Day one started off with the event being inaugurated by Mr. Ramesh Chandak, Managing Director of KEC International, an RPG group enterprise. It was followed by a workshop on ‘Innovation to leap frog’ by Ms. Parvathi Menon of Erehwon Consulting. This thought provoking lecture took the audience into the hearts and minds of the innovators who successfully innovated and grown in the worst of times. The Colosseum – the championship game embarked with the 12 short listed teams from top B-schools of the country vying for the coveted prize of one lakh. The day saw Systems, Mutual fund and Negotiation games of the Colosseum being played out. The ‘Grooming Workshop’ from Raymonds was a huge hit with the student community. The Case Study competition was won by VGSOM, IIT-KGP beating teams from IIM Ahmedabad in the finals. The case was on ‘Teach For India’ foundation and was sponsored by Piramal Enterprises. This was followed by the Stock Game, Markus maxim – a Marketing strategy game, prelims and elimination round for the Quiz.. The Stock game was bagged by SJMSOM, IIT-B. Through out the day, two on spot games were going on in parallel with the other events– The Google Lounge and National Gaming Championship to be played on X-box 360 terminal sponsored by Ceat which drew people in throngs.
Day two day was mostly scheduled to host the finals of various competitions that had taken place over the last day and prior to that. The first talk of the day was by Mr.Avinash Vashistha, chairman and founder of Tholons. The globalization Guru spoke on ‘Globalization: where is India heading?’ . There were two other talks scheduled for the day .The first one was by the Dabbawalas who once again showed that ‘Impossible is nothing’ with almost zero errors in spite of 75,000 Tiffin Boxes, maddening locals and pouring rains. The next was on ‘Webpreneurship’ by the PaGaLGuY.com, India’s biggest management forum and a successful e-business in itself. ‘Gladebators’ – the debating competition, was won by IMT, Ghaziabad and ‘Advenues’ – The ad making competition was won SJMSOM, IIT-B itself. The biggest sensation of the day was Markus Maxim, the marketing game sponsored by ZEE Business. It was an on-field real life marketing challenge of earning maximum profits by selling product/service on the street. Among the five teams, NITIE Mumbai won the competition. The evening saw the grand finale of Avenues 2006 in the form of a business quiz titled Intellectus, sponsored by Raymonds. And the quizmaster was none other than Avinash Murlidhar of Karnataka Quizzing Association. And did he carry the program with élan. He had the audience craving for more and more as he made it a highly interactive event.
The overall Championship game – Colosseum was a closely fought event with strategy game being played on the second day. Finally, NITIE emerged as a champion beating MDI and JBIMS for the title. All in all, a fabulous ending to Avenues 2006.
The title sponsors of the event were RPG Enterprises. The Colosseum sponsors were Infosys Technologies, Wizarth Advisors and Mahindra & Mahindra. Other events were sponsored by Raymond, NEN, Piramal Enterprises and Aramax .The media partners include PaGaLGuY.com, Zee Business, Radio One 92.5FM, Loksatta, DNA and JAM magazine.