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Rebooting SMEs for Sustainable Growth

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Overview

For ages, we’ve been witnessing epidemics and crises but the rapid global phenomenon of COVID-19 and its fallout has left business sales and revenues plunge, or in some cases, zeroed with no industry being spared. However, SMBs and SMEs in India are looking to bounce back after facing stiff challenges due to the ongoing pandemic. Over 73% of SMBs in India are confident that they will survive and bounce back post COVID-19. This confidence is reflected in the fact that SME’s believe that this period presents a good opportunity to reformulate the business strategy and positively contribute to achieving India’s goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2025. Thus, we at ET Edge take this opportunity to bring to you Tata Tele Business Services presents The Economic Times Do Big Virtual Conclave 2020 with the theme: Rebooting SMEs – Entering the New Normal / Rebooting SMEs for Sustainable Growth on 10th December, 2020. The aim is to support SME’s adapt to new agile work environments, providing them the right solutions, technology, and tools for them to unlock innovation for customers and drive growth for themselves.

Target Audience

  • SMEs with min. of 10 employees
  • Annual turnover of INR 25Lacs to 150Cr.

Takeaways for SME’s

  • Stay Ahead of Competition and Build Sustainable Growth
  • Increase productivity and efficiency
  • Technology adoption essentials
  • Digital Empowerment

Speakers

Dr. Arun Singh
Global Chief Economist
Dun & Bradstreet India

Anurag Agrawal
Partner
The Aavishkaar Group

Faiz Askari
Editor & CEO
SMEStreet

Kapil Dev Iyer
Vice President, Demand Generation and Marketing
Tata Tele Business Services

Manish Bhatia
President-Technology, Analytics & Capabilities
Lendingkart

Manish Bhatia is the President of Technology, Analytics and Capabilities at Lendingkart. He is responsible for building a scalable technology stack for the company and bettering operational agility, risk management, data and analytics, while driving strategic efficiency and improving overall customer acquisition and experience as well as business growth.

Manish aims to draw better insights from big and complex data sets and leverage innovative technology and digital platforms to enhance Lendingkart’s operations capability, customer and transaction growth rate.

Bringing over 22 years of industry experience, Manish’s expertise in software development, incubating new services and developing critical digital products will contribute to Lendingkart’s vision of promoting financial inclusion in this country. Prior to Lendingkart, he has worked with Amazon as a Chief Technology Officer and steered all the tech and software development for their India payments business. He also headed the World-Wide eCommerce Platform group in India in his previous assignment at Amazon, bringing multiple innovations to the fore. Before joining Amazon, he has also worked with a couple of startups, FedEx and JP Morgan Chase.

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Minaxi Indra
President
Enterprise, upGrad

Mukesh Mohan Gupta
President
Chamber of Indian Micro Small and Medium Enterprise

Mukesh Mohan Gupta, is presently working as President of Chamber of Indian Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. He is CEO of MSME Helpline also.

Mr Gupta had been an Independent Director on the Board of Dena Bank, Artson Engineering Limited (a subsidiary of TATA Projects Limited), Hindustan Fertilizers Corporation Limited and Madras Fertilizers Limited.

Mr Gupta was nominated a Member on the National Board of MSME, Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India.

He was also nominated as a Member on the Key Advisory Group on ARC, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

He was also nominated as a Member on the Key Advisory Group on MSME, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

Mukesh Mohan Gupta is an elected Member since last about 8 years on the National Executive Committee, FICCI.

He had been Co-Chairman, MSME Committee of all three National Industry Chambers namely FICCI, ASSOCHAM and PHD-CCI.

Mukesh Mohan Gupta had been nominated as special invitee member on the Committee for Revival & Rehabilitation of MSMEs under the provisions of Reserve Bank of India on Delhi zone of Punjab National Bank, Andhra Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Indian Bank, UCO Bank, Vijaya Bank, Dhanlakshmi Bank Limited and Karur Vysya Bank Ltd.

He on behalf of Chamber of Indian Micro Small and Medium Enterprises was invited by Reserve Bank of India for the consultation on Restructuring of MSMEs.

Mr Gupta on behalf of Chamber of Indian Micro Small and Medium Enterprises was invited by
U K Sinha Committee for the consultation on MSME issues, while drafting his report.

Mukesh Mohan Gupta on behalf of Chamber of Indian Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, is nominated as Member/ invitee of various committees of Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises.

He was recently invited by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Sh. Narendra Modi in a small group at his residence to discuss the economic conditions of India and way forward.

He conducted interviews with following dignitaries in my “Positive Talk with Mukesh Mohan Gupta” TV Show:

i. Sh. Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Minister of Power,
ii. Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State, Prime Minister Office,
iii. Sh. Giriraj Singh, then Hon’ble Minister of State (I/C), MSME
iv. Sh. Kalraj Mishra, then Hon’ble Union Minister of MSME
v. Sh. Thaawar Chand Gehlot, Hon’ble Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment,
vi. Sh. Manoj Tiwari, President – BJP Delhi
vii. Sh. Sudhir Mungantiwar, Hon’ble Finance Minister of Maharashtra
viii. Sh. K V Chowdary, Central Vigilance Commissioner
ix. Sh. S N Vishwanathan, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
x. Sh. S S Mundra, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
xi. Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya, then Chairperson, State Bank of India
xii. Dr. M S Sahoo, Chairperson, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
xiii. Sh. M M Kumar, President, National Company Law Tribunal
xiv. Dr. Hasmukh Adhia, Secretary Financial Services, Ministry of Finance
xv. Dr. Kshatrapati Shivaji, then Chairman, MUDRA Limited and CMD, SIDBI
xvi. Sh. Sunil Mehta, then MD & CEO, PNB
xvii. Sh. Pawan Kumar Bajaj, then MD & CEO, United Bank of India
xviii. Sh. R K Takkar, then MD & CEO, UCO Bank
xix. Sh. Jiji Mammen, then MD & CEO, MUDRA Limited
xx. Sh. Manish Kumar, MD & CEO NSDC Limited
xxi. Sh. S R Bansal, then Chairman & Managing Director, Corporation Bank
xxii. Sh. K S Popli, Chairman & Managing Director, IREDA.. and many more.

Mukesh Mohan Gupta as a social responsibility started a YouTube Channel in the name of “MSME Helpline”. He is posting all schemes for the MSMEs, Startups and Small businesses on this YouTube Channel. So far, he has posted 165 videos on this YouTube Channel.

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Agenda

10:30 – 10:40

Registration and Login

10:40 – 10:45

Welcome Address by ET Edge

10:45 – 11:00

Keynote Address 1: Empowering Small Business Revival and Growth

 

Mukesh Mohan Gupta, President, Chamber of Indian Micro Small and Medium Enterprises

11:05 – 11:20

Keynote Address 2: Recovering and Next Normal: SME Perspective

 

Dr. Arun Singh, Global Chief Economist, Dun & Bradstreet India

11:20 – 11:25

Online Poll and Change of Session

11:25 – 11:40

Case Study: Technologies empowering SMEs

Kapil Dev Iyer, Vice President, Demand Generation and Marketing, Tata Tele Business Services

11:40 - 11:45

Change of Session

11:45 - 12:20

Panel Discussion: Wave of the Future - Next Gen Business solutions for SMEs

Anurag Agrawal, Partner, The Aavishkaar Group
Anurag Avula, Chief Executive Officer, Shopmatic Group
Manish Bhatia, President of Technology, Analytics and Capabilities, Lendingkart
Minaxi Indra, President - Enterprise, upGrad
Kapil Dev Iyer, Vice President, Demand Generation and Marketing, Tata Tele Business Services
Saurav Gupta, Bella Casa Fashion & Retail Limited

Moderated by: Faiz Askari, Editor & CEO, SMEStreet


12:20 - 12:30

Q&A

12:30 - 12:35

Closing Remarks

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