“Product AI: Navigating The Future Of Product Management”

16 & 17 February, IIM Bangalore

INAUGURATION OF SPM SUMMIT 2024 BY PROF. S. SADAGOPAN, PROF. SHANKHADEEP BANERJEE, PROF. SPURTHY DHARANIKOTA MR. HANS-BERND KITTLAUS, DR. PRAMOD VERMA, MR. ABHIJIT BENDIGIRI AND MS. RADHIKA SUBRAMANIAM

The 6th edition of SPM Summit India 2024 co-hosted by IIM Bangalore’s Centre for Software and IT Management (CSITM) and the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) was held on February 16 & 17.

Prof. Sadagopan led the summit as conference chair. Dr. Pramod Varma delivered the keynote address Mr. Abhijit Bendigiri was the program chair for industry track and Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota was the program chair for the academic track.

Three pre-conference workshops were held on February 15. All the three workshops conducted by Haragopal Mangipudi / Vidhi Chugh, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus / Abhijit Bendigiri, Bhaskaran Srinivasan / Ashish Gupta were interactive and informative.

ISPMA University Chapter at IIM Bangalore was unveiled by Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore, Prof. S. Sadagopan, Summit Chair, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman, ISPMA, Prof. Haragopal Mangipudi, Global Board member of ISPMA, Prof. Shankhadeep Banerjee, Chairperson, CSITM and Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota, Faculty, IS Area at IIM Bangalore.

During the summit, many prominent leaders delivered inspiring talks on various aspects of Product Innovation and the emerging role of AI. Student Case Competition, Panel Discussions and presentations from Students of UC Berkeley, IIM Sambalpur and IIM Bangalore were held in the Academic Track apart form the Academic / Research Paper Presentations. The event as a whole was highly successful.

Under the SPM Excellence Awards, the winners were:

Category – Startup: Utpan from Vridhi-Cap

Category - New Software Product from Established Company: UPI Transaction Manager from Infosys Edgeverve Finacle

Category - Established software product: Vin eRetail from Vinculum

Category – Platforms: ZEE5 from Zee Entertainment

Under the Academic Papers, the winners were:

Best Research Paper - Second Runner Up: Paper titled “Leveraging AI Public Goods for Social Welfare Through Ecosystem Approach” authored by Manisha Rathi

Best Research Paper - First Runner Up: Paper titled “System and Method for Automatic Naming Convention of Audio Files Based on User Preferences” authored by Ramalingeswara Rao K V

Best Research Paper- Winner: Paper titled “A Bottom-up Approach for Analyzing Fluctuations in Financial Statements” authored by Sanyam Jangir, Deepan Gk and Ravi Dave.

Under the Student Case Competition, the winners were:

Dexters - BITS School of Management (BITSoM), Mumbai, India (Second Runner up)

Vision Crafters - IIM Bangalore (Runner up)

Alpha - Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (SSCBS), University of Delhi (DU), Delhi (Winner}

300+ participants

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40+ Speakers

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2 Parallel tracks

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25+ Sessions

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300+ participants | 40+ Speakers | 2 Parallel tracks | 25+ Sessions |

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OUR KEY SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Prof. S.Sadagopan, Chairman, ISPMA India, Conference Chair, SPM Summit India 2024

**Prof. Shankhadeep Banerjee, Faculty IIMB**

Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director IIM Bangalore

**Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman ISPMA e.v**

**Srivatsan Santhanam, VP, Spend Management, SAP**

**Anand Srivastava, Head Products, Genesys**

**Ankita Parihar, Co-founder of Agri-Fin Platform, Utpan**

**Apoorva Gudla, Product Manager, Events Brite**

**Prof.** Haragopal Mangipudi, Global Board Member, ISPMA

**Ashish Gupta, Product Manager, Google**

**Bhaskaran Srinivasan, Senior Strategy Consultant**

**Prof. Spurthy Dharanikota, Faculty, IIM Bangalore, Program Chair (Academic Track)- SPM Summit India 2024**

**Deepak Chauhan, Director of Program & Strategy, Softlink Information Systems**

**Dr. Pramod Verma, Chief Architect of Aadhaar**

**Dr. Geetha Manjunath, Founder, CEO & CTO, Niramai Health Analytix**

**Gopalan Oppliappan, Head of AI Excellence, Intel**

**Rishi Nayar, SVP & Country Head, Ellucian**

**Kartik Suryanarayan, Principal Product Consultant, Ellucian**

**Kasturi Rangan Bhaskar, VP, BCT Digital**

**Dr. Madalasa Venkataraman, Sr. Director, Data science, Oracle**

**Abhijit Bendigiri, Program Chair (Industry Track)- SPM Summit India 2024**

**Manish Maheshwari, Co-founder, Fanory.ai**

**Dr. Manish Gupta, Director of Google Research India**

**SatyaKrishna Pillarishetty, Principal PM, Oracle Health And AI**

**Pavan Boggarapu, Head of Products, UpGrad**

**Ravi Padaki, Product Leadership Coach**

**Prof. R Srinivasan, Strategy Chairperson, Center for Digital Public Goods Faculty IIMB**

**Dr. Sheela Siddappa, Principal Data Scientist, Kyndryl, India**

**Suresh Rajagopalan, CEO, Wibmo - a PayU Company**

**Uttam Ramamurthy, Director of AI, Oracle Health And AI**

**Venkataramanan Sriraman, Co-founder / Trustee, eVidyaloka Trust**

**Vidhi Chugh, Head of Products, Reltio**

**Ramkumar Arumugam, Principal Product Manager, Swiggy**

**Ramya Tanuja, Sr. Product Manager, Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG)**

**Yogesh Marathe, Software Product Manager, Intel Corporation**

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Feedback

Valuable sessions throughout the day - many thoughtful insights - really useful - though from core engineering group - kind of got a good understanding on the product management practices, innovation happening and strategies - thought process

Wonderful sessions through the day that were insightful and informative • Overall, it was a great experience and listening to some of the industry experts and academics was enriching.

EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2024

CELEBRATING SOFTWARE PRODUCT EXCELLENCE

OUR PRESTIGIOUS JURY

**Venkatesh Balakrishnan, Fellow Member ISPMA Head CSITM, IIM Bangalore**

**Andrey** **Saltan, LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland**

SPM excellence awards are instituted to celebrate excellence in the software management practices and show case the best practices and role models.
For more details on the parameters, category, application & selection process

Thanks to our event team & volunteers!

**Sireesha Gangavarapu,** Director of Product Management WNS - Vuram, ISPMA Volunteer

**Radhika Subramanian,** Community Manager, ISPMA

**Benny Pinto,** VP Operations, GuNaka Consulting

**Aswath KR,** Product Manager, ServiceNow

**Kiran Bhojaraja,** Lead Product Owner, Oracle Cerner, ISPMA Volunteer

**Pritish Kumar Choudhury,** Student EPGP ‘24, IIM Bangalore

**Pon Rahul,** Doctoral Student, IIM Bangalore

**Shubha,** Doctoral Student, IIM Bangalore

**Ganesh** J, Doctoral Student, IIM Bangalore

**Kiran Gangoankar,** Pre-Doc Student, IIM Bangalore

**Manisha Rathi,** Doctoral Student, IIM Bangalore

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