SPM SUMMIT INDIA- ACADEMIC TRACK 2023

“Bridging New Frontiers and Opportunities - Product Management as a Catalyst”

The summit will highlight and celebrate growth and excellence in Software Product Management on both the industry and academic fronts. Especially the summit will call attention to the criticality of the role of Product Management as an impetus for bridging these new frontiers and the emerging opportunities in the business world.

The topics of interest broadly include but are not limited to the following:

  1. New areas for collaboration for stakeholders in Product Management (Government and citizens, large organisations and start-ups, academic research and industry, etc)

  2. Contemporary and revolutionary Product Management approaches

  3. Innovative Product Management skills, tools, and techniques

  4. Emerging Technology products (AI, IoT, Blockchain, Cloud, Edge Computing, AR/VR, Data marketplace, and synthetic data)

  5. Innovative Product development software platforms (transaction, innovation) and architectures (microservices)

  6. Data Security and Privacy issues in Product Management

  7. Product Design and Strategy thinking

  8. Technological interventions for Product Management in organisations and start-ups

  9. Feature recommendations for software products and platforms (UX and Gamification)

  10. Crowd-sourcing approaches and knowledge-intensive communities for Product Management

  11. Cutting-edge products and services in growth industries (EdTech, FinTech, eCommerce, Delivery, and Healthcare)

  12. Quality assurance, product performance metrics, and sustainable growth hacking (competitive strategies)

  13. Consumer behaviour and user-centric research to enhance products and services

  14. Leadership, strategy and management of Product teams.

All kinds of research methodologies are acceptable.

Awards

The top 3 papers were selected and awarded with certificates. Using Mobile Ethnography as A Research Tool in Launching a New Social Media App by Sweta Thota came up as “Best Research Paper”

How product leaders can contribute to create SCA in Software product- based organisations? by Dr. Harbir Singh & Parental knowledge, attitude, and practice toward their children’s oral hygiene of age 2 to 12 years (A Web-Based Study) by Lipsa Aggarwal, Himakshi Lohani, Jyoti Sen and Pratibha Taneja are the first & second runner up respectively.

Conference Chair:

Prof. S. Sadagopan, Chairman ISPMA India Chapter, Ex-Director, IIIT Bangalore

Program Chair (Academic Track):

Dr. Spurthy Dharanikota

Assistant Professor, IIM Bangalore