Starting this Saturay hundreds of technocrats, businessmen, Thinkers, Social workers, entrepreneurs from pan- India would assemble at Hotel Chanakya for Bihar Times Conclave 2011.
The Theme of the conclave is Shifting Paradigm of Development of Bihar.
This conclave would continue for 2 days having several panel discussions, presentations and address by noted personalities of Bihar and around.
The society is changing at much faster pace in the state so is the mindset of the people. Keeping this urge for change––and more change for better––in mind that the BiharTimes has decided to adopt Shifting Paradigm of Development in Bihar as the theme of its Conclave.
The Various topics discussed in the 2 day event are,
1. Connecting to Diaspora in Bihar
2. Change Agents and Grassroots leaders
3. Shifting Pradigms in Agriculture in Bihar
4. Corruption & Media
Various speakers in the two day event include
Sanjay Pradhan , Vice President, World Bank Institute, Washington
Mangala Rai, Agriculture Advisor to CM, Former DG, ICAR
Anil K Sharma, CMD, Amrapali Group
K P S Keshri, President, BIA
Kamalji Sahai, CEO, Star Union Dai-Ichi
Anand Kumar, Director, Petrotech
Dr. Bhaskar Chaubey, University of Glasgow, UK
Anurag Sinha , Public diplomacy strategist, Canada
Prof. Hari Shankar Sharma, Professor of Neurobiology, Uppasala University, Sweden.
M J Warsi, Washington University USA
Aqeel Haider, HR, Head, General electricity and water corporation. Qatar
Shakil Kakvi , President IABJ(Indian Association of Bihar & Jharkhand) , Qatar
Ajit Kumar, Entrepreneur, Poland
Belal Khan, Executive Advisor, IABJ , Qatar
Dr. Sujeet Kumar , Saskatoon Cancer Hospital, Canada
Dr. Aruna Sharma, Sweden
Vijay Prakash, Principal Secretary, Planning and development Bihar Govt.
Sudheer Singh, MD, Sudha Dairy.
Chandrakant Singh, Founder Chairman. Gurukul Trust.
Prabhat Ranjan , Prof. DAIICT, Gandhi Nagar & Atul Kumar, social entrepreneur, USA
Manish Kumar, Founder, Farms and Farmers
Sudhansu Kumar, Progressive Farmer & Mukhia, Naya Nagar Samastipur.
Kumar Ankit, Director, Green leaf Energy Pvt. Limited
R K P Singh , former advisor, Kisan Ayog
Prof. K M Singh, ICAR, Patna
Kaushalendra, Kaushalya Foundation.
Abhishek Singh, Founder, Agrani Foundation
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta , Eminent journalist & Columnist.
Mukesh Kumar , CEO, Channel Head, News Express
Neelabh Mishra , Editor, Outlook (Hindi)
N R Mohanthy, Director, Jagran Institute of Mass Communication
Aku Srivastav, Executive Editor, Hindustan, Patna
Manikant Thakur, BBC
Manoje Nath, Senior IPS officer
Prof N K Chaudhary, PU.
Sunil K Pintu, Hon’ble Minister of Tourism, Bihar Govt.
B B Choudahry , Gen. Manager, IOC