eWIT was formed with the vision: "To be the preferred forum for exchange of ideas and for pioneering initiatives so as to unleash the potential of women and drive their growth in the IT/ITES industry" with specific objectives of:

	Expanding the women workforce at all management levels and sustain and flourish
	Enabling women to tread the career path by equipping them with necessary skills
	Facilitating women's quest for a better 'work - life' balance in IT/ITES Sector
	Since inception, eWIT has organised various activities for spearheading growth and excellence among women professionals in the IT/ITES industry.

"The eWIT Excellence Award" for women professionals in the IT/ITES industry is designed to provide an opportunity for women IT/ITES professionals to showcase their talent and expertise in their respective areas. Over the last few years, we have had an excellent participation by women professionals for this competition. Our Sponsors for the AWARD have been –Cognizant Technology, Accenture & Tech Mahindra.

Category A: Technology

Managing data with emerging technologies
The amount of data generated and stored has exploded in the past few years because of new social behavior, the vast spread of Social system as well as the way businesses are being conducted. In this scenario, management of variety of data is beyond the capacity of relational database approaches. Given the amount of data expansion, technology challenges, organization limitations, privacy concerns among other obstacles, the trend is to approach analyzing data with new emerging technologies.

The paper should aim to examine how the emerging data management technologies, integrates several advanced data management infrastructure and clearly addresses the required information management and exploitation capabilities required to implement the ‘Big Data ecosystem’ enabled infrastructure.

Category B: Quality

Enhanced Quality through process innovation
Quality is a mandatory aspect in the current trend of competitive world. The Quality of the Process is directly relates to quality of the deliverables in creating a product or a service. With the added pressure on efficiency of operations, process becomes an essential aspect for sustaining what we deliver. While complying to the set process is essential, there is a need to be innovative with the changing needs. As always the business needs keeps dynamically changing, process also needs flexibility to mend itself to these needs without compromising them. Like we talk about innovation in products, tools and engineering practices, it is becoming inevitable in the areas of process also. The process innovation that goes along the business demands will be of great support in making the business delivery excel which is the need of the hour. Obviously there are challenges associated with them.

The paper is expected to discuss aspects around these points and case studies, where relevant.

Category C: Human Resources

Organizational competitiveness through learning strategies
In the present dynamic condition of global business environment organizations are put in situations which demand them to be adaptable and at the same time be proactive. To address this, one aspect many organizations have concentrated on is organizational learning. Strategists have understood the significance of organizational learning in generating and maintaining competitive advantage.

The premise for this paper is that organization which have learning strategies are competitive and have an edge over others.

Learning strategies are defined as strategies to continuously upgrade skill sets of the workforce by various methods including training, certifications, experiential training, membership of cross functional teams for new projects, rotation of employees to new functional areas and new geographies etc.

Participants can either agree or disagree with the premise. Arguments and logic to support the premise chosen should be developed.

In the option of :

	supporting the premise - suggest ways by which possible pitfalls for not achieving competitiveness can be avoided and how the learning strategies can be made sustainable
	not supporting the premise - need to justify why the learning strategies can never be sustainable

Eligibility

	Women professionals in the IT/ITES industries are eligible to present one paper in any one of the topics as appropriate.
	In order to encourage more women to participate, please note that past Excellence Award winners are not eligible to participate.
	In order to encourage younger women to participate, only those with less than 15 years experience in the IT/ITES industry can participate.

Please register on or before 20^th January 2016

Members

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Non Members

	Individual non members can pay Rs.500/- and become a member first and then register for FREE.
	Corporate who are not eWIT members can encourage their women employees who wish to participate to become individual members or become corporate members themselves. Regular eWIT membership fees for corporate (as indicated in our website) will apply.
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	Please mail to admin@ewit.co.in or contact the given no. for any queries on the contest