ISODA concludes its AGM in Kolkata

The Infotech Software Dealers Association( ISODA) organised it's AGM in Kolkata on 10th August 2019 at JW Marriott. A unique innovation that the ISODA team had come up with this time was to precede the AGM with Biz Summit, where newer vendors got to network with ISODA members for a complete day and ISODA members got an opportunity to Hot Pitch their solutions to their peers. The theme of the Biz Summit was 10X, signifying efforts of the community as a whole to achieve 10 times the business from the current scenario.

At the AGM, after the financials and the last years’ minutes were passed, the elections took place for the following positions: Rajeev Mamidanna, erstwhile President of ISODA and Co-founder & CEO of Technosprout systems won the Vice Chairman’s position. Dnyanesh Kulkarni, founder ISODA, erstwhile Secretary of ISODA and Director – Deltakraft won the Vice President’s position. The position for Secretary was retained by Vimesh Avlani, Director – Graftronics. Amarnath Shetty, Managing Director LDS Infotech, who was the Vice-Chairman in the last term, got promoted as Chairman of ISODA. Manasi Saha, Founder & Owner of Macaws Infotech, who was the Vice President in the last term, got promoted as President of ISODA.

ISODA is glad to inform that two new regional chapters have begun operations in full swing viz: Rajasthan and Hyderabad. Apart from the Regional Secretaries, now there are additional Regional Secretaries to ensure propagation of ISODA in the new regions.

The New Managing Committee is as follows:

* Chair Person – Amarnath Shetty, LDS Infotech

* Vice Chairperson - Rajeev Mamidanna, Technosprout systems

* President – Manasi Saha, Macaws Infotech

* Vice President – Dnyanesh Kulkarni, Deltakraft Solutions

* Secretary - Vimesh Avlani, Graftronics

* Treasurer – Ravi Jalan, Shakti Enterprises

The top priorities for ISODA Management Committee this year will be:

* Implement ISODA ASAP (As Skilled As Possible)

* Take collaboration within members to next level

* Upscale CSR activities

* Improve communication with vendors and distributors

* ISODA marketplace to showcase products and services

* A unique identifier for all ISODA members

* Ensuring addition of new members and retention of old members

* Soft skill development for ISODA members and their employees to enhance knowledge

* Focus to be increased in non-metro cities

* Member Grievances cell to be set up to address and solve business or transaction related issues

* Inter country collaboration with our neighbouring countries and their trade associations

* Focus on P2P (Partner relations)

* Digital Marketing to be taken to next level by Increasing visibility of ISODA socially

The Tech Summit 10 Chairman. Jiten Mehta of Magnamious was selected as chairman of TS 10.

The Biz Summit had 5 sponsors and each one of them gave a big thumbs up to the event and they were Team viewer, LogMeIn,Zoho, Commscope and ReaQta.