Dear all,
A big thank you for making something which was started as 10-12 people planning session and got transformed into a special event participated by
98 people. Yes that was the final count.
Some Statistics:
190 : No of people who had expressed interest in a Mumbai HR meet on CiteHR website in
last 4 years
341: No of people who expressed interest in attending the 4th April 09 meet in
last 13 days
13 : Total number of elapsed days from conceptualizing the 4th April 09 Meet till the meet date
20 : Initial expected/ planned participation turnout
166 : No of people confirmed registered
65 : No of people who had to be told NO since we were overbooked
110 : No of new calls /mails requests for registrations that we did not take on April 4th as we were overloaded for organizing the expanded logistics requirements because of the overwhelming response
Thank You Notes:
We thank each one of the 98 people who made the event alive by their presence and full hearted participation and cooperation. Each of you took out your prime time of Saturday evening to be with everyone. Also for filling the complete registration form diligently to give us an insight about you. Also for all the ideas and offer of support in future events. THANK YOU.
We thank each of the 23 people who took time out to inform us before the program that they will not be able to make it.
We thank all those 190 people who expressed interest in Mumbai HR meet in last 4 years, that sparked us into action to start something memorable. Also all those people who organized and participated in previous Mumbai meets. Also to those people who initiated threads that we must have Mumbai HR meet. All those threads gave us our initial mailing and SMS list for the event. They all sowed the seeds of the sprout we saw on 4th April 09.
We thank CiteHR website, that allowed us to come together in creating this event. Also its threads gave us our initial mobile & email list.
We thank Siddharth Roy, CiteHR Administrator & owner to help us reaching out to maximum number of HR professionals in Mumbai.
We thank each of the following organizing team members who helped whole-heartedly to make this event work:
Support team:
Jalpa Joshi: Thank you, for organizing still & video coverage of the event & getting a show-reel of the event made. All complimentary. This will immensely help us in getting sponsorships. Also for giving idea for speed HR datingJ. Also for diligently making tags in a beautiful handwriting on the positive take-aways from the event.
Kenneth Lewis: Thank you, for bringing life in organizing the speed HR dating and conducting the idea generation module.
Abhishek Srivastav: Thank you, for organizing 100s of Reg form print-outs & other stationery. For organizing colour print out of banners. For directing new participants when they arrived. For taking down minutes of all the proceedings so that others can spend time participating in the event.
Hema Ghogre: Thank you, for taking charge of registration desk, ensuring that all unfilled forms are filled, bringing 6-sigma accuracy in collecting visiting cards, registration forms. Also for organizing accessories.
Ruchi Maheshwari: Thank you, for manning registration desk and helping in streamlining it. Also for relieving the other registration desk members in the last mile from 7:10 pm to 8:15 pm, to enable them also to participate in the idea generation module.
Prasanna Advadkar :Thank you, for manning registration desk & sharing the sudden load of participants.
Lakshmi: Thank you, for manning registration desk & handling participants
Meenakshi Kaul: Thank you for initiating the CiteHR Mumbai meet thread on 18-May-2008, this helped us in collecting email & mobile list. For active support in the events during the day. For the loudest whistle that could get us people’s attentionJ
Ian Gallyot: Thank you for your active support in various events during the day.
Bhavini Sejpal & Abhinav Sabharwal: Thank you for helping in exploring finding a complimentary venue around Dadar, going & meeting various schools & colleges.
Rajat Gupta: Thank you for giving an impromptu vote of thanks & organizing mementoes on your own initiative.
Video & Still coverage team
-Shrey Upadhyay (9833502323) & Dhruv Shah (9869716366): They are amateur photographers & aspiring film makers and do freelancing photography & video coverage. Thank you for taking your precious Saturday evening for this event coverage. Also for agreeing to create a promotional show-reel of the event.
-Mahi Chaddha: Thank you for handling still photography
A special thanks to Pankaj Sawardekar for sponsoring part payment of expenses on a 2 hour notice from his company.
Core Coordination:
Neeraj Agrawal: Thank you for initiating this entire event & working day & night in making this event work. For creating an environment that allowed so much support from all quarters. For overall managing the show from the beginning till the end.
Rohan Singal: Thank you for collating and maintaining the database of all potential & confirmed participants. For sending mailers & SMS to all. For answering queries. For project planningJ & delivery support. For organizing sponsorship to cover part expenses. For coordinating the overall event.
Neha Mehta: Thank you for helping in maintaining database of participants, handling mails & enquiries (especially the deluge of calls & mails on April 2,3 & 4), getting confirmations from people. For selecting the venue. For organizing internal meetings, For making all participants labels. For spending midnight hours on e-mails after full working days (at the cost of studying for her exams). Also for being available to help at a short notice of 1 hour and reach wherever requested for the support.
Dipali Golwala: Thank you for providing an apt venue from Neelkanth group complimentarily. For insisting again & again to do better, detailed step by step planning of the entire event, despite our resistance. For personally under-writing all additional venue expenses including a/c, extra chairs, PA system, water & cold-drinks. For handling deluge of calls & emails for registrations. For handling participation requests politely till the last hour.
NOTE:
Four photographs are enclosed.
-Three full group photographs are the ones that we got in a hurry. They may be missing some people who were standing on the edges. Our apologies in advance. Our photography team will collate and give us a complete wide-angle photograph (hopefully with red-eye correction) next week.
-Organization team photograph:
oFront Row : Left to Right : Jalpa Joshi, Neha Mehta, Dipali Golwala, Hema Ghogre, Meenakshi Kaul, Sunayna Navani, Neeraj Agrawal
oBack Row: Left to Right : Abhishek Srivastav, Rohan Singal, Kenneth Lewis, Rajat Joshi, Ian Gallyot
Detailed minutes of meeting, details of next meeting on June 6th, 2009 will follow later
THANK YOU ALL
Warm regards:
Facilitating team:
Neeraj Agrawal: 9967647279, [Login to view]
Rohan Singal: 9820806712, [Login to view]
Neha Mehta: 9820930449, [Login to view]
Dipali Golwala: 9323112660, [Login to view]