GIBS Business School, Bengaluru, students have once again demonstrated their ability to excel beyond the classroom, this time by participating in multiple national-level intercollegiate festivals and competitions organized by some of the top management institutes in Bengaluru.

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GIBS students have demonstrated versatility, analytical ability, and managerial and leadership ability by participating in all forms of the creative arts, literature, management simulations, and work research, and have represented ABBS in Regalia 2026, SCMS in SYGNITE 2K26, and XIME in XIMERA 2K26.

These accomplishments demonstrate the institute's dedication to all-around and applied learning and exposure by providing the opportunity to students to use their theoretical learning in competitive practical situations.

GIBS Student Achieves 1st Place in Poetry Slam at Regalia 2026

One of the greatest sources of pride for GIBS is the outstanding achievement of Sahil Kumar in securing 1st Place in the Poetry Slam competition at Regalia 2026, which is a national-level intercollegiate festival of Acharya Bangalore B-School (ABBS).

The festival was held on February 27 and 28, 2026, and saw a multitude of students from various institutes presenting their talents in artistic, cultural, and intellectual competitions.

Poetry Slam – Voice Your Verse

Voice Your Verse gave students the chance to express their creativity through performing their own poems and presenting their work at the Poetry Slam event. The participants presented their poems from memory, showcasing the true essence of spoken word and the powerful use of voice.

Some important rules of the event were:

  • Only solo performances were allowed
  • All participants had to perform their own poems
  • No props or costumes were allowed
  • The poems could be in English, Kannada, or Hindi
  • Each performance had to be under 3 minutes

Representing GIBS Business School, Sahil Kumar gave a great and powerful performance, so much so that both judges and the audience were awed. His poem was written with so much originality, confidence, and emotional warmth that he was easily one of the most memorable performers.

After a lot of great performances from a lot of different schools, Sahil Kumar was able to win the Poetry Slam competition, along with a winner's trophy and a certificate of appreciation.

This was a reflection on the talent that GIBS students portray and that the institution was able to combine arts with management education.

SYGNITE 2K26

GIBS Participation at SYGNITE 2K26 – SCMS Bengaluru

Another important academic engagement was via SYGNITE 2K26, the inter-collegiate festival at the Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies (SCMS), Bengaluru.

As part of the fest, Deepanshu Saxena and Rohan Kumar, students of the PGDM course at GIBS, represented the institute at the premier research competition “INQUISTA: Decode the Hype.”

The competition involved understanding the reasoning of viral phenomena in today’s digital culture and used data analytics, behavioral psychology, and narrative strategy as focal techniques.

The competition consisted of three challenging stages:

Round 1: Quiz

Participants were quizzed on aspects of the influence of media, digital behavior, and current trends in popular culture and thus, required a thorough understanding of the circulation of information in the current digital social system.

Round 2: Auction

In this stage, participants had to use a strategy to bid for data packs which contained critical research information and were necessary to develop a storyline for the last presentation.

The data used for bidding in the auction revealed:

  • Remix functionalities on 65% of platforms lead to viral trends
  • Labels that are trending increase user engagement by 20–30%.
  • Content that surpasses the initial engagement threshold of 3.1× achieves a greater reach.

Round 3: Presentation

In this stage, participants were required to analyze the previously acquired data and provide a rational explanation to the judges on the phenomenon of viral digital behavior.

The GIBS team has shown great planning and use of strategies, along with analytical and data-backed storytelling, and has helped all of the teams that are participating continue to design them.

The competitions, combined with the SYGNITE report, show how the friction of a competition has helped them to understand the standards and friction of industry-level judging, along with the analytical pressure problem-solving.

XIMERA

GIBS Team Wins Bronze at XIMERA 2K26 – XIME Bangalore

Another great achievement for GIBS students is at XIMERA 2K26, the flagship inter-collegiate B School festival of XIME Bangalore.

A team of 4 PGDM students of GIBS participated in the Best Management Team (BMT) event of “Wardens of Yggdrasil.”

The team, named Team ODIN, consists of:

  • Deepanshu Saxena
  • Aditya Tyagi
  • Taniya Sahu
  • S Dineshwaran

After competing against 20+ management institutes, the team won the competition because of extraordinary planning and teamwork, and won the place of 3rd Place (Bronze) in the Event.

Arrangement of the Event

The event is based on the premise of systems thinking. This means that all participants had to find a way to optimally operate all of the domains the organization has. This includes:

  • Strategy (how to gain an advantage over your competition)
  • Finance (managing money)
  • Activities (How your organization will operate)
  • People (the employees or managers of your organization)
  • Risks (the potential negatives to the organization)
  • Leadership (the act of leading a group)

The event consisted of 11 rounds, and all the rounds took place in 2 days. This means that all managers had to find a solution to a very difficult problems that managers in the real business world face. The following rounds were conducted:

  • Quiz on Business Knowledge
  • Data Analytics Challenges
  • Crisis Management Simulations
  • Interpretation of Financial Statements
  • HR Management Decision Making
  • Operations and Logistics Management
  • Presentations on Case Studies
  • Negotiations of Strategic Alliances
  • Presentations to Investors

Team ODIN stood out at the competition for their remarkable achievement, particularly in the human resources and operational strategy divisions.

The team demonstrated their professionalism and collaborative ability to work together under the pressure of potentially losing the competition. As a result, they were awarded the bronze medal for the best team from a business school.

Operations Simulation at XIMERA – AO’s Mandate

Also, another GIBS team joined AO's Mandate: Pillars of Heaven, an operations-focused competition held during XIMERA – The Mythic Convergence.

The students who represented GIBS were:

  • Kaushal Kumar Rawat
  • Rajendra Kumar Mohapatra
  • Ritwik Chakraborty

The competition was designed to mimic complex organizational structures that include:

  • Organizational management and resource allocation
  • crisis management
  • operational decision-making under pressure
  • process optimization and management
  • risk analysis and management

The GIBS team used their analytical ability, collaboration, and operational thinking to successfully complete seven rounds of competition.

Competitions enabled students to implement key concepts like bottleneck analysis, risk mitigation, and systems thinking for practical business simulations.

Learning by Doing at GIBS

Participation in such competitions shows students’ understanding of the learning by doing approach at GIBS Business School. It encourages students to practice learning by doing and go beyond the classroom to engage in activities that demand innovative thinking, analytical skills, and leadership.

Competitions help students to:

  • Be strategic thinkers.
  • Improve their communication and presentation skills.
  • Collaborate with others in a team.
  • Solve problems in real time.
  • Be confident in the presence of competition.

Summary

The participation and achievements of GIBS students at Regalia 2026, SYGNITE 2K26, and XIMERA 2K26 are testimonies of the varied capabilities and talents molded at the school.

GIBS students’ achievements range from winning a national poetry competition to podium finishes in management simulations and participation in data-driven research competitions.

These activities are essential in shaping students into well-rounded professionals and preparing them to become confident and imaginative leaders in the business world. This holistic approach to learning is one of the reasons why GIBS is recognized as a Top Business School in Bangalore for MBA, PGDM, and BBA, where students are encouraged to develop both professional competencies and creative thinking abilities.