Mr K Mahalingam President
Mr Lakshminarayanan D Convention Chairman and Members of the Managing Committee, Madras Management Association MMA ANNUAL CONVENTION 2025
CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO THE
WEDNESDAY
9:30 AM TO 5:30 PM FEBRUARY 2025
25 am
AGENDA
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Inaugural Session
Invocation
Welcome & Introduction
Overview of the Convention
Release of Convention Special Issue of MMA Digital Business Mandate
Launch: "A Strategic Partnership: MMA and ICT Academy Sign MoU for Collaborative Growth"
Overview of the CollaborationICT Academy and MMA
Keynote Address
Brief Announcement of Awards of 28th MMA Competition for Young Managers
Presentation of Awards
Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest
Presentation of Mementos
Vote of Thanks
10 45 am Plenary Session
Social resilience: How rural India needs to transform Identifying social divides Digital inclusion Education and skill training Community empowerment
12 00 noon Special Session 1
Geopolitical resilience: Preparing your businesses for geopolitical volatility Understanding geo-political risks Strategies for risk management / SC resilience Navigating policies Measures to adopt for businesses
01 15
2 00 pm Special Session 2
Growth resilience: Empowering MSME to be the innovation engine of the future
• Innovation eco-system
• Finding opportunities in volatility/challenges Access to finance, markets, talent
Ms Padmaja
Mr Mahalingam K President, MMA Partner/Director, TSM Group of Companies
Mr Lakshminarayanan D
Senior Vice President, MMA & Managing Director Sundaram Home Finance Ltd
By the dignitaries
By the dignitaries in the presence of
Mr Lakshmi Narayanan
Founding Member, ICT Academy
Mr Josh Foulger
Member Board, ICT Academy & President, Electronics Zetwerk
Mr Brajendra Navnit, IAS
Principal Secretary to Government of TN Information Technology & Digital Services Department
Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, MMA
By the dignitaries
Mr Vellayan Subbiah
Chairman, Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Ltd & Executive Vice Chairman of Tube Investments of India Ltd
Mr A R Unnikrishnan Vice President, MMA & Managing Director Saint-Gobain India Pvt Ltd - Glass Business
Dr E M Sudarsana Natchiappan, MA ML (USA) Ph D Sr Advocate, Supreme Court of India
Former Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry
Lt Gen S L Narasimhan, PVSM, AVSM*, VSM
Former Member NSAB & DG Centre for Contemporary China Studies
Mr P N Vasudevan MD & CEO Equitas Small Finance Bank
Dr Rukmini Banerji CEO Pratham Education Foundation
Amb Kanwal Sibal, IFS (Retd) Former Foreign Secretary of India
Chairman: Mr Varun Prakash Partner McKinsey & Company
Chairman: Amb T S Tirumurti, IFS (Retd) Former Ambassador / Permanent Representative of India to the UN, New York & Former Secretary MEA
Mr Mahesh Balasubramanian Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Company Ltd
Mr A Balasubramanian
Managing Director & CEO Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd
Chairperson: Dr Sandhya Shekhar Advisor, Digital, Business Strategy and Innovation
4 15 pm
Technology resilience:
AI: Separating Hype from Reality
AI fundamentals
• Real world applications
• Cost-benefit / Cost of not investing in AI What you need to do as individual, as institution
Special Session 3 Special Session 4
Mental resilience: Leadership in times of volatility
• Managing stress
• Adaptive leadership
How to train to be more resilient
of Thanks & Concluding Remarks
Prof Pankaj Setia
Founding Chairperson Center for Digital Transformation
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA)
Dr Amit Bhattacharjee Mentor (Olympic Gold Medalist), Sports Psychologist PGIMER, Chandigarh
Mr S Seetharaman
Hon Secretary, MMA & Chairman Super Auto Forge Pvt Ltd
Mr Somnath Chatterjee Founder & CEO Prismforce
Mr Manikandan Thangarathnam
Senior Director Mobility and Platforms Uber
Commando Praveen Kumar Teotia, Shaurya Chakra Ex-Marine Commando (MARCOS)
Ms Gautami Tadimalla
Film Artiste and Social Worker
Chairman: Mr Anurag Sharma
Associate Partner McKinsey & Company
Chairperson: Ms Dorte Landwehr
Director of Operations, South India, McKinsey & Company
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