The Second International Conference on ‘Igniting the Genius Within’ organised by the Centre for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC) at the Indian School of Business. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Leading and Innovating through Turbulent Times.’

The Conference started off with a roundtable discussion by the heads of leading public sector undertakings on corporate governance. The roundtable was followed by the inauguration by Ajit Rangnekar, Dean, ISB; O P Bhatt, Chairman, SBI and Dr Prasad Kaipa, Executive Director, CLIC, ISB.

The first day of the Conference focussed on wisdom perspectives. Malli Mastan Babu, Guinness Record Holder-Adventure Sports, started off the day with a speech titled ‘Dare to Live the Dream.’ Dr Satish Thatte , CEO, New Synergy Group; Dr Jody Fry, Professor of Management, Tarleton State University, Central Texas; Raghu Anantanarayan, CEO, Totally Aligned Organisations; V Srinivas, CEO, Illumine Knowledge Resources and Kannan Srinivas, Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services were some of the other speakers.

On the second day of the Conference, the emphasis was on management best practices. A dialogue with Dr Lee Hartwell, Nobel Laureate started off the day. MGPL Narayana, Vice President and Head, BS & CC, Tata Consultancy Services; Dr N Viswanadham (Chair), Professor and Executive Director, GLAMS, ISB; Dr Vijay Chandru, CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Dr Brinda Dalal (Chair), Resident Scientist, Palo Alto Research Centre and Kalpana Sinha, Director, People and Organisation Capability at the India Development Centre, Microsoft also spoke at various sessions during the day.

The theme for the concluding day was “Designing the Future” and was attended by Pullela Gopichand, Dronacharya awardee and renowned badminton coach and Chandrababu Naidu, Former Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh.