MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZING TEAM Dear Friends, It is our pleasure to invite you to 'Innovation, Startups and Social Impact: Strengthening the Ecosystem', a joint initiative by i-TIC Foundation of IIT Hyderabad and Action For India (AFI). This is an engaging dialogue among distinguished private, public, and social sector leaders to identify opportunities and address the challenges often faced by innovators seeking to scale up their social enterprises. This initiative focuses on bringing together inputs for designing a leading social entrepreneurship accelerator at IIT Hyderabad. We, at IIT Hyderabad and AFI, collectively believe that it is an exciting time for the social entrepreneurship ecosystem with so many innovators setting the stage for a growing worldwide movement. The social entrepreneurs are the game changers who are setting the rules of today’s world riddled with its complexity and nuances. These bold efforts warrant the creation of an enabling environment for the social entrepreneurs to thrive and reach new heights. It is a privilege to note that India is increasingly becoming a fertile ground for this new stage of the intermingling of technology and social causes. The available resources and success of social enterprises have attracted attention from across the world. However, there are certain challenges faced by social enterprises on their way to success which must be addressed at an early stage to allow functional growth and development. With this proposed accelerator, we will collectively try to support social enterprises on their technology based innovations in the healthcare, agriculture, and education sectors. Through this initiative, IIT Hyderabad and AFI, intend to identify high-potential social enterprises and provide a supportive system to help them in their scaling journeys. In this partnership, IIT Hyderabad’s in-depth expertise in technology and innovation will complement AFI’s rich experience in working with the leading social entrepreneurs of the country for nearly a decade. By playing a more direct role in these scaling journeys, we hope to realize our eventual goal of creating impact unicorns over the next few years, who can in turn have an uplifting effect on the lives of people at the Bottom of the Pyramid. We would like to take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to our partners – T-Hub, RICH, and SVP and our sponsor, CtrlS Datacenter, without whom this initiative would have not been possible. We sincerely hope that you are able to explore the full potential of the event and the upcoming accelerator program as an opportunity to network, collaborate and build lasting partnerships with technocrats, corporates, investors, and government representatives. Warm Regards, Team i-TIC Foundation & AFI AGENDA Time/Location Session 10:30 to 10:35 AM Inauguration: Lighting of the lamp (Room A 620) 10:35 to 10:50 AM Keynote Address: (Room A 620) Prof U B Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad 10:50 to 11:05 AM Keynote Address: (Room A 620) Sanjay Kadaveru, Founder & President, Action For India 11:05 to 11:20 AM Keynote Address: (Room A 620) Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI-Aayog 11:20 to 12:10 PM Keynote Panel: Building a strong ecosystem for (Room A 620) social entrepreneurship & innovation Moderator: Sanjay Kadaveru, Founder & President, Action For India Speakers: Jayesh Ranjan, Secretary IT, Govt. of Telangana Srini Raju, Chairman, iLabs Group Sateesh Andra, Managing Director, Endiya Partners Ravi Narayan, CEO, T-Hub 12:10 to 1:00 PM Keynote Panel: Scaling Journeys of leading (Room A 620) Social Entrepreneurs: Successes & Challenges Moderator: Ravi Narayan, CEO, T-Hub Speakers: Manish Ranjan, Co-Founder and CEO, NanoHealth Amrendra Singh, Co-Founder, DeHaat Aditya Sethi, Co-Founder, Loop Damini Mahajan, Co-Founder & CEO, WeMakeScholars 1:00 to 2:00 PM Lunch 2:00 to 3:00 PM Brainstorming session: Inputs from the Healthcare sector (Room 627) to develop a leading accelerator program Co-Facilitators: Rohini Pimple, Director of Lifesciences, Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH) Ravi Narayan, CEO, T-Hub 2:00 to 3:00 PM Brainstorming session: Inputs from the Agriculture sector (Room 626) to develop a leading accelerator program Co-Facilitators: Reihem Roy, Principal, Omnivore Ram Kaundinya, SVP Partner, Hyderabad Chapter 2:00 to 3:00 PM Brainstorming session: Inputs from the Education sector to (Room 715) develop a leading accelerator program Co-Facilitators: Hiranmay Mahanta, Honorary Director, GTU Innovation Council Bhanu Prasad, Impact Innovation Coach, TCS Foundation 3:00 to 4:00 PM Presentations by the Facilitators of the 3 Sectoral Groups (Room A 620) Q & A with Delegates 4:00 to 4:20 PM Closing Remarks: (Room A 620) Prof U B Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad Sanjay Kadaveru, Founder & President, Action For India Ravi Narayan, CEO, T-Hub 4:20 to 4:30 PM Vote of Thanks (Room A 620) B Venkatesham, Associate Professor, IIT Hyderabad 4:30 to 5:00 PM Networking session with Hi-Tea SPEAKER PROFILES Keynote Speakers Amitabh Kant Mr Amitabh Kant is presently the CEO of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). NITI is a Government of India institution for catalysing the development process, nurturing an overall enabling environment by working in partnership with States, by being a Knowledge hub and a Think Tank and by facilitating implementation. Amitabh Kant is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS. He is the author of “Branding India – An Incredible Story” and has been a key driver of “Make in India”, Startup India, “Incredible India” initiatives which positioned and branded India as a leading destination. Amitabh Kant was also the National Project Director of the Rural Tourism Project of UNDP. Till March, 2016 Amitabh Kant was posted as the Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) – Government of India. He was also the Chairman of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) and National Productivity Council. Amitabh Kant has also worked as CEO of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC). Amitabh Kant has worked as CMD – ITDC, Joint Secretary – Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, Secretary – Tourism, Government of Kerala, Managing Director, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, District Collector, Kozikhode and Managing Director, Matsyafed. Amitabh Kant did his graduation in Economics (Hons) from St. Stephens, Delhi University and M.A from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is a Chevening Scholar. He has undertaken the Mid Career Programme of Harvard University, John F Kennedy School of Government and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has been the recipient of Economic Time Policy Change Agent of the Year Award, the Bloomberg TV Personality of the year Award, the NDTV Administrator of the year Award and the Distinguished Fellowship of the Institute of Directors. He is the recipient of One Globe Award-2016 for leadership in Transforming Governance for the 21st Century. He is a Member of the Steering Board of “Shaping the Future of Production Systems” of World Economic Forum. Professor U B Desai Dr U B Desai is an Indian academician who was appointed as the first Director of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad in 2009. He is also the Mentor Director for IIT Bhilai and IIIT Chittoor. His research interests are in wireless communication, cognitive radio, wireless sensor networks, IoT and statistical signal processing. He is the Editor of the book “Modeling and Applications of Stochastic Processes”. He is also a co-author of 8 monographs dealing with signal processing and wireless communication. He is the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Alumni Award from University of Buffalo. He is a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of INSA (Indian National Science Academy), Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and a Fellow of The Institution of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). He is the recipient of J C Bose Fellowship and also the Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT-Bombay for 2007. He is also on the board of Tata Communications Limited. He is on the Governing Council of several education institutes and research bodies. He is one of the founding members of COMSNETS and also Society for Cancer Research and Communication. He was the Chair for IEEE Bombay Section 2006-2008. He was also on the Visitation Panel for University of Ghana. Jayesh Ranjan Jayesh Ranjan is a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and is the Principal Secretary of the Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT) Departments of the Telangana government. He was awarded World Bank’s Social Capital Visiting Scholarship in 2002 and the British Government’s Gurukul Chevening Scholarship in 2005. He has done international consultancy assignments for the World Bank, UN-ESCAP, Sedatu project of Mexico, and for international NGOs working for Youth Issues like YES, Inc of the USA and NMC from Italy. He is a part of the National Pool of Trainers in Leadership constituted by the Government of India, and is involved in training and mentoring newly recruited Civil Servants.His assignment involves developing policy frameworks, attracting new investments, identifying opportunities of utilizing IT in various government processes, and promoting digital empowerment of the citizens. His last few assignments have been in the Industrial Promotion sector as Commissioner and MD of the Industries Department, Secretary in the Tourism Promotion Department, and Vice-Chairman of