Sam Pitroda at IIT Delhi

Action For India Forum 2012 being led by Sam Pitroda on Saturday Jan 21 at Seminar Hall of  at IIT Delhi from 915 am  to 6 pm is an initiative to bring 100 Young Social Innovators face to face with technologists and senior successful social innovators-- bureaucrat Anil Swarup, entrepreneur William Bissel, social innovator CP Das, energy expert Swati Bhogle, healthcare change agent Dr Ashwin Naik, Self-Help Group pioneer Anish Kumar, skill development agency chief Dilip Shenoy--with a view to help them enhance their social impact by inducting technology.

Program Schedule

08:30 AM	Registration & Tea
09:30 AM	Introduction & Welcome Sanjay Kadaveru
09:40 AM	Keynote Speech Sam Pitroda
10:10 AM	Young Social Innovators (YSIs) Pitch Session YSIs introduce their organizations followed by Q&A
11:15 AM	Tea
11:35 AM	Panel Discussion: Exemplars of Social Innovation Theme: Successful Social Innovators share their journey of growth and scaling up Moderator: Sushmita Ghosh (President Emeritus, Ashoka; Member, AFI’s Advisory Board) Panelists: Anil Swarup, RSBY C P Das, Akshaya Patra William Bissell, Fabindia Anish Kumar, Pradan Q&A
12:25 PM	Panel Discussion: Leveraging Technology for Scaling Impact Theme: Technology resources YSIs should know about Moderator: Ed Cutrell (Microsoft Research, Technology for Emerging Markets Unit; Member, AFI’s Advisory Board) Panelists: B V Natesh, Nokia Dilip Modi, Spice Telecom Srinivas B Garudachar, Intel Anurag Gupta, A Little World Q&A
01:15 PM	Lunch
02:15 PM	Sector Specific Break-Out Sessions YSIs split into groups by sector and discuss challenges and opportunities in the sector
03:15 PM	Cross Sector Break-Out Sessions YSIs split into mixed groups and discuss challenges and opportunities for scaling up their organizations
04:15 PM	Tea
04:35 PM	Presentations from the Sector Specific Break-Out Sessions YSIs & Sam Pitroda
05:45 PM	Announcements of AFI “Growth Prizes” & Next Steps of AFI
05:55 PM	Key Learnings Sam Pitroda
06:25 PM	Vote of Thanks Dr. Shiban Ganju
06:30 PM	Networking Reception
07:30 PM	Close

Posted by Nksagar at 7:36 PM