Inaugurated by Dr Christy Fernandez IAS (Retd), Chairman, KSIDC, the theme of the conclave was “Leveraging Digital Technology for Growth & Success”
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With the theme “Leveraging Digital Technology for Growth & Success,” CII’s Indian Women Network organized the Third edition of Women Conclave on 26 April 2017 at Hotel Taj Gateway, Kochi. The objective of this Conclave was to create awareness among women entrepreneurs on how best they can utilize the digital technology platform to promote and enhance their businesses.
The sessions of the Conclave were spearheaded by experts from the industry who demonstrated the power of digitization towards personal and professional excellence. The Conclave was inaugurated by Dr Christy Fernandez IAS (Retd), Chairman, KSIDC. Addressing the gathering, he spoke about how the Information, Communication and Technology revolution is making the world a dynamic place and how digitization plays a key role today in every sector when the world is moving towards a knowledge economy. He emphasized on the need to leverage digital technology as being the need of the hour to attain growth and success.
Other key speakers for the day included Shivdas B Menon; Past Chairman, CII Kerala State Council and Managing Director, Sterling Group; Minu Mathew, Vice Chairwoman, IWN Kerala and Managing Partner, Minu & Thomas Chartered Accountants; Sujata Madhav, Head Strategic Projects, TCS Digital Enterprise; Hema Menon, Center Head & Delivery Manager, UST Global; Meera Haridas, Head- Marketing, Manappuram Finance Ltd; Vivek Govind, Partner, Varma & Varma; Maria Abraham, Executive Editor, Dhanam Publications; Maneesha Panicker, Founder, Silk Route Escapes; Harsha Thachery, CEO, MasalaBox; Anubha Sinha, Managing Director, Ultra Rays 3D; Smitha Naik, Founder, SNSofDesign and Ms Deena Venugopal, Co- Founder, Anabytes.”