Events made with Love

Here is the list of events I made with Love during my SPIN President-ship!

Date
Topic
Organization
Speaker
Event Type
29.10.08
Productivity enhancements through Software Engineering Tools
Wipro
Kumar Madhavan
Monthly talk
18.11.08
Next Generation – Global Delivery Model
Capgemini
Robert Whinery Jr
(VP-Delivery Assurance)
Monthly talk
06.12.08
Challenges in Info Security Practices at IT Organizations
Hexaware
Jamuna
Monthly talk
21.01.09
Leveraging ITIL for Service Efficiency"
KPMG
Rajganapathi
Monthly talk
20.02.09
Effective Lean Management in Software Delivery
Crafitti Consulting
Navneet Bhushan (Founder-Director)
Monthly talk
19.03.09
Panel discussion on " Software Delivery Cost Optimization"
KPMG/CTS/CSC
KK Raman /
Hariharan/
Vaidyanathan
Panel discussion
16.04.09
Software Productivity And Benchmarking
QAI
Ms.BHARATHI
Monthly talk
21.05.09
Overview Of Data Analytical And Its Linkage With Predictability
KPMG
Vigneshwaran B
Monthly talk
27.06.09
Overview Of CMMI SVC
MUSA / Concept QA Labs
Hari and Sathish
One day workshop
16.07.09
Lean And Clean For Leadership Testing
QAI
Pradeep
Monthly talk
20.08.09
Building a Project Management Office
CSC
Kash
Monthly talk
10.09.09
Gauging Customer pulse for Business Growth
Feedback
Chandramouli Srinivasan (VP - Customer Research)
Monthly talk
24.09.09
Optimizing the Application Maintenance Cost using Test Automation tools
WIPRO
Nathan
Monthly talk
21.10.09
Effective Estimation Practices To Improve The Odds Of Successful Delivery
Infosys
Dinesh
Monthly talk
14.11.09
Demystifying CMMI - High Maturity Concepts
QAI
Gururaj Managuli
One day workshop
16.12.09
Changing demands of the Process Improvement Professional
Sumanthrana

Tummalapalli Srinivas
Monthly talk
20.10.10
Pre conference Tutorial (SPICON 2010)
SPIN

2 Pre conference tutorial
21.01.10 & 22.01.10
SPIN Conference(SPICON 2010)
SPIN
K. Dinesh (Co-Founder - Infosys),
'Bala' Balachandran (Prof-Kellog B School-USA)
2010 conference
20.02.10
Process Performance Modeling & Simulation
Aricent

Pranay Mishra
HALF day worskhop
30.04.10
Test Optimization through Cloud
CSS Corp
Ramakrishnan Sitaraman
Monthly talk
27.05.10
Synthesizing SQA and PMO activities
MSA
Ganapathy Subramanium
Monthly talk
29.06.10
Lean Software Process
CTS
Pradeep C
Monthly talk
28.07.10
Polaris' journey to high maturity"On a sub-process trail-A treasure hunt
Polaris
Rama Sivaraman (Head-Global Quality)
Monthly talk
26.08.10
Transition of Applications and its Total Cost of Ownership
Birla Soft
Om Prakash
Monthly talk
22.09.10
Ambidexterity: Managing Process and Innovation
Infosys
Rajaram Venkataraman
(Head-Innovation
Set Lab, Chennai)
Monthly talk
28.10.10
Operations Maturity in an IT Infrastructure Services
CTS
Pradeep C
Monthly talk
27.11.10
Dr Watts Humphrey Award - 'My Practice' Presentation event
SPIN

2010 Watts Humpry award
22.01.11
Highlights of CMMI V1.3 & Changes from CMMI V1.2
QAI
Gururaj Managuli
Half day worskhop
24.02.11
Specification and Measurement of System - Non Functional Requirements
Software Engg Research Lab, ETS,University of Quebec, Canada
Prof. Alain Abran
Monthly talk (Joint Event)
21.03.11
Improvement Culture in iGATE with a Case Study on Lean Management
iGate
Ms. Elizabeth Kozhy (Head - SEPG)
Monthly talk
28.04.11
Pre conference Tutorial - Seven core skills of Innovators (SPICON 2011)
QAI
Aditya Bala (Head - Innovation Practice)
Pre conference tutorial
28.04.11
Pre conference Tutorial - TRIZ (SPICON 2011)
Crafitti Consulting
Navneet Bhushan (Founder-Director)
Pre conference tutorial
29.04.11& 30.04.11
2011 Annual Conference - INNOVATION IN IT PROCESSESS- the engine for growth
SPIN
Dr. Sam Pitroda(Advisor to Prime Minister- India)Arun Jain(Founder, CEO-Polaris),
2011 conference
17.06.11
Managing Challenges in establishing / handling large accounts and its impact on delivery and Customer
Sathyam
 V. Narayanan
(Sr. VP - Automotive Division)
Monthly talk (Joint Event)
22.7.11
Usage of Lean Tenets in Application Management Services
HCL
Sriram Krishnamurthy Rajarathinam
Monthly talk
25.8.11
Strategies and challenges in Organization wide initiatives – Experience sharing
Infosys
Balakrishnan M. Sundarajan
(Head-Development Centre, Chennai)
Monthly talk (Joint Event)
14.9.11
Changing Customer Expectations & Implications for Delivery Organization: Case studies
Feedback
Chandramouli Srinivasan (VP - Customer Research)
Monthly talk

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