Invitation to National IT Seminar 2004

The Annual Convention on Information Technology of XLRI, Jamshedpur is being held on November 6-7 this year. The theme of this 6th Annual IT Conference, called the National IT Seminar 2004 shall be "IT in Industry Verticals". Through this, NITS aims to bring forward the latest developments in information technology, their implications for business and the ways in which businesses can leverage these technologies to achieve competitiveness.





The National IT Seminar is a part of the SOCRATES initiative towards promoting technology as a prime driver of change and aimed at bringing the academia and industry in sync with each other.



The conference shall have sessions, each focusing on a vertical. In this year’s conference we are incorporating the industry vertical (or users) perspective as well as the solution provider (or IT company) perspective.



The verticals are:

• Banking and Financial Services

• Organized Retail

• Telecommunications

• Manufacturing

• Human Resources Horizontal



More details are available on the website www.xlri.ac.in/nits



What’s in it for you?



NITS 2004 will give you a chance to interact and get involved in the unique face-off between end users and solution providers.



The conference this year will focus on the integration of Information Technology in Business Processes. The conference will bring out how synergies can be derived using IT when it is used in sync with other areas like marketing, finance, operations, human resource and not just as a support function. This conference will take you through real-life examples of leveraging IT solutions to solve specific business problems. In addition, there are various contests organized



Key Highlights of NITS



Keynote Speaker

Mr. Kiran Karnik

President NASSCOM



Unique Format

• Face-Off, A unique format that brings speakers from both the solution provider (IT) companies as well as client companies in a Problem-Solution approach.



Separate Sessions

• Banking and Financial Services

• Organized Retail

• Telecommunications

• Manufacturing

• Human Resources Horizontal



Speakers

• Industry technical heads, users and consultants from Microsoft, TCS, Cognizant, ICICI, Wipro, E&Y, Infosys, Hindustan Petroleum, Cummins India, etc.



Contests

• Contests for students with prizes more than Rs.70,000 to be won.



Website

http://www.xlri.ac.in/nits/



Email

nits@xlri.ac.in