Social Media Day Pune

Around 300 attendees, 2400 mentions on Twitter for #SMDAYPUNE, appearance in National Trend on Twitter, 488775 reach & 1315238 Impressions … Social Media Day Pune 2015 concluded fairly well.

Social Media Day Pune 2015

Highlights of the event:

Open Mic: The event kicked-off with Open mic session where attendees performed with songs, jokes, etc. RJ Apporva hosted the event in her filmy style.

Speaker Sessions: The sessions were started with Kiruba’s in his unique style of making users perform actions to keep them engaged. The very first session rocked the users & Twitter was flooded with users’ tweets. The second session was taken by Mr. Sunil Palrecha from Germin8. The topic in itself was most awaited by brand managers in the audience. Sunil gave an awesome presentation about how to change the angry customers into brand advocates.

Rucha Bapat from Institute of Digital Marketing gave an insightful talk on Social Media as a career option. The students in the audience must have got answers to their tinkering questions.

Light Dinner: We had 2 veg & 2 nonveg starters along with a few beverages options to choose from. We found users enjoying the food & using the networking time to the fullest. Networking over food always work 🙂

Sneheel a 22-year boy then took the stage. An amazing piece of energy ball, Sneheel was very confident while speaking. We could sense the user’s interest in the talk. Sneheel talked about how the stories work on Social Media & it spreads organically

Mohit Gundecha a graduate from Standford shared some live examples from his own startup Jombay. We could see people adoring him on their tweets.

The last session was taken by Nivedith G. A travel & food blogger talked about the dark side of social media & the mal-practices in industry. He also talked about the importance of influencers in promotions.

Center of Attraction: The Photobooth: Setu Advertising did an amazing setup of Photobooth with loads of props. We found people fully leveraging the opportunity. Even the speakers couldn’t stop themselves from the attraction of Photobooth.


Twitter Wall:

Germin8 being the analytics partner of the event provided a nice twitter wall for us. We had live streaming of tweets with a showcase of the most active tweeter.

Germin8 also published an infographic on the #SMDAYPUNE.

Conclusion:

It was a weekday & still, we got around 300 marketing enthusiasts from Pune & Mumbai. We have got very positive reviews from the audience on our wall & on twitter. We are confident that next year for Social Media Day in Pune would be even bigger & better.

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