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3rd Edition of the HR Best Practices Competition

CII Mysuru hosted the 3rd Edition of the HR Best Practices Competition at SDMIMD to encourage and promote excellence in HR. The CII Mysuru Zone CSR, HR & IR Panel organized the event on Thursday, 1st February 2024. Many companies in and around Mysuru participated in the competition, showcasing their best HR practices.

Convergence 3i: The SDMIMD-CII Annual Event of Industry-Academia Interaction 2022

Convergence 3i, the 'Industry-Institute-Interaction' event by SDMIMD, Mysore with CII-Mysore was held online on 22 Mar, 2022 from 11AM to 1PM. The invited audience for this program were the Final Year degree students from across India, young executives and Degree completed students from Mysore and surrounding areas. SDMIMD students and faculty and several CII members from Mysore were present for the event.

Ms. Supriya Salian, Chairperson- CII, Mysore Chapter delivered an energetic, thought provoking talk on “ Covid, WFH and Beyond: Opportunities for the Indian Youth” as the Chief Guest for the event, where in, she brought out the current business scenario and its realities.

Later, in a panel discussion on “ How can I prepare myself to become more valuable to my employer: an employer’s perspective” with Dr. Dharma Prasad, Convener of the Industry-Institute Panel, CII Mysore with three student members, Ms. Jeyashri T, Mr. Swaroop A. Tehsildar and Mr. Guru Pranesh was held. Dr. Prasad SN, Deputy Director of SDMIMD was the moderator of this discussion.

In the discussion, both the views of the employers as well as the aspirations of the youth were brought out by the panelists. Over 120 students from across India participated in the event and the question-answer session which followed both the speech as well as the panel discussion were of high relevance to the student community.

Dr. NR Parasuraman, Director SDMIMD gave the opening address, Prof. CV Sridhar, Faculty at SDMIMD gave the Vote of Thanks and Dr. Prasad SN introduced the audience to the purpose, significance and background of the event Convergence 3i which is being conducted for 12th year since 2010.

Expert talk on Project Management

SDMIMD in collaboration with CII Mysore Chapter organized webinar on ‘Project Management’ on July 29, 2021. Mr. C.K. Sabareeshan, Director, S3V Vascular Technologies; and, Past Chairman, CII Mysuru, delivered the session. During the event President of CII Mysore Mr. Pavan G. Ranga, Director, NR Group and MD, Rangsons addressed the gathering on the session theme. Dr. (Lt Col) Prasad S.N., Deputy Director & Professor – Strategy, SDMIMD, anchored and moderated the session.

Stakeholders Interaction on E-Waste Management

The IT Panel of CII, Mysuru had organized a Stakeholders Interaction on E-Waste Management at SDMIMD on 21 June 2019. The objective of the meeting was to advocate the safe disposal of e-waste and to devise an efficient and sustainable model for management of the e-waste generated in Mysuru. Mr. Shankar Prasad, Vertical Head of Excelsoft Technologies Pvt Ltd and convener IT Panel, welcomed the participants and coordinated the program. Dr. H. Gayathri, Deputy Director, SDMIMD made her opening remarks about the theme of the program. The program was presided by the chairman of CII Mysore, Mr. Bhaskar Kalale. Dr. A. Ramesh, Senior Environmental Officer, KSPCB, Bangalore presented the rules and regulations in E-Waste Management. Dr. P. M. Kulkarni, President of Bhageerath spoke about the issues and challenges related to e-waste management. Dr. Nagaraj, Health Officer, Mysore City Corporation, delivered the keynote address. The program, which was attended by 90 delegates, concluded with an interactive session, moderated by members of CII IT Panel, Mr. Sudheer and Mr. Rakesh Babu. Mr. Raghava Lingegowda, Group Vertical Head, Theorem Inc., proposed the vote of thanks.