Wharton India Economic Forum ("WIEF") is an annual student-run business conference focused on India. The forum is in its 25th year, and the theme for this year is "India: Self-Reliant. Resilient. Reignited." The conference will be held virtually over four days – January 8th, 9th, 15th & 16th between 5:00PM - 8:00PM IST.

Conference Speaker Line-up: (please visit https://www.whartonindia.com for full agenda)

Fireside chats / Speakers

• P Chidambaram (MP Rajya Sabha, Former Finance Minister of India)
• Nisaba Godrej (Chairperson, Godrej Consumer Products)
• Nitin Gadkari (Minister of MSME, Road Transport & Highways)
• Sunil Munjal (Chairman, Hero Enterprise)
• Kunal Bahl (CEO and Co-founder, Snapdeal)
• Manish Sabharwal (Chairman and Co-founder, TeamLease)
• Dipali Goenka (CEO and Joint MD, Welspun India Ltd.)
• Nitin Paranjpe (COO of Unilever, ex-CEO of Hindustan Unilever)

Panel 1 : “Indian Pharma - The Road Ahead”

• Satish Reddy (Chairman, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories)
• Nilesh Gupta (MD, Lupin)
• Sudarshan Jain (Secretary General, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance)

Panel 2 : “Technology for Bharat: Enabling 1.3bn Indians”

• Amitabh Kant (CEO, NITI Aayog)
• Sandeep Naik (MD and Head of India & Southeast Asia, General Atlantic)
• Ajit Mohan (MD, Facebook India)
• Vidit Aatrey (Founder and CEO, Meesho)

Panel 3 : “How to Make India a Global Sporting Powerhouse”

• PV Sindhu (Badminton Player, Olympic medallist)
• Sudhanshu Mittal (VP, Indian Olympics Association)
• Mahesh Bhupathi (Retd. Tennis Player, Grand Slam winner)
• Abhinav Bindra (Sport Shooter, Olympic medallist)

Wharton India Startup Challenge (9th January)

Wharton India Startup Challenge (WISC)is a rewarding platform for startups to connect with and present to the leading investors and industry experts in the Indian ecosystem. Since its inception, WISC has grown 20x and been a successful stage for companies like MyPetrolPump, Itilite, Credenc, Ketto, Zostel, and BabyChakra. WISC will be held virtually on January 9th.

FAQs

• The ticket allows participants access to both the Wharton India Economic Forum and the Wharton India Startup Challenge Finals.
• For more information and schedule updates please check out the event website at https://whartonindia.com
• Please send any ticket-related questions to wieftickets@gmail.com.