The Kerala Management Association’s (KMA) annual national management convention will begin here on Thursday.

Around 2,000 delegates from within and outside the State are expected to participate in the two-day meet at Le Meridien Hotel convention centre.

The convention, organised by the All India Management Association (AIMA) and KMA in its 60th year, will have 25 prominent speakers from various fields of expertise. State Finance Minister Thomas Isaac will inaugurate the meet at 9.30 a.m. Noted speaker Mahatria Ra, founder of Infinitheism, will deliver the keynote speech at the inaugural session.

T.V. Mohandas Pai, president of AIMA and chairman of Manipal Group of institutions, will also speak.

Nokia India managing director Ajey Mehta; KPMG Global director Richard Rekhy; Bengaluru IIM Professor Vasanthi Sreenivasan; NITI Ayog’s Atal Innovation Mission director Ramanan Ramanathan; South Indian Bank managing director and chief executive officer V.G. Mathew; State IT Secretary M. Sivasankar; Kochi Metro managing director A. P. M. Mohammed Haneesh; and AIMA secretary-general Rekha Sethi; are among those who will participate in the meeting.

On Friday, at the valedictory session, Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister for Commerce and Trade, will address the gathering through video conferencing. K.V. Thomas, MP, and Chief secretary Paul Antony will be the chief guests at the session.

KMA president Vivek Krishna Govind and secretary R. Madhav Chandran said in a statement that this was the first time that KMA was providing a platform for a mega convention of this scale.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Kochi / by Staff Reporter / Kochi – April 12th, 2018