Winners of Business Intelligence Quotient 2009
What a quiz this was! Being in the second year of BIQ, we had to outperform to last year. Technology Senate 7.0 (Phuket, August 20-23, 2009) had a series of quizzes on BI.
As per the format of the quiz, the prelim was a crossword having mix of questions from across subjects related to Enterprise Application like Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and the five participants chosen made it to the final and very interesting rounds. The winners of three days were as follows:
Prize Winners Day One
First Prize – Rahul Mahajan, GM-IT, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
First Runner-up – Prasad Parab, Chief IT, Pidilite Industries
Second Runner-up – Ajay Bakshi, AVP-IT, Hinduja Global Solutions
Prize Winners Day Two
First Prize – Vilas Pujari, CIO, ACG Worldwide
First Runner-up – Manikkam Subramaniam, Head IT, Henkel CAC
Second Runner-up – Prasad Parab, Chief IT, Pidilite Industries
Prize Winners Day Three
First Prize – Vinay Hinge, GM IT, Raymond
First Runner-up – Dipesh Thakkar, Group CTO, Dawnay Day AV India
Second Runner-up – Subhasish Saha, CTO, Appejay Surrendra Group
The winner was given External HDD as a prize. 1st runner up won External DVD Writer & 2nd runner up won a Chroma laptop bag.
The participants and the audience enjoyed the quiz. The quiz format in the final three rounds was fantastic and edge-of-the-seat stuff, with not a moment to relax.
A fantastic session of quizzing, laced with liberal doses of humor from the quizmaster and some amazing audience prizes that kept everyone happy at Phuket.
BIQ 2009 was another humbling event from MAIA Intelligence. I think all the participants have done really, really well. We had bright and quick CIOs with wide interests & carry huge amount of knowledge in their own technology field. So, congratulations to all the participants and especially to the winners.
I would also like to thank Indian Express Group for their support and allowing us to hold this competition for the second time.
Let me end by congratulating all participants again, not just those on stage, but also many of them in the audience. And again, thanks to everyone associated with Technology Senate 7.0, who provided the platform for making this wonderful quiz a huge roaring success.
Posted on September 1st, 2009 by Vikram Kole
Filed under: Business Intelligence, CIO Community
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