IMPRINTS SIMSR Alumni Newsletter March 2016 Edition TEAM ALCOM SPEAKS The Alumni Committee is glad to present—IMPRINTS, March 2016 Edition.
CONTENTS
With the objective to establish global ties with our alumni based around
SIMSR CITY MEETS 2016
the world, SIMSR, in association with the Alumni Committee, is organising
MELANGE 2016
the SIMSR City Meets. We are organising a get together of SIMSR Alumni
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
based in various cities across India. Our acting Director, Dr. Monica
WEEK 2016
Khanna, along with a few faculty members from SIMSR will be a part of
GRAPHICON 2016
these City Meets.
SIMSR INTERNATIONAL HR CONFERENCE
It is with immense pleasure that we invite you to collaborate with us in this initiative. Also, SIMSR will soon begin its admission process for the
MOBILE ADVERTISING WORKSHOP
academic year 2016-18. We invite our Alumni to participate as panelists for group discussions and personal interviews during the admission
SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS
process across various cities.
SIMSR TALKIES
MUMBAI CITY MEET
CITY MEETS 2016 Ahmedabad—5th March Singapore —9th March
Batch of 2006-08 with our Alumni Relations Chairperson, Prof. (Dr.) Radha Iyer.
Delhi—12th March Kolkata—13th March
Bengaluru—19th March Chennai—21st March Hyderabad—22nd March Time—7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Pune—2nd April (Lunch) Venue—Mainland China RSVP—City Meet Registration
Prof. (Dr.) Radha Iyer sharing latest updates about SIMSR with the Alumni at the Mumbai City Meet.
IMPRINTS MELANGE 2016 Our annual management festival ‘Melange’ was held at SIMSR between 11th and 13th of February 2016. Students from B-Schools around the country participated in a variety of events conducted during Melange. A
Panel
Discussion
on
‘Brand
Image
Volatility’
was
attended by eminent speakers like – Mr Roland Landers - Chief Branding Officer at Zee Entertainment Mr Arun Sehgal - Founder and CEO at Chempro Group
Mr Hitesh Gossain - Managing Partner at Onspon Services Mr Harikishan Pillai - Founder at The Small Big Ideas Acumen, the Quizzing and Debating Committee of SIMSR organized a Model United Nations on the subject ‘Zero Carbon, Zero Poverty’. Debaters from SIMSR, NITIE, SCIT and SCMHRD participated in MUN. Miss India Earth 2015, Aaital Khosla was invited to judge the fashion show. Euphoria, the band that took India by storm during the 90s, performed live in concert during Melange.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK 2016 Pathfinder Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cell celebrated Entrepreneurship Week from 22nd to 26th February 2016. Events such as these were conducted during E-WEEK: Quizzo-Preneur: Inter B-School startup quiz competition Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in India: A panel discussion which was attended by speakers like—
Madhu Gopinath, Founder, Opus Group of Companies Sanjay Mehta, Angel Investor and Director, Core Media Group Sachin
Tagra,
Associate
VP,
Head
Incubator
Capital
Suneel Bandhu, Ex-COO at Tata Teleservices Mera Business: Elevator Pitch Competition for business ideas Marketing Mackathon: Case study competition Startup Valuation: A workshop on topics like top down approach
v/s
bottom
up
approach,
market
dilution, ‘MOPS’ valuation and the snowball effect.
sizing,
SIMSR ALUMNI NEWSLETTER GRAPHICON 2016 ICON, the annual technical festival of the Masters in Computer Application department at SIMSR, was organized on 5th and 6th February 2016. The theme was GRAPHICS and hence the name GRAPHICON was given to the festival. It was inaugurated by Dr. Sameer Sahasrabudhe, Senior Faculty at TISS. Our Alumni, Ms. Devyani Gandhi and Mr. Ashwin Prakash (batch2000-2002), were invited as chief guests for Graphicon during valedictory function
The festival witnessed a large and enthusiastic crowd from colleges like SIES and NMIMS.
SIMSR INTERNATIONAL HR CONFERENCE The third International HR Conference at SIMSR was held on 4th and 5th February 2016. It was organised by the HR Department, supported by Humanist - the HR Club of SIMSR. Dr. Monica Khanna began by emphasizing on the importance of shorter employee loyalty periods. The keynote speaker, Mr. Vivek Patwardhan, addressed the importance of institution building as a test of leadership. The conference hosted
a panel discussion on ‘Employee
Engagement’. The discussion revolved around the importance of human resources and various ways to improve employee engagement. This was succeeded by research paper presentations on different aspects of Employee Engagement.
MOBILE ADVERTISING WORKSHOP INTERFACE, the marketing committee of SIMSR, hosted a
workshop on “Mobile Advertising” on 18th February 2016. It was conducted by Mr. Amit Lall, Associate VP - Mobile Business at Omnicom Media Group. Key points of discussion: Big opportunity for online marketers. The growing number of subscriptions & phone users in India. New connections are due to feature phones and not smart phones. The workshop was illustrated with different examples of mobile advertising and the various methods of reaching your target audience.
MARCH 2016 EDITION
SIMSR SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS The SIMSR Football team won first place in the NMIMS football tournament this year. They participated proactively in football matches and won accolades while playing against the teams of NITIE, IIT Bombay, S P Jain and MICA .
SIMSR TALKIES SIMSR Talkies, the dramatics club at SIMSR, screened acclaimed movies like ‘Mystic River’, ‘Manjhi’, ‘Kingsman’ and ‘I am Kalam’ for the entertainment of students. Talkies also conducted ‘Buzzinga’, a TV series quiz, ‘Filmy Keeda’, a movie quiz and ‘Badlaav’, a street play competition.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES No. of job opportunities : 12 Some of our recruiters for the month of February are Axis Bank , Thomas Reuters, Infosys Arcesium and Trafigura Global Services
TEAM IMPRINTS
Chief Editor—Anshumala Sinha
Senior Designers and Content Managers— Swinston D’Almeida & Ridhi Gupta
& Akshay Kamath
CONNECT WITH US AT
Arvind Pandi Dorai - 90294 08800 (Alumni Relations Co-ordinator, SIMSR)
Shriya Pawar - 97697 00042
(Alumni Relations Executive, SIMSR)
Contributors—Parul Pathak, Diwansh Garg, Sanjog Ahuja, Rashida Degani, Sweta Lakhani
Vidhya Sharma - 98202 48420 (Senior Manager, Somaiya Alumni Relations)
Designers and Content Managers—Ankita Rajadhyaksha, Abhijith Varma & Riya Guin
ALUMNI RELATIONS
Rohan Pai - 98197 10256 (Convenor, Alumni Committee)
WRITE TO US AT
alcom.simsr@somaiya.edu