The Bangalore Business Literature Festival https://bizlitfest.com team is delighted to welcome you to the 8th edition of the annual feast that celebrates business literature in all its forms, and for deeper and meaningful conservations.
BBLF has hosted more than 200 authors and several thousands of readers in its previous editions. If you have attended any of them before, welcome again. If you are new, please come to explore the world of books and authors.
Bring your friends and colleagues and make it a fun learning experience from the very best.
The fest will feature nearly 20 sessions on various topics highly relevant to your career and business.
September 13 to 16 - will be two-hour, three engaging sessions online between 5 pm and 7 pm
On September 17, the focus will be exclusively on Startup Literature. It will be in hybrid mode at Bangalore International Centre, Domlur, between 11 am and 4 pm.
All the sessions will be in the fireside chat mode.
Register Soon. Seats are limited.
Benedict Paramanand, Co-founder & CEO
13 September 2022 - Virtual
4.30 pm - 5.00 pm - Inaugural
5.00 pm - 5.30 pm - New Age Literature - Content in all its Forms
Ankur Warikoo, author of Do Epic Shit, in conversation with Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Co-founder, CEO - Pratilipi
5.30 pm - 6.00 pm - The Westland Saga – From Tatas to Amazon to Pratilipi
Gautam Padmanabhan, Publisher of bestsellers, Business Head - Pratilipi, in conversation with Benedict Paramanand, Co-founder - Bangalore Business Literature Festival; author of CK Prahalad - The Mind of The Futurist
6.00 pm - 6.45 pm - Mining Real Data – Navigating Convenient Untruths
Rukmini S, author of Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India, and Govindraj Ethiraj, Journalist; Founder - IndiaSpend, in conversation with Debleena Majumdar, author; Co-founder - Kahaniyah
14 September 2022 - Virtual
5.00 pm - 5.30 pm - The Shark Tank Tales
Namita Thapar, author of The Dolphin and the Shark: Lessons in Entrepreneurship.
5.30 pm - 6.00 pm - The Adani Juggernaut
R N Bhaskar, author of Gautam Adani: The Man Who Changed India, in conversation with Sundeep Khanna, Columnist - Money Control, The Morning Context
6.00 pm - 6.30 pm - An Insider's Lens into the Indian Corporate Frauds
Smarak Swain, author of The Great Indian Fraud: Serious Frauds Which Shook the Economy, in conversation with Subha Chandrasekaran, Founder - RainKraft Creative Solutions
6.30 pm - 7.00 pm - From High-Fliers to Fallen Angels - Stories of Cafe Coffee Day, Reliance (ADAG), Jet Airways, Kingfisher Airlines
Nandini Vijayaraghavan, author of Unfinished Business: Evolving Capitalism in the World's Largest Democracy, in conversation with Raghuvir Srinivasan, Editor - Business Line; Chartered Accountant
15 September 2022 - Virtual
5.00 pm - 5.30 pm - Indian CSR 2.0
Meena Raghunathan, author of Doing Good – Navigating the CSR Maze, in conversation with Shantheri Mallaya, Editor - News ETCIO; Trustee - Chiranthana
5.30 pm - 6.00 pm - Embracing The Man-Machine Tango
John C Havens, author of Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines, in conversation with Kashyap Kompella, CEO - RPA2AI Research
6.00 pm - 6.30 pm - The Future of Money
Eswar Prasad, author of The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance, in conversation with Shankar P, Editor - Knowledge at Wharton; Former Resident Editor - The Economic Times
6.30 pm - 7.00 pm - India's Energy Future and the Built Environment
Reshma Singh, Senior Advisor - U.S. Department of Energy, in conversation with Vijaya Bhargav, Partner - Ostraca
16 September 2022 - Virtual
5.00 pm - 5.40 pm - Behavioural Economics Decoded for Business
V Raghunathan, author of Irrationally Rational: Ten Nobel Laureates Script the Story of Behavioural Economics; Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are, in conversation with Divya Kumar, Group Digital CFO - IKEA Retail
5.40 pm - 6.20 pm - How to be Comfortable with Technology
Siddharth Pai, author of Techproof Me: The Art of Mastering Ever-Changing Technology, consultant, in conversation with Madanmohan Rao, Research Director - YourStory
6.20 pm - 7.00 pm - Social Purpose of Business
Melodena Stephens, author of Business With Purpose: Advancing Social Enterprise, in conversation with Aarti Mohan, Co-founder - Sattva Consulting