Conference Agenda

12:00 - 12:30	Networking Tea/Coffee
DAY 1 - APRIL 28, 2012
10:00	Inaugural Note: Ritu Marya, Editor-in-Chief, Franchise India Holdings Ltd.

10:00 - 12:15	Session 1 Inaugural Session & Lighting of the lamp Literate India: Building a Knowledge Economy Session Highlights Evaluating education growth strategy of the 13th Plan How government can encourage local businesses to transform a community and help its schools Technology redefining 21st century literacy Commercialisation of education via edutainment International tie-ups for greater market opportunity Need for universal education code Measuring and tapping performances of government initiatives- analysing the gap Building brand support for blue-collar skills/services Mr. K K Khandelwal, IAS Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Haryana Mr. Amit Gupta, S Chand Mr. Pawan Aggarwal, Advisor (Higher Education), Planning Commission, GOI Dr. S S Mantha, Chairman, AICTE Mr. Vineet Joshi, IAS, Chairman, CBSE Mr.Karan Khemka, Partner, The Parthenon Group Mr. Sandip Somany, President, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mr. Sanjiv R Pande, Managing Director, SMART Technologies, South Asia Mr. Dilip Chenoy, MD & CEO, ,National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
12:30 - 13:30	Session 2 Curriculum debate Session Highlights International board curriculum vs. CBSE vs. ICSE vs. state board Accreditation and uniform curriculum debate service formats Mr. Pramod Sharma, Director, Genesis Global School Mrs. Vanita Uppal, Secondary School Principal, The British School Mr. B.K. Tripathi, Joint Director, NCERT Ms. Richa Agnihotri, Curriculum head- International Curriculum, Step By Step School, Noida Mr. Anand Joshi, Regional Representative, The College Board
13:30 - 14:30	Networking Lunch
14:30 - 15:30	Session 3 The K-12 Mandate: Education with new age Environment and Sustainability Session Highlights Developing schools corporate style � How to marry quality, consistency and scale towards individual student learning Entwining vocational proficiency in mainstream education Are digital classes smartening overall learning process: Early predictions? Structural innovations for new age learning places schools Session Chairman - Mr. Ashok Ganguly, Former Chairman, CBSE Mrs. Madhulika Sen, Principal, Tagore International school Mr. Gulraj Shahpuri, CEO, Promise Mr. Andy Gray, Head- Governing Council, EuroSchool Ms. Anuradha Sen, Shiv Nadar Schools Mr. Neeraj Manchanda, Managing Partner, NMA
15:30 - 16:00	Networking Tea/Coffee
16:00 - 16:30	Key note 1 - Dr. S. S. Mantha, Chairman, AICTE
16:30 - 17:30	Session 4 Making Higher Education Deliverable Session Highlights Bridging the employability gap Need for an institute-corporate commitment? Why is the research culture missing in Indian higher education system? International tie-ups for sharing best practices How degree courses like engineering will make a comeback in new avatar to rebuild existing structures for higher efficiency People want to live where their parents live, where the language is theirs, if the education quality will permit that: Building a case against Brain Drain Available 5 NUJS, 5 IITs & 6 IIMs- calling for more! How third-generation Indian universities can be more connected into business, the community, and the world Prof. Sanjeev Swami, Dayalbagh Education Institute, Agra Ms. Shobha Mishra Ghosh, Director Education, FICCI Dr. J D Singh, Director General, Jaipuria Institute of Management. Prof. Rameshwar Rao, Vice-Chancellor, JNTU Hyderabad Prof. Dr. K.K. Dwivedi, Vice Chancellor, Apeejay Stya University
17:30 - 18:30	Session 5 VALEDICTORY SESSION: Lessons in Scaling-up Session Highlights Joint ventures �Where education businesses can infuse growth through forward and backward integration Consolidation of small institutes under a single corporate umbrella What corporate model/models are best fits for fast growth business of education? A case study analytics Ecosystem of education system to grow Mr. Varun Khanna, Director, IREO Col. Gopal Karunakaran (Retd), Project Director (Schools), HCL Comnet Limited
Day 2 - APRIL 29, 2012
09:00 - 10:00	POWER BREAKFAST Session Principal becoming the CEO Session Highlights Investing in principal training: How can Principals become instructional leaders, organisational managers, and innovative decision makers. Mr. Ashok Kumar, CEO, Indian High School Group & Principal-The Indian High School Dubai Mr. Jayant Hari Har Lal, Former Deputy Headmaster, The Doon School Mr. Nirmal K. Tewari, Director- education, Modi Group
10:00 - 10:30	Key note 2 - Ms. Nesha O'Neil, Advisor , Childcare Association Australia
10:30 - 11:30	Session 2 Building a Serious Business case for Early Learning Session Highlights Will standardisation and accreditation help to build integrated learning platform? Lack of prescribed pre-school syllabus: A Boon or Bane How to measure effectiveness of pre-school programs Exploring extended streams for early learning after hours Engaging families in early childhood education: How & how much Is the support instructional market ready? Toys, books, digital, etc. Session Leader: Mr. Jonathan Marshall, MD, Plataris Learning Systems Mr. Amit Singh, SBU Head- EuroKids Pre-Schools Ms. Nesha O'Neil, Advisor , Childcare Association Australia Mr. Jaisimha Jaithirth, Managing Director, Chrysaalis I-Maths India Pvt Ltd. Mrs. Manjula Pooja Shroff, CEO, Calorx Mrs. Sudha Gupta, Chairperson, Mothers Pride
11:30 - 12:30	Key Note 3 - Mr. Shantanu Prakash, CMD, Educomp
12:30 - 13:30	Session 3 Creating Vocational Initiatives Session Highlights Measuring and tapping performances of government initiatives- analysing the gap Building brand support for blue-collar skills/services Tie-ups with banks and industry to provide loans to students perusing vocational courses Need to build government guidelines for vocational skills institutionalisation Scaling up vocational education and skill training through open schooling Creating landscape to encourage participation of international vocation skills training and service companies- bringing in quality and consistency by creating competitive environment Mr. Ian Gordon, Director, VET Quality Compliance Mr. Larry Anderson, Director, International Business, Gold Coast, Institute of TAFE, Australia Mr. Salil Pande, CEO & Founder, V Mock Lt. Col. Rohit Agarwal (Retd),Principal Consultant, Global Knowledge Network Society Mr. Jatinder Singh, Head of Education & Skill Development Committee, PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry
13:30 - 14:15	Networking Lunch
14:15 - 15:00	Session 4 Where attention goes, Investment follows Session Highlights Due diligence prior to partnerships Regulations and legal safeguards for a growing educational enterprise Bringing education in limelight Great demand spells high growth Why education is as an attractive PE proposition Breaking away of the not-for-profit education syndrome Debt vs. equity debate for funding Mr. Deep Mishra, MD, Everstone Capital Ms. Seema Jhingan, Lex Councel Law Mr. Amit Gupta, CEO, S. Chand Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Partner, Indus Balaji
15:00 - 16:00	Session 5 Preparing Teachers for Change Session Highlight How better teachers are a result of their connections to the real world Learning's from numbers: Amazon has complete insights on what his customer bought last- Can teachers have every piece of data about their class students Teacher, training and technology � need to tap the 3Ts of education Teacher incentives: What are they? How & when do they work best? What schools can learn from corporate about personnel management What learning institutes can do for making afterhours effective for teachers Building a strong foundation for quality-focused faculty Recruiting, Retaining and Motivation World-Class and quality focused teachers across K-12 schools. Mr. Andrew Mowat, Principal, Group 8 Education Consultancy and Research institution Dr. H S Srivastava, Former Dean, NCERT Ms. Neenu Puri, Director (Education), S. Chand Harcourt (India) Pvt. Ltd Ms. Lina Ashar, Founder, Kangaroo Kids and & Billabong High International School. Mr. Gulraj Shahpuri, CEO, Promise
16:00 - 16:15	Networking Tea/Coffee
16:15 - 16:30	Key Note 4 - Mr. Sushil Prakash, Sr. Consultant, National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT)
16:30 - 17:15	Session 6 Replacing "chalk talk" with technology Session Highlights The need to adopt virtual classrooms, data analysis, online games & highly customised coursework More content available free online, and arming each child with a �cheap device� that is connected to a tremendous amount of capacity Session Chair-- Mr. Sanjiv R Pande, Managing Director, SMART Technologies, South Asia Mr. Lokesh Mehra, Director-Education Advocacy, Microsoft. Mr. Raman Kalyanakrishnan, Practice Head, Tata Strategic Management group Mr. Krishan Khanna, Chairman, i2k Solutions Pvt Ltd. Prof. (Dr.) A. K. Bakhshi, Vice Chancellor, U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Allahabad Mr. Sanjeev Sharma, Vice President - K- 12 Solutions, S. Chand Harcourt
17:15 - 17:45	Key Note 5 - The Big Connect-Partnering for enlarged education access Prof. Vinod Raina, Member, Central Advisory Board of Education
17:45 - 18:15	Session 7 Building Global Competency Session Highlights What can Indian education system offer? Exporting education beyond India Strategic connect to leverage international standards International and Indian perspective Formation and dissemination of modern international curriculum Mr. Kamal Puri, Founder President, Skyline University College, UAE

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The next big leap in education can happen only if education is also looked at as an enterprise. We need best practices, scalable models and investment by organized players to achieve this. Once the education market gets ...
S. Chand's CEO Mr. Amit Gupta.

In India, the condition of primary education sector is quite good. There are plenty of options available. But the efficiency of the secondary education is very low. In the next 3-5 years we ...
Mr. Ashok Ganguly, Former Chairman, CBSE

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The rate at which teachers join the profession is much lower than at which they leave. This can be changed only if it is acknowledged that teachers are the creators of knowledge. Managing the performance of teachers ...
Mr. Ashish Rajpal, iDiscoveri

Presently, technology has penetrated only 5% of schools while 95% are still open. The day would not be far when school students would be carrying laptops and notebooks to classrooms. In the next couple of years, ...
Mr. Shantanu Prakash, Educomp

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