Sai Venkateshwaran

Partner and Head, Accounting Advisory Services, KPMG India

18:00 - 18:30

Talent Transformation in the Age of Disruption - A Global Imperative

Anand Sudarshan

Founder and Director, Sylvant Advisors Private Ltd.

18:30 - 19:00

Break

19:00 - 20:00

Dinner at Dunes by the Sea

20:00 onwards

Chairman's Keynote Address

Rajendra S Pawar

Chairman and Co-Founder, NIIT Group; Founder, NIIT University

9:00 - 9:40

Keynote address: Building Talent as a Competitive Edge for India Globally

Debjani Ghosh

President, NASSCOM

9:40 - 10:20

Tea Break and Group Photo Op

10:20 - 11:00

Breakthrough Models for Talent On-demand - A Case Study

Girish Sharma

Director, Human Resources, Accenture India

11:00 - 11:35

Panel Discussion: Dealing with Talent Churn - A Framework for Performance, Retention, and Growth

Moderated by

Sapnesh Lalla

CEO, NIIT Ltd.

Panelists:

Judhajit Das

Chief Human Resource, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Ltd

Vaishali Phatak

Group Function Head (Vice President), Technical Learning Services, Tech Mahindra

Ashok Nagar

Senior Practice Director, Alight Account for Wipro

Sachin Gaur

Global Consulting Chief Learning Officer, Deloitte Consulting

11:35 - 12:20

L&D Transformation - A Make or Break for Digital Skilling

Dr Selvan Dorairaj

Vice President, Learning and Development, Capgemini India

12:20 - 12:55

An AI Based Learning Platform – A Reliance Perspective

Rajagopalan Purushothaman,

Senior Vice President, Refinery and Marketing, Reliance Industries

12:55 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

Panel Discussion: Future Skills - A Learning Utility Of the Industry, By the Industry, and For the Industry

Moderated by

Amit Aggarwal

CEO, IT / ITES Sector Skill Council, NASSCOM

Panelists:

Sebikumar Kuruvilla

Head, Architect and Consultant Academy, Wipro Technologies

Vaishali Phatak

Group Function Head (Vice President), Technical Learning Services, Tech Mahindra

Neelu Chawla

Vice President, 21st Century Learning, Operations Capability and Leadership Development, Genpact

14:30 - 15:10

Leadership Discussion: Service Excellence as a Competitive Differentiator for India Inc.

Ron Kaufman

Founder and Chairman, UP! Your Service

Arvind Thakur

Vice Chairman and Managing Director, NIIT Technologies Ltd.

15:10 - 15:50

Building a Nation Scale Learning Platform - The EkStep story

Hiren Doshi

Chief Evangelist, EkStep

15:50 - 16:20

Tea Break

16:20 - 16:50

Panel Discussion: Challenges of Re-skilling at Scale

Moderated by

Ramanujam Thirumalai

Vice President, StackRoute

Panelists:

Kolapi Roy

Director, Client Services, Cloud Business Innovation Center, IBM

Krishnamurari Parandur

Senior Director, Healthcare Projects, Cognizant

Sanjeev Kumar

Lead, Accelerators’ Program, Sapient Razorfish

Karthikeyan S

Digital Engineering, Wipro Digital

16:50 - 17:30

Learning Innovations at Scale - Best Practices from Reliance

Dr Sajeev Kumar Nair

Senior Vice President and Head, Group Manufacturing Learning and Development, Reliance Industries

Dr Sanjay Verma

Vice President, Learning and Development and Head, Petrochemical Academy, Reliance Industries

17:30 - 18:00

Reimagining Executive Education at Scale

Antarpreet Singh

Director, Digital Learning, Indian School of Business

18:00 - 18:30

Break

18:30 - 20:00

Arabian Theme Dinner at the Seaside lawns

20:00 onwards

Water Sports by the Beach

07:00 - 09:00

A Global Case Study for Driving Learning Transformation at Scale

Sapnesh Lalla

CEO, NIIT Ltd.

10:00 - 10:30

Scaling Sales and Customer Excellence: A Case Study

Rajesh Sood

Executive Vice President and Chief Distribution Officer, DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance

10:30- 11:00

Tea Break

11:00 - 11:30

Panel Discussion: Banking Outlook – Accelerating the Transformation

Moderated by

Udai Singh

Chief Strategy Officer, NIIT Ltd.

Panelists

Kiran Pratap Singh Rawat

Chief General Manager, State Bank of India

K Swaminathan

Executive Director, Indian Overseas Bank

11:30 - 12:10

Developing a Culture of Continuous Learning and Compliance Leadership

Dylan Stokes

Regional Vice President, NIIT Canada

12:10 - 13:00

Summary & Closing Notes

Udai Singh

Chief Strategy Officer, NIIT Ltd.

13:00 - 13:15

Lunch followed by departures

13:15 onwards