Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey was invited as a panelist and to receive the Data Center Summit & Awards for “Capacity Management” of ICT Infrastructure & Facilities at I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad.

Dr. Pandey was invited as a panelist in one of the sessions based on the theme “The Growth of Software Defined Architecture and Data Centers” The focus of the discussion was on the fact that Data Centers are in a state of flux due to emerging technologies and user requirements. Whether we have in-house data center, plan to collocate or have a hybrid strategy in place, how they look, feel and perform in future. The discussion included different perspectives including elements like computer storage & network to be Software defined, the value of Software Defined Storage in the Data Center, How will software-defined architecture dominate the future data centers, disaggregated rack-scale server architecture, Large-scale erasure-coding solutions, Exotic Architectures, New Storage Architecture an Reviewing and evaluating SDN Eco-Systems & Architecture for Deployment.

The CIOs, CTOs of leading organizations including Smasung, Tata Communications, KPMG, Cadila, PwC, Softvision, CMS, ApON, HCL Technologies, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bharti Axa, JK Cement, Adani Ports & SEZ, Essar Group, KPIT, Boehringer Ingelheim, globally renowned experts from leading Data Centers including Sify Data Centers, CtrlS, E.T.N,, Web Works, Cloud Enabled etc were also present in the event.

The Award Ceremony was organized in which he selected for Data Center Summit & Awards – 2017 for “Capacity Management” of ICT Infrastructure, services & facilities and at I.T.S, Ghaziabad.

The FDP was divided into 16 sessions and 4 open discussion sessions which were delivered by the eminent speakers to cover the various aspects of Information Systems Frontiers.

Day 1

Inauguration session was held in the first half of the day 1. After that Prof.SubhashBhalla has discussed about the topic “Exploring Scientific Data Set Archives”.

Mr. Gaurav Saxena in his talk discussed about “Digital Philosophy and Its Impact on Society”. The talk was the summarization of hisown readings and ruminations of academicians & scientists who have used the language of science and technology to comment on the ancient philosophical questions posed by humans when faced with evil, suffering and their mortality. He discussed the effect of information technology on society, for the better and worse.

The focus of the talk on“Role of Mobile Computing Systems in Information Era” delivered by Dr. K. Rajlakshmi is how mobile computing targets to narrow down the gap of computing by bringing computer communications to areas without preexisting infrastructure and enable mobility along with new applications. She discussed in her talk about recent advancements in mobile technologies, various issues/solutions in mobile computing and the amalgamation of mobile computing in other aspects of computation technologies like cloud computing & pervasive computing.

Day 2

A session on “Cognitive Informatics” was delivered by Prof. Krishna Asawa. In her talk she discussed about the mechanism of the cognitive process operate in the human mind for building Cognitive Information System. She elaborated on how the cognitive data analysis and interpretation models make it possible to extract new, extremely significant information i.e. semantic information from the analysed data sets. With the help of a case study on Biometric Information System she has shown how semantic interpretations uncovers deep layers of information for the person conducting the analysis process and extend the attempts of traditional data interpretation whose end result is recognizing the analyzed object, feature, information or data.

Dr. Parmeet Kaur talked about “NoSQL for Big Databases”. She has discussed the need of the development and adoption of a new class of non-relational databases, referred to as NoSQL databases. She has shown how the requirement of database for the modern day information systems being distributed, scalable, voluminous, unstructured and open source is the impetus for the accelerated rise of the NoSQL. She introduced one database from each of the four main NoSQL data models (key-value, column family, document, and graph), along with case studies that highlight the needs that drive the development and use of each database model with the criteria that decision makers should consider while making a choice of the database most suited to the information system being developed.

A session on the topic “Sensor fusion for Ubiquitous Information Systems” is taken by Dr. Sangeeta Mittal. In her talk she highlighted our future dependency on sensors based Ubiquitous Information Systems. She discussed the sensors are the integral part of such information systems. She discussed in detail various level the data fusion methods and inferencing required to handle inherent characteristics like redundancy, heterogeneity, uncertainty, imprecision and volume, of the data from sensor sources with fusion models and architecture.

Day 3

Dr. MukeshSaraswat has discussed the concepts of the “Deep Learning” for information classification and understanding. He has shown how multiple processing layers to learn the representations of data with multiple levels of abstraction can significantly enhanced the state-of-the-art in visual object recognition, speech recognition, object detection and many other domains such as drug discovery and genomics. The complete process was explained with the help of a case study on image classification.

Dr. MuktaGoel in her talk on “E-learning” emphasize that E-learning systems can handle the time and space problems through web based learning environment to gain knowledge anywhere at any time in an efficient manner. She elaborated E-learning architecture which consist of different type of agents can impact on teaching and learning process. She has discussed how E-learning systems embraced and benefitted by the different type of tools such as E-mail, audio chat, online forum etc., which allow learner to study at their own pace. She mentioned that automated processes for different learning styles and different method of assessing the learner to personalize the learning could improve learner’s performance.

Day 4

Dr Shelly Sachdeva in her talk on the topic “Health Care Informatics” discussed the various facets of health care informatics. Recent advances in location tracking technologies have led to an explosion in the availability of trajectory data. Dr.SayanRanu in his Talk on “Trajectory Analytics” discussed that the way trajectories are collected today has undergone a dramatic shift, which has rendered existing techniques ineffective. He mentioned majority of the trajectory data today is generated as a by-product of another service e.g detail records from telecom operators, social network check-ins, credit card transactions, geo-tagged photo albums, and smart phone messaging apps etc. Consequently, there is no quality control and these datasets are noisy, inconsistently sampled, multi-modal, and highly dynamic. He discussed the research efforts made by himself that seeks to bridge the gap- data-rich but informationally poor world.

Dr. Shikha Mehta mentioned in her talk on “Frontiers in Streaming Data Analytics” that the data generated in this interconnected world where "smart" devices allow things and people to be connected from anyplace, anytime, with anything and anyone loses its value if it is not exposed and acted upon instantly. She mentioned critical challenges is using such data when it is in motion and extracting valuable information from it. In her talk she discussed on the state of art, problems and prospects in streaming data analytics.

Day 5

Around the globe people are trying to find out patterns in the data. Whether it is business intelligence, healthcare, defence and research, we need patterns to make good analysis.The session conducted by Mr. PulkitMehndiratta on “Predictive Analysis through R language” provided the current state of the art of predictive analysis and the processes of prediction through practical demonstration using R programming language.

Mr. Ashish discussed the architecture of map reduce with some practical demonstration to illustrate the concept of “Parallel clustering using Hadoop”. He has also discussed how Hadoop architecture can be used to in data mining to handle large scale data with k-means algorithm.

As we know there is no field that has been left untouched by cloud computing and at the rate data is growing today, it's not surprising that cloud storage is also growing in popularity. Mr. ShariqMurtuzain the talk entitled “Cloud Storage Architecture”discussed about the different public/private cloud models that are being deployed across the industry to serve the customers their required data efficiently and effectively. He has shown how the companies like Amazon and Google leverage the cloud to deliver their YouTube and other video content seamlessly all across the globe. He has also explored the technologies like CDNs and Internet Peering that enable such large scale information systems to work flawlessly using Any casting and Software Defined Networks methods.

Over the past two decades, dramatic improvement in computing efficiencies and hardware costs have made cyber and IoT systems omnipotent, and control many aspects of human lives. However, information assurance in a smart world environment is extremely important because of the indispensable dependency of the cyber systems’ performance on the operations and safety of a smart world. Dr. ArunBalaji examined in his talk on “Information Assurance for Smart World Environments”certain critical areas in smart world environments, which require security hardening. In addition, he explored thechallenges of providing sufficient security in such an environment and current state of the art that addresses some of these challenges. Future research directions to meet the unmet challenges in these critical areas were also discussed.

Day 6

No information system cannot be made to put into practice until unless its performance is not ascertain. Mr. Sanjeev Patel in his talk on “Performance Evaluation Methodology to Computing Systems” discussed how to select appropriate evaluation techniques, performance metrics and workloads for a system testing. A Systematic Approach to performance evaluation and commonly used performance metrics was demonstrated by him with the help of a case study.

In addition to these lecture sessions, four open discussions sessions were held on the topic –

• How to Leverage the Benefits of IoT for Growing India By Mr. Nilesh and Hardik
• Impact of Immigration Policy on Indian IT Sector : Is it Boon or Threat By Sudhanshu
• Impact of Social Networking On Lives of Us: Are We Together Or Far by Dr. Vidushi Singh
• How Safe Our Digital Economy from Cyber Attacks By Mr. ShariqMurtuza

On this occasion, Prof. Qamar Ahsan, globally renowned economist & Honorable Vice Chancellor, Magadh University, Bodhgaya, Prof. K.N. Paswan - Honorable Pro- Vice Chancellor of Magadh University, Dr. A.K. Nayak - National Secretary of CSI and other eminent personalities, Scientists and experts were also present.

On Day-2 Prof. Rakesh Roshan and Prof. Abhay Ray conducted a Workshop on “Mobile Applications Development using Android”.

The Objective of this Conclave was to bring together myriad educators teaching environment and sustainability in the Delhi NCR region to make an impactful contribution in educating the next generation for sustainable development. The conclave was to deliberate and articulate ideas on how academia could contribute to a pursuit of better living conditions in the Delhi NCR region whilst creating meaningful and enduring employment opportunities.

In the Starting, Dr. Seema, Convener has presented Overview, Concept, Objectives and Outcomes presentation on the theme of Conclave. In this Conclave, Session Chairs Prof. Sarita Nanda, Prof Sarita Ghai, from University of Delhi and Prof. Amit Lahiri from Jindal Global University were present. Prof. Sydney Robero, University of Delhi, Prof. Radhey Shyam Sharma, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi have moderated the Conclave. The concept was to create a collaborative consortium of academia, community, policy, and industry with academia playing a pivotal role.

It was overall good experience.

Dr Umang spoke on “Adhoc Networks and FANET”.

The session had witnessed the participation of young faculty members and researchers from renowned colleges and universities. In this session, Dr. Umang has discussed on various communication technologies and its impact on different real life applications. While discussing about proliferation of technologies, She has presented a detailed discussion on Adhoc networks, Vehicular Adhoc Networks & FANETs and its empirical research issues.

Overall it was a great learning experience to interact, share views & thoughts and solve queries raised during the session.

Earlier, Coordinator of the event Dr. Vishal Jain welcomes and felicitated her.

In this function Prof. Pandey was awarded with Top-100 CISO Platform "Special Recognition Award of India's Top IT Security Influencers & Community Contributors" during its Decision Summit-2017. Prof. Pandey was also nominated as a member of CISO Platform’s Task Force Team to promote Awareness about Cyber Security among schools & colleges. This 02-days event was full of amazing learning, wonderful exposure and a great networking. This provided an unique opportunity to meet with over 250 Top Cyber Security Professionals, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs.

Prof. Pandey was also nominated as a Member of Task Force on Creating Awareness about Cyber Threat, Security & Safe uses of ICT & Promoting it among kids & Schools. Prof. Pandey addressed the gathering of Cyber Security experts on day-2 of the event. The talk was well appreciated by the experts present. He was also formally included as a Member of CISO Platform and was requested to contributed articles and research initiatives on CISO Platform. Prof. Pandey has contributed as Article on CISO Platform which is now available at CISO Platform’s official Website. The Task Force of CISO Platform to create a framework for promoting, educating & Empowering School Kids & young students on Cyber Security". Other eminent members of this Task Force includes:

During the event also meet with global experts including - Daniel Schneersohn, Vice President (Asia Pacific & Japan), Core Security, Hong Kong, Mr. Sandeep Puri, Country Director (Technology), Gurucul, Mr. Upkar SIngh, Director (Technology) - FIS Global Group and many more.

During these two days various activities were organized in which Top Cyber Security Experts, CISOs, CTOs and CIOs participated. These included:

• Task Force Constitution, Framework creation & Presentations
• Playbook Round Tables
• Experience & views sharing by experts from Industry, CISOs, CTOs and Cyber Scurity Researchers and experts
• Tabletop Wargames
• Panel Discussions
• Discussion on Case Studies on Cyber Security
• Sessions on Threat Hunting
• Community Roundtables

Overall a great learning, participating and working experience. It was a great opportunity to meet, interact with over 200 CISOs, CIO & Technology Experts from all the domains - IT, Core Software Companies, Banking Organization, Insurance Companies, Manufacturing, Cyber Security and many others. Great to address the gathering of such experts of the Country & abroad, part of a Task Force Team and of course to be honored on such a platform as Top-100 Most influencers in Cyber World. Thanks to the Management of my Institute to allow with full freedom to conceptualize, plan, implement and keep working our system up-to-date, my faculty colleagues for their all time support, friends, Alumni and students.

The conclave was organized byFederation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Thisone day discussion forum was divided into multiple sessions which covered different dimensions related to the idea of Governance and how India can learn from Global experiences.

Session 1: Inaugural

Panelists-

• MrSidharth Birla, Past President, FICCI
• Prof RajendraSrivastava, Dean, Indian School of Business
• Mr Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog (Chief Guest)
• Dr A Didar Singh, Secretary General, FICCI

The discussion in the session focused on how India can improve delivery of public services and what are the steps being taken by the central government currently. Mr.Amitabh Kant discussed in detail the methods being adopted by the government to push states for better performance in civic governance related issues.

Session 2 on Citizen Engagement And Innovation:Enablers Of An Open And Inclusive Governance

Panelists

• Mr ArunMaira, Former Member, Planning Commission of India
• Mr Daniel J Chenok, Executive Director, IBM Center for The Business ofGovernment
• Dr AnupamKhanna, Former Chief Economist and Director General of Policy Outreach and Chief Economist, National Association of Software andService Companies (NASSCOM)
• Prof Rajeev Malhotra, Executive Director, Centre for Development and Finance, School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal GlobalUniversity
• Mr K Padmanabhaiah, Chairman, Administrative Staff College of India
• Mr Pawan Chopra, Former Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
• Dr Julia Glidden (Ms), General Manager, Global Public Services, IBMCorporation
• Mr AnanthaSayana, Vice President & Head Digital, Larsen & ToubroConstruction

Panel discussed the role of open data, fiscal transparency, co-creation ofservices, citizen engagement with government and with civil society, andapproaches to innovation. Focus was on related social issues facing national,state, and local governments in India and how citizens can be involved in creating larger participation and better governance.

Session 3 on-From Data To Insights:Collaborating Across Agencies In The Use Of Analytics In E-Government

Panelists

• Prof Prajapti Trivedi, Faculty Chair, Management Programme in Public Policyand Senior Fellow (Governance), Bharti Institute of Public Policy; AdjunctProfessor of Public Policy, Indian School of Business
• Mr John Kamensky, Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business ofGovernment
• Dr B K Gairola, Adviser (IT), Warehouse Development andRegulatory Authority and formerly Member Secretary, NationalInnovation Council
• Dr Deepa Mani (Ms), Associate Professor and Research Fellow;Executive Director, SriniRajuCenter for IT and the NetworkedEconomy, Indian School of Business.
• Dr PronabSen, Former Chief Statistician of India
• Dr B S Ghuman, Professor, Department of Public Administration, PanjabUniversity
• Ms ManinderKaurDwivedi, Adviser, NITI Aayog

Panel discussed examples of how government agencies currently use and can improve on technology to workacross agency boundaries, using data and analytics to help focus and set priorities for action.

Session 4 on Business Of Government: Learnings From Global Experiences

Panelists

• Mr.Daniel J Chenok, Executive Director, IBM Center for the Business ofGovernment
• Mr John Kamensky, Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business ofGovernment
• Dr Nivedita P Haran (Ms), Director, Centre for Innovations in PublicSystems

The Panel elucidated on how the IBM Centre for the Business of Governmenthelp support management improvement efforts in the US and in New Zealand and what could be themodel for such a forum in India.

Day – 1

Inaugural Session of CII Annual Meet started with the speech of Mr Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Defense, Government of India, as Chief Guest.

Next talk was based on Transformational Journey - the Madhya Pradesh Story. The session was Chaired by Mr. Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice President, Confederation of Indian Industry in conversation, with Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Chauhan mentioned the improved irrigation system, river linking system, reduced cost and increased productivity in agriculture. Development of affordable housing, scholarship schemes, government backed education loan, development of state tourism were also mentioned by him.

The session was followed by the session on Smart Railways: The New Vision, which focused on Indian Railways which has initiated a wide-ranging reforms agenda with a spend of Rs.8.5 lakh crore, administrative restructuring, high-speed rail and overseas investments in railway manufacturing. Moderator of this session was Mr Siddharth Zarabi, Executive Editor, BTVI. Mr Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Railways, Government of India.

Next session on Financial Markets & Corporate Governance was based on need of well-functioning of financial markets and good corporate governance as pillars of economic growth. The roadmap to further strengthen financial markets and corporate governance was discussed with the moderation of Mr. Leo Puri, Managing Director, UTI Asset Management Company Limited, Mr. Ajay Tyagi, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). This session was followed by the session Building the Indian Company of the future, which was based on how India’s entrepreneurs are leading its growth and deepening its overseas footprint. The innovative and responsible approach in the changing world. Mr. Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds Technologies Private Limited and Mr. Baba N Kalyani, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Forge Ltd participated in the session.

Post lunch session on Is India’s Civil Aviation Geared for India’s Aspirations, was based on Is India is slated to be the fastest growing aviation market in the world, and has the outline and comprehensive agenda to drive growth through fast and cheap regional connectivity under the UDAN scheme, feasible and viable. The session Moderator was Ms. Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC, Mr. Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Government of India and Mr Phee Teik Yeoh, Chief Executive Officer, TATA SIA Airlines Limited. Minister promised to develop more airports for better regional connectivity, cost effectiveness of airlines as well.

Redefining CSR in a Global Economy, was the theme of next session. In which the concept of corporate social responsibility, which is mandated for certain Indian companies. India on the road to redefining CSR for the world was also discussed by Mr. T V Narendran, Managing Director, TATA Steel Limited with Prof. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

India’s Meta-Challenges and Solutions was the theme of next session, which explored India’s meta economic challenges ,changing societal ideas, developing shared narratives and evolving solutions with larger buy-in from stakeholders. Cooperative and competitive federalism was also identified as a necessity for a diverse country like India. Moderator of this session was Ms. Supriya Shrinate, Chief Editor (News and Policy), ET Now, Dr. Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Mr. Vinayak Chatterjee, Chairman, Feedback Infra Private Limited.

Changing Landscape of Urban Spaces, focusing on Fundamental shifts in transforming Indian cities, frameworks and proposed outcomes of urbanization, ambitious rejuvenation programs by Government and other emerging themes for debate were – Ensuring sustainable & inclusive urbanization; undertaking long overdue urban reforms; and institutionalizing citizen engagement. Session Moderator was Mr. Vikram Chandra, Consulting Editor and Anchor, NDTV 24X7, Dr. Kiran Karnik, Director - Central Board of Directors, Reserve Bank of India and President - Governing Council, India Habitat Centre, Mr. Sunil Mathur, Managing Director & CEO, Siemens Limited and Prof. Anne Feenstra, Dean - Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University were part of the session.

Session on Forces of Change in Post Crisis World discussed the lingering impact of the Global Financial Crisis which is still being felt in economies across the world. To deal with the same economies must additionally contend with technology advance also the drivers of the new global economy were also discussed. The session was chaired by Dr. Naushad Forbes, President, Confederation of Indian Industry and Dr. Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), Government of India and Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Enterprises participated.

In last two sessions for the day, Is India Inc Future ready: Jobs & Technology and Future of Manufacturing was discussed by eminent speakers.

Day – 2

The session was based on the theme of Executive, Legislature & Judiciary: Tripod of Effective Governance. Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman, Hero Corporate Services Limited chaired the session. Mr. N.K Singh, Former Member of Parliament and Mr. Fali Nariman, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India. Panelist had a brain storming session and shared their concerns on appointment of judges, much involvement of governance than government in passing the legislature, giving more powers to CAG, passing structured reforms in parliament in speedy manner and to give a relook to complete sovereign.

In the very interesting session on Politics for an India leading the World Is India’s noisy democracy a global paradigm?, Ms. Supriya Sule, Member of Parliament, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Mr. D Raja, Member of Parliament, Communist Part of India, Mr. Deepender Singh Hooda, Member of Parliament, Indian National Congress (INC) and Mr. Sambit Patel, Spokesperson BJP, participated in the dabate and mentioned the need of a vocal and expressive democracy, in which all different parties should work as a group for the development of nation. Need of Social, Economic and Political justice and following a humanitarian approach towards citizens of India is also need for the development of all classes of society in India.

Post lunch session was based on the theme of New Age Entrepreneurship and Emerging Markets. This session was chaired by Mr. Uday Kotak, Executive Vice, Chairman & Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Private Limited in conversation, with Prof. Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School. Prof. Khanna mentioned key points for entrepreneurial concern, mainly as establishment of Indian brands globally, Intellectual Property Rights, evolving digital ecosystem and availability of venture capitalist. He also raised the need of change in the existing education system in India. Two major challenges for developing India are creation of jobs and development of Incubation centers.

Next session was on Future of Globalisation: Can India lead: Media Leaders Perspective. In this session, the role of media as a source of information and opinion, a watchdog, and a connector was discussed. Need of open and articulate media, its capacity to reengineer the forces of globalization was discussed by Mr. T N Ninan, Chairman and Editorial Director, Business Standard, Mr. Karan Thapar, Author & Columnist and Mr. Shekhar Gupta, Former Vice Chairman of the India Today Group.

Valedictory Session was graced by the presence of Mr. Anand Sharma, Deputy Leader of Congress Parliamentary Party (RS).