The Real Estate and Infrastructure Club at the ISB in partnership with Indu Projects and Ernst & Young, is hosting the ISB Infrastructure Summit on September 16, 2008. The aim of the Summit is to bring key industry leaders from both the public and the private sector together to share their views on the current trends and challenges faced by the Indian Infrastructure industry. The theme of the summit is "Indian Infrastructure – Status, Trends, Issues, and Challenges".
India has made rapid progress in the Infrastructure sector in the last few years with the private sector playing an increasingly important role. Over the next five years, the Indian Government has forecast a total infrastructure spending of USD 600 billion of which 30% is predicted to come from the private sector. While the sector offers immense opportunities, there are several hurdles and issues that need to be addressed if these goals are to be met.
The Infrastructure Summit is one of several key initiatives that the Real Estate and Infrastructure Club at ISB plans to undertake in the course of the year. A tremendous amount of emphasis has been put on infrastructure development for sustaining the Indian Economy's phenomenal growth. The role of excellent management talent in the Indian Infrastructure industry is becoming increasingly crucial with the infrastructure sector becoming more organised, increasing competition with growing private sector, innovative partnership models including public, private, and foreign players, and complex financial structuring of infrastructure projects. The Infrastructure Summit is aimed to showcase the ISB as leading the push for infrastructure development in India by training future leaders for the industry. The event will serve as a platform for industry leaders to interact with the premier management talent of the country and share the opportunities available in this dynamic industry.
The event would involve an inaugural session and three panel discussions:
Inaugural Session :
* The Infrastructure Sector – Progress and Learning
Panel Discussions:
* Concession Agreements
* Financing Infrastructure Projects
* International Perspectives
Please register at http://www.isb.edu/SeminarsConference/Infrastructure/SeminarRegistration.aspx
2 comments:
It’s not just fancy roads and buildings that make a city livable. There’s a lot more by way of amenities that add life to it. By focusing on infrastructure that enhances quality of living, like parks, play grounds and thoroughfares, a city makes the grade. A city is more about the people that live in it. And while planning a city, it’s the people that should be thought of first, then the infrastructure needs to be developed. Similarly, the relatively new areas of Gurgaon, New Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore may have witnessed a deluge of real estate investment over the last decade, but they have failed to create livable urban spaces that really work. Gurgaon, a flashy boom town that has emerged almost overnight with shopping malls, condominiums and swank office towers, despite it being touted as ‘planned’ development, is hardly people-friendly. This is because it neither has a meaningful municipal waste disposal system nor a proper public transport network. As a result, the city, still half-built, already suffers from serious traffic snarls, power shortages and water-supply constraints.For more view- realtydigest.blogspot.com
Guess it will take the best minds from the best B-school in India to solve the India riddle...
Meanwhile - I have found a new concept on the web at www.unstructure.org. Tarun Khanna from HBS has posted a question on developing economies there...and opened it for all to answer and discuss. Check it out... abhishek
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