Mr. Arun Maira, Chairman of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), will be the keynote speaker. The symposium will see a host of speakers from companies like Boston Consulting Group, Stern Stewart & Co, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touché, Ernst & Young, Technopak, KPMG, IBM, TCS and Oracle will also adress the Symposium.

The sub-themes in the daylong symposium will be: ‘Changing Scenario of M&A; – Format v/s Content in Consulting’, ‘Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)’ and ‘Reinventing the Value Chain’.

According to IIFT, “This symposium is an opportunity for students, consultants and managers from the corporate world to be an audience to the crème de la crème of the consulting industry and learn about the changing face of the industry as well as gather significant insights about the opportunities and scope in the sector.”

The symposium’s keynote speaker Arun Maira has spent more than 35 years creating and transforming organizations. He offers a combination of direct experience in consulting and thought leadership on the subject of organizational transformation.

PHDCCI president Mr Sanjay Bhatia will make the concluding speech at the inaugural session.

Upbeat about the growth and role of consultancy services, IIFT says, “With nearly 4,000 consulting agencies already present in India, and considering that the country is in the midst of an economic revolution, the scope for consultancy services can only grow further.”