What: IAMCP Member Meeting
When: Date: 17th April 2009
Where: Microsoft Kalina Mumbai Office –4 to 6pm
Audience Attended: 30+ at Microsoft Office in Mumbai, 5 From Bitscape Office Ahmedabad and 5 from Live meeting for various locations
Geography of Members: Mumbai, Ahmedabad & Vadodara, Pune
This was an exciting meeting for all of us as for the first time we had guest speakers CIOs from well known companies presenting to us their views on topic.
As usual the meeting started on time and with bit time in setting up things (which was expected as the conference hall at Microsoft was jam packed!) with Suresh (President India West Chapter) took on with the proceedings. It was as usual a 60 seconds introduction of each attendee where they start with self and company introduction and why they are in meeting and what kind of opportunities they have or they expect. Since this time we had guests who are yet to become member it took slightly longer than before.
The proceeding then handed over to Mr. Umesh Mehta - CIO Asia Motor Works (Essar Company) who started his session on " What vendors should avoid" CIO Perspective. In very neat and clean slides and clear presentation including citing real vendor irritating scenario Mr. Mehta gave great insight on what we all as vendor must avoid while we approach CIOs. Some very important points such as maintaining hierarchy and understanding CIOs business perspective were discussed. In all and all it was great presentation skill and value of information which was appreciated by all of even here in our Ahmedabad office.
As soon as Mr. Mehta finished his presentation, Suresh introduced us to Mr. Garde CIO of Tata Chemicals for his next presentation. Mr. Vikas Gadre - CIO of Tata Chemicals started his presentation with "Managing Slowdown" a CIO's Insight. Mr. Garde started off with basic information of the company and went on to drive through scenarios by quoting some realistic approach in implementation by them. The facts presented by Mr. Garde was amazing and had some alarm for IT vendors in one way however there was some positive signals for smaller vendors too. All and all it was great presentation skill of him and the mapping it with real company scenarios made this presentation one of the most valuable for me personally in long time. He not only finished the presentation in style but also addressed to all questions and answers in the same ease and mapping with factual data which was awesome for all of us. The meeting ended with standard b2b interactions and with vote of special thanks to the guest speakers.
At the end I would like to express that this meeting was great success due to great team effort by Sanjay Mehta – CEO MAIA Intelligence and one of the board member of India West Chapter, Chetan Shah Managing Director Xpress Computers Ltd. and board member of the chapter, Suresh Ramani who is great driving force taking the chapter in front along with Microsoft India. Locally at Ahmedabad special thanks to Mr Rikin of Concept Infoway and our chapter member and our two special guest Mr. Manoj Jain of Chattary Ajwan InfoTech Pvt ltd, Mr. Dewag from iValue Systech Pvt. Ltd.
To know more about IAMCP, Please visit www.iamcp.org and select "Asia Pacific – India West" as chapter. The International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP) represents Microsoft´s best of breed partners from around the globe. Our organization was formed in 1994 and provides Microsoft Partners a voice into Microsoft programs, to the IT community at large, as well as a vehicle to facilitate mutual growth and business development among partners. The non-profit organization is operated by an annually elected board of directors, and is funded through membership fees and sponsor grants.
What IAMCP Offers
•PARTNER-TO-PARTNER NETWORKING
•ADVOCACY
•COMMUNITY
•EDUCATION AND GROWTH
IAMCP offers members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals.
To join IAMCP India West Chapter – Please visit http://www.iamcp.org/pages/memberApp_Collect.aspx - select "Asia Pacific – India West" as your chapter and pay your annual corporate annual membership due of $100.
If you have any question or query about IAMCP please feel free to contact me or contact someone from IAMCP website.