360 Degree Perspective of Growth
Defence & Security Alert (DSA) partnered with more than three dozen other media organizations to bring the cream of India's industrial and business CEOs for a conclave of growth after the traumatic global events of the past year.

Shed hesitation
It is perceived that Companies seem to be hesitating in moving ahead as they wait for further improvements in the global economy. However, Frost & Sullivan believes that the best CEOs are already planning how their businesses will take advantage of the growth opportunities presented by the rebound.
This was one of the key topics of discussion at this year's GIL 2009: India - Growth, Innovation and Leadership: A Frost & Sullivan Global Congress on Corporate Growth. The Growth Partnership Company's flagship programme which leverages growth, innovation and leadership as the three core elements of a successful growth strategy.
This year's annual programme took place on 23rd October 2009 at the Leela Palace Kempinski, Bangalore where CEOs along with their growth teams representing a pollination of cross industries throughout India came to share, engage and inspire fresh and innovative tools, tactics and strategies in driving growth.
This year's keynote "The CEO's Perspective on Growth in a Complex Business Environment' delivered by Frost & Sullivan Chairman, David Frigstad said, "Now more than ever, CEOs need to continually maintain a 360 degree perspective of their industry to support their critical decision making."

Eight sectors
GIL 2009: India also provided participants access to specific trends and challenges of their industry as part of eight interactive concurrent think tanks covering the Automotive & Transportation, Aerospace & Defense, Electronics and Security, Power, Transmission and Distribution, Environment, Information and Communication Technologies, Chemicals and Materials and Healthcare sectors.
GIL Global is a unique platform where senior executives across multiple industries can come to share and exchange in proven strategies and best practices that will continue to drive this, stated Anand Rangachary, Managing Director, South Asia and Middle East, Frost & Sullivan.

Media partners
Wall Street Journal was the - Official Newspaper Partner, Outlook Business - National Magazine Partner, Financial Chronicle - National Newspaper Partner and MyDigitalFC.com was the Online Media Partner.
Other media partners included A&D India, A&S Magazine, Autocar Professional, Auto Monitor, BTQ, Connect World, ORM Xchange, Chemical World, Chemical Weekly, CIOL Online, Defence And Security Alert (DSA), Energetica India, E Health, Future Pharmaceuticals, Future Healthcare, India Safe, India Infrastructure, Indian Aviation, Meet the Boss, Modern Medicare, Network Computing, PowerLine, Pharmaquest, Progressive Investor, Kong Posh, Security Today, SEARCH, Sustainable Business.com, Security4 India,  Security Bazaar, Tele.net, Water Digest.