Indian Institute of Management Lucknow set a record of sorts on Saturday when it organised a one-day coordinated and simultaneous worldwide meeting of the alumni at 10 locations — five in India and five abroad.
The meeting, a confluence of the best brains in the corporate world, put their heads together to develop meaningful activities to assist their alma mater and Unicef.
According to an IIM-L release, the traditional alumni meet, focuses on the alumni getting together, networking and celebrating.
“This year, we have come up with a novel variation. The annual summer alumni meets have been consolidated into a single worldwide meeting of the IIM Lucknow community. This coordinated meeting was held at 10 locations across the globe. The event follows the sun, starting from Singapore, then reaching India (Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi), moving on to Kuwait, followed by London, then crossing the Atlantic to New York and the last get together of the day at San Francisco. More than 1,500 alumni participated along with IIM-L faculty and students,” said Anuradha Manjul, public and media relations officer.
The event, structured around a grand and informative evening, gave an added opportunity to the alumni to make a difference.
Unicef, which partnered the event with the IIM Lucknow Alumni Association, expressed its keenness to enlist the help of the IIM Lucknow community to help with their initiatives in India and globally.
The IIM Lucknow Alumni Association said that it would develop a framework by which IIML alumni could use their experience and skills to assist Unicef programmes.
With more than 5,000 alumni in a number of senior management positions worldwide, the IIM Lucknow alumni are confident of making a meaningful contribution to the country via Unicef.
“We are a community of very successful and skilled individuals, and all that is needed to make a significant difference is for us to work together for a common cause, be it assisting the alma mater or working with Unicef” said Vinit Chauhan, president of the IIM Lucknow Alumni Association.
Incidentally, the IIM-L alumni have, in the past, actively participated in the Kargil War Relief Efforts and Tsunami Relief Mobilisation and have also been maintaining benevolent funds for IIM Lucknow staff and alumni.