New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the world largest body of entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and professionals, will host its annual conference TiEcon here Friday and Saturday, with over 1,000 global delegates.
The delegates include Lord Karan Billimoria, founder of Cobra Beer; Sir James Beven, British high commissioner to India; Robert Gertner, professor and deputy dean, Chicago University’s Booth School of Business; Luis Miranda, chairman, board of advisors, Centre for Civil Society; Pramod Bhasin, vice chairman, Genpact; Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief, The Indian Express; Shekhar Kapur, actor and director; Arun Maira, member, Planning Commission, and Saurabh Srivastava, chairman emeritus, TiE Delhi-NCR.
The event will be held at the Taj Palace Hotel in Delhi.
Pramod Bhasin and Shekhar Gupta will draw out lessons for entrepreneurs in a session on the ‘Politics of Economics,’ while Gertner and Miranda will conduct a fireside chat on increasing impact of social entrepreneurship on economies, society and the role education can play in accelerating it.
Three young achievers and winners of the Fourth TiE Aspire awards – Arunima Sinha, trekker and sportsperson, pianist Utsav Lal and actor and film director Kishan Shrikanth – will be felicitated.
TiE was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, US, and has over 13,000 members and over 2,500 charter members in 61 chapters across 15 countries.
