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The Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur held their annual round table conference at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai on 23rd November, 2006.

The conference was based on a panel discussion format, where the panel comprised of corporate luminaries like Mr. Ranjit Shahani, Mr. Avinash Kaul, Mr. Amit Bansal, Mr. Suhas Ajgaonkar, Mr. Maheysh A. Tamhaney, Brig (Retd) Joe Curian, Mr. Rajiv Karwal and Mr. Sanjay Sinha.

The keynote speaker at the conference was Mr. Ranjit Shahani, VC and MD Novartis India.
The discussion, moderated by Mr. Maheysh A. Tamhaney, Business Development Head, CRISIL India, was centered around the speech made by his excellency Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam about his vision for India in the year 2020. The role of corporate India in making this vision a reality was explained by the various speakers.
Eminent members of the corporate world as well as faculty and students of IMT Nagpur comprised the people who attended the conference. They all actively participated in the discussion.

Just to quote from the speeches of some of the panel members-

• Amit Bansal, (Single most important factor, education for all, and that too vocational)
• Avinash Kaul, (Media is a reflection of society and can help in development of awareness for all)
• Suhas Ajgaonkar, (At least one cyber café for all)
• Brig (Retd) Joe Kurian, (India understands its power, but is aware of balance of power not power of balance)
• Avinash Kaul, (Biggest asset for all of us is the freedom of speech)
• Brig (Retd) Joe Kurian, (Regulation is a need but selective regulation must be implemented)