The Infotech Software Dealers Association organised their AGM in the City of Joy, Kolkata on 10th August 2019 at JW Marriott. A unique innovation that the ISODA team came up with this time was to precede the AGM with Biz Summit, where newer vendors got to network with ISODA members for a complete day and ISODA members got an opportunity to Hot Pitch their solutions to their peers. The theme of the Biz Summit was 10X, signifying efforts of the community as a whole to achieve 10 times the business from the current scenario.
The AGM also saw the elections for the positions of Vice Chairman, Vice President and Secretary. In the elections, Rajeev Mamidanna, erstwhile President of ISODA and Co-founder & CEO of Technosprout systems won the Vice Chairman’s position. Dnyanesh Kulkarni, founder ISODA, erstwhile Secretary of ISODA and Director – Deltakraft won the Vice President’s position. The position for Secretary was retained by Vimesh Avlani, Director – Graftronics. Amarnath Shetty, Managing Director LDS Infotech, who was the Vice Chairman in the last term, got promoted as Chairman of ISODA. Manasi Saha, Founder & Owner of Macaws Infotech, who was the Vice President in the last term, got promoted as President of ISODA.
In addition to this ISODA has begun two new regional chapters, their operations are now in full swing viz: Rajasthan and Hyderabad. Apart from the Regional Secretaries, now there are as many additional Regional Secretaries to ensure propagation of ISODA in the new regions.
The key positions in the New Managing Committee are held by:
- Chair Person – Amarnath Shetty, LDS Infotech
- Vice Chairperson – Rajeev Mamidanna, technosprout systems
- President – Manasi Saha, Macaws Infotech
- Vice President – Dnyanesh Kulkarni, Deltakraft Solutions
- Secretary – Vimesh Avlani, Graftronics
- Treasurer – Ravi Jalan, Shakti Enterprises
- Regional Secretary (West) – Ajay Bhayani, Ambisure
- Regional Secretary (South) – Pradeep Daga, Suntronix
- Regional Secretary (North) – Atul Modi, Modi Infosol
- Regional Secretary (East) – Rajesh Gupta, Kiosk Technologies
- Regional Secretary (Karnataka) – N Murthy, JS Infotech
- Regional Secretary (Gujarat) – Jitesh Chauhan, Rubik Infotech
- Regional Secretary (Hyderabad) – Krishna Kalagra, Playmax Interactive
- Regional Secretary (Rajasthan) – Dhiraj Vijayvargia, Priyam Infosystems
- Regional Secretary (North East) – Bhaskar Kalita, BMG Informatics
The top priorities for ISODA Management Committee this year will be to – Implement ISODA ASAP (As Skilled As Possible); Take collaboration within members to next level; Upscale CSR activities; Improve communication with vendors and distributors; ISODA marketplace to showcase products and services; A unique identifier for all ISODA members; Ensuring addition of new members and retention of old members; Soft skill development for ISODA members and their employees to enhance knowledge; Focus to be increased in non-metro cities; Member Grievances cell to be set up to address and solve business or transaction related issues; Inter country collaboration with our neighbouring countries and their trade associations; Focus on P2P (Partner relations); and Digital Marketing to be taken to next level by Increasing visibility of ISODA socially.
Another important announcement was that of the TechSummit 10 Chairman. Jiten Mehta of Magnamious was selected as chairman of TS 10. All present members appreciated the team of TS 9.
The unique Biz Summit, saw huge participation from the members. Some of the subject matter experts from ISODA who shared their business experiences were Sudhir Kothari (His idea of 10x growth), Sandeep Sengupta (Cyber Security Hygiene and Ethical Hacking) and Hemant Chabria (Hot Pitch). The Hot Pitch saw 8 ISODA MEMBERS from different parts of India, pitching about their “Product,” Services” or “Training”. The speciality speaker for the occasion was Soustav Chakraborty from Capital Quotient Bangalore and he spoke on “How to become financially 10x in a 5-7 year horizon”.
The Biz Summit had 5 sponsors Title Sponsor – Team viewer; Platinum Sponsor- LogMeIn; Gold Sponsor – Zoho; Networking Sponsor – Commscope; and Dinner Sponsor – ReaQta. Each one of them gave a big thumbs up to the event.
