Hey was just thinking can the profs be encouraged to join this forum . we can have separate section for profs where ppl can directly discuss with them .. ???
Now we have 2 PGites covering Confluence. One is subbu and the second is... WAYNE 
.. He landed up early morning @ Ahmedabad and from what I hear..is pretty busy talking to people. He should be getting a "Press" card soon like Subbu does and would be talking to more people to get you more articles about Confluence and IIMA 😃
Another small article about Day 0 has been put up. This article is pretty small though. A long article about Day 1 will be put up tomorrow morning 😃
hey ppl,
i wonder how many still remember me ??no posts ever since i entered this place....
well i met subbu and wayne today at lunch and boy watay surprise :)
life here is all work and very li'l play as i'm sure subbu will tell u guys :D
but its grt to be back after such a long time
and PG the portal rocks 😁
Same case here...
back after a long time...
met subbu today at the garba ..and found out abt many more PGites who were my classmates and i didnt have a clue...
cheers
psmith
Ahemm....
We are njoying the Conflu here and Wayne & Subbu are in good spirits even after I made them eat breakfast at our mess !!...Followed by lunch and then dinner at the same place !!!...some patience these guys have got !!..hehehe...after yesterday nites loon garba we woke up pretty late at around 10 today....would be off to various talks soon.....the events left for the day are :
12:15 Sapient Corporate Lecture: Mr Peston Bradford
1530 Winning The Cola Wars: Mr. Sripad Nadkarni VP Coca-Cola
1645 Advertising Workshop, Mr. R. Balakrishnan Lowe-Lintas
1830 The Times Group Media Conclave:
Mr. Shashi Sinha FCB Ulka Advertising
Mr. Neville Taraporwalla Country Manager, Yahoo India
Mr. Ajay Bhatia, Mkting Head, ICICI Pru
Mr. MJ Akbar, Editor Journalist, Asian Age
Mr. Arnab Goswami, Television/Media Personality
I'll let the "pressmen" do the honors of enlightening u all!!!
Yesterday was fun too....subbu had written in detail about it..but apart from all tht i had a novel exp interacting with loads of students from various colleges iduring the corporate dinner...at Hotel Grand Bhagwati with all the panelists and select foreign candidates/domestic students. At my table we had an IIM B guy, one ISB, one guy from HAAS,California, one lady from FMS,couple of IIM A grads and one exchange student from Europe. Though the food was average (I never like food from the 3/5 starred hotels the talk was filling !! 😃 ...Nice interacting with all these people.That was and shall remain an important take away from this years Conflu for me !I just can imagin what it will be like in a phoren B School/ even ISB when everyone comes with such deep and valuable work experience. In another table there was a chap from Europe who was a Product Manager with P&G..now; why would i require a Kotler to understand product marketing if I have such a guy in the class !! :)..........late in the nite (means early in the morning actually!!) had a loong chat with a college senior from ISB.....so all in all an eminently valuable day in b school life 😃 .......sorta stuff i wud value anyday far more than the classes !
suhas
In another table there was a chap from Europe who was a Product Manager with P&G..now; why would i require a Kotler to understand product marketing if I have such a guy in the class !! :)..........late in the nite (means early in the morning actually!!) had a loong chat with a college senior from ISB.....so all in all an eminently valuable day in b school life 😃 .......sorta stuff i wud value anyday far more than the classes !
suhas
Hey Suhas, great to hear from you. Actually I was wondering about this. Subbu & Wayne's opinions would be from that of an outsider. Why dont we have some articles from u - or others, within IIMA. Something like take aways from Confluence as such. That would be really interesting. PG, can we publish something like this.. or... not??
It will be nice reading the same programme thro different eyes... it will def be STARK DIFFERENT 😃 It will be great too...
Simba
Folks, 2 more articles are in .. Including the interview with Suhas aka snan aka SooHa$$
Yoo hooo !!! any1 remembers me? 😃
That would be too much to ask, considering i used to use up server space primarily on the Quiz thread.
Met urMad and wayne, and had quite soem revelations frm subbu abt the ppl around me and their nicks on PG... eg dint know shradda was pixie and Sushanth was Psmith, and GuCCi (Gaurav P) was zeitgeist.
We had Sid Basu's quiz today and that was fun.
Anyways, a big hi to every1 and let me get back to the grind after 4 days of great learning and enjoyment.
Final day event covered and posted .. More information n articles once subbu lands back into Hyd
Cheers,
no pix? where r the pix? we surely want pix.
also - some more coverage - from the PGites in IIMA would be great.
The links are ordered in the wrong sequence - i mean - prev takes you from Day 0 to Day 1 - and Next takes you from Day 1 to Day 0 - *guess* - that needs fixing ;)
Overall the coverage is great - lot of humourous tidbits coupled with all the programme details - job well done - i think we shud decorate it some more - and really - we want pix!
Pix and loads more interviews underway... That ordering has been a problem with the content management system we use... .. I'll try to get it sorted out ..
More articles will be put up throughout this week and then we cover IIMBs Vista 😉
Hi :)
Back after a longgggggggg time ...met the mad moduhrator yesterday..and the talk abt getting back to books rght after confluence .. dont even ask, today had a marketing presentation in the 1st hour, for which the preparation had been done post-confluence, 3-6 am :))) so u know
Ciao
ranjan
yeah we know....atleast four of u were speaking at one go... 
create chaos confusion tactics, huh??
as for me after seeing my firangs off i slept thro the first two classes and woke up for eco class only to find that i had read for tomm's class instead of today's ...
happens wen u have con'FLU' 
The next interview is UP .. Its our own Quant Queen Bhars18 - Bharathy in IIMA
Enjoy folks 😃
on popular demand a few pics
one of the quizzes
the audi
LKP
a few more
dandiya
corpo dinner
Heya people at IIMA, a very warm thanks to each and every one of you out there for the warm reception and the helluva time that i had there at Confluence 😃 😃 😃 ....'tis really a pleasure interacting with you folks....Been thinking of writing something abt this wonderful community that actually brought us together, but then somehow fails me....Cheers to ya folks and Cheers to the amazing community feel that abounds these forums.....
Cheers
ps: hope to cya folks back to ur active self again.....and going by ur own words, all of u, taking a few mins out for gettin back to something ain't all that impossible, right
Hi mod :)),
It was awesomm to finally meet the grr8 mod in person :)))...and ur coverage has been just...to put it succinctly...perfect to the 'T'.
Hope u had a wonderful time too at A :). *Would be nice to know dat A is nice to some human-beings atleast *especially who arent PGP-1's :p*.
ranjan
Hi mod :)),
It was awesomm to finally meet the grr8 mod in person :)))...and ur coverage has been just...to put it succinctly...perfect to the 'T'.
Hope u had a wonderful time too at A :). *Would be nice to know dat A is nice to some human-beings atleast *especially who arent PGP-1's :p*.
ranjan
IIM-A is nice to PGP-2s
U know that, don't u!!