Of Meenakshi Shedde and the Creation of the Events Vertical

A year ago this day

Zoom Stage (Image source : Zoom Blog)

On 5th May 2020 we invited Meenakshi Shedde as our Lumière Learning Monday guest speaker.

I interviewed Meenakshi using the Zoom Webinar format.

Journalist, film critic, social worker, Meenakshi is a multi-faceted woman with a sunshine personality.

And how we wish she could have done the session at our Nav Durga office in Nerul!

We miss the camaraderie, hysterical laughter, hugs, back-slapping. No more sitting around meeting rooms to catching up. No pre and post event coffee, lunch and dessert with the guest speaker.

Challenge to Opportunity

1. We created a fresh vertical, Lumiere Events

2. I had a new job role as anchor

3. Lumière Communications Desk had a subset - the Lumiere Event Management team

4. Lumiere Speakers list became global - speakers no longer need to our Navi Mumbai office.

5. No restriction to the guest list - earlier we could invite 25 people on a first-come-first-served basis with Zoom

6. No camera set up and CD archives of Lumière Learning Monday recordings

7. Guests beyond Lumière World - alumni, associates, clients

8. Our YouTube channel, lumierelightandinsight got a makeover.

Guest posting on social media

"Here's the new, updated link to the interview on my work as film programmer, curator to festivals over 22 years, how I select films; Bollywood, regional films, my mentors. In short, my life in about an hour. #LumiereLearningMondays. Thank you again Deepa Samant Soman".

https://youtu.be/TG4BD4msoTI?si=n4EhXnAARA7AU0KH

-Meenakshi Shedde