Dialogue of the Titans – Digital Cities, Digital States, Cloud & Cognitive Services, Thought Leadership: Financial Technology 2022, Thought Leadership: From Digital Payments to Digital Economy, Smart City & Swachh Bharat Risk Appreciation and Decision Making, Digitisation and Cyber Security

Timed with the completion of two-years of Narendra Modi government and the ground covered by some of the most important national programmes, Skoch is organising the 44th Skoch Summit at Mumbai. Key Sessions are as follows: Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, From Dashboards to Delivery, Accelerating Electronics Manufacturing, Accelerating Electronics Manufacturing, Ubiquitous Connectivity, Ubiquitous Digital Seva, Dialogue of the Titans – Team Digital India.

The task for the new government is already cut out. On the one hand, it needs to kick start growth through a host of measures including improving sentiments, fuelling investments both foreign and domestic and spurring savings. On the other, flagging poverty levels, increasing disparities, social sector inefficiencies and ineffective public private partnerships (PPPs) need to be shored up. But at a more specific level, the new mantra of inclusive growth for any new government must take a 360 degree view. That would include: kick starting infrastructure development and debottlenecking, ensuring that education reaches greater sections of the society, a new vision for banking the unbanked, corporate social responsibility (CSR) spends reaching the intended beneficiaries and women empowerment.

A serious stocktaking on fast-tracking investment and reforms in key sectors of agriculture, infrastructure, power, banking, insurance, pensions and capital markets are needed to lift India’s growth rate to the Planning Commission’s projection of over 8 per cent during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan. The growth has to be inclusive, it must lead to reduction in poverty and has to be environment friendly. The 32nd Skoch Summit is designed as an occasion to rethink and reflect on bolder reforms that are required to revive the ‘animal spirits’ of Indian economy. The Summit will shine a new light on some core areas that are central to attaining an inclusive 8 per cent annual GDP growth.

The objective of the Summit was to bring the focus of financial inclusion back to poverty alleviation and inclusive growth rather than a mere no-frill account opening exercise, most of which still remain unused. The Summit saw the release of Part II of the ongoing study “Revisiting Financial Inclusion”. The Skoch Development Foundation planned specialized conclaves on financial inclusion for minorities, gender response to budgeting and poverty alleviation on the sidelines of the Summit.

The call for India decade is a call for action from all stakeholders in India’s growth. Concerted action in this decade alone can help achieve an economic superpower India in the decade to follow. The 23rd Skoch Summit looks at the issues of reaching and sustaining near double-digit growth rates through the prism of financial inclusion, managing inflation, technology infusion, infrastructure development, improved governance and an enabling policy framework.

Keeping the continuum of charting the development agenda for the nation, identifying challenges and brainstorming the possible way of moving forward the 20th Skoch Summit BFSI put together all the relevant stakeholders to ideate on “Inclusive Growth 2.0”. Given the timeliness and subject appropriateness of the 20th Skoch Summit for an incoming government, we were embraced by over 300 senior level delegates including Chief Secretaries and Power Secretaries from States, Municipal Commissioners from JNNURM cities, senior bankers, academia, economists and media.

The 14th Skoch Summit BFSI, 5th-6th June 2007, Mumbai, brought together the most popular conference trilogy built around “Looking at Core and Beyond” facilitated by Dr. D. B. Phatak of IIT Mumbai, top CEOs and domain experts from banking and insurance sector shared their vision; “e-Security and Disaster Management” facilitated by Prof. H. Krishnamurthy, Principal Research Scientist, Indian Institute of Science. Domain experts from KPMG, Ernst & Young, HP, Oracle and Sun deliverd rich content and tutorials while CCA and CERT-In defined the regulatory and legal framework; and, “Need for Full Spectrum Implementation” brought together a never before galaxy of thinkers and practioners who deliberated on hurdles and solutions, strategy and sustainability issues.

To help the existing leaders from the Banking and Financial Sector learn not just from best practices of each other but from experiences in other countries as well and to help groom the emerging leaders in our banking financial services industry, a unique Combination of events: “Capacity Building Workshops and Tutorials” & “Conference on Strategies for Sustainable Growth” held on the 15th and 16th of June 2005 at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai.

The First Skoch Financial Technologies Summit, a unique Trilogy of 3 events: “Capacity Building Workshops and Tutorials”; “Conference on Strategies for Sustainable Growth”; & “Solutions Showcase” was held on the 15th and 16th of June 2004 at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai.