Bangalore 23rd May 2014: FM Zone 10th years Celebration – Conclave – Beyond Imagination – Supported by – NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies). The Event was inaugurated by Mr. Sarv Saravanan Senior Vice President – General Manager EMC Centres of Excellence – Asia Pacific & Japan and Mr.Sridhar Raghavendra – FM zone co-Founder. The one day event brings together an organized sharing of knowledge and strategies between the technology service providers, knowledge management, crisis support and networking platform for individuals and professionals.
FM Zone is one of the Largest FM & Real Estate forum in India, main focus is to Provide greater resources to FM Professionals, Establish Knowledge Management platform, Encourage Business excellence and innovations in Facility Management, share Best Practices, Create Networking Space for mutual benefits and to provide Leadership opportunities. The endure is to be a world class knowledge sharing and networking forum among the FM fraternity consisting of members drawn across the industry to enable members to achieve business excellence and innovation in facility Management
Apart from just being a conduit between various industry vertical, FM Zone objective is to foster the pyramid science in Facility Management through its Knowledge management engine and also build collaboration with various National and International Forums. FM Zone works closely with NASSCOM,CII, AMCOC and other Government Bodies .Major focus being in the area of Real Estate, Infrastructure ,Disaster recovery management, Business Continuity plan, Risk management, Environmental solutions, Sustainable energy, Energy management, Collaborative and office integration, Corporate security and surveillance, Mobility and logistics, Occupational health and safety, Project management and planning, FM strategic management, Waste management, Cafeteria & Food court management, Housekeeping services, Building management solutions, Corporate Travel, Sustainability and Vendor Management Organization.
FM Zone initiated Engineering the change in defining the Facility Management Definition in India by Engraving the FM Definition as - Facility Management is the means of guiding an enterprise through its actions to its chosen Future. In simple terms, the aim of Facilities Management is to achieve a strategic fit between core business needs and the provision of facilities management and physical infrastructure.
About Facilty Management Zone , INDIA
“Facility Management Zone” is a forum of about 1200 + Facility Manager’s (FM’s) comprising of Senior Management level Executives of various reputed Organizations spread across Information Technology, Banking & Insurance, Financial Services, Telecom, Manufacturing, Educational & other related Industries who have joined hands with an intention of Sharing Knowledge & Best Practices across Industry.
Facility Management Zone has its foot prints in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad & Noida and is in the process of having more members to represent all other major cities. Some of the members belong to large IT & ITES Corporate such as Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, Convergys, Mphasis, Tavant Technologies, Oracle, SAP, Dell, HP, Mindtree, Nokia, Yahoo, Volvo, ABB, Siemens, Sasken Communications, LG soft, Netapp, L&T, Atkins Global, Timken, Genpact, PCS, Microland, Sonus Networks, IFIM B School, just a few to name.
FM Zone the brain child of five FM professionals – Mr. Sunil V (Tavant Technologies); Mr. Sridhar Raghavendra (Mphasis); Mr. Gilbert Raj (Sonus Networks), Mr. Jagannath (LG Soft) & Mr.Ruphus (Microland), was started in February 2004 and officially launched in 2008 with a vision of Sharing knowledge, Best practices, create Networking platform and help FM community in channelizing information, domain expertise, global FM updates and leverage and support FM fraternity.
As heard from the founders, FM Zone is the ‘natural home’ for FM Fraternity in India; it provides information, knowledge management, crisis support and networking platform for individuals and professionals. FM Zone facilitates knowledge exchange to encourage innovation and share industry best practices, Unlimited sharing of knowledge seamlessly.
Plans are big to spread the FM Zone wings to as many Cities as possible, and get as many members enrolled as possible, so that across the Country FM Zone emerges with stronger relationship to get better Quality and Value added services at a Competitive price from the vendors, as well FM Fraternity educates themselves in a Competitive & Professional Way.
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