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Havas Worldwide India announces senior appointments: Govind Agarwal named VP – account management
Mumbai: Havas Worldwide India, the creative arm of Havas Group India, has strengthened its strategy and account planning teams across Mumbai and Delhi offices with three key appointments. Govind Agarwal has joined Havas Worldwide Mumbai as vice president, account management. Sulagna Chanda has been appointed as associate vice president – Strategic Planning, and Neha Gupta has joined as associate vice president – Client Servicing.
Both Chanda and Gupta will work out of Havas Worldwide Delhi. These appointments will help strengthen the agency’s strategy and business teams and further drive the specialist services for which Havas Worldwide India is now known, stated the agency.
Havas Worldwide India managing director Manas Lahiri said, “Over the last two years, we have garnered exponential growth through valuable partnerships and added several marquee brands to our ever-expanding portfolio of traditional as well as new-age clients.”
“In our constant endeavour and commitment to make a meaningful difference, we continue to invest in strengthening our teams. With Govind, Sulagna and Neha on board, I’m confident we will further scale up our strategic planning capabilities and client relationships,” he added.
With over 16 years of experience, Agarwal has managed some of the biggest brands across key sectors such as FMCG, banking, fashion, beauty, entertainment, and more. His strengths include business growth and lending his expertise to extend marketing campaign ideas across digital, social, direct and on-ground stages. Over the years, he has managed brands including Medimix, Inox, Kotak Life Insurance, Godrej, Danone, Skoda Auto, and Kellogg’s, among others.
Over her 12-year-long career, Chanda has built her core strengths in brand strategy, consumer insights and leading agencies to establish effective marketing solutions. Some key accounts that she has managed through her career include The Times of India, ITC Hotels, Unilever, GSK, Disney and more.
Gupta is a communication management specialist with over 13 years of experience in handling brands, including Sony, Chicco, Dabur, Chyawanprash, MasterCard, Reebok, Whirlpool, ESPN STAR Sports, ITC Hotels, and more.
Havas Worldwide India has been consolidating its senior leadership team in recent years. The agency’s business model has assisted the agency in building a strong client roster across its Mumbai and Delhi offices, resulting in a growth of more than 30 per cent across both offices, claimed the agency.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
