October 20-21, 2008 saw aStrategym 2008a, JBIMS’ annual business convention at ITC Grand Maratha. The theme for this year was aHope: In Current Turbulent Timesa. The paper on Connecting Bharat proposing to connect urban India with the rural India won Strategym 2008. Papers on Home Equity Liquidation and Social Security in India were the first and second runners-up respectively.

On October 23, 2008 JBIMS’ annual corporate symposium aSamanvaya was organized at the BSE convention hall. The theme for this year was aHope: In Current Turbulent Timesa. Samanvay 2008 started with Mr Samir Sain, CEO & MD, Future Capital Holdings sharing his view on the current financial turmoil. Mr Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Director & CEO, Reliance Money and Mr Arun Maira, Director, Boston Consulting Group also participated at Samanvay 2008.

aPrayaaga, JBIMS’ annual inter B-School corporate festival was conducted on October 24-26, 2008. Prayaag 2008 consisted of 16 events spread across three days. The event was inaugurated by the Director of JBIMS, Dr C Chavan. The event, aThe Quest to reach Olympusa saw 12 participants being shortlisted for a press conference, group discussion, quiz, round involving risk taking ability and jury interviews. The event was judged by – Mr Govind Iyer- Managing Partner Egon Zehnder International, India; Mr KVS Manian- Group head, Retail Liabilities & Branch Banking, Kotak Bank and Mr Rohit Shrivastava- Head (Strategic Planning), Contract Advertising. Another event was aKwizkrafta, where students were pitted against corporates in order to find out who knows more about the world around was conducted by quiz master, Dhananjay Shettigar.