IEEE CATALYST
Re-Fueling Mid-Career
Event Date: 26th May, 2023
Last Date for Early bird Registrations : 14th May, 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.
Vasantha Erraguntla
Proven technologist, Innovator, and Recognized Leader
Vasantha Erraguntla spent her entire professional career of a quarter century at Intel Corporation, half in the US and half in Bangalore. She led teams to innovate, build and demonstrate high performance and energy efficient technologies and facilitated world-class circuit research. Intel demonstrated best-in-class through her innovative work and received world-wide press, accolades, and awards. Vasantha also drove strategic technology efforts in areas of high-performance computing, market-enabling pathfinding in computer-vision and related technologies.
Vasantha is a two-time Intel Achievement Award recipient and has co-authored over 15 IEEE journal and conference papers and holds 6 patents. She served on the organizing committee and technical program committees of various international technical conferences. She is a senior member of IEEE and has served as an executive member of IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Section (2017-18) and IEEE Bangalore Section (2019-20).
Vasantha is passionate about people, technology, and development. She has volunteered with various organizations advocating and promoting literacy, women’s empowerment, STEM education and technology advancement and now continues to do so full-time.
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/
Tathagat Varma
VP Strategy and Chief of Staff Walmart Global Tech India
Tathagat Varma has donned various roles as a Software executive, product leader, technology strategist and innovation evangelist with over three decades experience building organizations ground-up and shipping multiple “1.0” products (revenue impact over several US$$ Billion+) with American, European and Chinese Fortune 1-500 companies and Silicon Valley unicorns. Currently heading Technology Strategy and Business Operations at Walmart Global Tech, and additionally playing role of Chief of Staff.
He played significant technical and leadership roles in establishing and growing organizations, including Country Head / Head of Business Operations / GM (NerdWallet, ChinaSoft, Yahoo!, NetScout, Network General), VP for Strategic Process Innovations (24[7] Innovation Labs), Director of Engineering / Group Head (McAfee, Huawei), Product Management (Network General, Huawei, Philips), Software Architect / Tech Lead (Philips, Siemens), Computer Scientist (DRDO) and Process Coach / Agile Transformation Leader (Yahoo!, NetScout, Huawei and Philips), and my own solopreneurial gig as a strategy and management consultant during 2014-17.
Tathagat is well-rounded professional with M.Sc (Computer Science); B. Sc (Statistics); Exec MBA in (Human Resources); Certificates in Business Leadership, Executive Leadership and Financial Management from Cornell University; Digital Business Strategies from Columbia Business School; and Post-Graduate Diploma in Innovation and Design Thinking offered by MIT Sloan, Columbia Business School Executive Education Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Currently pursuing PhD from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He possess advanced certifications in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant 4.5, CSP, CSM, CSPO, PMP, PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and Management 3.0
Tathagat is highly sought-after public speaker, accomplished thought leader, agile transformation leader, published author and startup mentor and have trained over 5000+ professionals, published 1000+ blogs and articles, delivered 500+ public talks and conference papers, mentored over 100+ startups, and published a book (“Agile Product Development”, 2015). Also delivered two TEDx talks.
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tathagat/
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.
Session 01
STRESS MANAGEMENT & WORK LIFE BALANCE
Interactive Presentation with Story Telling, Sharing Personal Experience of Managing Stress & Group Discussions with actions to create mental Bandwidth.
Session 02
MANAGING
EXPECTATIONS
Interactive Presentation with
Case Lets, Role Play & Exercise
for TRUST.
Session 03
BRIDGING THE GENERATION GAP
Interactive Presentation with Case Lets, Sharing Experience & Success Stories from Industry Leaders.
Session 04
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Interactive Presentation Framework for
managing change, Industry Examples &
Expert Speak from Industry. This session will
also, focus on grooming Personal Skills for
Senior Leadership positions.
Session 05
CAREER CHOICES
Interactive Presentation with Panel Discussions by Senior Industry Leaders. This also introduces Instruments to choose preferred future roles.
Session 06
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 14th May 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