Event On : 24 Feb 2020

Managedia 2020, Chrysalis Celebrating Change, Celebrating Game Changers presented by iLEAD in association with t2 and co-association with Auto Mate and Shimla Restaurant was held from February 24th to 28th 2020 at the iLEAD campus, Topsia. With participants from 40 colleges, 53 sponsors and 200 judges, the 7th edition of Managedia was an exciting and unforgettable event.

Sanjay K. Jain, eminent author, scholar and Managing Director of TT Ltd was the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of Managedia this year. Rahul Agarwal, CEO, Founder Director of Ideal Insurance,Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, acclaimed filmmaker and Jimmy Tangree, Head of 91.9 Friends FM,presided over as the Guests of Honor.

The team of the Bengali film Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti including actors Ritabhari Chakraborty, Soham Majumdar and director Aritro Mukherjee attended the inaugural ceremony along with singer Ujjaini Mukherjee.

Also Project Life Force with an idea to make West Bengal a zero blood deficit state set up a camp for blood donation at iLEAD helping us to merge a social cause with Managedia 2020.

Colleges that participated in the event included JDBI, Bhawanipur Education Society College, EIILM, Shri Shikshayatan, Techno India, IAM, Jaipuria College, Heritage Academy, St. Xaviers College, Muralidhar College, Goenka College, IHM, Agrasain College, George College Surendranath College, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee College, NSHM and more.

Students from different colleges were given the challenging task to come up with ideas that were innovative and adaptive with changing times and technology. The best among them were selected in various events of media, management, sports, culinary, design, debate, AI and data analytics, animation, field and cultural programs. The events ranged from Business Plan, Best Manager, Digital Marketing, AD and PR, Journalism, Marketing, Field Event, Film and Photography, Quill Verse, Finance, Business Discourse, Corporate Interview, Debate, Design and Animation. The cultural fest included face painting, unconventional painting, doodle art, standup comedy, storytelling, solo and group dance, dance cypher, solo singing eastern and western, war of rappers, beat boxing, genre singing, fashion show, stage drama, band and much more. Some of the new events that were included this year were AI, Data Analytics and Culinary.

Almost 10 sports events were conducted in two days. They included men and women teams in football, cricket, chess, kabaddi, carom, fitness mania and more.

The different rounds of management included presentations on implementing various AI technologies in business, diversification and also adapting to economically and environmentally sustainable strategies taking clues from ancient Indian practices. Students gave presentations on How to revive BSNL, Revival strategy for Air India and also various marketing strategies for health care industry, automobile industry and fashion industry.The media rounds included presentations on journalism courage and podcasts. Students also had to design a newspaper called Calcutta Mirror and create photo stories on Changes in the city of Calcutta.The Ad and PR round were based on crisis management and logo making. The RJ Hunt round included themes like breakfast and snoozing alarm. The Digital Marketing event had rounds like selfie campaign, digital filmmaking and social media campaign wherein the participants had to create selfies/groupfies implementing given themes, a 3 minutes film on the theme of Students as Game Changers and a social media campaign on eco-friendly sanitary napkins. The marveling doodle art, face painting, unconventional painting and digital painting rounds were based on the concept of Evolution.

The rounds of Slam Poetry and Storytelling were based on the theme of A Perfect Memory. The Confab round witnessed students debating for and against the motion The greatest threat to the planet is the belief that someone else will save it.

Interior Designing event also witnessed some innovative creativity from students wherein they proposed great designs based on the theme of Moments to Capture.

The cultural fest was power packed with memorable performances from various colleges and universities. The Fashion Show round witnessed some amazing themes based on gender power dynamics, freedom of choice, inclusivity in the fashion industry, women power and taboos faced in the stereotypical society.

The Solo Dance round had performances ranging from hip-hop, popping, break dance to Indian classical. Some of the Group Dance themes were based on women empowerment, freedom of expression and overall change in the society. The Solo and Group Singing rounds had renditions of classical and contemporary Bollywood numbers along with folk songs. The War of Rappers round witnessed battles on the themes of betrayal, friendship and family relationships.

The distinguished judges in various rounds of the events included Soumya Shankar Ghoshal (Canon Eos Maestro, Street and Documentary), Anoop Guha (Canon EOS Maestro, Renowned Photographer), Paayel Sengupta (Group Head, MSL), Indrani Raha (Head of Journalism and Mass Communication Department, Muralidhar Girls College), Dr. Mala Dasgupta (Founder, Grey Matter PR), Debasish Sen Sharma (Independent Film Maker, Theatrician), Neela Mukherjee (Folk Singer), Mousumi Roy (Dancer), Imon Kalyan (Choreographer), Abir Ghosh (Assistant Professor, Marketing), Joy Ghosh (Owner, A. J. Digital Enterprise), Kishore Nag (Co-Founder and CEO, Techwala Digital Marketing Consultancy),Anusreea Paul Mukherjee (IT professional, blogger and social media enthusiast ), Pankaj Karmakar (National Technical Head, Internet Marketing School), Dhruba Chatterjee (Agro India), Aishwarya Biswas (Founder Director, AuLi Lifestyle Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.) among others.

The final day of the event was concluded with closing award ceremony followed by enthralling performances by MC Altaf, Spindoctor, Satyen, J Trix and Subspace.

The awardees included

Marketing

Runner Up - iLEAD Team 2

Winner - iLEAD Team 1

Best Manager

Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - iLEAD Team B

B Plan

Runner Up - iLEAD Team 1

Winner - JDBI

Finance

Runner Up - JDBI

Winner - iLEAD Team 2

Business Quiz

Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - ILAED Team 2

Business Discourse

Runner Up -Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - iLEAD Team 1

Corporate Interview

Runner Up - JDBI Team 2

Winner - Jaipuria Team 1

Confab

2nd Runner Up- Surendranath College

1stRunner Up - iLEAD Team 2

Winner - Shri Shikshayatan

Judges Choice Speaker Surendranath College

Judges Choice Best Speaker - iLEAD

Quill Verse

Black Out Poetry - iLEAD

Dear Someone Bhawanipur Education Society College

Character Biopsy - iLEAD

AD and PR

Runner Up - iLEAD Team 2

Winner - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Journalism

Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - Shri Shikshayatan

RJ Hunt

Runner Up - iLEAD Team 2

Winner - Muralidhar College

Film and Photography

2nd Runner Up - IHM Team 1

1st Runner Up - Amity University

Winner - iLEAD Team 2

Digital Marketing (Selfie Campaign)

Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - iLEAD

Digital Marketing (Meme Making)

Runner Up - iLEAD

Winner - iLEAD

Digital Marketing (Digital Filmmaking)

Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - iLEAD

Digital Filmmaking (Social Media Campaign)

Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - iLEAD

Artificial Intelligence

Winner - iLEAD Team 2

Interior Design (Moments To Capture)

Runner Up - JDBI

Winner - iLEAD

Interior Design (Hello Kolkata)

Runner Up - ESEDS iLEAD

Winner - ESEDS iLEAD

Fashion Design

2nd Runner Up - NSHM

1stRunner Up - EIILM

Winner - ESEDS iLEAD

Culinary

Runner Up - iLEAD Team 1

Winner - IAM

Animation

Runner Up - HiTech Animation (Sonarpur)

Winner - HiTech Animation (Howrah)

Face Painting

2nd Runner Up - Goenka College

1st Runner Up - Shayamaprasad College

Winner - Shri Shikshayatan

Unconventional Painting

2nd Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

1st Runner Up - iLEAD

Winner - Shri Shikshayatan

Doodle Art

2nd Runner Up - ESEDS iLEAD

1st Runner Up - Muralidhar College

Winner - Shri Shikshayatan College

Poster Making

2nd Runner Up - JDBI

1st Runner Up - iLEAD Team 1

Winner - iLEAD Team 2

2nd Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

1st Runner Up - iLEAD Team 2

Winner - iLEAD Team 1

Stand Up Comedy

2nd Runner Up - THK Jain College

1st Runner Up - iLEAD

Winner - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Slam Poetry

2nd Runner Up - IHM

1st Runner Up - Techno India

Winner - JDBI

Storytelling

2nd Runner Up - iLEAD

1st Runner Up - Jaipuria College

Winner - Heritage College

Solo Singing Eastern

2nd Runner Up - Shyamaprasad College

1st Runner Up - iLEAD

Winner - iLEAD

Solo Singing Western

2nd Runner Up - iLEAD

1st Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - iLEAD

Folk Singing

2nd Runner Up - EIILM

1st Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - iLEAD

Genre Singing

1st Runner Up - iLEAD

Winner - Bhawanipur Education Society College

One Word One Song

2nd Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

1st Runner Up - Jaipuria College

Winner - iLEAD

Band

2nd Runner Up - EIILM

1st Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Winner - iLEAD

Beat Boxing

2nd Runner Up - St. Pauls College

1st Runner Up - St. Thomas' College of Engineering and Technology

Winner - Guru Nanak Institute of Hotel Management

War of Rappers

2nd Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

1st Runner Up - iLEAD

Winner - iLEAD

Stage Drama

2nd Runner Up - Muralidharan College

1st Runner Up - iLEAD Team 1

Winner - iLEAD Team 2

Best Actor (Male) - Askari Abbar

Best Actor (Female) - Yukti Verma

Solo Dance

2nd Runner Up - ABC College

1st Runner Up - IIHM

Winner - iLEAD

Group Dance

2nd Runner Up - Jaipuria College

1st Runner Up - EIILM

Winner - iLEAD Team A

Dance Cypher

2nd Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

1st Runner Up - iLEAD

Winner - Agrasain College

Fashion Show

2nd Runner Up - Bhawanipur Education Society College

1st Runner Up - NSHM

Winner - iLEAD

Mr and Ms Managedia - Debasmita Saha and and Askari Abbas from iLEAD

Best Representative College - Bhawanipur Education Society College

Most Active College - iLEAD

Best Visiting College - Bhawanipur Education Society College