AIMA - BMA Regional Management Conclave
IIT Mumbai 20th January 2023
As part of its diamond jubilee celebrations in 2017, AIMA took up a key initiative to organize the Regional Management Conclaves jointly with its Local Management Associations across the country. Since its inception in 2017, it has been very well received in its editions held across India. In 2021 and 2022, online versions of the same were organized due to the unprecedented times. An edition of the Regional Management Conclave was organised jointly with Bombay Management Association and IIT Bombay on 20th January 2023 at the premises of IIT Bombay . The theme of the conclave was Orchestrating Business Transformation in Age of Digital Innovation. The Inaugural session had Mr Shrinivas V Dempo, President, All India Management Association & Chairman, Dempo Group of Companies, Ms Rekha Sethi, Director General, All India Management Association, Mr Keshav R Murugesh, Group CEO - WNS Global Services & Past Chairman – NASSCOM, Mr Rajesh Sharma, President, Bombay Management Association, Professor R K Shyamasundar, INAE Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Professor M D Agrawal, Conference Mentor & Past President, Bombay Management Association address the participants.
The Keynote address at the Inaugural Session was delivered by Dr Sam Pitroda, Internationally Respected Telecom Inventor Entrepreneur, Development Thinker and Policy Maker. Dr Pitroda shared how journey in digital innovation started about 60 years ago - The journey included growth from punch card based computing, Desktop, Laptop, palmtop , smart phone, big data, analytics, robotics, sensors, cloud computing, how all of this has happened in a short period of time. Dr Pitroda emphasized on the need to understand how hyper connectivity today is changing everything may it be business, products, services, market, distribution and delivery, he explained how hyper connectivity is about democratization of knowledge and information, decentralization of activities and demonetisation of services. Dr Pitroda said that there is a need to use digital transformation to develop a new mindset - shift attention from profit and power to planet and people.
The other plenary session at the conclave included Leveraging platform economy for business transformation; New digital models for transforming & enhancing customer experience ; Next generation business technologies and their impact: 5G / blockchain/ metaverse; Disruption in the financial sector / banking, financial services and insurance; Policy challenges & regulatory framework for data privacy and cybersecurity for secured business, Machine Learning for Business Transformation. The sessions were addressed by several eminent speakers to name a few Mr Nitin Chugh, Deputy Managing Director and Head of Digital Banking and Transformation ,State Bank of India, Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, 5F World, Mr P Balaji, Chief Regulatory and Corporate Affairs Officer, Vodafone Idea Ltd, Mr Vishal Gondal, Founder and CEO, GOQii, Mr Manish Gupta, Director, Google Research India, Professor Rajendra Sonar,Professor of Information Systems/Technology, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management,Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mr Shailesh V Haribhakti, Chairman, Shailesh Haribhakti & Associates, Chartered Accountants, Mr Sanjay Agrawal, CTO and Head Presales,Hitachi Vantara India and SAARC, Chair SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), Mr Harish Prabhu, Fintech Investor, Digital Banking, Cooperative Banking Payments Domain Specialist, Mr Navin Gupta, Managing Director, South Asia and MENA Region, Ripple, Mr Kiran Yadav, Vice President, Bombay Management Association, Professor Shishir K Jha, Professor and Ex-Head, Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay, Dr Vivek Kant, Assistant Professor, Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems Studios, IDC School of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mr Yogesh Palrecha, Founder and CEO, Inferix Inc. ; Ms Archana Sinha, Customer Experience Lead for Home Business, Reliance Jio, Mr Kiran Solanki, Cloud Pre-sales, Hitachi Systems India, Mr Jatin Sinha, Digital Transformation Head, Schbang, Mr Temujin Mansukhani, Senior BDM-Digital Transformation, Schbang, Mr Mahendra Joshi, Vice President, Systems Audit, ReBIT, The conclave was well received and it brought together leaders from industry, academia and young management students.
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