The National HRD Network, 14th National Conference was held at Gurgaon from 01 to 03 December 2010. The theme of the conference was "Towards the next Orbit. The venue of the conference was at Kingdom of dreams, which has a state of art auditorium for projection of 4D movies.

The Conference was attended by a galaxy of corporate giants and academicians. The prominent ones' amongst them were:-

1. Mr.Arun Maira, Member Planning Commission, Government of India.
2. Mr.S.K Chaturvedi , Conference Chairman and Chairman & Managing Director, Power Grid Corporation of India .
3. Mr.N.S Rajan National President NHRDN and Partner, EMEIA People & Organization leader, Ernst &Young.
4. Dr.Pritam Singh, Conference Academic Director and Professor of Eminence, MDI- Gurgaon.
5. Mr.R. Bhargava ,Chairman,Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.
6. Ms.Chanda D.Kochhar Managing Director & CEO, ICICI Bank.
7. Mr.Manoj Kohli, CEO & joint MD, International Operations, Bharati Airtel.
8. Mr.Adam Werbach,Global Chief Sustainability Officer,Saatchi & Saatchi,USA.
9. Prof.Gregory Prastacos, Professor of Management Sciences, Rector, Athens University of Economics & Business.
10. Mr. H.N.Srinivas, Senior Vice President Human Resources, Taj Group.
11. Mr.K.Ramkumar ,Executive Director,ICICI Bank.
12. Dr .Alfredo Behrens Professor, Cross -Cultural Management, FIA, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
13. Ms .Vinita Bali , Managing Director, Britannia Industries.
14. General (Retired) V.P Malik, Indian Army.
15. Dr.Debashis Chatterjee, Director, IIM Kolikode.

The excerpts of the prominent speakers are enumerated below:-

Padmashree Dr.Pritam Singh, Conference Academic Director ,Professor of Eminence, MDI Gurgaon, Former Director IIM Luknow and MDI.
Business models are no more vertically integrated but virtually integrated model will require an entirely different mindset, thinking, processes and even work force; hence it is imperative to move toward the next orbit In terms of Business Strategies, managerial processes and leadership styles.

Mr.S.K Chaturvedi,Conference Chiarman ,Chairman and Director Power grid Corporation of India.
The National HRD Network Global Conference on " Towards the Next Orbitfor " is commited to urge the Indian business to make for total overhaul of system procedures and opt the latest technology in order to be at par with global organization in terms of doing business.

Mr. N.S.Rajan,National President-NHRD Network, Partner, EMEIA,People & Organisation Leader,Ernst&Young
The global emerging business landscape is posing challenges to organizations that have been experienced before. For companies to succeed in this new scenario, they need to focus on using technology oriented services such as analysis based decision making, connectivity platforms, etc, to turn around their functioning to survive, grow and excel globally.

Mr.P.Dwarakanath, Director Group Human Capital, Max India
Companies need to understand that competition is bound to happen in any business environment; it is inevitable. Today companies need to look beyond boundaries. It is not enough to keep track of what the competitor is doing: you need to focus on both competitor intelligence and competitive intelligence and be ready with the pipeline of product and services to serve the market today and tomorrow. These are some of the imperatives for companies embarking towards the nest orbit.

The Registration fee for the summit was Rs.5000/head/student, was sponsored by the management for all rank holders. It was apportioned proportionally for others. In all there were 24 Students, one staff member . The Chairman was also there to support us.

The Participants also combined their trip to the conference with visit to Agra and spent a two days on sightseeing and shopping at New Delhi. Over all it was an interesting and educative trip. We thank the management for such initiatives.