Two Day residential Seminar.....

Here comes my view and review on the Two Day residential Seminar conducted by the SIRC jointly with Hyderabad Chapter of the ICSI on 16th & 17th April 2010 at Alankrita Resorts....

First things first..the drawbacks of the programme as i always find so many...the programme was ill-planned..the information about the seminar was sent hardly a week before, the Annual participation scheme members were not sure of any concession (this was later clarified just 20 hours before the seminar), the sponsorship details was not informed properly...

all this mess landed into hardly 25 delegates for the seminar...too less a number compared to the earlier seminar at the same venue...which was attended by over 200 delegates.

Coming to the programme....at the inaugural session, i was called on stage to light the lamp along with Dr Chandratre...(author of over 25 books, 1000 articles, etc etc).....a honour that will remain with me forever.....

post lunch, when the first technical session started, people were dozing off...though the speaker was interesting, the hall was too big and the power supply was very poor. this led into break in the flow of subject to the speaker...and the volume of PA system had to be adjusted constantly to avoid blowing the ear drums of the delegates.

the day closed with a tea break..heard there was a cultural evening..God knows who attended it at 7 PM...out of some 25 delegates...some 10 had left along with me..so probably the cultural evening was attended by the SIRC members only...

the next day had even lesser delegates as most of them lost interest on the first day itself....the first technical session started an hour late..but still, Mr Pasupati kumar, CFO of Delloitte impressed the members with his awesome insight into the subject ....his style of taking through the session was excellent and his session was naturally overshot by 40 minutes...then came Mr M R Gopinath, a PCS from Bangalore..his quick wit and one liners and his constant digs at women made the session live and interesting

the last session was by Mr Vikas Khare...who appeared boring..without any wit or delegate participation..it was one sided talk from the speaker and as the session was running out of time...he had to wind up..probably his entry was at wrong timing, otherwise..the sessionw as excellent and he had made a point to mail his rpesentation to all participants...which is well appreciated.

the seminar came to an end with a awesome lunch.....