24th November, 2016

Venue: Leela Palace, Bangalore

The CSR Leadership Conference has been thelargest IT industry specific CSR conclave hostedin the country, bringing together thought leadersand CSR experts to discuss the trends,challenges and way forward for the CSR space.

Spread over eight hours, the conference waspacked with back to back sessions delving intomyriad themes in CSR, global and Indiadevelopment goals and social impact. Theconference received an astounding attendanceof over 350 participants, with over 70NASSCOM member companies and over 150NGOs actively participating in the event andexhibition arena featuring ‘Walls of Impact’.

Introduction

Introduction

Wise Quotes

‘Cornerstone of any organization’s CSR is in the aim of creating social impact’

‘Collaboration among companies should be need specific

and not just mandatory’.

Presence of eminent government members of Karnataka and Telengana who gave the right direction for convergence between India’s developmental neds and role of business enterprises.

Over 45 social impact and business leaders actively participated at the event in panel discussions and ‘impact speaks’

Release of the snapshot of NASSCOM Foundation’s annual research paper, ‘Catalysing Change: CSR Trends of 15-16’ which indicated a large percentage of IT industry’s spend on education.

Some Participating Organizations

The Event at a Glance

From Left To Right: Shrikant Sinha, CEONASSCOM Foundation, Smt. PriyankaVarghese, IFS, OSD to CM Telengana.Ashok Pamidi, Head, Karnataka,NASSCOM.

Setting the Context with ChiefGuest, Smt. Priyanka Varghese,IFS, OSD to CM Telengana.Government and private sectormust find conducive ways ofcollaboration for deeper reachand impact.

From Left To Right: Dr. Meenu Bhambhani, Global Head, CSR, Mphasis, Neena Paul , VP, IL&FS Education and Technology Services, SriniRaghavan, CEO, Educational Initiatives(Session Chair), Balachandran Warrier, CEO , Manipal Foundation Swapnil Bajaj, Director, Global Markets Operation, DBOI.

Driving Quality Education and Lifelong Learning: Ensuring consistency in CSR funding for long term and increasing role of technology for the education cause are the way forward.

From Left To Right: Raju Bhatnagar, SecretaryGeneral, Bangalore Chamber of Industry andCommerce(Moderator), Aradhana Kurup, VP,Operational Excellence, Wells Fargo , ShyamKaluve, Director, CISCO Systems, Bharani KAroll , VP - India Operations & Global IT/BPOservices, Butler America

Making cities better: CSR in cityimprovement initiatives:Companies would impact morewhen in collaboration and notisolation, when the common goalis upliftment of the citysituation.

From Top to Down: Srikar Reddy, MD and CEO, Sonata Software , CVMadhukar, Investment Partner, Omidyar Network, Sanjay Podder, MD andR&D Head, Accenture Labs India

Driving The Development Agenda Through CSR: Swifterattainment of SDGs require scalable models which bridgeallocation-impact gap, attain inclusion, equity and fullemployment. Handholding of NGOs for capacity buildingshould be prioritised by companies.

From Top To Down: Shridhar Venkat, Founder, TheAkshaya Patra Foundation, Vishal Talreja, Co-Founder,Dream a Dream, Rajan Samuel, Managing Director ,Habitat for Humanity India.

Inspiring Talks of Redefining SocialChange :This TED like session,celebrated leading change makers, andgained key insights from their inspiringtrysts for social change.

From Top to Down: Tanvi Negi, Chief Impact Officer,Rang De, Sanjay Kimbahune, Lead, TCS InnovationLabs, Senior Consultant, TCS Ltd. , Sriram V,Community Engagement Lead, The Nudge Foundation,David Wilcox, Founder, Reach Scale, USA

Exploring Newer Frontiers in CSR :This TED like session dedicated tolearning about newer frontiers inimpact creation that can beseamlessly incorporated in the CSRdomain by change makers with out ofthe box ideas.

From Left To Right: Loveleen Kacker, CEO, TechMahindra Foundation, Githanjali Pannikar,GlobalHead, Learning and Leadership Development,Aricent, Biswadeep Gupta, Joint MD, JSWFoundation(Moderator), Abraham Moses, Head,Mindtree Foundation, Smita Gaikwad, SVP,Corporate Communications, Hinduja GlobalSolutions

CSR For Skilling India: Strategizingfor a Sustainable Model: CSRneeds to plug the gap betweenemployability and employment,collaborating across sectors forplacements, and diversifiedemployability is the need of thehour.

From Left To Right: Panini Balaji, Head of HR,Allegis Group(Moderator), Dipesh Sutaria, CEO,Enable India, Meera Shenoy, Founder, Youth4Jobs,Kshitija Krishnaswamy, Director, CorporateCitizenship, Accenture, Vibha Sequeira, ManagingTrustee ,Wipro Cares

Driving the Inclusion for Personwith Disabilities: Diversity withindisability needs to beacknowledged and worked upon,employee sensititsation isrequired. CSR funds also need tofocus on overcoming intellectualdisability.

From Left to Right: , LM Singh, Project Director for Impact Investment for Urban Health Project supported byUSAID, Taara Chandani, Senior Health Expert, Access Health International(Moderator), Ashwini Saxena,Director- Programs, ESSAR Foundation, Madhavan Satagopan, CEO, Cognizant Foundation.

CSR in healthcare: Systemic Intervention and Scope of Technology: Companies should play a role inideation for NGOs, fund technology for last mile connectivity around healthcare services, and buildcapabilities of field functionaries like the ASHA workers.

From Left to Right: Priya Balijepalli, Head, Market Development - Autodesk Sustainabilityand Foundation, Gunjan Patel, Head CSR Asia Pacific, SAP Labs, Madan Padaki, Co-founder& Trustee, Head Held High Foundation, Neelam Chhiber, Co-founder, Co-founder andManaging Director - Mother Earth Aditya Pant, Chapter Coordinator, ANDE, India

Big meets Small: Opportunities and Challenges for corporate engagement withentrepreneurs: CSR must tap the social consciousness of for profits. Blended capitalshould be the biggest source for social entrepreneurs, legal restrictions in CSRdefinition, the biggest obstacle to for profit funding.

From Left to Right: RUMI Mallick Mitra, Ssenior Vice President, NASSCOM Foundation, Chandra, Times Now,Prithvi ShergillChief Human Resource Officer, HCL , Yogen Karumbaya, Site Head, Bengaluru, Thomson Rueters Ltd.,Naresh Shah, President, Enterprise Group India R&D, Hewlett Packard.

Leadership for Social Change: The drive for social impact needs to be top-down and not limitedto only volunteering. CSR should be engrained as a guiding light and vision in companies’ philosophy.

Networking Galore!

Networking helped to reach out to successful avenues and their experiences- A Murali, CA Technologies

Since I am a fresher, the summit

gave a clear understanding on how

the DS sector works in close

coordination with the corporate.-

Mini Chacko, Reaching Hands

Corporates now have a deeper

understanding of the social space

and are more effectively working

with NGO partners. – Usha Ravi,

Social Audit Network India

Great place for updates on all the work being done by the Industry. -Divya Sharma, Wipro Cares

Coming Up Next: CSR Leadership Conference, New Delhi.When: 22nd February, 2017Venue: Hotel Eros , Nehru Place, New Delhi

Look forward to your participation!