Columbia India Business Conference 2026 – 21st Edition
Columbia Business School
Columbia University, New York City, April 4th, 2026
Join us for the 21st Annual India Business Conference at Columbia Business School in New York City on April 4, 2026. This flagship event explores India’s growing influence in business, innovation, and sustainability. This year’s theme is The New India Playbook.
Nikhil Kamath
Keynote Speaker, Co-Founder, Zerodha
Aisha Rao
Founder & Creative Director, Aisha Rao Design House
K. T. Rama Rao
Working President of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)
Raj Shamani
Founder, Figuring Out Media
Ashish Gupta
President & Chief Investment Officer, Axis Mutual Fund
Amit Rajvanshy
Senior Director of Strategy, Cloudflare
Sanjay Nath
Co-Founder & Partner, Blume Ventures
Amrit Pal Singh
Business Head - North America, Titan Company Limited
Riya Chhabra
Global Growth Strategist, Meta
Amit Verma
Chief General Manager & Country Head, State Bank of India, US Operations, New York
Srini Adapa
Chief Growth Officer, Premier Energies Limited
Parag Sharma
Chief Executive Officer, Resolven
Raghu Yarlagadda
Co-Founder and CEO, FalconX
Deedy Das
Partner, Menlo Ventures
Masoom Minawala
Founder, MSF Media
Rashmi Gopinath
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, BAM Corner Point
Rohit Arora
CEO & Co-Founder, Biz2Credit & Biz2X
Megha Rao
Founder and CEO, HoliCHIC
Kshitij Bhatia
Founder and Managing Partner, First Principles Funds
Jay Jayaraman
Volunteer, ISPIRT, Ex-Colgate Palmolive Executive
Nitin Rakesh
CEO, Mphasis
Dr. Ravi Ramamurti
Director, Center for Emerging Markets, Northeastern University
Karna Chokshi
Group COO, BlueMachines.ai
Nehan Sethi
Strategic Business Lead, Harvey.ai
Title Sponsor
Gold Sponsor
IBC Past Years
NASDAQ Opening Bell
Speakers and Organizing Team at Times Square
Past IBC Speakers
Vivek Pandit
Co-Lead, Private Equity
and Principal Investors, McKinsey
S. Jaishankar
Minister of External Affairs of India
Smriti Irani
Union Minister,
Minority Affairs
Nikesh Arora
Chairman and CEO,
Palo Alto Networks
Dr. Arvind Gupta
Co-founder and Head,
Digital India Foundation
Piyush Goyal
Union Minister,
Commerece and Industry
Radhika Jones
Editor-In-Chief of Vanity Fair Magazine
Arvind Krishna
Chairman and CEO, IBM Global
Aashish Chauhan
Managing Director and CEO, National Stock Exchange
Anjula Acharia
CEO & Founder A-Series Investments,
and Manager of Priyanka Chopra
Sanjay Jha
Former Congress Spokesperson
Vishal Bakshi
Co-Founder and Managing Partner,
Avatar Growth Capital
Vijay Subramaniam
CEO and Founder, Collective
Artists Network
KV Subramanian
Ex-Chief Economic Advisor, GOI
Michael McCabe
Resident Director - North America,
TATA Sons
Sanjay Nath
Co-Founder and Managing Partner,
Blume Ventures
Vishal Tulsyan
Founder, Motilal Oswal Alternate
Invesment Advisors
Gaurav Singhal
Co-Head Energy, Transition IB,
Bank of America
Priyanka Gill
Co-Founder, Good Glamm Group
Harsh Jain
CEO & Co-Founder of Dream11
Manoj Kohli
Country Head - SoftBank India,
Ex-CEO Bharti Airtel
Amitabh Kant
Former CEO, NITI Aayog
Viral Acharya
Former Deputy Governor, RBI
Arjun Saigal
Managing Director and Co-head
of Private Equity Asia,
Morgan Stanley
Kamal Singh
SVP, WestBridge Capital