PGSEM Convergenz'08 :Press Release

IIMB presents CONVERGENZ – A Premium Business Event

IIMB along with Cisco brings together the BEST in industry

Calling in for registration

Bangalore, India, January 04, 2007: PGSEM at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore is conducting its first Business Event of 2008 “CONVERGENZ’08”. The event will be hosted at the IIMB campus on Bannerghatta Road on January 13^th, 2008. “CONVERGENZ’08” organized by IIMB’s PGSEM community and sponsored by Cisco will revolve around the theme “Innovation and Product Management”. The event focuses on the logical next step in the Indian IT success story – to innovate with technology.

Given India’s excellence in IT services, “CONVERGENZ 2008” will aim to bring awareness and appreciation of the business skills in the technical experts. The highlights of the event will be “The Corporate IT Quiz”, which is open to participants from all IT firms in Bangalore. The Quiz is expected to draw the brightest IT brains in the city. A panel discussion titled 'Building an Innovation Ecosystem in India' shall be chaired by eminent industry speakers. And finally a “Business Case Analysis” shall showcase the best of the IIM community. The Corporate IT Quiz will have total award of Rs.30,000/- for winners.

The PGSEM is IIMB's long term management offering for IT practitioners. In its tenth year, the program has successfully transformed technologists into enlightened managers. Its alumni now assume leadership roles in various organizations. The program chair, Prof. Shankar Venkatagiri adds, "Two decades ago, India's IT industry placed the country on the global map. In less than a decade, the PGSEM has placed IIMB on India's IT map, and continues to attract superlative talent." PGSEM is calling in for entries from various IT companies for the Corporate IT Quiz.

Eminent personalities like Mr. Aravind Sitaraman, VP and MD, Cisco India, Mr. Rajiv Mehtani, MD, NXP, Mr. Ravishankar GV, Associate, Sequoia Capital India, Prof Sadagopan, Director, IIIT Bangalore and Mr. Vinod Deshmukh, CTO, MindTree Consulting are in the panel. “CONVERGENZ ’08” will attract participants from corporate and the likes of IBM, Wipro, Infosys, Oracle, Motorola, SAP Labs, Samsung, Mind tree, CTS, GE, i-flex, Intel, Cisco, EMC among others.

For details, please visit the website http://pgsem.net/convergenz

For more information mail to Convergenz.iimb@gmail.com

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