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The Horizon Conclave is a conference of experts in the industry organized at Mumbai usually as a part of the Industrial visit to the dream city of India. The IV includes a train journey between Coimbatore and Mumbai, visits to the organized and unorganized retail setups , informative sessions at World trade Center, Bombay Stock Exchange and Jawarhalal Nehru Port Trust as well a tour of the city for shopping, entertainment and fun.
Our students account on the visit and conference:
We were so much excited as a class to make the industrial visit a memorable one. We aspired to learn a lot and have fun at the same time.
The train journey started off well on a bright Sunday morning. We grew more energetic as the hours passed by and I could say that it was the best journey I had in my life. We sang, played and ate together and the best part was enjoying it as a whole class.
Though our train reached Mumbai late by four hours, we had nothing to complain. First-timers to Mumbai were in awe of the big city and the rest were also equally excited. We checked in at Hotel Balwas in Mumbai Central. Then we had enough time to refresh ourselves and check out the malls in Mumbai.
On Wednesday, we were all dressed up formally in our blazers and awaited eagerly to attend Horizon, a CEOs Conclave organised by GRD SCIB at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel . This was the best part of the trip where we were lucky to listen to great people who shared their experiences and knowledge to groom us.
We had amazing speakers like Mr.Dheeraj Sinha, Mr.Rahul Narvekar, Mr.Suman Srivatsava, Rohith and Dr.JJ.Irani. We had a great learning on branding, marketing and entrepreneurship from these legends.
Then we came back to the city and spent our last few hours in Mumbai at the Linking road which is one among the major parts of unorganized retail sector.
Finally, we reached the railway station with heavy hearts as we already started missing the Mumbai city. Though we were all not so energetic like we were in the beginning of the journey, we still managed to make it a fun trip back to Coimbatore.
We had a great trip and missed it so much that we started planning for the next trip!