OBSM 2020
INTERNATIONAL STUDY TOUR 2018-20
Date: 24th to 30th Nov. 2019
You name it, Dubai has it. If it doesn’t, they are building it.
OBSM 2019 to Dubai was one of the most memorable educational visits for IBA students. Total 27 students from batch 2018-20 visited Dubai during 24-30 November 2019 as part of the OBSM 2019 program. They were accompanied by the Founder CEO & Chairman, Dr. Manish Jain and mentor Prof. Nagendra Hegde. Dubai Immersion Programme (DIP), was organized by Ureka Education Group and Curtin University, Dubai. Ms. Aamna Sultan and her team from Ureka seamlessly facilitated the DIP.
First day morning, students visited Dubai Immersion Programme (DIP), was organized Curtin University, where they were, introduced to Business challenge by the Ureka team. Here, students were, asked to pick skills and learn from every visit for the next six days and to make a presentation on the last day. The session was, followed by city tour, where students had an opportunity to visit Dubai skyline, Art Gallery, Jumeirah Mosque, Palm Islands and Atlantis Hotel.
Day 2 – Students started their journey towards Masdar city, Abu Dhabi. The team could witness how infrastructure can control the temperature of a city and also leading its way to a sustainable city. Students were enthralled to learn the precision with which the project is, executed. A visit to Siemens was a memorable one as well. On the way back to Dubai, the team visited Krypto Labs, which was an incubation centre which supports start-ups and helps them grow.
Day 3 – Students started the day by travelling to Emirates Mall, where Apple store, was located. There they learned about how can an image be reconstructed by keeping objects between the lens and the person. After that, there was the kick-start to Herz Task Day 1. The students had to interact with industry people from all over the world and inform them about Herz and their CSR initiatives. They were briefed beforehand by the Herz officials on the task to be, completed. The day ended with a memorable trip to Global village where 28 countries were portraying their culture, products, food etc.
Day 4 – Students visited PepsiCo Bottling plant in the morning and observed how the SKU’s of Pepsi- Miranda, Aquafina are bottled. After that, students visited the 3M Innovation Centre, where they learnt how solutions to the prevalent problems, are found out and they were thrilled to learn, how their lives are surrounded by 3M innovations all the time. Then they continued with the Herz Task Day 2. Later a short detour to Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall was the most exciting moment of the tour.
Day 5 – Students visited the Schneider Electric Innovation Hub, which was a truck installed with many innovations and running on solar power. Later that day, students attended two lectures at Curtin University, one on Networking and the other on Resume building and handling interview questions. These sessions were taken by Prof. Shukrullah Fassehi and by Mr. Kaustubh Kashyap, respectively.
Students were allowed to prepare for their learning through presentation and Vlogs.
Day 6 – The day started with team presentations. Each team presented their learnings and skills in a very unique way and also screened the vlogs. The presentations were, judged by Mr. Sarfaraz Hasan. The winning team members received the Medals and the certificates. The tour ended with the beautiful desert safari.
The OBSM team from batch 2018-20 was thankful to Dr. Manish Jain, Founder CEO & Chairman of Indus Business Academy, Bangalore for organizing such an experiential International Study Tour.
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