NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WOBI is proud to announce Co-founder and CEO of Infosys, S.D. Shibulal, and former Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, Alec Ross, have been added to the 10th-annual World Business Forum speaker roster. Shibulal and Ross are the most recent additions to the Forum, which gathers leading business icons to address an audience of thousands of international executives.
As a co-founder of Infosys, S.D. Shibulal was instrumental in the development of Infosys Global Delivery Model, which established a new standard for delivery of outsourced IT services and helped set the stage for the company's evolution into leading multinational business consulting and IT services provider. Shibulal also serves as Member of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director for the company.
Alec Ross served as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, a role created for him by Hilary Clinton to maximize the potential of technology and innovation. In this role, Ross advanced the State Department's interests on a range of issues from Internet Freedom to disaster response to responding to regional conflicts. Ross has been named as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy Magazine and is included in Huffington Post's "10 Game Changers in Politics."
The current 2013 World Business Forum speakers include:
- Clayton Christensen
- Jack Welch
- Sam Palmisano
- Steve Levitt
- Stephen Dubner
- Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
- Bob Moritz
- Maggie Wilderotter
- Denise Morrison
- Ben Zander
- Gordon Brown
- Nancy Koehn
- S.D. Shibulal
- Alec Ross
The 2013 event is being held at the Radio City Music Hall® in New York, NY on October 1-2, 2013. This iconic theater will accommodate the Forum’s growing number of attendees at this convenient, historic location.
For those looking to attend the Forum, a special registration offer is available through June 24, 2013. For more information on the World Business Forum or to register, visit wobi.com/wbfnyc or call 1-866-711-4476 or 212-317-8454.
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