The stage is all set for the 2016 edition of India’s biggest management education conference – Indian Management Conclave. 7th Indian Management Conclave (IMC) 2016 will be held on August 5-6 at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), country’s premier management institution. Conclave will be addressed by Policy makers, CXOs from corporate India, Directors and finest minds from Indian and global management education. Dr A Sahasrabudhe, Chairman of AICTE, the regulatory body for Technical Education in India, will be addressing IMC 2016 on August 6, and will share his vision for the management education sector.
Dr A Sahasrabudhe joined All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) as Chairman in July 2015. Dr Sahasrabudhe is a career academician with an illustrious career of 29 years and has held several important Academic, Research and Administrative positions. He started his career as Scientific Officer, at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1983 and moved to Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) as Engineer in the same year. He was Director, College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP) since 2006 on deputation from IIT, Guwahati prior to joining as AICTE Chairman.
Dr Sahasrabudhe’s address and presence at IMC 2016 will provide opportunity for B-school Directors and management educators to know about his views on management education. As reported earlier by MBAUniverse.com, speaking at BIMTECH commencement on June 19, 2016, AICTE Chairman praised B-schools for being ahead of the curve in adopting new teaching-learning systems.
Dr Sahasrabudhe joins a very eminent group of speakers from India and Abroad who will be addressing IMC 2016 on August 5-6.
Dr David Schmittlein, Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management, one of the Top 10 B-schools in the World, will be delivering the Keynote Address from the MIT campus in US. Dr Jitendra V. Singh, Former Dean for HKUST Business School, Asia’s No 1 B-school, and Nanyang Business School Singapore will be visiting India to address IMC 2016. He is currently the Chair Professor and Senior Adviser to the President of HKUST, Hong Kong. Dr Ashish Nanda, Director, IIM Ahmedabad will be delivering Keynote at the Inaugural session of IMC 2016.
India’s Top management thinkers and academic leaders including Dr Rajan Saxena, Vice Chancellor, NMIMS University; Dr M R Rao, Dean Emeritus, ISB and Former Director, IIMB; Dr Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director, IIM Indore; Dr Ranjan Banerjee, Dean, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai; Dr H Chaturvedi, Alt President EPSI and Director, BIMTECH; Dr CP Shrimali, Acting Director, MDI Gurgaon; Dr Janat Shah, Director, IIM Udaipur and Dr Arvind Sahay, Dean, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad will be addressing IMC 2016 on August 5-6. Distinguished business leaders from Corporate India will be joining IMC 2016 speaker’s line-up as well.
In addition to two days of thought-provoking discussions on conference theme, IMC 2016 will also host two prestigious awards: IMC Awards for Excellence in Management Education and IMC Distinguished Alumni Awards.
IMC Awards are India’s most prestigious awards for Excellence in Management Education. The core objective is to identify, document & recognize the Best-practices by B-schools & Universities. IMC Awards were presented by HRD Minister Mr Shashi Tharoor (2013); Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, Jt-MD, Hero Motocorp (2014) and Mr Dilip Sanghvi, MD, Sun Pharma (2015). More than 25 leading B-schools have participated in IMC Awards 2016 Nomination Process, making it India’s biggest platform for collaborative learning for the benefit of 200 B-schools attending IMC 2016. On August 5-6, top 10 Best-Practices/Cases, selected by eminent Jury, will make detailed presentation at IMC conference. More details are on this link.
Initiated in 2015 to mark completion of 5 years of IMC platform, IMC Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented to top CEOs who completed their MBA from Indian business school and are now making a global and national impact. 2015 Awards recipients were IRMA MBA Shri R S Sodhi, MD of GCMMF (AMUL) and NMIMS MBA Ms Avani Davda, Former MD & CEO, Tata Starbucks India. Similarly, IMC DAA 2016 Winners will be felicitated on August 5. More details are on this link.
One of the highlights of IMC conclave will be Academic Leadership Workshop by IIMA on Case Method. IIM Ahmedabad is well known for propagating Case Method of Teaching, and for developing the most insightful Cases. Dr Vijaya Sherry Chand, Professor, Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, IIMA and Dr M. R. Dixit, Professor, IIMA shall deliver IMC Faculty Workshop on Case Method of Teaching. This workshop will be held on August 4 at IIMA campus and is open only for young faculty members. More details are on this link.
Registrations for IMC 2016 are open for B-schools and Universities. Register now on this link. More than 50 institutions from all parts of India have already registered and marked IMC 2016 on their academic calendar for learning from the best minds. Last date for early bird fee is June 30.
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