IMI HR Summit 2008 to focus on Financial Services, IT, Manufacturing and Consulting sectors

The students of PGDM-HR at New Delhi based International Managment Institute (IMI) are getting ready to hold the third two-day HR Summit on August 8-9, 2008.The theme of of the IMI HR Summit will be 'Harnessing People Resources for Business Imperatives- A Multi- Sectoral perspective'. The Summit will involve four sector-specific panel discussions, and one session each on "CSR: The What's and The Worth" and "Is HR Ready for Talent Management?" The four broad sectors under the purview of this forum would be Technology (IT, ITes, Telecom industry); Manufacturing and Consumer Goods industry; Finance and Insurance sector; and Consultancy sector. The summit will also host an Inter B-School competition -- "Tantra- Mantra". This would be a two-day rolling event, consisting of a Paper Presentation Competition on Day One and a Case Study competition on Day two of the summit. Some of the speakers who will address the summit include Mr. Prashant, Head HR & Admin, HDFC Insurance, Mumbai; Mr. R. Mahajan, Head HR SBI Life; Mr. Vijay Deshpande, VP-HR, Greaves Cotton ; Mr. Amitabh Kumar, Director- HR, NEC India; Mr. S.Varadarajan, EVP & CHRO, Quatrro BPO; Mr. Anil Chawla, Global Head HR operations, TCS; Mr. Prabhakar, Sr.V.P., EmaarMGF ; Mr. Prakash, DGM HR, Satyam Computers; Mr. Piyush Patodia, Sr.V.P., Grant Thorton and Mr. Pankaj Bansal, CEO, People Strong.Says IMI, HR Summit 2008 aims to highlight the instrumental role of the Human Resource Function in harnessing the people resources of organizations operating in different sectors of the economy, in order to meet their Business Imperatives. India's leading management portal MBAUniverse.com is the Official Management Portal of IMI HR Summit 2008. Stay tuned for updates from the event.

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