From April 3-5th, the Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (Kerala) will be hosting a conference entitled, “Marketing to Rural Consumers: Understanding and Tapping the Rural Market Potential.”  The purpose of the conference is as follows: The emergence of rural markets as highly untapped potential emphasizes the need to explore them…Surge in the publications on rural marketing [...]

The 12th annual Wharton India Economic Forum is set to take place this upcoming Saturday, March 22nd in Philadelphia, PA.  The theme of this year’s conference is “Imagine,” with guest speakers ranging from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, to Vikram Akula, CEO and Founder of SKS Microfinance.  Other speakers of interest include Shanta [...]

Columbia Business School will be hosting its 4th Annual India Business Conference on Saturday, April 19th from 8:45am – 8:00pm in NYC.  Speakers include Yashwant Sinha, Kiran Karnik, Dr. Rajiv Lalal, and Amit Burman.  To read about the speakers, go here.  Below is a description of the conference: 15 years after being released from the [...]

From ProPoor.org: Operationalising Public Private Partnerships for Disaster Management Towards Resilient and Sustainability Goals 16 – 17 April 2008, Pragati Maidan New Delhi, India We are pleased to invite you to attend the Conference on Operationalising Public Private Partnerships for Disaster Management being held under the Auspices of National Disaster Management Authority of India (NDMA), [...]

Slated to be held in Pune, this conference intends to be a meetup of many if not all of the major VC firms in India. The conference is held in Pune in order to focus on startups and ventures happening outside the borders of the major cities like Mumbai or Delhi. Why a VC/PE event [...]

From Microcapital.org: Brought to you by students from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the Kellogg School of Management, the fourth annual Chicago Microfinance Conference is themed: “Competition & Collaboration: Expanding the Boundaries of Microfinance.” The organizers describe the conference as a “collaborative effort…that brings [...]

This was my second year at the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference – an annual gathering of the social enterprise enthusiasts from the US and around the world. The conference is jointly hosted by the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. Below are some highlights (with a slight bias towards India!) India in [...]

From Microcapital.org Cracking the Capital Markets: South Asia Date: APRIL 29-30, 2008 Place: DELHI, INDIA Cohosted by ACCION International and Standard Chartered Bank, this microfinance investment conference will bring together a wide range of finance professionals – institutional and private investors, leading microfinance institutions in Asia, international and regional banks, emerging markets specialists and rating [...]