Keynote Presenters

• Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of SAS.
  
  From Insight to Performance
  
  Globalisation and the spread of technologies are bringing rapid and disruptive change to both new and old businesses. To compete, organizations must transform themselves from tactical/reactive (business as usual) to strategic/proactive.
  
  Jim Davis will present strategies for creating an information environment that incorporates business analytics that can quickly capitalize on existing and emerging market opportunities.
  
  
• Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, author of The Art of the Start and co-author of Rules for Revolutionaries.
  
  The Art of Innovation
  
  Guy Kawasaki comes to Mumbai all the way from Silicon Valley to inspire attendees to achieve unprecedented levels of innovation. Using his experiences as Apple’s chief evangelist as well as the founder of several startup organisations and a best-selling author, Kawasaki will explain the theory and tactics of creating innovative products and services. Using examples from Apple, Nike, Federal Express, Lexus, Mercedes and Breitling, Kawasaki will educate and inspire as he details The Art of Innovation.
  
  
• Gerard Lyons, PhD, Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research at Standard Chartered.
  
  
• Renée Mauborgne, co-author of Blue Ocean Strategy and the world's pre-eminent expert on business strategy, innovation and wealth creation in the knowledge economy.
  
  Blue Ocean Strategy: Don’t Compete with Rivals - Make Them Irrelevant
  
  Organisations have long engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share and struggled for differentiation. Yet in today’s overcrowded industries, competing head-on results in nothing but a bloody “red ocean” of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. While most organisations compete within such red oceans, this strategy is increasingly unlikely to create profitable growth in the future.
  
  Mauborgne will argue that tomorrow’s leading organisations will succeed not by battling competitors, but by creating “blue oceans” of uncontested market space ripe for growth. In her presentation, she will outline the principles of the blue ocean strategy and will present a systematic approach to breaking away from the competition and unlocking all-new demand to create blue oceans of new market space.
  
  
• Adil Zainulbhai, Managing Director, McKinsey & Company, India.
  
  

Executive Panel Discussions

• Navigating the Global Economy Through Innovation and Insight
  
  Growing at an unprecedented rate, the Asia Pacific region – India and China in particular – has emerged as a powerful economic force and is expected to continue to play an important role in global capital markets. However, will recent global financial crisis and rising double-digit inflation arrest India’s economic growth, or will India’s growing middle class insulate India from the global financial crisis?
  
  Gerard Lyons and Adil Zainulbhai have their fingers on the pulse of the increasingly complex and turbulent global economy. Lyons will share his views on the impact of the global economy on the Asia Pacific region and his projections for India’s role in the world of the future. Zainulbhai will share how innovation is spurring phenomenal growth in India and provide examples of how innovation in all levels of business has helped Indian organisations emerge as market leaders in their respective industries.
  
  Panellists: Gerard Lyons, PhD; Adil Zainulbhai;
  and Derek O’Brien (moderator).
  
  
• Leading the High-Performance Organisation
  
  To lead with confidence and outpace competitors, you need to make better, faster decisions. The secret to success lies in analytics. Top organisations view analytics as an essential aspect of their performance strategies and are using it to navigate today’s challenges and capitalize on tomorrow’s opportunities.
  
  During this discussion, executive thought leaders will share their experiences and global perspectives on how to spark change in the way organisations derive value from their information.
  
  Panellists include Jim Goodnight, Meera H. Sanyal, B.S. Nagesh and Thomas H. Davenport (moderator).