SAMVIT 2010 – IIM Lucknow’s Annual Leadership Summit is set to reach an unprecedented scale this year. The summit is scheduled on the 27th & 28th of November 2010 with DBS Bank being the Title Sponsor for the event.

The Summit will span two days with the first day comprising competitions involving policy design, M&A and financial engineering workshops while the second day will see the who’s who of the finance world in India ideate on “Financial Regulation & Development in India: Challenges & Prospects” which is the theme of the Summit.

Over the years the Summit has been host to some of the biggest names from the corporate arena in the past. Some of the leaders who have been a part of this august event in the past are
Ms. Kalpana J Morparia (CEO - JPMorgan), Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan (Founder & CEO - Rediff.com), Mr. Pramod Bhasin (Chairman - Nasscom & President and CEO - Genpact), Ms. Meera Sanyal (Country Head - ABN AMRO), Dr. Biswadip Mitra (Country Head – Texas Instruments), Dr Sandeep Pandey (2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award winner), Ms. Naina Lal Kidwai (Country Head, HSBC) and Dr. J. J. Irani to name a few.

While the Key Note Speakers for this year is strictly under wraps, IIM Lucknow students can hardly wait. Radhakrishnan, a second year student comments “Every year Samvit has seen India’s biggest Leaders come to IIM Lucknow. Given that the Indian economy is shaping up and the global economy expanding, the theme of the summit is highly germane to all of us and we are looking forward to big leaders congregating at IIM Lucknow”

To unravel the theme for this year’s summit, IIM Lucknow will host Dr. Subir Gokarn, Deputy Governor RBI on the 13th of November. Dr. Gokarn will set the ball rolling by sharing his insights on “Financial Regulation & Development in India: Challenges & Prospects”.

The Summit thus will see a number of high profile speakers come to IIM Lucknow before the Summit to share their insights as preludes to the Big Day itself. Rudraditya, a coordinator with the Industry Interaction Cell, IIM Lucknow which is organizing the Summit commented “We want the Summit to ultimately become one of India’s biggest incubators of ideas. To that end, you will see the event evolving”