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February 3, 2012

11:00 - 11:20

Welcome note:
  • Amit Mehra, Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, Indian School of Business
  • Galit Shmueli, SRITNE Chaired Professor of Data Analytics, Associate Professor of Statistics & IS, Indian School of Business
  • Srini Raju, Managing Director and Co-Founder - Peepul Capital

11:20 - 12:30

Opening Keynote address:
It's not about being ON Social, it's about BEING Social - Chris Dellarocas, Boston University

12:30 - 13:30

Conference Workshop:
Topic: Strategies and Tools for Digital Marketing
  • AdWords for re-marketing: Arijit Sarkar, Director, Online Sales - Google

13:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30

Experiences: The practice view
  • Suresh Reddy, Chairman and CEO - Ybrant Digital
  • How social media and mobile apps transforming the retail industry - Kaushal Sarda, Chief Evangelist - Kuliza Technologies Pvt. Ltd

15:30 - 15:45

Tea Break

15:45 - 17:15

Presentations: The Academic View
  • Ushering Buyers into Electronic Channels: An Empirical Analysis: Nishtha Langer, Assistant Professor - Indian School of Business
  • Formal versus informal peers: Evidence from the random assignment of business school peers: Tarun Jain, Assistant Professor - Indian School of Business
  • In-Store Media and Distribution Channel Coordination- Anthony Dukes , University of South California: Anthony Dukes , Associate Professor - University of South California

17:15 - 17:30

Wrap-up of Day1: Dr Parakala Prabhakar, Managing Director - RightFOLIO

19:30 onwards

Gala Dinner
Venue: Recreation Centre Lawns, ISB campus

February 4, 2012

09:30 - 10:00

Academic Presentation (Live Video Session):
  • Peer Effects in Large Scale Online Social Networks:
    Ravi Bapna
    Board of Overseas Professor of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Minnesota
    Executive Director, Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business

10:00 - 11:30

Plenary Panel:
Topic: How to optimize online spend to maximize value?
Session Chair: Arun Sundararajan, Associate Professor - New York University

11:30 - 11:45

Tea Break

11:45 - 12:45

Experiences: The practice view
  • Anurag Mehrotra , Vice President, Corporate Marketing - Ford India
  • Beyond Social Media - Rajeev Sharma, Vice President, Head - JWT DIGITAL / JWT Mumbai

12:45 – 13:45

Lunch

13:45 – 14:45

Experiences: The practice view

  • An Introduction to The Ad Exchange marketplace - Soma Pasupulety, Manager, Online Media Sales - Google
  • Driving a Lifestyle Brand Experience and connecting with customers on an individual basis and getting then to engage in conversations through the Digital World Locally - G Srinivas Krishana, Pernod Ricard.

14:45 - 15:30

Closing Keynote Address

15:30 - 15:45

Road ahead and Vote of Thanks
   

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