CLUBS

Alpha Beta- The product Management Club

“Only move forward with creating a product that will be “above the bar.”

– Brian Lawley

AlphaBeta the Product Management club of IIM Sambalpur aims to cultivate the Product enthusiasts of today to the Product Leaders of tomorrow facilitating networking and recruiting opportunities, and empowering students to solve real-world problems. The ultimate goal of the club is to foster industry leaders in product management domain. We foster an environment of creativity, innovation, and networking.

We act as a platform to foster product leadership and perspective among students regardless of the career path. This will be done by building a community, a team and by hosting relevant events focused on this vision.

We introduce students to the latest trends on designing IT Products and bridging the gap between learning and practice by having sessions and workshops with industry experts from the product domain.

The key activities conducted by the club are Guest sessions, Product Bootcamps, workshops infusing strategy with Product Management concepts and placement related training exercises & documents to give the students an edge when it comes to applying for their dream Product management company. The flagship event- The Ultimate PM, is a national level competition, which provides a platform for students to compete with other B- Schools, to test their Product management & problem-solving acumen. Overall, we provide a forum for discussion on product management related issues by serving as a facilitator for communication between the community, industry and academics.

Email: alphabeta@iimsambalpur.ac.in

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Eshant pal	Senior coordinator	8076942481
Harshpreet Sibbal	Senior coordinator	9571565679
Khushi Sinha	Senior coordinator	9110060734
Maithilee Kadam	Senior coordinator	7738948155
Shubham Singh	Senior coordinator	9161175375

Bears n Bulls – Finance Club

Bears n Bulls – The Finance Club of IIM Sambalpur acts as a platform to bring together participants who share an interest in the area of finance and economics. The club aims to disseminate knowledge through peer-to-peer learning and to bridge the gap between practical understanding and theoretical concepts. The club conducts workshops on different areas of finance so that, every finance enthusiast can learn something more, apart from what is taught in the classroom. Adding more to the opportunities, the club organizes fortnightly sessions on “Financial and Business Trends”, a bimonthly magazine named “Finsights” where the member and other finance enthusiasts share their thoughts and opinions about the current financial and economic issues and various competitions including its flagship “Equinotch” which is a Stock Valuation Challenge to make students acclimatize themselves with the nuances of stock markets and valuation.

‘Bears n Bulls’ wishes to develop a corporate-academia environment by conducting various guest lectures by industry experts. Bears n Bulls has its official Facebook and LinkedIn page where the club tries to engage its followers by sharing interesting posts, articles, facts, and news daily which enhances the participant’s skills to self-assess their financial awareness and assist them in inculcating a deeper understanding of Finance.

Email: bnb.finclub@iimsambalpur.ac.in

Consiglio – Consulting Club

Consiglio-The Consulting Club of IIM Sambalpur aims to leverage the strategy and consulting experience with the help of live projects and company-sponsored assignments. The club organizes various events on campus such as Case Interviews, Case Study Framework sessions, and Case Discussions which seek to extend and build on the interest and intellectual capital of IIM Sambalpur students. During the year 2021-2022, the club hosted the third edition of the Annual Business Consulting conclave – Vivitsa 3.0. This year the event was bigger and better and the hybrid approach was leveraged to extend our outreach to visionaries across industrial sectors and management domains. The club also hosted a series of competitions ranging from National level Consulting case competitions to Guesstimate both at the center and inter-college level. It is also dedicated to conducting a host of events such as Consulting Cohorts, Panel Discussions, Placement workshops, and so on.

Email: consiglio@iimsambalpur.ac.in

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Asik Kafoor	Senior Partner	9994928359
Lokesh Nallabothula	Senior Partner	7406561547
Vikash Kumar Sharma	Senior Partner	8981711789
Karthick B	Senior Partner	8122162622

Emporia– Marketing club

Emporia, the Marketing Club of IIM Sambalpur, aims at inculcating passion and interest among the students in the field of sales and Marketing, which is an integral part of Management education. The club offers a perfect blend of theoretical sessions, simulations, and case studies to encourage the students who aim to pursue their careers in the domain of marketing. Through workshops conducted by industry experts and multiple on-campus activities, Emporia facilitates an overall development for budding marketers to succeed in the dynamic business realm.

The highlights of the multiple initiatives taken by Emporia include quizzes, case competitions, guest lectures, and some fun events. The events are meticulously crafted to activate creativity, backed by logic and reasoning.

Emporia’s new venture, Markdarshan, is an opportunity for students to interact with corporate leaders and get enlightened by their words of wisdom and success stories.

Besides discussion with experts, several marketing events like Brandbaazi and Pronigma attract students from all over the country. The contests are not just about sketching strategies but are also full-filled.

M-Vision, the marketing conclave of Emporia, is another opportunity for marketing enthusiasts to draw insights into current trends.

The marketing fest, Ballyhoo street, is overloaded with amusement and creative activities.

Sharing peer-peer experience is crucial in learning management and business tactics. Markernship diary is a facility where students share their Summer Internship experiences across domains. This initiative throws light on the effort and achievements of the student fraternity of IIM Sambalpur.

Email: marketingclub@iimsambalpur.ac.in

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Karanam Sai Spandana	President	73863 40470
Neeraj Sharma	Vice President	88267 52605
Somya Dubey	Treasurer	76075 41032
Abhishek Yadav	Senior Co-ordinator	97390 59742
Gyanendra Sethi	Senior Co-ordinator	94374 47386
Gomathi S R	Senior Co-ordinator	95434 82914
B S Smruthi Shreeya	Senior Co-ordinator	73491 81009

HRidaya – HR club

HRidaya provides a platform for HR enthusiasts to improve their skills and expand their knowledge base. We promote understanding of the HR field through academic and extracurricular activities, build industry-related HR skills in the student community, and close existing gaps through training and development.

SAMeeksha is our own podcast series in which business executives answer key HR-related questions and give students the opportunity to connect with industry-academia and the world around them. “Twarit” – The Rapid Fire Quiz and our flagship event, “SAMviksha 5.0,” are national events that invite HR enthusiasts from various B-schools to demonstrate their HR management expertise by handling complicated issues that HR managers may face in the course of their duties. In addition, we’ve launched the “SAMavesh” webinar series, which features guest lectures and sessions from renowned HR experts, as well as one-on-one conversations to learn more about some of the trendiest topics.

Through multiple interactions and events, the club strives to enhance industry-related HR skills among the student community and bridge prevailing gaps.

Name	Designation	Contact No.
Shubham Vishwakarma	President	80086 51045
Isha Mittal	Vice President	88603 44922
Shubham Bhatt	Treasurer	75031 80407
Amruta Sarma	Event Head	98348 01825
Swapnika Krishnareddygari	Social Media Coordinator	83740 19180

Illuminati club

“Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things, they never thought they could.” – Steve Jobs.

Illuminati – The literary club of IIM Sambalpur acts as a platform for budding writers, orators, and performers to explore their untapped creative potential. The club’s vision is to foster intellectual stimulation, spark the desire amongst students for continuous learning, and further incorporate these as a way of life. The club aims to achieve this by conducting regular book meets, book exchange events, spoken tales, and poetry recitations. Competitions such as creative writing, extempore, debates, and quizzes are conducted to promote literature in the institute. Seminars from Industry speakers on personal and professional communication brings industry insights. Quarterly newsletters are published to provide a platform for students to express their creative side.

Illuminati aspires to provide a common platform for all who want to improve their public speaking skills. The club plays a vital role in sustaining the quizzing interests of the inquisitive folks in the college. Forming a team of literary enthusiasts, Illuminati aims at providing a platform to represent IIM Sambalpur in various PAN India literary events, acting as the point of contact for the external bodies.

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Anukriti Soni	Senior Coordinator	9174711433
Raj Jeevan	Senior Coordinator	9061006601
Uday Sen Bharadwaj	Senior Coordinator	7995340582
Vaishnavi Khushwaha	Senior Coordinator	8090231225
Aman Singh	Senior Coordinator	9971525672
Simran Saxena	Senior Coordinator	8826806461

Natyarang | The dramatics Club

“Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is a contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition, and eventually to an awakening of understanding.” – Peter Brook Natyarang dramatics club of IIM Sambalpur gives a platform for students to express and present their creative side to the fullest on the stage. It helps in extracting managerial learnings like public speaking, communication skills, teamwork, and leadership qualities. ‘’ Imagination” of an individual to help enhance the scene and prepare for impromptu live situations is the hallmark of Natyarang. The vision of the club is to create artistic flair in the students and to make students on campus appreciative of and sensitive to beauty in art.

Natyarang dramatics club hosts Drama, skits, street plays, stand-up, monologue, MIME, and many more events on the campus, which makes hectic MBA life more high-spirited in IIM Sambalpur. We participate in national-level theatre festivals of different colleges and update all our activities and snippets of our performances on social media platforms.

Email: natyarang.dramaticsclub@iimsambalpur.ac.in

R² (R-squared), IT and Analytics Club

“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.”
– Peter Sondergaard

As data science domain provides valuable insight to every business field for the decision-making process, a future business leader needs to have hands-on experience on taming valuable data points and extracting crucial information. R Squared, the IT and Analytics Club, focused on inculcating a data-driven decision-making approach among the students of IIM Sambalpur does so by conducting workshops on various data analysis and visualization tools, coordinating with other clubs and committees to conduct guest lectures, to name a few. The club also publishes articles on a biweekly basis to keep students updated with trending news and innovations in the field of IT and analytics. However, the central pillar that holds the whole structure of R Squared together is its altruistic attitude when it comes to knowledge sharing.

Connect with us via: rsquared@iimsambalpur.ac.in

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rsquarediim
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rsquarediim

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Manu Sarang	Head, Corporate Affairs	8210002305
Rounak Mazumdar	Head Design and Magazine	9830661642
Prudhivi Sindhuri	Head, Learning, and Development	8801927501
Kshitij Kaushal	Head, PR and Promotions	8084708452
Sidharth Das	Head, Events, and Sponsorship	9078108434

Sigmato – Operations Club

Sigmato -The Operations club at IIM Sambalpur, a fulcrum for operations related activities. It acts as a liaison between classroom theories and practical applications in various fields of operations such as operations strategy, logistics and supply chain planning, inventory management, etc. It works with the aim of acquainting students with the latest trends in the operations and supply chain industry by conducting guest-lectures, industry visits, workshops, live projects, case study competitions, and simulation games. Besides these activities, the club has taken up the initiative to provide students with the opportunity to acquire skill in ‘Lean Six Sigma Green Belt’ certification by KPMG. Its vision is to extend the ambit of erudition by carving out the realistic intuition in the learner’s mind.

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sigmatoiimsambalpur
LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sigmato-iimsambalpur
Email: sigmato@iimsambalpur.ac.in

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Shantam Choubey	President	81076 09953
Mithran Jeyashankar	Vice President	73974 37960
Ridhi Gambhir	Treasurer	99584 95840
Abid Rashid	PR Head	97484 17633
Shikha Jyoti	Event head	81021 13557
Shreyash Kanhed	Industry Relations	91124 23109

CyberSpark

CyberSpark – IIM Sambalpur

The idea behind CyberSpark club is to familiarize participants to the industry of video games and e-sports. These fields are severely underdeveloped in our country and have much potential. It is a great stepping point for participants who want to understand the business side of e-sports. Through our events, we provide hands-on experience in organizing an e-sports event. The club also acts as a platform for those interested in e-sports to compete among themselves and compete in competitions held by other colleges. Most of the events are team based which will promote teambuilding amongst the participants.

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Aayush Mehta	SENIOR COORDINATOR	6351 518 707
Avantika Mishra	SENIOR COORDINATOR	83370 98693
Mathkar Ajay Nhanu	SENIOR COORDINATOR	70576 64407
Kunte Viplav Vivek	SENIOR COORDINATOR	70380 60560
Utkarsh Awasthi	SENIOR COORDINATOR	88676 13612
Patil Nikhil	SENIOR COORDINATOR	83082 91808
K S Bhuvanesh	SENIOR COORDINATOR	80723 19793
Bhimavarapu Aditya Teja	SENIOR COORDINATOR	91212 39457
Kshitij Kaushal	SENIOR COORDINATOR	80847 08452
Abhishek Yadav	SENIOR COORDINATOR	97390 59742

Magnum Opus – Art club

“Art speaks where words are unable to explain! ”
Magnum Opus – The Art club of IIM Sambalpur acts as a platform to provide an avenue for those who want to manifest their flair and express their love for the art they are passionate about. The club helps the participants who are impassioned to dancing, singing, dramatics and various other forms of art, want to improve and take it to the next level. The vision of the club is to create an art theatre in IIM Sambalpur for inspirational and aspirational youth. The club is dedicated to the promotion of art forms at IIM Sambalpur and provide students with a diversion from their strict academic curriculum to get involved in various artistic activities and showcase their talent and creativity. The members of the club work together to nurture talent and help students perform with their full potential in various events conducted by IIM Sambalpur and represent the institute in various inter-college events and competitions.

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Swarnali Ghosh	Head Coordinator	99037 61252
Sourav Ranjan Behera	Head Coordinator	80956 99861
Himanshu Verma	Head Coordinator	73552 96016
Rhythm Goyal	Head Coordinator	79739 98544
Hrithikha M P	Head Coordinator	95674 69772
Neha Bhalshankar	Head Coordinator	88559 18660

Pixel- Design and photography Club

PIXEL the photography and design club of IIM Sambalpur was founded by a bunch of photography lovers in the institute. PIXEL is designed to capture all of the colors and shades of life at IIM Sambalpur. The club manages the media database of all events that happen under the name of IIM Sambalpur. It is accomplished by collaborating with other clubs and committees when some event in and out of the institute is organized. The pictures are then released to the PR & Media committee for the publications as and when necessary.

Via photos, videos and posters the club captures the essence of life at IIM Sambalpur. Nothing fails the PIXEL sight, be it the high profile seminar at the institute or the beauty of Sambalpur. The club members are selected because of their passion for photography, design and love for nature. Within the club workshops, its participants are encouraged to develop their photography and design skills and incorporate new dimensions. To help the students take a break from the monotonous routine, there are other events and activities arranged by PIXEL, outside the campus. The club also organizes photography and designing contests online and offline; and responsible for capturing all the moments of Ethos-IIM Sambalpur’s Cultural, Business & Sports Fest.

Just as people archive memories in their mind, PIXEL archives memories in photographs for the memories to grow old with the students and the institute, and also to transfer those moments to the students coming at IIM Sambalpur.

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Yukta Ahlawat	Head Coordinator, Photography	8929968466
Rohit Yadav	Head Coordinator, Photography	8130622615
Praveen Kumar	Head Coordinator, Photography	9915047117
Suyash Pawaskar	Head Coordinator, Cinematography	9819034994
Tarun Pangaria	Head Coordinator, Designing	8191880047
Diksha Bist	Head Coordinator, Designing	9423910676

Sankalp- The Social Club

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

Sankalp- the social club of IIM Sambalpur strives to create a positive impact and give back to society through various initiatives while making the future corporate leaders more aware and sensitize them towards their duties to the society. It aims to actively participate to help and support underprivileged and contribute to their empowerment and upliftment and make them self-dependent. Sankalp along with the whole IIM Sambalpur family will put in all their efforts to achieve its goals and make favorable differences across various levels.

Name	Designation	Contact Number
Preeti Joshi	President	8475027672
Saloni Gupta	Vice President	9582978150
Amrita Pasari	Senior Coordinator	7044208045
Nirupama Konaurkar	Senior Coordinator	7799201217
Diya Bharadwaj	Senior Coordinator	8929928846
Swapnatej Pawar	Senior Coordinator	9764439906
Jalaj Tiwari	Senior Coordinator	9406811700
Isha Mittal	Senior Coordinator	8860344922