Media and Industry Interaction Cell (MiiC) plays the role of liaison between the institute and the corporate world. In the management world, it is essential for an institute to be abreast with the happenings and advancements in the industry. MiiC team strives to meet this need by arranging several events and guest lectures to enhance the interaction of students with corporate leaders. As part of its media activities, MiiC acts as a voice of IIM Udaipur by publishing the activities and happenings in the campus across the media channels and managing the content on the IIM Udaipur website and various social media platforms. It also assists the aspirants by providing suitable guidance and information for their queries during the admission process.
MiiC is involved in fostering relationships with corporate leaders from different fields and industry sectors. This is facilitated through the Leadership Summit, TEDxIIMUdaipur,Confab Series and ad-hoc workshops. These sessions enable students to interact with and be guided by industry leaders who have excelled in their respective fields. MiiC team also regularly connects with the speakers to establish long term relationships with the corporate world.
MiiC team is responsible for managing the IIM Udaipur website- structuring it, adding relevant content and updating the same with the latest happenings in the campus. It also strives to increase the visibility of IIM Udaipur on various media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wordpress, MbaSkool, LinkedIn, PagalGuy, InsideIIM, CoolAvenues, MBAClubIndia, MBAUniverse and Career360. The official pages and blogs of Indian Institute of Management Udaipur on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube and Wordpress are administered by the MiiC team.
An important duty that MiiC takes on is assisting aspirants during their admission process by providing proper guidance and answering their queries. This is carried out with the help of several IIM Udaipur students through the mentorship program, student-speak & know your faculty initiatives, arranging interactive sessions with the director for the aspirants, city meets and majorlythrough the aspirants page on Facebook and Pagalguy.
The press releases and media/TV coverage of all the events that take place at IIM Udaipur are handled by the MiiC team. It maintains strong relationships with media houses like India Today, Times of India, Economic Times, Business Standard and Hindustan Times. MiiC also collaborates with other clubs and committees of IIM Udaipur during their events and assists them with regards to media relations.
MiiC also contributes in the implementation and maintenance of the CRM software tool by maintaining a speaker database with all the relevant information of all the speakers that have visited the campus and updating the same in the software with the help of the CRM team.
The flagship event of IIM Udaipur, The Leadership Summit is a student-driven initiative which is organized by the Media and Industry Cell (MiiC) of IIMU. The event serves as a platform for corporate leaders to share their opinions and views on select themes through diverse engaging panel discussions. The panelists comprise of distinguished leaders from industries and academia. The objective of the summit is to get unique insights from the leaders and get to understand the direction in which the economies, corporate policy making and businesses are heading viz-a-viz globalization and competition. The umbrella theme for the Leadership Summit 2014 was "RETHINK: A paradigm shift in the Leadership Trends of India".
Dr. V Raghunathan – CEO, GMR Varalakshmi Foundation & Ex-President, ING Vysya Bank served as the Chief Guest in the event. Mr. Puneet Dalmia – MD, Dalmia Group of Industries was the Keynote Speaker.
Event report can be accessed through this link : Leadership event report
The aspirants' engagement activities start in December and are carried till June. All the activities are divided mainly into the following phases:
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then it has become much bigger.
The TED conferences bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk in 18 minutes on a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture.
TEDxIIMUdaipur is an independently organized event by IIM Udaipur. IIM Udaipur believe ideas have the power to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. Based on the concept of TED conferences , TEDxIIMUdaipur provided a platform that offers immense knowledge and inspiration from the renowned leaders, innovators, designers, entertainers and technologist. Speakers of TEDxIIMUdaipur included the likes of Bhakti Sharma, Erika Abrams, Rama Vaidyanathan, Rajesh Kumar.
Official Website: http://www.tedxiimudaipur.com/
TEDx Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71WY5jRLVEI&list=PLsRNoUx8w3rMFm0Tg8Rh5nl4R5JpJxeRt
As part of the Industry interaction, MiiC conducts 'Confab by the Lakes' which is the continuum speaker series of IIM Udaipur. Confab has seen eminent personalities from diverse domains interact with the students to provide guidance on personal and professional areas. Interacting with business leaders from various fields presents a great opportunity for students to gain deeper understanding of the management world and potential career paths in it.
Two MiiC members were core members of each of the ad-hoc teams formed to carry out the event. The MiiC members were majorly responsible for arranging the speakers for the events and were also involved in planning & execution as well as media publicity.
3 SPOCs from MiiC were actively engaged in the conception and planning of the event. They also collaborated with dHRuva and Placecomm to execute the event
