Upcoming Events
Event	Venue	Date & Time
Panel Discussion - IT @ Malabar-Vision 2020	Tagore Centinary Hall, Kozhikode	30-1- 2010 11am - 12 pm

MODULE 1: PERSONAL SELLING

9.30 am – 11.00 am (Session 1 on Personal Selling)

11.00 am – 11.30 am (TEA)

11.30 am – 1.00 pm (Session 2 on Personal Selling)

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm (LUNCH)

MODULE 2: SALES FORCE MANAGEMENT

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm (SIMSALES Management (Simulation Game))

Simulation Game (2 hrs)

4.00 pm – 4.30 pm (TEA)

4.30 pm – 5.00 pm (FEEDBACK & VALEDICTORY)

Nasscom Emerge forum - Kerala

CafIT is pleased to invite you to the 1st session of NASSCOM’s EMERGE Forum (Emerging Companies Forum) in Kerala. We take pleasure in inviting you to this exclusive session on 18 July 2009, Saturday on “Sustainable Go-to-Market Strategies for Indian IT Companies”.

Indian SME and Large IT companies are competing at the same table with global majors for a pie of global software and product development revenues. With constraints like limited marketing budgets and sales bandwidth, can we still compete on an equal footing with our global peers?

These learning’s are applicable for small and large companies equally, perhaps even more so for small firms.

Link to : http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/Templates/Events.aspx?id=57029

'Product Management Role in Engineering a Product'

June 20-21, 2009

CafIT and NASSCOM brings to you a workshop on 'Product Management Role in Engineering a Product'.

Programme overview

To build a good product you need more than great programmers and testers. A variety of other skills come into play for a software product to be launched successfully. Product Management is a core skill that is critical to the success of Product Companies.

Product Management is a specialized function. Without getting this right you could build a great product that no one needs. Or forget a feature which a user really wants. If you solve the wrong problem - no one is going to buy the product. If you solve the right problem but the wrong way - not as many are going to buy the product.

The challenges are vast and there is an urgent need to mitigate these issues. Identifying opportunities, understanding relevant market dynamics and designing offerings and user experience are the key challenges.

How does a Product Manager

• figure out what to build when there is no customer sitting across the table defining the requirement ?
• ensure an effective User Experience ?
• And work with the tech team to arrive at the optimal feature set ?

It is not easy!

CafIT and NASSCOM brings to you a workshop on 'Product Management Role in Engineering a Product', where you will earn to leverage some of the best practices used by successful product organisations the world over.

The workshop will be facilitated by Hauroon Jamal, a product management expert who works with product startups.

Date : 20th / 21st June 2009

Venue : Hotel Asma Towers, IG Road, Kozhikode

This workshop will offer:

Part 1: Dynamics of product development
Part 2: Putting your stake in the ground
Part 3: Detailing out your product releasePart 3: Detailing out your product release

Key Outcomes from the Workshop :

• A clear understanding of the product management role in successful product launches and periodic releases and updates
• Learn key techniques for defining a product in a systematic and customer driven manne

About the trainer

Hauroon Jamal has spent the 4 years advising Indian software product makers on strategic issues. During this period he also partnered with Microsoft India on their Product Initiative and was responsible for its product engineering aspects. He conducted a number of workshops on product process and as a part of this effort interacted with nearly a hundred CXOs of product ventures.

Prior to this, Hauroon was a part of the Microsoft Product Development Group in Redmond where he spent 5 years building products. A bulk of the time was in program management of startup features within Windows.

After completing his B. Tech from IIT Madras in 1988, Hauroon joined Infosys in the application consulting segment. He did consulting in this space for 10 years before he got interest in products and moved to Microsoft

Workshop on Software Engineering Best Practices, Principles

March 21, 2009

One day Workshop on Software Engineering Best Practices, Principles with Apt Documentation (at Asma Towers, Kozhikode)

Objectives

The objective of this two days workshop is to introduce software engineering best practices and principles related to the following topics:

• Development Process
• Requirement Management Best Practices
• Analysis and Design with Unified Modeling Language
• Software testing

Target Audience

This program is aimed at process engineers, project managers, CEOs, CTOs and all others who are interested to learn the software development best practices and implement automated solutions in each of the SDLC phases

Benefits
Participants acquire understanding of the SDLC phases, best practices to follow in each phase and how to implement an automated solution

HR EVENT

August 30, 2008

Calicut IT Initiative in association with NASSCOM and Kerala State IT Mission is pleased to announce a very special HR event on 30th August , 2008 at Tagore Centenary Hall, Calicut. The primary purpose of the event will be to show case IT HR potential of Malabar region and to provide a platform for students in various colleges in the region to interact with the doyens of IT field.

This one day event will have group events/ competitions that will assess the software skills and soft skills of more than 2000 students from various engineering and Arts and Science colleges under Calicut University. The events will be judged by IT experts from NASSCOM and there will also be technical sessions led by experts from the industry. On the sidelines of the event, there will be opportunities to market Calicut city to CEOs and CFOs of IT Companies who will be visiting the event, to bring in investment.

This event is organized by CITI in association with Kerala State IT Mission and with support of NASSCOM. The summit will be inaugurated by Sri. Rajiv Vaishnav, Vice President of NASSCOM. Dr. Rathan Kelkar, Director Kerala State IT Mission will deliver key note address. Other dignitaries for the inaugural function include

Sri M. Bhaskaran, Hon. Mayor of Calicut Corporation

Sri Pradeep Kumar MLA

Dr A Jayathilak - District Collector

Sri Purushothaman - Regional Director, NASSCOM

Dr. Saji Gopinath - Associate Professor , IIM - Kozhikode

Sri Nithyananda Kamath -  President CITI

Delegates from TOP 20 IT companies in India

Members of Calicut IT Initiative

• Director, IIM Kozhikode
• Director- NIT Calicut
• Members of the Malabar Chamber of Commerce, Kerala Builders Forum, CMA and the Calicut Forum for IT
• All Educational Institutional heads

The event will also deliberate on ways of developing Malabar as a potential IT destination in the near future. The IT executives, Govt. officials and members of CITI will take part in these meetings The objective of these deliberations is to position Calicut as a potential destination for IT industries and to understand the concerns and requirements of IT companies to make it an attractive location. This is a major event in Calicut's calendar that will be attended by all the important persons working for the development of Calicut and Kerala and will receive widespread publicity and media coverage. We have invited top business media and influential writers in IT media to be present for the event to ensure wide coverage.

Mini IT Park in Calicut

August15, 2007

CiTi - Calicut IT Initiative with members from CAFIT, KBF, IIM-K, NIT-C,CMA & Malabar chamber sets an action plan with the District Collector of Calicut for setting up a Mini IT park in Calicut. As a part of the action plan, a Mini IT park - 12 storeyed building is already identified which is near to Baby Memorial hospital, Mavoor Road, Calicut.

The Mini IT Park has a built up space of 4000 sqft in each floor and 6 floors are ready for occupation with centralised air conditioning provision. Broadband / leased line facility and a complete plug and play facility will be ready anytime. CiTi has already started receiving enquiries from companies in Bangalore and Kerala showing interest to setup their development centre in Mini IT Park.

For more details, please visit http://www.hindu.com/2007/08/10/stories/2007081055620600.htm

One day IT Workshop

December 2, 2006 | One day IT Workshop

cafITorganized a one day workshop on Quality Assurance, Software Patent Issues, and Project Management. Mr. Manu Balachandran, US Technologies, Technopark, Trivandrum conducted a presentation on Software Quality Assurance. He emphsized the importance of quality assurance in software development life cycle.

In another session of the workshop, Mr. R.S.Praveen Raj, Scientist - IP Management, RRL, Trivandrum, made a presentation on Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Software Industry.

Mr. Jayarajan of PMI Kerala Chapter, Trivandrum, conducted a presentation on Project Management.