24 th November, 2016 Venue: Leela Palace, Bangalore

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1 24 th November, 2016 Venue: Leela Palace, Bangalore

2 Introduction The CSR Leadership Conference has been the largest IT industry specific CSR conclave hosted in the country, bringing together thought leaders and CSR experts to discuss the trends, challenges and way forward for the CSR space. Spread over eight hours, the conference was packed with back to back sessions delving into myriad themes in CSR, global and India development goals and social impact. The conference received an astounding attendance of over 350 participants, with over 70 NASSCOM member companies and over 150 NGOs actively participating in the event and exhibition arena featuring Walls of Impact. Introduction

3 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 which indicated a large percentage of IT industry s spend on education. 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. Some Participating Organizations

4 From Left To Right: Shrikant Sinha, CEO NASSCOM Foundation, Smt. Priyanka Varghese, IFS, OSD to CM Telengana. Ashok Pamidi, Head, Karnataka, NASSCOM. Setting the Context with Chief Guest, Smt. Priyanka Varghese, IFS, OSD to CM Telengana. Government and private sector must find conducive ways of collaboration for deeper reach and impact. From Left To Right: Dr. Meenu Bhambhani, Global Head, CSR, Mphasis, Neena Paul, VP, IL&FS Education and Technology Services, Srini Raghavan, 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. The Event at a Glance

5 From Left To Right: Raju Bhatnagar, Secretary General, Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce(Moderator), Aradhana Kurup, VP, Operational Excellence, Wells Fargo, Shyam Kaluve, Director, CISCO Systems, Bharani K Aroll, VP - India Operations & Global IT/BPO services, Butler America Making cities better: CSR in city improvement initiatives: Companies would impact more when in collaboration and not isolation, when the common goal is upliftment of the city situation. From Top to Down: Srikar Reddy, MD and CEO, Sonata Software, CV Madhukar, Investment Partner, Omidyar Network, Sanjay Podder, MD and R&D Head, Accenture Labs India Driving The Development Agenda Through CSR: Swifter attainment of SDGs require scalable models which bridge allocation-impact gap, attain inclusion, equity and full employment. Handholding of NGOs for capacity building should be prioritised by companies.

6 From Top To Down: Shridhar Venkat, Founder, The Akshaya Patra Foundation, Vishal Talreja, Co-Founder, Dream a Dream, Rajan Samuel, Managing Director, Habitat for Humanity India. Inspiring Talks of Redefining Social Change :This TED like session, celebrated leading change makers, and gained key insights from their inspiring trysts for social change. From Top to Down: Tanvi Negi, Chief Impact Officer, Rang De, Sanjay Kimbahune, Lead, TCS Innovation Labs, 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 to learning about newer frontiers in impact creation that can be seamlessly incorporated in the CSR domain by change makers with out of the box ideas.

7 From Left To Right: Loveleen Kacker, CEO, Tech Mahindra Foundation, Githanjali Pannikar,Global Head, Learning and Leadership Development, Aricent, Biswadeep Gupta, Joint MD, JSW Foundation(Moderator), Abraham Moses, Head, Mindtree Foundation, Smita Gaikwad, SVP, Corporate Communications, Hinduja Global Solutions CSR For Skilling India: Strategizing for a Sustainable Model: CSR needs to plug the gap between employability and employment, collaborating across sectors for placements, and diversified employability is the need of the hour. From Left To Right: Panini Balaji, Head of HR, Allegis Group(Moderator), Dipesh Sutaria, CEO, Enable India, Meera Shenoy, Founder, Youth4Jobs, Kshitija Krishnaswamy, Director, Corporate Citizenship, Accenture, Vibha Sequeira, Managing Trustee,Wipro Cares Driving the Inclusion for Person with Disabilities: Diversity within disability needs to be acknowledged and worked upon, employee sensititsation is required. CSR funds also need to focus on overcoming intellectual disability.

8 From Left to Right:, LM Singh, Project Director for Impact Investment for Urban Health Project supported by USAID, 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 in ideation for NGOs, fund technology for last mile connectivity around healthcare services, and build capabilities of field functionaries like the ASHA workers. From Left to Right: Priya Balijepalli, Head, Market Development - Autodesk Sustainability and Foundation, Gunjan Patel, Head CSR Asia Pacific, SAP Labs, Madan Padaki, Co-founder & Trustee, Head Held High Foundation, Neelam Chhiber, Co-founder, Co-founder and Managing Director - Mother Earth Aditya Pant, Chapter Coordinator, ANDE, India Big meets Small: Opportunities and Challenges for corporate engagement with entrepreneurs: CSR must tap the social consciousness of for profits. Blended capital should be the biggest source for social entrepreneurs, legal restrictions in CSR definition, the biggest obstacle to for profit funding. From Left to Right: RUMI Mallick Mitra, Ssenior Vice President, NASSCOM Foundation, Chandra, Times Now, Prithvi Shergill Chief 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 limited to only volunteering. CSR should be engrained as a guiding light and vision in companies philosophy.

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

10 Coming Up Next: CSR Leadership Conference, New Delhi. When: 22 nd February, 2017 Venue: Hotel Eros, Nehru Place, New Delhi Look forward to your participation!