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

(3+4 March, IIM Bangalore)

INAUGURATION OF SPM SUMMIT 2023 BY DR.AJAI CHOWDHURY, PROF. S.SADAGOPAN, PROF. RISHIKESHA T. KRISHNAN, PROF. RAJENDRA BANDI, HANS-BERND KITTLAUS, PROF. SHANKHADEEP BANERJEE, DR.SPURTHY DHARANIKOTA.

The 5th edition of SPM Summit India 2023 was co-hosted by IIM Bangalore’s Centre for Software and IT Management (CSITM) and the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) was held on March 3 and 4

Prof. Sadagopan led the summit as conference chair. Muthu Ranganathan was the program chair for industry track and Dr. Spurthy Dharanikota was the program chair for the academic track.

During the summit, many prominent leaders like Dr. Ajai Chowdhry, Founder HCL, Sharad Sharma, iSPIRT, Naveen Tewari, InMobi, Prof. Tony Wasserman, CMU (Silicon valley), Viraj Tyagi, eGov Foundation, Nalin Bansal, NPCI delivered inspiring talk on various aspects of software products & product management.

The SPM summit 2023 also included many presentations, panel discussions with experienced industry leaders. The SPM excellence awards were presented to Oracle Cerner, Eightfold AI, SellerApp, Zee Platforms.

On the academic track 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.

Summit hosted three interesting workshops on trending SPM topics.

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 |

OUR KEY SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Prof. S.Sadagopan, Chairman ISPMA India Conference Chair SPM Summit India 2023

Dr. Ajai Chowdhury, Founder HCL

Prof. Rishikesha T.Krishnan, Director IIM Bangalore

Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman ISPMA e.v

Sharad Sharma, Founder iSPIRT

Naveen Tewari, Founder InMobi

Prof. Tony Wasserman, CMU (Silicon Valley)

Viraj Tyagi, CEO, eGov Foundation

Debajyoti Ray Chaudhury, MD & CEO, NeSL

Haragopal Mangipudi, Global Board Member, ISPMA

Nalin Bansal, Chief of Fintech, NPCI

Maheshwer peri, Founder & CEO, Careers360

Dr. Spurthy Dharanikota, Faculty, IIM Bangalore, Program Chair (Academic Track)- SPM Summit India 2023

Dr. Shankhadeep Banerjee, Faculty IIMB

Tathagat Varma, SVP Walmart labs

Muthu Ranganathan, Sr. Director Oracle, Program Chair (Industry Track- SPM Summit India 2023

Dr. Merlin Nandy, IIM Sambalpur

Dr. Sandeep Chandran, IIT Palakad

Mayuresh SVP, Reverie Language Technologies

Sonal Kumar, Head SAP ALM (Go-to-market)

Kartik Suryanarayan, Product Manager, Ellucian

Deepak Padmanabha, Director Product Management (Industry Cloud), SAP Labs

Chethan Shirnali - Partner, CoCreate Ventures

Suresh Prabhu - SVP, Engineer & Products, WorkSpan

Mrugendra Shintre Chief product & technology officer, ClearTrip

Amit Nigam, CEO of Qjobs

Shridhar Marri - CEO & founder, Senseforth.ai

Samir Neji, Founder & CPO, #dltledgers

Malthi SS, PM Consultant & coach

Magnus Bilgren, Tolpogarni

Pragathi Neelaiagari, Product Manager, Microsoft

Aditi Gangwar, Product Manager Microsoft

EVENT PARTNERS

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WHAT OUR PREVIOUS EVENT PARTICIPANTS SAY?

Wonderful Summit, Keep going.. Very valuable to get the insightful & thought process of pioneers.

-Chinmaya Hota

Overall event ( summit and workshop) was well managed and run. The speakers were well renowned and sparked enthusiasm amongst the delegates. I also liked was the awareness towards academia and industry bridging which is definitely a food for thought for most of us professionals.

-Himanshu Rathi

EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2023

CELEBRATING SOFTWARE PRODUCT EXCELLENCE

OUR PRESTIGIOUS JURY

Guenther Ruhe ISPMA Fellow Member. University of Calgary

Venkatesh Balakrishnan Fellow Member ISPMA Head CSITM, IIM Bangalore

Hans-Bernd Kittlaus Chairman ISPMA e.v Chair of Jury - Europe Region

Sunil Mishra, VP Products, Odessa Inc.

Peter Stadlinger, Freshworks (USA)

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!

Radhika Subramanian Community Manager, ISPMA

Benny Pinto, VP Operations, guNaka Consulting

Pavankumar PVN, SAP Labs India

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