Mr. Kris Kosmala, Partner, Click & Connect, Australia (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kriskosmala/) talks to Venkat S N about Success,  Opportunities, and Challenges as Global Trade Logistics and Supply Chain undergoes a Digital Transformation the world over. The discussion includes questions from senior industry leaders.  

Kris has worked with shipping lines, ports and logistics providers in Asia, North America, South America and Europe applying innovative information technologies to improve efficiency of shipping and logistics operations, improve net margin contributions from operations, and to reduce the environmental impacts of the industry.

Timeline and Topics Discussed

0:00 Introduction

1:35 Supply Chain disruptions in next 6-12 months

8:45 Are Digital Transformation projects truly end-to-end?

11:10 IoT Devices – Implemented in Electronics, Pharma, other high value supply chains

16:17 Regional CO2 footprint using IoT devices

19:28 What is Machine Learning (ML)

21:25 Machine Learning (ML) applications in Warehousing

24:20 Machine Learning (ML) applications Ports and Terminals

27:00 Machine Learning (ML) applications in Road Transport and Shipping

29:42 IBM-Maersk TradeLens – What does it Offer?

36:35 Robotics Process Automation (RPA) reduces cost for Singapore and Melbourne ports

40:45 Digital Twin very costly and challenging for global supply chain and logistics

44:40 Blockchains implemented by Unilever, DeBeers, Walmart, Alibaba

47:00 Weakness of Blockchains

48:17 Security and Fraud in digital supply chain

51:49 What jobs will be replaced by supply chain automation

54:33 Career Strategies for fresh graduates and young supply chain professionals

57:10 Can AI predict and prescribe strategies in uncertainties like pandemics and political upheavals (#VUCA situations)

1:05:45 Closing comments

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Topics discussed and timeline

1.    Why Brain Maps are important? 2:00 min

2.    How our brain maps what we see? 4:00 min

3.     What’s the impact of impact of NOT seeing many faces, noses, lips, and facial expressions, on the development of infant brain maps in the pandemic years? 7:45 min

4.    Teenagers can hear sounds that their teacher can’t. 11:40 min

5.    Why we lose the ability to hear certain sounds as we grow older 12:30 min

6.    How are Bitter, Sweet, Salty tastes mapped in the brain? 15:30, 16:30 min

7.    Baby in the womb has information about the outside world already etched into its brain. 23:10 min

8.    What should parents do in the first couple of years of an infant’s life? 27:55 min

9.    Double decker bus blows a baby’s mind away 31:00 min

10. Brainscapes shape and distort the contents of your dreams, memories, and fantasies 34:15 min

11. False memories are very common 36:45 min

12. Brain computer interfaces, BCIs. 37:35 min

13. Scientists eavesdropped on a brain and reconstructed the specific human faces a subject is seeing, fairly accurately 38:45 min

14. Humans with electrodes in the brain - medical assistance 40:40 min

15. Brain activity monitoring general applications – 41:40 min

16. Big Tech and gathering our personal neural data – 42:50 min

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“We are all Spiritual beings”, “ Child is born a knower, a spiritual knower” says Dr. Lisa Miller, Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University. and the Founder of the Spirituality, Mind, Body Institute.

Dr. Miller found MRI evidence that spirituality offers protection against depression. In her recently published book The Awakened Brain, she brings to light scientific evidence from her own award-winning work and those of others, backed by MRI studies, genetic research, and so on, to illuminate the science of spirituality.

Topics, Quotes and Timings:

1.    Researching on brains of people with higher spiritual practice and those with low or no spiritual practice 2:10 min

2.    We are all Spiritual Beings 4:18min

3.    There are threads of lived human spiritual life that are absolutely game changing on the rest of our lives. 4:32 min

4.    We have a strong Spiritual Core 5:10 min

5.    Significance of an Olympian state of mind 5:29 min

6.    You are Everything, You are That 11:27 min

7.    The Child is born a knower, a spiritual knower 14:13 min

8.    The capacity through which we experience the Transcendent Reality is 1/3rd innate, and 2/3rds environmentally formed 14:58 min

9.    Prayer, meditation, whether it is right action ... we are constantly shaping this innate capacity 15:30 min

10. Patterns in the brain structures of the depressed and the not depressed 16:27 min

11. When there is a strong spiritual life in the child who grows up to be a parent, that person is 90% less likely to carry forward the family struggle with depression. 18:20 min

12. When mother and child were both high in spirituality, the child was 80 percent protected against depression 23:22 min

13. How effective was spirituality compared to medicines and other treatments for depression? 23:43 min

14. Spirituality was nearly twice as protective in teens 24:45 min

15. Do we see physical evidence in the brain that spirituality offers protection? 26:11 min

16. People with a spiritual practice get protected when they face subsequent depressing events 28:30

17. Awakened awareness – 3 aspects 30:43 min

18. Two kinds of awareness we need 31:45 min

19. There is some genetic contribution to spirituality – evidence from twin-studies 37:30 min

20. What should we do in our daily lives so that it is our awakened brain that is dominant? 44:10 min

21. A study of 5500 participants in India, China, USA – people shared 5 common phenotypes 50:11 min

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Ms Lakshmi Kumar, Policy Director at Global Financial Integrity (GFI) and co-author of the GFI’s report, “Acres of Money Laundering: Why U.S. Real Estate is a Kleptocrat’s Dream” talks to Venkat SN about the structures and mechanisms the wealthy use to protect or hide their wealth.  

The discussion covers Pandora papers and South Dakota, a fugitive jeweler from India, attraction of overseas real estate, and gold in international transactions.

Topics and timings:

What is the difference between Tax avoidance and tax evasion? (1:25min)

What is wealth protection? What structures and mechanisms the wealthy use to protect their wealth from being taxed? (2:43min)

Pandora papers revealed that South Dakota was a $367bn tax haven rivalling other famous tax havens. What makes it an attractive location? (5:40min)

Are U.S. regulations for politically exposed persons, or others, not in line with international best practices? (9:35min)

Why is overseas real estate a preferred route? (12:53min)

What are the secret real estate ownership structures that the US offers? How are all cash purchases of real estate even possible? (15:05min)

What kind of international transactions take place with gold? (18:40min)

A fugitive jeweler from India has apartments in New York held in the name of a trust whose beneficiaries are his family (22:30min)

On the G20 agreement global minimum corporate tax of 15%. (25:07min)

Correction: In the introduction, “Global Financial Integrity” was referred to as “Global Financial Intelligence”. The error is regretted.

Links - Acres of Money Laundering: Why U.S. Real Estate is a Kleptocrat’s Dream - https://gfintegrity.org/report/acres-...

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Nadir Zafar was one of the 300 students who joined SMU when it opened in 2000. He had turned down an offer to study engineering in NUS.

Twenty-one years later Nadir shares with Venkat how SMU influenced and shaped him both inside and outside the classroom, through internships and overseas experiences. How his pioneer batch started student clubs, the student council, and the alumni association and even created an Alumni Scholarship Fund when they graduated.

His friends from JC had warned him that he may not get a good job if he studied in a new university. Nadir had 8 job offers when he graduated from SMU! A self-confessed SMU fan, he even encouraged his siblings to study in SMU.

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5th Commodity Super Cycle will be driven by Decarbonization, electrification, demand for metals like copper, nickel, cobalt, aluminum, etc. says Mr. Viren Verma, Managing Director (Sugar and Commodity Risk Management), Global Strategic Procurement, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, USA. Viren is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

We discussed:

1.    Decarbonization, electrification, demand for metals, and commodity super cycle! (2:00 min)

2.    We will have a 7 million tons deficit of copper, by 2030 (5:00min)

3.    Commodities will be the next asset class that will attract investments (7:45min)

4.    What’s driving this rally in sugar? (9:00min)

5.    Is the volatility of the Brazilian Real reflected in the sugar price movements or Brazilian sugar exports? (9:55min)

6.    Has demand for sugarcane from Brazil’s Ethanol industry impacted the supply to the sugar industry? (11:40 min)

7.    India exported over 7 million tons of sugar in the season ending Sep 2021 despite cutting sugar export subsidies by 31%. Will India withdraw its export subsidy for sugar? (15:05 min)

8.    Outlook for 2022-23 and next 5 years. In the long-term, current electrification drive can have a downward pressure on Sugar prices. (22:25min)

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Correction : The Russian Nordstream 2 gas pipeline will go through the south of Ukraine, the Black Sea, Austria, and Serbia before reaching Hungary. It will not go through Ukraine as mentioned in the interview.

Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, and Professor of Management at The Wharton School, Peter Cappelli, explains the hard choices employees and employers face in deciding between home/office/hybrid working.

He explores the issue in his new book, “The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face”.

Topics and timings

1.    The Future Forum Pulse survey, which surveyed over 10,500 knowledge workers (01:20 min)

2.    Things did not go well for remote employees in the 1990s, 2000s. Will they be different now? (5:35 min)

3.    How did Team Members, and Managers learn to adapt to working with remote teams during the pandemic? What can we learn from that? (9:00 min)

4.     Long-term impact of remote work on ‘informal’ skill development process, and mentoring? (14:55 min)

5.    Can innovative teamwork / maker, creator teamwork be done remotely? (17:20 min)

6.    Impact of remote working on social interaction, bonding, mental and social well-being. (20:20 min)

7.    If one is offered the opportunity to work from home, should one take it? What if you are a fresh graduate? (22:20 min)

8.    On companies that want to install screen and keyboard monitoring software in remote worker’s computers. (23:45 min and 25:10 min)

9.    Importance of supportive supervisors. (24:30 min)

10. If companies do want to implement remote work, what all should they pay attention to engage with their employees? (27:00 min)

11. Re-onboard the employees returning back to the office (31:35 min)

12. Working women were disproportionately affected during the pandemic even though in theory working from home should have given them better work-life balance. What can be done to make it better for them? (34:35 min)

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DeFi is beyond Fintech as we know.

Prof. Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, talks to Venkat SN, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University about his just released book, "DeFi and the Future of Finance"*.

In this conversation Prof. Harvey explains how Decentralized Finance solves the problems of traditional finance, technology risks and regulatory risks of DeFi, and how you can take a collateralized DeFi loan. For the curious he gives a primer on Bitcoin, Crypto, Ethereum, Stablecoin, NFT, etc. 

Prof. Harvey is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Investment Strategy Advisor to the Man Group plc, the world’s largest, publicly listed, global hedge fund provider.

Topics discussed and start times:

1.    What is Decentralized Finance or DeFi (3:15 min)

2.    How Decentralized Finance solves the problems of traditional finance (7:00 min)

3.    Value proposition of bitcoin (19:00 min)

4.    How’s Ethereum different? And what is “gas fee” for Ethereum? (22:55 min)

5.    What are Stablecoins? (Some can be redeemed 1:1 for USD) (27:00 min)

6.    Risks in DeFi. Crypto exchanges hacked, but DeFi is even Quantum Proof! (34:00 min)

7.    China’s digital yuan, crypto-currency ban - regulatory risks facing DeFi (43:38 min)

8.    Fungible Tokens and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Your $ is fungible, your land is non-fungible. (53:20 min)

9.    Can a person take a DeFi loan on their house / collateral? Yes, here’s how. (55:30 min)

10. Enforcing repayment in the event of a loan default (1:01:40 min)

11. Smart Contracts substantially eases the threat of legal burdens (1:03:45 min)

12. DeFi can help the underbanked and unbanked around the world (1:08:11 min)

*Link to Prof. Harvey's book: https://www.amazon.com/DeFi-Future-Finance-Campbell-Harvey/dp/1119836018/ref=sr_1_3

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Global dependence on coal will reduce significantly over the next 15 years.

Sabyasachi Mishra, Business Head at JSW International Tradecorp, Singapore explains why coal prices are at historical highs. He was the former Head of Business Development at Tata International in Singapore.

In this wide-ranging conversation, he covered:

• The types of coal, the global and regional trade flows in coal

• Why have coal prices more than doubled since May 2021?

• The impact on coal trade flows from the impasse between China and Australia.

• Indian companies picking up millions of tons of discharged Australian coal (different grades) from Chinese ports at a $12 to $50 a ton discount

• How will coal and power shortages in China and India pan out? (China- Wait for Chinese New Year!)

• Indian Electricity Purchase Prices from power plants need to be reviewed.

• Renewables yet to substitute coal as a dependable energy source

• How long will we be dependent on coal for energy?

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Coal production, consumption and trade statistics and infographics from IEA (2020), Coal 2020, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2020

How Electricity is Made infographic from World Coal Association https://www.worldcoal.org/coal-facts/...

Steel Production infographic from World Coal Association https://www.worldcoal.org/coal-facts/...

Prof. George S Day, Professor Emeritus of Wharton Business School, talks to Venkat SN, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University on proven strategies to thrive in an era of Digital Turbulence.

In Part 2 of a detailed discussion based on his recent book See Sooner, Act Faster: How Vigilant Leaders Thrive in an Era of Digital Turbulence, (https://www.amazon.com/See-Sooner-Act...), Prof. Day explains:

How Adobe reinvented its strategy for the digital future? What can we learn from Shantanu Narayen’s leadership, and approach to formulating strategy in this era? (from 0:15 min)

In the digital era, how can leaders sense weak signals, and then act on them, before rivals respond? (from 4:45 min)

GE Healthcare in India and China - Reverse Innovation (from 11:15 min)

Thinking in terms of future scenarios - Include at least one unthinkable or hard to believe scenario. How Philips prepared for the future of LED lighting? (from 14:45 min) (Use of guiding questions in scenario planning discussed here)

What should organizations do when a new technology shows up in a hype cycle? (from 20:30 min)

Willful Blindness of Facebook - ignoring problems, and not dealing with uncomfortable information (from 24:45 min)

Recommendations to organizational leaders in an era of Digital Turbulence (from 28:20 min)

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Prof. George S Day, Professor Emeritus of Wharton Business School, talks to Venkat SN, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University on proven strategies to thrive in an era of Digital Turbulence.

In a detailed discussion based on his recent book See Sooner, Act Faster: How Vigilant Leaders Thrive in an Era of Digital Turbulence, (https://www.amazon.com/See-Sooner-Act...), Prof. Day explains:

Why Outside in Thinking is a better way to create value for the customer, and the company (from 3:40 min)

How Amazon practices this strategy (from 7:00 min)

Why companies need to actively keep an eye on their periphery and spot the developments there (from 10:15 min);

Weak signals, why are they important to watch (from 13:35 min)

Spotting uncertainties in periphery of the Chocolate industry and developing new business opportunities (from 18:00 min)

Vigilant vs Vulnerable organizations (from 23:45 min)

Why is digital turbulence posing new challenges for leaders and organizations? (from 25:45 min) (FinTechs in Singapore, Insurance industry…)

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1. Do people take more risks shortly after eating spicy food?

2. Risk Personalities - “how much is nature and how much is nurture?"

3. Male traders with higher testosterone levels end up with worse returns

4. Most entrepreneurs are not high-risk takers

5. If your mother tongue has NO future-time reference then you are much more future-oriented!

Her earlier book The Gray Rhino is the #1 Best-Selling English language book in China and a #1 Amazon bestseller in the financial risk management category. 

For more information about her and her work visit https://www.thegrayrhino.com/

Credits for Images - Risk Underlying Scales and The Risk Type Compass

© Psychological Consultancy. For more information about them visit https://www.psychological-consultancy...

https://www.psychological-consultancy...

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Well-known author and speaker Ms. Michele Wucker explains in this MoveConversations interview :

1. How #TheGrayRhino is different from the rare Black Swan events

2. The crackdown on big tech in China is because the government saw some Gray Rhinos in the sector

3. How we deal with Gray Rhinos

4. Gray Rhinos can present opportunities

5. Why we should be trained in identifying Grey Rhinos and VUCA challenges 

A popular Ted Talk speaker, her book is The #1 Best-Selling English language book in China and a #1 Amazon bestseller in the financial risk management category. 

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Future of Footwear Retail is Here

• Over a million consumers used findmeashoe.com's solution online in the last 6 months alone.

• The solution takes a 3D image of the feet and recommends best fit shoes.

• Leading retailers who adopted it online and in store have seen 2.5 to 4 times customer conversion

• Plus a 40-70% reduction in returns

• Retailers can offer better designs, saleable sizes, and assortments with this solution.

In conversation with SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University, Singapore.

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The contributions will go towards procuring medical equipment like Oxygen Concentrators for short term relief and building medical infrastructure in India in the medium term.

In this special episode, we talk to Amit Gupta, President of TIE Singapore about their Mission India initiative as well as the "I Breathe for India" Virtual Fundraiser on Sunday 9th May, 2021, 6pm IST (8:30pm SGT) to be streamed on YouTube, Facebook etc.

We talk to Amit to know more about the initiative:

1. Objectives

2. Credible partners who will provide the last mile, ground logistics support

3. Planned impact of your donation, and

4. How to donate

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TiE Singapore website: https://singapore.tie.org/ 

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Kasi is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 2 Kasi talks about

1. The idea for crisis resolution that generates multimillion dollar opportunity

2. Long-term benefits

Sources, Acknowledgements and Credits

Soybean Process Flow

Source: NutionalAdvance.com

Soybean Production and Imports in China

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2...

ANEC's Contracts for Soybeans (recent version)

https://anec.com.br/article/contracts...  

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Kasi is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 1, Kasi talks about:

1. Soybean trade in circa 2000-3 and impact of China joining WTO

2. The trade is most optimistic on China and the unforeseen Crisis hits everyone

Sources, Acknowledgements and Credits

Soybean Process Flow

Source: NutionalAdvance.com

Soybean Production and Imports in China

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2...

ANEC's Contracts for Soybeans (recent version)

https://anec.com.br/article/contracts...

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We talk to Siraj about his experience in leading the transformation of a traditional B2B business into a large FMCG corporation by expanding Cargill’s Food business in India in edible oils, flour, corn products and food ingredients.

Siraj is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. He sits on the board of Tata Global Beverages Ltd as an Independent Director.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In the second part of our discussion, Siraj talks about:

• Dealing with Volatility in India - Political, Economic, Social, Policy, Legal, Taxation …

• Navigating the differences in approaches towards MNC investments ... Those between the centre, state, and local authorities.

• Experiences in practising Ethical Business in India

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We talk to Siraj about his experience in leading the transformation of a traditional B2B business into a large FMCG corporation by expanding Cargill’s food business in India in edible oils, flour, corn products and food ingredients.

Siraj is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. He sits on the board of Tata Global Beverages Ltd as an Independent Director.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In the first part of our discussion, Siraj talks about:

• How should MNCs think, organise, and operate differently in India?

• Key elements of his India strategy as an MNC head

• Key areas that MNC leaders in India must get the freedom and authority from HQ

• How should MNCs think about and execute M&As and JVs in India?

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We talk to Mr. Srinath Keshavan, Chief Executive of Trade Risk Consulting and a well-known Trade Finance consultant. He has been a trainer for Euromoney and World Bank Group for many years.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In this discussion, Srinath shares his views on:

• Supply Chain Finance and how it works.

• Role of Supply Chain Finance funds

• What led to Greensill Capital's collapse?

• The context in which such collapses happen

Reference: GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE FORUM; STANDARD DEFINITIONS FOR TECHNIQUES OF SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE

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We talk to Udayan about the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats that Indian pharmaceutical industry faces.

Udayan is a graduate of Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 3 of our discussion, Udayan talks about:

- What are Indian Pharma's Opportunities?

- What are Indian Pharma's Threats?

- What needs to be done to capitalise/mitigate them?

- What are the Emerging/New Trends in pharma sector

Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Statistics: https://www.ibef.org/industry/pharmac...

Saurav Chemicals Limited (SCL Limited): www.sauravchemicals.com

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We talk to Udayan about the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats that Indian pharmaceutical industry faces.

While India supplies over 50% of global demand for vaccines, and over 80% of the drugs to fight AIDS, did you know that Poland has 16 Technology Parks for the pharma industry just between Warsaw and Krakow? Over 600 companies, 10 universities and institutes are already connected to them.

Is India building integrated ecosystems for its pharmaceutical industry?

Udayan is a graduate of Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 2 of our discussion, Udayan talks about:

- What are Indian Pharma's Strengths?

- What are Indian Pharma's Weaknesses?

- What needs to be done?

Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Statistics: https://www.ibef.org/industry/pharmac...

Saurav Chemicals Limited (SCL Limited): www.sauravchemicals.com

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We talk to Udayan about the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats that Indian pharmaceutical industry faces.

Did you know?

- India supplies over 80% of the antiretroviral drugs used globally to combat AIDS

- India supplies over 50% of global demand for vaccines

- India supplies 40% of generic demand in the US

How did India reach that position?

Udayan is a graduate of Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 1 of our discussion, Udayan talks about:

- Overall Global Pharma Market Scenario

- Pharma industry value chain

- India's standing in the market and value chain

- The pioneering efforts in Indian Pharma

Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Statistics: https://www.ibef.org/industry/pharmac...

Saurav Chemicals Limited (SCL Limited): www.sauravchemicals.com

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• How to spot opportunities in new foreign markets?

• Tips to convert an opportunity into a viable business and develop it.

• His experience in building relations and developing business in Turkey

• How developed construction steel business from Turkey?

• How he identified an opportunity to sell condoms to Turkey and sold 40% of his Thai factory's capacity with a single order?

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To understand the impact of Risks and Uncertainties in Trade, we talk to Mr. Srinath Keshavan, Chief Executive of Trade Risk Consulting and a well-known Trade Finance consultant. He has been a trainer for Euromoney and World Bank Group for many years.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 3 of our discussions, Srinath discusses:

• Blockchain technology and Digitalization of Trade Finance

• Checklist for Digitalisation

• Hello Gen Z! Future careers in Trade Finance will be Digital

• Non-Banking players enter Trade Finance

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To understand the impact of Risks and Uncertainties in Trade, we talk to Mr. Srinath Keshavan, Chief Executive of Trade Risk Consulting and a well-known Trade Finance consultant. He has been a trainer for Euromoney and World Bank Group for many years.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 2 of our discussions, Srinath discusses:

• Impact of US-China Trade war

• Impact of Brexit

• Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

• Risk vs Uncertainty in Trade

• Fallout of commodity price swings.

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To understand the winds of change sweeping the world of Trade Finance, we talk to Mr. Srinath Keshavan, Chief Executive of Trade Risk Consulting and a well-known Trade Finance consultant. He has been a trainer for Euromoney and World Bank Group for many years.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 1 of our conversation about Trade Finance, Srinath discusses:

• What is Trade Finance?

• Winds of Change sweeping Global Trade Finance

• Change in trade finance landscape - Global regulations, Compliance challenges...

• Impacts of these changes on lenders? Say, on profitability of Trade Financing

• Global trade finance frauds ... anecdotes.

• IoT and GPS technologies to protect your cargo.

Trade Risk Consulting: https://www.traderiskconsulting.com/

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To understand how Indian organised retail has evolved and how will it transform in future, we talk to Mr Hans Udeshi, former President - Home & Living at Spar India and former CEO-General Merchandise at Future Value Retail Ltd.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 3 of our conversation, Hans discusses:

• Where can a retailer look for new ideas?

• How to sell a huge quantity of a novel product before competition catches up?

• China: Consumer goods imports and sourcing by Indian retailers

• Pros and cons of "schemes", "discounts", and "sale"

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To understand how Indian organised retail has evolved and how will it transform in future, we talk to Mr Hans Udeshi, former President - Home & Living at Spar India and former CEO-General Merchandise at Future Value Retail Ltd.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 2 of our conversation about Retail Practices, Hans discusses:

• The IKEA Challenge to Indian Retail

• Share of Traditional vs Modern Retail vs E-Commerce.

• Customer Service and Loyalty in Modern Retail

• Jio and Tata's Super Apps - Prospects.

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To understand how Indian organised retail has evolved and how will it transform in future, we talk to Mr Hans Udeshi, former President - Home & Living at Spar India and former CEO-General Merchandise at Future Value Retail Ltd.

Hans is an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and runs his own consulting practice for retail businesses.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 1 of our conversation about Retail Practices, Hans discusses:

• Are they different across cities / regions of India?

• How are site or location selection done for modern retail?

• How are SKUs and merchandising adapted to suit smaller cities?

• How are categories managed differently in big metros and smaller cities?

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To understand the basics of Jewellery Retail business, we talk to Mr. A Shivaram, former Head of All India Merchandising, Training and Regional Sales at Tanishq and now founder of Retail Gurukul. (https://linktr.ee/RetailGurukul)

Shivaram is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 3 of our conversation, Shivaram discusses:

• What criteria to use for jewellery selection?

• Should you buy during festive days like dhan theras, akshay thritiya etc. Or buy in off season?

• Should you be influenced by "discounts" or "sale" while buying jewellery? 

• How do gold prices impact family run businesses and profitability?

• What are the metrics for profitability in the jewellery business?

• What are the success factors in jewellery retail and luxury retail in India?

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To understand the basics of Jewellery Retail business, we talk to Mr. A Shivaram, former Head of All India Merchandising, Training and Regional Sales at Tanishq and now founder of Retail Gurukul. (https://linktr.ee/RetailGurukul)

Shivaram is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 2 of our conversation, Shivaram discusses:

• How Indian luxury retail has changed over the last few decades

• How Retail Gurukul helps jewellers to be future ready

• Does the jewellery retail sector attract the right type of talents in India?

• Important traits necessary to succeed in sales jobs in Jewellery retail

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To understand the basics of Jewellery Retail business, we talk to Mr. A Shivaram, former Head of All India Merchandising, Training and Regional Sales at Tanishq and now founder of Retail Gurukul. (https://linktr.ee/RetailGurukul)

Shivaram is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 1, Shivaram explains:

• How jewellery retail chains select franchisees. What are the important criteria?

• After opening in major metros, what criteria do they use to select the next set of cities to expand?

• What market segments Tanishq and other chains target?

• How do Indian corporate jewellery chains position the products and their brand?

• What criteria do you use to select the merchandise and SKUs for a jewellery store? Does it change with location?

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In Part 2, Rajeev talks about

- China: How China has changed the global Jewellery business

- Technological Changes in the Jewellery Industry.

- Shifts in the production side, supply chain re-configurations, industry consolidation ...

- What India needs to do to move up the value chain

- Changes at the consumer end of the business, rise of e-commerce

- Key success factors in jewellery industry

- Outlook over 5-10 years

- What he liked in his entrepreneurial journey

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Rajeev is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

Rajeev was determined to be a serial entrepreneur. But it was the jewellery business that kept luring him back every time he started a different venture. He finally took a plunge into it and did not look back afterwards.

In Part 1, we discuss:

- His chance meeting with an African gentleman who gave him a gemstone for a bottle of beer.

- His trials and tribulations of starting jewellery exports business

- How he secured his first export order

- How did he survive during the financial crisis

- What was the Indian jewellery exports landscape like when he started

- Major jewellery exporting and importing nations

- What's holding back Indian jewellery business

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Tushar is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 3 of the discussion, Tushar talks about:

• Major factors that influence steel prices

• Factors that cause volatility and uncertainty in global steel prices? How do you manage those risks?

• Environmental issues that steel industries are facing

• Outlook for steel outlook over 5 -10 years

• Career prospects in steel industry

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Tushar is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 2 of the discussion, Tushar talks about:

• How China has changed the global steel business

• New/emerging technologies in steel industry, steel scrap recycling, etc.

• Shifts in the production side, supply chain reconfigurations, industry consolidation ...

• Competition for steel from aluminium and engineered plastics

• Should SAIL acquire steel plants overseas? If Yes, Where?

Tushar is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In Part 1 of the discussion, Tushar talks about:

• What types of steels are produced in India and what important types of steel India imports?

• Which countries are the major steel producers, exporters, and importers?

• What are the impacts of US Trade restrictions on steel imports into the USA?

• From Ore to Fork, what are the major steps in transformation of iron in an integrated steel plant?

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Kumar proved them all wrong and went on to introduce marketing strategies that were path breaking for the Indian movie industry.

Now, with scores of Hollywood, Bollywood and Tamil box-office hits under his belt, Kumar shares his experiences with experimentation and innovation in the industry.

In Part 2 of the interview Kumar talks about:

• China: Challenges in distributing Indian movies

• Surprise prediction: the next big overseas market for Indian movies

• Avatar, Ice Age, Slumdog and major challenging movies Kumar distributed

• His path breaking initiatives in distributing Hollywood, Bollywood and Tamil movies

• Whose preferences are reshaping Bollywood hits?

• Who is the top money maker in Bollywood now?

• Revenue sharing and financing

• Cinema Halls vs OTT Channels - What's the future?

• Challenges for OTT in India? Will the next gen prefer OTT over theatre?

• Marketing strategy to deal with uncertainties that the Indian movie distribution is facing

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Kumar proved them all wrong and went on to introduce marketing strategies that were path breaking for the Indian movie industry.

Now, with scores of Hollywood, Bollywood and Tamil box-office hits under his belt, Kumar shares his experiences with experimentation and innovation in the industry.

In Part 1 of the interview Kumar talks about:

• Transformation of the Indian movie distribution landscape over the last 2 decades.

• His views about the current team in the Censor Board of India

• Are Bollywood hits released nowadays only during festival holidays like Eid, Diwali, etc.

• Posters, Songs, Trailers ... What is most important today for successful movie release?

• Piracy - have things changed for the better or worse? And what to do.

• How are the overseas markets evolving for Indian cinema? What are the challenges in distributing Indian movies outside the country?

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In Part 3 of the interview, we discuss -

- Viren's tips for aspirant traders

- Are seasoned traders always successful?

- On sugar substitutes

- Factors that influence Sugar price

- Factors that cause Volatility and uncertainty in Sugar Trade

- Water usage, environmental impacts, and social responsibility

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In Part 2, we discuss:

- From farm to spoon what are the major steps in the sugar business?

- Is sugar quite a ‘political’ crop around the world?

- Major recent events in the history of sugar business

- Shifts in production, processing, supply chain reconfigurations

- Why has sugar consumption not fallen?

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Viren Verma, Managing Director, (Sugar and Commodity Risk Management), Global Strategic Procurement, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, USA. Viren is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and an active member of IIFT Alumni Association Singapore (IIFTAAS).

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In the first part of the discussion, we learn:

• Which nations are major producers, exporters, and importers of Sugar

• Seasonality of Sugarcane in northern and southern hemisphere and when is Beetroot (source of beet sugar) harvested

• That jaggery is produced in many countries, not just in South Asia

• And of course, how he became a sugar trader

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In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In the final part of discussion on Coffee Trade, Manish provides interesting details about:

• What causes volatility and uncertainty in coffee trade?

• How do you manage those risks?

• Environmental impacts of the increasing demand for coffee

• Water consumption per cup of coffee - no it is not one cup!

• What's that Manish believed was true about the coffee trade when he started out and over the years has learnt that it is not so? Don't miss the reveal.

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In the second part of discussion on Coffee Trade, Manish provides insights on:

• Chicory’s role in Indian filter coffee

• Major developments in coffee business

• Vietnam - from a nobody to number 2 in coffee exports

• Major technological advancements in coffee business

• Changes in consumer preferences in coffee

Manish is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and an active member of IIFT Alumni Association Singapore (IIFTAAS).

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

In the first part of discussion on Coffee Trade, Manish highlights some of the basics of coffee business:

• Arabica and Robusta - what's the difference?

• Coffee Crop Cycles

• Major Coffee Growers and Exporters

• Farm to Cup - the major steps in coffee business

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

Part 3 of 3

“For us in this business we have to wear multiple hats. At times we have to be meteorologists, at times we have to be data analysts, at times we have to track and have an idea of the financial markets, which have an impact on price.” … Guru Pandit

In the concluding part of the discussion, Guru talks about

- Volatility and Uncertainty in Grain trade

- El Nino and La Nina and their impact on various countries.

- Soil and Seed research, use of Satellite imaging and GPS data

- Data Analytics, and Blockchain in Grain Trade

In conversation with Mr. SN Venkat, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University.

Part 2 of 3. In this segment of the discussion, Guru provides his insights on:

- Correlations in Grain prices

- Advancements in Production, Processing and Supply chain - Vietnam's Progress

- How China changed everything

The book is a fascinating exploration of the puranic stories in the light of modern science. It also serves as a primer to the general interest reader by tackling some of the questions that modern science is grappling within its study of the cosmos.

In this free flowing discussion on his research and the book, Ganesh discusses some interesting parallels between the description by the ancient Indians and the modern science. The interview covers the sun, moon and the stars as well as some interesting facts. For Example,

Did you know that the Puranas

- had units and measurements to describe distances from nanometers to 10s of millions of light years?

- described Pi with 99% accuracy? - describe accurately the evolution of the Sun and the Moon?

- describe the locations of continents, and oceans on earth but also the Pacific Ring of Fire deep under the sea?

Following the discussion with Venkat, Ganesh takes a wide range of questions from the audience.