 Hope you're doing good. It's a pleasant day outside. It's going to be a pretty powerful day inside Well, ladies and gentlemen as we all know the IDMA is in its 8th edition and Usually the Indian Digital Marketing Awards is preceded Typically by a panel discussion and a couple of speakers But this is our first year where we have a full-length conference that we've titled tech munch Conference 2017 now, you know, they say that first times are always sacred may we always have many first So can we have a round of applause for the first edition of tech munch? 2017 Well It's time for us to set the tone for today And I thought there couldn't be anyone better than the lady who curated this event and who in facts curates all the Strategic events at exchange for media and is also the editorial consultant ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome Superna Chaudhra. I'm not happy with that kind of applause You have to appease me And that's my favorite line. We're in the land of karma unless you acknowledge people who are up here Nobody's gonna be acknowledging you so if you want everybody to be acknowledging you let's show some passion folks Come on. Thank you very much Zinnia God bless you and hope we rock the show here. Normally. I'm used to standing and setting the tone and pace and I didn't want to miss that opportunity because It's a very special day here today Like Zinnia mentioned is the first edition of tech munch Of course, we've been doing exceedingly well as far as the awards are concerned And we have a full-day conference and I just wanted to share the thought behind tech munch itself But as a cursory for most of the events that either I anchor or curate or I'm associated with in any kind of way I like to start by invoking a higher power Whatever it is that you believe in if you do not believe in anything and you're an atheist I'm pretty happy with that as well But there's something that has held me in good stead and I'll continue with that. It's a very old Sanskrit verse It's a Saraswati Vandana is the goddess of knowledge and we're pleading with her To fill our lives with Wisdom the light of wisdom and Dispelling the darkness of ignorance if you're well-versed with it. Do join me Yeah, Kundendu Tushar Haridhavala. Yeah, Shubhra Vastravrata. Yeah, Veena Vardana Mandit Kara Yeah, Shweta Padmasana Yeah, Brahmachitya Shankar Prabhu TV there by Sadavan Dita Samampatu Saraswati Bhagavati Nishesh Jadya Paha Thank you so much exchange for media. Mr. Anurag Bhattra and Mr. Naval Hoja for giving me the opportunity to do this for you Well tech munch at its essence primarily a Munch of course all Indians will understand munch is a Platform unlike the munching bit that you have phonetically the same word in English But what it necessarily means a platform for technology and technology primarily You know makes life convenient for all of us and this is strategically important because it has to reach out to the Hintalins of the country where the masses live so that technology needs to reach out there That's the reason why there's an element of the Hindi munch as part of the tech munch And I think it's a great auspicious start people have been very excited to be a part of this and while having said that Yesterday when I was having lunch with our keynote speakers here You know, I kind of thought to myself. This has turned out to be a truly global event with Literally speakers from the four corners of the world UK US Australia and India sharing all that they have learned as far as The digital the digital space is concerned sharing whatever their learnings are and sharing with all of us here So it's I'm very excited about this. There are four keynotes. There are there is one valedictory address By mr. Manoj Kumar who's also our jury chair this year for the idma awards. There are partner speaker slots There are a couple of panels and there are two very intensive workshops that are going to talk about Specifics as far as I think a snappy visual storytelling and to use influencer marketing strategies to their optimum level so Great start here tonight today as well and tonight looking forward to some great campaigns being acknowledged But more on that later in the day for now Enjoy yourself use the hashtag e4m idma that's hashtag e4m idma There are some goodie bags to be one and there are goodie bags to be one by and thanks to our partners as well Keep it as interactive as possible because that's what the digital domain is all about. Thank you all so much And enjoy the day and the evening that follows