The event was organized in New Delhi during 27.12.2017 - 02.01.2018 at Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. The Workshop was inaugurated by Honorable Justice Dalveer Bhandari, International Court of Justice. Dr. Pandey took Session on "Winning Edge through Information Technology: Latest Trends in Information Technology with Hands-On".

The purpose of the session was to discuss the results of a survey carried out by post doctoral students under the aegis of ICRIER.

At first Dr Rajat Kathuria, Director and CE, ICRIER, highlighted the results of the study. He pointed out that while freelancing is an activity in which various sections of society were involved. As Dr Kathuria summarised, the online freelancing ecosystem had expanded to encompass a variety of skills, work type and commitment to freelancing. It facilitated the involvement of a signficant cohort of informal labour in India, particularly women. He stressed on the need for including freelancing as a part of labour policy design. He also referred to the necessity for building awareness and correcting perceptions through the concerted participation of multiple stakeholders.

The next speaker was Ms. Helani Galpaya, the CEO of LIRNEasia. She spoke on another survey carried out in India by her own organisation. This survey was more comprehensive and wide ranging in terms of both the issues covered as well as the respondents accessed. The focus was on a more micro view with the individuals being interviewed for assessing their outlook towards online freelancing as a remunerative activity.

Finally a panel discussion on the existing status of online freelancing in India and the way forward was held, with the participants being Mr Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Info Edge, Mr R.Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM, Mr Manish Kumar, MD and CEO, National Skill Development Council, and Dr Harsha Vardhana Singh, Executive Director, Brookings India. The discussion was moderated by Dr Kathuria.

It was a interesting and eye opening session on the diverse aspects of a virgin area like freelancing. Everybody gained some unique insights based on the preceding interactions.

The conference saw a great gathering of wonderfully acclaimed speakers throughout the world. This conference was devised to create a platform for discussion on the current and contemporary issues on Supply Chain Management, E- Business, Process Excellence, Optimization and Operations Management. The conference had also allowed the participants to discuss current and pressing issues with senior level executives and academicians from different countries.

On the behalf of I.T.S- Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad; Prof. Alok Singh has participated among the elite galaxy of eminent scholars and presented his research paper titled “A Critical Review on Supply Chain Performance Evaluation of Perishable Products in India”. More than 100 quality research papers across the world were submitted by different area experts in their different domain of expertise. The conference was inaugurated with benign presence of Prof. Pankaj Chandra (Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University), Prof. Peeyush Mehta (IIM Calcutta), Mr. Aamir Akhtar (CEO, Denim Fabrics of Arvind Ltd.) and Prof. Devanath Tirupati (Dean, Amrut Mody School of Management).

This three day international conference was organized by Society of Operations Management at Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad.

Android Developer Fundamentals is an instructor-led course created by the Google Developers Training team. Developers taking the course learn basic Android programming concepts and build a variety of apps, starting with Hello World and working their way up to apps that use content providers and loaders.

Ms. Simmi Anand corporate trainer was the resource person for the training.

The course materials included:

A practical workbook: Android Developer Fundamentals Course—Practicals

Unit 1: Get started

This unit covers installing Android Studio, understanding project structure, building first app, creating activities, testing apps, and using the Android Support Library.First, One can deploy a simple Hello World app. One can go on to create an app with a simple activity, and then One can create a multi-screen app that passes data between activities. One can also learn how to use the Android Support Library to provide backward-compatibility with earlier versions of the Android system for app.

Unit 2: User experience

This unit covers how to get input from the user, implement navigation strategies, use themes and styles, test user interface, and follow Material Design principles.

One can create apps that use menus and tabs for navigation, and input controls such as spinners and picker dialogs to get information from the user. One can learn how to extract resources to create a style from an instance of a user interface element. One can write an app that displays a word list in a recycler view (and One can learn why it's better to use a recycler view than a plain scrolling list).One can also build a score-keeping app to explore Material Design guidelines.

Unit 3: Working in the background

This unit covers how to do background work, how to schedule tasks, and how to trigger events. It covers the performance implications of executing work in the background, as well as best practices for reducing battery drain. One can learn how Android determines which apps to keep running and which to stop when resources run low.

One can write an app that connects to the Internet in a background thread to find the author of any book. One can also build apps that send notifications and schedule tasks, and One can learn how to implement scheduling functionality for apps that run on earlier versions of Android.

Unit 4: All about data

This unit is all about data. It covers how to store data, update it, query it, load it, and make it available outside app.

One can build a word list and store the words in a database. To understand content providers, One can build a minimal content provider app. Then One can add a content provider to the word list app to provide an interface for querying and updating the list. One can finish by creating a separate app that uses a loader to load the word list via the content provider.

Unit 5: What's next?

This unit covers permissions, app performance, and security best practices. It explains how to run a trial of app so family and friends can try it out.

This unit also introduces some of the many additional Android features that you can add to your app, and explains how to publish your app in Google Play.

It was a great learning experience with hand on lab instructions and practical work in android developer studio.

The report was presented by Lucas Chancel, Co- Director, World Inequality Lab & World Wealth and Income Database, Paris School of Economics. Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, ICRIER delivered the welcome address. This session was followed by a lively enlightening exposure on the report by Mr. Lucas Chancel, the general coordinator of the report on economics terminologies like fiscal deficit, private economy, public economy, market economy in the context of the central term of inequality and wealth. This report has been prepared in eight languages of the world including Hindi and is accessible online. This useful report focuses on the dynamics of global income inequality. It also offers insights into employability related to skill levels. The parameters employed in the report were subjected to both endorsement and critiques by the guests.

The panel discussion by three distinguished panellists following the report presentation was chaired by Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Director& CE, ICRIER. The panellist Dr. Pronav Sen of International Growth Centre, threw light on issues related to fiscal deficit, micro finance and taxation. The panellist Dr. Himanshu of JNU, talked about Government’s recent initiatives which have served to bridge the inequality gap. Mr. Sandeep Chachhra of Action Aid discussed issues relating to industry requirement. This panel discussion was followed by vibrant question answer and comment session. Dr. Rajat Kathuria gave the concluding remarks.

The workshop was organized by Bennett University, Gr Noida in association with IEEE Computer Society.

The big data analytics and deep learning are the demanding areas of research and development. The breakthroughs in these areas has been very promising therefore they are attracting the attention of the researchers. Recently, deep learning has proved to be more accurate in solving a variety of pattern recognition problems.

The workshop was attended by around 100 international participants. The workshop had very renowned resource persons including Prof (Dr). K K Biswas(Rtd. Professor, IIT/D); Prof. (Dr) Deepak Garg, Dr. Rishav Singh, Dr. Sridhar Swami Nathan, and Dr Shubham Jain.

The workshop had a plentiful of practical exposure on various tools for Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning including programming languages like R & Python, and tools like Anaconda, Tensorflow, Stax, Cassandra, etc.

During the workshop, we also got the opportunity to visit the AI lab of Bennett University. They have procured nVidia GPU Supercomputer for Deep Learning and other complex tasks of AI. It was an amazing experience to see how Super Computer solves it all.

He received the award from Shri VS Parthasarthy, Group CFO & Group CIO - Mahindra & Mahindra. During the event he also participate in various activities including - Idea Cafe Session, Working with team on suggesting Solution Framework for a wonderful Case Study on Smart Cities, Workshops & and Round Table discussions. The process of selection was as sunder:

• Nomination - I was nominated by Shri Upkar Singh, Director (Technology) - Fidelity Global Services
• Feedback from 03 Persons (01 Colleague and 02 persons from Industry). My Feedback was taken from following: Colleague: Prof. Sauresh Mehrotra; Industry: 1. Shri Ravinder Arora - CTO, IRIS Software, 2. Shri Amit Chaudhary, Co-Founder- InMorphis
• Personality & Leadership Test
• Managerial Style Test
• Interviews by 02 Industry Leaders - 1. Shri Kamal Karnatak, Vice President, RJ Corp on 31.09.2017              2. Shri Kiran Chandra, Vice President – Technology, Johnson & Johnson 13.10.2017
• To take a Session on Pocket CIO Technology Framework - I took the Session at Hotel Pull Man, Aerocity, IGI Airport, New Delhi
• Combining the Score, Feedback and Session conducted, Interviews Results finally results were announced.

This conference also included WASME SME Excellence Awards to celebrate the Success Stories of worldwide SMEs who have scored big through innovative thinking, operational efficiency, futuristic strategies, smart marketing, business growth, contribution to employment generation and exports besides setting new benchmarks in product & service innovation. Total 12 awards was given in this event in which 9 awards secured by the Indian SMEs in field of Search engine optimization, Mobile application development, online share trading, Website hosting and services.

The Chief Guest of inaugural session of this event was Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Hon’ble Vice President, India and the Chief Guest of Second session was Mr. Shiv Pratap Shukla, Hon’ble Minister of State, Ministry of Finance , Government of Inda said that the small entrepreneurs across India deserve greater recognition for their significant contribution to the Indian economy. He also said, The SME sector plays a very important role in Indian economy, be it boosting growth rate or giving a push to exports and manufacturing. He also addressed the different schemes of Government of India about the funding to the SME sector and its supporting channels.

This conference was very useful and motivating a medium to make network with new companies and this conference was also useful for our students to know the different schemes of funding for SMEs to become successful entrepreneur.

I am attaching a copy of day-1 programme schedule for the ready reference .