SHAPING

YOUNG
PROGRAMME
MINDS
26th August 2022
Timing: 8:30 AM onwards

Principal Sponsors Co-Sponsor

 Contents
Content Page No.
• About AIMA 03
• About Shaping Young Minds Programme 05
• Agenda 07
• Pro le of Speakers 10

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About AIMA

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The All India Management Association (AIMA) is the national apex body of the management
profession in India. AIMA is a not for pro t, non-lobbying organisation, working closely with
Industry, Government, Academia and students to further the cause of the management
profession in India.
AIMA has a membership base of over 38000 members and close to 6000 corporate /institutional
members, through 67 Local Management Associations affiliated to AIMA; and is represented on a
number of policy making bodies of the Government of India and national associations.
Established in 1957, AIMA has contributed immensely to the enhancement of management
capability in the country over the years. AIMA offers various services in the areas of testing,
distance education, skill development & training, research, publications, executive education
and management development programmes.
Over the past six decades, AIMA has evolved as times have changed and catered to the growing
needs of today’s management community. Apart from its agship Post Graduate Diploma in
management, AIMA offers topical and industry-oriented programmes and initiatives to help
management professionals and students keep in step with times; while offering state of the art
business solutions for organisations and institutions.
As the pioneer of Distance Education, AIMA has always been an early starter, even in the digital
space. AIMA was amongst the rst mover organisations to offer Internet Based Remote
Proctored Tests on a national level; and among the rst to shift its service offerings online. AIMA
quickly built digital expertise and now has the capability to offer its management programmes
and business solutions in the physical, virtual and hybrid mode; as per industry requirements.
AIMA also brings to the Indian managers, the best management practices and techniques
through numerous foreign collaborations with professional bodies and institutions. AIMA is an
important and long-time member of the Asian Association of Management Organisations
(AAMO), which promotes professional management in the Asia Paci c region. India (AIMA) took
over the Presidency of AAMO in 2019 and will hold the AAMO Secretariat for the next three years.
In addition, AIMA has developed close associations with several leading international
Universities and Institutions including University of Berkeley - California, UC Santa Cruz –
California, St Gallen Symposium, Horasis, The World Bank to name a few.

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About Shaping Young
Minds Programme

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 About Shaping Young Minds Programme
AIMA has been running a very unique programme for young people called the “Shaping Young
Minds Programme” (SYMP). The programme provides a platform for young professionals and
management students to interact with iconic leaders from various elds, where these leaders
talk about their lives, their successes and more importantly – their failures. There are no speeches
– just stories and anecdotes from life! This helps young people synchronise personal and career
goals through exposure to experience and wisdom of successful people. The idea is to facilitate
students get an opportunity to interact with achievers whom they would not have otherwise got
an opportunity to interact with, learn from the experiences of those who have been there and
done that. In 2021, AIMA organised an online version of the Shaping Young Programme called
the National Shaping Young Minds Programme in collaboration with our Local Management
Associations. The online mode has allowed us to make this event really big and reach out to all
our Local Management Associations and through them, reach their constituents. The
programme saw overwhelming participation from students and young managers from across
the country. The second online version of the National SYMP scheduled on 26th August 2022,
which shall be a half day event.

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Agenda

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 Shaping Young Minds Programme
26th August 2022

Programme Schedule

0830 hrs - 0912 hrs Registration

0912 hrs - 0915 hrs Lighting of Lamp

0915 hrs - 1000 hrs Session I

Session Chair Shiv Siddhant Narayan Kaul

Managing Director
Nicco Engineering Services Limited &
Honorary Consul General
The Republic of Korea in Kolkata

Session Speaker K Radhakrishnan

Former Chairman, Space Commission/
Secretary, Department of Space & Chairman

1000 hrs – 1005 Address by Rekha Sethi

Director General
All India Management Association

1005 hrs – 1025 hrs Break

1025 hrs - 1110 hrs Session II

Session Chair Pranjal Sharma

Author Economic Analyst &
Columnist

Session Speaker Shiv Shivakumar

Group Executive President,
Strategy and Business Development
Aditya Birla Group & Past President
All India Management Association

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1110 hrs - 1120 hrs Break
1120 hrs - 1205 hrs Session III

Session Chair Shrinivas Dempo

Chairman
Dempo Group of Companies &
Senior Vice President
All India Management Association
Session Speaker Shereen Bhan
Managing Editor
CNBC-TV18
1205 hrs - 1215 hrs Break
1215 hrs - 1300 hrs Session IV
Session Chair Nikhil Sawhney
Vice Chairman and Managing Director
Triveni Turbine Limited,
Director, Triveni Engineering and
Industries Limited & Vice President
All India Management Association
Session Speaker Sanjiv Mehta
CEO and Managing Director
Hindustan Unilever Limited

1300 hrs Programme Concludes

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Pro le of Speakers

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 Mr Shiv Siddhant Narayan Kaul
Managing Director, NICCO Engineering Services Ltd and
Honorary Consul General of
The Republic of Korea in Kolkata
Mr Shiv Siddhant Narayan Kaul is the Managing Director of Nicco Engineering Services Limited and
Honorary Consul General of The Republic of Korea in Kolkata. Nicco Engineering Service Ltd is one of
India’s leading providers of specialty Maintenance Engineering Services and received the CII
Industrial Innovation Award for the most innovation Medium Size Service Entriprise in 2020. Prior to
joining the Nicco Group, he worked in New York as Vice President of Fixed-Income trading at Bank of
America.
Mr Kaul is the Deputy Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Eastern Region for the year
2022-23. He also serves on the Council of Management of the All India Management Association
(AIMA) and on the National Executive Committte of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce
and Industry (FICCI). In 2015-16, Mr. Kaul served as the President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Kaul received his MsE in Operations Research & Financial Engineering from Princeton University
and his BA (summa cum laude) with majors in Economics and Computer Science, from the College of
Wooster. His academic research has been published in The Journal of Alternative Investments.
Mr. Kaul is an active alumnus of his educational institutions and serves as the President of the
Princeton Club of India and as the Honorary Secretary of the St. Xavier’s Collegiate School, Kolkata,
Alumni Association.

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 Dr K Radhakrishnan
Former Chairman, Space Commission/
Secretary Department of Space &
Chairman, ISRO
Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, former Chairman of Space Commission, Secretary of Department of Space and
Chairman of ISRO is an astute Institution-builder with a strategic vision; an able and diligent
administrator; a dynamic and result-oriented manager; and an inspiring leader credited with
nurturing leadership in the younger generation. An Electrical Engineering graduate from Kerala
University (1970), a post graduate in management from IIM Bangalore (1976) and Ph.D. from IIT
Kharagpur (2000), Dr. Radhakrishnan has had a distinguished career of 51 years in space engineering,
space applications, management of space programme, and governance of higher technical
education.
Dr. Radhakrishnan is known for strong and successful leadership of ISRO to execute 37 space
missions during 2009-14, including (i) induction of Indian Cryogenic Engine for GSLV, (ii)
experimental ight test of India’s heavy lift launcher GSLVMk3, (iii) re-entry experiment of Unmanned
Crew module and (iv) India’s rst planetary exploration-the Mars Orbiter Mission (aka Mangalyaan)
that was conceived, planned and executed, within four years, establishing India as the rst country to
have successful mission to Planet Mars in its maiden attempt and that too at signi cantly low cost.
Prior to taking over as chief of India's space programme, he had been the Director of ISRO’s Vikram
Sarabhai Space Centre, the lead centre of Launch Vehicle Development in ISRO. Earlier he had been
Director or National Remote Sensing Centre and founding Director of Indian National Centre of
Ocean Information Systems. He held several key international roles, especially at the UN Committee
on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, as well as UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission.
A Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering; Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India;
Honorary Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India; Honorary Fellow of IETE, India;
Distinguished Fellow of Astronautical Society of India; and Member of the International Academy of
Astronautics, Dr. Radhakrishnan was bestowed with ‘Padma Bhushan’ by Government of India in
2014. The Nature International Weekly Journal of Science chose him as one of the ‘Ten people who
mattered in the year 2014’. He is recipient of 12 Honorary Doctorates and 40 awards including Lifetime
Achievement Awards from ISRO and Ernst & Young, and Allan D. Emil Memorial Award of International
Astronautical Federation. Under his leadership, ISRO received several accolades including Gandhi
Peace Prize for the year 2014 and Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for
2014.
Dr. Radhakrishnan’s biography “My Odyssey: Memoirs of the Man behind the Mangalyaan Mission”,
co-authored with Nilanjan Routh, was published by Penguin India Random House in 2016. A science
documentary lm ‘Yaanam’ produced in Sanskrit, is based on this book. Dr. Radhakrishnan was drawn
into the world of performing arts at the age of seven, beginning with Kerala Natanam and Kathakali
dance, and his pursuit of Carnatic vocal music still continues.
Currently, Dr. Radhakrishnan is Member of Space Commission, Member of National Security Advisory
Board, Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIT Kanpur and IIT Ropar, Chairman of Standing
Committee of the IIT Council, and Chairman of the Oversight Committee of Science and Engineering
Research Board.
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 Ms Rekha Sethi
Director General
All India Management Association

Ms Rekha Sethi is the Director General of the All India Management Association (AIMA), the apex body
for management in India.
AIMA is a non-lobbying, not for-pro t organisation working closely with Industry, Government,
Academia and students to further the cause of the management profession in India. AIMA makes a
salutary contribution to management learning and practice in the country by offering various
services in the areas of testing, distance education, research, publications and management
development. Rekha took charge of AIMA in June 2008. She has since established AIMA as the
preferred platform for discussions and debate on management and has deepened AIMA's
relationship with the Government of India and India Inc. AIMA now attracts India's top industry
leaders and policy makers on its platform.
Rekha is on the Boards of some leading Indian companies as an Independent Director including
CESC, one of India's foremost Power generation and distribution companies and the agship
company in the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. She is also on the Board of Samvardhana Motherson
International Ltd – a diversi ed global manufacturing specialist and one of the world’s largest and
fastest growing automotive supplier for OEMs, with 270 plants across 41 countries. She is on the
Board of Spencer’s Retail Ltd – one of India’s leading retailers and on the Board of Hero Steels Limited
manufacturing Steel products. She is also on the Board of Kirloskar Brothers Limited, one of India’s
largest centrifugal pump manufactures with manufacturing facilities in the Netherlands, South
Africa, Thailand, UK & US. She has earlier served on the Board of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd,
world's fourth largest specialty generic pharmaceutical company and India's top pharmaceutical
company and on the Boards of Sun Pharma Laboratories Ltd and Sun Pharma Distributors Ltd. She
represents AIMA on the Governing Council of the National Productivity Council, an autonomous
organisation of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.
Prior to joining AIMA, Rekha worked with India's premier industry organisation, the Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII) for over 17 years. There she led the initiative to create high-pro le
international events to promote India's economic interests. She started her career with the
Center for Development of Telematics (C-DoT). Rekha is an alumnus of St Stephens College,
Delhi University.

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 Mr Pranjal Sharma
Author, Economic Analyst &
Columnist

Mr Pranjal Sharma is an economic analyst, advisor and writer based in New Delhi, India who focuses
on technology, globalisation and media. He serves on boards of enterprises and non-pro t entities
which are leveraging emerging technologies for sustainable, equitable growth. Pranjal has written
and edited books, reports and papers on economic development. His latest book is India Automated:
How the Fourth Industrial Revolution is Transforming India published by Pan Macmillan. The preface
has been written by Peter Voser, Chairman of the Board, ABB Ltd. This follows his previous book Kranti
Nation: India and The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Prof Klaus Schwab, Founder, World Economic
Forum, wrote the preface for the book. Pranjal is a frequent speaker at events run by leading
chambers of industry on policy advocacy and leads public discourse at several platforms in India and
abroad. He served as a member of the Global Agenda Council at WEF for eight years. He is now a
member of WEF’s Expert Network. Previously, he was the Editor of Bloomberg TV in India. He writes
opinion pieces for Business Standard newspaper, The Sunday Guardian newspaper among other
publications. He is a regular speaker on news TV debates on economy and globalisation.

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 Mr Shiv Shivakumar
Group Executive President
Strategy and Business Development
Aditya Birla Group & Past President, AIMA
Mr Shivakumar or Shiv as he is popularly known is currently Group Executive president at Aditya Birla
group for Strategy and Business development. He joined the ABG group in January 2018.
Prior to this, Shiv was Chairman and CEO for PepsiCo for four years and before that with Nokia as CEO
for India and later Emerging markets for nearly a decade. Shiv has been a CEO for half his career and
was one of the youngest CEOS in India. Shiv worked in HUL for a number of years, mostly in marketing.
Shiv has worked with over 50 brands in his career and seen many business transformations.
Shiv writes and teaches regularly on Innovation, leadership, Followership, Business Models,
Digitization etc. across the leading business schools in the world.
Shiv is an avid sports watcher, a great fan of Manchester United and Barcelona football teams, John
Mc Enroe and Roger Federer in tennis.
Shiv is a believer in giving back to society. Shiv has been on the Board of Governors of IIM Ahmedabad
between 2012 and 2017 as well as being on the Board of Godrej Consumer products Board between
2009 and 2017. He was the President of the All India Management Association in 2012-2013. He was
Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association from 2014 to 2019 and Chairman of the Advertising
Standards Council of India for 2018-19. He is currently on the board of XLRI and IIM Udaipur.
Shiv has been awarded many times in his career – Best CEO, Best brand builder, for leadership, for
Turnaround et al. The awards most dear to him are the two distinguished Alumnus awards he got from
IIT Madras and IIM Calcutta. He is one of twenty people in India to have distinguished alumnus awards
from both IIT and IIM.
Shiv is married to Hamsini, who runs her own brand, innovation and Semiotics consulting company.
Shiv is the author of the books -THE RIGHT CHOICE, a book on career dilemmas, The Art of
Management - Managing Yourself, Managing Your Team, Managing Your Business

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 Mr Shrinivas V Dempo
Chairman, Dempo Group of Companies
& Senior Vice President
All India Management Association
Mr Shrinivas V Dempo is Chairman of the Goa-based Dempo Group of Companies, which has
diversi ed interests in industries such as calcined petroleum coke, shipbuilding, food processing, real
estate and newspaper publishing. He is also the Senior Vice President of AIMA. He has been Chairman
of the western region of the largest industry lobby in India, the Confederation of Indian Industry. In
2013, Mr. Dempo was named honorary vice consul of Italy in Goa, India. He was appointed Chairman
(Independent Director) of Automobile Corporation of Goa Ltd, a Tata Group Company. Mr. Dempo has
a long association with football, having patronized a premier football club. He was named among the
50 most in uential people in Indian sports in the 2010 Sports Illustrated Power list as President and
Chairman of Dempo Sports Club Mr. Dempo is on the Executive Council of Goa University, besides
being associated with a number of non-governmental organizations performing yeoman service to
society such as the Charles Correa Foundation as also the Goa Cancer Society whose president he is.
He continues his multi-generational engagement with Goan society, which covers institutions and
programmes of higher education, cultural enrichment, environmental conservation, sporting
excellence and affirmative action, under the Dempo Charities Trust and Vasantrao Dempo Education
& Research Foundation. In his capacity as chairman the prominent petroleum coke manufacturing
listed company, Goa Carbon Ltd, Dempo was honoured in the year 2014 with the Asia Paci c
Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award India 2014 in recognition of his pursuit of responsible business
practices by the Asia-wide organization, Enterprise Asia, dedicated to management development
and ethical business.
Mr. Dempo earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Mumbai in 1990 and
1992 respectively. He later took a Master of Science degree in Industrial Administration & Finance
from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA in 1995 and in 2019 he was elected as
a member on their Board of Trustees. In 2020 he received the Tepper Achievement Award, in
recognition of his in uential roles as Chairman and Managing Director of the Dempo Group and in
professional associations and civic organizations in India.

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 Ms Shereen Bhan
Managing Editor
CNBC-TV18

Ms Shereen Bhan is the Managing Editor of CNBC-TV18 with over 20 years of experience in the eld of
Television Broadcast, tracking corporate, policy news and events that de ned the business landscape
in India. For more than a decade now, Shereen has been not only producing and anchoring agship,
award winning shows like ‘India Business Hour’ and ‘Young Turks’, she has also been hands-on in
guiding and molding young business journalists. She has been responsible for breaking a range of
news stories that have rede ned the Indian economic landscape in recent times and has also
interviewed some of the biggest names in business and politics, both domestic and global. Shereen is
also the Anchor & Editor of the award winning show ‘Young Turks’, one of India’s longest running
shows on entrepreneurship – a section that over the last 18 years has successfully built a niche
category in business news programming. Shereen is also the Author of Young Turks, a book published
by Random House India. Shereen has interviewed some of the biggest names in Business from
legendary investor Warren Buffet to Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Indra
Nooyi to name just a few. She has also spent several years tracking the political- economy and has
interviewed several Finance Ministers and other Cabinet Ministers over the years. Over the course of
her 21-year tryst with business journalism, Shereen has been the recipient of the ‘Best Business Talk
Show’ award at the News Television awards for two years consecutively. She also won the ‘FICCI
Woman of the Year’ award for her contribution to the Media in 2005, and was named a ‘Young Global
Leader’ by the World Economic Forum. She also won the ‘Best Business Anchor Award’ at the ‘News
Television Awards’ in 2013 and the ‘Best English News Anchor Award’ in 2018. Shereen was named in
IMPACT’s ‘50 Most In uential Women In Indian Media, Marketing & Advertising List, for 2018, 2019
and yet again for 2020. She has won the News Television Editor-in-Chief of the year in the English
category and the Best Anchor, English in the prestigious ENBA 2019 Awards. More recently,
continuing her winning streak at ENBA 2020 Awards, Shereen won the Managing Editor of the Year –
English and Best Anchor – English awards.

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 Mr Nikhil Sawhney
Vice Chairman and Managing Director
Triveni Turbine Limited and Director, Triveni Engineering and Industries Limited &
Vice President AIMA
Mr Nikhil Sawhney is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Triveni Turbines and a Director with
Triveni Engineering. The Companies occupy leadership positions in their respective businesses of
sugar manufacturing, distillation of alcohol, renewable energy generation, industrial turbines and
gears, and water and wastewater treatment solutions, spanning 16 manufacturing locations in
India.Triveni Turbines is the largest global manufacturer of small steam turbines as well as the global
leader for renewable energy based applications. The company sells over 1000 MW of small turbines
per annum and has over ve thousand installations in over 80 countries. The Company is leading the
Energy Transition with the development of several products and solutions. Nikhil is the Vice President
of the All India Management Association and a member of the Board of Governors of IIM Calcutta. He
has helped found the CII-Triveni Water Institute and is an active trustee of the Tirath Ram Shah
Charitable Hospital and the Emmanuel College India Trust, as well as the Ananta Aspen Center, of
which he is a fellow. Nikhil is also a member of the Trilateral Commission and a member of various
Government of India led bilateral CEO forums. Nikhil is the Co-Chair of the Ananta Aspen led India-
Israel Forum. Nikhil has been voted one of India’s forty ‘hottest’ business leaders under 40 by The
Economic Times in 2015. He has a BA and MA from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and
an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Nikhil resides in New Delhi with his wife
Zia and their son Zahan.

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 Mr Sanjiv Mehta
CEO and Managing Director
Hindustan Unilever Limited

Mr Sanjiv Mehta is the CEO and Managing Director of Hindustan Unilever Limited which is India’s
largest Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Company. As President, Unilever South Asia, he is also
responsible for Unilever’s businesses in South Asia having a combined turnover of over $8 billion. He
is also a member of Unilever’s Global Executive Board (Unilever Leadership Executive) which runs the
global consumer goods giant.
Sanjiv has done his Bachelor’s in Commerce, Chartered Accountancy and has also completed his
Advanced Management Program (Harvard Business School). He has been with Unilever for 29 years
and for the last 20 years he has led businesses in different parts of the world as the Chairman / CEO. He
has been Chairman and Managing Director of Unilever Bangladesh Limited (2002-06), Chairman and
CEO of Unilever Philippines Inc. (2007-08), Chairman of Unilever - North Africa and Middle East (2008-
13) and from October 2013 he assumed his responsibilities of heading Unilever’s business in India and
South Asia.
During his 8 years at the helm of Hindustan Unilever, the market capitalization of the Company has
increased from $17 billion to $65 billion making it one of the most valuable companies in the country.
In this period, HUL has won several recognitions including the prestigious The Economic Times
‘Company of the Year’ & ‘Corporate Citizen of the Year’ awards, Business Standard’s ‘Company of the
year’ award, the ‘Best Governed Company’ award by the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance and
Sustainability and the 'Outstanding Company of the Year' award at CNBC-TV18’s India Business
Leader Awards (IBLA). Forbes rated HUL as the most innovative company in India and the 8th most
innovative company in the world. Aon Hewitt in a global study rated HUL as the 3rd best company
globally for building leaders.
Sanjiv is the President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI),
Independent Director on the Board of Air India, Director on the Board of Indian School of Business,
member of Board of the Breach Candy Hospital Trust and member of the South Asia Advisory Board of
Harvard Business School. He chairs ‘Vikaasa’, a coalition of top Indian and MNC companies.
Sanjiv was conferred the honorary degree of ‘Doctor of Philosophy in Business Management’ by
Xavier University (Xavier Institute of Management). He has received several personal recognitions
including the ‘Best CEO Multinational’ by Forbes, the ‘Management Man of the Year’ by Bombay
Management Association, the ‘CA Business Leader’ by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India,
the ‘Best Transformational Leader’ by the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability,
the ‘Business Leader of the Year’ by The Economic Times, Pralhad P. Chhabria Memorial Global Award
for his outstanding contributions to the Industry, the ‘JRD Tata Corporate Leadership award’ by the All
India Management Association, the ‘Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal’ by Xavier School of Management
(XLRI), Jamshedpur and the ‘IMPACT Person of the Year’ by exchange4media group (Business World).
Sanjiv is married to Mona who too is a Chartered Accountant by training, is a former Corporate Banker
and now an entrepreneur. They have twin daughters, Naina and Roshni, who have studied at MIT,
Cornell, and Harvard Universities.

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