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ITSME   invites you to “ The New Series on Winners” on Thursday the 6th December 4.30 PM – 7.00 PM at IIT Alumni Club,   ITT Alumni Club, 61, 3rd Street, Mylapore Chennai 600 004 Presenting The Secret Sauce to Success Srinivasa Gopalan CEO, Lister Technologies Private Limited cofounded the company which is    a global Software services company based in Chennai and serving customers in India, USA, Australia and some parts of Europe. Today, Lister has grown at twice the industry CAGR over the past five years and remains a profitable company. Prior to founding Lister Technologies, Gopal was a member of the core founding management team of Satyam Infoway (now called, SIFY) and as Sr Vice President was responsible for all business with corporate customers.   He was responsible for launching many pioneering products in data services and electronic commerce; identifying, partnering and managing relationship with global corporations such as Sterling Commerce, Broad Vision

ITSME invites you to a knowledge sharing session, on Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am at Conference Hall, IIT Alumni Club, New 61 (Old 30), 3rd street, East Abhiramapuram, Mylapore, Chennai 600004. The Session is on "Living the Brand" - How to Position Yourself To Success by Mr. Keshav, Founder & CEO, MANTRA. Program: 9:00 - 9:30 AM: Break fast and Networking 9:30 - 9:40 AM: Welcome address by Ananth Seshan-President 9:40 - 10:40 AM: Talk by Mr.Keshav, "Living the Brand" 10:40 -10:55 AM: Q & A Sessions 10:55 - 11:00 AM: Vote of thanks by Vice-President Non members if you would like to attend this meeting, connect with me for getting the invite done Sarada

ITSME Association is glad to invite its members for a breakfast meeting with David Dunn, Chief Operating Officer and Tom Hurst, Chief Investment Officer Sunderland Software City, UK for exploring new business opportunities in UK. The meeting will take place in Savera, Radhakrishnan Salai on Tuesday 13th of December 2011 at 9:00 am with the following agenda: 9:00 am to 9:30 am- Breakfast and Networking 9:30 am to 9:45 am - Welcome by President 9:45 am to 10:15 am - Opportunities for ITSMEs to expand in UK -                                      Presentation by David Dunn 10:15 am to 10:30 am - Q&A Session 10:30 am to 10:40 am - Vote of Thanks Looking forward to seeing you at the event. ITSME Association

Marketing and sales is often most misunderstood role in IT business. More so in ITSME circles, which face a never ending anxiety on top- line, bottom-line, scalability and cash flow sustainability. While big companies can never match the agility and close relationship based support of the ITSMES s to the clients, yet we suffer scalability and resistance from big buyers. Small bandwidth does not give enough flexibility and thinking cap to strategize and fine tune on a routine basis. Neither we can afford to copy biggies in marketing nor can we depend on innovation alone, with constraints of discovering right audience. Disruptive technologies being released so frequently, presents an ever chasing market landscape, making change management a difficult task. Competitors who move faster add to our woes. How do we handle the dilemma and challenges? So for the question: For the sustainable business success, how do we modify our organizational DNA for vibrant marketing and sales : Attend thi

Here is the invite for the Cloud Computing Workshop organized by ITSME Association on 7th December 2010 Tuesday Today the two most widely used industry buzz word are Social Media and Cloud computing. Our Association having understood the need of the hour, had organized the Seminar on how to use Social media for our benefit, we now have pleasure in announcing the One day Workshop on Cloud Computing – starting with the basics of Cloud computing to understand different platforms available for development to hands on demo of building a business application for the cloud, we will end the day with talking to people who have already done it PROGRAMME DETAILS 0900 - 0930 Registration 0930 - 1030 Cloud Computing - The basics Mr.Dorai Thodla, President, Imorph Technologies 1030 - 1115 Detailed analysis of various Platforms Mr.Prasanna, Director Product Engg Orangescape Technologies 1115 - 1130 TEA BREAK 1130 - 1245 Building a Cloud Application on GAE -Hands on Mr.Shrikrishna Shrin, F

ITSME  association invites you to a breakfast meeting for “ Utilizing the power of Social Media" on October 6th at 8.30 am at Hotel Savera . The target audience for this program will be CxO and all those involved in the sales & Marketing functions in your company. About the Program : That social media has caught on with a large segment of today's marketplace. A 2010 Nielsen study in the U.S. found that it now occupies roughly 25% of online activities--and that's nearly double from just a year ago. So it's fair to say that this is an activity that's already being embraced by your existing customers as well as people with whom you'd like to do business. Your challenge, therefore, is to find ways to make social media part of your client-attraction system. Learn from the Business leader who has successfully utilizing this forum for building up his business – Mr Dorai Thodla, CEO, iMorph Inc – a Serial Entrepreneur with about 40 years of experience in t

i am reproducing the invite for the members for our AGM ITSME/3rdAGM /2010 September 1st, 2010. NOTICE FOR THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION Notice is hereby given that the Third Annual General Meeting of the members of the ITSME Association will be held on wednesday, the 22nd September, 2010 at 1900 hrs at Hotel Savera, 146, Dr.Radhakrishnan Road, Chennai – 4 to transact the following business :- ORDINARY BUSINESS a) To receive and pass the Annual Report and Audited Accounts of the Council for the financial year 2009-10. b) To appoint the Auditors to audit the Accounts of the Council for the financial year 2010-11 and to fix their remuneration. Members are requested to kindly make it convenient to attend the Annual General Body Meeting and also join us for the Dinner thereafter, at the same venue. Mythili Parthasarathy Secretary Chennai

Here is the announcement from the ITSME Association about the forthcoming progrtam on “ Talent Acquisition Workshop ” on January 7th, 2010 at 5.30 pm at “The Accord Metropolitan”, # 35, GN Chetty Road, T Nagar, Chennai – 600 017. This workshop is aimed at - CXOs and other stakeholders/decision makers who deliver the HR functions The agenda is given below: 5.30 - 6.00 Networking and High Tea 6.00 - 6.05 Welcome addresses – ITSME President 6.05 - 7.00 “Talent Acquisition Workshop” by Srikanth Ganesan, Associate Vice President at Wipro BPO within Corporate Business Services 7.00 - 7.15 Q & A 7.15 – 7.25 Introduction of a Member Company 7.25 - 7.30 Vote of Thanks See you tomorrow at Accord Hotel Sarada

I am reproducing the mail from ITSME associaiton about their forthcoming session ITSME association invites you to an interactive session on “ Marketing Challenges for IT SMEs” on December 21, 2009 at 5.00 pm at The Accord Metropolitan, # 35, GN Chetty Road, T Nagar, Chennai – 600 017 . The agenda is given below: 5.30 - 6.00 Networking and High Tea 6.00 - 6.05 Welcome addresses – ITSME President 6.05 - 7.15 “Marketing Challenges for IT SMEs” by Raghavendra Prasad Venkataraman 7.15 - 7.25 Q & A 7.25 - 7.30 Vote of Thanks For further queries and registration please contact the ITSME association. See you on 21st. Sarada

The Association of Small and Medium Knowledge Industries ( ASMKI ) Invites you For a half day seminar on “Financing of Knowledge Industries " On 31st of January 2009 At Hotel GRT Grand, T. Nagar , Chennai (9.30 AM – 1.15 PM) Agenda Registration: 9.30 AM Inaugural Session Welcome Address: Mr. Nalin Kohli President , ASMKI Inaugural Address: Mr. S. Ramasundaram , I.A.S., Managing Director, Tamil Industrial Development Corporation Ltd, Chennai Session on Credit Needs Mr. Jiten Nanda , Vice President and Head Business Banking ABN AMRO ,India Mr.S.K Misra , DGM (Credit), Indian Overseas Bank, Central Office, Chennai Mr. Jaishankar , Managing Director, Quest Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd Session on Venture Capital Needs Mr . Ramakrishnan , Executive Director and Head Investment Banking, Spark Capital Mr . Vijay Anand , Head of Incubation at TeNeT

so here is the meeting announcement for the month of January from the ITSME Association to be held on 29, 2009 at 5.00 pm at Hotel Savera . The agenda is given below: 5.00 - 5.30 Networking and High Tea 5.30 - 5.35 Welcome address – ITSME President 5.35 - 7.45 ISO 27001 FOR SMEs by Mr. Govind Srinivasan 7.45 – 7.55 Q & A 7.55 - 8.00 Vote of Thanks Background to this session: About 450 companies in India, mostly IT Services and BPO organizations, have implemented the ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System) Standard. Information Security has become the part of business process today, in the light of growing uncertainties that come out of vulnerabilities and threats, human behaviour and technology being the prime factors. The implementation of ISO 27001 Standard can prove to be a good exercise for integrating different functions and domains in an organization by design. Besides, other possible business requirements like implementing Data Protection Act c

Here is the invite for the november month meeting being organized by ITSME Associaiton ITSME Association is pleased to invite you to participate, interact and network with the JETRO officials from Bangalore for an interactive session on Tuesday the 11th November 2008 at Hotel Savera , The Lounge, Dr Radhakrishnan Salai, Chennai. 5.30 - 6.00: Networking and High Tea 6.00 - 6.05: Welcome Address - President, ITSME Association 6.05 - 7.00: Business Opportunities with Japan – Presentation by Mr Kazumasa Kuboki, Director General, JETRO, Bangalore 7.00 7.15: Q & A session 7.15: Vote of Thanks We hope the session will help the members to discover the advantages of doing business in Japan; learn about successful companies doing business with Japan and understand Japan's individual regions and markets. All are welcome

Here are the details of the October month program from the ITSME Association - The interactive session on “ Risk Mitigation in a Volatile Global economy”. Date: October 3, 2008 at 5.30 pm Venue : Hotel Savera, Chennai Program Agenda 5.30 - 6.00 Networking and High Tea 6.00 - 6.10 Welcome address – Mr Sankaran Raghunathan President ITSME Association 6.10 - 6.40 Trends in FE Market – Mr. Arun Chengalaveetil - Asst. Vice President Head Trade and Foreign Exchange, ABN Amro, Tamil Nadu . 6.40 - 7.10 A perspective on The Global Economic Situation – Mr Gautam Rao , Managing Director, Business Risk & Hedge Management Strategies Pvt Ltd 7.10 - 7.30 Q & A 7.30 7.35 Vote of Thanks We would definitely encourage you to make the best use of this event. This event comes with an attractive gate

ITSME Association is pleased to invite you to participate, interact and network with the Inbound Delegation of Sri Lankan IT/ITES companies for an interactive session on August 25, 2008 at 10 am – 1 pm at STPI, Chennai. The Board Of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI), ICTA (the govt's IT promotion agency) and ITSME association are jointly organizing this Delegation. BOI & ICTA will be represented by Senior Government officials and the individual Sri Lankan IT/ITES companies represented by their decision-makers. They are specifically looking forward to interacting with our IT/ITES industry to explore opportunities/JV partnerships. Please click on this URL for the profiles of the Delegate Companies. http://www.itsmesindia.com/ites/Sri_Lankan_ITES_Delegation.pdf We hope that this interaction will prove to be productive in building potential synergistic business engagements. We are looking forward to your whole-hearted participation and cooperation in making this Delegation a successf

Our Association and STPI Chennai have come together to Organize a unique two days workshop on “ Catalyzing Growth ", on 25th & 26th July-08, at STPI New facility centre , Taramani, Chennai-113. The program is aimed at the CEO and Directors of the Organization only. Though a high value program, both our Association and STPI have worked towards have a subsidized cost of this workshop. STPI and ITSME Association are excited to kick-off this unique program customized to the leadership needs of ITSME segment. There are going to be session on the following : Leveraging your business Models New Growth Strategies and Collaboration Branding and Growth Pricing and Marketing - The Entrepreneurial Way Business Innovation for Growth Trend Next You would agree with me that the above are the major areas where we, as head of our organizations, would love to have some mentoring and also discussions on what the other companies' best practices are. I,for one, wouldn't like to

During our last networking dinner all the EC members were presenting 8 Key Mandates on which each one of the EC members will be working towards their are of responsibility. Some of the members volunteered to be part of the Mandate Execution team. To refresh I am listing below the 8 key mandates 1. Collective voice representing SMEs in IT Policy making. 2. Sharing Best Practices. 3. Human Resources augmentation among SMEs. 4. Technology/Industry training - Focus Groups. 5. Facilitating foreign delegations both Inbound and outbound, exhibitions thereby providing an effective platform for networking. 6. Potential joint Business Development platform – gaining access to geographies. 7. Improved Economies of Scale - leveraging on the collective size of the association for better bargains on purchases of products and services. 8. Show case Lab. We are pleased to announce that each of these Mandates are being handled by the EC members ind

All are cordially invited to a Special Networking Event to felicitate Ms. R Rajalakshmi on her tranfer to STPI Bangalore & welcome Mr C V D Ramprasad, Director, STPI,Chennai on Saturday June 28, 2008 at Savera Hotel, Cheanni, between 3.00 - 6.00 pm

Our ITSME Associaiton by us and for us - We want it to be different. all the 7 EC members are of the firm opinion that we should not conduct the meeting once a month or twice a month just for the sake fo having to conduct a meeting. Also, as Entrepreneurs the thing which is close to our heart is the "growth of our compnay". so we want our assocaiton to focus on growth. all activities should necessarily orient itself towards growth of the organization either individually or collectively. So these are the key mandates we are going to work with for this year 1. Collective voice representing SMEs in IT Policy making. 2. Sharing Best Practices. 3. Human Resources augmentation among SMEs. 4. Technology/Industry training - Focus Groups. 5. Facilitating foreign delegations both Inbound and outbound, exhibitions thereby providing an effective platform for networking. 6. Potential joint Business Development platform – gaining access to geographies. 7. Improved Economies of Scale

The Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) Malaysia and the TIE, Malaysia Chapter have teamed up with the IT SME Association, India and the TIE Chennai Chapter to foster an on-going business partnership targeting opportunities between MSC Malaysia Status Companies and IT SMEs in India, not only to serve India and Malaysia, but the Regional countries as well. In this regard, to kick start the initial activities, MDec, IT SME Association, ITE Malaysia and Chennai Chapters have pleasure in inviting you to a panel discussion and Dinner on 25th March 2008 at 6:30 pm at the Rain Tree Hotel, Chennai. Programme: 6:30 pm - Registration & Tea/coffee 7:00 pm - Introduction: TIE KL, TIE Chennai, IT SME Association, MDeC/WCIT 2008 7:30 pm - Panel Discussion 8:00 pm - Question & Answer 8:15 pm - Dinner & Networking There is no registration fee for the