IEEE CATALYST
Re-Fueling Mid-Career
Event Date: 13th October, 2023
Last Date for Early bird Registrations : 30th September , 2023
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About IEEE Bangalore Section
IEEE Bangalore Section was established in 1977 and is one of the most vibrant and dynamic IEEE sections across the globe. Over the years, the strength of the section has grown steadily. This membership is spread across various sectors and is a nice blend of Industry, Academia, and Research organizations.
Industry Engagement Committee, of IEEE Bangalore Section facilitates industry engagement activities, identifies and acts on opportunities, gaps, and overlaps across industries, and launches initiatives, evangelizes the programs, events and confernces for the development of products and services that meet the needs of industry, government, and industry professionals.
Re-Inventing & Making Highly Effective Mid Managers
Wisdom from Industry Leaders
Mid Management Challenges: Mid Mangers oversees change management in the organization & creates an effective work environment. They face many challenges including expectation management, establishing Credibility, balancing between Technical & management expertise, managing change, supporting risktakers, managing time & managing their own career goals.
In this Day Long Workshop Industry Leaders will share their Experience & thoughts on Challenges faced by Mid Managers. It will help the Mid Managers to equip themselves to solve these challenges as well as prepare for future career goals.
Program Overview
The program will focus on improving essential skills for Managers who are either struggling to cope or want to be better managers, including Stress Management & WorkLife Balance, Managing Expectations & Managing Change, Bridging the Generation Gap & Building your own Career & Bridging the dynamic Skill Gaps. It also addresses some of the dilemmas managers face – “l know what to achieve but not sure how to achieve.”
Target Audience
You are a Level 2 Manager &
leading a Technology team either from a Product or Services or
Start-Up Organization.
You are an aspiring Leader
& want to understand
Leadership Challenges & be
ready to face them.
You have ambitions to
grow your career into a Senior
Leadership Position & start
working on your plans.
Meet the Faculty
SUBHASH KHARE
Leadership Development Consultant, Coach and Facilitator
Professional Summary
- Certified coach on Hogan, Belbin, MBTI, Assessment Center (from XLRI),
LSIP (Large Scale Interactive Process), and Design Thinking (from NID) - Created frameworks and models for Business Strategy, Customer Success,
Big Picture Thinking, Outcome Mindset, Managing Ambiguity,
Collaboration, etc. - Worked extensively on HR Analytics, Digital Behaviors, Business
Transformation, Change Management - Speaker in Leadership conferences
- Author (Book: Optimizing the Organization, Tata McGraw Hill 2006)
Career Contour
- Thirty-five years of industry experience in a variety of roles, including Leadership Development, Workforce Management, Business Leadership, Service Delivery and Operations, Consulting, Quality Management, etc.
- Last role: Vice President – Leadership Development, Wipro Ltd.
- Conceptualized, created, and implemented a Customer Centricity program, Leadership Pipeline programs, high potential Leaders program,
programs for Digital Transformation and Digital Behaviors.
Interests and Focus
- Thought leader in Leadership Behaviors with several articles and two books published.
- Special interest in linking Business Challenges to Behavioral areas and creating a behavioral solution to solve the business challenge.
- Digital Transformation journey for organizations
Experts
This Program will be supported by Industry Leaders and IEEE Bangalore Section ExeCom Members who will share their experience in their respective tracks.
Dr. Prasant Kumar Misra
Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator, TCS
Dr. Prasant Misra is a Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator for Electric Mobility research at Tata Consultancy Services. He is a Visiting Faculty at the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems in IISc Bangalore.
He has been felicitated by numerous honors and awards for his work, of which it is noteworthy to mention the MIT TR 35 – India “Top 10 Innovators under the age of 35 in India” (for the development of new technology or creative application of existing technologies to solve problems) and the TCS “Exemplary Contribution Award” (for increasing the brand value of TCS) in 2017; the ERCIM “Alain Bensoussan” and “Marie Curie” Fellowship (for scientific excellence) in 2012; and the Australian Government’s AusAID “Australian Leadership Awards” Scholarship (for his potential to make substantial impact on social, economic, and development challenges of the Asia-Pacific region at a leadership level) in 2008.
He is the Chair of IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter; Vice-Chair (Industry Engagements) of IEEE Bangalore Section; and an executive committee member of the COMSNETS Association. He is the Chair of the technical subcommittee for IoT, FutureSkills Prime (A MeitY – NASSCOM Digital Skilling Initiative) and is a member of the MeitY working group on IoT based technologies for Smart Cities. He has contributed to standardization initiatives on Smart Cities and Infrastructure for the Bureau of Indian Standards. He has served on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Magazine as Series Editor of Internet of Things (2019-2022); and is currently on the editorial boards of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal as Area Editor, and IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine as Associate Editor. He is the Founding Chair of the IMOBILE ACM Chapter, which is the India chapter of ACM SIGMOBILE.
Prasant has 16+ years of professional experience. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has previously held research positions at CSIRO Australia, RISE SICS Stockholm, and IISc Bangalore; short-term visiting positions at NICTA Australia, TIFR Mumbai, Universiteit Gent, and ETH Zurich; and software engineering positions at NTT Data. He is a senior member of the IEEE and ACM. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM SIGMOBILE. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Dr. Sithu D Sudarsan
Executive Director, C-DAC
Dr. Sithu D Sudarsan, presently working as Executive Director, C-DAC Bangalore has over 3 decades of R&D experience in India as well as the United States and a wide expertise in various technology domains. His areas of interest include Semantic mining/BIG Data, HPC, Cyber Security, IPR, Technology Management, Strategic Management and emerging technologies.
Prior to his position at C-DAC Bangalore, Dr. Sudarsan was associated with ABB Corporate Research; The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA); Central Research Laboratory (Bharat Electronics Limited (CRL-BEL); ERDCI; CEDTI.
Dr.Sudarsan has been honoured with prestigious awards like FDA’s Outstanding Service Award, FDA’s Group Recognition Award. During his PhD at UALR, US he had received the Outstanding PhD Graduate Student Award, Academic Achievement Award & Professional Service Award. He has been a Featured Reviewer at “reviews.com” (2010) and he has also been mentoring Graduate and Doctoral students.
Dr. Sudarsan completed his Ph.D. from University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) USA and is a Fellow IETE and Senior Member IEEE. He has to his credit more than 100 technical papers and 8 patents (3 granted). He is actively involved in professional activities including organizing conferences.
Ravikiran Annaswamy
CEO and Co-Founder, Numocity Technologies
Ravikiran Annaswamy is the Co-founder and CEO of Numocity Technologies. He is very passionate about clean mobility and is working towards accelerating Electric Mobility in India and world market. His strategy is on using IOT, Analytics and Deep Learning to accelerate adoption of Electric vehicles and innovate through new business models of Energy as a service.
He has over 25 years of experience; as an Entrepreneur and as a business leader at Nokia Siemens Networks and Siemens AG. He was instrumental in launching and scaling, frugal and innovative solutions like Mobile Prepaid, Data Charging, and various VAS solutions in India and global markets. He championed Intrapreneurship by working as the Innovation head for Bangalore site of Nokia Siemens Networks.
He is a serial entrepreneur and passionate to incubate new Start-ups. He was the Co-founder of Deccan Institute of Innovation and Design, Co-Director at Founder Institute (Fi.com) Bangalore, Mentor at NUMA Bangalore and mentor and coach for many early stage start-ups. He is also a charter member of TiE Bangalore
He is on the global leadership team of IEEE 5G and is contributes to the vision and strategy of future applications and services. He is also a professional volunteer at IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). He is currently a global board member and Vice President of Membership and Marketing for IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. He was the chairman for IEEE Bangalore section and on the board of IEEE Asia Pacific during 2014-17. He is a thought leader and a speaker at numerous prestigious international business conferences. He has done his MBA from Indian institute of Management Bangalore and has graduated from UVCE Bangalore (University of Visveswaraya College of Engineering). He also has a great passion for photography and is a bibliophile.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravikiran/
Dr. Aloknath De
Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section
Former CVP & CTO, Samsung
Founder, Cyber-Physical Systems Initiative
Dr. Aloknath De has been incessantly crafting Core Technologies to build a ‘Better Connected World with Enriched Human-Machine Collaboration’. These Cyber-Physical System (CPS) solutions nestle in the intersection space of AI, IoT, Blockchain, B5G and Robotics. His expertise and experience in solving complex problems from Radar Systems to Futuristic Devices, from Rich Communication to Machine Understanding, fuels his assimilative thinking.
Dr. Alok is B.Tech from IIT-Kharagpur (also, Distinguished Alumnus), ME from IISc-Bangalore and Ph.D from McGill Univ. In his 32 years of corporate life, he has been adopting ‘BITE’ framework: Biz (consumer value) ß Innovation (unique proposition) ßTech (enabling platform) ß Engg (smart deployment). Beyond playing Global roles in Canada and S.Korea, Dr. De has worked extensively with teams in USA, France, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, UK, Netherlands and Belgium.
Dr. De is recognized as one of the ‘Most Influential CIO/CTOs of India’ and also named in Top50 Global CTOs. He received Graham Bell Prize (Canada), IETE Memorial Award, IDC Insights Award, Vanguard Intrapreneurship Award, Nasscom AI GameChanger Award; and also from IESA for ‘Innovative Product’, Zinnov for ‘Intrapreneur of the Year’, Assocham for ‘Tech Leader of the Year’ and TechCircle for ‘Business Transformation’. Dr. De is a deep-tech mentor and an angel investor in India startup ecosystem. Samsung Venture has strategically invested in a dozen startups. As Samsung India CTO, he blended judiciously ‘In-house Innovation’ with ‘Open Innovation’. His meticulous drive made Samsung India an Innovation Powerhouse with repeat recognition through ‘National IP Award’, ‘Great Place to Innovate’ award. He himself has 50+ patents granted/filed and led Samsung India to file 5500+ patents globally in a decade.
Dr. De is currently Adjunct Prof with IISc (ECE) and IIT-Jodhpur (CS). During 2005-2011, he served as Distinguished Visiting Professor in IIT-Roorkee and Adjunct Professor in IIT-Delhi. In two-decades, he visited 50+ institutes across India. He is in Governing Council of CPS Hub in IIT-Delhi, SAATHI in IIT-Kgp and other BoG, Research Councils.
He works closely with Nasscom, CII, FICCI , TEC IoT on Industry initiatives. He is National Council member of IEI and Chair-Elect for IEEE Bangalore Section. He is Fellow of IETE, IEI and Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). Imbibing principles of Deep Technology, Consumer Experience and Social Inclusion, Dr. De has become a strong champion of TechOnSciArt, TechOfValue and TechForAll.
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdescitechlab/
Program Schedule
This Program will be anchored well-known Leadership Development Consultant, Coach, and Facilitator.
He will be supported by Industry Leaders as well as IEEE Bangalore Section ExeCom Members who will share their experience in respective tracks. The program will be delivered through a combination of Presentations, Role Play & Workshops and will focus more on interactions with Coaches & participants.
Approach:
- One day session almost similar to previous program, but with more exercises and higher involvement of the participants
- Three expert speak sessions instead of four earlier
- The session on Managing Change merged with other sessions, with elements of change coming in other sessions
- Timing 9.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Session 01
MANAGING EXPECTATIONS
Managing customers’ expectations
Being assertive
Exploring inter-dependencies
Trust and credibility
Influencing
Negotiation Skills
Session 02
BRIDGING THE GENERATION GAP
Characteristics of different generations
Understand their priorities
Leveraging multi-gen workforce
Multi-Geo Teams and Cultural Differences
Change required in approach to effectively
deal with multi-gen workforce
Session 03
MANAGING STRESS & WORK-LIFE BALANCE
What really is stress
Causes of stress
Active & Passive coping styles
Distress vs Eustress
Social support
Work life balance – working style
Change in mindset and attitude required
Session 04
CAREER CHOICES
Different career paths
Vertical and horizontal growth
Identifying & Preparing for your next role
Essentials for Career Planning
Being change ready
Session 05
WRAP UP & CLOSE
Insights and Learnings,
Certificate Distribution, Wrap Up &
Feedback by Participants.
Key Takeaways
This One-day Workshop will give a unique opportunity where Industry Leaders with Diverse backgrounds can share their Unique Experiences & best practices.
Participants get a chance to interact with them & understand how they have shaped their careers.
Organizations benefits by strengthening the Mid Manager.
Participants will get a Certificate of Completion from IEEE Bangalore Section.
A Mentorship Network will be the next step where Participants can connect to Mentors in case of Guidance is needed.
Program Fee Structure
Category | Discount | Fees |
Standard Fee | Rs 3000/- | |
IEEE Member Fee | 400/- | Rs 2600/- |
Standard Fee with Early Bird Discount | 600/- | Rs 2400/- |
IEEE Member Fee with Early Bird Discount | 520/- | Rs 2080/- |
Early Bird Discount – If registered on or Before 30th September 2023
Venue
THE CHANCERY PAVILION
135, Residency Rd, Bengaluru – 560025
Organizing Committee
Dr. Aloknath De
Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section
Dr. Prasant Mishra
Vice Chair, Industry Engagement, IEEE Bangalore Section
Mr. Supriyo Das
Catalyst Lead
Execom Member, IEEE Bangalore Section
Dr. Chengappa M R
Catalyst Co-Lead
Secretary, IEEE Bangalore Section
Dr. Pushpa Mala S
Execom Member, IEEE Bangalore Section
Mr. Arun Tanksali
Treasurer, IEEE TEMS