India Summit 2015

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New government, new policies: But can India deliver?

Fresh from winning more votes than any other politician in world history, Narendra Modi has a strong mandate to transform India. Whilst expectations and the stakes are sky-high, the new prime minister’s first 12 months suggest that he will seek to govern in a way that encourages economic growth, job creation and better infrastructure. Can Modi turn his mantras – “less government and more governance” and “no red tape, only red carpet” in to action ? The outcome will be crucial for voters, the business community and India’s place on the world stage. +91 Europe is proud to present the most significant India Summit of 2015, to take stock of how the new government, its policies, and different sectors of India’s economy are performing. We will discuss what it will take for the economy to hit top gear again, and how the UK, Europe and America can benefit.

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Taylor Wessing LLP, New Street Square, London, United Kingdom

02 July 2015

9:00 am - 6:30 pm

Rakesh Rawal, CEO, +91 Europe (Moderator)

Can Narendra Modi transform India ?

What will it take for the economy to hit top gear again ?

How can the UK and Europe develop an enhanced relationship with India ?

What can India contribute to a new world order ?

10:30 am 11:15 am Retail in India: From Bricks to Clicks

Panel Discussion

Venu Nair, Managing Director, Marks & Spencer Reliance India

David Loyd, Director, IMM; Took Pizza Express and Wendy’s Burgers to India

Rachel Barton, Managing Director, Accenture

Pritam Dutta, Global Technology Management, Unilever

Richard Cawdell, Managing Director, Accelerator India (Moderator)

How will social media impact brand building in retail

Leveraging smart phones and the internet to transform retail

Which international retailers are most successful in India and why ?

Challenges – supply chain and logistics

11:15 am 11:40 am Morning Coffee

11:40 am 12:30 pm Education and the Knowledge Economy

Phil Baty, Editor-at-Large, The Times Higher Education magazine

Howard Bell, Chief Business Officer, Future Learn

Ritchie Mehta, Fellow, Judge Business School, Cambridge University (Moderator)

What are India’s immediate education needs ?

Which educational technologies could help improve educational outcomes ?

Collaboration with foreign universities and the knowledge economy

12:30 pm 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm 2:45 pm Healthcare Technologies

Mr Babulal Sethia, President, The Royal Society of Medicine

Erik Bossan, Regional President, Pfizer, Vaccines

Francis White, Europe Manager, Alivecor

Hamid Yunis, Partner, Taylor Wessing (Moderator)

How can India best use technology to reduce inequality in healthcare provision ?

Overview of Pfizer’s business model in emerging economies like India

Alivecor and the digital health revolution

2:45 pm 3:30 pm Indian Companies on the Global Stage

Javier Tordable, Deutsche Borse, Head of India and BSE Partnership

Dr David Landsman, Executive Director, Head of TATA Europe

Jaideep Prabhu, Nehru Professor of Indian Business, Cambridge University (Moderator)

Which Indian companies are successful in Europe and America

Factors driving foreign acquisitions

What are the competitive strengths of Indian companies ?

How innovating in India can be a source of global competitive advantage

3:30 pm 4:00 pm Afternoon Tea

4:00 pm 5:00 pm Cultural Exchange: East meets West

Mihir Bose, BBC Broadcaster

Ian Hardie, Director, LVMH Group

Rakesh Rawal, CEO, +91 Europe (Moderator)

British India cultural exchange – where next ?

Does the youth of India look to UK or USA for cultural compass ?

In the UK to what extent has Indian culture diffused beyond the Indian diaspora ?

Are there cultural differences in the appreciation of luxury ?

Is India the next leg of LVMH expansion ?

What has LVMH learnt in other high growth markets that can be applied to India ?

5:00 pm 5:10 pm Closing Remarks

Laurence Lieberman, Head of India Group, Taylor Wessing

5:10 pm 6:30 pm DRINKS RECEPTION

DRINKS RECEPTION on the ROOF TERRACE

Speakers

Laurence Lieberman
Head of India Group, Taylor Wessing

Laurence Lieberman is the UK Head of Taylor Wessing’s India Group and leads the India Group’s disputes and compliance practice. He travels regularly to India and has developed an extensive network of relationships with the leading Indian law firms, intermediaries, government organisations and numerous substantial Indian companies. His Indian client base is from a range of sectors including engineering and transport, technology, commodities, energy, aviation, and banking.

Laurence specialises in dispute resolution, regulatory and compliance. He has conducted litigation and arbitration for Indian companies before the English courts and arbitral bodies, as well as advising European clients involved in domestic India disputes, whether in the Indian courts or by domestic Indian arbitration. Laurence also advises on sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption and compliance with regulation and other legislative requirements. Laurence is described in Chambers as “a great lawyer whose strengths lie in banking and finance litigation” and as “earning increasing recognition for his handling of India-related disputes, particularly those in the finance, technology and energy sectors”. Twitter: @LMLieberman
Anand Raman
Editor-at-Large, Harvard Business Review

Anand P. Raman is an Editor at Large at the Harvard Business Review Group, based in Boston. In addition to his responsibilities as a senior editor, which included overseeing The Globe section between 2010 and 2014, he helps manage HBR Group’s globalization efforts and oversees its dozenplus global editions. An economist by training and a management journalist by profession, Anand’s areas of interest include strategy, especially globalization strategy; manufacturing, quality, and supply chain management; family business; innovation, especially reverse innovation; and the history and future of management ideas. In terms of geography, his focus is on the BRICS and CIVET nations. Anand has been a business journalist for 30 years, and has headed newspapers, business magazines, and Web-based media operations. In another life, Anand was the Editor of BUSINESS TODAY, India’s leading business magazine, for a decade, and later, the COO of a dotcom in the media industry, India Today Group Online. In 1992, he received India’s Sanskriti Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism. An alumnus of Harvard Business School, Anand joined the Harvard Business Review in July 2001. At the Review, he has helped create a section on globalization, new product concepts, collections of articles on globalization, supply chain management, sales, and China, and so on. Anand has so far edited five McKinsey Award-winning articles. Anand spearheaded HBP’s entry into South Asia and helped develop a globalization strategy, which led to the creation of its first overseas subsidiary. He is a member of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals. Anand has presented papers at the annual meetings of the Strategic Management Society and the Society for Operations & Production Management, and has spoken at numerous conferences, particularly WEF events. He has co-authored HBR articles (such as Don’t Integrate Your Acquisitions, Partner with Them), edited a HBR Press book (Conquering the Chaos, May 2013), and a co-authored paper on China’s cross-border M&A was published in The Competitive Advantage of Emerging Market Multinationals (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Anand lives in Cambridge, MA, with his wife, Manjari, who works at Harvard Business School.
Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke CH QC MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer (1993 – 1997)

Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke CH QC MP has been the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe since 1970. He held several Ministerial offices in the Governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major – as Secretary of State for Health, Secretary of State for Education and Science, Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. During a period in opposition he combined his duties as an MP with a variety of business appointments and chaired the Conservative’s Democracy Task Force and as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. On the Conservative’s return to Government in 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. In 2014 he became Minister without Portfolio, working to develop key trade relationships on the Prime Minister’s behalf. He had an advisory brief on the economy and also sat on the National Security Council. He returned to the back benches in July 2014.
Lance Price
former BBC Political Correspondent

Lance Price is a British writer, journalist and political commentator. He was a journalist for the BBC from 1981 to 1998, then became special adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair, eventually assuming the role of Director of Communications for the Labour Party, coordinating the Labour Party election campaign of 2001. He has published three books, and appears regularly on Sky News and the BBC. Lance Price published his fourth book: The Modi Effect, in March 2015, detailing the rise of the current Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Lance Price studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford University. Twitter: @mrlanceprice

Venu Nair
Managing Director, Marks & Spencer Reliance India

Venu Nair is Managing Director for Marks & Spencer Reliance India, responsible for M&S’s 47 stores in India and growing its store presence across the country. His role includes bringing the best of M&S to customers across India offering high quality, stylish and innovative fashion with high levels of customer service. Venu joined Marks & Spencer in 2004 and was responsible for setting up M&S’s Regional Sourcing Offices in South Asia where he grew sourcing from South Asian suppliers to over 60%.

Prior to his current role Venu held dual responsibility as M&S’ Head of Sourcing for South Asia and Director of Buying Operations for M&S stores in India. Venu completed his MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (Bombay University) and engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Calicut. Venu has over seventeen years of experience in the retail and clothing industry. He has experience across South Asia and Europe.
David Loyd
Director, IMM

David Loyd is a director at IMM. He has 20 years in investment banking with Dresdner Kleinwort and was global head of strategic markets, covering Asia, India, Latin America, Russia, Central Europe and South Africa. David was Chairman of the India Group of City UK for many years.
Rachel Barton
Managing Director, Accenture

Rachel Barton leads Accenture’s Customer Strategy practice and specialises in helping clients develop their digital, marketing, sales and service strategies to become market leaders. Working cross-industry, Rachel works with the boards of major retailers, banks and energy companies to bring the voice of today’s customer and latest innovation into their thinking. Rachel has featured in the Sunday Times’ 35 under 35 list, First Women Awards and Red Magazine’s Women of the Year and is a regular contributor to the media.

Twitter: @Rachelebarton1
Pritam Dutta
Global Technology Management, Unilever

Richard Cawdell
Managing Director, Accelerator India

Richard Cawdell is Managing Director of AcceleratorIndia, where he works with technology intensive businesses in India and Europe. He has experience of technology enabled innovation in sectors ranging from healthcare, through media, retail, financial services, manufacturing and culture, coupled with broad international business background in consultancy, telecommunications, and information systems. Richard has an extensive background in implementation and execution, including addressing systems, infrastructure, technology, security and IS governance issues in financial services in the City of London, firstly as Group I.T. Director of Exco (now Intercapital), and latterly responsible for technology within the Rothschild merchant bank. His early career included market and product focused roles in high growth technology companies as well as consideration of the long term potential of communications technologies for BT. He was exposed to the brand led cultures of Grand Metropolitan (now Diageo) and Allied Signal, and the early development of technology R&D policy for broadband communications technologies and applications within the European Commission. Richard has maintained throughout a focus on execution, innovation, and the stimulation and management of change.

Email: richard.cawdell@acceleratorindia.com
Phil Baty
Editor-at-Large, The Times Higher Education magazine

Phil Baty is editor at large of Times Higher Education magazine and editor of the Times Higher
Education World University Rankings. Phil has been with the magazine since 1996, as reporter, chief reporter, news editor and deputy editor.
He received the Ted Wragg Award for Sustained Contribution to Education Journalism in 2011, part
of the Education Journalist of the Year Awards, run by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. He
was a runner-up for the annual Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism, run by The Guardian
newspaper and Private Eye magazine in 2007.
He was named among the top 15 “most influential in education” by The Australian newspaper in
2012.
Phil is a regular speaker at international conferences, contributing recently to events organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Bank, the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, British Council, British Academy and
others. Phil contributes regularly on global higher education for leading newspapers and broadcasters.
He was the co-chair of the 2013 World Academic Summit in Singapore and also chaired the 2010 conference, “Building a World Class University” at London’s Royal Institution.

His publications include chapters for Blue Skies: new thinking about the future of higher education
(Pearson) and for Rankings and Accountability in Higher Education (Unesco).

Phil can be found on Twitter at @phil_baty and @THEworldunirank
Howard Bell
Chief Business Officer, Future Learn

As Chief Business Officer at FutureLearn, Howard Bell is responsible for all areas of the social learning platform’s long-term growth – across global learner acquisition, commercial development and partnerships with world-renowned academic institutions, business and professional organisations, and cultural bodies. Reporting to FutureLearn Chief Executive Simon Nelson, Howard leads a team of Business Development, Content Creation and Marketing professionals, working to establish FutureLearn as the leading global provider of free online courses. Since joining FutureLearn in March 2013, Howard has also assumed management responsibility for FutureLearn’s strategic partnership with the British Council. Howard has more than 20 years’ experience of spearheading the commercial development of internet-based businesses, having held senior management positions at PayPal Europe, where he was as founding member, JustGiving, Barclaycard Payments and Content Technology, which sold for £650m during his tenure as Business Development Director. More recently, Howard has become heavily involved in education technology, and is motivated by using smart technology to make a positive social impact. Alongside his duties at FutureLearn, he serves as a Non-Executive Director at Firefly, a UK-based digital learning platform for secondary schools, where he provides strategic advice on the company’s international expansion.

Howard holds a degree in Physics from Imperial College, London, and an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management. A keen sportsman, Howard enjoys on- and off-road cycling, and in 2014 successfully completed the London Marathon. He also enjoys jazz, travel and international history. He lives in London with his wife and their two outspoken daughters.

Twitter: @futurelearn
Ritchie Mehta
Fellow, Judge Business School, Cambridge University

Ritchie Mehta is a specialist education consultant and business content author, that works with institutions such as the Cambridge Judge Business School and Pearson Plc.

Currently, a Fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School and Business Tutor at Pearson College, where he develops a variety of online and hybrid courses in the areas of marketing and strategy. Ritchie is also Managing Director of The Marketing Lounge Partnership CRM, an engagement agency that works with clients across the Education, Financial Services and Automotive sectors providing solutions to help retain their customers. Ritchie has worked for a number of global institutions including HSBC, RBS and Direct Line Group in the areas of branding and customer management. He sits on the Editorial Board of Palgrave McMillan’s Journal of Financial Services Marketing where he critiques and advises the journal on academic paper submissions. His academic career has spanned a multitude of business-related disciplines having earned a Masters degree in Strategy and Innovation from the Cambridge Judge Business School, a Master of Arts in Business from Edinburgh University Business School and a Bachelors of Science in Financial Markets from Manchester Business School. He is currently completing his MBA from Warwick Business School.

Babulal Sethia
President, The Royal Society of Medicine

Mr Babulal Sethia is a Consultant Congenital Heart Surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Following postgraduate training in Glasgow and London he became a Consultant in Birmingham in 1986 and then moved to London in 1999. Throughout his career he has maintained a commitment to the development of healthcare initiatives in low and middle income countries and, since 1992, has participated in the delivery of surgical missions in a number of countries in Africa, Asia and South America. He has worked in Palestine for over 16 years, helping to establish cardiac services for children in Gaza and the West Bank as part of a multi-national alliance. At the RSM he helped to initiate and develop a Global Health programme and he is now looking to further promote Global Health education for the benefit of UK and overseas healthcare professionals. Further current initiatives encompass plans to widen access to careers in healthcare both in the UK and overseas through the development of new partnerships between the RSM and other educational organisations
Erik Bossan
Regional President, Pfizer, Vaccines

Erik Bossan is currently Regional President Africa Middle-East and India for Pfizer Vaccines. One of his key priorities is to expand the Pfizer/GAVI project to provide the Prevenar 13 vaccine to more infants in the poorest countries in the world. In his previous role as Vice President Marketing Vaccines, he lead regional marketing teams in the US, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa/Middle-East. From 2006 to 2011, Erik was Country Manager of Pfizer Czech Republic. During this period, he served as Vice-Chairman of the Czech Pharmaceutical Industry Association. In 2010 Pfizer was named Best Czech Employer by Hewitt reflecting the high engagement scores achieved by the Czech team. Erik holds a Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of Grenoble (France) and an MBA from the ESSEC Business School (Paris)
Francis White
Europe Manager, Alivecor

Francis is at the forefront of the Digital Health revolution, leading the San Francisco based AliveCor into Europe. AliveCor invented the world’s first clinical grade ECG on a smartphone and is in the process of changing the way heart health is delivered and managed worldwide. Prior to AliveCor, Francis held Senior Leadership roles in the more traditional medical device arena, being the Cardiac Rhythm Business Director at Medtronic UK up until the end of 2012. During that period, Francis led the team to a peak in terms of market share and developed innovative business models through creative use of marketing, outsourcing and unique value-added services. Always passionate about change, Francis brings a fresh perspective to the industry and is a sought after speaker on topics such as Multichannel Marketing, Sales Leadership and the challenge and opportunity of the emerging Digital Health & Wearable Technologies. Twitter: @francisww
Hamid Yunis
Partner, Taylor Wessing

Hamid Yunis is a partner in the Corporate, Commercial & Projects practice group and has extensive experience in the successful structuring and negotiation of major projects and project financed transactions both in a domestic UK context and also internationally. Hamid trained as a corporate finance lawyer and his work experience includes acting on a number of high value and complex corporate and infrastructure transactions. Hamid has sector experience in a diverse range of industries which include healthcare, general infrastructure, utilities (particularly waste, water and waste water) and transportation. Included in these transactions were the successful conclusion of various pathfinder structures and the implementation of new and innovative financing proposals including those with a capital markets solution. Hamid’s clients range from sponsors (contractors and FM providers), financiers (equity, debt and capital markets) and government or sovereign bodies. Hamid leads a number of teams and initiatives within Taylor Wessing. These include: Head of the cross jurisdictional Healthcare (Infrastructure and Services) group; Hamid is recommended by Legal 500 for his “excellent knowledge” and by Chambers, he is a “respected name” and is considered to be a “nice guy to work with”. Hamid is regularly listed in Legal Business as an “expert” in his field.

Javier Tordable
Deutsche Borse, Head of India and BSE Partnership

Javier Tordable has extensive experience in the international financial services industry having worked with a number of exchanges, trading & IT companies, including Deutsche Borse, Eurex, SendeCO2, CBOT, PAVE MTF, MTS Group (London Stock Exchange Group) and Cinnober throughout his 18 year career. Also, he is a well experienced and passionate entrepreneur focusing on advisory and/or investment activities in SMEs and internet Start ups, mostly FinTech. Currently he is the Global Head for Business Development for India and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Partnership working together with BSE management to promote India and BSE throughout the world. Previously he was CEO of Cinnober based in Stockholm one of the leading IT vendors of trading and clearing platforms. Prior to that, Javier was leading the efforts of establishing PAVE, Spain’s first MTF to increase liquidity in Spanish equities, with plans to expand in whole Iberia and Latin America. Before PAVE, Javier was almost 4 years based in Frankfurt and London as a Senior advisor to Deutsche Börse and Eurex Boards for new products and market exchanges acquisitions. In 2005, Javier established the leading Spanish and Mediterranean CO2 emissions exchange, SENDECO2, which also now operates in Italy and Portugal. Javier’s experience in exchange-related start-ups began in 2002 when he was the founding CEO of MTS Spain, currently the leading Spanish Government Debt market, owned by MTS, Ltd which is now part of the London Stock Exchange Group. Previously, in 2000 Javier worked with Eurex as head of Marketing and Sales US where he was responsible for the Eurex and CBOT partnership alliance, based in Chicago. Javier also worked with Eurex in Frankfurt in 1999 to roll out the first Eurex derivatives remote screens in Madrid, Lisbon and Athens. Javier achieved an Executive MBA in 2004, from IE Business School. He also has a MoSc.in Banking & Finance from UPF and an Economics bachelor’s degree from the Barcelona University. He also achieved in 2012 the certificate of Global CEO Program at Wharton University, IESE & CEIBS Business Schools.
Dr David Landsman
Executive Director, Head of TATA Europe

David Landsman is Executive Director of Tata Limited and representative of the Tata group in Europe. Globally, the group’s combined annual revenues are in excess of $100billion, with around $40billion generated in Europe. Tata Limited’s role includes supporting the group and its independently-operated companies in Europe across a range of activities, including business development, corporate affairs, brand building, corporate responsibility and support services. David also chairs the Tata Network Forum (Europe) which brings together the expertise, experience and best practice of the companies, including global brands such as Jaguar and Land Rover, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages and Taj Hotels. Twitter: @TataEurope and @David_Landsman
Jaideep Prabhu
Nehru Professor of Indian Business, Cambridge University

Jaideep Prabhu is Professor of Marketing and Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has published in leading academic journals and his work has been profiled by the BBC, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Financial Times, Le Monde, The New York Times, and The Times. He has consulted with or taught executives from Bertelsmann, Barclays, BP, BT, GE, the UK Government, IBM, ING Bank, the NHS, Nokia, Philips, Roche, Shell, Siemens, Vodafone and Xerox, among others. He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, described by The Economist as “the most comprehensive book yet” on the subject of frugal innovation. His most recent book, Frugal Innovation, was published in February 2015. Twitter: @JaideepPrabhu
Mihir Bose
BBC Broadcaster

Mihir Bose is an award winning journalist and author. He writes a weekly “Big Sports Interview” for the London Evening Standard, and also writes and broadcasts on social and historical issues as well as sport for a range of outlets including the BBC, the Financial Times and the Independent. His latest books areGame Changer: How the English Premier League Came to Dominate the World and The Spirit of the Game: How Sport Made the Modern World. He was the BBC’s first Sports Editor where his job involved investigating and analysing sports stories. His major scoops included revealing the cost of the Olympics, the Premier League plans for the 39th game and Joe Calzaghe’s decision to retire. He covered all BBC outlets including the flagship Ten O’Clock News, the Today programme, Five Live and the website. Before joining the BBC, he was the chief sports news correspondent for the Daily Telegraph for 12 years where he created an innovative weekly column, Inside Sport. He also wrote on the editorial pages on such subjects as race, immigration, and other social and cultural issues. He has written for nearly all the major UK newspapers, editing the Inside Track column of the Sunday Times and several business publications. He has presented programmes for radio and television, and written 26 books including the first history of Bollywood. He has won several awards: business columnist of the year, sports news reporter of the year, sports story of the year and Silver Jubilee Literary award for his History of Indian Cricket. He was consulted by government ministers in the run-up to London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and served on the Budd Committee which provided the basis for the new UK gambling legislation. He is a trustee of Sporting Equals, on the Council of the National Army Museum, and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. In September 2012, Loughborough University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate for outstanding contribution to journalism and the promotion of equality. Mihir lives in west London with his wife, Caroline Cecil, who runs a financial PR consultancy. He has a daughter, Indira. Twitter: @mihirbose

Ian Hardie
Director, LVMH Group

Ian Hardie is Global Group Training and European HR Director for LVMH, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. He has led Executive Development and Learning at LVMH for the last 8 years. His work has included designing and running LVMH House Forums in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, establishing the Asia Pacific Development Centre in Singapore, and representing LVMH in the UK. Ian was previously Associate Dean of Executive Education at London Business School and served on the School’s Executive Management Committee. He was responsible for all open, custom and consortia programmes and was at the School for 10 years until 2007. Ian started his career in the UK with the Dowty Group working in the major manufacturing and defence industry sectors. He combined this initial period of work with his management studies. Ian left Dowty to further his studies, taking a Business Management degree at Aston University in Birmingham which included an internship with Ferranti Industries in Scotland. Ian joined ICL the UK based Computer Systems Company and focused on major account sales in the Defence sector, his work covered both UK and overseas. After five years with ICL Ian took a career break, travelling with his wife through Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. He returned to join ASE, a UK based IT consulting firm, as Business Development Director. Ian joined the University of North London as Commercial Director of the Business School in 1994, where he focused on running a commercial training unit and major projects.

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Schedule

9:00 am 9:25 am Registration

9:25 am 9:30 am Welcome

9:30 am 9:40 am Opening address

9:40 am 10:30 am Keynote address