India Business Conference

Select 2023 Speakers

Nikesh Arora
Chairman and CEO,
Palo Alto Networks

Sanjay D Naik
Deputy Managing Director of International Banking Group, SBI

KV Subramanian
Executive Director, IMF & ex-Chief Economic Adviser to Government of India

Anjula Acharia
CEO & Founder A-Series Investments, and Manager of Priyanka Chopra

Anshuman Bapna
Founder of Terra.do

Shruti Deorah
Director, India Energy & Climate center, UC Berkeley

Sanjeev Sanyal
Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India

Radhika Ghai Aggarwal
Founder-CEO,
kindlife

Sanjay Nath
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Blume Ventures

Vishal Tulsyan
Founder, CEO and MD,
Motilal Oswal Alternate Investment Advisors

Melissa Frakman
CEO and Co-Founder,
Emphasis Ventures (EMVC)

Vishal Bakshi
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Avatar Growth Capital

Gaurav Singhal
Co-Head Energy Transition IB,
Bank of America

Phalgun Kompalli
Co-Founder, UpGrad

Vivek Pandit
Co-Lead, Private Equity and Principal Investors Practice, McKinsey

Vaibhav Nuwal
Co-Founder, REConnect Energy

Kshitij Bhatia
Founder and Managing Partner at First Principles Funds

Ji Zhang
Vice President, Sayles & Company

Anmol Jaggi
Co-Founder, BluSmart

Apoorva Goyal
Vice President, Insight Partners

Priyanka Gill
Co-Founder, Good Glamm Group

Radhika Jones
Editor-In-Chief of Vanity Fair Magazine

Michael McCabe
Resident Director - North America, Tata Sons

Saurabh Arora
Co-Founder, Lybrate

Neha Motwani
Co-Founder, Fitternity (now part of Cure.fit)

Bhavna Thakur
Managing Director, Everstone Group

Event Description

Columbia University, NY

India Business Conference

The India Business Conference is the premier India-focused annual conference organized by Columbia Business School in New York City. In its 18th edition, the conference's theme "Rewiring India for the future: Driving Resilient Growth" focuses on how Indian businesses are charting a path to sustainable growth, in times of economic uncertainty.

The conference brings together 20+ speakers across panels to deliberate on the topics most relevant to shaping businesses and Indian economy today. The conference brings together such voices at the forefront as they share their stories, who challenged conventional wisdom and provided insights into the future they are writing – the future of a “new” India.

Nasdaq Opening Bell

In honor of the 15th annual India Business Conference, Nasdaq invited the India Business Conference team to their MarketSite in Times Square to ring the opening bell