Fortune India to honour trailblazers from the world of business at the prestigious 40under40 celebrations today

The palm-fringed Taj Lands End hotel in Mumbai, overlooking the Arabian Sea and the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, will play host to a unique congregation from 5:15 PM. The 40 Under 40 is Fortune India’s annual list of the 40 most successful names under the age of 40 in the world of business. They will be felicitated for the unparalleled impact they have created over the past year, embodying India’s demographic dividend as one of its biggest strengths as the country makes strides towards the vision of a ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047.

Following an address by Sourav Majumdar, the editor-in-chief of Fortune India—which will serve as a prelude to the evening—will be a panel discussion titled ‘From Niche to Scale’. Participating in this discussion will be Palak Shah , the co-founder and CEO of Ekaya Banaras; Sagar Daryani , the co-founder and CEO of Wow! Momo; Ayush Bathwal , co-founder of Third Wave Coffee; and Saloni Anand , the co-founder of Traya.

Artificial intelligence has become inextricably linked to the personal and professional, particularly among the youth. Consequently, Fortune India brings a fireside conversation, titled ‘AI: Made in India’, with Pratyush Kumar , the co-founder of Sarvam AI, which has quickly emerged as India’s answer to the AI hysteria. 

This year’s eclectic list features both first-generation entrepreneurs and inheritors of established businesses. One of the questions that each successive generation faces is the reinvention of a legacy-based business, and therefore, the fireside chat follows a panel discussion, titled ‘Reinventing Legacies’, featuring the next generation of some of the most uniquely successful legacy businesses in the country. The panellists will be Avantika Saraogi , executive director of Balrampur Chini Mills; Keshav Reddy , the founder of Equal; and Aman Mehta , the MD of Torrent Pharmaceuticals.

The crescendo of the evening will feature three unmissable fireside conversations. The first will be a masterclass on entrepreneurship—'Entrepreneurship Masterclass' with Ronnie Screwvala, who pioneered cable television, founded UTV , a media and entertainment conglomerate, and upGrad, one of the most well-known edtech companies in India.

Sustainability has become an essential facet of any business in India, and talking about it in the fireside conversation ‘Building Sustainable Businesses’ will be Sanjiv Mehta, an FMCG veteran who has held leadership positions in Unilever in a three-decade stint.

The final fireside conversation, ‘The Challenge of Public Markets,’ explores the challenges in public markets, and speaking on it will be the authority on public markets in India—Ashish Chauhan, the CEO of NSE . 

The evening will draw to a close with the formal awards ceremony. The 40 Under 40 event will be livestreamed on www.fortuneindia.com and the social media handles of Fortune India.