Corporate Talk by Mr Lokesh Mehra, Director (Education), Millionlights.

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The Research Development Cell (RDC) had organised a Corporate Talk on 21st November 2017. The speaker of the day was Mr Lokesh Mehra, Director (Education), Millionlights. The session was mainly intended for the first year students of PGDM and MBA (2017-19) Batch.
Mr. Mehra began by tracing out the transition of technology down the ages. Highlighting the role of education here, he pointed out that in India there was a big gap between what was needed in industry, and the training that was provided at different educational institutes.
Coming to technology Mr Mehra spoke of SMAC I.e., Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud. He referred to the burgeoning market for mobile technology in the country, noting that there were more one million mobile connections in India. He mentioned the benefits of storing data in the cloud, explaining the advent of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

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November

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2017

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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

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To make the interaction topical, he brought in areas like Digital India and smart cities, which are all the rage in our country right now. Coming to the consumerisation of IT, he focussed on VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) as a means of dealing with a constantly changing market.
The last part of the session was devoted to the current job market and what the students could do to carve their own space in it. He mentioned companies working as aggregators (Ola, Uber, etc), the Internet of Things, etc. He concluded by summarising some of the keywords to success.
Finally Mr Mehra dealt with questions from the students regarding the path to be taken for their future careers.
It was an engrossing and informative session for all concerned. All present were full of praise for the talk. Students were so enthused by it that they kept asking for the next opportunity to interact with Mr Mehra.