09th to 11th August 2019

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

Kolkata Campus

Proudly Presents

VIVAAN 5.0

Respected Sir/Ma’am,

Vivaan is the flagship annual business summit of IIFT, Kolkatacampus. Coming from one of the premier B-Schools in the country,Vivaan 5.0 guarantees to be one of the most awaited events ofyear in this year’s business school calendar.

A three-day event, Vivaan 5.0 will host multiple pan-Indiaevents/competitions promising a nationwide impact. Being astudent-driven institute, all the events would be held under thebanners of the various student run bodies, clubs and cells at IIFT.

This year to make the summit intense and engaging we havebrought in a number of topics which are not only futuristic butone of its kind. Different summits organized by clubs and cells atIIFT further promises to attract the best of minds in all thedomains of management and beyond.

Marketing Nexus- Brand Relevance, Cultural Innovation andCustomer Relationships

Today, marketing leaders are moving beyond the idea of brandbuilding to gain customer acquisition, boost engagements, reducechurn and increase the lifetime value. The role of a marketer hasnow been elevated to one that is focused on establishing andmaintaining the brand reputation, incorporating culturalinnovations and developing customer relationships.

Hence, there is a dire need to be abreast with these trends andother current happenings in the industry. We aim to achieve a360-degree practical view of the current trends in the marketingworld which would give us important insights that can be takenforward in our professional career.

Topics for discussion-✓ Brand Relevance✓ Cultural Innovation✓ Customer Relationships

Marketing Summit by Brandwagon and

Markmantra (Marketing Society at IIFT)

Disruptions and Transformations in Finance: Embracingthe Changing Landscape

Technological disruptions bringing about a change in the structureand competitive environment for financial markets andinstitutions are testimony to the changing landscape of thefinancial sector.Organizations are moving are moving faster than before to graspthe latest trend. We believe the digital transformation is at aninflection point. Consequently, we have seen an incredibledevelopment of different digital payment technologies, tech-enabled lending models (B2B, P2P), digital banks, and so on. Whataccompanies these turbulences are the regulatory as well as thebusiness environment frameworks that can together empower orknock a dead blow.From India's point of view, there is a lot coming up in Fintech andInvestment-tech space, which is being commended by the BFSIindustry. Nevertheless, there is still a considerable lot to do toensure a proactive and robust technology-enabled system

Topics for discussion-✓ Disruptions, Turbulence & Transformations in Finance.✓ A journey of struggle to a journey of making money quick.✓ Risk & Reward Opportunities.

Finance Summit by Capital, Equity Research

Cell & InFineeti (Finance Society at IIFT)

Leveraging The Opportunities In Trade And Supply ChainDriven By Global Macroeconomic Shifts

The resilience and flexibility of established supply chainsenable global entities to withstand worldwide macrodisruptors like geopolitical shifts, digitisation and risingprotectionism just to name a few.

The robustness of said delivery systems can help harness theinherent opportunities in the chaos, both within and acrossgeographical borders.

Topics for discussion-✓ Business Logistics In Modern Global Trade With

Technological Advancements.✓ Opportunities for India to leverage inland waterways for

robust supply chain and to boost international trade.✓ Supply Chain Resilience to handle global macro-economic

shocks, thereby constituting a competitive advantage.✓ Global Supply Chains of the Future: Services or Products?

Trade and Operations Summit by

BLASH (Trade Club at IIFT) and

SCOPE (Operations Club at IIFT)

Future Outlook and Challenges on Digital Economy

The term 'Digital Economy’ first featured in Don Tapscott’s bestseller ’The Digital Economy Promise and Peril in the Age ofNetworked Intelligence’, one of the first books to explain how theInternet would change the way businesses operated. Today withover 3.2 billion online population, approximately 53% of mobileinternet penetration and 2 billion social media users, the world aswe know today is continuously changing and one of thefundamental drivers is Digital Transformation.Data is the new oil and the most valuable resource of the digitalworld. Enormous amounts of data is generated in several formatsand from a wide range of sources. However, despite the tools andtechnologies at disposal, businesses are unsure about ways tohandle and harness meaningful insights from it.The huge data and the rapid advancements in disruptiontechnologies raises concerns of data privacy and security. Defininga policy framework and designing an exhaustive doctrine, focusingon Global strategies and Convergence of information betweensources while data exchange, has become a necessity.

Topics for discussion-✓ Capturing value and generating business insights with data✓ Policy framework and accessibility to the internet✓ Data protection and the need for global GDPR✓ Digital commoditisation

Strategy and Analytics Summit

Reforms and Global Economic Integration of the Indian Economy:Emerging Patterns, Challenges and Future Directions

Economic reforms comprising of major liberalization of the tradeand investment regimes have led to industrial restructuring in thecountry with a focus on competitiveness and global economicintegration. The growing economic integration of the Indianeconomy is reflected in various indicators including the risingshare of trade in the economy.

Policy making in this era of globalization is different with othertime. It needs policy makers to manage the situation well and lookglobally instead of thinking just locally. However, the Brexitreferendum in UK & the presidential race in the USA have shown,among other things, that public distrust of global integration is onthe rise. That distrust could derail new trade agreements currentlyin the works, and prevent future ones from being initiated.

India had been well placed with its visionary policies towardsASEAN & other East Asian countries through a growing web of freetrade agreements (FTAs). Therefore, regional economic integrationis likely to play an increasingly important role in the globaleconomic integration of the Indian economy in the coming years.Against this backdrop, the policy conclave would focus on thechanging trade and investment profile of the Indian economyhighlighting major emerging trends & patterns, the external sectorchallenges and key policies needed to address them.

Policy Conclave by

The Public Policy Club

❑ 2 Principal Entities: Angel Investors (Sharks) and Entrepreneurs❑ Entrepreneurs convince the Angel Investor, with a 5 minute

power packed pitch, to give them the funding theydesperately need to turn their businesses into million dollarrealities

❑ Angel Investors (Sharks) have a goal too: Get a return on theirinvestments and own a piece of the next big business idea

Event USP for Angel Investors:✓ Angel Investors will get a chance to invest in the next unicorn✓ Angle Investors will have a chance to invest in hand picked

startups.✓ Angel Investors will be getting maximum return on their time

invested.✓ Angel Investors will have access to many different innovations

on a single platform

“Swimming with the Sharks”

By E-Cell (The Entrepreneurship cell at IIFT)

& Koshish (The Social Awareness cell at IIFT)

The schedule would include panel discussions in the field ofLeadership, Finance, Marketing, International Trade, Strategy,Operations and IT/Analytics.In the past, all of the summits have been graced by eminentspeakers, ranging from top Corporate professionals to experiencedbureaucrats from all parts of the country, all being prominentleaders in their respective fields/domains.

Vivaan 5.0 will also host future leaders from all the top businessschools in the country for its flagship corporate competitions.Intense competition guarantees not only an exceptional learningexperience but also comes with a reward in the form of a big paycheck for the top talent that participate in these events.Hence, Vivaan 5.0 Promises to be an event that would highlight allthe major issues the corporate world stands to face over the nextdecade, while simultaneously broadening the thought process offuture leaders from the country and the world.

This year’s event would be path breaking in many ways and weinvite you to be a part of it.Thank you!

Best Wishes and Regards,Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

IIFT Kolkata successfully organized Vivaan – the Annual BusinessSummit from 17th-19th August, 2018.

Mr. Kaushik Saha, CTO (Samsung R&D India) was the keynotespeaker for the summit. He shared his insights about IIoT as anenabler in disruptive technology advancements and applicationsof Swarm Intelligence architecture. He also talked about increasingsecurity vulnerabilities and possible measures to fix them.

Vivaan 4.0 –Annual Business Summit

Speakers at the event–1. Dr. Alok Chandra (Executive Chairman, CK International BusinessSolutions Pvt);2. Mr. Arnab Bandyopadhyay (Lead Transport Specialist, WorldBank’s South Asia Transport Unit);3. Mr. Anjan Mandal (CEO at Wareman Value Private Limited);4. Mrs. Ruchika Kuthari (Head of Reefer and PharmaSegment,Maersk Line India).The summit was moderated by Mr.Dipankar Sinha, faculty at IIFT.The focal points of this summit were Shift in International Tradeand Logistics due to Regulations and Foreign Policies; IndiaIntegrated, Multi-Modal Logistics and Transport Policy;Digitization; Supply Chain Social Responsibility.

Trade and Operations Summit 2018

The speakers at the Summit included✓ Mr. Sanjay Chowdhury, Business Head, Protection, Berger

Paints,✓ Ms. Smriti Dhingra, Marketing Manager at Benefit Cosmetics✓ Mr. Sriram Gopalaswamy, Head of commercial segment

marketing, Lenovo India.The summit was moderated by Mr. Gaurav Pundlik, BrandManager at ITC. The speakers, being from varied industries hadunique viewpoints about the peculiar challenges andopportunities in their particular fields of expertise. The summitalso discussed how Rural market is the new area of focus for thecompanies and how companies are tapping into these newavenues.

Marketing Summit 2018

The theme was “Reimagining the future of business with new ageenabling technologies”.

Speakers at the event-✓ Mr. Asish Mohapatra, CEO Ofbusiness,✓ Mr. Sourabh Mukherjee, VP, Data Management Capability

Lead & Solution Lead, Intelligent Data & Analytics Group(IDAG), Accenture Technology,

✓ Dr. Avik Sarkar, Head, Data Analytics Cell, NITI Aayog,✓ Mr. Imran Saeed, Director at AbsolutData Research &

Analytics : Head of CPG/Pharma /RetailIt was moderated by Gaurav Vatsa , Director EXL, who is also anIIFT Alumnus.

Strategy, IT and Analytics Summit 2018

The Finance Summit, with FinTech as the key theme, was the firstdomain specific sessions at Vivaan 4.0

Speakers at the event-✓ Mr. Nirvikar Jain – Former CEO, First Abu Dhabi Bank✓ Mr. Sumeru Shah – Head, CDE & Cross Shell at Rubique✓ Mr. Vivek Saraf – Director, East India, Standard Chartered

Finance Summit 2018

The event was moderated by Professor Dr. J.K Seal ofIIFT. Key developments and future growth landscapeof the Fintech sector were discussed during thesession.

It was the first of its kind of event in IIFT. Mr. Hetal Sonpal, thekeynote speaker for the summit emphasized on differentiatingourselves from the others, gave techniques like mental subtractionto deal with sadness, and quoted examples from famous bookslike Satya Nadella's autobiography to state the basic principles oflife.

Swimming with the Sharks, Season 1

The Panelists at the Summit included✓ Mr. Hetal Sonpal - Angel Investor, Sales, Marketing & Strategy

Leader✓ Mr. Mohit Gulati - Early Stage (VC) Investor, Start-Up Evangelist✓ Mr. Arijit Bhattacharya - Angel Investor & Serial Entrepreneur,

Creator of 1st Indian Gaming Club✓ Ms. Nidhi Saraf- Founder & CEO - Key Venture, Angel Investor,

Mentor & Advisor✓ Mr. Avelo Roy - MD of Kolkata Ventures, Angel Investor & Serial

Entrepreneur

The 2017 edition of Vivaan has been one of the prominentsummits among the B-Schools of the country. With the theme“Industry 4.0 | Protectionism | Digitalization“, The InternationalTrade Summit at Vivaan 3.0 encapsulated how protectionism hasnow turned into the most dominant trend around the worlddespite the public stance of developed countries to undertakecoordinated efforts to stimulate global economic activity throughmore open economic engagement.

The concept of Vivaan 3.0 not only pushes the boundary with itscore theme this year but plans on going a step further with its SubTheme: -“Multiple Perspectives on management”

VIVAAN 2017

The sub theme ensures that the future leaders of our country donot view management from a single view point. As management isa diverse field, looking at its diverse nature would allow them tobe better equipped when it comes to tackling future challenges ina growingly uncertain world.The events under the sub theme involved a one on one discussionwith stalwarts of the following domains: Managing the IndianNational Army, Managing Climate Change and its Impacts onInternational Business and Management in the world of sports

Key-Note:David RasquinhaManaging Director (Additional Charge)Export-Import Bank of India

VIVAAN 2017

✓ Vishwas Nandalikar - DGM HR, Adecco✓ Krishna Gopal - Global Head-Sales and Leadership Hiring and

Talent Management, Tech Mahindra✓ Margaret Dsouza - HR Head, Directi✓ Amit Gupta - Senior President, Corporate Business at Yes Bank

HR and Leadership Summit:

✓ Trinadh Musunuru - Logistics Head East, Castrol✓ Rajesh Pednekar - International Supply Chain expert✓ Naval Sabharwal - Global Supply chain officer, Ramco systems✓ Parijat Talapatra - Territory Supply Chain Ops Head, Landmark

Group, Bahrain✓ Puneet Kapoor - Head SCM & CRM, Luxottica

Operations Summit:

✓ Harish Vasudevan - Director, Performance and ProgrammaticMarketing at IBM

✓ Sanglap Banerjee - VP Marketing, YES Bank & Program Lead.✓ Anvesha Poswalia - Senior Brand Manager, Asian Paints.✓ Mandar Natekar - SVP Viacom 18 Media & Business Head –

MTV

Marketing Summit:

✓ Hindol Roy - Senior VP, Decimus Financial✓ Nikhil Kamath - Cofounder, Zerodha✓ Prosenjit Aich - Head, Digital Finance, Aditya Birla Finance✓ Navin Jain - Head of Market Risk and ALM, Bandhan Bank✓ Tamal Bandyopadhyay - Indian Journalist, Adviser, Strategy at

Bandhan Bank Ltd; & Consulting Editor, Mint

Finance Summit:

✓ Girish Aivalli - Senior Rural Agri Ventures Professional✓ Arun Kumar Garodia - Managing Director, Corona Steel

Industries✓ Shrikanth Koundinya - Vice-President, MCX Strategy

Trade Summit:

IT & Analytics Summit:

✓ Abhinav Johri - Lead, Digital Transformation and CIOadvisory-Alvarez & Marsel

✓ Krishna Bandaru - Senior Principal, Accenture Strategy✓ Jitendra Dutt Sharma - Head Of Competency Center

(Amdocs Testing Service), Amdocs✓ Kaushik Bhattacharya - Head & SAP Practice Lead, IBM✓ Hemant Manohar - Management Advisor, and

former Managing Director-IMS Health India

Thank You