Analytics Society hosts annual analytical festival ‘Spectra’ on March 19th and 20th

The Analytics Society of the students of the two-year MBA programme at IIM Bangalore hosted the third edition of Spectra, the annual analytics festival. The two-day event is aimed to keep up with the changing dynamics of the real world by introducing a new way of logical thinking. With a case event, along with on-spot events and social media engagements, Spectra combined analytics with fun and was able to generate huge interest amongst participants from within and outside IIM Bangalore.

Spectra’s flagship event ‘Bits & Bytes’, an analytics case competition, was organised in association with Wells Fargo, a financial services company. ‘Bits & Bytes’ which was a nationwide case competition received participation from top business schools and engineering colleges across the country. This case competition provided great exposure to the students to working on real-time problem statements, where the participants presented end-to-end solutions to the case statements and the same were judged by a panel from Wells Fargo. The panel consisted of Naveen Yeri, Sr. VP, Head of Enterprise Analytics & Data Science, Manish Pandey, Advanced Analytics Manager and Professor Jitamitra Desai, faculty and Chairperson, Decision Sciences area, and Chairperson, Supply Chain Management Centre, IIM Bangalore.