Pragati - Celebrating Achievements of Women
AIMA organised Pragati - Celebrating Achievements of Women virtually on the theme ‘Embrace Equity: Challenge stereotype through Innovation, Inclusiveness & Inspiration’ on 23rd & 24th March 2023. Ms Rama Kirloskar, Joint Managing Director, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd delivered the special address for the conference and the introductory remarks were delivered by Ms Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA. Ms Veena Swarup, Former Director - HR, EIL was the Conference Chairperson.
Some of the other prominent speakers who addressed the conference included Ms Payal Kumar, Principal Academic Advisor, Indian School of Hospitality, India; Ms Maneesh Sharma, Chief Operating Officer and Board Member; Ms Pooja Malik, Group Head – HR, DMI Finance Pvt Ltd; Ms Sangeeta Kaushik, CGM & HOD (Corporate Planning and BD), NTPC Ltd; Ms Renu Luthra, Advisor to Chancellor, Galgotias University; Ms Amandeep Kaur, GM, Welcome Hotel, ITC Group; Ms Ruppal Sharma, Head of the Delhi Campus, S P Jain Institute of Management and Research; Ms Jyoti Dua, CGM (IA, Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL); Ms Anjali Uthup Kurien, Radio Jockey, Radio Mango; Ms Nina Chatrath, Leadership & Business Consultant, and Independent Board Director – Oriental Hotels & Dwarikesh Sugar Industries; Ms Caroline Edwards, Managing Partner, Hong Kong APAC DHR Global; Ms Shikha Sharma, Founder and Managing Director, Nutriwel Health (India) Pvt Ltd and Ms Monisha Chowla, Director, Media Monks amongst others.
This Pragati included Best Practices and National-level Women’s Quiz Competitions. HPCL Ltd emerged as the Champions, while IOCL and Titan Company Ltd were declared runners up I & runners up II respectively.
AIMA’s National-level women’s quiz was conducted by the quiz master Mr Ajay Poonia. Vizag Steel Plant was declared the Champion, followed by Reserve Bank of India and Grid Controller of India Limited as the 1st Runners-up and 2nd Runners-up.
AIMA held its 7th Pragati - Celebrating Achievements of Women on 26th March 2019 on the theme "Future Proof Yourself - Aspire, Accelerate, Achieve " at New Delhi followed by a special women quiz.
Mr D Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Strategy and Business Development, Aditya Birla Group was the Chief Guest and Ms Catherine Wolfram, Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley was the Guest of Honour for the conference. Ms Veena Swarup, Former Director - HR, EIL was the Conference Chairperson. The introductory remarks were delivered by Ms Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA and Mr Neeraj Kapoor, Director, AIMA delivered the concluding remarks.
Some of the other speakers who attended the Conference included Ms Monisha Chowla, Co-Founder, IKIGAI Communications, Ms Varija Bajaj, Director, Varija Lifestyles, Kirti Poonia, Head, OKHAI, Ms Meghna Arora, Airline Captain and Flight Instructor, Ms Diya Malhotra, Associate Director - Talent, Fidelity International, Ms Nina Chatrath, Founder, Enhance Consulting, Colonel Naveen Nijhawan, OSD, Policy Planning and Research Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Ms Sampada Inamdar, Dean, Anand Corporate University, Ms Kandla Nijhowne, Celebrity Chef, Ms Payal Kumar, Professor Chair (HR/OB), Head, Research and International Collaborations, School of Management, BML Munjal University, Ms Sanchita Biswas, Customer Services & Operations, Head of Expertise & Solution Centre, Head of Emerging Technology & Solution Incubation Centre, Orange Business Services.
The AIMA's special women quiz was conducted by the quiz master Mr Ajay Poonia. Reserve Bank of India was declared as the Champion, followed by Airport Authority of India as the 1st Runners-up and Express Minds as the 2nd Runners-up.