An Event to remember – #SITBLR 2014: Highlights

SAP Inside Track: – An Event of the people, by the people and for the people.

Did you miss SAP Inside Track Bengaluru 2014 ? And you wonder how it really went? Here are the highlights if you have missed experiencing it. Let’s explore what happened in the event.

1. Venue: TCS Pioneer Campus, Bengaluru

The day started with registrations followed by a welcome ceremony, a video of TCS and it’s national and global contribution and welcome keynote which was arranged at Auditorium completed filled with SAP Enthusiasts.

2. Badge:

Everyone who was registered for the event was given a cool badge as good as SAP TechEd Badge, which symbolizes “Learn Share Grow” which was the prime motto of this event.

3. Branded T-shirts:

      40+ U.S. POLO ASSN. branded t-shirts were distributed among all the speakers and organizers.

4. Star of SIT:

Mr. Suvonkar Bashak was rewarded with “Star of SIT” for his amazing passion and tireless enthusiasm towards SIT in terms of attending and sharing his knowledge in more than five SIT events including all four SIT Bengaluru Editions till date. A total surprise for him. Congrats man. Keep it up.

5. Knowledge sharing sessions:

The participants were presented with a knowledge “rich” agenda, (9 days before the actual event), we are happy to hear people calling this as mini SAP TechEd && d-code.

A total of 30 sessions under 3 different tracks (Technical, Functional & Analytics) which included topics on SAP Mobility, SAP UI5 , SAP HANA, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), SAP Lumira, SAP Screen persona, SAP UX & Fiori, SAP BW and many others.

SIT Bengaluru 2014 – Speaker Session Summary & Slide Decks

6. Lunch @ TCS Food court:

The food was sponsored by our hosting partner TCS. All the participants were treated with sumptuous food. This helped the participants to regain the energy and gear back for remaining sessions.

7. Mementos & Medals:

• To Speakers:
  • As the motto goes, “Learn, Share and grow”. All the speakers were given a memento in recognition to their willingness to share the knowledge and help us win together as a community and to carry forward our community spirit.

• To Guests:

We were delighted to have guests from TCS, SAP Labs, Big Data Force, Shroff Publishers & Distributors Private Ltd.(SPD) and SWRNANDHARA College of Engg. and Technology Narsapur, A.P.

• To Top 3 Speakers:

We had taken a decision to encourage community members that no Speaker from the organizing team & SAP Speakers are eligible for Top Three speakers competition (All Tracks). We thank SAP Employees for accepting this great initiation.

         Technical Track:      Shashidhar Kothapally  ; Kumud Singh  ; Remi Kaimal B

          Functional Track:     Syam Babu & Virinchy P  ; Supriya Nair  ;  Kesava M

          Analytics Track:      Ganesh Mahadevan v  ; siva subramanian; Nithya Raghavan

• To Organizers:
  • Being a community driven event, organizing is one of the challenges especially with 295 participants. The community has acknowledged the organizers efforts with a friendly gesture with mementos like these.

From Top Left:

Nilesh (From TCS) ; Suvonkar Bashak  ; Kannan Nair ; Naresh ;

Jitendra Kansal ; Mahesh Kumar CV ; Ranju Gupta ;

Niveditha; Mahesh (From TCS) ; Viswanatha Reddy A; Vivek Singh Bhoj

• To Volunteers:

All volunteers had played amazing role to make this event successful. Big thanks to all.

8. Lucky draw:

Apart from the medallions and mementos to the organizers and speakers, you might wonder what it is in for the participant in addition to the sumptuous sessions and delicious lunch.It is not just an event where you gather knowledge but also if you are lucky you can go home with surprise gifts.

Lucky participants were given a medal by taking a lucky draw to spread the joy of sharing and happiness 🙂

9. A special gift to SAP Employees & few other Lucky participants:

30+ SAP press books were distributed among SAP employees,few participants selected during lucky draw and other participants who came from other states, just to mention from Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Hyderabad, Kerala etc.

10. Power of oneness:

“United we stand, divided we fall”.

As you find INDIA “UNITY IN DIVERSITY” a multi lingual and cultural society, the #SITBLR event conducted here has the people from different regions and technologies, who have come togeter to share the knowledge and exchange ideas to grow collectively and create a WIN-WIN situation.

This event with 295 participants, 30 speakers, 11 organizers and many more volunteers has all come together across the country spanning 6 states and enjoyed the technology feast together which made the possibility of bringing the quality sessions and gracious host like TCS with ‘0’ Entry fee. 🙂

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SIT BLR 2014 Event pics:  SAP Inside Track – @TCS Pioneer – Bengaluru – 15th Nov 2014 – an album on Flickr

#SITBLR Participants Blogs:

Event Summary by Kannan Nair   : SIT Bengaluru2014 Event Summary

Monikandan Panneerselvam        : SAP InsideTrack’14 conference – Bengaluru – My Experience

Hari Srinivasa Reddy                  : SAP Inside Track Bengaluru 2014 – My experience as a speaker

Remi Kaimal B                          : SAP Inside Track’14 – Bengaluru – My Experience

Balaji Ramesh Balaji Ramesh     : SAP Inside Track – Bengaluru 2014 First Experience

Other #SITBLR blogs:

Session details and PPTs :  SIT Bengaluru 2014 – Speaker Session Summary & Slide Decks

Speaker Agenda:  SAP Inside Track Bengaluru 2014 – Agenda

Announcement page: SAP Inside Track Bengaluru 2014