October 2009 appointments

October 2009
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2 - *Imran, Vincent, Jeya Prakash – 7.30 am
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4 - *Sampath Ramanujan – 7.30 am
5 - Anil Gupta – 1.30 pm ($$)
6 – *Balaji Sreenivasan – 7.30 am
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9 - Mohan Narayanan – 1 pm (?)
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12 - *Madhulika Liddle - 3.30 pm
13 - *Ashish Masand - 2 pm; Landmark - 6.30 pm
14 - *Paul Basil – 7.30 am; *Sunil Jose - 10 am
15 - *R. Bupathy - 12.30 pm
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23 - *Ramakrishna N.K. and Smita Ramakrishna- 7.30 am
24 - *Steven A. Miranda - 7.30 am; *SHRM India - MTHR Global
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27 - *Logica event - 12 noon
28 - Leave Chennai ~ 7 pm
29 - *FIXGlobal Face2Face Forum
30 - Leave Mumbai ~ 8 am
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FIXGlobal Face2Face Forum

FIXGlobal Face2Face Forum, Taj President, Mumbai (www.plus-concepts.com/f2f2009/mumbai/index.html)
October 29, 2009, 10 am - 7 pm Links
FIXGlobal Face2Face Electronic Trading Forum - on YouTube
FIXGlobal Face2Face Forum - Topics of videos

Logica event

Inauguration of Spark Innovation Centre, by Abhay Gupte, CEO, Logica India and Mr. GBS Bindra, Global Innovation Director, Logica
October 27, 2009, 12 noon (Venue: DLF-SEZ, Manapakkam)
Logica visit
G. B. S. Bindra
Rakesh Venugopal Aerath
Abhay Gupte

G. B. S. Bindra

G. B. S. Bindra, Global Innovation Director, Logica Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (http://www.logica.com/)
October 27, 2009, 12 noon
Logica visit

Rakesh Venugopal Aerath

Rakesh Venugopal Aerath, Head-Innovation, Logica Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (www.logica.com)
October 27, 2009, 12 noon
Logica visit

SHRM India - MTHR Global

SHRM India - MTHR Global event (SHRM event)
October 24, 2009

SHRM India - MTHR Global

Greater role for HR today (Jayanthi Vaidyanathan, Head HR in eCommerce industry, Chennai)

What is employee engagement all about (Jayanthi Vaidyanathan, Head HR in eCommerce industry, Chennai)

Younger employees consider the long term picture (Jayanthi Vaidyanathan, Head HR in eCommerce industry, Chennai)

Promoting women leaders (Jayanthi Vaidyanathan, Head HR in eCommerce industry, Chennai)

Challenging phase for HR professionals in aviation industry (A. Sadhana, Manager-HR of a leading private airline, Chennai)

Impact of IT industry on the labour market (A. Sadhana, Manager-HR of a leading private airline, Chennai)

Preparation of the firewalking track-1

Preparation of the firewalking track-2

Firewalking begins

Quick walk amidst flames

Steven A. Miranda

Steven A. Miranda, Chief HR and Strategy Officer, SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)
October 24, 2009, 7.30 am (Nag)
Steven A. Miranda
SHRM India - MTHR Global

Ramakrishna N.K. and Smita Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna N.K, Co-founder & CEO, and Smita Ramakrishna, Co-founder & COO, Rang De, Chennai (http://www.rangde.org/)
October 23, 2009, 7.30 am (Nag)

Sanjeev Bikhchandani - YouTube links

Sanjeev Bikhchandani

 

1)      On AllCheckDeals

2)      On Education

3)      On Naukri

4)      On Shiksha

5)      On 'What is Management'

Cabot Jaffee, Ranjan Sinha - YouTube links

Cabot Jaffee, Ranjan Sinha

 

1)      On the partnership

2)      On hiring in India

3)      The legal landscape

4)      On compliance

5)      On whether employees should be pampered

6)      On the old world values

7)      On company culture

Y. V. Lakshminarayan Pandit - YouTube links

Y. V. Lakshminarayan Pandit

 

1)      On SHL India

2)      On OPQ

3)      On the level of awareness

4)      Impact of tests on attrition

5)      On the need for right comparison

6)      On the 'shelf life' of assessments

7)      On what is not captured in tests

8)      On who to blame for attrition

9)      On UCR

Muthu Logan - YouTube links

Muthu Logan

 

1)      Wireless multimedia platform

2)      Underutilisation of WiFi hotspots

3)      Free WiFi in hotels

4)      Mobility emerging in WiFi

5)      What our villages need

6)      Corporate responsibility needed for rural India

7)      Video surveillance

8)      Sri Lanka success story

9)      Learning from startups

10)  Decision to return to India

11)  Advantages of Chennai

12)  The global footprint

13)  Working at a low price point

14)  Challenges in high-tech manufacturing

15)  Innovation driven by customers

16)  The DSL comparison

17)  Financial growth over the years

18)  Wireless connectivity in apartments

19)  Phases of entrepreneurship

20)  Strategic direction

21)  Social responsibility and values

22)  How has been the performance

23)  Role of family

B.N. Manohar - YouTube links

B.N. Manohar

 

1)      About plans

2)      USP of Stempeutics

3)      On Solomon Papaiah

4)      Stem cell myths

Ian Chambers - YouTube links

Ian Chambers

 

1)      On top issues in teaching

2)      On employability

3)      On lifelong learning

4)      On learning differences

Harvinder Singh - YouTube links

Harvinder Singh

 

1)      On the job of F5

2)      On how F5 makes apps faster

3)      On cost reduction

4)      On image download

5)      On the state of security

6)      On Blue Ocean Strategy

7)      On Chennai work

V.R. Srinivasan 2008 - YouTube links

V.R. Srinivasan 2008

 

1)      What is honesty and why

2)      Overconfidence, a problem

3)      Future-think missing in the young

4)      Was the bull run justified

5)      If money flow had continued

6)      Steep fall was unexpected

7)      Too early to say if the market will recover

8)      One factor that will drive the market up

9)      Prospects for IPO

10)  On retail investors

11)  Sectors to watch

12)  Long term market outlook

13)  This is the time for M&A

Ved Jain - YouTube links

Ved Jain

 

1)      Biggest challenge facing the accounting profession

2)      On the new Companies Bill

3)      Is one year too short a tenure for President

4)      How have I fared on my metrics

5)      Coming up with Internal Auditing Standards

6)      What makes me tick

7)      Research potential in accountancy profession

8)      How research helps

9)      On per capita income

10)  Is India calling the shots in global forums

11)  CAs getting better paid in India

12)  Largeness of firms helps

13)  MDP and LLP

14)  Load on CA student is too much

15)  Three-month residential course

16)  Plans for Diamond Jubilee celebrations

17)  ICAI's interactions with State Governments

18)  Infrastructure additions in progress

19)  More girls joining the CA course

20)  What difference the qualification makes to economic status

21)  When it became necessary to reiterate the first principles

22)  On the recent controversy - AS 11 vs Schedule VI

23)  Linkages with colleges and schools

24)  CA students can wish their principals 'Happy Teachers Day'

25)  Is accounting under pressure during slowdown

26)  New facilities for CA students

A.V. Rajaganeshamurthy - YouTube links

A.V. Rajaganeshamurthy

 

1)      Alacrity, a company with values

2)      How we won the cooperation of workers

3)      Fairness, firmness, and integrity yield results

4)      A refreshing perspective on trade unions

5)      ISABS-Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Sciences

6)      We are first taught that our language is inferior

7)      Government schools are closing owing to lack of demand

8)      Why should bus tickets be in English

9)      How can Tamil be popularised

10)  Role of electronic media in enlivening Tamil

11)  We should begin by speaking in Tamil

12)  We make better secretaries and babus rather than the leader

13)  Ideal school

14)  Corporates should adopt local language

15)  Secrets of a project's success

16)  Flaw in oil pricing