A one day Event Management Workshop was organised by the Students’ Council of the College on 2nd August 2017 from 9.00 am onwards in Ganesh Daivajna Auditorium. The objective of this workshop was to equip the newly formed Student Bodies of the College with the tools and techniques of Event Management, which will help them in conducting events within and outside the campus. The resource persons were Ms. Gloria J. Fernandes and Ms. Prathita Desai.
The first session begin with a brief introduction about the workshop by Mr Sumit Kumar followed by the welcome address by Principal Dr. Prita D. Mallya.
During the first session, Resource Person Ms. Gloria J. Fernandes explained about planning, scheduling, executing, and controlling events in a simple way by relating everything with events like birthday, a day out with friends, etc… She explained the life cycle phases of an event including the stages involved in successfully putting on an event. Ms. Gloria Fernandes has worked with DNA Networks as Manager – Clientele Servicing and with Dempo College as Assistant Professor in Event Management.
The second session was conducted by Co-founder and Director of Eventura India Hub Pvt. Ltd. Ms. Prathita Desai, an alumnus of the College. She focussed upon the planning phase of event management and gave a detailed explanation as how to plan well in advance, how to distribute the work, and how to go for sponsorship. The workshop concluded with the vote of thanks proposed by Students’ Council General Secretary Mr. Jay Nagvenkar.
More than 90 participants from the various Student Bodies and other interested students of the College attended this workshop. The Overall feedback obtained was positive, appreciative and revealed that the sessions were informative, interactive and enthusiastically received by the participants. We are thankful to the resource persons Ms. Gloria Fernandes and Ms. Prathita Desai and the participants for the smooth conduct of the workshop.
