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CONVERGENCEThe Journey to Visionary Innovation
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GIL 2015: MIDDLE EASTThe Global Community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership
16 February, 2015 | Atlantis The Palm, Dubai, U.A.E
Dear Colleague,
It is our pleasure to once again extend a personal invitation to you to join us and our global community of senior executiveson the next phase of our Journey to Visionary Innovation,“Convergence”.
In our sixth consecutive year, GIL Global continues to bring together a global network of today’s best thinkers, visionariesand thought leaders learning how to leverage innovation as a resource to address global challenges.
We are inspired and even more enthused about the unlimited potential that exists on our quest for excellence driven byall the monumental and innovative visionary perspectives shared around the globe, in more than 22 countries that compriseour GIL community.
This year as we continue sharing, engaging and inspiring one another, we are proud to welcome Frost & Sullivan’s BestPractices Award recipients and their management teams to our community. These distinguished guests of visionaries,innovators and leaders represent Frost & Sullivan’s 2015 “Best-in-Class” organizations and are a key driver fueling ourcommunity’s thought leadership and global think tanks and will be recognized during our prestigious Growth ExcellenceAwards recognition.
Reinforce your commitment to Growth, Innovation and Leadership and join our 2015 Journey to Visionary Innovation today.
We look forward to seeing you at GIL!
Sincerely,
Aroop ZutshiGlobal President & Managing Partner,Frost & Sullivan
Y.S. ShashidharManaging Director, South Asia, Middle Eastand North Africa, Frost & Sullivan
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About Frost & Sullivan: Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, works in collaboration with clients toleverage visionary innovation that addresses the global challenges and related growth opportunities that will make orbreak today's market participants. For more than 50 years, we have been developing growth strategies for the Global 1000,emerging businesses, the public sector and the investment community. Is your organization prepared for the nextprofound wave of industry convergence, disruptive technologies, increasing competitive intensity, Mega Trends, breakthrough best practices, changing customer dynamics and emerging economies? Contact us: Start the discussion
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proven best-practice tools and strategies.
g Gain access to a wealth of best-practice tools and strategies to support
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08:30 REGISTRATION
09:30 WELCOME TO GIL JOURNEY
09:45 KEYNOTE:GIL 2015: MIDDLE EAST– THE GAMECHANGING VISIONARY FUTURE
Aroop Zutshi, Global President & Managing Partner, Frost & Sullivan
10:00 INTERACTIVE THINK TANK I:MEGA TRENDS
Sarwant Singh, Senior Partner & Practice Director, Automotive &Transport & Visionary Innovation Group, Frost & Sullivan
11:30 NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION BREAK
12:00 CEO Q&A: THRIVING & SURVIVING IN EMERGINGMARKETS: GAME CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES &MEGA TRENDS
H.E. Abdul Baset Al Janahi, CEO, Dubai SME
12:30 KEYNOTE: OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA
Mani James, Operations Manager, Africa, Frost & Sullivan
13:00 NETWORKING LUNCHEON
14:00 INTERACTIVE THINK TANK II: TECH VISIONS 2020
Anand S, Senior Research Director, Technical Insights, Frost & Sullivan
15:30 NETWORKING AND EXHIBITION BREAK
16:00 360 DEGREE INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES
Track 1: Healthcare
Sandeep Sinha, Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice,
MENASA, Frost & Sullivan
Track 2: Energy & Environment
Abhay Bhargava, Head – Energy & Power Systems practice MENA
region, Frost & Sullivan
Track 3: Automotive
Sarwant Singh, Senior Partner & Practice Director, Automotive &
Transport & Visionary Innovation Group, Frost & Sullivan
Subhash Joshi, Head - Automotive - MENA; Principal Consultant -
Automotive & Transportation - MENASA, Frost & Sullivan
Track 4: Information & Communication Technologies
Jonas Zelba, Senior Research Analyst - MENA region, Frost & Sullivan
Haritha Ramachandran, Industry Manager Information and
Communication Technologies, Frost & Sullivan
16:45 GIL 2015: MIDDLE EAST CONCLUDES
18:00 FROST & SULLIVAN BEST PRACTICE AWARD NETWORKING RECEPTION & GALA
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Visionaries, Innovators and Leaders
Aroop Zutshi
Global President & Managing PartnerFrost & Sullivan
Aroop Zutshi is based in Mountain View California, andsits on the corporate board of Frost & Sullivan Inc. Asthe Global President & Managing Partner, with over 30years of experience, he is responsible for the day to dayoperations and performance of the network of Global
offices. Aroop has been involved in developing the growth strategy for thecompany besides personally driving the globalization of Frost & Sullivan from fivedifferent offices in five countries, he has been responsible for Frost & Sullivan’sexpansion of business across 32 countries with 43 office locations. Besides beingresponsible for managing Frost & Sullivan, Aroop also works with fortune 500companies in designing their growth strategies by evaluating new opportunitiesfor growth.
Abhay Bhargava
Head – Energy & Power Systems practice,MENA regionFrost & Sullivan
Abhay heads the Energy & Power practice for Frost & Sullivan in the Middle East, assisting clients withideating and strategizing growth. With over 13 years ofglobal experience across the Energy, Power and IT
industries, Abhay is a business expansion specialist, with proven expertise inassisting clients grow their business. Abhay holds considerable expertise infacilitating the setting up of new businesses and structuring geographic expansion,especially in the Middle East and Indian subcontinent . Abhay’s specialisation inthe Energy and Power industry is backed by sound and in-depth understanding ofcompanies across the entire Energy industry value chain, including National oilcompanies, power generation firms, engineering and design firms, EPC contractorsand service/material/equipment providers. He is passionate about theconvergence of emerging technologies with the Energy industry, and the adventof Renewables, and is a strong supporter of the same. Abhay’s knowledgeleadership is reflected through the fact that he has been an active and a sought-after speaker at prestigious industry events such as the World Future EnergySummit, Saudi International WEPOWER, Saudi Arabia Smart Grids, 4th IndustrialSummit for the Asharqia Chamber of Commerce amongst others. Additionally,Abhay is often quoted in leading media publications across the Middle East.
H.E. Abdul Baset Al Janahi
CEODubai SME
H. E. Abdul Baset Al Janahi is the CEO of Dubai SME,the agency of the Department of EconomicDevelopment in Dubai mandated to promote the smalland medium enterprise sector. In his current role AlJanahi has been contributing significantly to developing
and maintaining an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Dubai and mobilisinggovernment and private sector support to help young and aspiring entrepreneursin the UAE grow into successful business leaders. Today, under Al Janahi’sleadership, more than 13,000 entrepreneurs have been assisted. Prior to startingDubai SME, Al Janahi was a founding member in a number of leading organisationsand transformational initiatives in Dubai, including the Dubai Shopping Festival,Dubai Internet city and Aswaq. Al Janahi is a graduate in Business Administration;He has also completed executive programmes in management, entrepreneurship,and public finance from the Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School,Georgetown University, National University of Singapore and the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology School of Management. Also a member of UAE GeneticDiseases Association.
Anand S
Senior Research Director, Technical InsightsFrost & Sullivan
Anand Subramanian is the Senior Research Director, Frost & Sullivan’s Technical Insights based in Chennai,India. Anand manages the groups consulting and is alsoresponsible for providing the business unit’s syndicatedreports to clients. At Frost & Sullivan, Anand has
focused on engagements and issues that deal with evaluation of emergingtechnologies and business models, their impact on market terrain and the firmsthat operate within it. Anand has been involved with numerous proprietaryengagements in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific with Fortune 50, Fortune500 and numerous start-ups. He has participated in strategic assignments forProcter & Gamble, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and IBM. Over theyears, he has also participated in initiating and managing the production ofhundreds of emerging technology studies Prior to his current role, Anand hasexperience in technology information research, including work as an analyst,project manager, and technology market consultant. He has written multipleresearch reports, white papers and technology articles that have been publishedin global research journals and prominent business magazines. Anand has beenquoted in Forbes, Washington Post and other key business dailies. He has alsobeen invited to speak at multiple conferences as the guest of honor, thoughtleader and as an expert on issues related to Business Strategy, and emergingtechnologies in the business domain.
Haritha Ramachandran
Industry Manager, Information and CommunicationTechnologiesFrost & Sullivan
A Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar, HarithaRamachandran joined Frost & Sullivan in 2004. Withindustry knowledge on the ICT sector coupled withextensive experience with global teams and
international clients, Haritha, drives the research and project execution of theICT Middle and North Africa Team. To date, she has focused specifically on creatingmarketing and corporate strategies surrounding the issues of market entry,product diversification, organisational restructuring, geographic expansion fortelecom companies, telecom equipment vendors and software solution providersin the region. Haritha is currently working with a GCC government to help createand implement the National ICT plan and has also worked with the Qatargovernment to help stream line their ICT research objectives to meettheir National ICT Plan 2015. She is an established expert in the local ICT sectorand has been a speaker at prestigious industry events in the Middle East.
Jonas Zelba
Senior Research Analyst - MENAFrost & Sullivan
Jonas joined Frost & Sullivan in 2010 and has more thanfive years of research and consulting experience in ICTindustry across Middle East & North Africa region. Thisincludes monitoring, analysing and providing consultingexpertise across emerging trends, technologies and
market dynamics in the ICT sector. To date, he has focused specifically onsegments like telecom, cloud computing, big data, M2M, managed services, datacentres, cyber security, etc. Particular expertise in marketing and corporatestrategies, market entry, geographical expansion strategies and financial analysis.During his tenure at Frost & Sullivan, Jonas worked on various ICT projects suchas - IT adoption across different verticals in GCC, IT outsourcing and newstartups opportunities in the UAE, public sector project aligning the researchinitiatives of the ICT sector to help countries meet their national ICT plans,development of ICT vision and strategy for the government entity, market entrystrategy for multinational ICT companies to enter GCC, etc. Jonas is oftenquoted in media and professional ICT publications in the UAE and rest of MENA.He is also a regular guest and speaker at various ICT conferences and summitsacross the region.
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Visionaries, Innovators and Leaders
Mani James
Operations Manager, AfricaFrost & Sullivan
Mani James is the Operations Manager for Africa. Hehas extensive strategic consulting experience havingworked for over fourteen years with clients in NorthAmerica, South East Asia, Asia Pacific and Africa. He hasparticular expertise in market entry and expansion
strategies, customer analysis and segmentation, competitive strategy and solutionsmodelling and implementation. Mani has in-depth and wide experience withworking across multiple domains in many countries and regions. Mani isresponsible for the market intelligence across all the business units in Africa. Manialso heads up the Chemicals Materials and Food & Healthcare business units forAfrica. Mani holds a B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering), National Institute ofTechnology (NIT), Calicut, India and Project Management Professional (PMI), USAand PGDCM, XIME, Bangalore, India.
Sandeep Sinha
Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice,MENASAFrost & Sullivan
Sandeep oversees the Healthcare Practice at Frost & Sullivan and comes with more than 14 years ofexperience in the healthcare industry in strategicbusiness consulting, hospital projects, operations &
management and HCIT solutions. His leadership and team management skills havehelped him with the business development and client relationships. Sandeepclosely oversees growth strategies, market entry strategies, geographicalexpansion, new product launch for the Healthcare clients and has a strong teamthat works on detailed business plan, business facilitation, competitivebenchmarking, Technical & commercial due diligence. Sandeep with his experienceoverlooks a broad range of sectors like Healthcare Delivery, Medical Technologies,Healthcare IT, Biotech & Pharma, Diagnostics and Wellness & Fitness, leveraginghis long-standing working relationships with leading industry participants’ andSenior Executives and PE Community. Sandeep has done his MBA in Hospital &Health Management- Five Years Integrated Program from The Institute ofManagement Studies, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India.
Sarwant Singh
Senior Partner & Practice Director, Automotive &Transport & Visionary Innovation GroupFrost & Sullivan
Sarwant Singh joined Frost & Sullivan in March 1999 andhas managed over 250 strategic consulting projectsacross diverse industry sectors during this time. Heheads up two teams in Frost & Sullivan: the Automotive
and Transportation Practice and the Visionary Innovation Research group whichworks on Mega Trends.Sarwant is responsible for managing the global team andfor developing and implementing business strategies and fulfilling high-valueconsulting projects. Sarwant is the author of a book titled, "New Mega Trends:Implications to our Future Lives." The book has been sold in over 30 countriessince its launch in Sept. 2012. Sarwant combines his engineering acumen withstrong commercial and business awareness.
Subhash Joshi
Head - Automotive - MENA; Principal Consultant -Automotive & Transportation - MENASAFrost & Sullivan
Subhash Joshi is a key member of the Automotive &Transportation Consulting practice of Frost & Sullivanfor Middle East and North Africa region. He isresponsible for planning, delivering client-defined
consulting engagements and strategic market reports. He has worked on variousmarketing consulting projects for OE and aftermarket involving, market analysis,competitive benchmarking, market mapping, and distribution channel. Some of hiskey assignments include market entry strategy, market penetration and expansionstrategy, new product acceptance assessments, location analysis andrecommendation and financial feasibility. He has also authored several strategicmarket reports covering the automotive aftermarket in MENA region. He hasclosely worked with leading domestic and international clients like Tawuniya,NICDP, Alissa Group, 3M, Rane Group, Castrol, ITT Corporation, Hyundai Motors,Hyundai Mobis, Mitsubishi, Renault Nissan, BMW, Caterpillar, MATRADE, TVSGroup, among others covering the 4 wheeler and Commercial Vehicles marketsfor components and vehicles. In addition to the MENASA Automotive markets,Subhash has worked on assignments in Malaysia, Latin America and EU markets.Prior to joining Frost & Sullivan, Subhash was a Consultant with a management-consulting firm. With over 8 years of industry experience, Subhash brings a strongunderstanding of technology and business dynamics.
Y.S. Shashidhar (Shashi)
Managing Director,South Asia, Middle East and North AfricaFrost & Sullivan
Y. S. Shashidhar, Managing Director of Frost & Sullivan'sbusiness in Middle East, North Africa and South Asiahas been instrumental in building and managingthe Industrial Technology, Metals & Minerals and
Infrastructure Practices of Frost & Sullivan – South Asia. Shashi has over 18 yearsof professional and managerial experience in assisting clients in areas like: feasibilitystudies, market development and expansion plans, workshops to evaluate newgrowth opportunities, business plan development, partner prospecting fortechnical collaboration/joint ventures, competitive benchmarking, strategy buildingand tactical planning and Best Practices research etc. amongst others. He has beenproviding advisory services expertise to the top management in strategicdecision-making along with varied research and consulting services across multipleindustry segments.
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AGILE’s unique contribution to the world isleveraging executives who are experienced inand passionate about growth, innovation andleadership to address the globes big 7 challengesby forming visionary perspectives on eachchallenge and exploring new and innovative
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Frost & Sullivan Institute (FSI) is a non-profitorganization dedicated to leveraging innovation toaddress global challenges. Our world is facing seriouschallenges, which in the coming years could have resultin catastrophic impacts on our lives if nothing is done toshape the future. The institute leverages Frost & Sullivanresearch, its staff, clients and partners to work incollaboration to leverage technology innovation and
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GIL 2015: MIDDLE EASTThe Global Community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership
16 February, 2015 | Atlantis The Palm, Dubai, U.A.E
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