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First event overagec. June 13-14 we got to cover our first event. It was an event management workshop conducted by iReboot, The workshop was held at the 12th Avenue hotel in Indiranagar, Bangalore. Sidhanta Patnaik from the renonwed Wizcraft international was the mentor at the workshop.

In all there were 9 participants all from various backgrounds. The age group was also a varied lot with students ranging from as young as 14 to students moving from school to college to Engineers to pursuing MBA’s to MBA’s to Businessmen were present.

There were great insights on the Event Management Industry, how it operates, what are the things one should know before getting into the industry, what rules (not to be followed) inside the industry. What all risks one faces while conducting the events, the crunch situations, how to build networks, why relationships matter, facing critical situations, making instantaneous decsions, applying Common Sense and handling the crowd were some of the major points that were told that should be taken care of during the events.

Then there were discussions on a lot of matters with students asking a lot of “What if ” queries. At the end of day1 the participants were divided into 2 teams and were given a real life problem for which they had to conceptualize an event. The end of the day was brought by showing pictures and sharing some stories of the events which Sidhanta had conducted, the major ones were the SUnfeast 10K run in bangalore last month, the Nike Indian Cricket Team new jersey launch in Feb’09 and the handling of the KingsXI Punjab, IPL team during the first season last year.

Day2 saw some event promtion techniques, various orthodox as well as unconventional ways of marketing, advertising about your event. Also money involved and raising the money were discussed. The second half was primarily a leadership session with live examples being put into place. Sidhanta, having conducted so many events, had a lot of stories to share which the participants really enjoyed and helped them in connecting with the real scenarios he was presenting them.

The workshop was so great that the participants refrained from breaks on both days and even didn’t want to go for lunch until the mentor himself asked. All in all it was a great workshop with everybody learning so much that they decided to organize an event in the next couple of months showing appreciation to iReboot. We wish the participants and iReboot success.