
The Training Conclave organsied by “Angle Training Forum” had representation from almost two thirds of the pharma industry, by turnover
More than 100 senior professionals representing over 50 top pharmaceutical companies, from six major metro cities, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai attended a Training Conclave recently organised by Angle Training Forum in Mumbai. The event was also a webcast live with overseas participant logging in.
An online social media forum founded by Milind Mangle founder and internationally certified coach of Angle Consultancy & Services, the Angle Training Forum’s WhatsApp group has reportedly evolved into one of the leading resources for trainers in the sector, with members from more than 100 top pharma companies. A core team of 10 members from the Forum organised the Angle Training Conclave. More than 100 senior professionals from over 50 top pharma companies attended the Conclave, calling it the “first ever training conclave in the history of the Indian pharma industry.”
Pharma industry doyen D G Shah was the Chief Guest of the event who inaugurated the event and was felicitated by Mangle. “Almost two thirds of the pharma industry, in terms of turnover, is represented in the Conclave” said Shah in his opening comments.

Rituraj Sar, Global Head – Learning & Development, Lupin spoke on sustenance of L&OD initiatives for better business impact. Any leraning initiative in the corporate world has to be designed keeping in mind the impact on the business. It should not be an one-time event but an ongoing process. He tackled this aspect by discussing how learning programmes can be designed to have a sustained impact on the business.

Taking this theme ahead, Hemalakshmi Raju, Global L&D Head, Cipla presented the next session on Instructional design, where she pointed out that in order to create a learning programme that would have a long lasting impact on the business, content is very crucial. For this, a trainer needs instructional design and design thinking skills to create impactful content.

Augmented Reality is a new technology which is catching every one’s fancy. How can it help pharma trainings was explained by informative demos by Dr Maruthi Vishwanathan, CEO, Rx Prism. He says, “Augmented reality is being increasingly used to create interesting and highly engaging content. To provide flexibility to the learners, the solution has been designed in two modes with AR App and without AR App. Augmented reality adds exciting experience to the traditional e-learning courses and grabs attention quickly.”
The focus of this Conclave was technology, strategy and best practices and the event witnessed two interesting panel discussion on the same. More than 50 per cent of the topics focused on technology including a panel discussion on how technology can be used to reduce the cost and increase the learning. Other aspects covered included how can we provide the learning whenever it is required? How can we use mobile technology to increase the reach of training?
More aspects on the impact of technology in training were part of a panel discussion moderated by B Ramanathan, Sr Manager Training, Sun Pharma with eminent panelists Ashish Ghai, L&D Head Sanofi India, Jagmohan Rishi, Vice President – L &D, Digital & Analytics, Wockhardt, Vishwanathan of Rx Prism, and Dr Pankaj Gursahani, L&D Head, Astra Zeneca.