eWIT Excellence Award - Call for nominations
eWIT is conducting its Excellence Award for the fourth consecutive year. Every year, we see the number of registrants increasing and the quality of participation has been outstanding. We look forward to an enthusiastic response this year as well!! .
Dates to save :
Last Date of Registration Friday 28 January 2011
Submission of Written Presentation Monday 21 February 2011
Oral Presentation Saturday 12 March 2011
About eWIT
eWIT was formed with the vision: "To be the preferred forum for exchange of ideas and for pioneering initiatives so as to unleash the potential of women and drive their growth in the IT/ITES industry" with specific objectives of:
"The eWIT Excellence Award" for women professionals in the IT/ITES industries is designed to provide an opportunity for women IT/ITES professionals to showcase their talent and expertise in their respective areas. There is also a separate contest for students studying to be in the IT/ITES industries. Over the last few years, we have had an excellent participation by women professionals and students for this competition. Leading corporates like Accenture and Cognizant have come forward to sponsor the awards.
Mobile Computing - Problems and Solutions
Lean Software process
Managing Gender Diversity for Success
If managing gender diversity is crucial to success, how can companies develop a diversity strategy that yields the necessary results? Participants are encouraged to come up with strategic as well as specific suggestions to initiate and foster gender inclusivity in an organization.
What can colleges do to make students employment ready?
As a student yourself, w hat and how do you propose colleges can enhance employment-readiness amongst their students?
Eligibility
Women professionals in the IT/ITES industries and students are eligible to present one paper in any one of the topics as appropriate. Students can only pick the topic given specifically for Student category. Working women cannot pick the topic given for Students.
Please note that past Excellence Award winners are eligible to participate only if they become individual members of eWIT .
In order to encourage younger women to participate, only those with less than 10 years' experience in the IT/ITES industry can participate
Please register on or before 28th Jan 2011
Registration Fee
Members FREE for individual eWIT members & students
Corporate members can nominate two employees . If more than two employees wish to participate, then the additional number will have to become individual members.
Non Members
Corporates who are not eWIT members can encourage their women employees who wish to participate to become individual members or become corporate members themselves. Regular eWIT membership fees for corporates (as indicated in our website) will apply
Please make the cheque favouring ‘Empowering Women in IT' and courier to No.6, Kalakshetra Avenue , 2 nd Street , Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai 600041. Ph: 044-42120706 044-42120706 .
Please mail to Admin@ewit.co.in or contact the given no. for any queries on the contest
The written presentation on the chosen topic must be submitted on or before 21st February 2011
Presentation Topic should be clearly mentioned
Presentation should have a cover page containing your name, designation, company/college with full address and Topic
Your brief profile and a photograph
Executive summary not exceeding 250 words
Total paper presentation should be between 2500 to 3500 words
Should be typed, double spaced leaving 3 cms margin all the four sides
Font should be Times New Roman, 12 point
Pages should be numbered
Charts, diagrams, etc. may be included to support any research work or data collection
Plagiarism – inclusion of other peoples' work to substantiate a point being made should be appropriately acknowledged. Source & name of author will have to be mentioned in the Bibliography. However, no direct 'cut and paste' is allowed. If 'cut and paste' from sources acknowledged or not acknowledged are found, the paper will be rejected.
Should contain a Bibliography at the end stating actual sources of references
Evaluation Criteria for Written Presentation
Scope and Rules for Oral presentations
A jury of eminent persons from the corporate world and academic field will evaluate the written presentations
Based on evaluation of written presentations, selected individuals will be called for the oral presentation before the panel on March 12, 2011. The panel will evaluate the oral presentation and choose the winners based on the scores of their evaluation of both written and oral presentation. Results will be announced on the same day or the following day.
Those selected for oral presentation in each category will be informed 1 week before their scheduled presentation
Each participant will get a total of 30 minutes for the oral presentation as well as the discussion. First 15 minutes will be used for presentation and the subsequent 15 minutes will be used for discussion with the panel of judges
After the first 13 minutes of the presentation, there will be an indication of remaining 2 minutes to complete the presentation. If any participant stretches the presentation beyond the time limit of 15 minutes, there will be negative marking for same.
The LCD projector and Laptop will be provided
Order of presentation will be drawn by lot
Evaluation Criteria for oral presentation
Log on to http://www.ewit.co.in
Click on Excellence Award 2011
Click on Registration
Fill details
Submit
The written paper is uploaded using same website www.ewit.co.in
Award Details
The winners of the contest will get a certificate, cash prize of Rs.10,000/- and Free eWIT membership for one year as a complimentary.
The runners up of the contest will get a certificate, cash prize of Rs.5000/- and Free eWIT membership for one year as a complimentary.
- Expanding the women workforce at all management levels and sustain and flourish
- Enabling women to tread the career path by equipping them with necessary skills
- Facilitating women's quest for a better ‘work – life' balance in IT/ITES Sector
Since inception, eWIT has organised various activities for spearheading growth and excellence among women professionals in the IT/ITES industry.
About eWIT's Excellence Award
Topics for 2011
Category A: Technology
What we witnessed in Desktop computers back in the 80's, we are witnessing in mobile technology now. Every day, the mobile phone manufacturers are coming out with more powerful devices; actually, these little devices are much more than just phones that are mobile. Smart phones, as they are called, are packed with several features like cameras, mp3 players, FM Radio, games, and much more. They come with bigger memory and better processing capabilities, more efficient batteries, with capabilities of 3G, 4G, etc. These advanced capabilities have led software companies to come up with more robust operating systems and millions of applications for these devices.
On one hand, there is no doubt that the convergence of communication and computing has come to stay. On the other hand, any new technology, when it comes with advantages also comes with limitations, constraints, and threats. We invite candidates to present their papers discussing just this. Where do you see mobile computing heading? What are the current and future threats and challenges? Are there any possible solutions to overcome the challenges? Where is the future headed? Candidates are encouraged to discuss mainly from the technology perspective and also the application perspective.
Category B: Quality
The manufacturing industries have witnessed significant efficiencies by putting lean process methods into practice. This methodology has become a time tested one and this is also now being tried in the IT industry. Lean process addresses identification and analysis of existing processes, understanding the value created in each process thereby identifying wastes in the system, eliminating them, and enhancing efficiency by improving processes that create value.
What does creating a lean software process environment involve? In a software services environment how can we track the value of processes, what kind of metrics can be collected to understand the values, how are the wastes eliminated and how can software quality be enhanced through these improvements? Participants are encouraged to show a case study which demonstrates that lean software process brings value to the industry.
Category C: Human Resources
Gender Diversity, more than anything else, is driven by a business need today. The rise of global corporations means that the workforce is composed of diverse races and ethnicities. Women, in particular, are being recognized as an integral and indispensible segment of the workforce especially in the IT/ITES industry. In such a scenario, companies are doing their best to ensure that women are well taken care of and their organizational expectations are fully met.
Category D: Student
There is a lot of talk about shortage of suitable talent and skills at the entry level in the IT/ITES industry. Companies wanting to recruit often find that students are not ‘employment-ready'. They find that students are sometimes not technically qualified or do not have the necessary soft skills to take up challenging jobs. And companies are unwilling to invest time, effort and money on such basic training.
In such a scenario, what is the role that colleges can play in making their students more readily acceptable to the IT/ITES industry?
Guidelines for participants
Registration Deadline
Individual non members can either pay Rs.500/- and become a member first and then register for FREE
Scope and Rules for Written Presentation
- Presentation Format
- Originality & Creative Thinking
- Accuracy and depth of content
Top 4 written presentations in each category will be selected for oral presentation
- Clarity and substance
- Ability to communicate with, and respond to questions effectively
- Contribution to effective managerial thinking and performance.
- Originality & Creativity
Registration process
BEST OF LUCK TO ALL PARTICIPANTS
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