Asia Competitiveness Forum – Enabling business join the international bandwagon – April 2010 New Delhi

PR NEWS: Institute for Competitiveness India (IFC) and The Competitiveness Institute (TCI) present the Asia Competitiveness Forum 2010 to be held on 28th and 29th of April 2010 at The Hilton – New Delhi. The two-day conference will focus on “Competitiveness and Development” of Asian countries and how the success stories of the West can be replicated in India.

Asia Forum 2010 will be the first ever conference to discuss and understand on how the large business groups and SMEs can join the international bandwagon and take their business to Fortune 500 echelon, gain tremendous insights into competitive business environment and discover the undercurrents and tectonic shifts of business models from Europe and USA into Asia, esp. India.

The forum will be attended by Investors, foreign delegates and CEO’s from across the globe and addressed by Indian Government dignitaries, Ivy League Academicia and global practitioners. The event will feature high-energy discussions on the Indian Real Estate Market, Nanotechnology, Digital Rights and more, in addition to networking events, private sector events and even entrepreneurship funding.

Some of the other key sessions during the two day forum will be on Competitiveness, State of National Economy, Higher Education, Supply Chain Management, Urban Infrastructure, Urban Logistics Mobility, to name a few. Michigan University manages a special Urban Mobility track.

Speaking on the need of instituting the Asia Competitiveness Forum, Dr. Amit Kapoor, Chairman IFC, said, “Asian economies have a lot of resources which, if used to full potential will help these emerging Super Powers to build a healthy international business environment. Asia Competitiveness Forum will serve as a platform where the business expertise from the West meets the resource pool in the East to help the businesses in these countries to reach the next level in globalization.”

Some of the distinguished speakers are:

• Sh. Pranab Mukherjee – Honorable Finance Minister
• Smt. Sheila Dikshit – Honorable Chief Minister, Delhi
• Sh. NK Singh, Member of Parliament
• Shri Jaipal Reddy – Urban Development Minister
• Dr. Amit Kapoor – Chairman IFC
• Michael Porter (Live Video), Professor at the Harvard Business School
• Mr. Sanjeev Chadha – CEO Pepsico
• Atul Sobti, Managing Director and CEO, Ranbaxy
• Keshav Verma, Head Global Urban Program, World Bank
• Vinod Sawhney, President Bharti Walmart

About IFC:

Institute for Competitiveness, India is the Indian knot in the global network of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Institute for Competitiveness, India is an international initiative centered in India, dedicated to enlarging and purposeful disseminating of the body of research and knowledge on competition and strategy, as pioneered over the last 25 years by Professor Michael Porter of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Institute for Competitiveness, India conducts and supports indigenous research, offers academic and executive courses, and provides advisory services to the Corporate and the Governments. The institute studies competition and its implications for company strategy; the competitiveness of nations, regions & cities and thus generate guidelines for businesses and those in governance; and suggests and provides solutions for socio-economic problems.

About TCI:

TCI Network or the global practitioners network for competitiveness, clusters and innovation is an international non-profit that focuses on economic development, industry clusters, and innovation systems. The organization is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and its 1700 members come from more than 100 countries. Through a variety of annual conferences, symposia, and publications, TCI seeks to provide an international arena where cluster practitioners, regional developers, and policy makers can meet and exchange best practices, and where global companies can find new partners and advice from cluster professionals.

At their core, TCI conferences concentrate on active dialogue, the exchange of ideas and the sharing of successful experiences using cluster methodologies. The goal of the organization is to ultimately “improve living standards and the local competitiveness of regions throughout the world, by fostering cluster-based development initiatives”. Since 2005, conferences have emphasized the importance of innovation journalism and how media attention focused on innovation economies can provide a boost in competitiveness, as it creates a common language for public discussion of innovation. TCI believes that, “Supporting development of independent innovation journalism can be a part of competitiveness and cluster initiatives, just like supporting independent political journalism has been a part of developing democracy

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