Manfest 2007 is being sponsored by prominent corporates like Reliance ADAG, Cognizant, Mahindra & Mahindra, Contact Singapore, Aditya Birla Group, Reliance Industries Limited, SBI, Ernst & Young, PWC, Virtusa, Baring Private Equity, FINO, Nirma Labs and many more. Held under the aegis of The Director, IIM Lucknow, Dr. Devi Singh and Chairman Students Affairs Dr. Dharmendra Singh Sengar, Manfest strives to be the biggest and the best every year. Dr. D. S. Sengar says, “We would like to see Manfest as the biggest B-School event in Asia by 2010.”
Manfest brings luminaries from different walks of life under its special event ‘Leaders Express’ which comprises Talks and interactive sessions with inspirational leaders to promote knowledge enhancement and thought leadership. The special interest groups of IIML turn up the heat in all five verticals of management, offering a cornucopia of innovative indigenously designed management games at ‘Biz-Theatre’. The Live Consulting assignments and management simulation games provide an avenue for the corporate partners to get consulting from the brightest minds on the contemporary problems and issues in the companies.
Manfest 2007 will also host events like Biz Quiz, Call For Arms – The Battle of B-Schools, Nirvaan – The B-Plan Contest and Treatise – The International Thought Challenge to name just a few. The Lucknow CEO Forum and The Finance Panel discussion with eminent personalities from the corporate will provide for industry insights to the B-School students. It then goes Online with events like Corporate Lords and Online Biz Theater that generate interest among the 20000 odd participants. Events like Business Quizzes, General Quizzes and National Debate give a platform to the literarily inclined ones.
Manfest goes Beyond Business by having Professional Concerts, Literary events and amazing parties. The workout is rewarded with a grand night to remember, Manfest’s proud offering to the B-School community; be it a grand party with Laser shows or professional singers and music bands like Indian Ocean, Parikrama, Strings, Euphoria, Them Clones and KK.
The organizing committee adds newer events every year to introduce a different dimension to the portfolio of offerings made by different B-school events. This year a total of 25 events await the students across the nation, many of them to be played online.