SYNAPSE - DAY 1

11th December, 2009

Convention Hall,

9.30 am

The inauguration of SYNAPSE was scheduled at 9.30am and we were asked to report the Convention Hall @ 9.00 am..The Chief Guest invited was Mr. Dilip Kapur,CEO, Hi-Design, the first company to have its production base in India and its market outside India.. But the Indian market started growing up it got its market in India as well..and the global crisis make the company to increase its percentage in Indian market to above 50..

It was a great beginning with a 2hour interaction session with Mr. Dilip, where each one of us tried to take out everything requires to become a successful entrepreneur... How he started, how he continued, what all difficulties he faced, what are major challenges etc. The thing which he insisted on was "Willingness to make mistake while working and taking lessons from them in future"..

He also emphasized on three things which are most important in any person and they are an individual should be Innovative, Creative, and should have Self-confidence...These qualities will take any individual to any level he desires to be in his life..He also emphasized on a SIMPLICITY... He also quoted Aurobindo's words "Greatest beauty is Simplicity" and he works on this concept. He came to meet the students and interact with us and he was really happy after meeting all of us..

Next was the first panel discussion..CEO Panel..The discussion was on our SYNAPSE THEME

" GLOBAL INTEGRATION: OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE"

We had four CEOs from 4 different areas.. Mr. V Ramachandran, CEO, Management & Mr. Mohan Narayanan, CEO, Kubos Consultancy Services, Mr. C. S. Dwivedi, Vice President -Mfg, HCL Infosystems, Mr. Shyam Madhavan, CEO, Wannabe Studios.

Mr. V Ramachandran started the discussion and focussed on acquiring knowledge, globalization, focusing on what needs to be done and global outlook...

Mr. V Ramachandran was followed by Mr. Shyam. Mr. Shyam, one of our Alumnus has recently directed first movie based on Guirrela marketing concept..He focused on ONE WORLD-NEW WORLD concept..He tried to clear us one thing that Web2.0 is only a means to enhance communication on a global platform..It is no different from the real world..All the management techniques which applies to real world also applies to the Web2.0 world, as behind the screen its all human..He ended his discussion by quoting "In business we don't get what we want but we get what we negotiate".

Next was Mr. Mohan, and he spoke on focusing Feel Good perspective, value of Human Capital,Change Management consisting of two issues - Cultural Issue and People Issue, Cloud computing etc.

Next was Mr. Dwivedi, moderator for the panel, who tried to consolidate the points and adding few from his behalf which included thought process, need to be strategist.. He also shared a very interesting fact that Most of the things start as a compulsion and later it becomes a Great Desire..Mobile phones are the best example of it.. He also told a great relation between Right decision, Experience and Wrong Decision. All these three forms a cycle and helps in the growth of the organisation.

The discussion was followed by the question answer session between the students and the panelist where more and more doubts were cleared by us regarding the issues discussed.

As well said, Wisdom speaks up and always delivers something great..Today we also got a great opportunity to learn from these experts which will really gonna benefit us in a long run...

Tomorrow we have three panel discussions: Marketing, HR and Finance Panel..Looking forward for an enriching experience..gud nite..