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| Conference Theme |
The theme for this year's conference is 'Exploring Business Opportunities in Rural India' with panel discussions cutting across a number of issues including rural entrepreneurship, retailing, consumer goods, agricultural, micro-finance/ insurance and infrastructure. At the conference leading academics, heads of multinational businesses, successful entrepreneurs, policy experts and ministers in government debate and interact with you on key issues in setting up, running and scaling up sustainable businesses in rural India.
Delegates at this event will
- Explore how entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and investment professionals think through fundraising options and investment ideas in the rural sector
- Size the market and opportunity for microfinance and ancillary financial products with CEO’s of banks and microfinance companies.
- Debate supply chain issues in connecting rural production centers and urban markets with CEO’s of consumer goods companies, local government leaders and policy experts
- Network with our distinguished speakers and other business leaders, entrepreneurs, leading academics, policy experts and business school students.
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| Panel discussions: |
Rural Markets and Entrepreneurship Opportunities
Encompassing a spectrum of views from CEO’s of large corporations such, local leaders, venture capital investors and academics, this panel will explore key questions around how emerging rural markets have provided new investment opportunities for entrepreneurs |
Financial Products for the Rural Consumer
Despite having an elaborate network of public banks, a vast majority of India’s poor are excluded from the formal financial sector. This panel which includes policy makers, private bankers and academics will explore challenges and opportunities in addressing rural needs in the financial sector. |
Supply Chain and Logistics
As the Indian retail and manufacturing sectors open up, they are faced with new challenges in logistics and supply chains in rural areas, particularly to source farm produce and delivery of goods and services. This panel, which includes policy makers and high-level private sector participants deals with the challenge of connecting rural production centres to urban market-places with infrastructure as well as information. |
| All ticket sales will be donated to Pratham, an NGO involved with primary education in India; www.pratham.org |
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