MMA ALL INDIA MANAGEMENT STUDENTS CONVENTION 2022

Management Students are the future managers of India on whom lies the responsibility of realising India’s dreams. During 2002, MMA launched its first Management Students Convention(MSC)onthetheme“TransformationfromManagerstoLeaders”.TheMSCprovides an opportunity to the students to learn from corporate gurus and at the same time provides them a platform to showcase their managerial acumen through Paper Presentations, BusinessProposals,theBigDebateonachosentopicapartfromManagementQuiz.

The 21st MMA All India Management Students Convention on the theme “AI Shaping Today andtheFuture”washeldonTuesday,27thSeptember2022atIITResearchParkAuditorium.

Thanks to the Convention Committee headed by Mr V Shankar, Convention Chairman, Founder, CAMS & Director, ACSYS Investments Pvt Ltd and MMA Secretariat headed by Gp Capt R Vijayakumar, Executive Director for organizing the 21st MMA All India Management StudentsConvention.Agalaxyofspeakerssharedtheirinsightsonthetheme.TheConvention was a grand success and attended by over 844 delegates in person at IIT Research Park Auditoriumandover21900delegatesinpersonviewerswatchedthroughvarioussocialmedia portals.

Prof V Kamakoti, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Madras delivered the Keynote address and Dr M Arumugam, Managing Director, Broadline Technologies delivered the Specialaddressduringtheinauguralsession.

Competitions:

The MSC included events to engage students’ management skills in the following contests apartfromBusinessSessionsaddressedbyeminentcorporateleaders.

BusinessPlan

PaperPresentationonthetheme“AIShapingTodayandtheFuture”

The Big Debate: The topic for Finals at the Convention: “AI is likely the best or the Worst thingtohappentohumanity”

Think Tank: The Master Brain Management Quiz Competition. Mr. Arvind, Quiz Master and CreativeHead,XQuizIT,ChennaiconductedtheManagementQuizCompetition.

The response to the competitions organized as a prelude to the Students Convention was overwhelming. The managerial and leadership abilities of management students were projectedinthevariousgames.

The video/audio recording of the MMA All India Management Students Convention 2022 was alsomadeavailablefortheviewingpleasureofourmembersat www.liveibc.com/mma https://i-radiolive.com/#!/aod/VoiceOfMMA

MSC 2022 was a resounding success in every aspect: from the theme, content, design, structure, and selection of eminent speakers to substantial participation by management studentsandfacultyfromvariousmanagementinstitutesalloverthecountry.

These events covered a wide range of topics such as education, management, health, and governance. Our activities included training sessions, corporate programs, flagship events, andChapteractivities

MMA collaborated with numerous organizations and corporates to deliver these events, which were conducted in a hybrid format. Throughout the year, over 550,000 participants attendedourevents,makingthemaresoundingsuccess.

We were indeed honoured to have esteemed speakers from industry and politics, including Dr. Ashok S Ganguly (former Chairman, HUL), R Gopalakrishnan (former ED, Tata Sons Ltd), M.M. Rajendran (former Governor of Odisha), Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy (Chairman, CYIENT), M.M.Murugappan(Chairman,CarborundumUniversalLtd),ManishTiwary(CountryManager, Amazon India), Dr. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (Finance Minister, Tamilnadu), Mr. Parameswaran Iyer (IAS, CEO, NITI Aayog), Prabha Narasimhan (CEO, Colgate Palmolive), Judith Ravin (US Consul General, Chennai), Arun Maira (Former India Chairman, BCG), and Mr. N K Premachandran,MemberofParliament,LokSabha.

To reach a wider audience, most of the talks, discussions and seminars were live-streamed on various social media platforms. We also published transcripts of these events in our monthly digital magazine, Business Mandate, which featured embedded videos. The annexureprovideslinkstothevideorecordingsandpublishedarticlesforfurtherreference.