2009 Economic Forum on India and China Businesses

              Friday, April 24, 2009  -  FIT John E. Reeves Great Hall

          AGENDA

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9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Registration & Breakfast
9:30 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.	Welcome by:     Professor Subash Midha
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	India keynote speaker:      Dr. A.M. Gondane, Deputy Consul General, Consulate General of India, New York
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	China keynote speaker:      Andrew Choy, Partner, China Desk - Asia Pacific Business Group, ITS, Ernst & Young
10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.	Asian Business Women - Vital to building tomorrow's successful workforce in U.S.A.      Panelists:     Shoba Purushothaman, CEO & Co-founder, The NewsMarket     Aru Kulkarni, President of Sales, Women's Better Sportswear, Jones Apparel Group     Sharda Cherwoo, Ernst & Young, LLP Partner, Transaction Advisory Services, New York     Yao-Hi Huang, CEO, Gigapixel Creative   Moderator:  Christine S. Pomeranz, Chairperson, Department of International Trade                      & Marketing, FIT
11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.	How to succeed in China and India?   Panelists:     Gaurav Verma, Director of U.S. -India Business Council and the Manhattan India                             Investment Roundtable     Talat Ansari, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP     Amy Goldsmith, Principal, Gottlieb, Rackman & Reisman, P.C.     William Purpura, Managing Partner, GLT Group   Moderator:  Deepak Nambiar, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
12:15 p.m. - 1:00pm	The world's hottest consumer markets:  India and China   Panelists:      Michael D. Balaban, Principal of Balaban Associates LLC, an advisor on cross-Pacific                        business development strategies and execution, and Associate Director of                        Parkview Ventures, a technology merchant bank      Gaurav Bhuwan, Head Sales Operations, Tanishq      Anku Nath, Director of Trade Policy Advocacy, U.S. -India Business Council      Lawrence Delson, President, Delson International, Inc.             Moderator:  Jane Hali, Vice President, The Doneger Group
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.	Networking