The Young Leaders Forum (YLF) is an initiative of the Indian Chamber of Commerce; ICC is the leading national chamber of commerce — YLF is the forum for young achievers and young leaders from diverse fields of business and industry.
The board-room session was held under the able leadership of Keshav Bhajanka, ED, Century Plyboards India Limited and Sanjiv Puri, Chairman, ITC Group.
The ICC recognizes the hopes, aspirations and dreams of the younger generation as well as their zeal to excel and make a difference. It is this spirit that has driven us to form the Young Leaders Forum – an exclusive forum of young achievers from different segments of society. The Young Leaders Forum, comprising of young professionals and young achievers drawn from diverse fields of business and industry aims at building confidence and leadership skills amongst its young members.
Since its launch, YLF has organised several interactive sessions and panel discussions with renowned personalities from different walks of life - such as Omar Abdullah, Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram, Jayant Sinha, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Smriti Irani from the field of Politics; Azim Premji, Sanjiv Goenka, Raj Kundra from the Business fraternity; Leander Paes, Michael Clarke, Sourav Kothari, Steve Smith etc. from Sports and Ekta Kapoor from the field of entertainment.
YLF has instituted an award christened Outstanding Young Achievers Award, in recognition of path-breaking contributions by young achievers.
It has conferred its outstanding ‘Young Achievers Award’ to Sunil Bharti Mittal, Sanjiv Goenka, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Karan Johar, Sourav Ganguly & Leander Paes.