Rural Summit 2016 to Explore People Public Private Partnerships

by  EVENTFAQS Bureau Business Events | December 5, 2016 | News

Rural Summit

The Rural Summit 2016 will take place on December 8 at the Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The day-long summit has as its focus the subject of ‘Business Models Using People Public Private Partnerships’. Organised by MART, the Summit will explore how synergy can be established in such partnerships, what contributions stakeholders should make to develop successful PPP’s, and who should take the lead role in these. Around 100 participants are expected.

Speakers at the Summit will include Pradeep Kashyap, CEO, MART; Arun Maira, Ex-Member, Planning Commission; Deepak Saxena, Head-Partnerships, Unilever Water Business; S Sivakumar, CEO, ITC ABD; Sunil Bhaskaran, VP – Corporate Services, TATA Steel; Rohan Talwar, Head – Affordable Care, GE Healthcare; Ajay Desai, Sr. President and Chief Financial Inclusion Officer, YES Bank; Pratik Pota, COO, Foods and Beverages Bottling Pepsico India; Danish Siddiqui, Head – National Rural Marketing, Hero MotorCorp; Shruti Verma Singh, Head – Strategy and Brand, NDTV Prime; Saugata Banerjee, VP – 2.5 NVG, Essilor Amera; Govindraj Ethiraj, Founder, Indiaspend and Ex Chief Editor, CNBC; Anirban Chaudhuri, Senior VP and Executive Planning Director, JWT; Santosh Ostwal, CEO, Ossian Agro Automation; and Nishant Pandey, Country Director, AIF.             

Talking about the theme underlying the summit, Pradeep Kashyap, CEO, MART commented, “Public Private initiatives have not met with much success in the social sector so far because the community for whose benefit the partnership was created in the first place  is nowhere in the picture. For such initiatives to succeed it is critical to involve the community from the beginning and instill a sense of ownership so that when the Public and Private Partners withdraw which they inevitably will, members of the community come forward to continue the initiative as it is for their own benefit. Thus the new 4 Ps success model – Public, Private, People Partnership.”

MART will also felicitate organisations that have done some of the best PPPP work.

Partners of the Rural Summit 2016 include Media Partner NDTV Prime; Banking Partner YES Bank; and Associate Sponsors Hero, JCB, Pepsico and 2.5 NVG.