...And when they all returned to their Alma Mater, the memories were refreshed and the years gone by did not matter!

How many times in one's life does one get to experience the effect of time machine without doling out a fortune for it? But some events do make it possible, at least metaphorically if not literally. The NITIE (National Institute of Industrial Engineering) Annual Alumni Meet, Sansmaran 2012, was one such event that brought back fond memories.

NITIE has crossed many milestones in its journey of academic and professional excellence and has carved a niche for itself in the galaxy of top notch institutes in the country. Every year NITIE takes a walk down the corridors of nostalgia boasting its legacy of a respondent and diversified Alumni network carrying along memories that they would cherish forever.

24th Nov 2012 was the day when they all returned to their Alma-Mater. It was Sansmaran-2012, NITIE’s Annual Alumni Meet, which brought back more than hundred alumni from across the globe to the picturesque campus of NITIE.

The annual management fest of National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Prerana 2012 a five day symposium kicked off on 16th October. Prerana Business Meet, the flagship event of the fest, held on the second day, had members of top management from various corporate houses - Mr.Harsh Mariwala (CEO, Marico), Mr. B.Vidyanathan (MD, Future Capital), Mr. S Hazara (MD, Shipping Corporation of India) and Mr. Anshoo Gaur (Head, Amdocs India) welcomed by Director Dr. Amitabha De and Convenor Prof. A.K. Pundir, sharing the stage and deliberating on the topic of discussion, "Reviving the Indian Economy: Key Focus Areas to Sustain the Indian Growth Story".

Among others events were Tactix, 'Beat the Street', Equinox, Launchpad, Checkmate, Enflammer, Summer Project Contest, Vivaad - A War of Words, Biz-Talk, Cita De La and Decibelz.

EnVision 2012, a Carbon Neutral Event, from 18th Oct, 2012 - 19th Oct, 2012. The flagship event of PGDISEM (Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Safety and Environment Management) programme at NITIE lived up to its core value - "Environmental Vision for the leaders of tomorrow". It was a two day event that accommodated informative discussions and exciting competitions - Ecolloquium (Corporate Panel Discussion), EnGauge (Live Case Study Competition) sponsored by Indian Oil Corporation Limited , The Green Lantern (Individual Speaker Session), EnQUIZitive (Enviro Business Quiz), GreenVas (Poster Making Competition), Panorama (Photography Contest), BlogBlot (Blog Writing Contest). Mr.Sudeep Roy (GM-EHS, Philips), Parvastu Rambabu (CEO, General Carbon), Manoj Karmakar (AVP-EHS, PI Industries) were a few panelists who participated in the panel discussion this year.

As sustainability becomes a major factor for business survival, NITIE's initiative - Envision will keep on ensuring that the bright minds of today always manage environmental, safety and health issues in organizations to welcome a better tomorrow.

NITIE organized LITMUS 2012, the Annual IT Conclave from 16th Oct, 2012 - 20th Oct, 2012 with great aplomb in collaboration with Prerana. The flagship event of PGDITM programme at NITIE lived up to its core value - "Success through synergy". BizTalk, flagship panel discussion event of Litmus, facilitated collaborative learning by bringing together corporates from different organisations and providing them a platform to tackle some of the most crucial issues faced by the IT industry. The 2012 Conclave discussed the hottest trends in the IT industry viz. Cloud, Social Computing, Information and Mobility, and tried to address the imminent question: how are companies, both nationally and globally, coping with these rapid shifts in the industry.

LITMUS also incorporated an IT implementation based Case Study competition, SyncQuest in association with one of the most elite IT brands in existence today, Cognizant. In addition, this year's event portfolio for LITMUS included the IT Module of Prerana's flagship event, the Summer Project Contest, or SPC-IT, where second year MBA students fought it out for the title of the 'Best Summer Project' in the country in front of a panel of distinguished personalities from the world of business and academia.

JOSH is an inter cum intra sports event which was launched this year. JOSH was launched on 6th October 2012 by Prof. Ashok K Pundir (Dean, Student Affairs and Placement). It was a fully packaged sports extravaganza, which witnessed some outstanding performances, true sportsmanship, incessant cheering and overflowing emotions by participants and supporters. It displayed a great bonding among the students, while they were patronizing for their sections and the college. The inter-college tournament had top b-schools from mumbai participating in Futsal and Basketball. NITIE, SPJain, SJMSOM, KJSOM, JBIMS were the participating institutes. The intra-college tournament was held in Futsal, Basketball, Table Tennis, Chess and Carrom. A total of 16 teams fought for the overall champion's trophy. There were 6 teams from PGDIM, 4 teams from PGDIE, 2 team each from PGDITM/PGDISEM and 2 Fellow teams.

Truly this event proved not only bliss for finding some NITIE's talented sportspersons, but has also gone a long way in reinvigorating the interest in sports among the students.

It's that time of the year again... time to strengthen past associations, relive old memories... go back into time and cherish the days spent in NITIE ... yes, it's time to connect with old friends again!

The Alumni Committee at NITIE presents the Regional Alumni Meets, to be held at various locations across the country. Whichever part of the country you may be in, we have made sure that there is a RAM near you!

RAM 2013 Schedule

Sansmaran 2012, Annual Alumni Meet of NITIE for year 2012 was organized on 24-Nov-2012.

Sansmaran 2012 was grand success with more than hundred alumni from across the globe coming back to the picturesque campus of NITIE. Also, the highlight of this year's Sansmaran, a power-packed Panel Discussion amongst some of the biggest names in the industry (who also happen to be NITIE alums) about some of the most burning questions today, moderated by Charulata RK was received with great enthusiasm.

Read more about this year's Sansmaran here.

To read the highlights of Panel Discussion, click here.

To browse AlumNITI 2012, Annual Alumni Magazine of NITIE, released during Sansmaran 2012, click here.

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D'Apprendre organised by Team Empresario on 26th of March 2012 was a huge success and was graced with the presence of two eminent speakers Mr. Anil Joshi , Operation Head at Mumbai Angles and Mr. Faisal Farooqui, Founder and CEO of Mouthshut.com who spoke about their journeys to realize their dreams and give a name to their trail-blazing endeavours.

It was truly a celebration of the spirit of entrepreneurship that inspired and motivated both the students and faculty members alike to journey through the "Road less travelled by".

Premier League- NPL 2.0 was organized by NITIE students from 1st March to 6th March. The Inaugural ceremony of NPL 2.0 held on 1st March was graced by our esteemed Director Dr. Amitabh De, the Dean of Student Affairs and Placements Prof Ashok K Pundir and the Warden and Sports Coordinator Prof. Utpal Chattopadhyay. A total of 24 players from other B.Schools like KJSOM, IIT Bombay and NMIMS played this year in NPL.

After a series of matches, NPL finals was played on 6th March at the NITIE playground between Delhi Dashers and Rajasthan Warriors. The final match was won by Delhi dashers with a margin of 18 runs. The best Batsman award and the highest number of sixes award went to Divyanshu of Delhi Dashers for hitting 28 sixes and scoring 214 runs in the tournament. Best Bowler award was given to Puneet (1st year student) for taking 11 wickets in the tournament.

NSC2, the NITIE Student's Consulting Club conducted a unique consulting marathon, a two day workshop-cum-event in association with ZENeSYS Consulting, at its campus in NITIE Mumbai on 18-19th Feb.

A first of its kind event, Zenith, was designed to not only equip students with various tools and strategies while handling consulting cases but also to give them a chance to actively work on a business project. The teams were given specialised training and assigned varied tasks by professionals from Zenesys, all of which were carefully crafted to build-up a consulting acumen amongst the students. The teams were also visited and addressed by dignitaries from consulting giants like Booz & Co. and Ernst & Young.

The Annual Alumni Meet is an important medium of opening a window to the on going activities and achievement of the college for our alumni.

The Annual Alumni Meet, Sansmaran 2011, was one such event that brought back fond memories. The event was held on 26th November 2011 at NITIE's picturesque campus. There was nostalgia in the air as scores of alumni caught up on old times, reminiscing about the years spent at their alma mater.

This year Sansmaran witnessed the felicitation of the 14th batch of the Post Graduate Programme (1984-1986) in honour of their 25-year strong relationship with the institute as proud alumni. Around 110 alumni visited the campus this year.

NITIE Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award was announced to Dr Thomas Mathew, Director of St.Francis Institute of Management and Research , on the eve of Sansmaran 2011 by our Honorable Director & President (NAA)- Dr. Amitabha De to recognize the services lended by him to the industry as well as NITIE.

Prerana, The annual management festival of NITIE and one of the biggest in the B-School circuit. This year Prerana saw a host of sponsors with Schneider Electric being the title sponsor. Prerana grew leaps and bounds in terms of the prize money, the social media coverage, the number of registrations and the number of participants.Prerana Business Meet saw Mr. A. Vaidheesh (CEO, J&J Medical), Dr. H.B. Joshipura (Chairman, GlaxoSmithKline), Dr. Ganesh Natarajan (Deputy Chairman and CEO,Zensar Technologies) , Mr. Shyam Srinivasan (MD & CEO,Federal Bank), Vineet Kashyap (Director, Key Accounts/Strategy, UTC India - Commercial Companies) and Samir Gupte (President, Ogilvy Action) sharing the stage and deliberating on the topic of discussion.
Events like The Summer Project Contest, Launchpad, Stratagem, Enerstrat. Tactix saw students coming from all over the country presenting their projects and solutions to win cash prizes, PPIs and laurels. Overall, the three days of the festival continued with the tradition of bridging the gap between the industry and the academia, at the same time, ensuring a lot of fun for all who participated.

Lakshya, a unique endeavour of NITIE, embodies the zeal, for industrial excellence. The persistent toil of PGDIE students for 12 years led to this plateau of knowledge sharing, industrial exposure and expertise. Lakshya specializes in creating an unforgettable bespoke corporate experience for the students as well as the corporate stalwarts. Lakshya in association with Volkswagen embarked upon a journey which was instigated 11 years ago by NITIE and it reinvented itself this year by introducing the premiere edition of Power Talks and by inviting CSR projects from corporates.

B-Gyan, organized a session on Behaviour Architecture by Biju Dominic ( CEO at FinalMile Consulting) Has previously worked as CEO at DMA Branding and Vice President at Mudra Communications, DDB India.
He spoke about the emergence of Cognitive Neurology as a fundamental science to explain all aspects of human behaviour and how that acumen is being leveraged by his consulting firm Final Mile to solve a range of problems originating from planning inefficiencies. Especially from the business perspective, how that knowledge can be used to devise more penetrating marketing strategies that would directly affect the end result that is the sales. Discussing the Indian Railways Case Study with the attendees where with a mixture of application of Cognitive Neuroscience and pure marketing brilliance, he showed that a drastic drop in the rate of fatal train accidents (while crossing the Rail line) was achieved. Also spoke about his long marketing career and the experiences that shaped his approach towards sales and advertisement.

NITIE, organized EnVision 2011, a Carbon Neutral Event, on Friday, 26th August 2011. The flagship event of PGDISEM programme at NITIE lived up to its core value - "Environmental Vision for the managers of tomorrow".
Envision-2011 was a daylong event that accommodated informative discussions and exciting competitions - "Ecolloquium" a corporate panel discussion, "EnGauge" a Live case study competition sponsored by InterfaceFlor "The Green Lantern" an individual speaker session, "EnQUIZitive" an Enviro Business quiz and "Almanac" a poster making competition with the theme: "Energy Conservation - First step towards a better tomorrow".
Carrying on the tradition of the event, the speakers enlightened the student fraternity with their knowledge and experience in dealing with the environmental issues. In addition, they gave first-hand information on what sustainability means to them and their organizations and how they follow it.

LITMUS 11 , the Annual IT conclave of NITIE was held in campus on 19th Aug 2011.
LITMUS is the flagship event of the PGDITM Program with the focus on increasing student-industry interaction and gaining industry’s perspective on various issues.Since its inception, it has provided a platform for business leaders, renowned academicians and B-school students to tackle some of the most crucial issue which the business world faces today.
The event was inaugurated by Mr. Shreeranganath Kulkarni - VP & Centre Head, Cognizant, Pune, followed by Biz Warz (Business Plan Competition), Sync Quest (case study competition) and Enigma(online quiz competition. The highlight of the day was the panel discussion focussing on how "information technology is turning into a business driver from a business enabler". The sharp questioning by some of the most intelligent minds in country received equally thought-provoking answers. More than answers provided, the emphasis was giving food for thought and developing an innovative line of thinking for the participants to act upon .

D’Apprendre, organised by Team Empresario on 3rd of Aug 2011 was a huge success and was graced with the presence of three eminent speakers Mr. Kunal Shah, CEO of freecharge.in, Ms. Shilpi Kapoor, founder and director of Net Systems Informatics Pvt Ltd. and BarrierBreak Technologies and Mr. Ankit Mathur, co- founder at Greenway Grameen Infra Pvt Ltd. who spoke about their journeys to realize their dreams and give a name to their trail-blazing endeavours. Prof. Ashok K Pundir welcomed the guests with his wise words on importance of entrepreneurship in student community.

Marketing Interest Group [MIG], NITIE, organized a marketing case study and symposium - Marksfete'11. This year the theme of Marksfete '11 was "Retail Industry in India- the Road Ahead". The day began with a panel discussion on the Retail Industry in India. Various speakers from diverse backgrounds of the Indian Retail Industry took part in a lively discussion. Among the speakers were Ms. Shashikala Venkatraman(CEO, SQFT consulting), Mr. Vinu Sundaresan (CEO, vMobo), Mr. Pradeep Chechani (VP - SCM & Biz Head, Wadhawan Food Retail), Mr. Nitin Agarwal (Founder & Director, BigShoeBazaar.com). The speakers covered a wide array of issues and developments in the Indian retail industry including online retail, marketing behind successful malls, food retail and digital marketing. The panel discussion was well received and appreciated by the audience.

It's that time of the year again... time to strengthen past associations, relive old memories... go back into time and cherish the days spent in NITIE... yes, it's time to connect with old friends again!
The Alumni Committee at NITIE cordially invites you to the Regional Alumni Meets, to be held at various locations across the country. An Alumnus may attend the meet at any of the location as per the convenience.

Date : March 25, 2011

March-2011 edition of Samiksha held a panel discussion on 'Advertising - Is it creativity or strategy ?'. Numerous revolutions have taken place in advertising ranging from Hamara Bajaj to Vodafone 3G but still the concept remains the same, you need my attention for 30 secs, you have to earn it. Though the advertising revolution got started online, some of the new techniques are already finding their way onto streets and walls and even into clothing pockets around the world. Perhaps just five years from now, companies will be able to routinely and inexpensively embark on ad campaigns that hit exactly the right prospects -- and hardly anyone else -- with entertaining, hard-to-ignore messages that can follow people via new high-tech media into their cars, offices, living rooms, and bedrooms. For companies that master the new techniques, the payoff is potentially enormous: a big jump in customer mindshare while holding the line on marketing costs. The panel comprised of eminent personalities from the Advertising Industry.