Sreekant Khandekar
Co-Founder & CEO
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Are marketers being fatalistic when they bemoan the continuing decline of brand loyalty? Or are there categories and geographies where consumers are immune to the temptation of other brands?
								Ashish Mishra
CEO India & South Asia
Interbrand
								Deepa Krishnan
Head - Marketing, India and Southwest Asia
Hyatt
								Saurabh Jain
CMO
Zydus Wellness
								Swati Rathi
Head of Marketing
Godrej Appliances
								Venkata Susmita Biswas
Executive Editor
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Traditionally, brand positioning determined every aspect of the product as well as the way in which it was marketed to consumers. New businesses no longer agonise about brand positioning in the same way. In a fast changing market, is the idea of brand positioning outdated?
								Alok Arya
Chief Marketing Officer
Equentis Wealth Advisory
								Ashima Mehra
CEO
FCB INDIA
								Neeraj Sharma
Executive Vice President-Planning
Ogilvy
								Pratik Mukherjee
Head of Business - Beauty
House of Masaba
								Shubhranshu Singh
Chief Marketing Officer
Tata Motors Commercial Vehicles
								Sreekant Khandekar
Co-Founder & CEO
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For all the reach and engagement of digital media, the screen size matters. The mobile may be great for generating sales but when it comes to building a brand, is TV (and other media) still the best option?
								Rachana Lokhande
Founder
Glocal Bridge
								Sachin Phansikar
Chief Operating Officer
Business Standard
								Shweta Rangra
Head of Marketing
Hafele India
								Sujay Rachh
Chief Marketing Officer
Nuvama Group
								Shreyas Kulkarni
Assistant Editor
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The digital medium is giving marketers unique and new ways to interact with consumers. Retail media is now mainstream and C-TV is a promising hybrid option. What makes these channels a priority for marketers?
								Esha Arora
SVP Growth and Insights
Info Edge India
								Krishna Menon
Chief Operating Officer
QYOU Media Inc.
								Pallavi Barman
Chief Strategy Advisor
HRX
								Vaibhav Kapur
Senior Director, Monetisation
Flipkart
								Vandana Ramkrishna
Chief Operating Officer
Madison Media Ace
								Varun Mohan
Head of Growth & Revenue
MiQ India
								Vignesh Narayanan
Vice President - Business Head, Media
JioAds
								Venkata Susmita Biswas
Executive Editor
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Many of the brands that have been built online tend to allocate greater budgets for performance marketing than for brand building. Is Sales stealthily gobbling up the Marketing function?
								Jahid Ahmed
SVP & Head of Digital Acquisition
HDFC Bank
								Jiteen Aggarwal
CMO
Hettich India
								Oindrila Roy
Managing Director
Publicis India
								Rohan Chincholi
Chief Digital Officer
Havas Media India
								Shrinivas Khanolkar
Head - Products, Marketing & Corporate Communication
Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India)
								Tushar Malhotra
Director of Sales and Marketing
Bisleri International
Established brands can find that their market share is being nibbled on by numerous D2C brands, How should they respond?
								Krishnarao S Buddha
Senior Category Head
Parle Products
								Rishi Kakar
Head of Marketing and Strategy
Kokuyo Camlin
								Shwetal Basu
Customer Care Associate and Chief of Marketing and Communication
Shoppers Stop
								Sreekant Khandekar
Co-Founder & CEO
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