National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is hosting its Executive Council Meet in Trivandrum on 29 September 2011. This is for the first time that the Executive Council is holding its meeting in the state of Kerala. The day-long meeting will be held at the IBS campus in Technopark. NASSCOM is the premier trade body of the IT-BPO industries in India with more than 1200 members whose combined turnover exceeds 95% of the industry’s revenue and employs over 22 lakh professionals.
The Executive Council is the highest decision making body of NASSCOM and consists of business leaders like Mr. Rajendra Singh Pawar Chairman NIIT, Mr. N Chandrasekaran CEO & MD TCS, Mr. T K Kurien CEO Wipro, Mr. Avinash Vashistha Chairman & Country MD Accenture , Mr. R Chandrasekaran President and MD Cognizant Technology, Mr. Bhaskar Pramanik Chairman Microsoft India, Mr. Sudip Banerjee CEO L&T Infotech, Mr. Ganesh Lakshminarayanan President, Dell India, Ms. Neelam Dhawan MD Hewlett-Packard India, Mr. Arun Seth Chairman BT India and Mr. Krishnakumar Natarajan CEO & MD MindTree.
“The EC venue was originally slated for a metro city but we could prevail upon them to choose Kerala. Hosting such meetings is an important step in bringing the state onto the IT map of the country. It is indeed a rare occasion to have so many of the top IT stalwarts in Kerala all together” says Mr. VK Mathews, Executive Chairman of The IBS Group and the key player in bring the Executive Council Meet to the state. “On the 30th of September, we are arranging a meeting with the Chief Minister, the IT minister and other senior functionaries of the Government, which would be a wonderful opportunity to showcase the core competency of Kerala. This is critical to attract more IT investments into the state” adds Mr. VK Mathews who incidentally is the first NASSCOM Executive Council Member to be selected from Kerala. Mr. Mathews is also the Chairman of GTech, the industry body for the software companies in Kerala.
A two hour interactive session between some of the NASSCOM Executive Council Members and students of select Engineering & Management Institutes is also organized at Mar Baselios College of Engineering & Technology, Trivandrum on 30th September. “NASSCOM Executive Council represents companies that are the largest recruiters in the country of graduates with professional qualifications. This is a unique, first of its kind opportunity for the students & faculty in Kerala to learn from business leaders first hand, the nuances of the industry and their expectations from the students and academia” says Anoop P Ambika, Secretary, GTech
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