Appropriate as it was to the theme of SIMERGENCE '08 the venue of the event was the Sir Dinshaw Petit International Convention Hall at Bombay Stock Exchange which is truly the testing ground of India Inc. SIMERGENCE '08 focused on the four pillars of the financial world, namely Banking, Insurance, Mutual Funds and Investment Banking.

The list of speakers for SIMERGENCE '08 encompassed most of the areas under the aegis of the Financial Sector. They included:

Mr. A. P. Kurian, Chairman, AMFI Mr. Hemant Kaul, President, Axis Bank - Retail Ms. Moumita Sen Sarma, VP Head - Microfinance ABN Amro Mr. Prakash Jaju, Enam Securities Mr. Vijay Mantri, CEO, Deutsche AMC

Mr. Gaurang Shah, MD, Kotak Life Insurance Mr. Kartik Jain, Head - Marketing, ICICI Lombard Mr. N. S. Kannan, Executive Director, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited Mr. Sameer Sain, CEO, Future Capital Holdings

Along with the Key note speaker Ms. Uma Shashikant, Director, CIEL, each of the panelists brought to the table many years of expertise and intimate understanding of their own individual sector. Overall, every one of the 450 very enthusiastic participants, representing a cross section of companies and B-Schools, found the event exciting and rewarding as it provided an able interface between the students and corporates.

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