Bangalore, India, January 13, 2008: PGSEM at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore conducted its first Business Event of 2008 “CONVERGENZ’08”. The event awaited by the complete software industry was hosted at the IIMB campus on Bannerghatta Road on January 13th, 2008. “CONVERGENZ’08” was organized by IIMB’s PGSEM community and sponsored by Cisco, SAP Labs, ABB, Freescale revolved around the theme “Innovation and Product Management”. The event focused on the logical next step in the Indian IT success story – to innovate with technology.
The winners of the Symposium on Innovation were Rajeev Gurnani and Sebastine Augustine (PGSEM 05). Deepak mittal and Sudharshan KT (PGSEM 06) walked away as the runners up.
Given India’s excellence in IT services, “CONVERGENZ 2008” targeted at bringing awareness and appreciation of the business skills among the IT community. The most awaited event of the day, “The Corporate IT Quiz”, open to participants from all IT firms in Bangalore, saw more than 100 bright teams from all over the industry participating with enthusiasm. After more than 4 hours of intense action, Ram Gopal Agarwal and Nimish Batra from Infosys emerged as the winners to carry away Rs 15000. Runners up included Pallavi Mohanty and Jaya Kanthan from TCS (Rs 10000) and Thejaswi Udupa and Ashwin Hegde from Yahoo (Rs 5000).
The event hosted a panel discussion titled 'Building an Innovation Ecosystem in India', chaired by eminent industry speakers. Eminent personalities like Mr. Aravind Sitaraman, VP & MD, Cisco Systems India, Mr. Rajiv Mehtani, MD, NXP, Mr. Ravishankar GV, VP, Sequoia Capital India, Prof Sadagopan, Director, IIIT Bangalore and Mr. Vinod Deshmukh, CTO, MindTree Consulting constituted the panel. The panel emphasized on the interaction between industry and academia in order to bring about healthy innovation.
Mr. Girish Koppar, Vice President, SAP Labs made the concluding speech for the event and gave away the prizes for the quiz and symposium winners.
The program chairperson, Prof. Shankar Venkatagiri presented the vote of thanks and the event concluded.
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