WCOA Agenda | World Congress of Accountants 2022

THEMATIC ISSUES

The Congress would explore a range of key themes including

Role of Accounting Profession in enabling sustainability

Global collaboration for inclusive growth

Growing importance of digital technologies

Integrity, Ethical leadership & Trust

Global trends in Accounting, Auditing, Corporate Governance & Taxation

Nurturing Innovation, Fintech & Start-Ups

Future Ready Profession

Strengthening Public Financial Management

12:00 - 14:00 hrs	Registration
14:00 – 16:00 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Opening Ceremony	Chief Guest Mr. Om Birla Hon’ble Speaker of Lok Sabha, Parliament of India
		Keynote Address Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Hon’ble Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Government of India
		CA. (Dr.) Debashis Mitra President, ICAI
		CA. Aniket S. Talati Vice President, ICAI
		Mr. Alan Johnson Outgoing President, IFAC
		CA. Prafulla P. Chhajed Chairman, WCOA 2022 Executive Committee
16:00 - 16:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Break
16:30 - 17:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Plenary Session Accountancy Profession: Trusted Partner in Sustainability and Society (Panel Discussion) View More	Moderator Mr. Alan Johnson Outgoing President, IFAC Panelists Ms. Merran Kelsall President & Chairman, CPA Australia Ms. Gabriela Figueiredo Dias Chair, International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) Ms. Julie Linn Teigland Managing Partner, Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, EY CA. Atul Kumar Gupta Board Member, IFAC & Past President, ICAI
19:30 - 22:00 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Cultural Event & Networking Dinner	Mr. Sonu Nigam Renowned Singer

08:30- 10:00 hrs	Exhibition & Breakfast
09:30 - 11:00 hrs	Special Sessions - S1 \| S2
09:30 - 11:00 hrs Orchid Ground Floor	S1 - ICAI – A Knowledge Based National Standard Setter View More	Theme Address CA. A.C. Chakrabortti Past President, ICAI CA. Charanjot Singh Nanda Chairman, Digital Accounting & Assurance Board and Internal Audit Standards Board CA. Mangesh P. Kinare Chairman, Ethical Standards Board and Valuation Standards Board CA. Pramod Jain Chairman, Accounting Standards Board CA.(Dr.) Sanjeev Kumar Singhal Chairman, Sustainability Reporting Standards Board and Auditing & Assurance Standards Board CA. Gyan Chandra Misra Vice Chairman, Internal Audit Standards Board
10:00 - 11:00 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	S2 - Yoga & Ayurveda India’s Gift to Global Health View More	Swami Ramdev Eminent Yoga Guru & Founder, Patanjali Ayurved Limited CA. (Dr.) Girish Ahuja Eminent Speaker
11:00 -12:00 hrs	Special Sessions – S3\| S4\| S5
11:00 - 11:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	S3 - Improving Global Competitiveness through Free Trade Zones View More	CA. G. Ramaswamy Past President, ICAI Mr. Saud Salim Al Mazrouei Director, Hamriyah Free Zone Authority, Sharjah, UAE
11:30 - 12:00 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	S4 - Future of Accounting View More	CA. (Dr.) V. G. Narayanan Professor, Harvard Business School
11:00 - 12:00 hrs Orchid Ground Floor	S5 – ICAI -A World Class Educator View More	Theme Address CA. R. Balakrishnan Past President, ICAI CA. Sushil Kumar Goyal Chairman, Students Skills Enrichment Board CA. Dayaniwas Sharma Chairman, Board of Studies (Academic) CA. Vishal Doshi Vice Chairman, Board of Studies (Academic) CA. Purushottamlal H. Khandelwal Vice Chairman, Committee on Career Counselling CA. Sridhar Muppala Vice Chairman, Students Skills Enrichment Board
12:00 - 12:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Keynote Address India’s Path to an Economic Superpower View More	Mr. Gautam Adani Founder and Chairman, Adani Group
12:30 - 14:00 hrs	Exhibition & Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Keynote Address Leading the World through Entrepreneurial Vision View More	Mr. Mukesh D. Ambani Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Ltd.
14:30 - 15:45 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Plenary Session Building an Effective Ecosystem for High-Quality Sustainability Disclosure View More	Moderator Mr. David Isherwood Chair, Forum of Firms Opening Remarks Ms. Sue Lloyd Vice-Chair, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Panelists Mr. Ian Carruthers Chair, International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) Mr. Tom Seidenstein Chair, International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) Ms. Gabriela Figueiredo Dias Chair, International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) Closing Remarks Mr. Martin Moloney Secretary General, International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)
15:45 - 16:00 hrs	Break
16:00 - 17:15 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Plenary Session Accountancy Profession: Partner in Nation Building (Panel Discussion) View More	Theme Address Mr. Girish Chandra Murmu Hon’ble Comptroller and Auditor General of India Moderator CA. T. N. Manoharan Past President, ICAI Panelists Dr. Ajay Bhushan Prasad Pandey Chairman, National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) Mr. Debashish Panda Chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
17:15 - 17:30 hrs	Break
17:30 - 18:30 hrs	Concurrent Sessions - A1 \| A2 \| A3\| A4
Jasmine 3^rd Floor	A1 - India-A land of Opportunities View More	Moderator CA. Nilesh S. Vikamsey Past President, ICAI Panelists CA. Sunil H. Talati Chairman, Services Export Promotion Council Mr. Deepak Bagla MD & CEO, Invest India Mr. Injeti Srinivas Chairman, International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) CA. Rajasekar Rajagopal Assurance Leader, EY Global Delivery Services
Tulip Ground Floor	A2 – Emerging Avenues for Professional Accountants View More	Moderator CA. Subodh Kumar Agrawal Past President, ICAI Panelists CA. N. Venkatram Managing Partner and CEO, Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP CA. Sanjeev Krishan Non - Executive Chairperson , Price Waterhouse & Affiliates CA. Balaji V Managing Partner, True and Fair Professionals Network
Orchid Ground Floor	A3 - Leading Sustainability: How Do We Build a Profession That Is Ready? View More	Moderator Ms. Helen Partridge IFAC Director, Accountancy Education Panelists Ms. Jelena Misita Chair, IFAC PAO Development Advisory Group Ms. Anne-Marie Vitale Chair, International Panel on Accountancy Education Ms. Julia Penny President, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Ms. Thuto Masasa Head of advisory, BDO Advisory Services Closing Remarks Dr. In Ki Joo Past President, IFAC
Khimji Kunverji Vikamsey Auditorium Ground Floor	A4 – Professional & Investment Opportunities in Australasia and ASEAN (Only for in-person delegates) View More	Moderator CA. Manoj Fadnis Past President, ICAI Panelists Ms. Kate Boorer President, Chartered Accountants Australia and NewZealand Mr. Andrew Hunter CEO, CPA Australia ICAI Chapter leadership of Australasia and ASEAN CA. SV Padmanabhan Past Chairman, Singapore Chapter of ICAI CA. Sandeep Agarwal Chairman, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Chapter of ICAI CA. Samir Mehta Chairman, Sydney, Australia Chapter of ICAI
18:30 - 18:45 hrs	Break
18:45 - 20:00 hrs Orchid Ground Floor	Start-Up Pitch Night Emerging Start-Ups and Scale-Ups Companies from Australia and India Event: Start-Up Pitch. Watch 3 Indian and 3 Australian Start-Up's pitch their businesses 5 lucky attendees will win CAANZ educational products worth AUD5000	Judges Kate Boorer FCA, President, Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand Rachel Grimes AM FCA, CFO, Challenger Ltd Mitesh Shah Partner, Physis Capital; Co-Founder, Inflection Point Ventures Ninad Karpe Partner, 100X.VC Pitch Contestants Pitch 1 – Swati Sinha, Vitto Pitch 2 – James Rose, Content Snare Pitch 3 – CA. Mayur Zanwar, TruScholar Pitch 4 – Clare Leighton, bluesheets Pitch 5 – Shubham Jain, Trade Reboot Pitch 6 – Janet Salem, Footprint Lab

08:30 - 10:00 hrs	Exhibition & Breakfast
10:00 - 10:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Special Session S6 -Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship View More	Mr. Sridhar Vembu CEO, Zoho Corporation
10:30 - 11:30 hrs	Special Sessions – S7\| S8\| S9
10:30 - 11:00 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	S7 - Enhancing the Startup Eco System View More	CA. Sunil Goyal Past President, ICAI CA. Suresh Prabhu Former Union Minister with 10 portfolios Six times Member of Parliament Founding Chancellor of Rishihood University; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science.
11:00 - 11:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Keynote Address S8 - Igniting Innovation in Global Professional Landscape View More	Keynote Address CA. Dilip B. Desai Chairman, DHC International
10:30 - 11:30 hrs Orchid Ground Floor	S9 - Taxation Landscape in India View More	Theme Address CA. R Bupathy Past President, ICAI CA. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal Chairman, Committee on International Taxation CA. Rajendra Kumar P Chairman, GST & Indirect Taxes Committee CA. Chandrashekhar V Chitale Chairman, Direct Taxes Committee CA. Umesh R. Sharma Vice Chairman, GST & Indirect Taxes Committee CA. Cotha S. Srinivas Vice Chairman, Committee on International Taxation
11:30 - 12:30 hrs	Special Sessions – S10 \| S11
11:30 - 12:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	S10 - Taxation in the New Global Era View More	Moderator CA. Ved Jain Past President, ICAI Panelists Mr. Arvind Datar Prominent Senior Advocate
11:30 - 12:30 hrs Orchid Ground Floor	S11 - ICAI – Robust Regulatory Framework View More	Theme Address CA. B. P. Rao Past President, ICAI CA. Ranjeet Kumar Agarwal Chairman, Taxation Audit Quality Review Board CA. Anuj Goyal Vice Chairman, Peer Review Board CA. Durgesh Kumar Kabra Chairman, Financial Reporting Review Board CA. Prasanna Kumar D Convenor, UDIN Directorate CA. Abhay Chhajed Vice Chairman, Financial Reporting Review Board
12:30 - 14:00 hrs	Exhibition & Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Special Session S12 - Leveraging Technology to drive digitisation of Corporate Treasury View More	CA. N. P. Sarda Past President, ICAI Mr. Siddharth Rungta Head of Global Payments Solutions, India
14:30 - 15:45 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Plenary Session Navigating the Global Economic Recovery (Panel Discussion) View More	Theme Address CA. Piyush Goyal Hon’ble Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, Government of India Moderator CA. Sonal Bhutra Maloo Anchor & Sr Analyst, CNBC TV18 Panelists Mr. Sanjeev Sanyal Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India Mr. Dinesh Kumar Khara Chairman, State Bank of India Mr. M Ayhan Kose Chief Economist and Director of Prospects Group, The World Bank Group CA. Kamlesh S. Vikamsey Past President, ICAI
15:45 - 16:00 hrs	Break
16:00 - 17:00 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Plenary Session Assurance: Enhancing Trust and Confidence in Sustainability Information View More	Theme Address Mr. David Madon Director Sustainability Policy & Regulatory Affairs, IFAC Moderator Chun Wee Chiew IAASB Board Member Panelists Mr. Tom Seidenstein Chair, International Auditing and Assurance standards Board, (IAASB ) Mr. Wallace D. Gregory, Jr. Global Regulatory, Independence & Conflicts Leader, Deloitte Ms. Hilary Eastman Head of Global Investor Engagement, PwC, UK Naweed Lalani Director, Audit & Infrastructure – Supervision, Dubai Financial Services Authority
17:00 - 17:30 hrs	Break
17:30 - 18:30 hrs	Concurrent Sessions - B1 \| B2 \| B3 \| B4
Jasmine 3^rd Floor	B1- Understanding Capital Market for Wealth Creation View More	Moderator CA. Anil Singhvi Managing Editor, Zee Business Panelists CA. Nilesh Shah Group President & Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Co. Limited CA. Navneet Munot Managing Director & CEO, HDFC Asset Management Co. Limited Mr. Madhusudan Kela Founder, MK Ventures
Tulip Ground Floor	B2 – Building Trust – Improving SME Reporting View More	Moderator Ms. Monica Foerster Chair, IFAC SMPAG Panelists Mr. Ian Carruthers Chair, International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) Ms. Assietou Sylla Diouf Managing Director, Finance and Operations- GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance Ms. Michelle Sansom Project Manager, IFRS for SMEs CA. M P Vijay Kumar Member, IFRS SME Implementation Group (SMEIG) and IFRS Advisory Council
Orchid Ground Floor	B3 - How Fintech is Reshaping the Financial Services Ecosystem View More	Moderator CA. Ramakrishnan Subramanian Chairman, Singapore Chapter of ICAI Panelists CA. Jinand Shah Managing Director, Online PSB Loans Ms. Deena Jacob Co-founder & CFO Open Financial Technologies Pvt. Ltd Mr. KK Pan Vice President, Oracle Net Suite Asia and Japan Mr. Nakul Jain CEO, Paytm Payment Service Limited
Khimji Kunverji Vikamsey Auditorium Ground Floor	B4 – Professional & Investment Opportunities in Americas & Europe (Only for in-person delegates) View More	Moderator CA. Jaydeep N Shah Past President, ICAI Panelists Mr. Indy Singh Hothi President, ICA Scotland Ms. Chandrima Sinha Vice President, Invest India ICAI Chapter leadership of Americas & Europe CA. Deepak Arora Chairman, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Chapter of ICAI CA. Krishna Prasad Dahal Chairman, London, UK Chapter of ICAI CA. Vikas Chaturvedi Chairman Amsterdam, Netherlands, Chapter of ICAI CA. Vishwanathan Arunachalam Founder Chairman, San Francisco, USA Chapter of ICAI
19:30 - 22:00 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Cultural Event & Networking Dinner	Shiamak Davar Dance Group

08:30- 10:00 hrs	Exhibition & Breakfast
10:00-10:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Special Session S13 - Do we really live in a connected world? An insight into a possible future of how connectivity can change the lives of professional accountants and businesses globally View More	CA. Y. M. Kale Past President, ICAI Mr. Bharat Goenka Co-Founder and Vice Chairperson of Tally Solutions
10:30 - 11:30 hrs	Special Sessions – S14 \| S15 \| S16
10:30 - 11:00 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Special Session S14 - Enabling Sustainability for a Better Future View More	CA. M.M. Chitale Past President, ICAI Ms. Teresa Jacobs Executive Director – Learning International Skill Development Corporation (ISDC)
11:00 - 11:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Special Session S15 - Being Future Ready - India@100 View More	CA. Amarjit Chopra Past President, ICAI Mr. Deepak Parekh Chairman, Housing Development Finance Corporation Mumbai
10:30 - 11:30 hrs Orchid Ground Floor	S16 - Recent Changes in Corporate, Economic, and other Commercial Laws View More	CA. (Dr.) Rajkumar S. Adukia Chairman, Committee on Economic, Commercial Laws & Economic Advisory CA. Sripriya Kumar Chairperson, Corporate Laws and Corporate Governance Committee CA. Prakash Sharma Chairman, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance Committee CA. Hans Raj Chugh Vice Chairman, Committee on Economic, Commercial Laws & Economic Advisory CA. Priti Savla Vice Chairperson, Corporate Laws and Corporate Governance Committee
11:30 -12:30 hrs	Special Sessions – S17 \| S18
11:30 -12:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	S17 - Happy State of Mind for a Greener World View More	Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad Hon’ble Minister of State for Finance, Government of India Dr. Gnanvatsal Swami Life Coach and Eminent Speaker CA. M. Devaraja Reddy Past President, ICAI
11:30 -12:30 hrs Orchid Ground Floor	S18 - Initiatives for MSME, Start Up, PFM and Export of CA Services View More	Theme Address CA. Uttam Prakash Agarwal Past President, ICAI CA. Kemisha Soni Chairperson, Committee on Public and Government Financial Management CA. Dheeraj Kumar Khandelwal Chairman, Committee on MSME & Startup and Committee for Development of International Trade, Services & WTO CA. Rohit Ruwatia Vice Chairman, Committee for Development of International Trade, Services & WTO CA. (Dr.) Raj Chawla Vice Chairman, Committee on MSME & Start-up CA. Piyush Chhajed Central Council Member
12:30 - 14:00 hrs	Exhibition & Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 hrs	Concurrent Sessions - C1 \| C2 \| C3\| C4
Jasmine 3^rd Floor	C1 - Public Sector Priorities: Trust, Sustainability and Accountability View More	Moderator CA. Sudhir Soni Head of Audit, BSR & Co. Panelists Mr. Kesavan Srinivasan Deputy C&AG and Chairman of the Government Accounting Standards Advisory Board Mr. Ian Carruthers Chair, International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) CA. Srinivas Gurazada Global Lead Public Financial Management & Head PEFA Secretariat, World Bank Mr. Joseph Owolabi Incoming President, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
Tulip Ground Floor	C2 - Technology and the Future (Panel Discussion) View More	Moderator CA. K. Raghu Past President, ICAI Panelists Dr. Clare Walsh Head of Education, Institute of Analytics (IoA) Mr. Jeffrey C. Thomson President and CEO, Institute of Management Accountants Mr. John Turner CEO, XBRL International Inc. Mr. S. V. Haribhakti Chief Mentor, Haribhakti & Co. LLP
Orchid Ground Floor	C3 - Cyber Security in Financial Services View More	Moderator CA. Naveen N D Gupta Past President, ICAI Panelists Mr. Vishal Salvi Chief Information Security Officer & Head of Cyber Security Practice, Infosys in the session CA. Dharshan Shanthamurthy Founder and CEO, SISA Information Security Mr. Tushar Haralkar Senior Technical Specialist Security, IBM India South Asia
Khimji Kunverji Vikamsey Auditorium Ground Floor	C4 - Professional & Investment Opportunities in Middle East and Africa (Only for in-person delegates) View More	CA. Anurag Chaturvedi Chairman, Dubai, UAE Chapter of ICAI CA. John George Chairman, Abu Dhabi, UAE Chapter of ICAI CA. Sharmila Shet Chairperson, Bahrain Chapter of ICAI CA. Ankit Agarwal Chairman, Doha, Qatar Chapter of ICAI CA. Sriram Gopalakrishnan Chairman, Kuwait Chapter of ICAI CA. Sajeev Surendran Chairman, Muscat, Oman Chapter of ICAI CA. Samir Khatri Chairman, Port Louis, Mauritius Chapter of ICAI
15:00 - 15:30 hrs	Break
15:30 - 16:30 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Plenary Session Chief Value Officers: Championing an Integrated Mindset to Drive Sustainable Value Creation View More	Theme Address CA. Sanjiv Mehta CEO & Managing Director, HUL Moderator Mr. Sanjay Rughani Chair, IFAC PAIB Advisory Group and CEO and Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank, Uganda Panelists Ms. Rachel Grimes CFO, Challenger Limited & Past President, IFAC CA. Charanjit Attra CFO, State Bank of India Mr. Bikash Prasad Group CFO, Olam Agri, Dubai CA. Raj Mullick Chief Accounts Officer and Senior Vice President, Reliance Industries Ltd.
16:30 – 17:15 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Special Session Transform your life with Positive Thinking View More	CA. Nihar N. Jambusaria Past President, ICAI Mr. Anupam Kher Indian Film Actor, Former Chairman of FTTI & Motivational Speaker Vote of Thanks Advocate Vijay Kumar Jhalani Government Nominee Central Council Member of ICAI
17:15 - 18:00 hrs Jasmine 3^rd Floor	Closing Ceremony	Mr. Devendra Fadnavis Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra CA. (Dr.) Debashis Mitra President, ICAI CA. Aniket S. Talati Vice President, ICAI Ms. Asmaa Resmouki Incoming President, IFAC CA. (Dr.) Jai Kumar Batra Secretary, ICAI
Cultural Programme – Celebrating Unity in Diversity
To register, please click www.wcoa2022mumbai.org
Registrations:	Basement, Jio World Convention Centre
Ground Floor:	Orchid, Tulip and Exhibition Hall/Pavilion, Jio World Convention Centre
1^st and 2^nd Floor:	Meeting Halls of Sponsors and exhibitors for Networking, Workshops and Meetings, Jio World Convention Centre
3^rd Floor:	Jasmine Hall, Jio World Convention Centre
Khimji Kunverji Vikamsey Auditorium	ICAI BKC Office

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