Saintgits Institute of Management(SIM), Kottayam, a premier B-School in Kerala, in association with NIPM (Kerala Chapter) organized a 3 day National Summit on Human Resource Practices & Management at Kottayam on 23rd to 25th July 2009.The Summit was sponsored by “The Economic Times”.The Theme for the summit was “Transforming Human Resources Management”. The Topics for Panel Discussions were (a) HR Challenges of an Economic Downturn – Strategic Perspective & (b) HR Challenges of an Economic Downturn – Firm Level Perspective.
From inaguration session
The Inaugural session was conducted on 23 July 09 at Hotel Windsor Castle, Kottayam.Key note addresses were done by Mr K S Jamestin,Head-HRD,ONGC,Dehradun,Dr Mathew J Manimala, IIM-Bangalore, and Mr Joe A Scaria, The Economic Times,Thiruvananthapuram.Dr (Col) P S James, Dean, SIM,T John, Director, SIM, Punnoose George, CEO,SIM & P J Joy,Chairman,NIPM Kerala Chapter were the other speakers.
Venue of Summit-Saintgits Institute of Management
On 24th & 25 th July 09 there were many Interactive Discussion, Research Knowledge Sharing, Ideation Synthesis panel discussions and HR case presentation as part of summit at Saintgits Institute campus at Kottukulam Hills,Pathamuttam, Kottayam.Many eminent personalities from all over India presented papers and spoke during the panel discussions and other sessions.They include Jayanth Kumar, Tata Tele Services, Johny K Joseph, ANZ India,Banagalore, P Vijayan, Chep India, Mumbai,Ashish Sen, Chief Manager, HPCL,Prof Thomas Chandy, Leavey School of Business,Dr Mathew J Manimala, IIM-B, Jaswin Kadavan, GM-HR, Vodafone,Johnson Mathew, Head HR, Popular Vehicles & Services Ltd, Dr Biju Varkey, Professor, IIM-A, Joseph Jackson, Circle Head-HR, Aircel, Riju Antony, State Head-HR, Reliance Retail,Kerala, Edwin James, Cluster Head-HR, Tata Tele Services,Kochi, Dr Surekha Zachariah,Sutherland ,Kochi and Sushama Srikandath, COO & Director AVT McCormick, Kochi.
view of participants
The summit was a great success and it was well attended by professionals from industries, academicians and students from other B Schools.
