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Most entrepreneurs dream of building a billion dollar company. However, many of them get stuck and give up along the way. Only a handful manage to succeed in building and leading billion dollar companies. What differentiates these leaders from others is primarily their mindset. These leaders have an unparalleled positive attitude besides viewing failure as a learning moment and a catalyst. If you don’t develop that mindset, you will continue to work just as hard, but never reaching where you want to. Developing a billion dollar mindset requires stretching your current thinking. It's simply the level of commitment that sets the leaders of billion dollar companies apart from the rest. How do you cultivate such a mindset? How do you build a billion dollar business? How many companies are there that are really doing blazing their own trail on their way to becoming billion dollar businesses? What is different in their thinking, approach, and mindset?

In this riveting session, a leader from one of India’s unicorns will share his entrepreneurial journey of building a billion dollar business with a clear vision and focused mindset that helped him challenge the norm, forcing people to think beyond the ordinary.

The difference between a successful CXO and others is neither a lack of strength nor a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The will to succeed depends a lot on critical decision-making and the power to curb challenges . To attain success – both personally and at an organizational level – a CXOs need to see where the puck is going and get there first. The life of a CXO involves a lot of thinking and processing to stay ahead. In the journey of attaining success, it is essential for a CXO to think about the right things and critical to not worry about the wrong things – or perhaps, just worrying in the wrong way.

This keynote talk focuses on the factors that keeps the CXO on the move, in terms of thinking, challenging themselves, and setting new benchmarks to attain success.

Setting the right goals for the right reasons can be the difference between success and failure. As a leader, the art of setting the right goals needs to be percolated from top down and spread across the organization to achieve success.

Goals need to be aggressive but realistic. Hence, it is very important to set goals with the right objectives such as how significant the goal is? How inspiring is it to you/organization? How measurable is it?

To build a successful company, a key focus of a leader is creating the right vision, articulating it, and relentlessly driving it. We have seen companies that have quickly reached astronomical valuations and others that have been unable to build themselves enough to become household names. Stories of the latter abound. What does it take to reach the zenith to become a billion-dollar enterprise? What are some common mistakes that young leaders make? How can leaders stay on top for a sustained period, rather than shine be a comet – shine bright for a short while and soon fade away?

In this keynote talk, a leader who has walked the path of building a billion-dollar company will share his journey, the pitfalls, the challenges, and the success story of making of a Unicorn.

Technology innovation has become a key differentiator in transforming customer experience in the travel industry. With new technologies like VR and services like touchless travel coming to the fore, consumers are consistently being surprised by the level of convenience offered. Companies need to make strategic decisions about the best pathways to build customer value and deliver superior customer experience.

How will new technological advances impact the travel industry? How can new technologies including big data, artificial intelligence and automation be harnessed to boost growth and improve the customer experience? How can they improve the customer experience and make their offerings more meaningful? An experienced leader from a leading global travel and tourism company will share his insights on these questions and how travel industry is shaping up for the future.

Businesses are looking for strategies to incorporate AI for efficiency and competitive advantage. Today's workforce skills are rapidly evolving with the rise of AI, data analytics, and intelligent automation. As work becomes increasingly mobile and borderless yet connected, enterprises are ensuring continuous workplace innovation and collaboration through automation.

This keynote talk will touch upon how enterprises and workforces can stay competitive in the digital age, the future of digital workforce, the implication of intelligent automation on the enterprise’s growth, and the role of digital workers in the new era of productivity and innovation.

Digital dexterity is the ability to leverage existing and emerging technologies to augment business outcomes. It provides the technology tools that make it possible to collaborate, concentrate, innovate, socialize, and revitalize. Companies that are slow to embrace digital dexterity have ample reason to be concerned about their future success, in these uncertain times that they operate in. Hence, it is extremely important for companies to nurture people and inculcate in them, a digitally dexterous culture, that eventually percolates through the organization.

This enthralling panel will focus on how leaders can embrace digital dexterity to build digitally dexterous companies, what initiatives they can take up to reskill the existing talent, how to attract and retain talent that can potentially be honed into being digitally dexterous?

Growth in leadership is mandatory. Leaders who want to be at the helm need to continuously redefine and challenge themselves, else risk becoming stagnant and fall further and further behind. Growing as a leader requires coming out of their comfort zone and doing things innovatively, and . It is no longer enough for leaders to merely lead, but they need to earn their position as global influencers. The reward lies not in what leaders get from growth, but in what they become because of the growth. Are you interested in evolving from a leader into an influencer, or in just getting ahead?

In this session, a leader will share his invaluable experience of growing into an influencer, and touches upon what it takes to get there and how to successfully get the corner office.

India is emerging as a global hub for innovation and growth market for global enterprises. When we look for inspiration for our entrepreneurial journeys, we tend to look for inspiration from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, et al. However, we tend to forget that some of the biggest companies in the world are being managed by leaders of Indian origin.

So what does it take to be a global leader from India by 2025? Do we have what it takes to be a force multiplier, inspire and empower global teams, and lead a global company through its ups and downs? Can Indian leaders build the power of influence across the globe? This riveting panel of speakers will debate on what it takes to build global leadership in India and how to create a power of influence across the globe.

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is testament to the success of human intelligence and the fear of uncertainty for humans.

Over the next decade, AI will make most people better off through newer innovations. But many people have concerns about how advances in AI will affect what it means to be human, to be productive, and to exercise free will. However, AI is not about removing control or removing human beings or even human thinking from the equation. It’s about solving problems and enhancing humans’ capabilities to deliver more and better products and services to customers.

This enthralling panel will touch upon the most debated topic of recent times – will AI compete with human creativity and make humans redundant over time? Or would AI complement existing job roles, enhance people’s capabilities, and let them work at a higher level?