TCS Confidential Dear All, Season’s Greetings…!!! SoFerence is a leading biennial National Social Conference on Library & Information Science (LIS) organized by India’s largest Corporate Information Resource Centre from Tata Consultancy Services. This year, the 7th edition is scheduled on Saturday, 20th January 2024. The theme of SoFerence is “Transformation of Libraries: Design Thinking Way”. Libraries are continuously evolving in the fast-paced technological milieu, making it increasingly imperative for Libraries to reimagine its collection, services as well as infrastructure in the pursuit of aligning with New Normal. Reimagining involves out-of-the-box thinking and decision-making which are pivoted tightly around library users. Design Thinking is a process applicable to all types of libraries interested in creating innovative services and solving problems iteratively. This year, in SoFerence, we will be conducting an in-person Design Thinking workshop for Library Professionals, focusing on live library problems. The takeaway from this workshop would be a practical understanding of the complete design thinking process with a tailormade roadmap for transforming your libraries. Registrations are invited for in-person SoFerence conducted at TCS Bangalore on Saturday, 20th January 2024. A Pre-SoFerence online workshop will be held on Saturday 6th January, 2024. REGISTRATION & SUBMISSION OF PROBLEM(S)/CHALLENGES: § No Registration Fee (Free for all) § 150 Seats only available (First come first serve basis) § All participants will be rewarded with an E-Certificate. § Submit your library problem(s) for brainstorming during SoFerence to elicit workable ideas. Register & Submit Problem | Click Here →https://forms.gle/szjmuQfEhpCMtRg8A OR Copy the below link paste on the internet browser https://forms.gle/szjmuQfEhpCMtRg8A AWARDS § Best Articulated Problem (Individual Awards) § Best Pre-SoFerence Workshop (Group Awards) IMPORTANT DATES § 31st December 2023 | Last date for Registration § 2nd January 2024 | Registration Confirmation § 6th January 2024 | Online Pre-SoFerence § 20th January 2024 | SoFerence SPEAKER @ WORKSHOP Reeta Mehrishi Head, Corporate Design Tata Consultancy Services SPEAKER PROFILE: Pioneering the concept of Connected Design, she leads transdisciplinary design projects, focusing on transformational innovation for inclusiveness, sustainability, and improved long-term quality of life. She has designed brand strategies, products, games, data visualization, simulations, learning experiences, and built environments working with technologies ranging from image recognition, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, to social media and text analytics, GIS and the IoT. VENUE Tata Consultancy Services | Gopalan Global Axis H Block | Opp. to Sri Satya Sai Hospital | ITPL Road | Whitefield, Bangaluru Karnataka, India SoFerence Brochure Click herehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1lQQ-EsMfUNFSelJ0-tQpZtVAgxg73Ayu/view?usp=d... → OR Copy the below URL paste on the internet browser to download the same. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lQQ-EsMfUNFSelJ0-tQpZtVAgxg73Ayu/view?usp=d... For more details visit the SoFerence website: https://sites.google.com/view/soference/home For queries, please write to us at: soference@gmail.commailto:soference@gmail.com%3cmailto:soference@gmail.com With Best Regards, Dr. Nagappa B |Head | Information Resource Centre Tata Consultancy Services | Gopalan Global Axis H Block | Bangalore Ph: +91 80 66821890 | Cell: +91-8147001193 | Mailto: bangalore.IRC@tcs.commailto:bangalore.IRC@tcs.com TCS Confidential =====-----=====-----===== Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you