After a pandemic-induced hiatus of two years, The PMI Bangalore India Chapter conducted its annual conference on 12 November 2022 in an in-person format. The theme of the conference was “Architecting Project Management—Embracing Innovation and Sustainability.” The keynote speakers included Dr. Srini Srinivasan, managing director, PMI South Asia; Harish Bijoor, business and brand strategy specialist; Prof. Rishikesh Krishnan, director, IIMB; Deepa Sathiaram, leading international systems design professional in Green Building, HVAC and building systems; and Srinivasan Arunachalam, group president, Steer Group, Bengaluru.

The other speakers were Nuthun Prasanna Kumar, director, Dvizira Private Limited; Debi Kar, founder and CEO, Personifwy; Pavan Soni, founder, Inflexion Point; Subashis Bandhopadhya, VP—BFSI Domain, Happiest Minds Technologies; and Ashhar Farhan, partner and co-founder, Danna Farmers Network.

A panel discussion on “Creating Sunrise Technologies from India” was also conducted by startup enterprises incubated by NASSCOM Deep Tech Club. The panel included Abhijit Choudhary, founder and CEO, Niral Networks; Rishab Verma, co-founder and CEO, UrbanMatrix Technologies; and Abhishek Gupta, sales leader, Imaginate. It was moderated by Palash Gupta, member, NASSCOM Product Council, DeepTech Club, and vice president and board member, PMI Bangalore India Chapter.

Chapter news contributors: Jaydeep Chakravorty, PMP; Saon Sen Nandi, PMP; Tamal Banerjee, PMP, DASSM; Priya Patra, PMP; Akhila Gowri Shankar, PMP; Mehulkumar Patel, PMP; Bhuvana Jayaraman, PMP; Lakshmi Ramachandran, PMP; Sharat Rajan, PMP; Balaji Viswanath, PMP; Balakumar Chinnayan, PMP; Rumugam Mariappan, Aparna Gandhi, Muthukumaran Sowndhararajan, Mohammed Ejaaz Basheer