The Bangalore Biz Litfest is back. This time at WeWork on Residency Road, Bengaluru, on Saturday, 8 September 2018.

The focus this year is on writings on Threats to career from technology, Climate Change & Green Jobs, new-age entrepreneurship-business models in areas like healthcare, agriculture and newer ways of learning that could disrupt business as usual and much more.

For the first time in India, Biz Litfest is giving away Best Business Book Award for authors whose books were published in 2017. The award comes with a
Rs. One lakh cash prize.

The winner will be announced on 8 September at the venue.

Please log on to www.bangalorebizlitfest.com for program schedule and registration.

For more details on the fest, Click on the below link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10SoVreeVt6KwG2ZsjUUrZ7Sujm56K2nI/view?usp=sharing

We are hosting a webinar on “MSMEs - Growth and Sustainability Challenges” based on the book ‘The SMElting Cauldron’ by Raj Raman, Alumnus from the class of PGP 1986 on Sat, 01 Sept at 6 PM IST.

Link to Join : https://bit.ly/2wneJMu
Session no :953 926 727

Mr. Raj Raman has led a number of organisations, and also served on their boards. He currently owns and runs a successful boutique consulting firm, specialising in SMEs, supporting and enabling their growth and expansion, while playing the role of a coach and mentor to the promoters and entrepreneurs.

My dear fellow alumni,
There is a crisis in Kerala where due to heavy rain, there has been severe flooding, that has resulted in loss of life and property. Thousands of people have been rendered homeless and you can read about the crisis on the news by googling "floods in Kerala". 20 people have lost their lives as of now, and the situation on the ground is fast deteriorating. We are collaborating with one of our alum companies, iD foods (founded by our alum PC Musthafa) , which is providing free food to people in distress as well as colleciting clothes and other items from Bengaluru which will be delivered as relief materials to those in distress. Details of the collection centers, items you can contribute and contact details are given at the bottom of this email.
It is our duty as those blessed with material wealth by the Almighty to help our brothers and sisters in distress, and this is the first initiative that we as IIMB alumni association are taking in this direction on a very short notice.
Besides relief materials if you wish to contribute money, you can do so by clicking on the button and we will see that the funds reach the people who need it most. We will put up the names and amounts of those who made contributions on our website in the near future. We will also display the use of the funds collected on our website.
Please do whatever you can to help and take the blessings of those who are in deep distress. I look forward to our alumni rising up to this occasion and contributing generously for this worthy cause.
With regards
Saif Qureishi
President IIMBAA
Information for people living in Bengaluru to donate in kind
They are in urgent need of clothes like:
1. Blankets ( very cold there)
2. Mundu/ kayilli / shirts/ trouser
3. Sari & nighties
4 kids dress of different ages
5 . Mats ( Paaya)
*Please take out / buy* the above and contribute the same to our volunteers by tomorrow morning. A team of volunteers will be traveling tomorrow to Waynad. Helping some one in very difficult time has high reward.
We have volunteers from various organizations/ NGO’s like HWA, Healing Touch & VCET for this cause
Volunteer Contact's :
Ammar - +91 95355 36806
Hamza- +91 94480 50375
Anwar- +91 98807 19986
Collection points will be:
1. Masjid-ur-Rahma
52, St Johns Church Rd, Bharati Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560005 https://goo.gl/maps/pLc4ZHGkcgo
2. VCET centre
5, 10th Main Rd, Maruthi Nagar, Malleshpalya, Kaggadasapura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560075 https://goo.gl/maps/VGJeipagcEt

IIMB’s CenComm Connect presents webinar on "Communicating change" by Dr. Deepti Ganapathy today ( 10 Aug) @ 3:00PM IST .

Link to join :
http://bit.ly/cencomm5

About the presenter :
Our presenter for this webinar Dr. Deepti Ganapathy, holds a Ph.D. in Social Media and Communication, seeking to explore the use of social media for strategic political and corporate communication, climate change communication, news coverage of Human Trafficking and digital activism.

Assistant Professor at NMIMS University’s School of Business Management, Bangalore, she is a visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Management Indore and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore’s Executive Education Program, where she conducts programs for senior bureaucrats and policy makers, Government of India. She pursues a multidisciplinary interest in social media has ongoing collaborative work with scholars in Spain, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, China and the United States. Dr. Deepti has won herself accolades internationally in the fields of Journalism and creative writing.