Guest Lectures -

This post was last updated on January 15th, 2021

Retd Major General K R Prasad delivered a talk on “Glory of India the Untold Stories”, August 2019
Dr. Maruthi Ram R, HoD, Department of MBA along with Mr. H. A. Jayasimha, Founder, Insight Consultancy Services during a talk on “Power of Positive Thinking”, February 2019
Mr. Achutha Rao, Senior Marketing Manager, New India Assurance, Bangalore speaking about key features of Fire and Medical Insurance.
Mr. Santosh M Sakhare, Head – Talent Acquisition, Herbalife International India Pvt. Ltd addressing the students about candidates behavior during interviews
Mr. Rahul Dhawan, Financial Services & IT solutions Expert, Lotus Knowlwealth, Mumbai speaking to students about Capital Market and Mutual funds
Ms. Suniti Varma, talking to Students about STOCK MIND, Virtual investment game plan
Mr. Rajesh from ICICI Securities addressing students about the procedure to invest in stock market
Mr.Alfred Wilson, Executive Director, M/S Dorris Technologies Pvt Ltd , Bangalore spoke about ‘How to convert our internship opportunities in to placement’
Mr. Janardhan P Saokar, Former Deputy General Manager, Canara Bank, interacting with Students
Mr. Nelson Diaz, International Quantum NLP Trainer engaging the session with real life demonstration
Mr. Rahul Dhawan- Expert Equity Research and Financial Planning delivered a talk on “Aiming to conquer Investment market”, August 2019
Mr Rohan Sachadev, Associate VP- JP Morgan delivered a talk on “Project Leadership and Interview”, September 2019

Virtual Guest Lecture Series- During and After Lock-down

DATE	TOPIC	SPEAKER
13th November 2020	Brand management – A Peek into today’s scenario and opportunities during the pandemic	Mr. Khundmir Syed Marketing Lead IBM
6th November 2020	Investing in the financial markets	Mr. Prathik(FreeLancer& ALUMNI)
5th November 2020	Career opportunities in Banking & Financial Industry	Mr. Niranjan T Mohite, regional head for west and south for BFSI vertical of NIIT.
2nd November 2020	Importance of Self-Branding	Mrs. Tripti Arvind (Entrepreneur)
25^th July 2020.	Capital Market Awareness	Mr. Ashok Kumar, Director of Lotus Know wealth
15^th July 2020.	CSR and its relevance in this pandemic situation	Dr. Leena James, Professor at Christ University.
3rd June 2020	Sales- a world full of opportunities & challenges	Mr. DVS Subhash, Sales Head at Birla soft
15th May 2020	Recruitment Process	Ms. Geetha Nagaraj IT delivery manager
12th May 2020	Embracing the New Future	Mr. Mohan Kumar, Practice Head at Wipro Ltd.
24th April 2020	B2B Sales and Promotions	Mr. Sougandh K.M., Channel Development Manager, Universal Robots- South Asia
22nd April 2020	Testing of Hypothesis	Ms. Manju J R AP, J S S Academy of Technical Education, UP
16th April 2020	5 Ps of Successful Leadership	Dr. Balaji M.S, CEO Whtznx
9th April 2020	Future of HR Analytics	Dr. Manjunath V S, Founder- Enleanytics,
31st March & 2nd April 2020	Content Marketing	Mr. Rajesh Chakravarthy, Director, Enleanytics,
31st March 2020	BCG Matrix at Amazon. in	Mr. Adarsh B, Product compliance department at Amazon.com
30th March 2020	Teamwork	Mr. Arjun Vellal Founder, Proawitz Leadership
26th March 2020	Leadership at crisis	Ms. Preeja Sridhar, Mu Sigma Inc
25th March 2020	Life a For IV semester students after Covid-19	Dr. Karthik L, Scientist

Skill Development Program in the Topic “REAL-TIME MARKET RESEARCH”

MBA department, BNMIT in association with Skillgenix conducted an SDP in the topic ” REAL-TIME MARKET RESEARCH” from 19^th to 24^th October 2020 for the 2019-21 batch student.

Market research is a powerful marketing tool. Today, there is a growing demand to carry it out in an intelligent, innovative, and faster way. Consumers communicate at breakneck speed. With mobile phones in hand, they immediately let you know what they think and experience. Creating campaigns based on a traditional market survey done months ago may be of little use today. The real-time market research is the one that would help the brand to react quickly and according to the needs of its customers.

TOPICS COVERED

Introduction to Market research
How to write a business overview
Making of company snapshots

Ways to collect information about companies
Types of company strategies
Understanding SWOT analysis

Skill Development Program in the Topic “Advanced Excel”

MBA department, BNMIT had organized an online SDP in the Topic “Advanced Excel” from 19th October 2020 for the 2018-20 Batch students between 9 am to 2:30 pm conducted through Zoom platform. With an idea to prepare students to take up new jobs and be Industry ready.

The students were trained in basic functions of excel and advanced operations covering the topics like logical functions, computation of stock returns, graphs, V lookup H lookup functions, regression analysis, and application of these in Real-time situations. The data set and the formula sheet was shared with students before the commencement of the SDP. Every day assignments were given to execute the topics discussed and on the Final day a test was conducted to evaluate the students on topics covered

WEBINAR LECTURE SERIES on ‘Specialization Matters- One hour guide to making an informed choice’

The Department of MBA, BNM Institute of Technology, Bangalore organized a three-day webinar series open to the first-year MBA student community on the topic ‘Specialization Matters- One hour guide to making an informed choice’ from June 24th to June 26th, 2020. A total number of 450 students across different cities of Karnataka participated in the Webinar.

Day 1 was marked for Finance specialization and the resource person was Mr. Viswanathan P, chartered accountant & CEO at Vyoma Linguistic Labs Foundation, Bangalore. He highlighted that the Finance jobs require strong quantitative aptitude, voracious reading skills, teamwork, perspective thinking ability and common sense as a prerequisite

Day 2, on 25^th June 2020, was dedicated to Human Resource Management, where the guest speaker was Mr. Mohan Kumar, Practice Head at Wipro Technologies. He spoke about the IT skills and certifications students need to take up to attract better career opportunities in the area of HR

Day 3 of the Webinar was chaired by Mr. CNB Rajesh, Director and Chief Evangelist, Enleanytics. He shared his insights about career prospects in Marketing and how students should prepare themselves with the relevant knowledge, skills, and attitude

Workshop on Business Analytics and E-Business

A ﬁve day Workshop on “Business Analytics and E – Business” for 3rd Semester MBA students was conducted in association with Makeintern & Echoes’ (IIM Kozhikode Event) from September 08, 2019 to September 12, 2019. The trainer for the 5-day program was Ms. Maneesha from Makeintern Institute.

The students were introduced to R, a programming language used by statisticians and data miners for data analysis.. Five students, selected by the trainer, were awarded the Merit certiﬁcates and given an opportunity to present business plan in IIM-Kozhikode at the Echoes’ 2019 event. This was the rarest of rare opportunity for the students of MBA.

Inauguration and Induction Program for I Semester MBA

An induction program for I Semester MBA students was organized from October 1to 9, 2019 over a period of five days. The purpose of the induction program was to facilitate a smooth transition to a post-graduate program and also emphasize on the various aspects of personality development.