20th Global Advanced Management Programme

Silicon Valley, California, USA:  12^th – 18^th May 2024

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AIMA conducted the 20th edition of its highly popular programme, the Global Advanced Management Programme (GAMP), in Silicon Valley from May 12th-18th, 2024 on the theme‘ Expanding Markets by Leveraging Emerging Technologies’. Professor Solomon Darwin, the Executive Director of the Garwood School of Innovation at the Haas School of Innovation in the University of California, Berkeley, served as the Programme Director. The welcome and opening remarks were delivered by Ms. Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA and the keynote session was addressed by Mr. PK Agarwal, Dean, UC Santa Cruz, Former CTO of California State.

The session exposed the delegates to the Business Remodeling process, which broadened their perspectives and introduced them to a world of opportunities and possibilities. Additionally, other distinguished speakers also addressed the delegation, including Mr. Robert Locke, BOD & Senior Advisor to SV Firms, and Former SVP at Johnson Controls; and Dr. Jim Spohrer, Former Senior Director at IBM and APPLE. The programme comprised classroom sessions and visits to Silicon Valley’s leading innovative companies, including meetings with their top management teams. The delegates got the opportunity to visit iconic companies including Google Cloud, NVIDIA, Siemens Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Chevron, as well as Japanese energy companies like Chubu, INPEX, and ENEOS, along with Palo Alto Labs. The programme also featured visits to the Computer History Museum and the Apple Experience Center. This year, the event saw participation from prominent Indian companies, including Tata Steel, GAIL, NTPC, NHPC, Balmer Laurie & Co. and IFFCO.

Notably, many senior executives representing these organisations actively engaged in a well-crafted programme that emphasised ‘Business Model Innovation.’ The programme also included a presentation of Innovative Business Models by participants on behalf of their companies to a highly prestigious jury from Silicon Valley. It concluded with the participants receiving certificates from Ms. Rekha Sethi, the Director General of AIMA for successfully completing the programme.