The welcome address of the conference was given by Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman CII.

Dr. M S Sahoo, Guest of Honour provided the details of progress achieved by NCLT, after being operational. He mentioned that Tribunals and Judiciary play a crucial role in implementation of IBBI practices. He also mentioned that IBBI is for rescuing the failing organizations.

Mr. Injeti Srinivas, Chief Guest of the Conference, assured that IBBI machinery is in place and it seeks for optimum utilization of resources by corporate.

Mr. Sanjay Gupta, President Institute of Cost Accountants of India, emphasized on more serious valuation and CAPEX Assessment. He also raised the need for more ethical environment for valuation.

First Interactive session was moderated by Mr. Bahram N Vakil and the panel comprised of KR Saji Kumar, ED, IBBI, Pallav Mahapatra, Deputy Managing Director, SARG, SBI and other panelists spoke on issues like, role of states, Classification of Creditors and responsibilities of Resolution professionals.

Second Session was Moderated by Mr. Gyaneshwar Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The panelists provide the details of selection procedure of Insolvency Professionals, teaching, training and execution of updated curriculum to develop competent Insolvency Professionals.

Third Session was moderated by Shailendra Singh and the panelists discussed the global practices followed at world wide level.

The event ended with the valedictory session. It was a great learning experience for the participants.

Five concurrent sessions happened during the entire day Conference. Management session was chaired by Dr. Santosh Rangnekar, Professor, IIT Roorkee, Dr. Santosh Dhar, Dean- Faculty of Doctoral Studies & Research and Dr. D. K. Mandal, Professor, SVVV, Indore.

The paper got published in book titled “DIVERSE, DIVERGENT AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH - Contemporary Issues” published by Excel Publications, New Delhi with ISBN Number 978-93-86724-67-0.

The conference was a good learning experience and was focused on Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development.

Five concurrent sessions happened during the entire day Conference. Management session was chaired by Dr. Santosh Rangnekar, Professor, IIT Roorkee, Dr. Santosh Dhar, Dean- Faculty of Doctoral Studies & Research and Dr. D. K. Mandal, Professor, SVVV, Indore.

The paper got published in book titled “DIVERSE, DIVERGENT AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH - Contemporary Issues” published by Excel Publications, New Delhi with ISBN Number 978-93-86724-67-0.

The conference was a good learning experience and was focused on Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development.

This award was given by Trescon Global and supported by leading IT and Telecom companies. This award is conferred by TRESCON GLOBAL to IT Industry Professionals.

On this occasion many globally renowned experts and leading IT Professionals were present. This included

• Ms Danielle Di-Masi, Global Innovator & Media Commentator

  The Interactions Lab PTY LTD, Sydney, Australia,

• Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy,

  Chief Data Scientist - Halliburton,

• Mr. Nikhil Desai,

  International Speaker & Motivator,

• Mr. Ganpati Dandpani,

  Global Digital Transformation Leader & Global CIO - TVS,

• Mohd. Saleem, CEO - Trescon Global and over 250 CEOs, CIOs/ CTOs, CISOs of leading Companies.

During the event held at Mumbai, Dr. Pandey participated in various discussions and in a Panel Discussion. In the evening he was also a part of CIOs Round Table Discussions. During the discussions current state of affair in IT Industry, challenges & changing roles & responsibilities of CIOs & CTOs, how to prepare for future challenges in role of CIOs & CTOs in view of fast changing technologies, applications & processes and how to align it with the Industry objectives to keep it relevant and progressive.

The objective of the Summit was to provide a platform to discuss collective responsibility and exploring pathways towards gender inclusive outcomes.

The welcome address was delivered by Dr. Uddesh Kohli, Senior Advisor UNGC. Summit Overview was presented by Ms. Vaishali Sinha, Chairperson GES 2018 & Director, ReNew Power. Other eminent speakers in the Inaugural Session included Mr. N. Venkatram, Managing Partner & CEO Deloitte India, Ms. Lise Kingo, CEO, UNGC, New York (Video Presentation) and Ms. Nishtha Satyam, Deputy Representative, UN Women MCO for India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka.

Vote of Thanks was presented by Mr. Kamal Singh, Executive Director, UN GCNI.

The Summit had three plenary sessions – Plenary 1 was focused on “Gender Mainstreaming”. The discussion was based on the importance of Data collection and Approaches of various stakeholders for inclusion and progress of women. The session was moderated by Ms. Sangeeta Talwar, Managing Partner, Flyvision Consulting and the panelists were Ms. Renu Satti, CEO, Paytm Payments Bank, Mr. Abhimanyu Singh, Bank of America, Ms. Lakshmi Venkataraman, Founding trustee and Executive Vice President, Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust and Mr. Pradeep Nair, CEO & Regional Director, Ford Foundation for India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The selected case studies were also presented on Best Practices in Gender Equality.

Plenary 2 was on the theme “Accelerating and scaling gender specific initiatives”. The session was moderated by Dr. Shalini Sarin, SVP HR-BG Professional, CSR &BoP Leader-Lighting, Philips, Netherland and the panelists were Ms. Aloka Majumdar, Senior VP & Head of Corporate Sustainability, HSBC India, Ms. Bhavani Balasubramaniam, Partner & Diversity & Inclusion Leader, Deloitte India, Dr. Neelu Rohmetra , Director , IIM, Sirmaur and Dr. Shikha Sharma , Founder & Managing Director, Nutri-Health Systems Pvt Ltd.

The stories of women’s struggle for equality and the various dynamic initiatives undertaken for their advancement were shared by Ms Chetna Sinha, Founder, Mann Deshi Foundation and Ms. Shrishti Bakshi, Founder and Managing Director of Cross Bow Miles.

Plenary 3 was on the theme “Transition to Policy Development”. The session was moderated by Ms. Shweta Rajpal Kohli, Country Director, Govt. Affairs & Public Policy, India & South Asia, Salesforce and the panelists were , Ms. Gayathri Ramamurthy, HR Business Partner and D&I Lead, Capgemini, Ms. Neha Barjatya, CEO, Google Internet Saathi, Ms. Huzan Mistry, Strategic Business Head, National Stock Exchange, Ms. Nishtha Satyam, Deputy Representative UN Women MCO for India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka and Ms. Ratna Anjan Jena , Statistical Adviser, Ministry of Women and Child Development.

The Summit concluded with a Valedictory session and the Valedictory address was delivered by Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque, UNICEF Representative in India. The session focused on the learning from the previous sessions and the way forward to bring women participation in all spheres from board room and corporate offices to political arena.

The purpose of Workshop “Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (With main focus to Multi-Objective, Many-Objective and Bilevel Problems)” was to train the faculty members, researchers, industry delegates in the research trends in evolution of algorithms in real life applications, so that new dimensions of research and commercial products can be produced in an optimal way including different aspects of EAs.

The workshop was focused to promote scientific interchange among researchers and practitioners in all related areas of algorithms development and show the participants how the research applications can be developed and solved using these concepts.

In this workshop following speakers shared their knowledge and address the gathering:

• Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb

  Michigan State University,USA

• Prof. B. K. Panigrahi

  IIT Delhi

• Prof. Joydeep Dutta

  IIT Kanpur

• Dr. Ankur Sinha

  IIM, Ahmedabad

• Dr Dhish Kumar Saxena

  IIT, Roorkee

Research applications were discussed during the training, starting from the scratch. This method of training/delivery was insightful and interesting for participants.

In this workshop, 60 participants have attended workshop from different corners of India including J&K, Sikkim. Overall it was good insightful and interesting talk for participating delegates.

In this workshop, the students of B.Tech (CSE) and M.Tech (CSE) participated.

Data Science is an emerging area of research and development. In recent years, the demand of the professionals in the field has witnessed an exponential growth. It is going to play a pivotal role in the on-going AI revolution. The objective of the workshop was to provide the participants a hands-on exposure on Python programming and its applications in solving problems using machine learning and other approaches.

The day -1 of the workshop had sessions on basics of Python programming including data structures (lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets etc), control structures, iterations, creation of modules, introduction to Anaconda & Spyder, introduction to various packages for Data Science such as numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas, sklearn etc.

The day-2 of the workshop covered basics of machine learning including supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning. Overview of various data sets available for experimentation, analyzing and & visualizing data, application of KNN, LDA/PCA, SVM, Bayes Classification etc., evaluating different techniques, quality bench marks for machine learning such as confusion matrix, f1-score, recall value etc, introduction to deep learning etc. The workshop was concluded with a Q/A session on Data Science and future directions.

Workshop was very useful for the participants and it was highly appreciated by participants and the University administration.

The summit was organized by Department of Commerce and Industry, Government of India in association with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). The summit witnessed a varied participation from academia, corporate and Government officials. The inaugural session was graced with the presence of Honourable Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitely. Shri Arun Jaitely’s invigorating address covering key policies and issues provided a momentum for the day long discussions on Indo – Korean strategic business relations.

There were six sessions that were running simultaneously, covering Automobiles, Textiles, Food processing, Electronics system design & Manufacturing, skill Development (ESDM), Chemical and Technology and innovation (including start - ups).

The sessions focussed on the current policy and regulatory framework at central and state levels for creating an investment friendly environment for foreign companies. The representatives from different states talked about the initiatives taken up by them for providing an ease in doing business in their respective states.

Some of the eminent speakers were Mr. Anant Gangaram Geete, Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India, Dr. Asha Ram Sihag, Secretary, Department of Heavy Industry (DHI), Government of India, Mr. Nirmal K Minda, President, Automotive Component Manufacturers Associations of India (ACMA), Mr. Vikas Jain, Associate Vice President, Hyundai Motors India, Mr. Manohar Bhat, Head of Marketing & Sales KIA Motors India, Mrs Smriti Zubin Irani Minister for Textiles, Govt of India, Dr. Anant Kumar Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India, Ms. Mamta Verma, Industries Commissioner, Govt of Gujarat, Mr. Shin Dong Bin, Chairman, LOTTE Group, Mr. Varun Berry, Managing Director, Britannia Industries Ltd. , Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister for Electronics and Information technology, Government of India and Mr. Ranvijay Singh, Chief Marketing Officer, Samsung Electronics The future of Services.