CRESCITA '08 

This year’s episode of CRESCITA was presided by the chief guests namely Andrew.T.Simkin, US Consul General; Babu Rao, Director (Personnel), Neyveli Lignite Corporation; Mr. Subramanian, CEO, Subiksha; M Sankaran, Director, BIM; Sundar, PGP Chairman, BIM. The honoraries inaugurated the conference by litting the kuthuvilakku. This was followed by the welcome address by the Director M.Sankaran.

Director in his welcome address touched points about the Institution and its growth and CRESCITA 2008. While talking about the institute he mentioned the success of institute entering into its 25^th year. 

About the conference he made a point that it is an institution by itself and CRESCITA 2008 symbolises initiation, co-operation and management by doing. He mentioned that CRESCITA 2008 which is completely student driven conference has its theme which will reflect the environment with its changing realities. He also did mention that current environment which is highly volatile can give both positive and negative aspects about changes and it’s our responsibility to identify which can contribute and which gets affected. That’s how the topic of this conference has been selected as “New waves in Talents, Trends and Technology”.

The following were the speakers from the corporate world , who shared their insights on the “New waves in Talents, Trends and Technology”.

Mr. Babu Rao Mr. Andrew T. Simkin   Mr. Subramanian	Director (Person nel)   US  Consul General   CEO	NLC                                     US Consulate General - Chennai                                   Subiksha
Mr.Ninan Thariyan	AVP	Timesgroup
Mr.Murugavel Janakiraman	CEO	Consim India
Mr.Lakshmi Narayanan	CEO	MUDRA South
Mr.Cyril Rex Fernando	VP (S&M)	TAFE
Mr.Kiruba Sankar	CEO, Director	Business Blogging Pvt. Ltd    F5ive Technologies
Mr.Chand Das	CEO	GGSB, ITC
Mr.Sarath Babu	CEO	Foodkings
Ms.Sashi Rajamani	VP	CSC

 

The Valedictory function was presided by Mr.Ponnavaiko, The Vice Chancellor of Bharathidasan University and Mr.Raghavendra Rao, Founder & MD, Orchid Pharma. While addressing the gathering, Mr. Ponnavaiko put forward the thought that the management studies should include the development of the rural economy too. 

Mr. Ragavendra Rao touched different topics when he was addressing the students. He said that we are in an unsettling period and the Financial Management techniques have actually contributed to the problem instead of helping to solve. While discussing about the capitalist Vs Socialist approach he said that ultimately wealth should be created in a sustainable manner which is called the true wealth and it can be created by the talents and technology.