ET GBS 2018 Day 2 highlights: 80-90 percent of River Ganga will be clean by March 2019, says Nitin Gadkari

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Artificial intelligence will create more jobs, says Apple Inc's Steve Wozniak

Tech taking over our privacy, becoming a losing battle: Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak

Vodafone tax was a very bad idea, says Arun Jaitley at ET GBS

In 6-8 months, stickers on new cars will help reduce the need to stop at toll booths. There will be a system in place to calculate the toll amount automatically and digitise payment system for this

- Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping

We have already given tax exemption and approved technology for electric vehicles. No separate policy is required because all provisions are already made: Nitin Gadkari

We need to strengthen public transport system to reduce number of cars.

- Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping

If comfort level and travel time improves on public transportation system, it will encourage more people to use it, says Nitin Gadkari

New transport technologies are on their way for travellers’ safety, especially for women.

- Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping

30% of driving licences in India are bogus. New system to change the process, says Nitin Gadkari

Reducing pollution is our priority. 2,000 companies are expected to produce biofuel to meet this goal

- Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping

Diversification of agriculture towards energy and power sector is aimed at reducing out dependence on crude imports: Nitin Gadkari

Our biggest challenge is to increase the speed of decision making process: : Nitin Gadkari

Land acquisition or resources are not problems, pace at which things happen is a problem

- Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping

We are paying 1.5 times more than the market price to farmers for land acquired. Farmers are keen on giving us land for building highways, says Nitin Gadkari

I hope sewage water that goes into the sea in Mumbai and Mithi river can be cleaned.

- Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping

Mainly 10 cities responsible for pollution in Ganga, worst being Kanpur: Nitin Gadkari

Sagarmala Project will see total Investment of Rs 16 lakh crore

- Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping

We have commitment of Rs 3,000 crore for developing Ganga banks, says Gadkari

Planting 10,000 trees along the Ganga: Nitin Gadkari

We had 189 project for Clean Ganga and have completed 41 so far

- Nitin Gadkari

80-90 percent of River Ganga will be clean by March 2019: Nitin Gadkari

20,000 km long waterway is India's strength

- Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping

Four multi-modal hubs being built on Ganga with sever river ports, says Nitin Gadkari

Need to improve public transport to ease pressure on roads and decongest roads

- Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping

More roads have been built in these 5 years than were built in last 50 years, says Nitin Gadkari

Look who's here. Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, has arrived for the Global Business Summit.

Flipkart and Olacabs may never go public because the private market has become so deep

- Deep Kalra, founder, MakeMyTrip

Branding in a brave new world

Innovation must come from customer insights. Be more nimble says Naukri Founder Sanjeev Bhikhchandani

If the CEO cannot drive innovation, and you have to have a CIO, then you have a bad CEO

- Sanjeev Bhikhchandani, Founder, Naukri

The only way to go to full profitability is to embrace Artificial Intelligence says Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy

The understanding of the consumer, irrespective of the business model is important: MakeMyTrip Founder Deep Kalra

In India, a lot of improvement is needed. What we have done good is sharing...sharing your car: Ola Founder Bhavish Agarwal on flying cars

It's very important to have some independence in the board for governance as it also gives confidence to the investors: Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy

In India, there are very few companies where the promoters have stepped aside, and professional CEO comes in and creates greater success

- Naukri Founder Sanjeev Bhikhchandani

Prime Minister asked how do we build a Google or a General electric in India. I would say please give us an enabling environment: MakeMyTrip Founder Deep Kalra

Innovation is key to outplaying heavily funded overseas rivals

- Ola Founder Bhavish Agarwal

Speed of innovation, how local it is matters: Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy

Brands are not built because of branding and experience, but are built of experience

- MakeMyTrip Founder Deep Kalra

For the 1st four out of 5 years were our dark ages. Lessons were learnt, says MakeMyTrip Founder Deep Kalra

The only area we can do better is futuristic talent. A huge research goes in US and China on futuristic talent. its something we would like do better in: Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy on hurdles for startups

It's time for a panel discussion on "India's Startups' Sustainability Challenge" with our panelist Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola, Deep Kalra of MakeMyTrip, Sanjeev Bikchandani of Naukri.com and Kalyan Krishnamurthy of Flipkart

Brands need to create aspiration in consumers, and it needs to be long term. Start when they're young: GroupM CEO Irwin Gotlieb

Brand have under invested in marketing and innovation. We live in a world where brands don't mean the same thing to millennials and without long term branding efforts, how will you be able to pick out a brand from a shelf in the age of e-commerce?

- Group M CEO Irwin Gotlieb

Every business will face disruption, says Group M CEO Irwin Gotlieb

Brands have been under investing over the last 20 years

- GroupM CEO Irwin Gotlieb

Most of us share views with our own friends, so we live in our own echo chambers, limiting ourselves to one type of opinion: Gotlieb on social media

Media today is polarised: GroupM CEO Irwin Gotlieb

GroupM CEO Irwin Gotlieb is here. Gotlieb talks about polarisation of media and how social media has changed everything

India cannot wait and see attitude if it wants to adopt industry 4.0, otherwise other countries will do it sooner, says BCG Senior Partner Jeffrey Chua

If you have be good at your job, you have to sharpen your tools: BCG Senior Partner Jeffrey Chua on embracing Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 does not matter for companies.It matters for industries. It matter for nations: BCG Senior Partner Jeffrey Chua

Companies need to skill its people for Industry 4.0

- BCG Senior Partner Jeffrey Chua

Every industry can apply for Industry 4.0: BCG Senior Partner Jeffrey Chua

There are eight forces that we called the South and West Winds which are predictable and hit all businesses, causing them to lose the Founders Mentality: Chris Zook

Owners mindset, insurgency, front-line obsession are the three pillars of founders mentality, says Bain and Company Partner Chris Zook

I can never stand Donald Trump. Will never visit an event where him or his family members are present: Steve Wozniak

Guess who's Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak's favourite entrepreneur? It's none other than Elon Musk.

Ever wondered what's the coolest tech device Apples' Steve Wozniak owned? Well, it's the Apple Watch