February 2009 appointments

February 2009
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Sun 1 -
2 -
3 - *Mathangi Ramakrishnan - 1 pm
4 - *Vishwanath Parsuram - 1pm
5 - *Namas Chandra - 7 pm
6 - *Ganesh Padmanabhan - 2 pm
7 - *Brian Gaughan - 11.30 am
Sun 8 -
9 - *A. Elangovan - 1 pm; *Ram Sehgal, *Eric Schaffer, *Human Factors International team - 1.30 pm; *The National Management School - 7.30 pm
10 - *Eliyahu M. Goldratt - 4.30 pm; *On MMA Annual Convention - R. Vijayakumar, R. Srinivasagopal, Eli Goldratt presentation - 6.30 pm;
11 - *V. Kumar - 1 pm
12 - *Satya Prabhakar and Param Parameswaran - 3.30 pm
13 - *B. Ramakrishnan - 1 pm
14 -
Sun 15 - *Ranjan Das, *Mathew Thomas - 11 am
16 - *Raj Mruthyunjayappa - 2 pm; *Arati Porwal - 3.30 pm
17 - *Vijay Raja, Ramesh Raja - 12.30 pm; *Mark Gotttfredson, Karan Singh - 2.30 pm; *CII-Bain event - 4 pm
18 - Suresh Venkatraman - 12 noon (?); *Alexandra Kobishyn - 1 pm; *KPMG event - 'India Goes Global’ - 4.30 pm
19 - *B. N. Kumar - 12 noon; *Arun K. Chittilappilly - 1 pm; *R. Ravichandran - 5.30 pm
20 - *P.M. Mathew - 1 pm; *Arun Subramony - 4 pm
21 - *YO! - 9 am; *Balaji Ganesh - 1 pm
Sun 22 -
23 - *R. Sarabeswar - 1.45 pm
24 -
25 -
26 - D. Raghuram - 4 pm
27 - TI Cycles - 10 am - 2 pm; Jamil Khatri and Sethuraman Sivaramakrishnan - 4 pm; BMR-MCCI Event - 6 pm
28 - Dasharatham Bitla - 1 pm; Chellamuthu - 4 pm

(* means 'met/'spoke')

Datla Hanumanta Raju, Vinayak S. Khanvalkar, and N. K. Jain

Datla Hanumanta Raju, President; Vinayak S. Khanvalkar, Vice-President; and N. K. Jain, Secretary & CEO, The Institute of Company Secretaries of India, New Delhi (http://www.icsi.edu/)
February 28, 2009, 5 pm

ICSI President, Vice-President, Secretary Videos

Top priorities - Datla Hanumanta Raju, President

Corporate governance has to come from within - Datla Hanumanta Raju, President

Dealing with the Satyam issue on two levels - N. K. Jain, Secretary and CEO

Impact of slowdown on profession - Datla Hanumanta Raju, President

Our members going beyond company law - Vinayak S. Khanvalkar, Vice-President

On Companies Bill, 2008 - N. K. Jain, Secretary and CEO

Are independent directors independent - Datla Hanumanta Raju, President

Is a corporate crisis being handled right - Datla Hanumanta Raju, President

History of dealing corporate crisis - N. K. Jain, Secretary and CEO

Ministry has been handling the Satyam issue professionally - N. K. Jain, Secretary and CEO

Transparency is crucial - N. K. Jain, Secretary and CEO

How can company secretaries venture into newer areas - Vinayak S. Khanvalkar, Vice-President

Remembering my teacher - Vinayak S. Khanvalkar, Vice-President

Virtues of tree that inspire - Datla Hanumanta Raju, President

Dasharatham Bitla

"Almost any mobile user would be happy to access his/her emails through the handset. Which is what Mobee provides, at a cost that is a fraction of the alternative solutions. At present our customer base has crossed 10,000. By the end of 2010, we expect to have one million customers."
Dasharatham (Dash) Bitla, Founder, Mobee Mobile Services, Bangalore
February 28, 2009, 1 pm

Dasharatham (Dash) Bitla - Videos

Growth of Mobee and challenges

What has been the feedback of users

Remembering my teacher

Magic of thinking big

How I became an entrepreneur

What the IT services companies should focus on

How does Mobee work

We are working on payment mechanisms for collecting the small amounts

Example of an email routed through Mobee to the mobile phone as an SMS

Demo of registration on the site

Our product for bus travel operators

Quantifiable benefits from TicketSimply

Products that we are working on in the area of automating business processes

A success story of a bus operator

TI Cycles

TI Cycles factory visit
February 27, 10 am - 2 pm

D. Raghuram

"As a country, we are becoming increasingly health-conscious. However, we lag behind the developed countries in translating the health-awareness to proactive measures geared towards health and environmental responsibility, as for instance, using cycles for fitness/ short transportation. Instead, we spend money on reactive measures, like building more hospitals and spending on medicare."
D. Raghuram, Sr. Vice President – Bicycles & Fitness- TI Cycles of India, Chennai (http://www.ticyclesindia.com/)
February 26, 4 pm

D. Raghuram - Videos

People are becoming more health and environment conscious, but that doesn't often translate into healthy habits like cycling

Many a time we choose to get stuck in a traffic jam, even where a brisk walk or cycling would have conserved time and resources

Bicycle exercises the largest muscle in the body (lower thigh), and thus burns calories, improves circulation and also de-stresses

Owning up the responsibility to be healthy is better than outsourcing our healthcare, as if our ill-health is somebody else's problem

Increasing urbanisation is not contributing to cycle industry's growth, but two-wheeler is more popular because of easy financing and perceived convenience

First taste of freedom for most children is the cycle, but the challenge is to sustain interest in cycling, which is competing with other distractions like computer games

Dynamo sales have declined, though we find innovative uses of cycle dynamos

Cyclist is unfortunately seen as nuisance and with disdain, and is not recognised as deserving space on roads

Enough technology has come into today's cycle to make it safer, faster and more comfortable

Weight of cycle has reduced from 22 kg about 50 years ago, to 6 kg now, with the use of alternative materials

Security of cycles with fork lock, and 'quick-release' to make them theft-proof

Nearly 90 per cent of 12 million cycles sold are bought by males, and a hurdle to popularise cycles for girls is in teaching them cycling

In moderation, cycling offers benefits, with no side-effects, and it can be safer than walking

Options for using cycle indoors, with results better than treadmill

Gadgets are available to give feedback to cyclist about fitness parameters

If Nike shoes can talk to Apple iPods, can cycles talk to telecom towers

Group cycling activities by IT staff

Are cycle companies eligible for carbon credit

Can cycle-banks help people convert manual energy to monetisable power

Will locality-based events encourage cycling in the neighbourhood

Maintenance a big gap, so much so that many cycles are kept abandoned even for want of air in tires

Trade-in of old cycles at dealer points for new cycles

How about assessing the fitness level of a school by looking at the proportion of cycle usage by students

Technology advancements in cycle tube and tire

Does technology growth in cycle industry lead to lower price

Training of cycle mechanics to ensure uniformity in the final product, and also retail initiative to improve perceived quality

Fascinating experiment to foster entrepreneurship among rural women, along with Hand in Hand

We are in the process of putting up a racecourse for cyclists

Wish new models of cycles get media coverage, as much as automobiles get

For rural consumers, cycle is a high-involvement purchase because of its role in economic activity

Facilitating cycle use in cities, as in Paris, London