which was held in New Delhi to discuss the role of India’s youth in shaping the country’s future. Themed ‘Youthful Aspirations: Dream Big, Achieve More, Rise Together’, the event focused on India’s development goals for 2047. It featured speakers from politics, business, and the arts, along with global experts, to address challenges and opportunities in building a developed India.The event featured national leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, and Minister of Railways, Electronics & IT and I&B Ashwini Vaishnaw, among others. Their presence underscored the government’s commitment to youth-focused governance and long-term development.The summit also featured a line-up of global and national thought leaders, including Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, former Chief Justice of India; Scott Kelly, Former NASA Astronaut and Retired US Navy Captain; Aravind Srinivas, Co-Founder and CEO of Perplexity AI; Abhinav Bindra, Olympic gold medallist and Founder of the Abhinav Bindra Foundation; Børge Brende, President and CEO of the World Economic Forum; Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh ; Sh. Chirag Paswan,and renowned actors Sunny Deol ,Kajol and Randeep Hooda which added to the cross-sectoral appeal of the event.The summit brought together leaders from politics, business, entertainment, and tech, offering a 360-degree view of India’s current and future trajectory. The interaction between panellists from different sectors often sparked fresh perspectives. Discussions highlighted the media’s responsibility in shaping narratives in the digital age, especially amid AI and misinformation. There was a strong message around empowering young entrepreneurs and creating ecosystems that foster innovation at the grassroots level.

The summit was constitute of three panel discussion and one demonstration session  based on theme :"AI enabled business learning :The opportunity and Challenges ". All three panel discussions session based on "Exploring the potential and challenges of AI , Enhancing learning outcomes through AI and Future of AI in personalized management education" . All session  were moderated by Mr. Vinod Patil , country head  Cesim India and panelist were from the  different directors and professor from Amity university , IMS Ghaizabad , Noida international university , GLA -Mathura , GL-Bajaj etc.

In demonstration session , Mr. Veijo Myosti  CEO CESIM and his team discussed and demonstrated CESIM AI enabled E-learning platform where student can learn and get personalized recommendation system for his further study. It was really a good platform to learn and grow.  

Enclosed : Schedule and invitation for reference. 

The day started with the welcome address by Dr V.N Bajpai, Director, Institute of Technology and Science, who referred to the theme and spoke about how digitalisation is at the forefront of developments. Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S Mohan Nagar, lauded the initiative and exhorted the students to expand the boundaries of their knowledge. Dr Rajeev Johari, Convener, Research Convention 2024 provided an overview of the day’s events. There Were knowledgeable insights from Director PR, Shri Surendra Sood, ashe emphasised on the innovative capacity of Indians.

In his address Dr. Kathua emphasised the pivotal role of digitalisation in shaping a resilient economy. Guest of HonourDr. Mohapatra Explored economic policies, innovation, and the crucial role research plays in shaping resilient economies in his insightful speech. Ms. Venkataraman delved into sustainable aviation practices, emphasising on the importance of green innovation in the aviation sector.

The inaugural session was followed by three panel discussions. The first was offline. The other two were online sessions involving VCs of distinguished institutions and a selection of international experts, respectively.

Panel Discussion I

The first panel discussion the day was held in offline mode. The theme for the discussion was ‘Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Startups, Culture and Sustainability’. The session was moderated by Dr S.P. Sharma, Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary General, PHDCCI. Dr Sharma provided the context for the discussion through his remarks, where he referred to various financial crises, and how the Indian economy performed in such situations. The other panelists included Dr Divya Sethi, consultant, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India; Mr Arunoday Bajpai, Chief Operating Officer, IIM Lucknow Enterprise Incubation Centre; Mr Himanshu Singhal, CEO, NSUT-IIF (Netaji Subhash University of Technology Incubation & Innovation Foundation, Delhi); Ms. Sarita Sharma, Founder and Director, Orangestar Logistics Pvt. Ltd.; and Mr Vikas Madan, Director, EDSOL Informatics Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Sethi, with her expertise in culture and sustainability, provided valuable insights into the interconnectedness of cultural practices and sustainable development.Mr. Bajpai shared profound insights into the challenges and opportunities within the defence and aerospace sectors.Mr. Singhal discussed the evolving landscape of innovation and artificial intelligence. Ms. Sharmashared valuable experiences and insights into the challenges and advancements in international logistics.Mr. Madan contributed perspectives on education entrepreneurship.

The diverse expertise of the panellists and the engaging discussions reflected a commitment towards providing a platform for in-depth exploration of contemporary issues in entrepreneurship and innovation. The session offered valuable takeaways for students and faculty alike, fostering a culture of knowledge exchange and collaboration.

Panel Discussion II

The post lunch section of the Convention began with an interaction among decision makers of leading national and international universities on the theme ‘Towards a Resilient Economy’. The distinguished personalities in attendance included Dr Mayank Saxena, Pro Vice Chancellor, Sage University, Indore; Dr. Sandeep Poddar, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Lincoln University, Malaysia; Dr. Devendra K Panda, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Medi-Caps University, Indore, M.P.; and Dr. M. K. Vajpayee Vice-Chancellor, Sir Padmavat Singhania University, Udaipur.

Dr Saxena, who was the moderator, kicked off the sessionby emphasising the pivotal role of innovation and creativity in the contemporary world. He underscored the need for organisations to recalibrate themselves under new technologies, fostering an environment conducive to continuous adaptation.Dr. Poddar delved into the realms of Industry 4.0 and 5.0, elucidating the three pillars of Industry 5.0 – human-centric approaches, sustainability, and resilience.Dr. Panda urged the audience to embrace change for sustainability, citing examples from the green energy sector and highlighting India's strides in the Make In India program.Dr. Vajpayee emphasised the significance of research in educational institutions in order to drive meaningful change. He advocated a robust research culture in schools and colleges, underscoring its potential for contributing to societal transformation and economic resilience.

The session enabled the gathered audience to visualise some of the real life scenarios in innovation, technology, green energy and the educational sector as envisaged by the discussants,

Panel Discussion III

The final session of the Convention was an interesting one with an assortment of national and international scholars coming together for wide ranging discussions on a variety of topics. The participants consisted of Mr. Shivananda Salgame, Co-Founder and Director, Guru-G Learning Labs & Samsrushti Health; Ms. Amélia Brandão, Director, Centre for Economics and Finance, University of Porto, Portugal; Dr. Divya Sharma, Assistant Director, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Govt. of India; Dr. Rachna Chaudhary, Co-Founder, Media Value Works LLC USA; Founder MVW, Network International India.

Mr. Salgame initiated the interaction stressing on the significance of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how they play a crucial role in shaping a resilient economy.Ms. Brandão next explored the intersection of sustainability and green marketing, discussing how AI and digitalisation, including the metaverse, can be instrumental in achieving sustainability goals.Dr. Sharma covered challenges facing sustainable fisheries, defining principles and key research areas such as stock assessment, ecosystem modeling, socio-economic research, technology for sustainability, and climate change impacts. Last but not the least, Dr. Chaudhary explored components of digital communication, leveraging it for resilient growth, customer engagement, marketing, and future trends,sharing recommendations on effectively using digital communication for transformative purposes.

From SDG goals to sustainability in various sectors and the power of digital communication, the session covered a diverse range of topics. The Q&A session that followed the panel discussion facilitated further exploration and engagement among the participants, making it a successful and informative endeavor.

The Sixth Research Convention at I.T.S. Mohan Nagar appeared to be the most ambitious one so far in its scope and breadth of vision. Participating dignitaries lauded the institution for choosing highly relevant issues for thought provoking deliberations. Faculty members and students returned enthused after day long engrossing sessions that enhanced their individual perspectives.

The conference had an enlightening inaugural session followed by four technical session and two online Plenary session accompanied by global eminent speakers from France, Philippines, USA, Peru & UK. It was organized on two subsequent days, i.e. on 28- 29 April, 2023.

The event commenced with the virtual invocation of Goddess Saraswati. Prof. (Dr.) V.N. Bajpai, Director- I.T.S Ghaziabad warmly welcomed all the eminent speakers and shared his valuable insights on the focal theme with the audience. An overview of the conference and introduction of the theme was given by Conference Convener, Dr. Manoj Kumar Jha.

The inaugural session was graced by honorable Chief Guest Lt Gen A. K. Singh,  PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM (Retd),Former Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Additional Administration of Puducherry) Sainik Farms, Delhi. He deliberated on the unique aspects of leadership in a VUCA world. HE alluded that corporartes could benefit from employing a model that focuses on life and death decisions without limiting itself to simple profit and loss evaluations.

Guest of Honor Prof. S. K. Jain, Former Vice Chancellor, Sri Mata Vaishno Devi , University , Jammu, traced the development of innovation ni various fields, pointing out how the decreasing life cycles are having major implications for companies as well as consumers and &  Dr. Ravi Shankar, Professor, IIT Delhi invoked the concept of Triple Bottom Line stressing on the need to achieve the parallel objectives of economic growth, social benefit and environmental protection.

During the Panel Session-1, participants got enriched on the theme “Sustainability of Business in Volatile global Business Environment” by professors from IIM-A, IIM-I, IIM-K,IIM-Kashipur & others . The conference witnessed international Panel Session-2 on theme “Innovations , Agility and Sustainability in Global Business Environment” with academic luminaries from the USA, England, Vietnam, Romania and Peru.

For Panel- Session-1 , following were the expert speakers :

1.  Dr. V. K. Gupta, Professor  (Finance), IIM Indore

2.  Dr. G. Sridhar, Professor (Marketing), IIM Kozikode

3. Dr. K M Baharul Islam,Professor and Area Chair (Communication)Chair, Centre    of Excellence in Public Policy and Government, IIM Kashipur

4. Dr. Piyush Sinha, Professor,IIM Ahmedabad

5. Sh. Ravi Ranjan Mishra, Director,(Advisory Services),IFCI Government of India, N Delhi

6. Dr. Suman Pathak, Professor, MATS Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Banglore

The session was moderated by Sh. Ravi Ranjan Mishra, Director( Advisiory Services) , Govt. of India.

For Panel Session-2, following renowned Experts deliberated on the given theme-

·         Prof. Justin Paul, Professor, University of PR, San Jaun, PR, USA, Distinguished Scholar,IIM Kerala,Editor in Chief- International Journal of Consumer Studies, Editor- EMR, AE-EMJ & Top Journals 

·                     Dr Tran Thi Hong Ngoc,Head of Department of Natural Resources and Environment Management, An Giang University, Vietnam,

·                     Prof. Alex Tabarrok,   George Mension University,   Fairfax, Virginia

·                   David Wittenberg,ISME College of Management and Entrepreneurship, Mumbai, Visiting Professor at USA, UK and South East Asian Countries

·                     Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu, Professor, University of Craiova, Romania

·                     Prof. Ivan Ivan Muniz Rothgiesser, Director ACCEDU, Universidad Andres Bell, Peru

·                     Dr. Nikkie Grover, CEO NG EDUWISER PVT LTD, India, Dubai, Singapore, Canada

The International Conference witnessed 4 tracks of presentation for 2 subsequent days. The heartening feature of the conference was substantial participation and presentation of academicians, researchers and business professionals with thought provoking concepts and ideas on the Focal theme in diverse areas of Management and Information Technology.

The International Conference-2023 was  thus concluded with the Valedictory session presided by eminent guest Sh. Bhagirath Singh, Vice Chancellor  Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay, Shekhawati  Univ, Sikar, Rajasthan and declaration of best paper award  of  all tracks and felicitation to awardees with certificate and trophy. Prof. (Dr.) V N Bajpai presented virtual plaques to all the eminent guests as a token of gratitude.

The distinguished guests for the Inaugural Session included Dr Rajan Sudesh Ratna, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, UNESCAP South and South-East Asia Office, who was the Chief Guest; Ms Mercy Epao, Joint Secretary, Ministry of MSME, who was invited as the Guest of Honour; and Dr Satya N. Gupta, Chairman, Bluetown India and BIMSTEC, who attended as a Special Guest.

The Honourable Vice Chairman sir Shri Arpit Chadha addressed the students in the audience, asking them to utilise the deliberations as a serious means of developing themselves. He opined that in order to get ahead in life it was necessary to utilise such opportunities.

Dr. V.N. Bajpai, Director, I.T.S. Mohan Nagar, delivered the welcome address. Dr Bajpai alluded to the fact that it was a very compelling topic. Conditions in India were in place for an economic boom, but there was need for caution with regard to the bumpy road ahead.

Dr Rajeev Johari, Convener of the Convention, provided an overview of the day’s events. He also took the opportunity to trace out the evolution of the Convention since its beginning in 2018.

Dr Gupta provided facts and figures reflecting the current state of affairs with regard to the economy. He also referred to the startup revolution in India and relevance of SDGs.

Finally, Dr Ratna provided an illuminating portrait of the economic challenges facing India. Responding to questions from the students, he threw some light on issues like economic diversification, climate change and digital inclusion.

It was a very realistic yet thought provoking start to the day’s proceedings. It ended with the promise of more vistas of knowledge in the succeeding sessions.

Panel Discussion I

The participants in the first panel discussion included Mr. Priya Ranjan, Chief General Manager of Steel Authority of India; Mr. Amlesh Sinha, Vice President of MakeMyTrip; Mr. Manglesh Yadav, Program Director of Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Ayog; and Dr. Moonis Shakeel, Professor of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia.

The session was focused on MSME, entrepreneurship, innovation, and startups. The event began with all the guests being welcomed with plant saplings by the dignitaries like Honourable Vice Chairman Shri. Arpit Chadha, Director I.T.S School of Management Dr.Timira Shukla,  Dr. Bajpai and Dr. Johari.

Dr. Shakeel set the ball rolling by enlightening the audience about the chosen theme. Mr. Yadav felt that the conditions of the country are very conducive for opening of startups. Noting that 84,000 start-ups have been registered, he mentioned various policies that are coming up in this regard. Mr. Priya Ranjan addressed the agenda for the event as a fusion of two topics, viz.- global reset along with economic reset. Mr. Sinha had the final word when he talked about how things have become automated with machine learning and data science.

The session was quite interactive as the participants asked several relevant questions that were answered to their satisfaction. It concluded with the presentation of mementos as a token of appreciation and gratitude. Overall, it was indeed a very insightful and thoughtful session, which enthused the students.

Panel Discussion II

The second panel discussion of the Convention was held in a hybrid mode. The discussants in this session were: Mr. Anand Mirani, Director, Simplus Exim Corporate Advisory, LLP; Dr. Sandeep Poddar, Dy. Vice Chancellor, Lincoln University, Malaysia; Prof. Vivek Nagpaul, Chairman Euro-Asian University & Career Network, Netherlands; and Mr. Wimon Pukong, Institute for Trade & Development, Bangkok, Thailand.

At the outset, Mr. Anand Mirani, Director, Simplus Exim Corporate Advisory, LLP dwelt on the ‘reset’ aspect. He explained how this is necessary for the developing economy and what it entailed.  He also touched upon the use of modern technology in shaping the future of the economy.

The second speaker was Dr. Sandeep Poddar, Dy. Vice Chancellor, Lincoln University, Malaysia. In his opening remarks Dr. Poddar drew attention to the UN Sustainability Goals for 2030. He emphasised on the various aspects of technology in exploring solutions. According to him the use of ICT gave new dimension to Industry 5.0.  

Prof. Nagpaul highlighted the reset aspect of innovation. In his view, technology gave better solutions to the customers. He emphasised on the need for collaboration.  In his opinion India holds lots of opportunities for youngsters. His parting shot to the management students was about cherishing ‘ethical business’.

 Finally, Mr. Wimon Pukong from Thailand used his research paper to underline the role of e-commerce as the driving engine for career promotion and service. He also covered the agri sector, industrial and logistics development in the Thai Economy through the use of IT.

As the programme drew to an end, the panellists were thanked on behalf of the ITS, with virtual plaques being provided as a token of gratitude and appreciation. The gathered audience including the students marvelled at the fruitful discussions and depth of knowledge sharing.

Ghaziabad on 17th October 2020. The Conclave was technically supported by Computer Society of India.

The Conclave was inaugurated by eminent guests Prof. M. M. Pant, Founder Chairman, PlanetEDU & Ex Pro Vice Chancellor – IGNOU, Padam Shri Prof. Y. S. Rajan, Distinguished Professor ISRO/DSO, Scientists & Ex Scientific Secretary Department of Space, ISRO, Vice Chairman- I.T.S The Education Group Shri Arpit Chadha, Director (IT & UG) Prof Sunil Kr Pandey, Prof. Nancy Sharma, Vice Principal (UG).

Director (IT & UG) Prof Sunil Kr Pandey welcomed the guests and briefed about an event.

Prof. M. M. Pant told that convergence of knowledge and technology insociety isvery important for progress in the twenty-first century.Padam Shri Prof. Y. S. Rajan addressed the gathering on “My Tryst with Science and Technology in India”. He told about his55 years of journey as a scientist and his contribution to the arena of Science and Technology in India.

On this occasion, Vice Chairman- I.T.S The Education Group, Shri Arpit Chadha addressed the gathering. In his address, he told about convergence trends with goals that are poised for radical paradigm transformations in human endeavors. Professor & Director (IT & UG) Prof Sunil Kr Pandey spoke about integrated education, use of the spiral circuit of creativity and innovation within larger domains—including multidomain design,human knowledge and cognitive capabilities—and addedvalue decision analysis, made possible by convergence.

After Inauguration of the Conclave, in the Technical Session, Industry Experts shared their perspectives on Convergence of profoundly transformative technologies and technology-enabling sciences in real life perspectives and its future development.

In this Technical Session, Shri Manoj Chugh, President Group Public Affairs, Member Group Executive Board, Mahindra & Mahindra enlightened the gathering on futuristic development of Science & Technology. Shri Arvind Thakur, Member, Board of Management, NIIT University & Former Vice Chairman and Managing Director NIIT Technologies Ltd told about humanity development, creativity, innovation and emotional intelligence and he has also suggested guidelines for effective roadmap of conclave theme.

Shri Gautam Hazari, Technical Director, GSMA,UK discussed real life examples and elaborated the importance of Convergence with Humanity, Science and Technology.

In different Parallel Sessions. The Conclave was attended by over 500 Participants form 28 States of the Country and 8 Countries in different sessions of the Days.

Towards the end of event, Technical Quiz on theme of Digital Conclave was conducted in which 210 participants who have secured 60% & more attended both sessions were given away with Certificate of Participation.

The conference was inaugurated on Monday, 29th August 2022 by the eminent guests including Vice Chairman, ITS –The Education Group, Sh. Arpit Chadha, Prof. Ramjee Prasad, Founder President, CTIF Global Capsule, Founder Chair GISFI. Founder Chair/Co-Chair,GWS/ WPMC, Steering Board, Founder President VISHWANIKETAN, Professor at Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning Campus, Denmark, Dr. Soren Tranberg Hansen, Consulate General of Denmark (Bangalore India), Dr. Sandeep Inamdaar, Vice Chairman, Vishwaniketan, Mumbai, Dr. D.S. Mantri, SIT, Pune, Executive Committee Member, IETE Pune Local Center, Director(IT&UG), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey and Vice Principal-ITS ,UG Campus, Prof. Nancy Sharma.

This conference witnessed world class discussion on futuristic technologies in which globally renowned scientists & Researchers who are established names in Telecommunication and involved in Research in the area of 6G shared their perspective in these 02 Days. An excellent cultural program was prepared and presented by the students of UG Campus and MCA Course was well appreciated by everyone present.

On Day-1 (29th August 2022) while briefing about the event, Director (IT&UG), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey said that “Global ICT Standardization Forum for India (GISFI) is an Indian standardization body active in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and related application areas, such as energy, telemedicine, wireless robotics, biotechnology. It is our privilege to sign a MoU with CGC, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark. He also welcomed the guest and delegates from the globe. He also said that these two days are going to be a new learning for all and meeting the researchers who have come from different parts of the world”.

During his address, Vice Chairman, ITS –The Education Group, Sh. Arpit Chadha congratulated Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey and his team for organizing such a great conference. He said that “I.T.S, Ghaziabad is blessed to have the eminent researchers and industrialist from the globe who will be sharing their knowledge and experience with students and faculty members of different parts during these two days.”

While his Opening Message, Prof. Ramjee Prasad (Denmark), Founder President, CTIF Global Capsule, Founder Chair GISFI. Founder Chair/Co-Chair,GWS/ WPMC, Steering Board, Founder President VISHWANIKETAN, Professor at Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning Campus, Denmark congratulated and appreciated Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director(IT&UG) for his support and organizing 2-Days International Conference. He said that students and faculty members should think about the research and work towards the growth of nation.

Dr. Soren Tranberg Hansen, Consulate General of Denmark (Bangalore India) while addressing the gathering said that this is his first visit to India and he very much impressed with the hospitality of I.T.S, Ghaziabad.

Dr. Sandeep Inamdaar, Vice Chairman, Vishwaniketan, Mumbai talked about the project-based learning. He said that faculties should emphasis on the project-based learning so that students will have more technical knowledge in their domains. He also shared various videos where many students had worked on live projects under his guidance.

On Day-1 of the Conference, during the inaugural Session, a MoU was also signed between I.T.S, Ghaziabad and STIF Global Capsule (CGC), Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark. This MoU which is a joint research and collaborative academic activities was signed by Vice Chairman, ITS –The Education Group, Sh. Arpit Chadha and Prof. Ramjee Prasad, CTIF Global Capsule (CGC), Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark.

At the end of inaugural session Dr. Dnyaneshwar Mantri, SIT, Pune, Executive Committee Member, IETE Pune Local Center delivered a vote of thanks.

After inaugural Session-1 was conducted in the UG Boardroom. This session was chaired Dr.Ambuj Kumar, CGC, Aarhus University, Herning Campus, Denmark. The speakers in this session were Dr. Dinesh Chand Sharma, Director – Standards & Public Policy (SESEI) who spoke on “6G: Green Technology Evolution: EU policy measures and contribution of ICT Standards”. Sh. Satya N Gupta, Chairman of Board, Bluetown India and BIMSTEC discussed about the “Use of Blockchain Technology for future communications for Train Control”. Sh. Kishor Kumar Thakur, CGM BSNL & Cofounder Cyber Vidyapeeth talked about the cyber security threats and its countermeasures. At the end of this session all the speakers were felicitated by Director (IT&UG), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey. The session was coordinated by Prof. Puja Dhar.

Session-2 was scheduled after lunch break. This session was chaired by Sh. Kishor Kumar Thakur, CGM BSNL & Cofounder Cyber Vidyapeeth. In this session the speakers including Dr. Dinesh Chand Sharma, Director – Standards & Public Policy (SESEI) spoke about “Emotional Senses using AI and 6G”. Dr.Suvra S. Das, Professor, IIT Kharagpur talked about “Strategy towards 6G”. Vandana M. Rohokale, SIT, Narhe Pune discussed about “Pervasive AI and 6G Technology”. Prof. Abhay Kumar Ray, Assistant Professor talked about the Smart Home Technologies and Prof. K.P Singh, , Assistant Professor, I.T.S, Ghaziabad talked about the evolution of mobile phones and technology. At the end of this session all the speakers were felicitated by Director (IT&UG), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey. The session was coordinated by Prof. Varun Arora.

On day-2 after lunch an excellent cultural program was prepared and presented by the students of UG Campus and MCA Course which was well appreciated by everyone present.

After spectacular cultural programme by the students, round table discussion was conducted in the Seminar Hall. This session was chaired by Sh. Krishna Sirohi, I2B / AlbenaMihovska, CGC , Aarhus University, Herning Campus, Denmark. In this Session the speakers, Dr.Navin Kumar, Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangalore India and Dr.Ambuj Kumar, CGC , Aarhus University, Herning Campus, Denmark had discussed about the theme “6G and Environmental Variations”. At the end of this session all the speakers were felicitated by Director (IT&UG), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey. The session was coordinated by Prof. Varun Arora, Assistant Professor, I.T.S, Ghaziabad.

On Day-2 of 2-days International Conference, Session-1 was on the theme “Indo-Danish Collaborations”. This session was chaired by Dr. Soren Tranberg Hansen, Consulate General of Denmark in India, Dy. Head of Mission (Science & Technology) Bangalore. There were three panelist in this session including Dr.Ambuj Kumar, CGC, Aarhus University, Herning Campus, Denmark, Dr. Vandana M. Rohokale, SIT, Narhe Pune and Prof. Swati Prasad, BIT Mesra, Ranchi. During the session Dr. Vandana shared her PhD journey at Aarhus University, Herning Campus, Denmark. Dr.Ambuj Kumar also presented his research work on 6G and Environmental Variations. At the end of this session all the speakers were felicitated by Director (IT&UG), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey. The session was coordinated by Prof. Puja Dhar, Assistant Professor, I.T.S, Ghaziabad.

Session-2 was based on the theme “Innovation and research for 6G in India”. This session was chaired by Dr. Tilak Raj Dua, Executive Director, Augere Wireless Broad Band India Pvt Ltd. & Executive Vice President GISFI. The speakers in this session were Sh. Upkar Singh, Vice President, RMSI, Shri Shashank ShekharGaruyar, Chairman, Cybervidyapeeth Foundation, Prof. Puja Dhar, Assistant Professor, I.T.S, Ghaziabad and Prof. Varun Arora Assistant Professor, I.T.S, Ghaziabad. In the beginning of the session Dr. Tilak Raj Dua talked about the Indo-Danish Collaborations and the impact of 6G technology. Sh. Upkar Singh talked about the readiness of corporate world for 6G technologies. Shri Shashank Shekhar Garuyar discussed about the cyber security and how technology is impacting the social life of a human being. Prof. Puja Dhar talked about her research work as well as the role of 6G in Health Industry. Prof. Varun Arora also talked about his research work. At the end of this session all the speakers were felicitated by Director (IT&UG), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey. The session was coordinated by Dr. Dnyaneshwar Mantri,SIT, Pune, Executive Committee Member, IETE Pune Local Center.

While concluding the conference, Director (IT&UG), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey delivered the vote of thanks and thanked all the eminent guests, speaker and delegates who were the part of this conference.

The conference was attended by over 700+ participants including delegates including Academicians, Researchers, Scientists, Policy makers, Research Scholars & students from various parts of the country including – Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, and various cities of UP and MP etc. and other countries including Denmark.

The inaugural ceremony was graced by dignitaries including

·         Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S.  The Education Group; 

·         Honorable Chief Guest, Shri Harivansh Narayan Singh, Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha, New Delhi;

·         Guests of Honour, Prof. S. K. Kak, Former Vice Chancellor, Mahamaya Technical University (Now AKTU) Lucknow and CCS University, Meerut

·         Guests of Honour, Dr. Manoranjan Sharma, Chief Economist, Informatics Rating, New Delhi.

The ceremonial lamp lighting and Saraswati Vandana was followed by the welcome address by Dr. V. N. Bajpai, Director. He formally welcomed all the dignitaries and participants from various institutes and elaborated on the focal theme of the conference.

Shri Arpit Chadha described the importance of the topic in the current scenario. He encouraged the students to listen actively to the assembled guests.

Dr. Manoj K. Jha, Conference Convenor, briefed about the objectives and shared the overview of the two day conference.

During the ceremony, the commemorative journal of the conference was released by the Chief Guest and  Dignitaries.

Shri Harivansh Narayan Singh spoke about living in an age of rapid technological evolution with AI, ML, Cloud Computing and Data Analytics affecting almost every field.

Prof S. K. Kak, provided food for thought on the conference theme, advising participants to evaluate whether disruption is due to Data Analytics and Digitalization, and whether these two are the solutions for the disruption.

Dr. Manoranjan Sharma commended India’s financial and banking sector for embracing digitalization and technology. He also quoted Indians as being resilient for fighting back through difficult times and motivated participants towards a brighter future.

The session concluded with mementos being presented to all the distinguished guests as a token of appreciation. 

1.    Prof. A. K. Nayak
       Advisor – IIBM Group
       Ex., President – Computer Society of India 
2.    Prof. Sunil Kr. Pandey
       Director (IT & UG), 
       I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad                                 

3.    Shri Upkar Singh
       Vice President - RMSI
       Ex. Director (Technology) – FIS Global

4.    Shri Gautam Hazari
       Technical Director
       GSMA

5.    Prof. (Dr.) Ashutosh Kumar Singh
       Professor & Head, Dept. of Comp.Sc. & Engg) 
       NIT Kurukashetra

6.    Shri Sateesh Rai
      Global Data Architect
      PMP ®,TOGAF ® - Global Data Leader

7.    Shri Manu Malik
      Agile Consultant 
      Ex. Project Manager - Wipro 
  
8.    Prof. Nancy Sharma
      Vice Principal
       I.T.S (UG Campus), Ghaziabad    
On this occasion, Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S-The Education Group welcomed all the guests and sent his best wishes for the successful event. In this event guests presented their perspective on the theme and various dimensions and issues related to Data Science, its Applications, Challenges and researches going on from Academic and Industry aspect.

Over 800+ participation from various institutes and universities all around the country attended this 

This one day Convention was organized under the aegis of Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), MIC-MoE and MSME. The convention witnessed a huge participation from industry and academia along with the students.

The event began with the auspicious lamp lighting ceremony and invocation of Goddess Saraswati. The convention commenced with the enriching address by Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S - The Education Group. He warmly welcomed all the eminent speakers and shared his valuable insights on the emergent theme of the convention, its role and importance to the Indian economy and involvement of youth to drive it coming years. He emphasised participants to take maximum learning from the deliberations of all the experts and practitioners to be shared across various sessions.

Prof. (Dr.) V.N Bajpai, Director Management presented the welcome address where he introduced the theme of the convention and shared his viewpoints on the informal economy and its relevance in today’s scenario. Dr. Rajeev Johari, Convenor provided the overview of the convention and the program flow.

The Inaugural session was graced by Mr. Anil Patni, Team Leader EU Policy and Outreach Project (India & France) as Chief Guest, Mr. Rahul Sharma, Managing Director, APCO World Wide and Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Professor & Dean, Shiv Nadar University, Former Director and Chief Executive Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

Mr. Anil Patni, Team Leader EU Policy and Outreach Project (India & France), Chief Guest of the convention deliberated upon the importance of Informal Economy as being informal doesn’t means non-existent, and importantly it has a major part to play in GDP.

Mr. Rahul Sharma, Managing Director, APCO World Wide, as the keynote speaker expressed his thoughts over the emergent ‘Knowledge Economy’ giving its way to the gig economy wherein technology has proved to be the major enabler.

Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Professor & Dean, Shiv Nadar University, Former Director and Chief Executive Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), was the other keynote speaker who expressed concern over greater urbanisation and new characteristics of the city and its people who do not prefer to own assets.

The session was quite interactive as participants asked many relevant questions and the eminent speakers answered them to their satisfaction. At the end of the inaugural session, Dr. V.N Bajpai presented virtual plaques to all the honorable speakers as a token of remembrance and gratitude.

The first panel discussion involved Mr. S. K. Gautam, CEO, UDYAM; Mr. Ramanan Ramanathan , Former Additional Secretary NITI Ayog, New Delhi; Dr. Raj Agarwal, Professor and Director, CME-AIMA, New Delhi; Mr. Anand Mirani, Director & Lead Advisor, Simplus Exim & Corporate Advisory LLP;and Ms. Hanadi Khalife, Senior Director- IMA, Middle East, Africa & India Operations.

Mr SK Gautam initiated proceedings by speaking about “Informal Economy & Invisible Hand”. He shared data on the Indian government’s  contribution to the startup ecosystem, also taking time to stress upon women entrepreneurship and their contribution to Indian economy.

Dr Raj Agarwal emphasised upon the collaboration between academia and industry for promoting an environment of entrepreneurship. He also spoke about the culture of entrepreneurship during the course of the globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation process.

Mr. Anand Mirani started his deliberation with a story of ants and stressed upon becoming butterfly in the times to come. He hoped that students would take the chance to explore possibilities. He highlighted entrepreneurial attitude, adaptability to change and VUCA world through various examples.

Mr. Ramanan Ramanathan stressed on various features of the Atal innovation mission along with the demographic dividend being exploited by India. He shared examples and quotations of Steve Job, Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam and Swami Vivekananda to reinforce his concepts on innovations, creativity and entrepreneurship.

Panel Discussion 1 ended with the vote of thanks by Dr V.N. Bajpai and sharing of Plaque of Honor to all the panel members.

The second panel discussion included Mr Surendra Nath, IAS, Former Secretary, Govt. of India; Dr Vipin Kumar, Director and Chief Information Officer, National Innovation Foundation, DST, Govt. of India; Prof. Birendra Kumar, Dr Rajendra Prasad Agriculture Central University Bihar; Mr Ashwinder R. Singh, CEO, Bhartiya Urban; Dr Sanjeev Kumar Saxena, Assam University; and Mr Ankur Bisen, Senior Partner, Technopak Advisors.

Mr. Surendra Nath initiated the session by explaining the background of informal economy; how to increase the productivity of the informal economy; the working population of the country, core issues of employment & productivity; and how 40 crore people are engaged in different industries of which 20 crore in agriculture, 8 crore in construction, 5 crore in forestry, 4 crore in hotels, 2 crore in animal husbandry and 1 crore in handicrafts.

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Saxena discussed about the resilience of the hospitality industry in Covid-19, including how the industry coped with revenue downfall because of foreign restriction and lockdowns. He further discussed how they have planned the strategic approach during the pre and post pandemic era.

Mr. Ashwinder R Singh expressed his views about the role of technology in the real estate sector and how residential real estate has grown in the last couple of years during the pandemic. He further explained some of the challenges for the real estate industry, such as the low rental rates.

Mr. Vipin Kumar discussed about the startups in the services sector and how they have grown into unicorns in a very short time. He went on to talk about employment generation with startups and experimentations in the food industry.

Mr. Ankur Bisen highlighted the importance of the informal economy in pandemic and how society needs to invest more in defining the informal economy. He also addressed issues like quality of employment, human rights, lack of framework in informal economy and economic growth of India.

Panel Discussion II was then concluded with the presentation of a virtual plaque of honour as a token of gratitude.

Overall the various sessions of the convention were very lively and instructive for all present. Students gained a variety of insights which are expected to broaden there horizons while also apprising them about opportunities coming up in a growing job market.

The Virtual Business Summit had an enlightening Inaugural session followed by insightful panel discussions. All the renowned resource persons presented deep insights on the focal theme of “Resilience & Reinvention of Business in the GIG Economy”

Following renowned Experts deliberated on the given theme-

·         Mr. Venkatesh Mahadevan, Chief Information Officer, Dubai Investments, PJSC, Dubai, U.A.E 

·         Mr. Naresh Priyadarshi, CEO, IIITD Innovation & Incubation Center, IIIT Delhi -

·         Mr. Amit Kumar, CEO, OLX Auto, 

·         Mr. Anupam Saronwala, Advisor Mentor, Angel Investor, Former Country Leader, IBM Research

·         Ms. RashmiMansharamani, CHRO, Wave Group

·         Mr. Gursharan Rai Bansal, CGM & Chief Sales Marketing officer, India Post Payments Bank

·         Mr. Prashant Pal, CEO & Founder, Pure India Trust, Jaipur

·         Mr. Kaushal Mahtani, Senior Principal, Accenture Strategy

·         Ms. Lakshika Joshi, Global Lead IP Counsel & AVP Legal, Capgemini Engineering

·         Mr. Amit Katariya, Global CHRO, Hanu Software

The event commenced with the virtual invocation of Goddess Saraswati. The program commenced with the enriching address by Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S - The Education Group. Prof. (Dr.) V.N. Bajpai, Director- I.T.S Ghaziabad warmly welcomed all the eminent speakers and shared his valuable insights on the focal theme with the audience. An overview of the summit and introduction of the theme was given by Business Summit Convener, Dr. Anusha Agarwal.

The inaugural session was graced by honorable Chief Guest Mr. Venkatesh Mahadevan, Chief Information Officer, Dubai Investments, PJSC Dubai, U.A.E.He motivated the participants to embrace the practical knowledge and use their inquisitiveness for building agility and for betterment of their future.

Mr. Naresh Priyadarshi, CEO,IIITD Innovation & Incubation Center, IIIT Delhi distinguished Guest of Honor the day, described digital marketplace, listing platforms and asset sharing as the three pillars of GIG Economy and inspired participants to look for other options to become a disruptor themselves.

Mr. Amit Kumar, CEO,OLX Auto the keynote speaker of the inaugural session, delivered his keynote address highlighting the meaning of GIG economy as having virtual workers doing temporary jobs at their freedom. He also stressed that disruption is around the corner for most of the sectors and they need to embrace the change to be successful.

During the first Panel Session, Ms. Rashmi Mansharamani, CHRO-Wave Group introduced the theme Innovate, Integrate and Motivate for Sustainable Organizations. She explained why resilience and reinvention are important in an organization and how pandemic has impacted the organizations through the hybrid workplace. She further emphasized that empathy and trust along with relevant decision making can build socially sustainable organizations.

Mr. Gursharan Rai Bansal, CGM & Chief Sales Marketing officer,India Post Payments Bank discussed how technology is helping organizations to be agile and adaptable in order to sustain in this pandemic era

During the Panel Session-II, the summit witnessed stimulating discussions from the esteemed panelist on the theme of Entrepreneurism and Business Growth – Thriving in Turbulent Times.

Mr. Anupam Saronwala Advisor Mentor, Angel Investor, Former Country Leader, IBM Research, highlighted some important characteristics of GIG workers and emphasized that the biggest characteristic of GIG economy is absence of the fear of failure. Mr. Prashant Pal, CEO & Founder, Pure India Trust, Jaipur, briefly discussed about the upcoming contractual and freelance work environment. Mr. Kaushal Mahtani, Senior Principal, Accenture Strategy stressed on the changing nature of work which is giving way to contractual jobs and agile workforce. Ms. Lakshika Joshi Global Lead IP Counsel & AVP Legal, Capgemini Engineering, talked about legal protections available globally for GIG workers which India can adapt during its journey on the challenging growth path.                         Mr. Amit Katariya Global CHRO, Hanu Software, elaborated on the efforts of organizations in managing and engaging their workforce towards the transition from pandemic to post pandemic scenario.

The 6th Edition of I.T.S Business Summit 2022 thus concluded with the Institute’s students and guests learning through the combined experience of various Industry stalwarts from a variety of fields. The young leaders of tomorrow were left with a refreshed sense of motivation to work towards a brighter and smarter India. Prof. (Dr.) V N Bajpai presented virtual plaques to all the eminent guests as a token of gratitude. The beauty of the summit was evident from the way the audience kept peppering the sessions with different questions aimed at the panelists and the speakers’ enlightening remarks on the same.

1. Prof. Vinay Nangia
Professor, Mentor , Guide for Education, Business and Start ups
IIT Roorkee, NSUT Delhi
 
2.  Dr. Anil Kumar Misra
Chief Human Resources Officer
JioMart - B2B Grocery, Reliance Retail
 
3.  Shri Gaurav Gupta
India Head of Human Resources
  
4.  Shri Shubham Tripathi
Senior HR Manager
Zee Media Corporation Limited
 
5.  Shri Samyak Jain
Founder & CEO
Myways.ai
6. Shri Narottam Sharma
Group Chief Information Officer
Mastek

Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S-The Education Group, in his message, expressed his happiness and appreciated the efforts of organizing team of this summit
Over 750+ participation from various institutes and universities all around the country attended this event.

on grand note with great discussions and deep insightful address by eminent guests. On this occasion, Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S-The Education Group welcomed all the guests and presented his perspective on the theme and various dimensions and issues related to Banking, Insurance and current state of affairs of Indian Economy in specific context to Technology inclusion in these areas.
 
Renowned Academicians, Researchers and Industry Experts would be sharing their views and perspective in this event on the theme:

1.  Shri Chintan Oza
                 Advisor – Lloyds Ventures & Venture Advisor – Loyal VC
                 President - OneQuantum                                                     
 
2. Dr. Prashant Gupta
                Professor - IIM Trichy
 
3. Shri Prasanna Lohar
                Vice President – Technology (Digital, Innovation & Architecture)
                DCB Bank
 
4. Shri Gopal Kumar
                Actuary at Radgo & Company
                Co-Founder - Nimeya Technologies
              Member - Investor Education & Protection Fund (IEPF) Authority, Government of India
 
5. Shri Debmalya Dey Roy
               Chief Revenue Officer & Global Marketing Head
               Pi DATACENTERS
 
6. Dr. Faisal Ahmad
   Professor
               FORE School of Management
 
7. Shri Pushpendra Dixit, CA
               General Manager & Global Taxation Head
               PVR Limited

Over 500+ participation from various institutes and universities all around the country attended this event.

with an objective to understand the changing face of HR and disruptive development during pandemic.

The inaugural session was graced by the benign presence of Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S - The Education Group, Chief Guest Mr. Ashutosh Anshu CHRO, Hitachi India, Guest of Honour Mr. Subir Verma, CHRO and Head HR & IR Tata Power, Shri Surinder Sood, Director (PR), I.T.S - The Education Group, Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Former Director & Professor Emeritus, I.T.S Ghaziabad and Prof. Durba Roy, Program Convener.

The inaugural ceremony commenced with the lamp lighting followed by Saraswati Vandana. The Welcome address was presented by Dr. Vidya Sekhri, and Session Overview was given by Prof. Durba Roy.

The session also witnessed the energetic opening remarks by the Shri Surinder Sood and an inspiring and motivational inaugural address by Shri. Arpit Chadha.

Honourable Chief Guest Mr. Ashutosh Anshu, shared his valuable experience with the students and focused on three Cs in terms of Communication, Coordination and Collaboration to be successful in the professional arena.

Guest of Honour Mr. Subir Verma discussed with the students about the major technical, digital and HR disruptions and how budding managers should handle these disruptions.

At the end, I.T.S plaques were presented to the eminent guests of the inaugural session as a token of respect.

Inaugural session was followed by two panel discussions.

Panel Session 1 - "Work From Home - A new Paradigm"

Speakers from different fields and vintage shared their experiences of navigating adversity and turning disruption that they faced during the pandemic.

- Mr. Agniwesh Thakur, Lead HCM, Accenture

- Mr. Debargha Deb, Head HR - North, Dabur Ltd.

- Ms. Nidhi Jain, MD, Apex P. Ltd.

- Ms. Richa Sahay, Head HR, Human Circle

- Ms. Sincy Joseph, HR-OD Professional, ICF-ACC Coach (Leadership and Life); Group Dynamics Trainer (ISABS)

Dr. V N Bajpai, Dean welcomed all the speakers by presenting the plant saplings.

Students also raised various questions which were nicely answered by the speakers.

At the end Each speaker was honored with a plaque at the conclusion of the panel discussion.

Panel Session 2 - "Digital Disruptions and HR"

- Mr. Neeraj Narang, Director – HCM Strategy, Oracle

- Ms. Priyanka Srivastava, AGM HR, CNH Industrial India Pvt. Ltd.

- Mr. Manoj Kumar, AVP & Head HR, Indiannica Learning Pvt. Ltd.

- Mr. Shivshant Kumar, Sr. Director & Head HRIS,Jubiliant Pharmova

- Mr. Devmani Pandey, Head HR Operations, Dalmia Cements & Hippo Stores.

After the end of the panel discussion, each speaker was felicitated with the plaque as a token of remembrance.

At the end of HR Conclave 2021, Prof. Shilpi Rana, conclave coordinator offered a vote of thanks to all esteemed guests for their insightful words discussing current HR trends.

HR Conclave 2021 panel discussions contributed to the success of the conclave and ensured lively discussion of the issues.

In this very important and unique event, The Summit, Globally Renowned experts from various facets including – National Security, Defense, Cyber Crimes Investigating Agencies, Industry, Academia & Research, Cyber Laws, Ethical Hackers etc. addressed and interacted with the audience of all across the country throughout the Day in different Sessions of the event.

Event comprised of Inaugural Session and three technical sessions.

Inaugural Session : Cyber Security: Challenges & Opportunities graced by Key note Speakers of session Air Marshal P K Roy PVSM AVSM VM VSM, National Security Expert,Prof. Sheng-Lung Peng,National Taipei University of Business, Taipei, Taiwan, Prof. M.M. Pant, For. Pro-Vice Chancellor - IGNOU & Founder Chairman – PlanetEDU, Prof. Vineet Kansal, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University : AKTU

Technical Session 1: Information Technology & Cyber Warfare – Global Challenges

In the technical session 1; Maj. Gen. Shashi Asthana, Global Strategic & Military Analyst and Chief Instructor – USI, Lt General (Dr.) R S Panwar, Analyst, Future Warfare, Lt. Col. Prashant Mishra, Asst. Vice President, Tata Tele Services addressed the gathering.

Technical Session 2 : Cyber Security : Research Issues & Opportunities to counter Cyber Security Challenges

In Technical session2; Prof D.K. Lobiyal, Dean & Professor, SCS, JNU Delhi, Prof. Sardar M. N. Islam (Naz), Victoria University, Australia, Dr. Seema Sharma, Executive Director; Centre of Women Policy Research, Shri S. Sridhar, Sr. Vice President, Tata Communication, Bangalore

Technical Session 3: Cyber Crimes – How to be Safe in Cyber Space – Case Studies

In Technical Session 3: Shri Vishal Vikram Singh,Add. SP – UP STF, Shri Rahul Mishra, Advisor (Cyber Security), UP Police, Shri Shiv Raj, Superintendent of Police, Gonda,

 Mr. Rizwan Sheikh, Renowned Cyber Security Expert & Ethical Hacker, Mumbai and Mr. Archie Jackson, Sr. Director & Head of IT & Security, Inceed Inc. addressed the gathering.

Overall; it was a day with full of learning, demonstrations about Cyber Risks, Hacking and discussions on very relevant themes.

Event concluded on grand note with participation of over 1000+ Participants throughout the day in different Sessions from 26 States of the Country and 17 different Countries including USA, Canada, KSA, Mauritius, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Singapore.

In this very important and unique event, The Summit, Globally Renowned experts from various facets including – National Security, Defense, Cyber Crimes Investigating Agencies, Industry, Academia & Research, Cyber Laws, Ethical Hackers etc. addressed and interacted with the audience of all across the country throughout the Day in different Sessions of the event.

Event comprised of Inaugural Session and three technical sessions.

Inaugural Session : Cyber Security: Challenges & Opportunities graced by Key note Speakers of session Air Marshal P K Roy PVSM AVSM VM VSM, National Security Expert,Prof. Sheng-Lung Peng,National Taipei University of Business, Taipei, Taiwan, Prof. M.M. Pant, For. Pro-Vice Chancellor - IGNOU & Founder Chairman – PlanetEDU, Prof. Vineet Kansal, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University : AKTU

Technical Session 1: Information Technology & Cyber Warfare – Global Challenges

In the technical session 1; Maj. Gen. Shashi Asthana, Global Strategic & Military Analyst and Chief Instructor – USI, Lt General (Dr.) R S Panwar, Analyst, Future Warfare, Lt. Col. Prashant Mishra, Asst. Vice President, Tata Tele Services addressed the gathering.

Technical Session 2 : Cyber Security : Research Issues & Opportunities to counter Cyber Security Challenges

In Technical session2; Prof D.K. Lobiyal, Dean & Professor, SCS, JNU Delhi, Prof. Sardar M. N. Islam (Naz), Victoria University, Australia, Dr. Seema Sharma, Executive Director; Centre of Women Policy Research, Shri S. Sridhar, Sr. Vice President, Tata Communication, Bangalore

Technical Session 3: Cyber Crimes – How to be Safe in Cyber Space – Case Studies

In Technical Session 3: Shri Vishal Vikram Singh,Add. SP – UP STF, Shri Rahul Mishra, Advisor (Cyber Security), UP Police, Shri Shiv Raj, Superintendent of Police, Gonda,

 Mr. Rizwan Sheikh, Renowned Cyber Security Expert & Ethical Hacker, Mumbai and Mr. Archie Jackson, Sr. Director & Head of IT & Security, Inceed Inc. addressed the gathering.

Overall; it was a day with full of learning, demonstrations about Cyber Risks, Hacking and discussions on very relevant themes.

Event concluded on grand note with participation of over 1000+ Participants throughout the day in different Sessions from 26 States of the Country and 17 different Countries including USA, Canada, KSA, Mauritius, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Singapore.

In this event, leading experts of the country addressed and shared their perspective on National Education Policy-2020, its provisions, proposed revamping & restructuring of Education System in India and how these provisions could be implemented. All the guests in their address emphasized on the need of faculty training and about crucial role of faculty members & Teachers in its implementation at School Level as well as Higher Education.

Mr. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S-The Education Group welcomed all the guests and talked about the challenges which may be encountered during implementation of NEP-2020 provisions along with different ways to counter them. He said that NEP-2020 is an ambitious Policy with provisioning to create an Educational Framework with global competitiveness. It is very important that all the stakeholders are aware and especially faculty, who would carry crucial responsibility for its successful implementation, has clarity on different aspects of it.

Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey, Director (IT & UG) in his opening remark spoke about the need of a country-wide Education Policy and discussed about provisions, objectives and aims of different education policies (1968, 1986 and NEP-2020) and how NEP-2020 is aimed at globalization and deMaclization of Indian education by introducing Indian ethos, values and promoting Regional and Mother tongue.

Below mentioned Eminent guests addressed the participants in the event and shared their valuable & insightful deliberations on the broader theme:

1. Dr. K.K. Aggarwal, Chairman, NBA (National Board of Accreditation)

2. Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, Vice Chancellor, JNU, New Delhi

3. Prof. M.M. Pant, Former Pro Vice Chancellor - IGNOU & Chairman – PlanetEdu

4. Prof.VineetKansal, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow

5. Prof.Ranjana Arora, Head, Dept. of Teacher Education and Curriculum Group, NCERT

Earlier, Prof. Nancy Sharma, Vice Principal-UG Campus briefed the audience about the objective of this Seminar and mentioned the need to have more understanding on the different aspects of NEP 2020, seeking out growing opportunities & related challenges for the successful implementation of the Educational reforms. She emphasized on the need of adaption with the journey of change so that better and high-quality educational opportunities can be brought out for our Youth who is the future of our Country.

More than 500 Participants from various Colleges/Universities/ Schools from all across the country and different other countries attended the event in the online mode.

In this event, leading experts of the country addressed and shared their perspective on National Education Policy-2020, its provisions, proposed revamping & restructuring of Education System in India and how these provisions could be implemented. All the guests in their address emphasized on the need of faculty training and about crucial role of faculty members & Teachers in its implementation at School Level as well as Higher Education.

Mr. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S-The Education Group welcomed all the guests and talked about the challenges which may be encountered during implementation of NEP-2020 provisions along with different ways to counter them. He said that NEP-2020 is an ambitious Policy with provisioning to create an Educational Framework with global competitiveness. It is very important that all the stakeholders are aware and especially faculty, who would carry crucial responsibility for its successful implementation, has clarity on different aspects of it.

Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey, Director (IT & UG) in his opening remark spoke about the need of a country-wide Education Policy and discussed about provisions, objectives and aims of different education policies (1968, 1986 and NEP-2020) and how NEP-2020 is aimed at globalization and deMaclization of Indian education by introducing Indian ethos, values and promoting Regional and Mother tongue.

Below mentioned Eminent guests addressed the participants in the event and shared their valuable & insightful deliberations on the broader theme:

1. Dr. K.K. Aggarwal, Chairman, NBA (National Board of Accreditation)

2. Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, Vice Chancellor, JNU, New Delhi

3. Prof. M.M. Pant, Former Pro Vice Chancellor - IGNOU & Chairman – PlanetEdu

4. Prof.VineetKansal, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow

5. Prof.Ranjana Arora, Head, Dept. of Teacher Education and Curriculum Group, NCERT 

Earlier, Prof. Nancy Sharma, Vice Principal-UG Campus briefed the audience about the objective of this Seminar and mentioned the need to have more understanding on the different aspects of NEP 2020, seeking out growing opportunities & related challenges for the successful implementation of the Educational reforms. She emphasized on the need of adaption with the journey of change so that better and high-quality educational opportunities can be brought out for our Youth who is the future of our Country.

More than 500 Participants from various Colleges/Universities/ Schools from all across the country and different other countries attended the event in the online mode.

The program commenced with the enriching address by Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S - The Education Group and welcome address by Prof. (Dr.) Vidya Sekhri, Director- Management. The overview of the summit was delivered by Convener, Dr. Anusha  Agarwal. The inaugural session was graced by the presence of Mr. Ashish Patel, Managing Director- Morgan Franklin (U.S), as the Guest of Honor; Mr. Rajendra Shrivastav, President, AES India, Chairman & MD of JV, as distinguished Guest of the day and Mr. Phoram Mehta, Senior Director, APAC CISO PayPal, President ISACA, (Singapore) as the chief Guest of the ceremony.

Followed by the Inaugural Ceremony, the summit highlighted very prominent points via Panel Discussion- 1with the subtheme – New Frontiers of Environment, Sustainability & Governance deliberated by eminent speakers from Industry. Mr. S.K. Sethi, Founder &CEO, Insurance Foundation of India discussed how environment is changing rapidly and how each one of us should contribute towards it. He talked about three pillars, primarily, Government, Industry and Society whose combined contribution play a major role towards environment sustainability.

Next speaker of the session, Mr. Saurabh Jain, Vice President PAYTM discussed about how the environment changed during lockdown. He emphasized that “future belongs to entrepreneurs” and quoted the example of Elon Musk, how his idea Tesla and SpaceX contributed towards sustainability and made him a success.

Mr Sahil Nayar , Senior Associate Director, KPMG (Mumbai) talked about how Covid become best example of VUCA. He redefined the term NEW NORMAL as NEO NORMAL. Mr Nayar gave a wonderful insight to audience about work life balance, work life harmony, gratitude, multi-tasking and switch task.

Then session was carried on by Mr Sulabh Goel, VP, Ernst & Young. He focused on sustainability and talked about before-covid era and after-covid era. He also talked about how people are adjusting and adapting to the new normal, private financing for infrastructural development and work from home culture.

 Last Speaker of the session was Ms Ritika Mathur, Director, Grant Thorton. She discussed how our policy makers needs to think differently and quoted the point that equity and environment go hand in hand together.  She discussed about the importance of investment in clean technology, the new area of health care technology, drivers of sustainable environment& new transformation that can be helpful. The Moderator of this panel discussion was Prof Yachhna Malhotra.

Panel Discussion 2 followed the Inaugural Session and Panel Discussion 1.The theme for this session was “Direction and Pace of Post Pandemic Period”. The Moderator of this panel discussion was Prof Shikha Arora. The eminent speakers joining the session were Mr. Peter Dorrington, Founder Director, XMplify Consulting Ltd.; Mr. Ankush Gadi, Director, CRISIL (Mumbai); Mr. Atul Shukla, Vice-President, JPMorgan Chase; Mr. P Kannan, Senior Regional Manager, Bajaj Finserv; Mr. Manigandan Ramesh, Head- Sales Automation Business Excellence, Haldiram Foods International Ltd.; and Ms. Neha Shukla, Associate Vice-President, NatWest Bank.

Mr. Peter Dorrington flagged off the session by discussing about human behaviour, digital transformation, hybrid working and different ecosystems. During his discussion he quoted Warren Buffett while focusing on customer satisfaction.

Next Mr. Ankush Gadi started on a positive note by stressing that there is always light at the end of the tunnel. He mentioned 23.9% fall in GDP during April to June period followed by the V- shaped recovery now. He also spoke about the three major challenges facing India,viz.,labour intensive manufacturing, climate change and human capital.

Mr. Atul Shukla briefed about decreasing consumer confidence index, household GDP, rural base growth and government contribution to the GDP.  He also referred to the three pillars of any economy, i.e., government, corporate and the consumers.

Mr. Kannan spoke of many sectors that are still improving, not improving and/or struggling. He provided an example by pointing out how two million loan applications in June had now increased to twenty million.

Mr. Manigandan Ramesh offered that the storm may have gone but it was time to perform. He was very positive & optimistic throughout and talked about the 5Rs (Resolve, Return, Reform, Resilience & Re-imagination). He spoke about how automation helps us in increasing productivity.

Finally Ms. Neha Shukla held forth on four major points, viz., - rebranding of portfolios, cost structures, work place changes, and digitalisation. She referred to digitalisationas the biggest gift of Covid-19 and the fact that now people are looking for safe places for work rather than great places for work.

During the sessions, many pertinent queries and doubts were raised by the students which were handled and satisfied very effectively by the all distinguished speakers.

At the end of the session Prof. (Dr.)Vidhya Sekhri, Director (Management), I.T.S Mohan Nagar put on record her concluding remarks and presented a digital plaque to each of the guests as a token of gratitude and remembrance.

The inaugural session of the convention was graced by luminaries like Mr Satya Gupta, Chairman – India, IPV6 Council, who joined as the Chief Guest; Mr Anil Khaitan, Chairman, Sunil Health Ltd., and Former Chairman, PHDCCI; and Prof. (Dr.) Shailendra Singh, Director, IIM Ranchi. The latter two were participating in the capacity of Guests of Honour.

The session was opened by Director (Management) Prof. (Dr) Vidya Sekhri, who began by saying that during a time of global crisis, it is very significant that our country is emerging as Aatma Nirbhar Bharat. Referring to the fluctuating environment where economies have to encounter a variety of ups and downs, Dr Sekhri quoted Gautam Buddha, noting that becoming comfortable with impermanence is the true sign of an evolved individual. She explained that now more than ever before it was necessary that India takes the lead in the fight against Covid-19 by developing effective vaccines.

Next Dr Rajeev Johari, Convener of the Convention, provided an outline of the event. He pointed out that terms like Atma Nirbhar Bharat and Five Trillion Dollar economy had become commonplace even before the unfortunate onset of the pandemic. While the spread of Covid has definitely put the brakes on these and other initiatives for now, it is only a matter of time before efforts are resumed with new zest and vigour. Therefore it is essential to lay down the route map for the path ahead; that is one of the aims for this convention. Dr Johari went on to provide a snapshot of the participants and deliberations coming up in the rest of the day’s programme.

Mr Khaitan was the first to speak among the guests. He chose to concentrate on the area of healthcare technology. Quoting the examples of typewriters and mobiles, Mr Khaitan highlighted how lack of innovation can spell the death knell for products as well as businesses. He referred to cutting edge concepts like the use of artificial intelligence; blockchains as a means of data verification; advanced  social media; voice search as a means of responding to those needing care; artificial assistants like Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant; uses of virtual  reality; mobile applications; and video marketing as a tool for reaching out to the customer.

 Among the other speakers, Dr Singh spoke about how myriad innovations are helping to deal with newer challenges by a constantly evolving pandemic. The chief guest, Mr Satya Prakash focused on the modalities for innovation in India at the policy level. He drew attention to how digital infrastructure, which is the need of the hour, brings a whole new ball game compared to the traditional physical version. He illustrated his thoughts through his involvement in the efforts at setting up a digital backbone for the country. Coming to the necessity of creative innovation, he distinguished it as something which avoided the disruptive effect. In this connection he also threw some light on the Blue Ocean strategy used in the corporate world.

The main programme of the day consisted of two panel discussions. The first one was chaired by Dr Sudhir Kochhar, Former ADG (IPR) and National Coordinator (NAIP), ICAR and focussed on sectors like agriculture, defence and manufacturing. The other discussants in this session included Mr Durgesh Sharma DG, Fibre Cement Products; Maj. Gen. Ravi Arora, CEO and Chief Editor, Indian Military Review; and Dr Nishikant Ojha, Advisor, Cyber, Aerospace and Counter Terrorism and eminent faculty, Defence and Paramilitary Forces.

After the Director (Management) welcomed the participants in the first panel discussion, Dr Kochar kicked off the session as the Session Chair by drawing on his long experience of work in the field of agriculture. Starting with the fact that agriculture is the bedrock of any economy, he described the major potential for startups in this area. On the one hand there was scope for individual R&D initiatives; on the other it was also possible to go in for public-private initiatives. Certain technologies were at the Proof of Concept stage, which need further scaling up. He also referred to his experiences as National Coordinator for agricultural projects involving 400 partner institutions.

The next speaker in the discussion was Dr Ojha, who brought his experience in counter terrorism along with significant diplomatic capabilities into play. He repeatedly stressed that India could not afford to depend only on foreign acquisitions alone for its military requirements at a time when there were significant security challenges in the neighbourhood. He also emphasised on the need to develop our own R&D capabilities. Continuing on the theme of India’s defensive expertise,  Maj. Gen. Ravi Arora provided a detailed breakdown of different case stories from Indian military experience.

Mr Sharma brought the discussion back to the fold of agriculture with detailed statistical information laying down the markers for the immediate future in this field. He also threw some light on the government and its role in public sector units. The session concluded with Dr Sekhri commending the participants for the in depth knowledge in their respective areas while presenting them individual mementos.

The post-lunch session had Mr Vishal Gandhi, Founder and CEO of BIORx Venture Advisors Pvt. Ltd.  taking over as the Chair with the attention shifting towards banking and technology. Mr Gandhi was joined by Mr Chanchal K. Gautam, AGM-NABARD, DDM Office, Ghaziabad; Mr Rajiv Ratna Shah, Director, MIDAS Lab, IIIT Delhi; Ms. Bhumika Sukhadia, Co-Founder, OPE Innovation Lab, Mumbai; and Mr Niteen Khemka, Co-Founder and CEO, Startup Spine, and mentor at NASSCOM and NITI Aayog.

Prof (Dr) Vidya Sekhri welcomed all the panelists with her thoughts on the future of technology. Mr. Gandhi then shared his view on a variety issues like Covid-19, disruptive challenges, and the opportunities afforded therein. He also spoke about the growth of pharmaceutical industry during the COVID-19 era with the production of Indian vaccines, PPE equipment, sanitisation efforts, need for thermal scanning and repurposing of drugs.

Mr Gautam next emphasised on the need for banking infrastructure with the five pillars of demand, demography, technology, and infrastructure & economy. These were explained through copious data, graphs and charts. Dr. Shah started by sharing a case study on “Suicidal Ideation Detection”. He also added some Research Work on “AI for social Good” empowering towards banking, policing, Bloomberg, Delhi Jal board and many more. He also elaborated about Information Retrieval System, Visual Speech Recognition, password prediction & cybercrimes.

One of the highlights of this discussion was the talk by Ms. Sukhadia, who shared her views on why businesses should “know their local”. She mentioned the significant role of design and innovation in the businesses, using an excellent example on the doodhwalas changing to milk delivery in glass bottles and then to plastic packets. She also talked about the 4 Ds, viz. - Discover, Define, Design, & Deliver. The session was completed by Mr Khemka, who elaborated on the role of MSMEs, government subsidies, tax exemptions, loans facility and incubation with regard to entrepreneurial activities.

Prof. (Dr.) Vidya Sekhri then enlightened the audience with her words of wisdom as she presented the virtual plaques as a token of gratitude and remembrance to all the panelists. Finally the Vote of Thanks was delivered by Dr.Indraneel Mandal as the day’s programme drew to a close. The diverse topics and animated discussions enthralled the students in particular and the audience in general as the Convention concluded fruitfully with much food for thought.

The objective of the conclave was to understand, how organizations are changing and transforming during the pandemic situation in COVID times. This Conclave provided a common platform to rediscover the paradigms that will help the leaders and policy makers to redefine the future of work and workplace for Business Continuity. Eminent speakers from Industry graced the conclave with their benign presence and shared their insight and valuable thoughts and experiences.  At the beginning, the program commenced with an encouraging deliberation by Shri Arpit Chadha sir, Vice Chairman, I.T.S The Education Group, where he welcomed all the eminent speakers and shared words of wisdom, this address was followed by the Welcome address by Dr.(Prof.) Vidya Sekhri, Director-Management and Prof. Durba Roy (Associate Vice president CRC and Conclave Convener) by introducing the theme of the Conclave. The eminent speakers of the session were:

1.     Mr. Rajan Dutta,  Managing Director - Xstrops Consulting; Managing Partner - Xpert Conexions, Former President HR- Reliance ADA, Lupin pharmaceuticals Limited - Chief Guest of the ceremony highlighted the flattening of the economic curve, migrant labourers issue, organization facing challenges to run efficiently and use the workforce effectively. He further highlighted that Consumer behaviour is also changing these days. Value of the product, convenience and authenticity are driving factors now.

2.     Mr. Lokesh Saxena,  Managing Director - DISA INDIA LIMITED & Sr.Vice President - India, Middle East & Sub Saharan Africa, Norican Group graced the inaugural ceremony as Guest of Honour. He laid emphasis on emotional aspects and workforce management post pandemic era. He said that positive mind and hope for future are the key factors in the new normal.

3.     Dr. Sudhanshu Pathak, Head - HR and OD at JK Tyre & Industries Ltd., delivered the Keynote address of the inaugural session and highlighted the changing functions of HR during the COVID times and issues of  employee engagement establishing balance between Agility and compassion, result and relationship. At the end of Inaugural Ceremony Dr. (Prof.) Vidya Sekhri, Director-Management expressed her gratitude by presenting digital plaque to all the esteemed speakers as a token of gratitude. Overall session was very interactive and full of practical knowledge and insights on the focal theme.

Followed by the Inaugural Ceremony, The conclave highlighted the very prominent issues with the subtheme –Future of Work: Hybrid Workforce via Panel Discussion-1 by eminent speakers from Industry in the next session of the conclave.

The Moderator of the Panel discussion was Mr. Agniwesh Thakur. (AVP, SAP- Success factors Capacity, Accenture) and the eminent panelists were Mr. Biplob Banerjee (CPPO, ABD India), Mr. Atma Godara (Production HR Generalist – APAC, Netflix, Digital Transformation Leader), Mr. Manish Rastogi (Head Capability Development & Talent, Vodafone Idea), Mr. Rohit Shenoy (AVP HR, Sterlite Power) and Mr. Neeraj Mehra (VP, HR, Infogain).

The panel discussion started with an opening question that “How New Normal look Like?. Mr. Biplob Banerjee addressed the question and focused that it is a disruption as everyone is connected through a virtual platform. So, it feels like IPL is going on but in the stadium, there were no audiences who are going to cheer the players.  He compared the situation with the freshers who are going to perform in the empty stadium. Further Mr. Atma Godara addressed the same question and gave few tips to always research and stay relevant according to the market analysis before the pandemic, now what looks like and it would be in near future. The second tip was upskilling and reskilling is most important in every situation. Mr. Manish Rastogi shared that leadership is not only with position/designation. It can be done on a small grassroots level also as it was his experience during this lockdown. He also shared the employee engagement activity initiatives taken by their company in this pandemic situation. Mr. Neeraj Mehra enlighted the audience with wonderful thought that we all should be grateful that we are Happy & Alive, we have Shelter & Food for our survival. In this new normal situation, he got to know what is most important for a human being to survive. Mr. Ronit Shenoy expressed his views that in this new normal situation their company organized many meditation sessions along with many types of sessions conducted by the company for stress relief. At the end of session, Dr. (Prof.) Vidya Sekhri, Director-Management expressed gratitude by presenting digital plaque to all the esteemed speakers as a token of respect and gratitude.

The Panel Discussion II started with the sub theme “Role of HR in Well being, Engagement and Performance in tough times” was conducted.

The eminent speakers of the session were Ms. Rashmi Manshramani , CHRO, The Wave Group , Mr.  Prateek Dubey,  Head ER & HR, IDFC First Bank, Mr. Anand Amrit Raj,  AVP, HR, Okaya Power, Ms. Archna Bhardwaj, Head HR Inter Globe Air Transport (IGAT), Dr. Amit Pareenja ,  Group Associate Director-Global Learning & Development (Group Corporate HR) at Tata Communications & Hon. Chairman at The Institute of Mnagement Consultants of India (Delhi Chapter), Mr. Atul Tiwary ,  Head HR, Oyo. The Panel discussion was moderated by Ms. Rashmi Manshramani. The Moderator started with tough time with respect to infrastructure, technology, organization design, transformation, innovation, business model, destructions during the pandemic situation. Mr. Anand Amrit Raj shared the business experience of his organization during pandemic period on how he converted this time in to an opportunity base and achieved a lot of profit due to his change of mind set and his own strategy during this period. He stressed on the backbones of the organization like R&D, organization design, structure etc.  Ms. Archana Bhardwaj highlighted three terms and these are rethink, reshape, and re-evaluate. She advocated technology friendly and technology connect that enabled connections with persons not just in India but hypo connected with world today. Dr. Amit Pareenja explained that the adaptation may be of two types one is market level and another is individual level. He stressed on increased agility while working from home which is also interlinked with comfort zone but not mind shift and that change of mind is mandatory for better results in productivity. Mr. Atul Tiwari introduced his delivery with ambiguity and reactive thinking process.  He stressed on mind, body and soul and these also work in the organization in a better sense strategically. Mr. Prateek Dubey during the third round of discussion focused on first HR policy and later on technology and transformation.

The session was highly thought provoking and ended with a concluding remark by the moderator. At the end of session, Dr. (Prof.) Vidya Sekhri, Director-Management expressed gratitude by presenting digital plaque to all the esteemed speakers as a token of gratitude. Overall the conclave was full of Knowledge, innovative and thought provoking ideas shared by all speakers. During the sessions, many query and doubts were raised by the students which were handled and satisfied very effectively by the all distinguished speakers.

during 21st -22nd August 2020. The Conference was sponsored by AICTE and technically supported by Computer Society of India(CSI) concluded on a Grand Note attracts huge Media coverage.

The objective of the conference was to bring academicians, practitioners, researchers, technocrats and industry experts to review the ongoing process of research and development in the field of communication technology.The Conference was attended by over 700+ Participants from 26 States of the Country and 8 Countries in different sessions which consisted of 7 events such as Inaugural Session, Keynote Addresses, Technical Sessions, Paper presentation and Valedictory Session.

The 2 days event was commenced with the inaugural ceremony. The event was inaugurated by eminent guestsProf. K.K. Aggarwal, Chairman – National Board of Accreditation(NBA), Prof. Vinay Kumar Pathak, Vice ChancellorDr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, Prof. Vinita Sahay, Director - IIM Bodhgaya. They inspired the participants with their influential presence and shared the knowledge of eminence with gathering.

In beginning of session, Dr Sunil Kr Pandey briefed about an event and welcomed the guests.

On this occasion Shri Surinder Sood, Director (PR), I.T.S – the Education Group welcomed the dignitaries and addressed to participants with his motivational words. Towards the end of Inaugural Session Conference e-Proceedings was also released by the Distinguished Guest Speakers, Shri S. Sood, Director(PR), I.T.S- The Education Group, Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey, Professor & Director (IT & UG), Prof. Nancy Sharma, Vice Principal (UG) and the faculty Members were also present.

On Day-1,  After Inauguration of the Conference, Technical session was graced by the presence of Industry Experts Mr. Feroz Khan, Head Digital Advisory, Mr. Prasanna Lohar, Chief Information Officers, DCB Bank, Mr. Venkata Satish Gutulla, Director(Security), Rediff, Mr. Ankit Jhamb, KPMG. In this session, experts  shared their perspectives on different verticals including Banking. Learning & Development, Information Security and Customer Focused applications and way ahead. The speakers shared their ideas and views on the topic.

Dr Sunil Kr Pandey, Director(IT) delivered vote of thanks to distinguished guests of the session.

In Post Lunch Session 22 Authors presented their Papers in different Parallel Sessions. The Conference was attended by over 400 Participants form 26 States of the Country and 8 Countries in different sessions of the Day-1.

The day-2 of the conference started with the keynote addresses by eminent speakers of session Prof. S. Srinivas Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Technological University, Anantapur, Prof. A.K. Nayak, Immediate Past President(IPP)& Chairman Academics & Awards Committee, CSI, Shri Kiran Deshpande, Co-founder - Mojo Networks &Ex. CEO - Tech Mahindra, Dr. BurzinBharucha, Advisor - E & Y were invited to address the gathering.The speakers shared their views and topic.   Speakers has also mentioned that such conferences are necessary for levitating the level of enthusiasm and proliferating the zeal of research among academia and students.

The event was followed by Technical Session on Day-2 and Industry Experts shared their perspectives on different verticals including Banking. Learning & Development, Information Security and Customer Focused applications and way ahead. In this Session following Experts shared their perspectivesMr. S. Sridhar, Vice President - Tata Communications, Mr. Bharat Panchal,Chief Risk Officer, India, Middle East & Africa, FIS, Global, Dr. Sushila Madan, Lady Sriram College, Delhi.

In Post Lunch 24 Authors presented their Papers in different Parallel Sessions.

The whole 2 day conference was successfully concluded with valedictory and Bast Paper Award Ceremony.Dr Sunil Kr Pandey, Director(IT& UG)congratulated to Best Paper Award Winners and highly appreciated all the participants. Dr Pandey has also congratulated toMCA Students Mr Rahul Kr Banti and Mr Karan Pandey who have significantly contributed and prepared web application for this conference.

The two day Conference had involvement of around 750+ delegates, encompassing of National and International pursuits, academia, persons from reputed industries and students and it concluded with  remarkable memorable and knowledgeable event.

In this Summit, Top Industry Leaders, Global Experts and Seasoned academicians addressed the participants in this Summit about the forced rapid speed of Technology adoption, un-prepared Migration to Digital Platform from conventional processes and systems, challenges involved and how to make sure these challenges are overcome and organizations, especially Academic Institutions are ready to accept & respond to changing New Normal. The discussion was also focused on Impact on Businesses and How much we are equipped with infrastructure and what challenges are present in building a competent ICT Infrastructure to deal with such situation. In the Summit following experts shared their perspective with audience:

1. Shri Arvind Thakur, Advisor to Board, NIIT Technologies & Ex. Vice Chairman, CEO and Managing Director, NIIT Technologies

2. Prof. Vineet Kansal, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow

3. Shri Jay Chaudhary, Chairman & CEO, Zscaler Inc., San Jose, California, USA

4. Shri Renato de Castro, Global Smart City Expert, Rovolon, Italy

5. Shri S. Sridhar, Vice President, Tata Communications, Bangalore

6. Shri Bohitesh Misra, COO & Chief technology Officer, Xiphais, Bangalore

7. Shri Ankit Jhamb, Associate Director - Learning & Development, KPMG & FOunder - AaoKhilayen

8. Shri Abhinav Sinha, Co-Founder & CEO, Eko

The Guest Speakers were Prof. Bhagwati Prakash Sharma (Vice Chancellor of Gautam Buddha University) and Prof. S. K. Jain (Ex HOD IIT Delhi, Ex Vice Chairman Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University). The inaugural session started by welcome speech of Director Management Dr. Vidya Sekhri. She talked about unbalanced rural and urban growth and about per capita income. She also talked about innovation, digital banking, surgery through robotics, digital banking. After that Director PR Surendra Sood give their opening remarks. He talked about technology not rule the human beings, let human beings rule the technology. He talked about how technology driven our day to day life. After that Dr. Manoj Kumar Jha briefly told about Agenda of Conference, Backdrop of Conference. He talked about social change. The conference was divided into 4 tracks. After that Prof. Sudhir k. Jain(Ex HOD IIT Delhi, Ex Vice Chairman Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University) gave his views on Social innovation and digital transformation. He talks about Dimensions and levels of Social innovation, History of ICT, ICT trends, about Disruptive Technologies. The second Speaker Bhagwati Prakash Sharma (vice Chancellor of Gautam Buddha University) talked about how small innovation can become Great ventures. He emphasized upon Made in India. He gave information about Manufacturing Industry of India. He told about how AI replacing human beings. After the Inaugural the Finance track started. The theme of finance track is Role of finance sector in social innovation and digital transformation headed by Deepak Tandon. Post lunch marketing track started. The theme of marketing track is to Social innovation & digitalization in Marketing. The session headed by Pradeep Kumar Agarwal. He talked about social innovation, developing and implementing promotional strategy. He talked about social marketing, Digitalization, Industry 4.0. On Day-2, Dr. Dinesh Kumar Sharma (Professor of Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida) and Prof. Sanjeev Mittal (Presently, Dean GGGIP University, New Delhi). Session started with Welcome address of Dr. V.N. Bajpai. For HR track, total Quality management as a change driver: for influencing affective commitment to change. The objective of research is to know relationship between TQM Practices and employee readiness to change. During the Valedictory ceremony Best Paper Award and Certificates were given to Participants.

Objective of this Web Conference was to provide complete understanding of Latest trends of AI along with Machine Learning techniques. This conference was graced by presence of three Key note Speakers Mr Glenn Gore, Chief Architect, AWS; Ms. Olivier Klein, Head of Emerging

Technologies, AWS; and Mr. Dean Samuels, Lead Architect, AWS.

In this session, Mr. Glenn Gore, discussed on the key concepts of Artificial Intelligence, related use cases and best practices to learn how other organizations are using AI and Machine Learning. He focused on How AWS gives diverse users the integration solutions they need by supporting deployment in multiple environments.

the Chief Guest Mr. Rajesh Gulati, CFO IZEX Lenses and Ex-President Hero Cycles Limited, Guest of Honour Mr. Shankar Goenka, Managing Director, WOW Factors India Private Limited, Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management) and Summit Convener Dr. Anusha Agrawal at I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad. This summit was conducted in three sessions of panel discussions in different streams of management based on Innovation and Marketing Strategies for Global Competitiveness, Innovative Financial Strategies in BFSI Sector, Human Capital for Transcending Organizational Capabilities: An innovative Approach          

 On this occasion, Shri Arpit Chadha highlighted achievements based on innovations adopted by various segments, Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management) introduced and welcomed all the dignitaries on the dais and shared her thoughts on Business Summit and its relevance in contemporary times. Dr. Anusha Agrawal presented an overview and the basic purpose behind organizing this summit... Guest of Honor Shri Shankar Goenka inspired the young generation with his enlightened speech and motivated them to be successful business leaders. Chief guest Shri Rajesh Gulati made aware of ongoing changes out of new innovations in different sectors.

The Media Partner of the summit was BUSINESS STANDARD.

The Summit was organized in three sessions of a panel discussion on three diverse areas. The first session was based on the theme “Innovation and Marketing Strategies for Global Competitiveness”. Sr. Prof. C. K. Sabharwal (ITS- Mohan Nagar) moderated the session and shared his birds-eye views on the topic. Sh. Sanjay Chitkara, Head Corporate marketing (LG Electronics), Sh. Sushant Dubey EVP (Sify Technologies), Sh. Amit Sharma National Head (DAIKIN) participated in panel discussions and delivered their thoughts on the subject. 

The theme for a panel discussion in the second session was on “Innovative Financial Strategies in BSFI sectors. Sh. Bharat Anand Sr. Director (DSCI) & Chief of Technology, Ministry of Home Affairs, Sh. Jyoti Prakash Gadia, MD (Resurgent India Limited) and Sh. Gurusharan Roy Bansal, CGM ( India Post Bank Payments Limited) shared their insight about the BFSI sector and role of Fintech in the financial services and enlightened the audience with their experience.

The third session was related to HR Perspective and the theme was “Human Capital for Transcending Organizational Capabilities: An innovative Approach”. Sh. Arun Prakash, Executive Director (KMPG), Dr. Rajesh Mohan Rai, Strategic HR Consultant, and Sh. Pankaj Agrawal, MD (Simply Dhruv) participated in the discussion and threw enriched value-added knowledge with new dimensions to the recipients.

Senior corporate executives participated and shared their views on above mentioned contemporary themes and delegates from different institutions and business houses participated in the Summit.

I.T.S Mohan Nagar has a rich tradition to organize such events based on contemporary social, business, academic, industrial and other developmental issues in addition to its regular academic, professional and research-based activities with its prime objectives of creating a sense of awareness amongst the people and ensuring sincere efforts of the institution for socio-economic development and as a catalyst for nation-building. Business Summit- 2020 is also a part of the same endeavor to strengthen Industry- Institution- Interface to facilitate competitive and time demanding professional education and to produce business leaders and executives to cater to the demand of the industry, business, and society. 

The much-awaited event marked its beginning with the auspicious lamp lighting in the benign presence of Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S - The Education Group,  Chief Guest, Shri Pankaj Singh, Member of Legislative Assembly, Noida (U.P.),  Distinguished Guest, Prof. (Dr.) S. K. Kak, Ex Vice-Chancellor, CCS University, Meerut & Mahamaya Technical University, Noida and - Shri Barat Anand, CTO, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

A welcome address was presented by Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management) and program overview was given by Prof. Durba Roy, event Convener.

Top marketing achievers from reputed business organizations including Indogulf, Trident Technology, Greenlam, Career Launcher, B&R, DCM Shriram, Agarwal Homez, R K Marble, Triveni Polychem, OCS and many more received the Awards under 14 categories in recognition of excellence in Marketing by Shri Arpit Chadha and Shri Pankaj Singh.

Shri. Pankaj Singh shared his words of wisdom and expressed his confidence on the award-winning organizations for their role and contribution in making India a $5 trillion economy in the years to come.

Shri Arpit Chadha emphasized on creating a corporate culture for innovation and creativity to flourish.

Prof. S. K. Kak and Shri Bharat Anand congratulated organizations for their award-winning contributions to the economy and society at a large.

There were presentations by the award winners related to their exciting journey of excellence and achievements. Award ceremony was graced by Shri Surinder Sood, Director (PR) and Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey, Director (IT) and witnessed encouraging participation from delegates from corporate and media.

The award ceremony was very well co-ordinated by Dr. V N Bajpai, Chairperson (PGDM).

The support and trust bestowed on us by the Companies was evident through their participation and nominations under various categories of Awards.

The inaugural address was delivered by Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director Management (PG). She emphasized on the objectives of the topic. She also explains the initiatives taken by the Government of India in various aspects like urbanization, globalisation, banking, manufacturing, agriculture etc along with their challenges.

This was followed by a special address by Shri Surinder Sood, Director (PR). He talked about the role of aspirations, the gap between where we are and our goals, the need for self-driven people, rise in investment rates, etc. He also said that 5 trillion dollar economy is not an impossible dream as it can be easily achieved by the country by 2024.

Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice-Chairmen, I.T.S-The Education Group also pointed out the various facts provided by the Prime Minister as well as the Finance  Minister in support of the fact that a country like India will become a global economic power house after achieving this goal, along with the challenges involved in his address on this occasion.

The Convener of the Conclave Dr. Rajeev Johari gave overview of the Conclave, its theme and agenda he also gave the brief introduction of all the speakers in the panel discussions to follow.

Mr. Yaduvendra Mathur, IAS, Special Secretary NITI Aayog, who was the Chief Guest for the occasion, explained through several facts and figures the steps to be taken by the people of the country for the future development. He also quipped that reality is harsh but can be created as the future depends upon the choices made by the people today itself, quoting several examples.

Finally the Guest of Honour Mr. Vijay Kumar, Director MSME, Ministry of MSME, Government of India shared his words of wisdom. He explained beautifully the working of MSME and also the steps taken by the same. He went on to mention that how MSME is helping and appreciating the entrepreneurs. In conclusion he said that challenge is to grow 8% to 9% every year in order to achieve the long term goals and move beyond the poverty line. The session concluded with the felicitation the guest by giving token of gratitude and respect to all the eminent guest of the day.

During Panel I, Dr. Vidya Sekhri welcomed the chief guests by presenting plant saplings to Mr. Ravi Nandan Sinha (Director, MSME Business Forum India), Dr. Sharad Kohli (Founder and Chairman, KCC Group), Dr. Ganesh Singh (Professor, AIMA) and Mr. Nishant Ranjan(Manager, RBI, Kanpur Division).

Mr. Ravi Nandan Sinha was the moderator of this session. The discussion was started by Dr. Sharad Kohli. He highlighted that it is always good to look at larger objectives. He also pointed out the according to the latest estimates 29% of Country’s GDP comes from MSMEs.

According to him we need to focus on - how Micro will become Small, Small will become Medium and ultimately Medium becomes Large industry. He also stated the reason behind the failure of 90% of the start-ups was the lack of orientation and patience.

Among the other panelists Dr. Ganesh Singh shared his views and stated that awareness is the key to know the avenues for developing our start-ups.

Mr. Ravi Nandan Sinha adding to these points gave a message to the students that talent and strength should be harnessed.

Dr. V. N. Bajpai, Chairperson PGDM, said that achieving 5 trillion dollar economy is not a dream, but rather a reality. Innovation and Technology are the two drivers that will contribute in achieving this dream according to him, also role of individuals is very important to develop such ecosystem.

Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management), mentioned that in a dynamic world we can see that marketing has totally changed. She also reminded that data protection plays an important role.

Finally Mr. Nishant Ranjan through his presentation shared ideas about offences relating to counterfeiting of bank notes, Detection and impounding of counterfeit notes, the role of thr RBI in currency management and its latest initiatives.

At the end of the first panel discussion, Director Management Dr. Vidya Sekhri presented Memento to honourable Chief guests as a token of respect and honour.

During Panel Session II, Director Management Dr. Vidya Sekhri welcomed the chief guests by presenting plant saplings to the eminent speakers for the session.  Eminent Speakers of this session included Dr M.K. Bajpayee, Co-Chairman, National Educational Policy, ASSOCHAM; Mr Amit Sinha, DGM, RBI Kanpur; Dr Sudha Mysore, CEO, Agrinnovate India Limited, ICAR–IIHR; Mr Rajendra Srivastav(President & Market Business Leader for AES India); Mr Naveen Tandon, Director International External Affairs, AT&T India and Mr. S.P. Yadav, Lead District Manager, Syndicate Bank, Ghaziabad.

The moderator of this session was Dr MK Bajpayee, who started the discussion by stating that India needs integration in all departments.

Followed this Dr. Sudha Mysore shared her views explaining how ICAR had started the policy of innovation.

Mr. Manu Goyal suggested that the problem lies in the implementation of schemes. He said that to implement any policy integration is the foremost thing. According to him mentioned that pillars to grow economy are innovation, integration and implementation.

Mr. Rajendra Srivastava indicated that digitisation is the most important tool that businesses are adopting.

Mr. Amit Sinha from RBI said that the 5 trillion dollar economy goal is difficult but not impossible. The challenges to reach this target are Global Growth, the need for fiscal action, problems in tourism growth and support for the infrastructure sector. The primary objective highlighted in this connection was price stability.

Mr. Naveen Tandon said that the focus needed to be on where are we today and what are the current challenges. The panel discussion was closed with Mr.Tandon saying that communication will help to move business forward.

At the end of panel discussion Director Management Dr. Vidya Sekhri presented mementos to guests as a token of respect and appreciation.

In the end Dr. Indraneel Mandal delivered the Vote of Thanks on behalf of the organisers.

This Conclaveprovided a platform to highlight the various upcoming issues, opportunities and challenges in corporate in coming future. Eminent speakers from Industry and Academia shared their insight and valuable thoughts on various subthemes.  Mr. Dinesh Jain President( Legal& Corp Affairs) Uflex graced the occasion as a chief Guest and Dr. Debi S. Saini Emeritus Professor-HRM , IIM, Ranchi was present as a Guest of Honor. In the very beginning the program was started with inaugural session where Mr. Arpit Chadha (Vice Chairman) felicitated the chief guest and the guest of honour with plant sapling. He also shared words of wisdom and motivation to address the audience. In the inaugural session, Dr. Debi Saini make us aware what AI is actually and how it is helping and intervening in HR and Mr. Dinesh Jain shared their views like what challenges can come with AI listed as which process, Is AI can replace human workforce? He also added no one will be jobless. The Various eminent speakers during the Technical Sessions and Panel Discussion focused on concepts like AI is mainly Augmented Intelligence and we need to work on pace of change. VUCA(Volatile, uncertain, Constant, Ambiguous) is current scenario and how technology will affect various activities by 2030. We need to be ready to unlearn for adapting change. Mundane jobs can be handle by AI. With AI, value plays a key role.In Technical Session 2, eminent speakers gave an insight on topic “Leaders of 2030- Decoding New Paradigm”. Their views were “Leaders will be self, critical & bold.” There are 3 major competencies- Talent development, communication, leading change. The Top Management should be easily reachable for good leadership. Authenticity will have to be come in a big way.In session 3, Panel discussion on topic “Diversity & Inclusive Initiative” speakers enlighten and added in our knowledge by saying that there should not be only Lip Service. We need to be change from D&I to I&D. Inclusion should be worked on as society.At the end Dr.(Prof.) Vidya Sekhri(Director-Management) expressed his gratitude by Presenting Mementos as a token.

Overall session was very interactive and full of practical knowledge and insights shared by them on the topic which we are going to face in upcoming years.

The Inaugural Session commenced with the welcome Address of Director Management – Dr. Ajay Kumar and during his address he  stated that today digital technology has radically influenced our life and some organizations are already using it in a manner that were never anticipated earlier. Thereafter, Dr. Manoj Kumar Jha presented a Conference Overview to the audience. Director PR – Shri Surinder Sood emphasized on the urgency of determining the extent to which digitalization should be induced in our lives so that the human – human relationship is not taken away from the society.

The Special Guest of the Inaugural Session, Mr. Charudutta Bodhankar, Academic Director of IDRAC, India focused on the role of digital transformation in Entrepreneurship and how students can convert their great business ideas into start-up venture. The Guest of Honour for the Day, Dr. Rakesh Kumar Joshi, Professor and Chairperson – Research, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, deliberated that growing population of the country should be supplemented with innovative technology so as to leverage the strength of the nation. He also stated examples of various countries where digital revolution had a significant role in the growth of agriculture and thereby increasing the productivity. The Chief Guest Mr. Ashish Goyal, Managing Director Accenture Technologies Ltd. stated the relevance of speed, persuasiveness, entirety, hyper personalization and constant sense of connectivity among students in this era of rapid digitalization.

Theme of Track 1 was Contribution of HRM in Social Innovations and Business Transformation.

Dr. Amita Srivastava, Director, BRENCIS Group chaired this session with opening remark on the need of Social innovations and Business Transformation. Dr. M. K. Jha emphasized on the need of social innovation and differentiated it with traditional approach of resolving societal problems and challenges in isolation and at the same time emphasized on the role of Human Resource Department  in this endeavor. Dr. Urmila Yadav, from Sharda University, Gautam Budh Nagar and Ms. Tarushi & Ms. Simran from Rukmini Devi Institute of Advanced Studies, new Delhi presented their research papers on Role of Value Based Education in Social Innovation and Green HRM respectively. Prof. Shikha Arora coordinated this session with welcoming and introducing the guests and words of gratitude.

Theme of Track 2 was role of Financial sector in Social Innovations & Business Transformation

Dr. Anusha Agarwal set the ball rolling by introducing the topic of the session to the audience. Dr. Ajay Chauhan (Senior Professor, IMT Ghaziabad) emphasised the importance of research for both the students and faculty. He apprised the audience by giving an example of block chain technology and its impact on the finance industry in the future. Second speaker was Dr. Sunil Gupta, Senior Professor (direct taxation and tax planning) IGNOU. He spoke on the topic of various Aspects of taxation individual & corporate. Session concluded with the address of Dr.Uchit Kapoor (Senior Manager ACRC,AIMS New Delhi Chapter& AVP-CLAG, Veritas financial Services New Delhi). He addressed the audience on topic of social innovation for using business & corporate finance, corporate credit, credit management ,syndicate finance, banking and insurance, Behavioural research ,taxation on digital goods, E-auctions.

Theme of Track 3 was Marketing Innovations in Business & Social transformation

The first session of the day was addressed by Dr. Mahua Dutta from NGO-Leeds in Heels, California, USA she apprised the audience with the importance of incorporating social innovation in business practices. The presenters presented their research work on the theme of the session “Marketing Innovations in Business and Social Transformation”. Prof.C. K Aggarwal delivered presentation on role of digitalization on rural development and agricultural innovation, Dr. Lalit Kumar Sharma discussed theme of the track and coordinated the session.

Theme of Track 4 was Role of Digital Transformation in Social Innovations 

Session Chair of this session was Dr. Abhishek Singh, Birla Institute of Technology, Mera. Keynote speaker was Shri Deepak Chaudhary, CEO, Audi Motor

The speaker initiated the discussion on the topic by talking about the digital transformation in automobile industry. He also shared that how enquiry management system and software like emax, facilitates in collecting accurate details about customers   for better service. He shared some very specific examples of various luxurious 4-wheelers.

The session Chair initiated the discussion on the topic by talking about digitalization in the field of finance and highlighted “financial technology” with its applications. He also discussed the advantages of new technologies and how it will help students to gain knowledge about them. Seven papers were presented in this session.

Best Paper Awards in each area were given in valedictory session.

Dr. Vivek Pachauri Co- Convener delivered Vote of thanks to all the guests, management authorities, speakers, presenters, delegates, faculty, staff and students.

The students could have an exclusive opportunity to interact with foreign speakers, resource persons from various institutions and organizations.

AISEC is a global platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential. Since their inception, they have engaged and developed over 1,000,000 young people who have been through AIESEC experience. They are a Non-Political, Independent and Not for Profit organization run by students and graduates of institutions of higher education. Their members are interested in world issues, leadership and Management. The internships offered are in the following broad areas: Marketing, Digital Marketing, Sales, Content Writing, Business Development, Graphic Designing, App. Development, Education, Web Development, Education, Accounting and Finance, Human Resources, etc.The recommended countries are: Bahrain, Eqypt, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Mainland of China, Malaysia, Nepal, Poland, Turkey,  Vietnam and many more.

The Post Graduate students of I.T.S interacted with the team with full enthusiasm and zeal. They were looking forward to opportunities like this in our esteemed Institute and are ready to encash on it very soon.

The conference commenced with an interesting panel discussion on ‘New Challenges of leadership in the Emerging Business Environment’ highlighting the dynamic business environment anddirect competition of Public organizations  with agile Private Organizations . Mr. Suresh Sethi, MD & CEO, India Post Payments Bank discussed about Igniting Transformational Change. In this session, he shared insights on how to drive change at a transformational level in the organization with an example of Indian post office system. Mr. Prithvi Shergill Advisory Partner, Tomorrow/Smarten Spaces & Former CHRO – HCL deliberated on role of talent analytics in HR and its implementation in PSEs. A panel on Future Ready PSE Leaders explored into what attributes leaders must have, to be Future Ready.Mr.Stephane Michelin, Chief Executive Officer, Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services, India,  elaborated the relevance of new-age employee benefits in the digital world to keep a highly motivated and productive workforce. Panel discussions also delved into strategies to engage and motivate employees and how to utilize CSR funds for the growth of a new India by 2022. Ms. Garima Garg Director, Deloitte India shared insights on the future of work and HRs changing role. Mr.D.D Misra, President, "Janm" Trust and Former Director HR, ONGC, had drawn very interestinginsights from Indian Mythology, the Ramcharitmanas, focusing on the three attributes of God Hanuman to create learning for employees. Conference also witnessed the launch of ‘A Stranger Truth', book by Ashok Alexander Founder-Director of ‘The Antara Foundation’. He is the man who led the India office of ‘Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’ from its inception in 2003, until 2012 and created Avahan, which became the best ever private prevention program in HIV, and a model of scaling up health delivery.

In nutshell, the conference was an eye opener on various dimensions of HR as well as PSEs challenges & perspective related to workforce, HR strategies and expectations of all stakeholders including government as one of the key player.

The conference had three sessions – the first was inaugural session and the second & the third sessions were marked for research paper presentations.

INAUGURAL SESSION:

This session started with the address by eminent speakers on the conference theme high lightening Globalization and its impact on India. Speakers talked about “New Ideas in Rural Finance”, “Measurement of Employment & Unemployment”,” Digitalization” etc.

PRE-LUNCH RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATIONS

The session started with a small presentation by one of the conference sponsors - Pearson - about their company and products.

A panel of four eminent academicians – Dr. Seema Singh, Dr. Ghulam Yashdani, Prof. B.K. Pattanaik and Dr. Vivek Kumar judged the research papers and the presenters who were in a competition to win the best paper award in different categories.
Glimpses of some of the notable papers which got jury’s appreciation are listed below:
Under General Management category different topics were taken up by the presenters under the theme- “Globalization: Prospects and opportunities for new India” such as Analytical Study of Traffic Building Techniques for e-Business, Flipped Classroom Approach: - a Student’ Perspective which included Digital Market, Built Better Relationship, SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Under Finance category, the research paper was presented by Ms. Manisha Gupta who talked about the factors affecting individual investment decisions in Indian Capital Market taking Delhi NCR region under study. She told about objectives of investor i.e. maximum return, minimum risk, hedge against inflation etc. and constraints such as liquidity, age, time horizon, need regulator income etc. The decision was affected by demographic factors, lifestyle, psychological, risk bearing ability and self image. The sampling design was of random sampling and the questionnaires considered were 42 out of 50 on which survey was done.

Another paper was presented by Ms Shrimoyee Ghosh on “Cross Border Merger and Acquisition: An Analysis”. She talked about Major International and National mergers and acquisitions taking examples of Tata Group, Airtel, and Hindalco etc. She also talked about major merger and acquisition failures and their solutions.

A research paper on “Evolution of growth and microfinance in India” was presented by Neha Roy where she talked about the provisions of financial services to the people who are just above poverty line and those who are below poverty line. She gave a brief of the salient features of microfinance for borrowers from low income group borrowing small amount for short duration, without collaterals and high frequency repayments (more EMI’s). Her survey highlighted the fact that 87% poors do not have access to credit that stands to $30 billion. She discussed the role and challenges of microfinance as well.

The forth paper which got jury’s appreciation was presented by Richa Mishra on the topic “Micro Finance and Regional Rural Bank – Current Scene and The Path Ahead”. In this paper her objective was to study different age groups of rural customers of RRB’s and to study the thinking of rural population towards RRBs. She explained the methods to remove poverty by introducing microfinance. She emphasized the importance of such schemes in rural India.
POST-LUNCH RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Research papers presented in the area of marketing touched various topics. The different topics taken up by the presenters under the theme- “Globalization: Prospects and Opportunities for a new India” included Digital Marketing, Viral Marketing, Flipped Classroom Approach, Factors affecting sustainability of Startups and eNAM – the initiative by the government of India.

Highlights of some of the selected papers are as below:

Research paper presented by Ms. Priyanka Gupta was on “Digital Marketing – A Global Weapon to Overcome Customer Resistance to the New Product”. Her objective was to explore the challenges faced by consumers as well as marketers in launching the new product in the market. There were several hypotheses and the research was based on qualitative analysis. She talked about the various reasons of not adopting the product such as – Lack of Innovations, Risk, Traditional Barrier, Lack of Information (features, advantages and benefits of the product) and Lack of Role Model. She then talked about the overcoming strategies and need of personalization.

Another paper was on “Viral Marketing” where the presenter introduced the various techniques used in viral marketing that enhance the marketing effectiveness on the internet. Presenter explained how it is useful for various startups, students promoters, NGO’s etc. he made the comparison between digital marketing and viral marketing and its advantages over digital marketing.

Dr. Sunita Shukla, under general management category, discussed about Flipped Classroom Approach – A Student’s Perspective. She explained it as a blended learning approach in which the students are provided with the data to be studied beforehand and the classrooms are only for learning the practical aspects of it. She used empirical methodology and considered undergraduates and postgraduates under study through questionnaires. Her data figured that 98% student are comfortable in Flipped Classroom approach. She used ANOVA Test to reach to the conclusion – FLIPPED TEACHING + ACTIVE LEARNING = AMAZING EDUCATIONAL POSSIBILITIES.

The fourth paper talked about the factors affecting sustainability of startups. The several reasons of failure of today’s startups include copying from western culture, higher cost per unit, less revenue per unit, lack of vision and local market impact on customers. The challenges during these startups are fund raising, recruiting talent etc. The presenter gave the sustainable model of startups and the government incentives for startups and concluded the research.

The fifth presenters were Shiva Shah and Shreya Nand who gave the analytical study of eNAM- an initiative taken by government to improve the conditions of farmers. They gave reasons of gap between farm and non farm income such as industrialization, inequality in formation of policy etc. They talked about the Mission 2022 of government and the area of improvement such as Agri productivity, Industrialization, Govt. intervention etc. They studied the Action Plan of government and took into account the primary data collected from the village Karehda near Ghaziabad. They concluded with the benefits and drawbacks of eNAM and current status of the policy implemented.

Research paper in HR presented by Shikha Gupta was on “360 Feedback Method” which talked about supremacy of 360 degree over traditional methods.

Conference came to an end with a valedictory session wherein each winner was given a certificate and a citation for best paper in its category.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

Best Paper in General Management: Dr Sunita Shukla, Ms. Radhika Jain & Ms. Aprajita Srivastava

Best Paper in Finance: Ms. Richa Mishra

Best Paper in Marketing: Mr. Shashank Srivastava

Best Paper in HRM: Ms. Shikha Gupta

Conference concluded with the formal Vote of Thanks proposed by Dr. Rajeev Johari.

This second edition of Business Summit was blessed by Hon'ble Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. SURESH P. PRABHU with a video message wherein he congratulated I.T.S for organizing business summit on a relevant theme for country and discussed about challenges of a talented individual to become an entrepreneur and then a successful business person in India.

Business Summit witnessed the presence of prominent speakers across the industries on the day. Mr. Hemant. G. Contractor, Chairman- PFRDA addressed the gathering as the Chief Guest and Mr. Pradeep Khanduri ,Procurement specialist, CGN INDIA LTD as the Guest of Honor.
Principal partner of the summit was UN Global Compact and summit was also successful in attracting other partners as Ghaziabad Industries Federation, Centre for Education Growth & Research and Ghaziabad Management Association. Main sponsors of the summit were Cox and king and Eggsperts and co-sponsors were Digiperform, Vision express and Yours pizza. More than 50 delegates from corporate & academia registered themselves. Students from Delhi/NCR showed huge enthusiasm by participating till the last session of the Summit. 
The Summit was designed with an inaugural session, keeping focal theme in mind and three different panel sessions focusing on digital marketing, future trends in BFSI sector and role of leadership in revamping organizations for digital age.
Inaugural session commenced with welcome note of Prof Shikha Arora followed by motivational address of Mr. Surinder Sood (Director PR). Dr. Anusha Agarwal gave a brief overview of Summit. After that, Dr. Ajay Kumar (Director Management) set the tone of summit by giving a warm welcome address to all. Mr. Pradeep Khanduri, keynote speaker, beautifully intertwined all three parameters Skill, Speed and Startups in his deliberation. He spoke about internal and external transformation to create an identity as a successful entrepreneur. He also touched upon Internet of Things & Marketing 4.0 to reflect the journey from traditional to digital. Mr. Hemant. G. Contractor, Chairman- PFRDA reproduced facts about demographic condition of India and discussed about the key areas of improvement in financial sectors, pension policies and related challenges in India due to poor pension policies.
Session I
Mr. Anil Kumar (Founder CEO) LOCOVIDA discussed about types of consumers in today’s market, how decision got influenced by various people, how rapidly data getting transmitted on regular basis on the world wide web and insights about digital and intelligent marketing with a reference to Neuro Linguistic Programming and Artificial intelligence.
Mr. Lakshman Kanuga (President corporate affairs) BOTOIL OIL TOOLS INDIA LTD, shared insights about digital disruptions in Oil and Gas industries. He focused upon disruption drivers in form of market dynamics, geopolitical disequilibrium & environmental concerns. He also discussed government initiatives in last 4 years in the field.
Mr. Harsh Kalra (MD) EGGSPERT NUTRI INNOVATION PVT. LTD, talked about journey of an entrepreneur and role of entrepreneurs in building startup culture in India. He provided deep insights related to various challenges of egg industry and value of risk taking in entrepreneurial journey.
Mr. Vipin Singhania (CEO) LSONIC FOODS & SERVICES PVT. LTD, also shared his experience of setting up a venture and the challenges faced by an entrepreneur in initial stages. He briefly discussed about global leaders like Google and Microsoft and their journey to attain the present level.
Session II
Mr. Ajay Deep Khurana (Founding Partner) McKinley Global Advisors took the audience towards cashless economy, which is an outcome of digitalization only. He specifically pointed out development in last 10-15 years indicating scope of numerous opportunities & innovation in India. He spoke about digital revolution like Jio and innovations in Indian Banking Sector.
Mr. Amit Sharma (CEO) Satin Housing Finance Ltd. stated various facts about Housing sector with a reference of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban & Rural Housing Interest Subsidy Scheme. He also mentioned opportunities in housing sector and shared that already Rs 10.8 Lakh cores are invested in Housing Finance in India.
Mr. Kaushal Mehtani (Senior Finance Expert) at McKinsey & Company elaborated various trends in BFSI Sector and the factors to be kept in mind before investing money. He also talked about Skill development in the form of reskill, cross skill and up skill. He emphasized upon customer relationship in era of Digitization & Artificial Intelligence.

Mr. Manoj Kumar Sabat (AVP) IL & FS spoke about infrastructure use in financing sector with a special mention of Hyderabad Airport Project worth Rs 3000 crores. He discussed various problem faced by infrastructure financing and recent innovative financing Methods.
Mr. Gopal Mondal (CFO) at IDFC Foundation painted image of India v/s Rural India (Bharat) in front of audience. He interestingly pointed towards change in the behavior of consumer after Demonetization & implementation of GST. He said even GST changed the Kachaa - Pakka Business (without invoice) scenario. He also shared latest trends in technology impacting consumers.
Session III
Mr. Annirudha Singh, Group President (HR), Monnet Ispat & Energy LTD spoke about digital revolution, virtual organization & challenges related with them. He said that the decision making will be data-driven along with inner gut & feeling in time ahead and intellectual work will be done by machines.
Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Head (HR), IPGCL deliberated upon the digital economy & its impact on life of people. He told about Sweden, 1st Country to adapt to cashless transactions. He stated that transactional HR like EPF, PF etc., would be automated in coming time. He emphasized upon technology updation of HR fraternity in order to imagine the future, design the future & align the future with the present.
Mr. Ashish Pradhan, COO, E-SHAKTI.COM (we design, you customize) highlighted his company’s achievement in getting through the World’s top 100 companies for providing the best quality-customer products. He emphasized upon the role of leadership in making a business successful & addressed the various attributes of leaders that are relevant in digital era.
Mr. Prashant Singh, Vice President, Paytm, gave an insight related to ways of “leading in the times of transformation”. He correlated employability & its potential impact on the several industries, e.g. Google v/s Facebook, Hotel v/s Airlines etc. in the form of first order impact & second order impact by taking the reference of technological advancement in terms of AI, block chain, autonomous cars, foodtech, medicines etc. He advised everyone to rethink about the concept of leaders & the leadership in changing times.
Business Summit 2018 ended with vote of thanks proposed by Prof G K Diwedi.

The resource persons were:
1. MrSuanLoke Tan
Subject Matter Expert, Data Integration Solution,
Oracle Asia Pacific
2. MrJatin Thakur
Head of Business Development – Cloud Application Integration,
Oracle Asia Pacific
Following was the broad coverage of the session:
1. Integration and Automation Innovation
a. Oracle Integration Cloud
b. New Class of Adapters
c. Recipe-based Integration
d. Robotic Process Automation
e. Case management
f. Best Next Action Strategy
g. APIMATIC
h. APOI Monetization
i. Native OAuth
2. API Platform Cloud Service
3. Oracle Apiary
4. Oracle Data Integration Cloud Platform
5. Case Study’s
The event was graced by the presence of Director IT Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Vice Principal UG Campus Ms. Nancy Sharma and the Faculty Members from PG & UG IT Department.

The objective of this ICT summit was to provide a platform to bring professionals from Industry & Academia and professional societies together to discuss and deliberate on the theme of this event “New India Vision: ICT in Nation Development” which is very important in today’s scenario. This event was a good platform for strengthening Academia Institute-Industry Interface. This event was unique opportunity for all the participating delegates to meet, interact, learn, share & exchange the knowledge & information and provided platform to create avenues for collaborative research in future.

The Summit was inaugurated by Shri Anil Swarup, Secretary to Govt of India, Ministry of HRD, Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman - I.T.S - Education Group, Shri Surinder Sood, Director(PR), I.T.S The Education Group, Dr. Harish Pant - Managing Director (Hampson's Industries), Dr. K.K. Dewan, Vice Chancellor, NIU, Shri Mehraj Dube, Head – Marketing, Zee Media Group, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director(IT),I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, Dr Umang, Event Convener, Prof. Puja Dhar, Prof Smita Kansal, Co Conveners.

In starting of Inaugural Session, Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S-The Education Group welcomed the eminent guests from various verticals including Media, Industry, Academia. He said that this session will provide an in depth insight of different verticals as how ICT is contributing in the development of the nation. Shri Surinder Sood, Director(PR), I.T.S-The Education Group addressed the gathering. In his address, he discussed about the vision sharing of Top Industry Leaders, policy makers, media and academia will help the delegates of this summit to understand the underlying principles of Digital India & New India Concepts, their perspective and how Industry is prepared to contribute towards it an thoughts which will help them in taking a long way. Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director(IT) also welcomed and address the gathering. He said that this ICT Summit is an initiative of I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad is an attempt in series of efforts to create awareness among masses about Digital Resources, facilities and its potential to empower & inclusiveness to deprived segment with
institutions and the take the nation forward together. Dr. Umang, Convener briefed about an event.

On this occasion MCA Students were also felicitated by the dignitaries which included Ms. Sakshi Tyagi who secured 5th position and Ms. Preeti Singh securing 7th position in Top-10 Merit List of Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow. These students were felicitated with Memento, Cash Prize of ? 10,000/- and Certificate.

Addressing as Chief Guest of event, Shri Anil Swarup expressed his views on responsible uses of ICT to ensure that objectives of New India Vision is achieved. He emphasized on serious engagement with Technology and understand as how we can contributed to take it to masses. During the session, Guest Speakers spoke about changing landscape of ICT and its significance in all facets & human life including Health, Industry, Technology, Business , Media & Governance etc.

While delivering the vote of thanks Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director(IT) thanks to the eminent guests for their benign presence and accepting the invitation in spite of their busy schedule. After the vote of thanks National Anthem was chanted in the presence of dignitaries and faculties, delegates and students.

In second session a panel discussion on the theme “Role of ICT, its significance in Businesses and challenges & opportunities in Media, Academics, IT & HR Sector” with Moderater of the Panel Dr Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director-IT. Other experts of the Panel included Sh. Priyank Dubey, Sr. Journalist, Doordarshan, Dr. Anil Kr. Misra, Chief People Officer, MagicBricks.com, Dr.Sushila Madam, LSR, University of Delhi, Delhi, Shri Manikandan Iyer, Business Head(India), AMD, India.

In this event, post lunch session, following listed four activities were organized:
(1) Paper Presentation (Old & New Seminar Halls in parallel)
(2) Poster Presentation(GCR)
(3) Digital Poster(Lab-7)
(4) Quiz Competition (Prelims - Lab-1, Lab-5 & Lab-6) & Final on Stage in Old Auditorium

In paper presentation activity, Original& unpublished quality papers were invited from prospective authors for including in the Proceedings of the Souvenir with ISBN No 978-81-928555-3-0. All the papers selected, registered and presented in the Summit, were included in Hard Copy of the Proceedings which was released in Inaugural Session of the Summit. In this event, overwhelmed response of student delegates was received from all the courses of our Institute as well as other reputed Institutes in which about 200 Students participated.
The Prizes, Certificates & Trophies were given away in the Valedictory Session to the winners of different activities.

On this occasion, Shri Surinder Sood, Director PR, I.T.S – The Education Group, Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey, Director(IT), I.T.S Ghaziabad, Dr. Umang, Event Convener, Prof. Puja Dhar and Prof Smita Kansal (Event Co-Convener(s)), faculty members, students from different courses of the Institute and also outside the Institute were also present.

It was a great learning for everyone who were present in different sessions and activities of the Summit.

To have a discourse on this agenda, The Department of IT conceptualized and planned I.T.S Digital India Conclave-2017 on the focal theme of “Opportunities and challenges for New India” on Oct 07,2017.
The Conclave witnessed of different stakeholders of society to discuss, deliberate and understand the emerging role of every dimensions- Industry, media, technology, policy making, consumers and executives from various walks of life.

The conclave was threaded into three sessions
The theme for session 1(Inaugural): Making Technology Work for Everyone with Multiplier Effect

“The proliferation of technology and its enabled services have not only made the life easier of a common man including banking, shopping, communication and sharing of information has reduced the gap of digital divide between privileged background and those who are less fortunate. In this session, eminent speakers from different walk of life shall share how a strategic effort will advance and accelerate the work with the help of technology.”
Eminent guests for the session were

1. Shri Amitabh Rajan,
Ex Addl Chief Secretary
(Home), Govt. of India &
Director - State Trade
Corporation of India,
Govt. of India

2. Air Chief Marshal P.K. Roy(Retd.)
Indian Air Force

3. Shri Rajiv Sodhi,
Advisor-CEO
HCL Tecnologies

Theme for the session -2: Opportunities and Challenges for New India
India has significant inroads to make a New India. It promises the minimum government seeking maximum participation of industry and business in nation building .This session full of learned speakers will focus on sufficiently educating its young people to meet the opportunities and challenges for vibrant India.

Eminent guests for the session were

1. Shri Deepak Bagchi
Head –Smart Data and Enterprise Analytics
(SLK Software) 2. Shri Pravin Kr. Tripathi , Dy CPO ,
Varanasi Division,
Govt of Uttar Pradesh

3 Shri Satyajit Das
Director-Cloud Services
Capgemini 4. Shri Upkar Singh
Director Technology
FIS Global

Theme for session -3: Role of Media in Socio-Economic Growth of India
Political, economic and social factors singly and collectively impact on national development. The role of media is to promote national identity and cohesion. This session has been designed in such a way to present a thought by the expert panellists suggesting that a quality independent media has a positive impact on society in each and every sector.
Eminent guests for the session were

1. Shri Ajay Kumar
Managing Editor
News Nation 2.Shri Anurag Punetha
Senior News Anchor
Lok Sabha TV

3. Ms. Pallavi Tyagi
News Anchor
ABP News

4. Ms. Kanchan Dogra
News Anchor
India News

The Conclave concluded, creating a building block and a road map for Prime Minister’s Vision “New India” and nation as a whole.

He emphasis that entrepreneurial activity is killed by too many regulations and freedom to do new things, he emphasized that how entrepreneur activity has become social driving force in our country to empower the youth and creating the employment in the economy.
Technical Session:
The technical session was attended by distinguished speaker from the Academics.
Dr Kanhaiya Singh professor GLA University, Mathura, Dr Alok Pandey, Professor Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New Delhi, Dr D K Batra Professor IMI, New Delhi, and Dr. Rakesh Mohan Joshi professor IIFT New Delhi was the main speakers for the session.
The first speaker was Dr. Kanhaiya Singh and he spoke on how banking can change the entrepreneurial ecosystem and how banking can be used to transfer the benefits especially in the social sector to the needy one in the rural area areas.
The second speaker was Dr Alok Pandey has his main focus was on how various financial services have evolved over a period of time and have become an integral part of overall development in our economy.
Dr D K Batra, discussed how marketing and various aspects of marketing can be used to by various start-ups and the existing players in the economy. He said that management governance and entrepreneurship are somehow related to each other and they need not to be seen differently.
The last speaker was Dr. Rakesh Mohan Joshi wherein he emphasized how international trade is evolving over a period of time. He also emphasized the urgency and the need to create a system where in government should promote exports and make the balance of trade more favourable in the long run.
The third session was research paper presentations by participants from various institutes more than 20 papers were presented in different categories of Management function like Finance, Human resource, Marketing, International Business, Information Technology in Management and General Management.
Best paper award was given to
1. Samiran Jana in finance area
2. Chirag Malik in marketing area
3. Prof. Sonika Sharma in human resource area
4. Prof. S.K Tannan in general management area
Conference came to an end with a valedictory session wherein each winner was given a certificate and a citation for best paper in its category.
Conference ended with a vote of thanks given by Dr. Surendra Tiwari.

concluded with grand success. The Seminar was inaugurated by Shri M.S. Vilkhu - Chief of Information Security at IBM, Ms. Karnika Seth, Cyber Law Practitioner, Supreme Court of India Attorney at law. & Founding Partner Seth Associates, New Delhi, Shri. Surinder Sood, Director (PR) - I.T.S - The Education Group, Prof. Ashok Kumar Puri - Director General, I.T.S, Ghaziabad and Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey - Director (IT) at I.T.S, Ghaziabad.

After the Inaugural Session, Experiential Talks Session was scheduled in which The Industry Experts and Practicing Professionals, who are actually into Cyber Security related domains addressed and share their perspectives in different sessions ranging into Legal, Telecom Technology, Data Center, Application Security including Internet of Things (one of the most fast coming up Technology), Financial (HeroFinCorp), Banking domains. This session was graced by the presence of Key note Speakers, Shri Mr. Bharat Gautam, CISO, Hero Fincorp, Shri Sameer Gandhi, Director-Telecom(India & South Asia), Juniper Network, Mumbai, Shri Bohitesh Mishra, Vice President – IT & BI, Simpa Network, Shri Nishith Seth Executive Director - SSPL Mumbai.
With an objective to provide students opportunity to explore, prepare and demonstrate their understanding of Cyber Space, Cyber Crimes, Cybder Security Threats, Cyber Laws, two activities - Poster Presentation and Paper Presentation Contests were organized. It was wonderful to see the kind of work students carried out and presented confidently before the Judges and Industry Experts including Shri, Sameer Gandhi, Director (Telecom) - India and South Asia and Shri Bohitesh Misra - Vice President (BI & IT), Simpa Networks.

It was a great learning for everyone who were present in different sessions of the Seminar.

On Day-1, Eminent Speakers including Shri Anil Swarup, Secretary to Govt. of India, Ministry of Coal & an IAS Officer of 1981 Batch known for his contribution in Ministry of Coal & brain behind reforms in Coal Block Allotment through e-Auction process, Founder Vice Chancellor of GGSIP University, Delhi - Prof. K.K. Aggarwal, Renowned Smart Cities & E-Governance Expert - Shri Shushovon Saha and Prof. Frank Bond from Goldsmith University of London, London addressed the gathering during the inaugural Session. Thereafter parallel Paper Presentations were organized.
On Day-2: Shri M.S. Vilkhu, Chief of Information Security & Head Airtel Africa, Shri Nafees Ahmed - Group CIO Indiabulls Group, Shri Ajay Shrivastava - CTO of OYO Rooms, Prof. MN Hoda, National Chairman - CSI Div-I, Prof. Sanjay Tanwani, Professor & Head - School of Computer Science, Devi Ahilyabai University, Indore, Shri. Praveen Pipara, General Manager at SOPRA Group and other eminent Guests addressed the gathering during the two days of this International Conference.
During the conference, the gathering of the Conference was also addressed by renowned guests & experts through video conferencing. These included : Shri Ajay Kumar, Regional MD, Asia Pacific, Entrusted Datacard(Singapore), Shri S. Sridhar, Vice President, HCL Insys, Singapore, Shri Renato De Castro, Executive Director, Bouman Consultany, Padova, Itlay, Shri. Pavan Malladi, CIO, Dhiraagu Telecom, Bahrain,Shri Pankaj Gupta, General Manager, PSE, Washington, Mr. Gautam Hazari, Worldwide Technical Director - GSMA (Heading 5G Project).
In addition to above Parallel Paper Presentation Sessions were organized on both the days in which Research paper Contributors presented their papers. These sessions were addressed by seasoned academicians.
On Day-2 of the Conference, In afternoon, parallel Paper Presentation Sessions were scheduled in which Research Scholars, faculty members and students presented their Papers which were assessed & evaluated by Team of Session Chairs & Co-Chairs and based on their recommendations Best Paper Awards were given. Best Paper Award ws given to Dr. K.N. Mishra from BIT - MESRA, Dr. S.C. Pandey, BIT MESRA and Dr. Sanjay Singh from Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, Uttrakhand.
The Conference was concluded with a grand success witnessing participation of International Guests, Delegates, large number of delegates, Research Scholars and students of UG & PG Programs.

Conference was formally inaugurated in the gracious presence of Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S – The Education Group; Chief Guest, Sh. Rakesh Malik, MD, Combine Ways & Former Vice President, Siemens; Key Note Speakers Sh. Harshdeep Marwah, Country Manager, Verizon Enterprises Solutions & Sh. Aniruddha Sen, Enterprise Strategic Advisor, Microsoft India; Sh. Surendra Sood, Chief Administrator, I.T.S – The Education Group; Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey, Director IT, I.T.S Ghaziabad; Invited Guests, Delegates, and Faculty Members. The proceedings of Conference, containing accepted research papers, was also released during inaugural session. The newly set-up video conferencing facility was also inaugurated at I.T.S Ghaziabad on the same day, wherein all the dignitaries and faculty members were present. Prof. Rakesh Roshan, Co-Convener, NGTBES-2016 presented a brief about the Conference and Prof. Saurabh Saxena, Co-Convener, NGTBES-2016 was the MOC for inaural session.
Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director-IT & Convener NGTBES-2016, welcomed the eminent speakers and guests. He presented an outline of latest happenings in the arena of technological developments and how these developments are impacting business, education and society. He reinforced that technology should reach to all without prejudice. It should be used for the benefit of all strata of society.
In his address, Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S – The Education Group, said that things are changing at a very rapid pace. The educational institutions should adapt themselves as per the industry requirements. He emphasized on a close industry-academia collaboration to churn out industry-ready professionals.
Chief Guest of the event, Sh. Rakesh Malik, MD, Combine Ways & Former Vice President, Siemens, said that Telecommunications industry is playing the role of backbone in providing infrastructure to IT services. He motivated the students to learn new skills and to convert the demographic dividend of India into monetary dividend. He emphasized on the need of skilling Indian youths.
Keynote Speaker, Sh. Aniruddha Sen, Enterprise Strategic Advisor, Microsoft India said that the technological advancements have started to reach the masses. The next era is not of connecting the people rather it will be of connecting the devices. He gave various examples how IT applications are being used in social, business and educational context.
Another Key Note Speaker of the session, Sh. Harshdeep Marwah, Country Manager, Verizon Enterprises Solutions, addressed the audience and shared his various experiences. He narrated his entrepreneurial journey. Sh. Marwah motivated the students to believe in their own capabilities and decisions. He said that we should consider business and technology as two separate entities. These are two complementary things and not the supplementary. The entrepreneurs should focus on creating robust business models and then should think that how technology can make this model more efficient.
The conference was an effort to bring researchers, industry professionals, academicians and practitioners on a common platform to deliberate on latest trends, tools and technologies in the broad-based areas of Business, Education and Society and how Information Technology can play its role in making the things happen.
Conference received papers from authors affiliating to premier institutes like IIT, reputed companies and other universities covering various states of country such as Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi etc. These papers were rigorously reviewed for acceptance on various quality parameters and finally 25 papers were shortlisted for presentation in Conference.
Inaugural Session was followed by a Technical Session on "Leveraging IT impact of Next Generation Technologies on Businesses, Education & Society".
The eminent speakers in Technical Session were
• Sh. Ashok Jade, CIO, Shalimar Paints
• Sh. Ashish Bhatia, Program Manager, Microsoft
• Dr. D. K. Tayal, Associate Professor, IGDTUW Delhi
• Dr. T. V. Vijay Kumar, Assistant Professor, JNU

Sh. Ashok Jade, CIO, Shalimar Paints, in his address said that it requires hard work and perseverance for succeeding in any field. He interacted with the audience, especially the students, and said that students should imbibe creativity and innovation amongst themselves. He further emphasized on the need of inclusive and sustainable global development.
Sh. Ashish Bhatia, Program Manager, Microsoft Boston, gave a very knowledgeable talk. He presented a very insightful series of applications developed at Microsoft who are supporting businesses and society at large. There are various newer technological verticals such as Big Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision that are impacting human life. He presented a notion of seamlessly connected world and technology behind this connection.

Dr. D. K. Tayal, Associate Professor, IGDTUW Delhi spoke on the theme of Artificial Intelligence. He said that nowadays, all the gadgets and devices have some sort of intelligence. We should inspire our students to innovate and do out of box things. He gave an in-depth coverage of Fuzzy Logic and its applications in AI research.

Dr. T. V. Vijay Kumar, Assistant Professor, JNU started his address by differentiating the concept of Database and Data warehouse. Dr. Kumar said that Data warehouse supports redundancy as well as uniqueness with the help of time stamp. He then touched upon various applications and research directions in the field of Data Warehousing.

The technical session was concluded by Prof. Chandra Mani Sharma, Organizing Secretary, NGTBES-2016. Prof. Sharma summarized the key points discussed during the session.

Paper presenters presented their research papers in two post-lunch paper presentation sessions. The session chairs for parallel paper presentation sessions were Dr. Rabins Porwal, Associate Professor, ITS Ghaziabad & Dr. Umang Singh, Assistant Professor, I.T.S Ghaziabad.
During valedictory session of the Conference, Best Paper Awards & Certificate distribution ceremony was held.
The recipients of ‘Best Paper Awards’ were as follows:

• First Prize: Ms. Bhavana, Banasthali University, Jaipur (Rs. 5,000/- Cash, Certificate and Shield)
• Second Prize : Ms. Arnika, SRM University, Ghaziabad (Rs. 3,000/- Cash, Certificate and Shield)
• Third Prize: Mr. Saurabh Pati, NSPG College, Lucknow (Rs. 2,000/- Cash, Certificate and Shield)

Overall, the conference was a great learning experience for all and was well received & appreciated by delegates coming from different parts of country.

The event started with the Inaugural Session opening by Dr. Anusha Agarwal, Convener of the Seminar, welcoming the honorable Vice Chairman, I.T.S. The Education Group, Mr. Arpit Chadha, Director Management, Dr. Sapna Rakesh, Chief Guest Mr. Shailendra Bebortha, Chief Operating Officer, Sunborne Energy Technologies and Keynote Speaker Mr. V.K. Raina, President AVR Consultancy, Ex Chairman, Bank of Aldofar, Dubai and giving an overview of the Seminar. Director Management Dr. Sapna Rakesh addressed the students that such events give an opportunity to interact with the industry experts. Vice Chairman, I.T.S. The Education Group, Mr. Arpit Chadha also addressed the students and wished them a day full of learning with new insights. Thereafter the Chief Guest for the Seminar Mr. Shailendra Bebortha, not only shared the recent developments in finance but also advised the future managers to remain updated and poised as there will be increased demand of financial experts in future. The Keynote speaker was Mr. V.K. Raina also shared his vast experience and gave valuable insights into the various factors leading to the crises in the financial markets. His speech invited various interesting questions from the students which were duly addressed.

Then there was a Technical Session on ‘Personal Finance in Turbulent Times’ where the experts were Mr. Prashant Sharma, Senior VP, ICICI Securities, Mr. Abhishek Pradhan, Director, Financial Consulting Firm, Ex. VP IndusInd Bank and Ms. Kavita Rai, Senior Manager, Delhi Stock Exchange. Mr. Prashant Sharma discussed the various factors leading to crises including economic factors and political factors, reasons for Chinese market crash and how such factors impact the wealth and financial assets of any person. He suggested that one should not simply buy stock but invest in promising and growth oriented companies. Mr. Abhishek Pradhan deliberated how the crises have always been there and one should not be pessimistic but rather always focus on managing the crises to overcome it successfully. He also stressed how as managers one is always required to view problems not as problems but as opportunities for doing new things. Finally the last speaker of the session Ms. Kavita Rai shared her vast experience of twenty five years in the stock exchange and advised students that they should not jump into the market without any information only for speculating or trading purposes but rather acquire the right information and correct details and then think of investing in the market for better returns.

Later there was a Panel Discussion on topic ‘Impact of Global Financial Crisis on Indian Financial Sector’ where the experts were Mr. Vikas Arora, VP, Yes Bank; Mr. Gursharan Rai Bansal, Senior VP, UTI Asset Management Company; Mr. Manoj Kumar Sabat, AVP, IL&FS Energy; Mr. Vikas Gupta, Director, Compark Ltd. and Ms. Anju Sethi, AGM, Punjab National Bank. The moderator of the panel was Dr. Deepak Tandon, Professor, IMI, Delhi. The eminent speakers from industry discussed the various causes of the current financial crisis such as the Chinese market crash, crude oil crisis, political unrest and gave valuable insights how one thing is related to the other. The speakers also deliberated on the challenges and opportunities in the current scenario for the start up companies. Ms. Anju Sethi highlighted how the spillover effect is natural as adversity in one country affects other nations as well and how bankers have to be a little more cautious and follow the credit ratings strictly. Mr. Manoj Kumar Sabat discussed that financial crisis has majorly affected the private sector and public sector is not much affected as there is not much problem of debt. Mr. Gursaran Rai Bansal very interestingly brought the concept of ‘VUCA’ (V= volatility, U= uncertainty, C= complexity, A= ambiguity) situation which is presently the scenario. Mr. Vikas Gupta explained how financial crisis affects an entrepreneur or startup further stressing that financial crisis comes after every 3 years and so one should be prepared for it. Also stating that such crisis is the ideal time to initiate a startup become one is more creative and innovative at that time and talent availability is also more. Mr. Vikas Arora, explained Chinese market crash stating that the country’s exports are reducing and so China went ahead with devaluating its currency to induce an increase in exports.
Toward the conclusion of the event vote of thanks was given by Prof. Nitin Saxena thanking all the speakers, faculty and the students for successfully organizing the seminar which greatly benefitted the participants and the students.

With an objective of widening learning opportunities to the learners by creating a sustained marketing euphoria the conclave was planned for three days. The three days of event were full of competitive events for students like marketing Plan competition, Poster making competition, marketing quiz competition, Digital campaign, retail outlet strategy presentation, and retail shows, exhibitions of recent product launches, industry expert talks, and forum interactions.

The marketing conclave was started with the welcome address by Dr. Sapna Rakesh, Driectgor Management and was jointly inaugurated by Mr. Pradeep Kashyap, MD, MART Rural and as a Chief Guest and Mr David Whittenberg, CEO, Innovation Workgroup as a Key note Speaker. Mr Kashyap highlighted the relevance of new set of 4 Ps in modern times. He said that the traditional 4Ps fail to place customers in focus and cover more of the sellers perspective. He proposed the new 4 Ps as – Purpose, Passion, Public and Partnership. Mr David emphasized on need for speed of strategic planning and implementation for Indian companies.

First day of the conclave was full of prize winning competitive events for the students. 62 teams participated in the first round of Marketing Quiz followed by 18 teams in marketing plan competition and 25 teams in poster making competition, 16 teams in Digital Campaign and 15 teams in retail outlet strategy presentation.

Second day of the event witnessed more than 15 companies including Dabur, Parle, Himalaya, Oxford Publication, Live Pure, Royal Enfield, Bisleri, Royal India Vacation, Punjab National Bank and many more representing their new product launches in a retail exhibition.

Third day, the conclave was started with presence and motivational speech of Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman of I.T.S The Education Group and the address of industry experts including Mr Amit Doshi, COO , DNA (Dainik Bhaskar Group), Ahmedabad and Mr Nitish Kumar Rai, Chief Marketing Officer, Burger King. Mr Amit Doshi emphasized on the importance of customers and colleagues in business by sharing few very interesting business stories. Mr Nitish Kumar Rai discussed the importance of a well crafted advertising campaign and highlighted how it can be leveraged by the use of digital technology. He shared promotional campaign of Coca Cola, KFC, HUL and many more to illustrate modern digital marketing practices.

The first forum interaction was on the theme “Digitalization vs Traditional Marketing Practices”. Mr. Kishore Chakraborty, Sr. VP McCann Ericsson was the moderator for the session. Mr. Vinayak Lal, GM, DS Group, Mr. Amit Sahani, Regional Sales Head – Bagrrys, Mr. Kalyan Kumar, Director - Infuse Media & Mr. Aditya Kayastha, Group. Brand Head – Dabur were the other panel members. The debate started with digital vs traditional marketing practices came to an end with the understanding that both the practices complement each other and a smart marketer leverage the marriage of digital and traditional practices to build on.

The second forum interaction was on the theme “Rural vs Urban marketing landscape: A Question of Sustainability”. Prof C K Sabharwal was the moderator for the session. Mr. Mohan Krishnan, Sr. V P, IMRB, Mr. Vivek Malhotra, Sr. VP, Idea Cellular, Dr Ravindra Singh, GM, Chambal Fertilizers, and Mr. Anirban Chaudhuri, Director,Fobulka were the panelist. The entire discussion was woven around how mapping the rural consumer is going to be the key concern area for the organizations of today. How MNCs are trying to leverage the rural potential for their growth and survival.

At the end during valedictory session participants who secured first, second and third positions in various competitive events were awarded with Winner, First runner up and second runner up trophies and certificates. The convener of the conclave Dr V N Bajpai proposed vote of thanks.

Prof. Durba Roy and Prof. Lalit Kumar Sharma coordinated the entire event very well.

The inaugural session opened with Dr.Sapna Rakesh’s address on the 11th edition of National Seminar of HR at ITS, Ghaziabad. She talked about organizations being about people and technology and the how organizations are innovating to be connected with the youth of today followed by Dr.Anita Mathew’s highlight on the theme of the seminar. She talked about the changing mindset of millennials with entrepreneurial orientation, setting an era of innovations that has disrupted the established market leaders. Essentially the theme of the Seminar was to address and prepare the young minds for a changed organizational scenario.

The dias was handed over to Dr.Kavita Singh for her keynote address and she talked about the shift from command and control to consultation and participation era in organizations. She also build around the concept of Disruptive Innovation with examples of organization in the lead. LEAPS model and psychology of disruptive innovation through S shaped curve wasefficiently explained by her while mentioning about associated mindest, behaviour, uncertainity, inevitable future and the human capital competencies required for disruptive innovation.

Mr.G.P.Rao in his address mentioned various ways to unleash human capital. Some of them were finding the potential in self, vision, doing a SWOT, having a strategic mindset with inclusive orientation and business acumen. Also emphasized on developing faith and practicing ethical values. He also talked about what organizations could do to develop human capital of the organization like providing an enabling climate, being flexible, encouraging risk and experimentation among employees and designing supportive policies.

The Second session at 1400hrs was a Panel Discussion on “Career vs Compensation-Perspectives of Millenials and the student anchors were Ms.RenuAdhikari (PGDM14-16)and Mr.AnimeshSaraswat (PGDM-15-17). The Panelists were Mr.RajnishJhulka, Founder-Thought @ Work, Mr.Indranil Gupta, CEO & Director- Meritt Consultants, Mr.ManmohanBhutani, Head-HR & VP-Business Operations, American Cyber Systems (ACS) Inc. and Mr.Kaushik Chakraborty, Director-HR, Business Partner, Head-L&D, Jones Lang LaSalle. The session witnessed a research presentation on a global research study on millennials and what they expect from their respective organizations. The key points that came out of the discussion were issues like the integration of generation gap that existed among Baby boomers, GenX and GenY, millennials affable nature towards technology, transparency and openness, leadership, work life balance, shift from compensation to total rewards and life-long learning. Three important competencies on behavioural, technical and business related skills were identified as important factor for millennials. The need to face VUCA was also discussed and the session was facilitated by Mr. RajnishJhulka.

The third session at 1630 hrs was a Panel Discussion on “ Changing Paradigm of Recruitment” and the session anchors were Ms. Nishtha Tiwari (PGDM 14-16) and Mr.Khushpreet Singh (PGDM 15-17). The panel members were Ms. Wilma Dadel Gupta, Director & Principal Consultant, Qwest HR ServicesMr.Yuvraj Bhatnagar, Global Leader (AVP) – Talent Acquisition, Evalueserve, Mr.ArunavBannerjee, President and Chief Researcher,Mr.Prateek Dubey, Head-HR, Coca Cola and Mr.Murleedhar Sharma, Director-HR, RJ Corp. The session highlights included discussion on the shift from traditional to web based hiring. The format of interviews and some of the commonly used platforms for search by recruiters and thereby the students’ imperative to be present and allied to latest technology to make the best use of medium was discussed at length. An activity of mock interview session with frequently asked questions through an activity titled “HOT SEAT” was effected to sensitize the students on the veracity with which they should prepare and present themselves in front of recruiters. The session was moderated by Mr.ArunavBannerjee.

The Seminar was also graced by aluminus of ITS, Mr.ArnabMustafi( EA - MD ) Eastman Auto & Power Ltd., Faculty members of other institutes in NCR and industry representatives – Mr. Vijay Kumar Bhatt, HR Manager, Albert David Limited, Mr. Kaushik Basu, Business HR, PI Industries Ltd., Mr. ParveenNagpal, AM- HR Continental Carbon India Ltd., Mr.Sudhir Singh Bisht, Asst. Mgr, Continental Carbon India Ltd, Mr. BabuKhan, AGM- RCEL, CEL/Aura Green Technologies, Mr. Asish Das, Director, AKD Infotech (P) Ltd.

The Seminar concluded with the valedictory session and the student anchors thanked all the panelists and mementoes were presented on behalf of ITSparivar to all the resource speakers and vote of thanks was proposed by Dr.Anita Mathew.

On first Day (07th Nov, 2014) of the conference a Full Day Workshop on Database Retrieval Mechanism was organized for the students of MCA Course. Sh. Manjeet Singh from Simplex Software Solutions, Gurgaon was invited as Resource Person for the workshop. Within the workshop, Mr. Singh discussed several ways of writing database queries and conducted only the practical session for the students in pre-lunch & post-lunch sessions.
 
On second Day (08th Nov, 2014) of the conference, it was planned to organize in 04 (four) sessions including Inaugural Session, Experiential Session, Technical paper presentation sessions (at 02 places) and Valedictory Session including Award Ceremony & Distribution of Certificates. The conference was inaugurated on this day, i.e., Saturday, 08th Nov 2014 by Honorable Vice-Chairman, ITS-The Education Group, Sh. Arpit Chadha Ji; Chief Guest, Sh. Aditya Sharma Ji, Global Head – DG & CI, Birlasoft (India); Key-Note Speaker, Sh. Sivasankaran Laxminarayanan Ji, Head – Strategic Initiative, Nvidia; Guest of Honor, Sh. Manohaur Kumar Ji, DGM – Sify Corporation and Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey (HOD-IT). During the Inaugural ceremony, the proceedings of the conference (both Hard Copy & Soft Copy) of so called conference (EPICTIS-2014) was released by invited eminent guests along with Organizers/ Editorial committee members of the conference: Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey, Dr. Rabins Porwal, Dr. Umang Singh, Prof. Rakesh Roshan & Prof. Smita Kansal, in the presence of a huge gathering in the Auditorium of the Institute. On this occasion, representatives of Computer Society of India, NVIDIA, Omni Solutions etc were also present. The gathering was addressed by these eminent speakers during the inaugural session.
 
After the Inaugural Session, Experiential Session on Techno – Societal Impact of ICT was organized in the Auditorium of the Institute in which Dr. Maya Ingle, Professor & Director (Research), DAVV, Indore; Dr. M. P. Singh, Professor, Dr. B. R Ambedkar University, Agra; and Ms. Swati Mehra, Business Analyst, NIIT Ltd. shared their experiences/ thoughts/ views in a very interactive manner with the audience on the theme of the session.
 
In the post-lunch session, Technical paper presentations, in parallel, at 02 places, were conducted separately, and Research Papers on the theme of the conference were presented physically by the presenters who have come from far off places for the only purpose and these papers were evaluated by session chairs and judges of respective sessions; based on which Cash Prizes and Trophies were awarded to Three Best Research Papers in the Valedictory Session & Award Ceremony. These sessions were chaired by Dr. Anurag Jain, Professor at GGSIP University, New Delhi and Prof. Anil Yadav - Head, Department of Computer Applications, CSJM University, Kanpur and Prizes were awarded in the Valedictory Session by Dr. Brijesh Kumar - Professor & Dean at Lingaya's University, Faridabad.
 
Ms. Geetanjali Singh from Banasthali University, Jaipur Campus was awarded First Prize (Cash prize of Rs. 5000/- along with Trophy), Ms. Nivedita Singh from ITS - UG Campus, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad was awarded Second Prize (Cash prize of Rs. 3000/- along with Trophy) and Mr. Amit Aggarwal from Sakshay Web Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Noida was awarded Third Prize (Cash prize of Rs. 2000/- along with Trophy) in the valedictory session based on the evaluation of judges in Technical Paper Presentation Session.
On behalf of ITS Pariwar, We congratulate all the winners and wish all the best for their bright future and extend our sincere thanks to all the contributors for showing their interest in sharing their thoughts in the form of high quality research papers and then visiting ITS for paper presentations and creating competition among themselves and challenge for the Judges.
 

The conference was planned in 04 (four) sessions including Inaugural Session, 02 Technical paper presentation sessions and followed by Award Ceremony, Valedictory Session & Distribution of Certificates. The conference was inaugurated by Chief Guest Prof. M. K. Surappa (Director, IIT-Ropar), Prof. Shekhar Ghose (Director General – ITS, Ghaziabad), Dr. Harish Kumar (Director-IT), Dr. B. S. Hoti (Director-Management) and Prof. Sujata Khandai (Principal-UG Campus). During the Inaugural ceremony, the proceeding (Compendium consisting of 71 critically reviewed good quality papers) of so called conference (SACTA-2014) was released by invited eminent guests along with Organizers/ Editorial committee members of the conference: Dr. Rabins Porwal, Prof. Puja Dhar, Prof. Saurabh Saxena & Prof. Chandra Mani Sharma, in the presence of a huge gathering (including faculty members of Dept. of IT (PG & UG) and students of MCA & BCA) in the Auditorium of the Institute.Dr. S C. Bhatia, (Fellow-CSI) was also present in the Inaugural session of the Conference.

Thereafter, Technical paper presentations, in parallel, at 02 places, before the lunch and after the lunch were conducted, separately, and total 40 research papers on the theme of the conference were presented physically by the presenters who have come from far off places for the only purpose and these papers were evaluated by session chairs and judges of respective sessions; based on which Cash Prizes and Trophies were awarded to Three Best Research Papers in the Valedictory Session & Award Ceremony. Sh. Vijay Rastogi, Ex-Chairman CSI-Ghaziabad Chapter & Director, Sisoft and Dr. Arun Sharma, Vice-Chairman, CSI-Ghaziabad Chapter Judged the presentations. Sh. Saurabh Agrawal, Chairman, CSI-Ghaziabad Chapter was present as Guest in the Award Ceremony & Valedictory session.

Ms. Kumud Arora from IPEC along with Mr. Varun Arora was awarded First Prize (Cash prize of Rs. 5000/- along with Trophy), Rajat Sharma along with Akshay Jain from ABES EC, Ghaziabad was awarded Second Prize (Cash prize of Rs. 3000/- along with Trophy) and Poonam Sharma from MITS, Gwalior was awarded Third Prize(Cash prize of Rs. 2000/- along with Trophy) in the valedictory session based on the evaluation of judges in Technical Paper Presentation Session.

On behalf of ITS Pariwar, We congratulate all the winners and wish all the best for their bright future and extend our sincere thanks to all the contributors for showing their interest in sharing their thoughts in the form of high quality research papers and then visiting ITS for paper presentations and creating competition among themselves and challenge for the Judges.
 

and ended in the evening of 8th February, 2014. The Seminar was organized in the area of Finance. The theme of the Seminar was ‘Managing Finance during crisis. The first day of the Seminar was devoted to the research paper presentation by the researchers from industry and academia. Two dozen research papers were selected for publication out of total six dozen research papers received. All the selected research papers were published in a book which was released in the inaugural session of the second day of the Seminar. The first day of the Seminar was inaugurated by renowned professor of Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New Delhi. In his inaugural address, he presented the nitty-gritty of financial crisis in an interesting manner.
The focal point of this Seminar was 60 delegates from 35 different countries who whole-heartedly participated and enjoyed discourse on various aspects of Indian financial system.

The second day of the Seminar was devoted to the discussions by the industry captains in different technical sessions. This day observed extensive discourse on understanding nuances of and required skills needed for making Indian financial system robust. Mr Rajesh Gulati, President, Hero Motors was the Chief Guest, Mr Ravi Prasad, Director, NHAI, Govt. of India was the key-note speaker and Mr. Rishi Raj Singh, Director, NIESBUD was the Guest of Honor.
In his welcome address, Director General of I.T.S, Prof Shekhar Ghose express happiness over the presence of delegates particularly 60 representatives of 35 different countries. Expressing his views on Indian Financial System, he said during 2008 meltdown, India was least affected; reason being its robustness via wide regulation. What should be done to prevent sporadic crippling of our economy by frequent attack of crises would be the focal point of discussion during technical sessions of the day. He hoped the delegates will certainly enrich their knowledge on Indian financial system.
In his Inaugural address, Chief Guest Mr Rajesh Gulati present a blueprint of the working of Indian Government, industrial houses and management institutions to make India fastest growing economy of the world. He was of the opinion that financial system gets robust by the progressive thinking of the policy-makers. Not only this, the growth rate also much depends on the working style of the Government. Fast and feasible policy making brighten the financial system and thereby the benefit reaches to even last man and also enriches the creditworthiness on the global platform.
In his keynote address, Mr Ravi Prasad talked at length the role of infrastructure and its finance management to speed up the growth of economy.
Guest of Honor, Dr Rishi Raj Singh presented a bird’s eye view on financial crises happening from time to time.
The theme of the first technical session was ‘Crisis management in financial services’. In this session, Mr Gursharan Rai Bansal, Sr VP, UTI Asset Management, Mr Ashutosh Chaturvedi, VP Bonanza Capital and Mr Dayanand Koushik, AO, LIC were the eminent speakers. Speakers discussed at length the challenges and opportunities of management of financial services.
The theme of the second technical session was ‘Financial crisis in Real Estate Sector’. In this session Mr Zafar, Sr VP Upal Group and Mr Amarendra Kumar, PNB Housing Finance were the speakers. They discussed about the working of real estate sector and were of the opinion that there was no crisis in this sector, it is just demand and supply mismatch.
Third session was panel discussion. The theme of the panel discussion was ‘Indian financial system in global context’. Mr Vikas Gupta, Delivery Head, RBS, Mr Vikas Arora, VP, Yes Bank, Mr Manoj Kumar Sabat, AVP, IL & FS Energy and CA Aman Chugh were the panelists. Panel discussed the nitty-gritty of Indian Financial System vis-à-vis global financial system.
In the Valedictory Session, Dr Namita Srivastava, Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation, Ms Neelam Raghav & Ms Tanu Khare Srivastava, ABES Ghaziabad and Dr H S Shyam, Sharda University were given away the first, second and third cash prizes respectively. In a separate student category, Ms Priya Khare, ITS Ghaziabad, Mr Navdeep Singh, ITS Ghaziabad and Mr Ravi & Ms Manya, ITS-IM Greater Noida got trophies of first, second and third prize respectively. All paper presenters also received certificate of the same effect.
Prof Anusha Agrawal was the convener and Prof Manju Lamba was the co-convener of the Seminar. Seminar ended with the concluding remark and vote of thanks by Director-Management, Prof( Dr.) B S Hothi.
Including 60 delegates from 35 countries about 250 people from industry and academia participated in the Seminar.

Addressing as the key note speaker, Shri Rajneesh Kumar Singh emphasized on the need and importance of technology inclusion in e-governance. Shri Singh, in his address, said that with the increased applications of information and communication technologies, there are inherited challenges and concerns are also rising out about securing and providing seamless connectivity among the users. He expressed his serious concerns over research initiatives in the country and emphasized on the need of identifying thrust areas those may lead to a direction which could have potential to work and explore about.

Dr. Dharmendra Singh, addressing as Guest of Honor, spoke on the application aspects of the communication technologies and touched upon various issues related to it. Dr. Singh suggested that only solution in this scenario is to promote innovation and this has to come out of India. Dr. Singh enlighten the audiences with a chronological explanation of technological developments and the future roadmap to be followed. He also spoke on challenges & issues which are related to business organizations and said that off-shored software industry are most disruptive. In his address, Dr. Singh mentioned that existing companies are good at sustaining & innovation but newer are better at disruptive innovations.

In his welcome address, while welcoming the guests, The Vice Chairman - I.T.S The Education Group, Shri. Arpit Chadha, said that communication technologies have changed the way we interact, communicate and transact. These developments and reach of these technologies are revolutionizing the functioning of almost every organization irrespective of their domain in which they are operating into.

In this conference, Call for paper was also issued along with the notification of the conference and overwhelming response was received in the form of research papers. Large numbers of papers, in response, were received from various parts of the country.  After careful scrutiny and review by the experts of review committee, papers were selected for the inclusion in the proceedings of the conference. This proceeding was released by the eminent guests during the inaugural session.

In his concluding address in the inaugural session of the conference, Director – IT, Dr. Harish Kumar expressed his sincere thanks to the Chief Guest, key note speaker and Guest of Honor of this conference. He expressed his confidence that various parallel sessions shall witness high class of deliberations and shall open the new directions of research to the participants. Earlier, Convener of this conference, Prof. Sunil Kr Pandey presented a brief on objectives and structure of the conference.

After inaugural session, a power panel was organized in which various eminent speakers addressed the gathering on different themes. The speaker sincluded Dr. K.K. Biswas from IIT Delhi, Shri. S.K. Kaw, Managing Director – Paramarsh Infotech, Shri. Balaji Venkteshwara – Vice President (Information Security) and Dr. Brijesh from Lingaya’s University, Faridabad.

The conference was concluded with the valedictory session in the afternoon. While addressing as the invited speaker in the valedictory session, Dr. Kumar spoke about the issues and challenges present in the field of communication with business perspective. Mr. Sharma spoke on the developments taking place in the area of mobile computing and elaborated various complex issues with demonstrative illustrations and examples. He also spoke on perspective research areas in the field of mobile computing and technology.

In his concluding address, Prof. Sunil Kr Pandey, Convener of this conference NGCTA-2013, thanked to the guests for their useful and constructive inputs. Dr. Pandey also thanked to all the delegates and participants for their support, participation and contributions in making this conference a success. He also thanked to the members of organizing committee of the conference which included Prof. A.N. Tripathi, Prof. Umang Singh, Prof. Smita Kansal and Prof. Rakesh Roshan who were well supported by the faculty members and students of Dept of IT.

Conference was attended by over 300 delegates from various parts of the country. Earlier Vice Chairman – I.T.S The education Group, Shri. Arpit Chadha and Director – IT formally welcomed the guest and presented them mementoes on behalf of the institute as token of remembrance. On this occasion large number of students and faculty members were also present in the conference.

In the inaugural session of the second day of the conference, the Chief Guest Mr. R. P. Singh, Director – HR & Legal, IFFCO, appealed for bridging the employability gap and advised exercises to keep the body and mind fit for bearing the work pressure. He emphasized that an efficient HR professional should know how to emotionally satisfy the employee and the employer both.

Keynote speaker Mr. Pankaj Bansal quite interestingly elaborated world-wide opportunities and challenges before the HR professionals today. He said that there are 30 HR companies listed in US but in India there is none. He gave an interesting and farsighted mantra to future managers – ‘Never under-estimate yourself in long term and never overestimate yourself in short term’ and advised sincerity, hard-work and attachment with the job.

The inaugural session was followed by technical sessions 1 and 2, in which senior HR professionals from top industries discussed the current HR scenario and different HR functions with an emphasis on traditional and service functions of HR.

The topic of technical session – 1 was ‘Current Scenario of HR’ that was beautifully carried forward by Ms. Harpreet Dutta, Executive Director & Chief People Officer, ABC Consultant, who addressed the participants in an interesting and interactive way. Starting with the questions on the basic functions of HR, she discussed total quality management and said that an HR professional should definitely meet the self-expectations. Mr. Manish Srivastava, Director, Emserve, raised a question – ‘Is your EVP equal to CVP?’ where EVP stands for Employee Value Proposition and CVP stands for Customer Value Proposition. He concluded that customer and employee both are important for any organization therefore the employee should have a feeling that the HR department of the company is responsive to them. Mr. N. C. Sharma, Head-HR, Country Inn, was another appreciated speaker of the first technical session who started with the primary functions of HR and said that the way your employee feels is the way your customer feels. He strongly supported the views of Mr. Manish Srivastava, his co-speaker.

The second technical session commenced after the lunch. The topic of this session was ‘Difference in HR functions: Traditional v/s Services’. Mr. Rup Kumar Sengupta, Director HR, PSI started the session with the comparison of traditional and service functions of HR and forecasted future expectations from HR. He advised tactical and proactive approach in all actions with the focus on need. Second speaker of the second session was Mr. K. R. Kaushik, Head – External Affairs, Gujrat Fertilizers, who initiated his address with the question if human is a resource or the controller of resources. He, after comparing traditional and service functions of HR, discussed the role of HR as facilitator in service sector. He advised no discrimination among employees saying discrimination brings disasters.

The two day National conference came close to the conclusion with the panel discussion on the ‘Nature of HR Function in 2020’, which was intelligently and interestingly moderated by the area chair Dr. P.U.B. Rao. The speakers in the panel included Prof. R. P. Ojha, IMI, Delhi; Dr. Subhash Masters, Advisor, Human Capital and Dr. M. S. Rau, Executive Director, ISTD. Moderator Dr. P.U.B. Rao started the discussion with the expected nature of HR function in 2020. He broadly pointed out that future will have more corporate psychologists but the basic functions of HR will remain same. He gave an interesting example of cars saying that we have sophisticated cars today but whether new or old, all cars have a steering, four wheels and a windscreen etc. The proposition put forth by Prof. Rao was followed by Prof. R. P. Ojha who forecasted that in future HR functions will shrink but opportunities will increase. He gave an example of emails which were warmly welcomed years back but are now considered as outdated because people now want instant response devices. Similarly, HR functions will also change and we need to prepare ourselves. Dr. Subhash Masters started with a relieving line that whatever may be the name but HR functions will always be there. He emphasized the need to understand the business models especially the beneficial ones. Dr. M.S. Rau shared his views starting with an interesting note that everyone should have some extent of HR in oneself. He expressed his disappointment for just fire-fighting contemporary functions of HR instead of post-mortems i.e. analysis of cause and consequences. He appealed for redesigning HR functions and refocus on customer satisfaction. This successful panel discussion not only presented eye-opening facts before the participants but also gave them a chance to get their queries and apprehensions answered by the experts.

Soon after the panel discussion, valedictory session of the conference took place in which best research papers were awarded with a trophy and a certificate. The first prize was won by the team of Rahul and Sneha from ITS Institute of Management, Greater Noida; second prize was won by Pradeep & Monika, the PGDM students at ITS, Ghaziabad whereas third prize was bagged by Jalhaj Auny Tawlatt of Stratford University, Delhi campus. Director-Management Dr. B. S. Hothi congratulated the winners, presented the conference overview and the formal vote of thanks. He also congratulated area chair Dr. Rao and the conference coordinators Dr. Puneet Mohan & Dr. Charu for the smooth and effective organization of the conference. And with this, the two day National HR Conference ‘Responsive HR’ ended meaningfully and successfully.

in association with CSI Ghaziabad Chapter & ACM Delhi-NCR Chapter. The Seminar was organized with an objective of creating a forum for experts from academia, industry, practioners and research community playing crucial roles in formulating conceptual, applied, technological and legal dimensions to come together and share their work, wisdom, experience and explorations. The Seminar was inaugurated by The Chief Guest & Vice Chancellor - S.M. University Vadodra, Famous Cyber Crime Expert & Guest of Honor Shri Pavan Duggal and Chief Editorial Adviser - Cyber Media Group & Key Note Speaker of the Seminar Shri. Prashanto Roy, Vice Chairman ITS The Education Group Shri Arpit Chadha, Director General - I.T.S Ghaziabad and Director - ITS Engineering College, Greater Noida Dr. Vineet Kansal.
Addressing as the Key Note speaker, Mr. Prashanto K Roy, The Chief Editorial Adviser of Cyber Media, spoke on the technological advancements and research trends in the field of information technology and said that in spite of all ups and down, still IT industry is marching ahead with new applications and thus heading towards creating more employment opportunities and taking the technological developments to the common man and in a sense it is itself a social service. In his address he uncovered the most sought after buzzword Big Data & Cloud environment with the emerging advancements in interface design and the powerful multiprocessing systems enabling mass storage, efficient processing and quick response to the users.

In his address the guest of honor, Shri. Pavan Duggal focused his discussion on challenges and issues with the increased usage and adoptability of technology and its enabled applications. While addressing the gathering Mr. Duggal cited the examples from industry and the social usage of the applications. Referring to social media websites, he said that careful assessment and usage of these applications are the need of the hour otherwise these applications have vulnerable impact too. He said that we need to understand the pros and cons of the applications we are using and take appropriate measures so that users are not tapped and land up in a situation which can lead to unbearable implications.
In his address, Chief Guest of the seminar Prof. Yogesh Singh said that now convergence of different streams of sciences are creating way for emergence of newer technologies and applications. He emphasized on the need of rigorous and focused collaborative research. In his address he said that we have to be committed in our efforts with understanding of what we want to achieve and then with positive attitude we need to put ourselves in action in this era of advancements and progression so that we are ready to exploit the advantages and ensure the reach of technology to the last man of our society.      
Earlier in his address, Vice Chairman of I.T.S The Education Group Shri. Arpit Chadha said that communication technologies have changed the way we interact, communicate and transact. These developments and reach of these technologies are revolutionizing the functioning of almost every organization irrespective of their domain in which they are operating into. He expressed his happiness and greeted each of the members of Dept of IT for the success of this event.
In his welcome address, Director General – ITS Ghaziabad Dr. A.K. Puri said that with the increased applications of information and communication technologies, there are inherited challenges and concerns are also rising out about securing and providing seamless connectivity among the users. He expressed his serious concerns over research initiatives in the country and emphasized on the need of identifying thrust areas those may lead to a direction which could have potential to work and explore about.
While delivering vote of thanks, Dr. Vineet Kansal expressed his sincere thanks to the Chief Guest, key note speaker, guest of honor and distinguished speakers of this seminar. Dr. Kansal also thanked to HBS for sponsoring the event.
Professor & Chairperson of MCA Programme, Prof. Sunil Pandey presented brief and structure of the Seminar. Prof. Saurabh Saxena, convener of the Seminar, coordinated the inaugural session. 
After the inaugural session two technical sessions on different themes were planned. First technical session was planned on the theme – “Impact of IT on Societal” in which Dr. Vijay Rao – Sr. Scientist of DRDO, Ms. Gayatri Partsarthi – Sr. Manager of Accenture, Bangalore, Dr. D.P. Vidyarthi – JNU New Delhi and Dr. Parag Singla – IIT Delhi addressed the gathering and expressed their views on related issues including Societal impact of IT, availability, Applications & usage in Rural Areas and challenges of it, Research directions and other areas like Communication infrastructure, Data Integration, Security and management of communication technologies, databases in mobile environment etc.
In the post-lunch session the theme was kept on “Emerging Technologies in IT” in which Dr. Arun Singh – Head (Expert Services) of Lumata Communications, Mr. Bharat Agarwal – Head (MTS Data Centre) at UTIBA Software Solutions and Dr. Sangay Gupta – Head (Cognitive Sciences) at NIIT Technologies about application, research and developmental dimensions of Information technologies in various domains including Telecommunications, Mobility, Data Centers and Cognitive Sciences.
The seminar was attended by the delegates from far off places, guests and faculty members & students of ITS, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad. In all approximately 300 delegates attended the Seminar.

The discussion revolved around the ‘EMERGING TRENDS IN HR’. It was organized by the students under the able guidance of HR faculty Fraternity. The chief guest of the seminar was Mr. Debaprasad Bhattacharya, who is the Advisor (Learning & Development) at Corporate Office of Indian Fertiliser Cooperative Limited ( IFFCO), New Delhi. The key-note speaker of the seminar was Dr. Aquil Busrai, who is the CEO of AQUIL BUSRAI CONSULTING.

The Seminar was demarcated into three sessions: Inaugural Session, Technical Session-I and Technical Session-II. During the Inaugural Session, Director General of ITS - Mr A. K. Puri; Director Management of ITS - Dr. A.K.S. Suryavanshi, Chief Guest Mr D. Bhattacharya and Keynote speaker- Dr. Aquil Busrai inaugurate the seminar with the ceremonial lighting of lamp and chant of mantra by student. This was followed by felicitation of guests with bouquets duly presented by Director General-Mr. A.K. Puri and Dr. A.K.S. Suryavanshi. The Director General of ITS- Mr. A.K. Puri then gave a welcome address to all the dignitaries, Faculty members, guests and students present in the auditorium. After that the key-note speaker initiated an enlightening talk on the current scenario in HR.

In the Inaugural Session Dr. Aquil Busrai,CEO Of AQUIL BUSRAI CONSULTING, in his deliberations touched major issues concerning HR, such as: why HR is becoming important in corporate?, how should HR overcome the challenges ?, how do we upgrade HR?, and how do companies hire candidates? He also shared the mantra ‘CAR’, which was the abbreviated form of the three basic attributes and skills an employer looks for in a candidate : C- Capacity of mind (How much one absorbs and comprehend), A-Application of knowledge (How much one learns and applies it in various situations) R- Relationship (how well does one connect at work and networks.)

The chief guest of the seminar Mr. Debaprasad Bhattacharya, Advisor at IFFCO gave his views on how Indian population is booming and it is expected that 40% of total population will comprise of citizens less than 25 years by year 2020. Also more than half of total population are not studying. He informed about 17 Countries which have been counted as successful and China is no. 1 whereas India stands at no. 17. He also took the example of Japanese organisation who adopted Indian values .He also talked about our culture which is highly inspired by the principles and values of Mahatma Gandhi. In today’s world Intellectual skills can be built easily, but it is difficult to build values.

First TECHNICAL SESSION-I is titled as “STRATEGIC ALLIGNMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL”
The objective of this session was to analyse the role of HR as a strategic partner for ensuring organisational excellence. HR practices can resolve and address real business issues of the organisation.

First speaker Mr. Murli Dhar Shyam the HR Head- India, ATC Tower Corporation Pvt. Ltd. shared his knowledge on the topic “Strategic Alignment in Human Capital”. He said that, the organization should focus on the strategic planning to achieve the goals as strategy creates friction in our work. So, the work force planning in the organization should be strong and enough to achieve the target. Customers are the most important assets of the organization. As there are 2 sets of employees – one belonging to Generation X and the other to Generation Y, they both are different from each other in their thought process and working but their main objectives are the same. They should be co-operative but need for transparency and ethics stand at different pedestals for Gen X and Gen Y. He quoted the example of Mr. Ramcharan. He stressed that an essential leadership characteristic in management is managing people.

The second speakerMr Sharad Aggarwala (Sr. Vice President- Godfrey Philips India Ltd.) shared his experiences with the audience on the topic “Strategic Alignment in Human Capital”. He said that Human Capital is the stock of competencies, knowledge, workforces etc. He also talked about his company & discussed Core Values of Godfrey Philips India Ltd.He concluded his speech by sharing that Long Term Agreement with employees should be appreciated by HR and the ‘Mantra’ should be to “Give & Take”.

The third speaker Ms Harpreet Dutta, Executive Director & Chief People Officer (ABC consultant) shared her experiences and knowledge on the topic “Strategic Alignment in Human Capital”. She enlightened us about 6 steps towards strategic alignment in HR.She concluded her speech by saying that HR department needs to align its working with employees needs.

The TECHNICAL SESSION-II is titled as “INNOVATIVE HR FRAMEWORKS” The purpose of this session was to provide an insight into innovative practices being followed to meet the challenges in HR such as managing a diverse workforce, integrating impact of new technologies on business, parameters of fulfilling the rising customer expectations etc.

MR. SUBHASH JAGOTA, Managing Director, of Jabro Advertising & Marketing Pvt. Limited, informed the gathering about three principles which one should cherish and follow relentlessly - are (1)Never underestimate yourself, (2)Have a fire in your belly and(3) Learn to challenge yourself He reiterated that we have to be best otherwise somebody else will replace us to win in life. He concluded by adding that all Organisations need positive managers who can generate wealth.

MR.RAJNEESH SINGH,Managing Partner of Simply HR Solutions, said that HR has the beauty of being holistic and not just an individualistic concept. He also said that HR personnel should behave responsibly as they are the role model for the entire world of people.He told us that flexibility leads to Innovation. In the ensuing discussion it was emphasised that preparing for challenges by promoting a flexible and agile workforce, should be a recurring theme.

MR. ARUNAV BANERJEE, Director, Executive Education and Chair, HR Leadership Programme at SOIL, shared that PEOPLE are the most important resources in an organisation. HR is the platform where PEOPLE deal with PEOPLE. An Employer & Employee in HR are both people. He also added that the HR personnel should be very innovative in thoughts and action. He elaborated on the difference between Creativity & Innovation. Innovation is the action of creativity.

The Seminar culminated with a Valedictory session wherein Dr. Mona Sahay, Chief Seminar Convener, gave an overview of the proceedings of the entire seminar. Then Dr. A.K.S. Suryavanshi, Director Management of ITS, addressing to all those present, expressed his gratefulness to the speakers for sharing their views and opinion, thereby leading to value addition. The Seminar thus concluded on a satisfying note with valuable and enriching knowledge sharing.

Dr. Pankaj Jalote, Director-IIIT, Delhi was the Chief Guest in this Seminar. Sh. Sunil Asthana, General Manager & Global Delivery Partner, CSC, Noida, India was the Key Note Speaker in the inaugural session of the Seminar. Seminar formally began with Lamp Lighting by above Guests, Director General, I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad Dr. A. K. Puri and Director – IT, Dr. Vineet Kansal.

In his welcome address, Director General – I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, Prof. A.K. Puri welcomed the Chief Guest, Key Note Speaker, Invited Guests, & delegates from various institutions and spoke about the emerging trends in software technologies and its future directions. Prof. Puri said that gradually computers and their applications have started taking important place in our day to day life: be it mobile, laptops, smart-phones & may other daily appliances and it is becoming a necessity for all of us. In his address, Chief Guest Dr. Pankaj Jalote discussed the definition of engineering and differentiated it with software engineering & explored the skills required in this profession. He discussed the role of science based researcher and engineering researcher, abilities of researcher, difference between research & research manager. He also made aware the delegates the research opportunities in India and motivated them towards research career. He said that now India has been recognized by the rest of the world as an IT Power. Addressing as the Key Note Speaker, Sh. Sunil Asthana Ji spoke about the latest developments taking place in the IT Industry and covered various aspects of Mobile Commerce, Mobility, and Mobile Applications & Cloud Computing. Sh. Sunil Asthana, in his address, said that in true sense to make any technology available, is the availability of its benefits to the masses, i.e., to a common man. He further said that in present almost everybody has the access to Mobile Phones / smart-phones and if we can exploit these mobile phones as the vehicle for enabling these services and make them available, it would be really useful.

After inaugural session the seminar was divided into two technical sessions Emerging Trends & SIG Role in Software Developments and then Recent Advances in Software Testing, maintenance and quality assurance. In pre-lunch session Mr. Amit Goenka, Co-founder & CEO, Ariose Software Pvt. Ltd., Noida, Ms. Swati Mehra, Business Analyst, NIIT Limited, New Delhi and Ms. Vibha S. Sinha, Manager-Productivity Tools, IBM Research Lab India, Delhi addressed the gathering and expressed their views on related issues including Emerging Trends in software developments, agile methodologies, mobile computing, smart-phone applications and how SIG are playing an important role towards achieving the same.

In post-lunch session, Mr. Navneet B. Gupta, Program Manager - Aviva Testing Services, CSC, Noida, Mr. Virendra Singh Karakoti, Project Manager, Amdocs, Gurgaon and Dr. Ruchika Malhotra, Assistant Professor, Department of Software Engineering, DTU, Delhi talked about recent advances in software testing, maintenance & quality assurances related issues and disclosed the fact that software testing has now become a challenging profession as equivalent to software development.

The technical sessions were followed by the concluding session. In the concluding session, Sh. Rakesh Misra, Sr. Project Manager, CSC, Noida & Author, The eMedha Paradigm delivered a talk on the development of emerging trends in software engineering and shared the audience some hidden facts of Industry applications of new technologies related to software development.

While delivering his concluding remarks, Dr. Vineet Kansal, Director – IT thanked to all the speakers, invited guests, delegates present and participated from various institutes and organizations of far off places in the seminar. He also thanked the Computer Society of India (CSI) – Ghaziabad Chapter & ACM Delhi-NCR Chapter for promoting the event & for providing the support in their capacity. Dr. Kansal said that this seminar must have provided enough inputs to identify, explore and carry out meaningful research in the area of Software developments, mobile applications, cloud computing, software testing, maintenance & quality assurance.

After the Concluding Session, all the delegates/ participants were issued with the certificates of attending the seminar. The event was organized by Dr. Rabins Porwal as convener along with Prof. Ashish Seth and Prof. Saurabh Saxena.

The seminar was attended by the delegates from far end institutes such as I.M.S., Dehradoon, Vira College of Engineering, Bijnor, K.L.S.I.T., Bijnor, NIMS University, Jaipur, D.I.M.S., Meerut, SRM University, Modinagar, Vaibhav Institute of Mgmt & Technology, Bulandshahar, Ch.N.S. Group of College, Gothany, Khurja, V.I.T., Dadri and guests & delegates from nearby institutions such as Jamia Hamdard, Delhi, KEC, AKGEC, RKGIT, ABES, MIPS Morta, Suderdeep Engineering College, Ghaziabad, IILM Gr. Noida etc. and faculty members & students of ITS, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad approximately more than 250 persons.

On same day researchers from various places of country have presented their research papers on the different facets of finance arena like Agri Finance, Role of Islamic Finance, Challenges before Public Sector Banks, Indian Family Business Groups, F D I, Micro Finance etc. are highly innovative and thought provoking.

About 31 researchers from different places of country contributed their valuable research papers for this conference and selected papers have been published in the compendium.

The second day of conference i.e 21st January, 2012 was devoted to Industry and Academia experts for the discussions and deliberations in four sessions. In the inaugural session the chief guest Mr. S.N. Mukherjee – CEO IL & FS focused on the new emerging field of Carbon Credits about its mechanism of use and importance as latest trend for Finance 2012. In first technical session Dr. V.K. Seth- Professor, FMS- Delhi and Dr. Girish Chandra Tripathi- Associate Professor, IMT, Ghaziabad deliberated their views on “Innovations and growth in finance with reference to India and Across the Globe”. In 2nd technical session titled “ Changing Role of Banking and Insurance Sector” two guests Ms. Jagrati A.O of New India Assurance and Mr. Snjeev Bindlish- Regional Manager of ORACLE India (P) Ltd. negotiated their dialogues with audience. At the end of session there was a panel discussion on “Challenges in Financial Market-2012”. The panelist were Mr. Kunal, Mr. Naveen Garg, Mr. Gursharan Bansal and Mr. Rajneesh Katariya. Mr. Amit Roy was the moderator of this panel. All panelist discussed in depth about the challenges in Finance-2012. They also pacified the queries of audience very well.

At the end of conference winners of research papers were awarded, the results were as-

Best Paper Under Faculty Category:-

Prof. Kamini Singh, MMH College of Professional Study, Ghaziabad and Prof. Shalini Singh, I.T.S – Institute of Management Greater Noida

Under Student Category

Mr. Avinash & Ms. Vartika Position I
Mr. Pratyush Srivastava & Mr. Shrasta Saxena Position II
Ms. Soni & Mr. Bhuvneshwar Position III

At last Director Management Professor Sapna Rakesh proposed vote of thanks for making this conference great successful.

Second session was the paper presentation. The session chairperson was Dr. A. A. Firdasi, Dean –FMS, Jamia Hamdard University. Total 4 research papers were presented under faculty category and 5 papers were presented under student category. For student paper presentation the judges were Dr. Mona Sahay and Prof. Vikas Saxena, Faculty of I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad.

Third session was again the paper presentation. The session chairperson was Dr. A. A. D. Kodwani, Professor & Chairperson –IMT, Ghaziabad. Total 8 research papers were presented under faculty category and 5 papers were presented under student category. For student paper presentation the judges were Dr. Mona Sahay and Prof. Vikas Saxena, Faculty of I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad.
Fourth session was the Valedictory Session. The guest for the session was Mr. Ashok Grover, Managing Director of Skill Scape. In faculty category Prof. Meenakshi Gupta from Hierank Business School, Noida won the best research paper award trophy. In student category Ms. Kamakshi from I.B.S, Gurgaon stood first and won a cash prize of Rs. 5000, Mr. Amitabh Mukherjee from IMT, Ghaziabad, stood second and won a cash prize of Rs. 3000 and Ms. Sangeeta, Ms. Khoshboo & Mr. Rishabh from I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, stood third and won a cash prize of Rs. 2000.

Speaking as the key note speaker, Mr. Anil Gupta spoke about the technological advancements taking place in IT industry. Mr. Gupta expressed his serious concerns over research initiatives in the country and emphasized on the need of identifying thrust areas which may seem absurd but may lead to a direction which could have potential to work and explore about. Specially talking about the cloud computing and its security issues, Mr. Gupta stressed upon the concerns coming up while keeping crucial data on a cloud without taking appropriate security measures. Mr. Gupta also talked about the cluster computing and developments happening in the area of computer hardware, software and networking to create a competent, meaningful and user-friendly framework which can act as an enabler. He also discussed the efforts put by Japan to tackle Tsunami using technological advancements and many other technologies for further research.

Mr. Anup Mandal, speaking as the Guest of Honor in the inaugural session of the conference, said that, as a human being, we have a tendency to look upon with a complicated perspective while creating solutions. And this complexity increases the need of proper learning of the solutions with some technical know-how. Mr. Mandal stressed upon the need of keeping the approach simpler and in such a way that it is closer to the end users. In his address, Mr. Mandal, shared his experiences and said that information and communication technologies have revolutionized the way we think, act and react whether in personal or professional fronts. He underlined the applications and contributions and impact of it in the electronic and print media and said that most of the popular applications started with their own complexity and subsequently after a decade now those stalwarts have started working to make them simpler and more user-friendly. Mr. Mandal discussed the examples of simplicity in Google browser, yahoo browser - based on category based searching, the first e-newspaper, the newer look of Windows 8, story of Steve Jobs for establishing Apple company & choosing its logo and many other stories of generating ideas.

Call for paper was also issued along with the notification of the conference and overwhelming response was received in the form of research papers. After careful scrutiny and review by the experts of review committee, papers were selected for the inclusion in the proceedings of the conference. This proceeding was released by the eminent guests during the inaugural session.

In his concluding address, during the inaugural session of the conference, Director – IT, Dr. Vineet Kansal expressed his sincere thanks to the Chief Guest, Key note speaker and Guest of honor of this conference, Dr. Kansal expressed his confidence that various parallel sessions shall witness high class of deliberations and shall open the new directions of research to the participants.

After inaugural session, parallel sessions on relevant themes were conducted in which contributors from various parts of the country participated and presented their research papers. These sessions were chaired by Mr. Vijay Rastogi, Dr. Rajeev Agarwal and Dr. Arun Sharma respectively.

The conference was concluded with the valedictory session in the afternoon. While addressing as the first invited speaker in the valedictory session, Dr. Ajay Rana spoke about the need of strengthening the quality of research by academic community to make teaching and research more meaningful. He touched upon various technological aspects to make teaching and learning more effective.

In his address as the invited guest, Mr. Amit Gupta nicely explained the developments taking place in the area of mobile computing and elaborated various complex issues with demonstrative illustrations and examples. Mr. Gupta also spoke on perspective research areas in the field of mobile computing and technology.

In his concluding address, Dr. Vineet Kansal, Director – IT of the institute, thanked to the guests for their useful and constructive inputs. Dr. Kansal also thanked to all the delegates and participants for their support, participation and contributions in making this conference a grand success. He also thanked to the members of organizing committee of the conference, Dr. Rabins Porwal, Prof. Rakesh Roshan and Prof. Smita kansal who were well supported by the faculty members and students of Dept. of IT.

The conference was attended by over 300 delegates including students of ITS & delegates from various parts of the country. Earlier Director General and Director – IT formally welcomed the guests and presented them mementoes on behalf of the institute as token of remembrance. On this occasion large number of students and faculty members were also present in the conference.

Mr. Shyam Malhotra, Executive Director, Cyber Media India Ld. was the Guest Speaker for the session. The session revolved around the increasing role of technology in Marketing. Mr. Malhotra discussed how digitization and web space has created different world for marketers to understand, play and win.  The speaker emphasized the fact that technology can leverage all the marketing initiatives and bring profits to the company. Mr. Malhotra proposed that Digital Marketing as a field is very dynamic and technology once prevalent becomes obsolete in short period of time.
 

The deliberation on Social Media rose issues of immense importance for marketers and practitioners. Mr. Malhotra put forth that Social Media is very strong vehicle to reach customers. The underlined issues related to low- cost, vast reach and unparallel speed of the Social media were also raised. Mr. Malhotra discussed that Technology, although can be imitated, definitely is a differentiator. The interactive session provided a platform to the faculty members to discuss the importance of Digital Marketing and Social Media in Marketing.
The session was coordinated by Prof. Swati Singh.

Prof. S. K. Kak, Vice Chancellor, Maha Maya Technical University (MTU), Noida was the Chief Guest in this Seminar. Sh. Subhash Verma, COO & VP-Engineering, Agnity India as Key Note Speaker, Sh. Manoj Tandon, Director, CSC as Guest of Honor, Chief Administrator Sh. Surender Sood, Director General, I.T.S., Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad Dr. A. K. Puri, Director-IT, Dr. Vineet Kansal were also present in the inaugural session of the Seminar.

After inaugural session the seminar was divided into two technical sessions Technological Advancements & Research Directions in Database & Communication Technologies and then Design & Deployment issues in Database & Communication Technologies in pre – and post –lunch sessions.
Details of the sessions are given as below:

Technical Session – I:
Theme: Technological Advancements & Research Directions in Database & Communication Technologies
Resource Persons:
• Dr. S. K. Gupta, Professor, CSE, IIT Delhi
• Dr. Mukesh Mohania, S.T.S.M. & Master Inventor, IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon
• Dr. Anirban Mandol, Associate Professor, IIIT Delhi
• Mr. Manoj Jain, Head – Applications & Client Relation, Orbis Financial Corp., Gurgaon

Technical Session – II:
Theme: Design & Deployment Issues in Database & Communication Technologies
Resource Persons:
• Mr. Kamal Karnatak, Head-IT, R.J. Corp, Gurgaon
• Mr. Madan Rajput, Head-Airtel Accounts, PAN India, New Delhi
• Mr. Abhinav Agarwal, Principal Engg., Oracle Corp., Gurgaon

These two Sessions were followed by the valedictory session. In the valedictory session, Sh. Bohitesh Mishra, Chief Technology Officer, TIGERS Connect Trans Systems, Noida was the Chief Guest of the session.

The seminar was attended by the delegates from far end institutes such as Vira College of Engineering, Bijnor, Pacific Institute of Technology, Udaipur, Disha Institute of Science & Technology, Dhampur, Radha Govind Engineering College, Meerut etc. and guests & delegates from near by institutions such as KIET, IPEC, KEC, AKGEC, Ghaziabad, Accurate, INMANTEC, Galgotias, IEC, ITSEC, ITSIM Gr. Noida, NIEC, New Delhi etc. and faculty members & students of ITS, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad giving approximately more than 300 persons in the Seminar.
The event details could be tracked on the links below:

http://www.pg.its.edu.in/seminar/CDCT-2011.html
http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/chapters/ghaziabad/event-calendar
http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/myhome News & Announcement
http://www.csi-ghaziabad.org/
http://www.conferencealerts.com/india.htm

In addition to above, the seminar was advertised in Event Calendar of the April Issue of CSI Communications.

Dr. Rabins Porwal, Prof. Rakesh Roshan and Prof. Neeraj Gupta were the members of the organizing committee of this seminar who were well supported by Faculty Members of Dept of IT, students of MCA Programme and Computer lab staff and general administration.

On first day the programme was started with inaugural session followed by paper presentation context. Dr D K Batra, Director NIMS, New Delhi was the chief Guest of the day. Thirty research papers were presented by faculty members and students of different institutes from all over India. Three best research papers under both the categories were awarded with the cash prize and certificates.

On second day (16 April 2011), the programmme was started with a inaugural session at 09.30 am. Inaugural session had begun with lamp lighting and Saraswti vandana. Then was followed by the formal welcome of the chief guest and guest of honour by presenting him bamboo shoot. Welcome address was given Dr A K Puri, Director General, I.T.S Ghaziabad. In his inaugural speech, the guest of honor of the day Mr. V. Balakrishnan (V.P and Head MDC,RICOH INDIA) advocated that ‘the real value is when we help at benchmark to our customer’. Chief Guest Mr. L.K.Gupta (Chief Marketing Officer, L.G. Electronics Pvt. Ltd.) said that creating and sustaining customer value takes a long journey from thinking to buy a product to its utilization and enjoyment. In between these two points we go through the number of stages and at each stage value is created. Emotional bonding is very important for creating customer value and value should be measured for sustainable growth. Creating trust by the means of products and services is the main source of creating customer value. Emotional bonding with customers play a very vital role is creating and sustaining customer value. Director – Management Dr Sapana Rakesh presented the overview of seminar. Dr V N Bajpai, Convener of this seminar, organized the inaugural session effectively.

There were two technical sessions and one panel discussion session. In first technical session on “Unleashing the Indian Retail Power: A potential Goldmine”, Mr Rahul Raja Muthaia (CEO, Pantaloon India Ltd.) and Ms Arti Chauhan (Sr. Marketing Manager , Shipra Mall) discussed comprehensively about the retail, its avenues and prospects. In second technical session on “Redefining Rural Leadership: Strategies for Wealth Creation”, Mr Vikas Sinha (Head- Rural Sales, J K Risk) and Mr Amit Sinha (Director, Applied Solar Technology) expressed their view about rural development, its positive exploitation and creating wealth and value. In Panel Discussion on “Innovation and Emotion Connect: A Life long Bonding with Customer”, Mr Vinod Dumlekar (CEO, Mantice), Mr Arun Singhal ( Senior consultant, Hewitt India Ltd), Mr Y K Gupta (Retired GM, L&T) and Mr Sanjeev Malhotra ( Regional Head, Tata Tele Services) talked about various issues related to innovation and emotional bonding with customer

at I.T.S premises. Mr.Sanjay Diwan, Director –Strategy, AGC Networks was the Chief guest and Mr. Abhay Saxena, AVP-TQM and Training and Development , Hero Corporation was the key note speaker in the inaugural session. There were two technical sessions, followed by a panel discussion on the first day of the seminar. Mr. Sandeep Tyagi, Director – HR, Haier appliances,Dr. H.S, Sharma, DG, Lord Krishna Group, Dr. A. R.Dubey, Professor, Skyline University, Dubai, were the key speakers in the first technical session on Business Leadership while Mr.AviragJain, VP – HR, R. Systems, Ms. Indrani Nath, Reliance Communication and Mr. Himanshu Saxena, CEO and Founder, Maverik Consulting were the distinguished speakers for the second technical session on Empowering HR through ICT. The facilitator for panel discussion was Mr. Murlidhar Shyam, Director – HR, ATC while Dr.P. U.B. Rao, Senior Professor, Mr.Sunit Saxena, AGM-HR, Idea Cellular and Mr. H.S.Yadav, AVP-HR, DS Group were the other members of panel discussion. There was a paper presentation contest for faculty and students on second day. Compendium was also released during the seminar. Papers were presented and were examined by the senior academicians. More than 40 papers from various Business Schools and Universities were entertained which came from Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Tamilnadu and Delhi. The best papers were awarded with cash prize of Rs.10000, Rs.6000, Rs.4000/- to faculty members and cash prize of Rs.5000, Rs. 3000 and Rs. 2000/- to students.

After the inaugural session, the Seminar was divided in two sessions. In the first session Mr. V.K. Jaitly - President Astrowix India, Mr. Raghu Raman - Director PunyaTech Pvt Ltd., Mr. Niraj Prakash - Head, Public Sector Marketing Unit, Microsoft India, Mr. Rajdeep Sahrawat - Head, Initiative - TCS shared their views and experiences. In the second session Dr. M.M. Pant - Former Pro-Vice Chancellor of IGNOU and renowned academician, Mr. Neeraj Aggarwal - Sr. Vice President NIIT Ltd, Dr. B.K. Murthy - Director, Min. of Communication and IT and Mr. Aniruddha Sen were among the speakers. In the valedictory session Dr. K. Subramanian, IT Advisor to CAG of India and former Dy. Director General-NIC was the Chief Guest.

The speakers enlighten and emphasized on some of the latest and emerging issues on the theme of the seminar i.e. there is a need of improving the quality of education and creation of efficient and effective learning technology which can ensure the employability of the upcoming generation. The initiatives taken by the Government in the area of education and promotion of research activities by establishing and connecting research centers with the universities through National Knowledge Network plan. There is a need of paradigm shift in the current education system and shift the focus from teachers-centric approach to the learner-centric approach. There is a need of understanding the underlying mechanism of exploiting the technology in proper information processing. The development is taking place in the industry to cope up with the dynamically changing requirements particularly High Performance Computing and its application in current computing environment. We are living in an era where there is no place for isolated technologies or domain but this is the time of collaborations and whether it is technology or education systems or ICT everything has to synergize to give a way for newer framework which can be better utilized for human beings.

on the topic Thriving in today's Economy: Indian Financial Sector. Ms. Padma Iyer Kaul (IAS)Director, Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India was the Chief Guest in the inaugural session.