The students were addressed by participants including Mr Santosh
Mohanty (Head, Global Technology Excellence, TCS), Mr Arun Pingaley
(Head, Product Management, Reveleus, Oracle Financial Services,
formerly i-flex Solutions Limited), Mr Srinivasan Komanduri (Office
Managing Director ,Consulting, Deloitte US Entities in India), Mr
Sonjoy Mohanty (CEO – A Little World ), Mr Abhijit Sen (AVP, Divisional
Manager & Bhubaneswar Center Head at Infosys Technologies Ltd), Mr
Sudipta Ghosh (Senior Manager, Innovation Group, WIPRO).
The event started with the lighting of the lamp by the director of the institute Fr PT Joseph, Dr Gopal Krishna Nayak and the various panelists. Also, the winners for the paper writing competition were announced. The first prize was bagged by Mr S Bala Vishwakumar and Mr Mainak Das from XIMB, followed by Mr Gaurav Gupta & Mr Lakshaw Jawa from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad and the third prize was awarded to Mr Nishith Gupta & Mr Sumit Agarwal from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
The panelists stressed on the importance of IT in order to cater to the changing global scenario and how India should evolve from being a technical service provider to a business problem solver. They also spoke of how IT should try and manage the changes that happen within a company, such as acquisitions and mergers. The importance of disaster recovery, data mining, data storage & sorting was also discussed. They spoke of the advantages of having a unique customer experience and then moved on to discuss the importance of agility and speed which help in converting a business strategy to a business process. They also discussed issues like outsourcing of jobs to India and how we should work on improving our IT services so as to maintain the competitive edge that we have in the IT domain compared to the other countries.
The students were also given a practical demonstration of the evolving role of IT when Mr Sonjoy Mohanty showed them how a special mobile phone and an electronic device can be used to create Bank accounts for the villagers and issue debit cards. This was followed by a question & answer session in which the students asked a variety of questions related to the strengths and weakness of the IT industry.
In the end, Dr Gopal Krishna Nayak summarized the talk and discussed how IT was influencing all the sectors and would play a key role in managing change in the global scenario. The panelists and Dr Nayak also launched the magazine called X-ite for Envision a08 on behalf of the systems committee of XIMB. The event was concluded with a vote of thanks presented by Dr Sanjay Mohapatra , faculty coordinator of XSYS, the systems committee of XIMB.
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