IIMB and ISPMA host Software Product Management Summit

05 March, 2023: The fifth version of the Software Product Management Summit India 2023 titled “ Bridging New Frontiers and Opportunities – Product Management as a Catalyst” co-hosted by the Centre for Software and IT Management (CSITM) at IIM Bangalore and the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) was held on 03 and 04 March 2023.

Three pre-conference workshops had been held on March 02. With over 50 members, all of the periods and the workshops performed by Malthi SS, Pragathi Neelaiahgari / Aditi Gangwar and Magnus Billgren had been interactive and informative.

The summit was inaugurated by Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore, Prof. S. Sadagopan, Summit Chair, Prof. Rajendra Okay. Bandi, Dean – Administration, IIM Bangalore, Prof. Shankhadeep Banerjee, Chairperson, CSITM at IIM Bangalore, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman ISPMA, Dr. Ajai Chowdhry, Founder HCL.

Dr. Spurthy Dharanikota, Program Chair (Academic Track) and Muthu Ranganathan, Program Chair (Industry Track) gave this system overview for the two days of Summit.

Prof. S. Sadagopan, Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan Haragopal Mangipudi welcomed the members. Dr. Ajai Chowdhry delivered the keynote deal with.

The summit had Academic / Research and Industry tracks. There had been a number of shows, panel discussions and fireplace chats with trade leaders

Prof. Sadagopan, the Summit Chair remarked, “The time has come when India can do software program merchandise; and Indian corporations will do software programmerchandise from India for the world”

SPM Excellence Awards

The jury for the Excellence Awards comprised of Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman, ISPMA, Prof. Guenther Ruhe, Professor of Software Engineering, University of Calgary, Peter Stadlinger, Head of Products, Freshworks (Freshsales Suite), Venkatesh Balakrishnan, Manager, CSITM, IIMB and Sunil Mishra SVP Product Management, Odessa Inc.

The winners had been

Category – Startup: VendorApp from VendorApp

Category – New Software Product from Established Company: Behavioral well being security & attendance from Oracle Cerner

Category – Platforms: ZEE5 from Zee Technologies

A Special Jury Award Special Jury Award for Outstanding SPM Practice was awarded to Eightfold Talent Flex from Eightfold AI

Best Academic Paper Awards

Dr. Spurthy Dharanikota, Program Chair (Academic Track) introduced the awards for the Academic Track.

The winners had been

Best Research Paper – Second Runner Up: Paper titled “Parental information, perspective, and apply towards their kids’s oral hygiene of age 2 to 12 years (A Web-Based Study)” authored by Lipsa Aggarwal, Himakshi Lohani, Jyoti Sen, and Pratibha Taneja

Best Research Paper – First Runner Up: Paper titled “How product leaders can contribute to create SCA in Software product– based mostly organisations?” authored by Dr. Harbir Singh

Best Research Paper- Winner: Paper titled “Using Mobile Ethnography as A Research Tool in Launching a New Social Media App” authored by Sweta Thota