Day 0 kicked off with participants being taken for a day long ride for some shopping and sight-seeing in Ahmedabad. We were told quite a few participants went for the same. Yours truly had just arrived on campus and had other “important” work to do, like sleeping :p
Anyways, theday was one that was scheduled to have little by way of actual events.The official inauguration program happened in the afternoon. The inaugural address was delivered by Prof.Indira Parikh, Dean, IIMA. The keynote address was delivered by MR.Alan Rosling, Executive Director, Tata Sons. Incidentally, Tata Sons is the principal partner of this years Confluence.
In line with the theme of Confluence 2004, which being “Mantras for emerging markets”, a series of panel discussions shall be taking place over the course of the meet. The first of which took place after the keynote address. The topic of the discussion was ” Future direction of Indian IT industry”. The panel consisted of some of the biggest names in the Indian industry namely Mr.Shankar Annaswamy, Managing Director, IBM India; Mr.Sudhakar Ram, CEO, Mastek India and MR.Clayton Locke, Managing Director, Sapient India.
The day ended with a play organized by the IIMACTS, the dramatics club of IIMA. And in true IIMA ishytle, the event was scheduled to have a kick-off time @ 11.30PM. Beat that!! The drama was an enactment of a popular play, Tara written by Mahesh Dattani. The play ended around 1.30AM and for most IIMAites not used to sleeping at such early hours, it was quite a predicament :p. Last heard, people were considering playing cricket. Thatz life @ IIMA ?
Dateline: 22nd October 2004
Place: IIM-Ahmedabad,TATA Confluence 2004
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