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The Leadership Series The Leadership Talks Cultural and Festival Celebration

The institute hosted the maiden version of The IIM Visakhapatnam launched The Leadership Talks – a Owing to the rich diversity that IIM Visakhapatnam holds, with students being present from 28 different states in
Leadership Series – for a panel discussion on ‘Disruption series of webinar in which industry experts are coming India, we ensure to celebrate every festival and its culture together in a grand manner. All the prominent festivals
in Retail Sector – How changing landscape of retail together to share valuable knowledge on current are celebrated with great enthusiasm, entertainment and fun added to them by organizing several interactive games
impacts Consumer Behavior and Market Dynamics’. The business issues and topics. The guests widely covered and competitions starting from everyone getting dressed up in a pure traditional attire till the dinner served in
event welcomed industry leaders such as Mr. Subhajit topics related to revival of the economy in domains banana leaves by Keralites on the occasion of Onam or the awesome Holi celebrations where we kept dancing for
Mazumder, Director, KPMG India; Mr. Himanshu Sirohi, ranging from Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, hours. However this year post COVID scenario where we have not been able to celebrate the festivals together so
Head, Digital Marketing, JLL India; Mr. Ravi Khushwani, Finance, Business Analytics, Operations and Supply far, students of IIMV still kept the energy and enthusiasm flowing across by sharing their way of celebrations at home
Founder, GreenSoul Ergonomics. The Session was Chain. We hosted nearly 22+ Guests, from various with each other, coming together online and performing various cultural activities to entertain the rest and kept the
moderated by Prof. Milan Kumar. The session extracted esteemed companies such as Celio India, GoZoop, tradition of celebrating together at IIMV going forward.
some of the most valuable insights on the changing GoAir, GBKC Fashions, Schindler, Axiscades Engineering
expectations of consumers, experience-driven Retail Tech Ltd, Udaan, Edelweiss, Britannia, CavinCare,
Marketing, way forward for the Online-offline Stores AIQrate, SemcoStyle, Havells India Limited, Moonshine Sangram
Synergy, E-commerce & Sustainability of Cash Burning Meadery, Sporjo, Leveraged Growth, Acumen Solution
Model, Global sustainable development in the retail & Case Questions, Himalaya, Deloitte, Alexander Forbes, Sangram 2023, the flagship sports competition between IIMs of South India (IIMB, IIMK, IIMT, IIMV) was a 3 day event
industry, Digital technologies impacting the retail space. Paypal, Perfetti Van Melle, and Tata Financial Services. organized in November 2023. Hosted by IIM Kozhikode, this three day annual sports summit, where around 670
Contingencies for disruptions & epidemics, Prediction people participated in various games, saw some jaw-dropping performances with gripping competition.
for the evolution of retail over the next five years. IIM Visakhapatnam has showcased its mettle in sports by winning Gold medals in Carrom Men, Silver medals in Pool
Women, Chess Men, FIFA 20(E-sport), and Bronze medals in Kho Kho, Tennis Men, and Pool Men. Some commendable
performances were also appreciated in non-medal events like Foosball, Kabaddi, and Frisbee.
Samaarambh

Samaarambh is the annual cultural extravaganza of IIM Visakhapatnam. It comprises a wide diversity of events
and amasses colossal participation and buzz in the city. The event encompasses a huge array of both online and
offline events. IIM Visakhapatnam organized the 4 edition of Samaarambh in December 2019. Various on-stage
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competitions in the areas of dance, dramatics, singing/music and fashion were organized with prizes worth one
lakh and students from 15+ colleges in and around Visakhapatnam contested in the competitions. Students of IIMV
organized four editions of Samaarambh so far successfully right from its planning to its execution including the
marketing of the events, finding sponsorships and getting a huge footfall for the pronites and the overall event aimed
at the branding of IIM Visakhapatnam. Samaamrabh 4.0 had been a huge success with a footfall of 1500+ audience,
and the pronites have been organized at a much larger scale with the famous band THE LOCAL TRAIN performing
on the first day, and the versatile singer from Hyderabad HEMA CHANDRA performing on the second day. Various
off-stage events and competitions were organized to engage the audience right from the start of the fest on day 1 till
the end. Samaarambh is sponsored by various giants like HP, Uber, Apollo Hospitals, Bisleri, Shoppers Stop, Maruti
Suzuki, BookMyShow, NOVOTEL, The Indian Express, Thick Shake Factory, ETV, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank, HDFC
Bank, Andhra Bank.