The Hot Seat
A Private Leadership Conversation
One leader. One room. One unscripted hour. The people shaping business sit down with our students to share the decisions, the doubts and the lessons that never make the headlines.
Edition 01
The Inaugural Seat · Concluded
The inaugural seat is complete.
Held Saturday, 25 July 2026
Edition 01 brought Mr. Venkatesh Mahadevan into the room with our students for an unscripted hour. Thank you to everyone who made the first seat what it was. The next conversation is already being set.
Where the people behind the headlines finally speak.
The Hot Seat is our signature leadership series. Intimate, unscripted conversations with the CEOs, founders and investors who have made the hard calls, on decision-making, innovation, failure and what comes next.
Because the most valuable lesson is rarely on the balance sheet. It is in the judgment of the person who wrote it.
Exclusive and invite-only. Each Hot Seat is a closed-room session reserved for a select group of invited students. Seats are limited, and the conversation stays in the room. Edition 01 was open to DPS students only. Future editions will welcome more.
Exceptional Leaders
CEOs, founders and changemakers who have sat where the decisions are hardest.
Candid Conversations
No scripts. No slides. Honest talk about the calls that defined a career.
Bold Ideas
The thinking behind the headlines, and the convictions that made it happen.
Real Perspectives
Lessons from the market, not the textbook, told by the people who lived them.
Responsible Leadership
What it means to lead with integrity when the stakes, and the scrutiny, are real.
The conversation that opened the series.
In the Hot Seat
Mr. Venkatesh Mahadevan
When
Saturday, 25 July 2026
Where
Bloomberg Finance Lab, R&D Block
Access
Invited students only
More seats. More stories. Stay tuned.
The Hot Seat is an ongoing series. New leaders, new conversations, and the next chair is already being set. Watch this space for who sits down next.
Edition 02
To be announced