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

Or contact Karthik at +91-98457-46262

Importance of Networking Part !!

Dear All,

Since i wrote the previous post on the importance of networking, here comes the significant update of how do i network and is there a common place where i can find all and also how do i become part of the pgsem linked in group.

Firstly the Linked in One, those of you who have not yet figured out how to join the pgsem group, please send me an email with your pgsem roll number and i will send across the invitation link to the group. I was still unable to recreate the sequence of steps to join in but bumped into Vinay Avasthi the creator of the group and he has sent me this link.

Secondly about the common networking platform. After considerable delibrations, a focussed team of PGSEM-Web committee members have put together a single site that can act as a gateway for our discussions, interaction, networking and much more. Do pour in ur suggestion, kudos and brickbats over to them as discussion threads and not as emails. I think thats a very practical suggestion, so that the trail and views from multiple users can be tracked together.


Please find the email from the PGSEM-Web committee below:

Folks, The PGSEM-Web committee is rolling out a portal http://pgsem.net for PGSEM students and alumni to interact. Please register there and start using the site. ( You need your IIMB ID to do registration )

At present, the site has two main features – A discussion forum and profile page..We are in the process of modifying the profile page to add more details. Also, please start using the discussion forum actively.

Please note that the site is in its preliminary form and you may find some issues/bugs.. Please post the details of those in the discussion forum in the appropriate section.. We’ll try to resolve it quickly. Also note that the discussion forum is restricted to registered PGSEM students only.

Going forward, the profile pages will be developed including more information and it would be available for public view.. And each student will get a profile page like http://pgsem.net/ ( not implemented now ) .. And these listings would facilitate our interaction with industry ( i.e, job related inquiries, leads etc can/may come through these public profile pages ) ..Hence , be careful in filling up the profile information.

Now, to the second part – We need to make this site popular.. To do that, please do the following

(1)Include a link to the site in your mail signature (corporate ID too if that’s not a problem )

(2)If you have a personal web/blog, and if you are writing something about PGSEM, link the keyword PGSEM to this site
(eg: “ I’m doing PGSEM @ IIMB ( this word hyper linked to the portal )“ – is a ‘google friendly’ way of linking
where as “I’m doing PGSEM @ IIMB , http://pgsem.net “ ( separate link from keyword ) – is NOT a google friendly way.. I.e, always link appropriate keywords to this site)

(3)Please give a link to this site from your “LinkedIn” profiles.. Some of you might be maintaining linkedIn public URLs, which function as some sort of a short resume.. Once the detailed profile pages come up, use those too.

(4)If you are part of some popular online forums – job forums/share market forums/MBA related forums etc, please add the link to the site in your forum user ID signature.

-- We invite your feedback/suggestions/ideas etc, but not as mails, but as threads in discussion forum.

PGSEM-Web committee.