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Samanvay, the annual national-level business fest is a management phenomenon organized by the Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras Samanvay, as the name suggests, is the confluence of thoughts and ideas, co-ordination of knowledge and skill and synthesis of prowess and brilliance. This event is synonymous with passion, frenzy, enthusiasm and lots of fun. It is a three to four day event, away from hectic schedule of assignments, presentations and quizzes at DoMS, IIT Madras.

History
Samanvay was initiated in 2007 by DoMS as the business festival of IIT Madras. It is the third most leading fest at IIT Madras, after cultural fest Saarang and technical fest Shaastra. An important feature of Samanvay is the active participation of industry in the various events hosted through Samanvay. Every year, Samanvay brings together the best brains from the top business schools all over the country, and personalities from the corporate world, academia and media on a common platform.

La Rascasse-Sports Franchise Management Event
The event is the amalgamation of Sports and Management. It involves the management of a sports franchise. The core idea is to bring various domains and principles of management under a single roof.

5 Samurai
An event which puts the participants in the shoes of 5 CXO’s – CMO, CFO, CIO, COO and CEO and tests their ability to run a company while weathering the challenges faced in real life. The event would to evaluate participants on their business acumen in every domain of business administration.

Finnix – Valuation 360
The event involves application of the financial knowledge in the valuation of a popular company. . It will test the participants’ ability to utilize information about the company, competitors, news and other developments to put a price tag on a well-known brand.

Optio
The event challenges the participants on their knowledge of the basics and how well they can use their acumen to put theory into practice and solve a real life operational issue faced by the industry. It tests the understanding of participants on concepts and latest developments in the field of operations

BuzzaR
It challenges the participants into putting their marketing theoretical knowledge into practical application, by building promotional strategies, developing campaign ideas and conducting sales for a particular brand. This event tests the participants marketing and sales acumen.

Kruncch
The world is now being driven by data. Contestants need to make informed decisions and insights from unstructured and cryptic data. Krunccch is an online data analytics competition that requires participant teams to provide a robust statistics based solution for a real world problem. Teams have to utilize the data provided and adopt appropriate multivariate statistical/ data mining methods to arrive at a predictive model, which would be tested on the holdout data sets.

Entrepreneurship Event
The Entrepreneurship event is in line with DoMS’s entrepreneurial heritage and its primary objective is to imbue the spirit of entrepreneurship in student community from various B-schools across India, inspire and encourage them to take on challenges through business ventures. This event tests the capability of the participants to make bold and risky decisions to start and develop a successful business.

HRiitH
The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff. HRiiTh evaluates the contestant's experience, skills, innovativeness and also their ability to apply certain HR concepts to solve the issues faced in people management. It includes several online and offline rounds, revolving around concepts and techniques in HR management.

Samanvay 2012
Samanvay 2012 was flagged off by Mr. P Anupam Ahuja, Head, India Development Centre, PayPal on Oct 12.The theme was “Challenge what needs to be challenged”. Around 1000 students from B-Schools across the country participated in the events. The main sponsors/partners for Samanvay were State Bank of India, Spykar, Classle, LIC, Sportus, CrowdAnalytix, etc. This edition of Samanvay had the presence of eminent speakers including Mr. C. Jayaram, Joint Managing Director of Kotak Mahindra, Mr. Ashok Lalla, Global Head of Digital Marketing, Infosys, Mr. Narayanan Hariharan, Founder & CEO- Effectworks, Mr. Pankaj Katyal, General Manager of Radisson Blu, Mr.Kandaswamy Bharathan, Executive Director of Kavithalayaa Productions and Mr. R Rajesh, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Contrabrand. Two off beat events like Cycle – the cycling marathon and Fotografia –the photography competition, also attracted a lot of participation.

Samanvay 2011
Apart from being the annual B-Fest, Samanvay 2011 was also a celebration for the 10th anniversary of DoMS, IIT Madras. Samanvay’11 was held from 9th September– 11th September 2011 in IIT Madras campus. It was inaugurated by Mr. Mukesh Malik, MD and Head, O&T, South Asia, Citibank. A highlight of the inaugural function was the presence of Mr. Pawan Aggarwal, CEO of the Mumbai Dabbawalas, who delivered an extremely interesting and enlightening speech on the operations of the Mumbai Dabbawalas. He provided insights on the ‘perfect’ supply chain management, and emphasized on ‘having a passion to work and considering the customer as God’. Samanvay 2011 hosted numerous events and competitions in the domains of Finance (Finnix), Marketing (MarkTacTic), Operations (Dot2Dot), Human Resources Management(Arco Baleno), Entrepreneurship (Biz-Barons) and Organizational Strategy (5 Samurai, LaRascasse). These events revolved around the theme of “Corporate Ranneeti” or “Corporate Strategy” – which was an attempt to showcase the complex nuances and intricacies of tomorrow’s corporate world to today’s young budding managers. It saw the participation of about 6000 participants from over 40 business schools of the country, with 150 participants coming to DoMS. The offline events went on for over a month, from which the finalists were called to IITM for the final countdown.

Samanvay 2010
Samanvay 2010 was inaugurated by Mr K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services on 29th January 2010 and extended till 31st January. Mr. Harish Damodaran, Senior Assistant Editor of The Hindu - Business Line threw light into the history of businesses and business communities in India, as part of the inaugural address. The theme for the year was "Colours" signifying the varied hues to management. Management in all its perspectives and background represents the vibrancy of coordination just like the colours of a rainbow combine to product light which powers our vision. As always, it included action packed events that challenged the intellect of the participants. There were events from all spheres of management ranging from HR to Consulting. A highlight of Samanvay 2010 was the panel discussion on public-private partnerships, moderated by Mr Damodaran and featuring Mr Sandeep Saxena IAS, Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation; Mr T. Ramaswamy, Deputy General Manager, Indian Bank; Mr P. Santhanam, Managing Director, Hindustan Motors; and Mr V. Sivakumar, Director, Petroleum Conservation Research Association.

Samanvay 2009
IIT Madras presented the fourth edition of its Annual Business Fest- Samanvay from 23rd -25th of January, 2009. Through a number of intellectually stimulating events, games and panel discussions, the festival provided a platform for debating, challenging and contributing with incisive ideas and propositions. With the theme being 'Strategizing for a better tomorrow', Samanvay '09 focused on all key business developments and trends that fuels future growth. In keeping with the theme, a number of special events and sessions with corporate gurus were hosted that will gave enough opportunity to the participants to learn and contribute.

Samanvay 2008
Scheduled between 11th -13th Jan 2008, Samanvay ’08 was a mega-event with Mr. Gurcharan Das as Chief Guest. Mr. Mark W. Vannette, Operations Manager, EDC-India, Caterpillar Inc. and Mr. B. Manivannan, Zonal Manager South zone- LIC, as the special guests. Focusing on rise to power of India Inc. especially through M&As, Samanvay ’08 hosted a panel discussion on “The Great Indian Takeover” with eminent personalities from industry and academics. A second panel discussion on “Management Education in India: Are there dreams and are we pursuing them?” with Directors from ISB, MDI, XLRI and industry representatives was conducted keeping in mind the increasing importance of management education. In addition to this, Mr. P.C. Narayan, Professor, IIM Bangalore, also took a session. Apart from regular events, Samanvay conducted a very special event “Outbound at Dawn”. This was a major crowd puller wherein executives from corporate and press, along with students tested their team building skills in various activities setup around the IIT campus. DoMS also organized a Jyotika Event (a student and Goodwill Foundation initiative, which endeavors to bring light in the lives of visually impaired girls) during Samanvay ’08 to create awareness among students. The valedictory session was presided by Shri N. Vittal, Former Central Vigilance Commissioner and Shri T.S. Krishnamurthy, former Chief Election Commissioner as Chief Guests.

Samanvay 2007
Samanvay 2007, with the theme `Celebrating Synergy', was inaugurated by SEBI Chairman M. Damodaran and CMD of Indian Bank Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty on January 5. `Samanvay 2007' boasts of 10 core events catering to every field in management. `Saaransh', a paper presentation event, `Spin Doctors', a PR strategy game sponsored by Henkel India, Mentorz', a HR case study and `Brand Wars', a branding event sponsored by the LIC, `E-Strategia', a retail strategy game sponsored by UniverCell, `Trailblazers', a marketing strategy game sponsored by Indian Terrain, and `Cyclops', an operations game, were major events. Fort Knox', an online event, sponsored by Apollo Sindhoori Capital Investments, gave an opportunity for students to invest in the Indian equity market through real accounts for a month. There was an Out-Bound Training session in IIT Madras to provide a break from business events. Infosys, Rediff.com. , Satyam, and All India Travel Agency were some of the other associating companies.