Guest Lecture

Guest Lecture

Year 2025-26

Sr. No.	Date	Name of the Resource Person	Topic of the Event
1	16.07.2025	Dr. Pawan Agrawal	The Supply Chain Management of Mumbai Dabbawala and Paperwala
2	16.07.2025	Sachin Phansikar	Role of Media
3	17.07.2025	Riddhima Dua	Think Better, Lead Smarter: NLP in Management Practice
4	18.07.2025	Mayur Vora	From Farm to Fame: Building a Purpose-Driven Brand Mapro
5	18.07.2025	Suchitra Roy	Safe Spaces, Stronger Teams: Gender Sensitisation & Workplace Respect
6	22.07.2025	Soham Dadarkar	Journey of Maverick Minds: Unleashing Entrepreneurial Tales
7	23.07.2025	Dr. Anil Lamba	Demystifying Finance: A Conversation Around Romancing the Balance Sheet
8	24.07.2025	Chakor Gandhi	How to Live MBA
9	25.07.2025	P. C. Nambiar	Beyond Borders, Within Values : A Journey of Ethical Leadership
10	25.07.2025	Anjali Patil	Beyond the Resume : Build Your Personal Brand
11	01.08.2025	Dhiren Charania	Introduction to Commodity Derivatives
12	12.08.2025	Chirag Shah	Why Entrepreneurship Matters: Building the Future Today,
13	26.08.2025	Aman Rajabali	Futureproofing Yourself: Skills and Mindsets for Tomorrow’s Professionals
14	28.08.2025	Pravin Bhagwat	Sustainability, Eco Leadership and Community Impact
15	28.08.2025	Kiran Deshpande	Sustainability, Eco Leadership and Community Impact
16	29.08.2025	Bharat Daga	How To Be Remarkable In Life
17	02.09.2025	Abhijeet Chinchole	Technology and Cloud: The Twin Engines of Digital Business Transformation
18	09.09.2025	CS Rucha Kale	“Social Stock Exchange - Bridging Purpose and Capital”
19	15.09.2025	Ganesh Chafekar	Campus to Corporate: The Winning Transition
20	16.09.2025	Vikas Bhatia	The Attitude Advantage: A Career Differentiator
21	15.09.2025	Yogesh Dubey	5G and 6G Technologies
22	15.09.2025	Ashit Jain	AI in Communication Networks
23	16.09.2025	Dushyant Arora	IoT Applications in Business
24	16.09.2025	Sanjay Bhargava	Role of Cloud Computing in Modern Communication
25	17.09.2025	Dr. Vibha Vyas	Communicating Complex Technologies Effectively
26	18.09.2025	Abhijit Limaye	Cybersecurity in Next Gen Communications
27	18.09.2025	Venkat Davarapalli	Global Perspective on Next Gen Communications
28	19.09.2025	Bhushan Deshmukh	Smart City Communications Infrastructure
29	19.09.2025	Sangram Kadam	Global Trends in Communication Technologies
30	20.09.2025	Prashant Joshi	Ethical & Regulatory Considerations in Advanced
31	20.09.2025	Aniruddha Pendse	Cybersecurity in Next Gen Communications
32	20.09.2025	Dr. Sanjay Khonde	5G Implementation and Strategy
33	20.09.2025	Sagar Shah	Digital Marketing
34	23.09.2025	Suresh Margabandhu	Fintech and Blockchain
35	30.09.2025	Jeetendra Francis Sadangi	AI for Managers
36	07.10.2025	Subhabrata Chattopadhyay	The Future of Fintech in Global Banking
37	14.10.2025	Jaspal Saran	Being Agile - From Experiments to Impact

 

Year 2024-25

Sr. No.	Date	Name of the Resource Person	Topic of the Event
1	15.07.2024	Denny Thomas	Inauguration address in Induction
2	15.07.2024	Jagdish Kadam	Welcome address in Induction
3	16.07.2024	Soham Dadarkar	Maverick Minds
4	19.07.2024	Dr Preeti Karmarkar	POSH Training
5	19.07.2024	Ankit Machhar	Session on Entrepreneurship
6	22.07.2024	Riddhima Dua	Training Session
7	29.07.2024	Aalok Karnik	Basics of Cybersecurity
8	29.07.2024	Shweta Chawla	Basics of Cybersecurity
9	29.07.2024	CS Sandeep Kulkarni	Career Awareness by ICSI
10	05.08.2024	Gaurav Date	EBSCO Training
11	09.08.2024	Pramod Rawat	Founders Day Celebration
12	16.08.2024	Pratibha Nimbalkar Hambarde	Agri-Business Management
13	29.08.2024	Kalyani Kulkarni	Strength Coaching for Personal and Personality Development
14	03.09.2024	Abhijit Limaye	Day to Day Cybersecurity
15	8.11.2024	Kiran Kuttamori	Strategic Management
16	7.12.2024	Anuja Kolhatkar	Internship Excellence: Navigating Professional Growth
17	19.12.2024	Vikas Bhatia	Making on Imprint in the Corporate Space
18	23.12.2024	Rohit Warman	For Financial Education Program by NISM & Kotak Securities
19	23.12.2024	Nilesh Tinaikar	For Financial Education Program by NISM & Kotak Securities
20	24.12.2024	Mayur Sindhwad	For Financial Education Program by NISM & Kotak Securities
21	28.12.2024	Virendra Chitrav	For Climate Awareness and Sustainability talk followed by announcement of film festival
22	16.01.2025	Abhijeet Panshikar	Startup Management
23	17.01.2025	Rajesh Panda	Introductory Session for the Global Immersion Programme
24	21.01.2025	Niket Karajagi	Global Capability Centre (GCC) Driving Innovation and Business Transformation
25	22.01.2025	Mohit Mittal	Financial Awareness Program
26	27.01.2025	Rahul Desai	Distribution Management
27	28.01.2025	Abhay Gite	Navigating Employee Categorization: Government Perspective & Employer Consequences
28	28.01.2025	Adv. Aditya Ravi Joshi	Navigating Employee Categorization: Government Perspective & Employer Consequences
29	2.02.2025	Dr. Tetali Pundarikakshudu	Prosperity with Bamboo: An Indian Perspective'
30	07.02.2025	Prataprao Pawar	Keynote address by Chief Guest IMDR HR Meet
31	07.02.2025	Amit Paranjape	Power of Networking
32	07.02.2025	Sudhir Mateti	Work Life Balance
33	07.02.2025	Kishore Velankar	Work Life Balance
34	07.02.2025	Sugandha Taneja	Gen Z - Myth Vs Reality
35	07.02.2025	Sanjay Khorate	Gen Z - Myth Vs Reality
36	07.02.2025	Saurav Roy	Gen Z - Myth Vs Reality
37	07.02.2025	Rashi Anand Moolayil	Gen Z - Myth Vs Reality
38	07.02.2025	Prachi Shevgaonkar	Role of Gen Z in shaping India's Future
39	08.02.2025	Danish Khan	Convocation address
40	15.02.2025	Sanjeev Karpe	KONBAC – Sustainable Business Models Integrating Social and Environmental Impact with Profitability
41	20.02.2025	Ajay Dusane	Personal Branding
42	24.02.2025	Shri. Suresh Prabhu	BambooCon 2025: Exploring India's green gold
43	1.03.2025	Mayur Jangam	Expectation Management
44	07.03.2025	Vishal Ratan	International Conference on Deep Tech and the Global Race for Technological Leadership - From Innovation to Societal Impact
45	07.03.2025	Dr. Bhooshan Kelkar	International Conference on Deep Tech and the Global Race for Technological Leadership - From Innovation to Societal Impact
46	08.03.2025	Dr. K.C. Vora	International Conference on Deep Tech and the Global Race for Technological Leadership - From Innovation to Societal Impact
47	26.03.2025	Shekhar Srivastava	Marketing Strategies

 

Year 2022-2023

Sr No	Date	Speaker Name		Name of the Topic
1	28 January 2023	Mr. Gaurav Sharma		Industry Trends and FinTech ecosystem
2	07 January 2023	Ms. Alpana K Bhoge		Cybersecurity at Workplace
3	19 November 2022	Sai Valiveti		Up your interview game
4	10 October 2022	Karthik Rangappa		Dynamics of Stock Market trading
5	05 August 2022	Mr. Soumya Ranjan		Emerging Careers in BFSI Sector
6	05 August 2022	Mr. Duncan Errol Halstead		Shape up , it s your future
7	05 August 2022	Ms. Pradnya Kamble		Technical skills to make presentation effective.
8	10 August 2022	Chetan Sangole		Sustainability for future
9	10 August 2022	Sanchita Bhattacherjee		Cracking the company Code: How to Clear GD/PI.
10	12 March 2022	Srikanta Lahari Sagi		Capital Market Awareness

Year 2021-2022

Sr No	Date	Speaker Name		Name of the Topic
1	09 October 2021	Mr. Rajesh Parekar		Case Study on Marketing / Promotions during pandemic times ( with focus on Non Personal Promotions)
2	04 September 2021	Mr. Mukund Deshpandey		Human to Human Marketing
3	11 September 2021	Mr. Anup Menon		Leveraging the Power of LinkedIn
4	25 September 2021	Mr. Monimoy & Ms. Sajiri		HR Journey From Campus To Corporate-The Best preparation
5	02 August 2021	Mr. Pramod Shah		Areas to focus during 2nd year @ IMDR
6	05 August 2021	Mr. Soumya Ranjan		Career opportunities in BFSI Sector
7	6 August 2021	Mr. Satyam Magon		Future of Logisctics – Career in logistics industry
8	07 August 2021	Dr. Ravindra Utgikar		Expectation of the Corporates from Management Graduate
9	09 August 2021	Mr. Lalit Ketkar		Navigating the Sales and Marketing world
10	21 August 2021	Mr. Karan Bamba		Transitioning from campus to career: A perspective
11	28 August 2021	Mr. Biswnath Mohapatra		Personal Finance: Career prospects
12	01 April 2021	Dr. Devidas Golhar		Report on Webinar by Dr. Devidas Golhar held on 01 April 2021
13	10 March 2021	Mr. Hrishikesh Salvekar		Report on Webinar by Mr. Hrishikesh Salvekar on 10 March, 2021
14	5 February 2022	Mr. Shankar Roddam		Industry Readiness of the Management Graduates
15	05 February 2022	Mr. Sunil Pakalpati		Logistic Challenges & Opportunities in the New Normal
16	09 February 2022	Mr. Supriya kumar Sakhalkar		Career in Banking and Investment
17	16 February 2022	Mr. Soumyajyoti Guha		Online Trading
18	08 January 2022	Ms Prachi Mohapatra		Business in VUCA World
19	29 January 2022	Mr. Jagdish Kadam		The Journey of Setting World Record
20	22 January 2022	Mr. Sanjeev Parkar		Dynamism of Changing Performance Management in VUCA world

Year 2020-2021

Panel Discussion: Skill requirements and corporate readiness of management students in sync with the dynamic business and economic environment

IMDR Pune organised a panel discussion on 22/01/2020 in association with the National Institute of Personnel Management, Pune on the topic “Skill requirements and corporate readiness of management students in sync with the dynamic business and economic environment”. There were four panellists who are experts in human resource management and possess a rich corporate experience. The panellists were Dr. (Captain) Chandrasekhar Madhusudan Chitale, Mr. Ajay Kulkarni, Mr. Nitin Daangal and Dr. Rajendra Sabnis and the moderator for the event was Professor Dilip Randive.

They shared extensive insights on well demanded personality traits required in good HR manager as well as in an employee like, discipline, maturity level, mannerism, patience, initiative, integrity, out of the box thinking, balancing technology & human resource, preparedness for a situation. They shared some of their interesting experiences while handling employees’ unrest. The panellists satisfied the participants by taking up their questions and answering them with the help of well-matched real life examples.

Their interactive style kept participants engrossed throughout the session. Their interaction imbibed the participants with the overall understanding of the holistic concept of human resource management and some of the key skills which need to be developed to make them ready to work successfully in dynamic corporate culture.

Insight into the Indian Securities' Markets: Investors' education by SEBI

Date :  04/01/20

On Saturday, 4th January 2020, Shri. GovindGoyal and Ms. Rashmi Sharma from SEBI conducted a session on Investors' Education at IMDR in Pune.

As PGDM students, it is very important that they are aware about the various instruments traded in the market. This session gave inputs regarding the Mandate of SEBI, Powers of SEBI, Major players in the shares & stock market, Primary & Secondary Markets, Derivatives and Mutual Funds. There were many interesting discussions on the various investment opportunities in the markets. They also spoke about what are the requirements and procedures for investing in the markets and benefits of doing so. Students who were regular investors in the share markets asked them about the practical difficulties they faced as investors.

As young & new investors, the session would help the students to identify the various important aspects to be considered while investing. This session enlightened the students on the ground realities and actually working of SEBI and the share markets in India.

GUEST LECTURE  - Mrs. MUGDHA KARANJEKAR

Date : 21/12/19

Institute of Management, Development and Research organized a guest lecture on 21st, December 2019 for the students of PGDM SemesterII in the IMDR auditorium. The speaker for the lecture was Mrs. Mugdha Karanjekar, Director HR of a multinational, based in Hong Kong, covering the region of Northern Asia. She completed her PGDM in 2000. For the past 19 years, she has worked in many places including Tokyo, Toronto, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hong Kong in the field of human resources (HR).

The lecture started by a welcome address. Prof. Dilip Ranadive introduced the speaker to the students. The lecture began with sharing her experience of working at different places. Mrs. Karanjekar shared her entire journey of how she started, what problems she faced and then enlightened students by telling them about the current scenario in the corporate. She also spoke on the must haves to be a successful HR manager, what qualities the students should possess to get hired, what HRs look for in current times. Through this lecture and interaction with a brilliant personality, the students got important insights of the business world.

Careers in Finance - Mr. Girish Tiwari

IMDR Pune invited Mr. Girish Tiwari, National Head – Commercial, Secretarial & Legal, Perennial Technologies Pvt. Ltd on Friday, 3rd January 2020 to interact with DM II students of the institution on the topic “Careers in Finance”. Insights shared by Mr. Tiwari gave fundamental understanding of prerequisites for making career in finance. He shared acumens on varied specialised domains in finance such as cash management, credit analysis, equity research, risk management, treasurer, financial planning, portfolio & wealth management, investment banking, investing sales professionals, financial consultancy etc. The lecture was useful not only to the students who are inclined towards finance but also to the interested participants belongs to other domains.

International Business and careers therein - Mr. Sanjay Gupte

IMDR Pune invited Mr. Sanjay Gupte, Ex. Senior Vice President (Sales & marketing),Mahindra Hinoday Industries Ltd. on Monday, 30th December 2019 to interact with DM I students of the institution on the topic “International Business and careers therein “. He explained the significance of exports for a companies and prerequisites for export sales. He shared extensive insights on the work of an export managers, the challenges faced by him and the skills required to be a good export manager. The interaction imbibed the participants with the overall understanding of the holistic concept and importance of international business. Mr. Gupte shared some of his interesting experiences while handing clients from different countries The participants took some valuable takeaways from the discussion.

Guest lecture - Mr N. C. Krishnan

On 12th October 2019, Mr N. C. Krishnan, CEO of Acurus Solutions delivered a guest lecture at the Institute of Management Development& Research. Our alumni Mr Amit Kumar Mahodaya (Batch of 2014) who is a data analyst at Acurus Solutions, helped in arranging the lecture.Mr N. C. Krishnan did his engineering in the chemical department from IIT Madras &then pursued his Masters in Information Systems from the Eastern Michigan University. Driven by a passion to teach, he taught Business Statistics to graduate & undergraduate at Eastern Michigan University.

At IMDR, he started his lecture by first asking the students their primary reason to attend college & how the college helps is helping them in overall learning.

He primarily emphasized on one sentence “Do what you love, love what you do.” He also shared his experiences& helped the students know how to plan & execute those plans.

Mr Krishnan concluded his lecture by sharing some skills that the current industry recruiters want in the prospective management trainees.

This session is very interactive and students get all the insights from Mr. Krishnan about corporate journey.

The lecture ended on a sweet note when Mr Krishnan & Mr Amit Mahodaya was felicitated & given a token of appreciation by the students.

ALUMNI MENTORING - MR. BAPPADITYA BANERJEE

On Monday, 9th September, 2019 a mentoring session had been organized for DM-2 students of IMDR with alumnus Mr. Bappaditya Banerjee. He belongs to the batch of 2000-2002 and has an experience of 17 years in the industry, while currently being the Sr. Vice President , HR- Enterprise Operations & Technology at Citi. He has previously worked at well reputed companies such as Standard Chartered Bank, A.P Moller Maersk and Deutsche Bank. Faculty members, Dr. Abhijeet Shivane and Dr. Suraj Kamble were also present for this session.

The session kicked off with Mr. Banerjee explaining in detail the role of HR personnel in companies and the intricacies that follow with the job. He shared his experiences in the industry with the students and provided guidance on finding the right companies, job roles, why it is necessary to work in and along with different departments in an organization and how to mould oneself as a fresher into being the right fit for the job. There was also a Q&A round at the end of the session wherein the students asked their doubts regarding which companies to apply for, preparing for interviews, etc. He also gave tips on surviving the industry, dos and don’ts and improving oneself. It was a highly interactive session with Mr. Banerjee being extremely open and setting a light mood while tackling queries.

Overall, it proved to be an excellent session which was highly informative, thus receiving a positive response from the students.

INBOUND MARKETING AND SALES - Mr. Kaustubh Deshmukh

Date : 03/09/2019

Mr. Kaustubh Deshmukh who is an alumnus of IMDR and the co-founder of ClearpathMartech, Prodigitas, and Biz Catalyststarted with a discussion on Inbound marketing which is a very essential part of digital marketing.The faculty, Prof. DilipRandive, Dr. GiribalaDewasthale, Dr. Suraj Kamble, Prof. Pradnya Mahajan were present for the session.

Inbound marketing is a business methodology that attracts customers by creating valuable content and experiences tailored to them. While outbound marketing interrupts your audience with content they don’t want, inbound marketing forms connections they’re looking for and solves problems they already have. He further explained how outbound marketing known as “interruption” or “push” marketingwhich is an one way conversation and which focuses on the product & the reasons why the audience should buy it whereasPrint/TV/radio advertising, social media advertising, cold calling, direct mail, email blasts and similar other methods, where messages are sent to a large audience of people.

He very effectively explained the buyer’s journey which is an important aspect of marketing – Awareness, Consideration, Decision. Relevantly conveyed that today inbound marketing includes having strangers attracted as visitors, converting them to leads, closing as customers and retaining the promoters.

The students came up with their experience with digital marketing in their prior jobs and internships with the help of sir. It was easier for students to understand when he explained the importance of Inbound Marketing in today’s world as the competition is fierce.

He encouraged students to seize the opportunity andget a free Inbound Marketing Certification on HubSpot.com

- Aishwarya Kadam.

My Story -  Mr. Sanjeev Math

Date : 03/09/2019

The guest lecture “My Story” was conducted on September 3, 2019. It was organized and hosted by the Alumni Committee. The Guest speaker Mr. Sanjeev Math is an IMDR alumnus. He is the Sr. General Manager at Panasonic India Pvt. Ltd. for the Western Region.

Mr. Math shared his success story and insightful experiences with the students. He spoke about the time when he joined Samsung when it was in it's initial stage. He also shared how he was blessed to have a mentor like Sanjeev Rajashekharan (MD,Harley Davidson) and that how it is always important to have a good mentor to guide you in every walk of life.

He touched upon some important aspects like how to groom yourself and how to use your opportunities. He advised the students, especially those targeting sales and marketing area, to read magazines and good books which help them to think out-of-the-box. He also asked the students to learn as to how to mingle with people.Another point that he stated was that salary should also be given importance; and that along with more salary comes in more stress. He also mentioned that it is crucial to take risks in life. He spoke about how he took a risk every time he switched to a different job.

He mentioned some key lines like "You know what you are, but you don't know what you become" and to "Believe and invest in yourself". He also asked everyone to always work with Passion and Positivity and to ask oneself the question: "Am I enjoying what I am doing?" He asked everyone to maintain an inner circle of friends, keep the goals short, stay up-to-date, be down to earth and to always put in efforts as nothing in life comes free.

The lecture ended with a Q & A session between Mr. Math and the students. It was an interactive as well as informative session from the students. We always look forward to many such events.

- Shameeka Bhand