Theme of this event was Digital India for Growth & Empowerment- Power to empower. Event started in the presence of dignitaries with the lamp lighting before Goddess Saraswati. Welcome address was delivered by Dr. R.K Agarwal, President GMA & Director AKG Engineering College, who briefed the audience about the achievements of GMA for the past academic year. Dr. Agarwal also sensitized the need of the hour, which is Digital India.

Keynote address was delivered by Sh. Anurag Batra, Chairman & Editor in Chief, BW Businessworld Media Group, who raised the very valid question of, whether India is ready for the Digital Era. Sh. Batra also recommended to watch the video “The Last Lecture” and introduced his book “8 days a week”.

Sh. Sameer Gupta, Chairman & MD, Jakson Group & Immediate Past Chairman, CII, U.P State, emphasized on nine pillars of Digital India. e-governance, e-Kranti, Cyber Security and e-justice were the key terms explained by him.

Inaugural session was followed by the high tea. First technical session was coordinated by Dr. A.K Puri, Director General, I.T.S Ghaziabad. This session focused on e-education & healthcare. Prof. Premvrat, pro-Chancellor, professor of Eminence and Chief Mentor, The NorthCap University, Gurgaon. Prof. Premvrat emphasized on e- enabled distance education and teahcer’s role as access facilitator for the learners.

Prof. S K Kak, Ex. Vice Chancellor, Mahamaya Technical University emphasized on the connectivity to all, by going beyond and knowing what is not known. Continuous education, teacher’s need sensitize students, identify and utilize “Dark Fiber” was highlighted by Dr. Kak.

Dr. Rajat Agarwal, HOD, Deptt. Of Critical Care Medicine, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, explained “Hub and Spoke” model of e learning, which was followed by the informative talk of Dr. Asit Khanna, Sr. Consultant, Cardiology, MAX Hospital, Vaishali, who informed aboutWhatsapp Doctors, NeHA, e- Mamta, National Health Portal (NHP) and HON (Health on Net) etc.

This session was followed by lunch. Second technical session was equally informative, which was coordinated by CA Mr. Anil Agarwal, CEO, Anil K & A Associates, Chartered Accountant. Mr. Vivek Madhukar, founder proper X Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Sandeep Kalia, Deputy Executive Director, Shriram Pistons & Rings Ltd., Mr. Chandrashekhar Tiwari, Senior MAanger, Siemens Ltd. Gurgaon were the eminent speakers of this session. Theme of this session was e- commerce and manufacturing.

Valedictory session on e-governance & Cyber Security was taken by distinguished guest, Mr. Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Cyber Security & Cyber Laws and Mr. Sanjay Bahl, DG, CERT, NIC, Min. of IT, New Delhi.

Mementos to sponsors and significant contributors were given as a token of remembrance. The thrill was added by announcement of winning chance of LENOVO laptop at the end of both the sessions. At the end of the program, vote of thanks was extended by Mr. Vinay gupta, Executive Director, GMA.

Prof. Anil Kalra, Dr. Abhinav P. Tripathi, Prof. Parul Gupta and Dr. Shuchita Singh from I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad attended the convention.

The objective of this FDP was to make faculties aware about various online free courses provided by NPTEL. It was a full day program started with a welcome note by Mr. Abhishek Jha (TCS, Mumbai) and followed by different virtual sessions connected to 14 TCS locations in different cities of India along with IIT Chennai. These 12 cities include: Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Chennai, Gandhi Nagar, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai,Noida, Nagpur,Nasik, Chandigarh and Pune.

The FDP was divided into four sessions. The details are as follows:

Session-1:

Topic: Introduction of NPTEL Online Certification Courses

Speakers:Prof. Andrew T, Senior Professor, IIT, Madras & Ms. BhartiBalaji, Sr. Project Manager, NPTEL

They discussed about the various online courses provided by NPTEL in association with NASCOM and IIT,Madras. They also emphasized on the registration of different courses by faculties and the students which are connected with them of different Universities/ Institutes of the country. He also mentioned that these courses are freely available for all learners.

Session-2:

Topic: Modern Application Development

Speakers:Prof. Gaurav Raina, IIT Madras and Mr. Tanmai Gopal, Hasura

While addressing the participants they discussed about the five modules of the Modern Application Development Course including Introduction to Internet, Building a WebApp, Databases, Performance &Security and Building a Mobile App. They also emphasized on the registration of various courses before 24th January, 2017.

Session-3:

Topic: Building Enterprise Class Application

Speakers:Mr. Sanjay A, TCS, Solution Architect, Banking & Financial Services, TCS

While addressing the participants he discussed about various phases of developing Enterprise Applications. He also covered the Financial Services included while developing the applications.

Session-4:

Topic: Digital Pathway of OBE

Speakers:Mr. Manigandan N, TCS

He also discussed about various issues of Financial Services and Security measures while developing an Application.

It was totally an interactive session where faculties from various universities and institutes of repute discussed about the various courses provided by NPTEL and also gave their suggestions to make these courses more aware among masses.

Overall it was a good learning experience about NPTEL online courses.

This workshop was conducted at Mlabs , Jankpuri New Delhi with support of Bit by Bit and Funstore , New Delhi , This workshop used hardware and sensors of Bit by Bit and used the services of Funstore for program writing.

The Instructor of this workshop was Dr. Gaurav Gandhi , Founder of MLabs. He had his complete team to support and guide us at any point of time in this workshop. This workshop was very interactive and demonstration based which covered the following topics as given below.

Day -1

• Fundamentals of Internet of Things
• Introduction of different IOT supporting hardware including Microcontrollers chips, Different kinds of sensors like light sensors , Ultrasonic Sensors etc.
• Introduction to Arduino Nano chip and his programming in c++ and Java Script.
• Programming in Java Script and C++ for ,Push Buttons , Rotary angular sensors ,Light sensors , Ultrasonic Sensor, Temperature and humidity sensors etc
• Demonstration of combination of more than two Sensors on Arduino Nano chip

Day -2

• Fundamentals of Arduino Uno Chip and its advantages over Arduino Nano chip
• Introduction of different IOT supporting sensors for Arduino Uno Chip
• Introduction to Arduino Uno chip and his programming in c++ and Java Script.
• Programming in Java Script and C++ for ,Push Buttons , Rotary angular sensors ,Light sensors , Ultrasonic Sensor, Temperature and humidity sensors etc
• Demonstration of combination of more than two Sensors on Arduino Uno chip
• Fundamentals of Raspberry Pi Chip and its working

Day -3

• Introduction of different IOT supporting sensors for of Raspberry Pi Chip
• Basic commands of Raspberry Pi Chip
• Programming in Python for Raspberry Pi
• Programming in Python for Raspberry Pi chip using sensors like Push Buttons , Rotary angular sensors ,Light sensors , Ultrasonic Sensor, Temperature and humidity sensors etc.
• Demonstration of combination of more than two Sensors on Arduino Uno chip
• Programming in Python to store the device or sensor data on web using Dweet and Datadrop web services.
• Running analytics on stored data Dweet and Datadrop services.

This workshop was fully demonstration based and gave us the fair idea about the IOT sensors and their integration through C++, JavaScript and Python programming. It was really a nice learning experience and full of learning.

The theme of the digital marketing seminar was on Driving ROI through Performance Based Marketing.

The broad agenda of the seminar was as below:

• Basics of Digital Marketing for Education Institutes
• Using Online Medium to Maximize Reach of your institute amongst students
• Decoding Terms like – SEM, SEO, GDN, Leads, Branding, YouTube, etc. – What do they mean. And how much should you pay ?
• Formulating and maximizing online marketing plans
• How to efficiently track your Digital Media spends
• Understanding the Best Practices through case study discussions

There were two sessions of the event. In first session the speaker from the Google, Ms. Meenakshi Singh enlightened the importance of Digital Marketing for the educational institutions in current era. Ms. Singh started here presentation with a voice search feature of the Google i.e OK Google which is very powerful search tool by voice and widely used by all segments of the users. Then she discussed on growing trends of users from desktop to mobile world. There is significant growth of users who either switched or switching to mobile from desktop searching for their day to day usage. She also focused on RSLA-Remarketing Lists of Search Ads, Google Ad words, Google Data, Bidding Up, Page load index, etc. The conclusion of this session was that as an educational institute, it should put more focus on mobile users for targeted aspirants for business point of view.

The second session was hosted by Mr. Dwij Seth from HT Campus. Mr. Seth focused on importance HT campus collaboration with Google for benefits of digital marketing to users. He demonstrated the new enhanced portal of HT Campus with so many new features with better look and feel. Mr. Bhuwan from HT Campus supported during session of Mr. Dwij. The HT Campus team discussed on various types of digital marketing and it importance. The HT Campus team talked about the complete life cycle of digital marketing that how an educational institute each to its intended users, how users cloud be engaged for more time on the websites, and finally how these leads can be converted to the desired results. The second session was concluded by Mr. Ajay Arora from HT Campus with some facts and figures and case studies of digital marketing.

In the beginning of the Session Head Mistress of DPS Ghaziabad welcomed Dr. Pandey. In his address, Dr. Pandey spoke on Current Technological Trends to make students aware as how Information Technology is helping the organizing, individual and societal development. Dr. Pandey also explained the security concerns that everyone needs to understand and follow to ensure that they use the technology, applications, specifically the Social Media Applications like Facebook which are very popular among the young kids.

Earlier the Head Mistress of DPS Ghaziabad and Coordinator of the event Ms. Shweta Pathak welcomed and felicitated him.

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 “An Empirical Framework for 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. (Dr.) Ravi Sankar (IIT Delhi), Prof. (Dr.) M. K. Tiwari (IIT Kharagpur) and Prof. S.G. Deshmukh (Director- ABV IIITM Gwalior).

This three day international conference was organized by Society of Operations Management at ABV-IIITM Gwalior Campus.

The workshop was organized with the objective to equip the research scholars with the necessary skills to carry out research effectively in the various disciplines so as to produce high quality of articles, research papers, thesis and books. The workshop was designed to offer not only the conceptual basis and theory for research but also the qualitative and quantitative research methods, also covering the data analysis packages useful in research. There were 109 registrations for the participants across various disciplines in areas such as engineering, medical and management.

On day one the workshop commenced with registration and formal inaugural function with welcome address by Dr. Rajan Yadav, Head Delhi School of Mangement, Delhi Technological University and Presidential Address by Prof. Yogesh Singh, Vice Chancellor Delhi Technological University. The Chief Guest for the session was Prof. Shyam B. Menon, Vice Chancellor, Ambedkar University. Vote of thanks was presented by Prof. G.C. Maheshwari, Delhi School of Management, DTU. Thereafter there was session by Prof. G.C. Maheshwari on Introduction to ‘Research and Research Ethics’, then a session on Art of Research Paper Writing & Literature Review by Prof. S.K. Garg, Pro-VC, DTU and the last session for the day was by Prof. Anil Singh on ‘Research Design’. Day 2 sessions were on ‘Scale Construction-Questionnaire Design, Reliability and Validity Analysis’ by Dr. V.P. Singh, Associate Professor, NCERT; ‘Techniques of Data Collection’ by Dr. Shikha N. Khera, DSM-DTU; Factor Analysis by Dr. A.R. Rao, Principal Scientist, IASRI. Day 3 sessions were on Sampling-Types, Size, Techniques by Dr. Rajan Yadav, DSM, DTU; Hypothesis Formulation & Testing by Prof. P.K. Suri, DSM, DTU, Differences of Means, Anova, Chi Square, Regression and Correlation by Prof. P.K. Suri, DSM, DTU. Day 4 sessions were on Theoretical Framework for Research by Prof. Sushil, IIT Delhi and Structural Equation Modelling by Prof. H.K. Dangi, Associate Professor, FMS, DU. Day 5 also continued with Structural Equation Modelling and hands on session on AMOS and Smart PLS softwares. Thereafter Valedictory Session was held wherein the brief of all the sessions was provided by Dr. Shikha N. Khera, DSM, DTU, thereafter there was address by Chief Guest by Prof. Anil K. Tyagi, Vice Chancellor, IP University and address by Prof. Yogesh Singh, Vice Chancellor DTU and Vote of Thanks by Prof. G.C. Maheswari, DSM, DTU followed by brief feedback session from the participants and finally giving certificates to the participants.

The paper was authored by Prof. Vijesh Jain.

The conference is part of a series of similar conferences held at GIBS on an annual basis. The theme of the 7th conference was – Global Information and Business Strategies. A number of research scholars and academicians participated in the conference and presented their papers. The highlight of the conference was the keynote address during the inaugural of the conference by Prof. S.P. Mishra, who discussed about changing environment of Human Resources Management domain.