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.

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. 

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
 

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.

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.