The event kicked off with an Inauguration Ceremony on the 4th of March, with Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Senior Economist at World Bank, and Dhuwarakha Sriram, Chief of Generation Unlimited, Youth Development and Partnerships at UNICEF India, as the Keynote Speakers. 

The event is a joint effort by various clubs and committees of the institute, and the sessions conducted are enthralling and cover the latest, most important industry trends. The theme for this year’s event was “Youth, Managerial Competence and National Growth”. 

Indian Institute of Management Shillong organized Business Leadership Summit x Learning on the Green Turf on the 4th and 5thof March 2023. 

Business Leadership Summit (BLS) is the annual flagship event of IIM Shillong. It hosts industry stalwarts across domains, including Consulting, Finance, Marketing, Systems & Analytics, Human Resources, and Operations. The event is a joint effort by various clubs and committees of the institute, and the sessions conducted are enthralling and cover the latest, most important industry trends. The theme for this year’s event was “Youth, Managerial Competence and National Growth”. 

The event kicked off with an Inauguration Ceremony on the 4th of March, with Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Senior Economist at World Bank, and Dhuwarakha Sriram, Chief of Generation Unlimited, Youth Development and Partnerships at UNICEF India, as the Keynote Speakers. 

They covered essential topics on Indian economic conditions and the development of opportunities for the Youth of the Nation for better growth and success of the Nation. Day 1 saw Panel Discussions across Marketing, Systems & Analytics, and Human Resources domains.

The Marketing Panel had Divya Karani, Board Director, CEO Media South Asia at Dentsu;ShardulBist, Head – Marketing (FMCG – Nutrifix/Sebamed) at Mother Dairy; Esha Arora, SVP Marketing at Info Edge India Ltd and Rohit Lamba, VP Sales and Marketing, Head - Branding at Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. Prof.Guhesh Ramanathan was the Panel Moderator. The students witnessedan intriguing discussion on digitization, generational changes, and the steps to takeif a campaign goes wrong. For the Systems and Analytics panel, the speakers were Vivek Sahabadi, Head of Data and Analytics at Navi; Swati Jain, Vice President of Analytics at EXL; Nitin Gupta, Senior Director, Head – Enterprise Analytics, Data and AI at VISA and Hardik Somani, COO and Co-Founder at Sapio Analytics.