ASCENT eConclave 2020

ASCENT, a vision of Harsh Mariwala (Chairman, Marico Limited), is fuelled by the power of trust. ASCENT creates a close-knit Trust Group of non-competing entrepreneurs who believe in Learning from Doers. Designed as a peer-to-peer platform, ASCENT leverages the “power of the collective” and enables entrepreneurs to share experiences, ideas, insights to learn from each other through self-facilitated Trust Groups and an extended network of Enablers.

Conclave is the annual flagship event of ASCENT where thought leaders, visionaries come together for a full-day event to ideate, share and express their journeys and milestones. The Fifth Edition of Conclave will witness more than 5000 entrepreneurs across all four days - Wednesday, 25 November 2020 to Saturday, 28 November 2020.

The ASCENT Conclave, in the past four years, has witnessed over 85 Speakers, Thought Leaders, Change Makers and Innovators engaging with over 2000 entrepreneurs as part of a day-long curated knowledge and motivational sessions. The Keynote speakers at the ASCENT Conclave have been 2016: Uday Kotak (Kotak Mahindra Bank); 2017: Sajjan Jindal (JSW Group); 2018: Rajiv Bajaj (Bajaj Auto); 2019: Naveen Tewari (InMobi Group).

Other speakers in the past ASCENT Conclaves included Ronnie Screwvala(Swades Foundation), Ameera Shah(Metropolis), Vijay Shekhar Sharma(Paytm), Anita Dongre (AND and Global Desi), Ashish Hemrajani(BookMyShow), Prasoon Joshi(McCann), Falguni Nayar (Nykaa), Sasha Mirchandani (Kae Capital), Kishore Biyani (Future Group), Piyush Pandey (O&M), Sangita Reddy (Apollo Hospitals), PC Musthafa (ID Fresh Food), Anand Piramal (Piramal Group), Laksh Vaaman Sehgal (Samvardhana Motherson Group), Milind Soman, Anita and Harsha Bhogle, Capt. Raghuraman and many others.

Glimpse of ASCENT Conclaves

This year, the theme for 2020 is Rebuilding with Grit.

Grit is an exceptional and essential entrepreneurial trait to have, especially in unprecedented times such as these. Grit is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Grit is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. Grit is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. Grit is to fall down seven times and rise eight.

At ASCENT eConclave 2020, we are proud to bring to you inspiring stories and learnings from Thought Leaders, Domain Experts and Change Makers who have shown true Grit by embracing every challenge with Courage, Passion, and Perseverance.

Confirmed Speakers for the ASCENT eConclave 2020 are Dr. Raghuram Rajan (Ex-RBI Governor), Deepak Parekh (HDFC Ltd), Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Biocon), Vani Kola (Kalaari Capital), Karan Bhagat (IIFLW), Manish Sabharwal (TeamLease Services Ltd), Sanjeev Bhikchandani(Naukri.com), Harsh Jain (Dream11), Kamal Dutta (Skillsoft and SumTotal), Nithin Kamath (Zerodha), Rahul daCunha (daCunha Communications), Rama Bijapurkar (Independent consultant, Author, strategist), Ananya Tripathi(KKR Capstone India), Kshitij Marwah(Tesseract), Anirudh Sharma (Graviky Labs), Sundar Raman (Reliance Industries Limited), Noshir Kaka(McKinsey), Matt Abrahams (Stanford Graduate School of Business), Tatwamasi Dixit (FABRIC) and many more.