India Sport Forum 36
India
Sport Forum 36
India
Sport Forum 36 announces Declaration of Independence
A youth
mobilisation and signature campaign enabling young sports professionals and
enthusiasts to engage and participate actively in the arena of
sports.
A Declaration of Independence from the evils in Sport was launched today at the
Press Club in Mumbai as the first initiative of the India Sport Forum 36, which
will take place over a 36 hour period on May 18-19, 2013 in Mumbai bringing
together over 10,000 young sport enthusiasts.
The
Declaration was read out by school children and college youth to reflect the
aspirations of young India. The schools and colleges included Ryan International
School, The Dadar Parsee Youths Assembly High School and International Institute
of Sports Management.
The
six points of the declaration are:
1.
Honesty and integrity in Sport.
2.
Respect and equality of sexes.
3.
Youth leadership in Federations and Sport governing
bodies.
4.
Proactive education and awareness about doping in sport.
5. Youth inclusion in policy making in Sport.
5. Youth inclusion in policy making in Sport.
6.
Transparency and openness across the board.
Shardul
Rajwade, a 15 year old student from DPYA High School said on the occasion, “I
have played football at the Gothia Cup in Sweden and was shocked to see players
as young as 10 years had access to infrastructure we normally associate with
professional football players! Why can’t India provide the same for
us?”
“It
is fitting that this Declaration has been made immediately after May Day. Just
as the workers turn the wheels of industry and commerce, the athletes and the
sport enthusiasts are the lifeblood of the sporting ethos of our nation” said
Shail Kapri, Director of India Sport Forum 36. “How long can we expect the youth
of our country to remain mute spectators? A youth revolution is sweeping the
country in every sphere and it is just a matter of time before the frustration
boils over the apathy shown in sport by the establishment. The time for
effective change is now!” he added.
The
age of the YOUTH is upon us. India has the largest youth population in the world
- Over 66% of our population (well over 800 million people) are below the age of
35!
The
youth have dreams, hopes and aspirations. All that they need is the right
platform. ISF36 is that platform in Sport and it is the active and vibrant
participation of the youth that makes it India's most powerful sports business
platform. Every element of ISF36 is crafted for the young sport professionals
and enthusiasts to engage, prod, interact, participate and act on immediate and
pertinent issues in the arena of sports business. It is the young who should
have the right to determine their own future.
ISF36
brings together over 22 leagues and federations, 40 select exhibitors, 1000
delegates and 10,000 visitors & participants over a 36 hour period on the
18th and 19th of May 2013 over a 40,000 sq. ft venue at the strategically
located Acres Club in Chembur, Mumbai. The delegates network with their industry
peers, attend interactive panel discussions where they seek answers, get a
hands-on experience on the latest innovations and products in the industry, view
competitive Martial Arts and Boxing matches and get to represent their
organisations in one of 6 different sports.
Shail Kapri, Director, ISF36
Shail Kapri is a
passionate sports and event professional with 19+ years of experience across
Asia Pacific, South Asia and Middle East in setting up Regional operations,
Lobbying Governments, forging strategic relationships with global brands,
sponsorships and rights representation in sports and entertainment, executing
large scale events, managing celebrities and media relations and television
rights representation.
Shail started his career
in 1994 with Sunil Gavaskar’s Professional Management Group, where he set up
their Golf vertical with India’s first ever 5 city Golf tournament and was
divisional marketing in-charge for the 17 stadias of the 1996 Cricket World
Cup, leading various pathbreaking innovations such as the first website for a
cricket world cup with Indiaworld and an interactive voice response systems
with Modi Telstra.
He moved to IMG in 1996,
founded by the Father of Sports Marketing – Mark McCormack, where he set up new
revenue streams by successfully negotiating several innovative consulting and
representation relationships. Some of the trend setting events he worked on
include Lakme India Fashion Week, Indian Golf Open, Mercedes Trophy, Tata
Indian Tennis Open and Pepsi Asia Cup.
Shail joined World Sport
Group in 2003 as Associate Vice President for the Rights representation and
implementation of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003. He structured several
innovations in communication strategies like ‘Replay only on Hutch Innovation’
for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003. He also created and executed a multilevel
communication platform strategy for sponsors involving marketing, rights
delivery, PR and sponsor services.
Shail was Director of
Business Development for Asian Sports Major – Total Sports Asia, from 2004
onwards, responsible for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) rights, licensing
& merchandising across South Asia and Middle East. He executed on-ground
sponsorship for India - Zimbabwe cricket series in Zimbabwe in 2006 and led the
team that successfully won the bid for the opening & closing ceremonies for
4th Military World Games held in India.
As Director of
Fundraising and Resource Development of Special Olympics, for the Asia Pacific
Region, the world’s largest non-profit working for and providing sports
training to the intellectually disabled, Shail was responsible for lobbying
with the Singapore Government and the Economic Development Board of Singapore
to setup the APAC HQ in Singapore and securing a S$ 600,000 grant from the EDB
in 2009. He also developed a 5-year business plan and fundraising strategy for
the APAC region covering 23 countries in
2009-2010 and established key corporate relationship across APAC.
In 2011, Shail took over
as Dean of India’s largest Sports Management Institute – International
Institute of Sports Management and is working towards nurturing the sport
careers of a new generation of young, passionate sport lovers.
In 2013, Shail continues
with his proclivity for crafting innovative and need-based initiatives and is
Director of India’s most powerful sport business platform – India Sport Forum
36; a platform driven to give voice to the millions of young sport enthusiasts
in the country by directly addressing the problems which plague our sporting
ethos and structure.
The
Organizing Committee
Prof.
Ratnakar Shetty, Chief Administrative Officer, BCCI Yajurvindra
Singh Bilkha, Head Corporate Events and Sports, Tata Consultancy Services Vijay
D Patil, President, Padmashree Dr D Y Patil Sports Academy Rajiv
Podar, Managing Director, Podar Enterprise Neela
Parikh, Director, Apurva Natvar Parikh Group Shaju Ignatius,
Director Nilesh
Kulkarni, Director Deepak
Choudhary, Director, Event Capital Shail Kapri,
Director, ISF36
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