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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 1 Presenter Duration Start Time End Time GLF 2019 welcome Parmesh Shahani 0:10 9:00 9:10 1 INTRODUCTION OF NEW GLF MEMBERS - PRAISE POET JESSICA MBANGENI 0:10 9:10 9:20 2 DEEPAK PAREKH - CHAIRPERSON OF HDFC - LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM MY LIFE 0:30 9:20 9:50 3 AMITAV GHOSH - AUTHOR - WHY WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE NOW 0:30 9:50 10:20 Godrej Agrovet update Balram Yadav 0:20 10:20 10:40 Coffee break 0:20 10:40 11:00 ACHA LEKE - CHAIRPERSON OF MCKINSEY AFRICA - WHAT WE CAN ALL LEARN FROM 0:30 11:00 11:30 4 AFRICA'S BUSINESS REVOLUTION FAITH OSIER - AWARD-WINNING AFRICAN IMMUNOLOGIST - ERADICATING MALARIA ONCE 0:30 11:30 12:00 5 AND FOR ALL Godrej Consumer Products update Vivek Gambhir 0:20 12:00 12:20 6 SHIVANI SIROYA - CEO OF TALA - FINANCING THE WORLD'S UNBANKED 0:30 12:20 12:50 Godrej Fund Management update Karan Bolaria 0:10 12:50 13:00 Lunch 1:00 13:00 14:00 7 TALK AND PERFORMANCE BY VIDYA SHAH - WOMEN'S HISTORIES MATTER 0:30 14:00 14:30 8 GANESH DEVY - CULTURAL ACTIVIST - SPEECH BEYOND MEMORY 0:30 14:30 15:00 Godrej Chemicals update Nitin Nabar 0:20 15:00 15:20 Godrej People and Purpose update Sumit Mitra 0:20 15:20 15:40 9 SPECIAL FILM SCREENING - PLEASE MIND THE GAP 0:20 15:40 16:00 Tea break 0:30 16:00 16:30 10 PRASAD SETTY - VICE PRESIDENT OF PEOPLE OPERATIONS AT GOOGLE - DATA-DRIVEN HR 0:30 16:30 17:00 11 CRAIG MILLER - LEADERSHIP IS A PERFORMANCE ART 0:40 17:00 17:40 12 CLOSING PERFORMANCE BY BIDISHA MOHANTA 0:20 17:40 18:00 END OF DAY 1 (followed by karaoke and cocktails on the Godrej One rooftop) 18:00 THURSDAY, MAY 9 2 Presenter Duration Start Time End Time DAY 2 welcome Parmesh Shahani 0:10 9:00 9:10 1 OPENING PERFORMANCE BY ABHINAV GUPTA AND ANANT BAMBLE 0:10 9:10 9:20 2 SALIL PAREKH - CEO OF INFOSYS - RIDING THE NEXT TECHNOLOGY WAVE 0:30 9:20 9:50 Godrej Properties update Mohit Malhotra 0:20 9:50 10:10 3 TV NARENDRAN - CEO OF TATA STEEL - LEADERSHIP THROUGH COMPLEXITY 0:30 10:10 10:40 Coffee break 0:20 10:40 11:00 4 DR. APARNA HEGDE - CHAIRPERSON OF ARMMAN FOUNDATION - NUDGES MATTER 0:30 11:00 11:30 5 FAYE D'SOUZA - EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF MIRROR NOW - JOURNALISM IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD 0:30 11:30 12:00 6 SOHAILA ABDULALI - AUTHOR - WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RAPE 0:30 12:00 12:30 Godrej Global Outlook update Dorab Mistry 0:15 12:30 12:45 Corporate Communications update Sujit Patil 0:15 12:45 01:00 Lunch 1:00 13:00 14:00 Godrej Nature's Basket update Avani Davda 0:20 14:00 14:20 8 STEPHEN ALTER - AUTHOR - BECOMING A MOUNTAIN: WHY THE HIMALAYA MATTER 0:30 14:20 14:50 9 TALK AND CLOSING PERFORMANCE BY SHANTANU MOITRA - THE JOURNEY MATTERS 0:30 14:50 15:20 GLF 2019 Recycled Fashion Show All GLF members 0:30 15:20 15:50 Fun Awards and end of GLF 2019 Nisaba Godrej 0:10 15:50 16:00 Closing tea reception 1:00 16:00 17:00 DEPART FOR GODREJ AWARDS 17:00 CURATORIAL NOTE As senior leaders of Godrej, GLF is the one time every year that we get together to reflect on the year gone by and share our thoughts about the year ahead. It is also a time that we learn about the fast-changing world alongside our GLF family. Over the past few years, our team has been curating each GLF with a very specific intent. We want each of you to open up your mind and your heart at the end of every conference and we want you to take the knowledge you gain at GLF and share it with your teams at work, as well as with your families at home. Four years ago, we spoke about leadership as choice making. Three years ago, we said that, when we as senior leaders, make the right choices, we create a beautiful symphony. Two years ago, we decided to create a more equal music, with our focus on women, and it has been interesting to see how this commitment to gender diversity has distilled across our group since then. Last year, we stated that “other worlds are possible”, and GLF 2018 showcased a variety of future imaginations. The theme for GLF 2019 is “What Matters”. Let us dig deeper and focus on the essentials. Love, health and the environment are 3 areas that I care about personally. Through the conference, we will also shine a spotlight on languages, histories, geographies and concerns that we believe matter now more than ever. As always, our formats will vary. There will be talks, music performances, screenings and some fun activities through which you all can showcase your creativity. Of course, there are prizes to be won. (We know how competitive you all are!) I am grateful that so many extraordinary superstars – from the world of business, science, literature and the performing arts – have agreed to come to GLF 2019 to share their stories with you. It is a testimonial to the affection and respect they have for our Godrej group. As I re-read their amazing profiles, I cannot wait to listen to each of them and also to hang out with them post their talks. (In the past, some of my most memorable GLF conversations have happened on the conference sidelines, over the yummy food at the GLF café and I know how much you all like the GLF food too!) I always say this to you all during each conference and I want to end this note by saying this once again. Our team puts their hearts and souls into organizing GLF each year to inspire you, certainly, but more importantly, to move you to act differently. This GLF too is a call to action. What matters is that we co-create both, a more meaningful Godrej, and also a much better world for future generations. - Parmesh Shahani DAY 1 MAY 8 JESSICA MBANGENI is one of South Africa’s most sought-after female iimbongi (praise singers) and has made her mark in a male-dominated cultural terrain. Invoking the role of this ancient tradition, influenced by her grandmother’s isiXhosa storytelling, Jessica offers insightful commentaries on contemporary affairs. Her global career took off when she joined the multi-Grammy award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir in 2002 and toured Germany, Australasia, Scotland and 37 cities in the United States of America. In 2016, she was the opening act at the AFCON Cup and performed at many other prestigious events such as the second inaugura- tion of South African President Thabo Mbeki and the grand welcome of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Some of her accolades include the Mbokodo Award for indigenous language preservation, three South AMITAV GHOSH African Traditional Music Achievement Awards for Acclaimed author and Padma Shri Best Female Album, Best isiXhosa Album and award winner Amitav Ghosh grew up in Best Song of the Year, 2016. India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and is @jessicambangeni an alumnus of the Universities of Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. Ghosh is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in DEEPAK PAREKH Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, A visionary, thought leader and innovator, Deepak The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and Parekh is one of the leading voices of corporate The Ibis Trilogy. His non-fiction work, The India. He spearheads India’s premier housing Great Derangement; Climate Change and finance company HDFC and was the founding the Unthinkable, released in 2016 and chairperson of IDFC. In his career spanning 45 his latest novel, Gun Island, is due to be years, Deepak Parekh has served as a mentor to published in 2019. His body of work has many organizations and people. He is a recipient of been translated into more than thirty the Padma Bhushan and the JRD Tata Corporate languages and he has served on the juries Leadership award. Currently, he serves on the of the Locarno and Venice film festivals. boards of Castrol India, Mahindra & Mahindra A recipient of multiple awards, Ghosh and Siemens amongst other companies. In received India’s highest literary honour, recent years, he has served as the unofficial crisis the Jnanpith Award in 2018. In 2019, consultant to the Government of India, be it the Foreign Policy magazine named him one turnaround of Unit Trust of India or the saving of the most important global thinkers of of Satyam Computers. He is also associated, in the preceding decade. @ghoshamitav an advisory capacity, with several international organisations including the Indo-US CEO Forum, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC) and the India-UK Financial Partnership (IUKFP). DR. ACHA LEKE Starting his career at McKinsey as a Summer Associate in South Africa in 1998, Dr. Acha Leke is now Senior Partner at McKinsey’s Johannesburg office and Chairman of the Africa practice. He has since helped expand the firm’s activities across Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Leke is creating transformational change in Africa by serving governments and private sector institutions on issues of economic development, tax administration, growth strategies and investment decisions. He is the co-founder of the African Leadership Academy and the African Leadership Network.