1:00 - 2:00 PM

Registration and Lunch

The Royal Ballroom

2:00 - 4:45 PM

City Finance: Catalysing Large-Scale Capital for India's Cities and Towns

Closed-door panel discussions with senior policymakers.
Panel Discussion 1: Municipal Borrowings
Panel Discussion 2: Fiscal Decentralisation
The Royal Ballroom

2:00 - 4:45 PM

City-Systems: Reimagining the Architecture of City Institutions

Closed-door roundtable on strengthening the institutional design of governance of India's cities.
Daniell’s Tavern

4:45 - 5:15 PM

High Tea

The Royal Ballroom

5:15 - 6:45 PM

Release of Janaagraha’s Annual Survey of India's City-Systems (ASICS) Report

Chief Guest: Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister, Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India
Welcome Address: Swati and Ramesh Ramanathan, Co-Founders, Jana Group

Panel discussion on “The Future of India’s City-Systems”

B V R Subrahmanyam, CEO, NITI Aayog
Nithin Kamath, Founder, Zerodha & Founding Director, Rainmatter Foundation
Vidya Shah, Executive Chairperson, EdelGive Foundation
Srikanth Viswanathan, CEO, Janaagraha
Moderated by: Latha Venkatesh, Executive Editor, CNBC TV 18
The Royal Ballroom

10:00 - 10:05 AM

Welcome Address

Sameer Shisodia, CEO, Rainmatter Foundation

10:05 - 10:20 AM

Presentation on "Localising Climate Action in India’s Cities and Towns"

10:20 - 10:35 AM

Keynote Address I

Kailash Nadh, Founding Director, Rainmatter Foundation; CTO, Zerodha

10:35 - 10:55 AM

Keynote Address II

Anna Roy, Senior Advisor, NITI Aayog

10:55 - 11:00 AM

Tea

11:00 - 01:15 PM

Moderated Roundtable

Convergence of governments, civil society, philanthropies, media and academia to brainstorm on localising climate action in India’s cities and towns

01:15 - 01:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Srikanth Viswanathan, CEO, Janaagraha

1:30 - 2:00 PM

Lunch

Daniell’s Tavern