The event is a perfect platform to meet industry stalwarts and know the tricks to remain ahead of competitors Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL) is Frost & Sullivan’s premier event which brings together stalwarts from eight industry verticals including automotive and industrial automation sectors.
GIL 2010: India, The Global Community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership will be held on September 1, 2010, at The Leela Palace in Bengaluru and will serve as a perfect platform to interact with the best thinkers, visionaries and leaders of the aforementioned industries to know about innovative ideas and practical solutions, which will assist budding entrepreneurs to remain ahead of their competitors.
Event highlights
For 2010, GIL India will take into account CEO’s perspective on growth, present the Top 20 Global Mega Trends and the implications of these mega trends in transforming society, business and cultures.
The event will also host a Growth Strategy Dialogue (GSD) for senior executives, where they can ask question and brainstorm with experts to evaluate and enhance their growth strategy. These exclusive onsite sessions have limited number of slots and reservations are being confirmed on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Think Tank sessions
One of the key highlights of the event is that it will hold specific industry ‘Think Tank’ sessions, which will give one the opportunity to connect with industry peers, management team and Growth consultants/analysts from Frost & Sullivan. Some of the Think Tank sessions will focus on the following:
Ø Automotive: Opportunities in automotive engineering services market: The session will focus on the opportunities shaping up in non-automotive engineering services to be addressed by V G Ramakrishnan, senior director of automotive and transportation practice at Frost & Sullivan. The session will also talk about the success story of offshoring in automotive engineering services market and in-house competency of vehicle manufacturers. The session will end with a roundtable discussion on the role of engineering services companies in helping Indian original equipment manufacturers to go global.
Ø Industrial automation and process control: Evolving paradigms for next generation manufacturing: This session will focus on the future of automation in the Indian manufacturing industry apart from case studies being presented by Ashok Leyland, Wipro Technologies and Emerson Asia-Pacific. Some of the speakers for the session would include Suresh Nair, head of manufacturing execution systems at Wipro Technologies, Venkatesh Natarajan, general manager of IT/Systems at Ashok Leyland and Sathi Kanan, marketing director of Emerson Asia-Pacific.
Key speakers
Aroop Zutshi, managing partner and global president at Frost & Sullivan and Sarwant Singh, partner at Frost & Sullivan would be some of the key speakers for the event.
Who should attend?
The event should be attended by executives heading segments such as corporate strategy, business development, competitive intelligence, R&D, sales and finance.
Partners
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is the strategic partner, while 3M and DHL are the event partners for GIL 2010: India.
Media Partners
Some of the media partners of the event are Machinst360, The Machinist, Industry 2.0 and Modern Machine Tools, among others.
The Wall Street Journal is the official newspaper partner of GIL 2010: India.
For more information and queries, contact
Ravinder Kaur
Corporate Communications, Frost & Sullivan
Telephone: +91 44 4204 4517
Website: www.gil-global.com/india |


