bhavITva – Disruptively Innovative!

1st March 2008
This year, the theme for bhavITva, the annual Information Management conclave of SPJIMR, was ‘Disruptive Innovations and their role in redefining the technology and business landscape.’ Mr. K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services was invited for an interactive guest lecture with the students of SPJIMR on 15th January 2008. The topic of the session was ‘Changing business environment forcing Indian IT companies to innovate.’ This discussion provided the backdrop for bhavITva 2008.

bhaITva 2008 was held in partnership with NASSCOM and IAMAI. BizTech2.0 was the media partner. The keynote speaker of eNNOVATION was Mr. Ninad Karpe (MD, Computer Associates, India & SAARC). Guest presentations on a variety of innovation related issues were given by Mr. Abhay Gupte (President, ITO, EDS India), Mr. Ravi Trivedy (Executive Director, KPMG) and Mr. Rajdeep Sahrawat (VP and Head of Innovation Initiative, NASSCOM). The guest speakers were later joined by Mr.Vishwa Kiran (VP, R&D, Accenture India) and Prof. Oscar D’Souza (Faculty, SPJIMR) for a panel discussion. The panel discussion was moderated by Mr. Ivor Soans (Managing Editor, Enterprise Technology, BizTech2.0).

bhavITva 2008 saw the launch of IMZine, the annual IM magazine published by SPJIMR along with ‘IM The Guiding Spirit’ mentorship programme for its PGDM Information Management participants. bhavITva 2008 was successfully conceptualized, planned, managed and executed by the Strategic Business Unit for Information Management (SBU-IM) team at SPJIMR comprising of participants of the PGDM program of SPJIMR.