AICTE Chairman, MIT Sloan & HKUST Deans, CEOs, Who's Who from Indian MBA to address IMC 2016

Updated on July 29, 2016

Top global management thinkers and Deans, CEOs from marquee companies, 250 delegates are to congregate at IMC 2016 being held at IIMA campus on August 5 & 6

Key note addresses and thought provoking plenary sessions during 2 days of IMC 2016 will witness addresses by Policy makers, CXOs from corporate India, Directors and finest minds from Indian and global management education

The stage is set for the 7th Indian Management Conclave, being held at IIM Ahmedabad on August 5-6, 2016. Top global management thinkers and Deans, CEOs from marquee companies, and Who’s Who from Indian management education, and 250 delegates including Directors and Deans from almost all Top 100 B-schools are all set to congregate at IIMA next week. Registrations for the conclave stand closed now.

The key note addresses and thought provoking plenary sessions during 2 days of IMC 2016 will witness addresses by Policy makers, CXOs from corporate India, Directors and finest minds from Indian and global management education on ‘Institutional Leadership in Management Education’.

IMC 2016 Programme Schedule
August 5
The inaugural session on day 1 of IMC 2016 will see the Conclave inaugural address by Dr Ashish Nanda, Director, IIM Ahmedabad; Keynote Address by Dr Jitendra V. Singh, Chair Professor, Former Dean, HKUST Business School & Nanyang Business School; Faculty Emeritus, The Wharton School; Special Address by Mr Harish Bhat, Member, Group Executive Council, Tata Sons and the Welcome Address by Mr Amit Agnihotri, Convener, Indian Management Conclave.

Key sessions on Day 1 are:

-- PLENARY Session on ‘Attaining Academic Leadership’

-- IMC AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION 2016 - PRESENTATIONS BY FINALISTS on Theme 1: ‘Academic Leadership: Ideas in Action’

-- INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Dr David Schmittlein, Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA

-- IMC DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS – will be presented to outstanding business leaders who graduated from an Indian B-school and are now making a national and global impact.

August 6
On day 2 at IMC 2016, there will be special session on Case writing, teaching and distribution: An IIMA Perspective on Academic Excellence followed by plenary sessions; Directors’ round table; IMC Awards finalists’ presentation on theme-2; Presentation of IMC Awards 2016 and valedictory addresses by Dr A Sahasrabudhe, Chairman of AICTE; Mr. R S Sodhi, Managing Director, GCMMF Ltd (AMUL)

Important sessions on Day 2 are

-- SPECIAL SESSION on ‘Case writing, teaching and distribution: An IIMA Perspective on Academic Excellence’

-- PLENARY Session on ‘Attaining Leadership in Corporate Engagement’

-- IMC AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION 2016 - PRESENTATIONS BY FINALISTS on Theme 2: ‘The Leadership in Corporate Engagement: Models that work’

-- DIRECTORS ROUNDTABLE on ‘Achieving & Institutionalizing Leadership: Roadmap for Leaders’

-- VALEDICTORY SESSION & PRESENTATION OF IMC AWARDS 2016 - Valedictory Address by Guest of Honour DrAnil D. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Mr RS Sodhi, Managing Director, GCMMF Ltd (AMUL)

The stellar line up of speakers at IMC 2016 includes also India’s Top management thinkers and academic leaders namely Dr Bakul Dholakia, Director General IMI and former Director IIM Ahmedabad, 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 C P Shrimali, Acting Director, MDI Gurgaon; Dr Janat Shah, Director, IIM Udaipur and Dr Arvind Sahay, Dean, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Distinguished business leaders from Corporate India will be joining IMC 2016 speaker’s line-up as well.

IMC 2016: FDP on August 4 at IIMA
One of the highlights of IMC conclave will be IMC faculty development workshop by IIMA Case Centre 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 will be conducting IMC Faculty Workshop on Case Method.

Preceding the inaugural day of IMC 2016, on August 4, Faculty Development Workshop will be held at IIM Ahmedabad campus. The pre-registered faculty members from business schools can participate in the workshop which will be held from 2.30PM to 6.30PM at Conference Hall, Kasturbhai Lalbhai Management Development Centre (KLMDC) Annexe, IIM Ahmedabad.
More details are on this link.

IMC Awards for Excellence in Management Education
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 30 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 and the winners will receive awards from DrAnil D. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Mr RS Sodhi, Managing Director, GCMMF Ltd (AMUL). More details are on this link.

IMC Distinguished Alumni Awards
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. 2016 Awards recipients have been announced and they are SPJIMR Alumna Ms Shilpa Divekar, CEO, India Region, Monsanto and IMT Ghaziabad Alumnus Mr Dev Amritesh, President & Chief Business Officer, Domino's Pizza India. More details are on this link.

Conclave partners to IMC 2016 include Alliance University; BIMTECH Greater Noida; CFA Institute; EDII Ahmedabad; Emerald; Harvard Business Publishing; Hindu Business Line; IBM; IFIM B-School, Bangalore; Jaipuria Institute of Management; NMAT by GMAC; NMIMS University; Pearson; TalentEdge (all names in alphabetic order).

The programme agenda can be accessed and downloaded from Download Program Agenda.