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The
Day’s Sessions
Centre, New Delhi
Across four tracks, the day is designed as one shared inquiry that carries this year's theme into different domains of practice. The conversations are meant to provoke rather than present. From masterclasses to live cases to open debates, every session format invites you in, to press on a real decision, put your own questions to the people who have wrestled with them, and think alongside the room rather than listen to it.
Session
What enables movements, reforms, and organisations to endure beyond funding, leadership, and their founders?
Ashwin Yardi
Non-Executive Chairman
Capgemini India
About
Ashwin Yardi is the Non-Executive Chairman of Capgemini India. In his previous role, he served as CEO of Capgemini Technology Services India for seven years and was also a member of the Capgemini Group Executive Committee. With over 30 years of experience in consulting and information technology, Ashwin has led large-scale business transformation initiatives across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, helping Fortune 1000 organizations drive growth, innovation, and business impact. His strength is in driving transformational outcomes that create sustainable value and strengthen organizational performance.
Beyond his corporate leadership, Ashwin is actively involved in Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives focused on digital inclusion, diversity, and sustainability, and serves as Co-Chair of YuWaah, UNICEF’s youth empowerment initiative. By qualification, Ashwin is an Engineer, MBA, and CFA.
Speaking At
Chetna Sinha
Founder
Mann Deshi Foundation & Mann Deshi Mahila Bank
About
Chetna Sinha is the Founder and Chairperson of Mann Deshi Bank and Mann Deshi Foundation, and a leading advocate for women’s economic empowerment. In 1997, she founded Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, India’s pioneering bank for and by rural women. She subsequently established India’s first business school for rural women and has championed initiatives in financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, healthcare, sports, climate-smart agriculture, and women-led producer organisations. Mann Deshi reached one million women in 2024. A Yale, Ashoka, and Schwab Fellow, Chetna has held leadership roles at the World Economic Forum, W20, G20 EMPOWER, and BRICS Women’s Business Alliance. She received the Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2018 and addressed the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2024.
Speaking At
Dr. R Balasubramaniam
Member NITI Aayog
Government of India
About
Dr. R. Balasubramaniam (Dr. Balu) is a Member of NITI Aayog, Government of India, with over four decades of experience in grassroots development, public policy, and governance. A physician by training, he holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. He founded the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) in 1984, which today reaches over three million people, and the Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement (GRAAM), a public policy think tank. He previously served on the Capacity Building Commission, Government of India, and currently chairs SEBI’s Social Stock Exchange Advisory Committee. A former Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor at Cornell University, Dr. Balu has taught and advised on adaptive leadership, governance, and public policy in India and internationally.
Speaking At
Ravi Sreedharan
Founder & President
Indian School of Development Management (ISDM)
About
Ravi Sreedharan transitioned to the social sector in 2011 after a distinguished 24-year corporate career. During his tenure at HSBC, he worked across more than 30 countries, holding key leadership positions including Regional Marketing Head for the Middle East and Africa, Head of Consumer Products for Asia Pacific, Consumer Banking Head for Indonesia, and CEO & President Director of Bank Ekonomi.
He later joined the Azim Premji Foundation, where he led initiatives focused on strengthening leadership and management within the education system. His work focuses on building stronger institutions, enhancing leadership capabilities, and driving sustainable impact across the social sector. Ravi holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT (BHU).
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How do organisations build the governance, leadership and resilience needed to endure beyond individuals and funding cycles?
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How can public systems become more adaptive, responsive and capable of sustaining change at scale?
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What kinds of funding relationships enable organisations to think long-term, embrace uncertainty, and invest in lasting change?
How do we move beyond outputs and ask whether change is truly taking root and enduring over time?
Development
Management Clinics
A focused 1:1 conversation with an expert who can help you think through what to do next.
Ask an Expert
Work through a governance, funding or program impact challenge you’re navigating with an experienced sector practitioner.
Ask an Expert
The challenge you keep coming back to? Lets unpack it.
Every leader carries one — a team that won’t quite own its work, a stakeholder relationship going sideways, a program stuck in place, or a governance question you keep almost-answering. Bring the challenge you keep circling to a focused one-on-one with an experienced sector practitioner, and find a way forward.
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Note: Prior booking is required. Once you have your DoDM 2026 pass, choose your preferred slot and reserve your Pitch Health Check. Slots are limited and subject to availability.
Vinita Gursahani Singh
Trustee
We The People Abhiyaan
Poonam Shukla
Head
Open Learning Network, Centre for Exponential Change
Sakshi Breed
Design Strategist
Strategic Design Network, Centre for Exponential Change
Nivedita Krishna
Founder
PACTA
Byomkesh Mishra
Co-founder
Medha
Pitch Health Check
Bring your project idea, funding proposition or donor pitch for a candid outside view on what works and what could be sharper.
Pitch Health Check
Is your idea stronger than the way you’re pitching it?
Somewhere between the idea in your head and the pitch you make, something can get lost. Bring your project idea, funding proposition or donor pitch for a focused outside view. Find out what lands, what gets lost, and what could be said differently before it matters most.
Note: Prior booking is required. Once you have your DoDM 2026 pass, choose your preferred slot and reserve your Pitch Health Check. Slots are limited and subject to availability.
Srishti Sharma
Lead
Social Impact, ON PURPOSE
Vivek Pradeep Rana
Managing Partner
Gnothi Seauton Advisors
Nayanika Das
Team Lead
Ecosystem Capacity Building, Pravah
Diagnostic Clinic
Explore SIMM, DMA, CEAT and AI tools with experts to understand what they reveal about your organisation and what you could do next.
Diagnostic Clinic
You have the diagnostic. Now what?
How strong are your governance, data and impact practices? And where could AI strengthen your work? Explore these questions through practical tools and frameworks, one-on-one with experts who understand the organisational journey. Come with a question, explore a tool, and leave with a clearer sense of what to do next.
Note: Prior booking is required. Once you have your DoDM 2026 pass, choose the tool you’d like to explore and reserve your slot. For SIMM, DMA and CEAT, please have your completed diagnostic results with you for the consultation. Slots are limited and subject to availability.
Sreya Menon
Senior Research Associate
Center for Data Science and Social Impact (CDSSI), ISDM
Ritika Sebastian
Manager
Research, Center for Data Science and Social Impact (CDSSI), ISDM
Devleena Chatterjee
Manager
Research, Global Knowledge Hub, ISDM
Abhishek Gupta
Partner & CEO
NavGurukul
Dr. Garima Sharma
Manager, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Strategic Capacity Building
ISDM
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