The Summit witnessed a participation of around 225 delegates comprising of corporates, infrastructure companies, banks, insurance companies, financial intermediaries and merchant banks, AMCs, technology players in BFSI space, PEs & VCs, multilateral agencies, policy makers & regulators, finance professionals, debt syndicators, economists and academia. The Chief Guest for the Summit was Mr. Vinod Rai, Chairman, Banks Board Bureau, Government of India. He highlighted that the banks stressed assets are due to high leveraging by the borrowing companies. He also highlighted that the Banks Board Bureau is analysing these stress assets and will put forward an intermediary mechanism to settle them. RBI is also preparing guidelines on the issues faced in case of joint lending by banks. Mr. Rai was hopeful that all these will facilitate in cleaning the balance sheet of the banks. In this regard, a roadmap will be ready by 15th June so that a certain degree of comfort can be provided in the decision making process. Then there were four Panel Discussions with Panel Discussion I on ‘Linking the Unbanked Population to the Formal Banking System’.

The speakers for the panel were Mr. Rakesh Sethi, Executive Director, Union Bank of India; Ms. Ratna Vishwanathan, Chief Executive Officer, Microfinance Institutions Network; and Mr. Anuj Pandey, EVP & Regional Business Head-North, Religare Finvest Ltd. The session chair was Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman, NABARD. The Panel Discussion II was on ‘Enhanced Role of Technology & Applications in Banking and Financial Sector’. The panelists were Mr. Kiran Karnik, Former President, NASSCOM; Mr. Murli Mahalingam, Industry Director-Banking, SAP India Subcontinent; and Mr. Trilok Chandra, Director, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India; and Mr. Rajesh Dhuddu, Senior VP-Market Development, Quatrro Processing Service. The session moderator was Mr. Ravi Nawal, Country Head, Kapronasia in India. The Panel Discussion III was on ‘Financing the Infrastructure Gap: Role of Banks, Financial Institutions & Specialist Institutions’. The panelists were Mr. S.B. Nayar, Chairman and Managing Director, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd.; Mr. K. Mukundan, CEO UTI Capital Ltd.; and Mr. Sidharath Kapur, President and CFO-Airports, GMR Group. The Moderator for the panel was Mr. Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Consulting Editor, The Mint. The last Panel Discussion IV was on ‘Structural Reforms in the Indian Financial Sector’. The expert speakers for the session were Mr. Deepak Chatterjee, Managing Director & CEO, IIFCL Projects Ltd.; Mr. Nikhil Sahni, Secior President and Country Head, Government Banking & Strategic Government Advisory, YES Bank; Mr. A.K. Choudhary, Chief General Manager, Department of Banking Regulation, Reserve Bank of India; Mr. Naresh Makhijani, Partner and Head-Financial Services, KPMG India; and Mr. Krishnan Sitaraman, Senior Director, CRISIL Ratings.

The session was chaired by Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, Chairman & Managing Director, Rabo Equity Advisors Pvt. Ltd. The speakers deliberated on the various aspects of financial institutions and how their functioning can be made more effective at a fair cost with benefits to all sectors of the society. The speakers also stressed upon the need for a greater role of Micro Finance Institutions and NBFCs as they work at the grassroot level so that they compliment the formal banking channels in reaching out to the bottom of the pyramid. There was also a release of the CII - CRISIL Paper on ‘Building India through a Stronger Financial System’ was released during the Summit. The faculty members found the Summit very informative and insightful.

The summit was organized byASSOCHAM India. This one day conclave was divided into 2 sessions which covered different dimensions related to the idea of making India an innovative, creative, and inclusive superpower.

Session 1

Panelists-

• Mr. S. Ramakrishna- Co Chairman National Manufacturing Council of ASSOCHAM and President- Group Public Affairs Mahindra and Mahindra
• Mr. Ashutosh Chadha- VP and Head Corporate Affairs WIPRO
• Ms. Sudakshina Ghosh- Discreet manufacturing Industry Value Engineering lead SAP India
• Mr. Y.S. Chowdary- Honorable Minister of State for Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Govt. of India.
• Mr. D.S. Rawat- Secretary General ASSOCHAM

The discussion in the session focused on enhancing innovation and creativity and the policy requirement for the same. It also discussed the importance of focusing on funding the innovation to convert idea to investment. The value of building digital infrastructure and promoting low cost technology to realize the desired objectives of inclusive growth.

Session 2 on Enhancing Innovation and Creativity

Panelists

• Dr. Praveen Arora- Head CHORD, Department of Science and Technology
• Mr. Raja Krishnamurthy- Head R&D India region 3M India Ltd.
• Dr. W Selvamurthy- President Amity Science and Technology and innovation foundation, Amity University
• Mr. SumantSood- Head Innovation Titan Company
• Dr.PrabahtRanjan, Executive Director TIFAC
• Ms. Neeru Sharma- Director of Platform Business Services, Infibeam Incorporation Ltd.
• Mr. NaveneMathur- Deputy Controller of Patents and Design from Delhi Patent office
• Ms. AnshikaJha- Senior Intellectual Property Adivsor, UK Intellectual Property Office, British High Commission.

This session focused on developing entrepreneurship, innovation and growth, strengthening skills and changes required in the education system from industry perspective. The session also shed light on the importance of IPRs in achieving the desired outcomes related to making India Entrepreneurial, Creative & Innovative.

Around 18 middle to senior executives of various J.K. Group companies including J.K. Papers, J.K. Tyres, Umang Dairies and others attended this highly interactive full day training program. With the help of an academic discourse and practical feedback of the practicing international trade executives who attended this workshop, it was a very enriching full day discussion on the topic.

I.T.S thanks J.K. Organization and J.K. Group for providing this opportunity to conduct this training program for their selected and seasoned company executives. A number of I.T.S faculty members provided inputs and advise to make this prestigious training program successful.

Some of the other speakers in this Symposium included Ms. Vijay Laxmi, Sr. IT Architect, Biogen, USA, Dr. Ashutosh Kumar - NIT Kurukshetra, Dr. Mayank Agrawal - GKV Haridwar, Dr. S.C. Sharma – IIT Roorkee, Prof. Manish Prateek – UPES Dehradoon. The Symposium was inaugurated by the Prof. Mushahid Husain, Honorable Vice Chancellor of MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly. On this occasion Dr. R. Singh, Professor & Head, Dept of CS&E, Dr. Vinay Rishiwal and other faculty members of the Dept of CS&E, Electronics & Communication, large number of delegates, Researchers and faculty members of other institutes were also present.

In this symposium, my talk was scheduled on Day-2 from 11.00 AM to 01.00PM. In my talk, I focused on following dimensions of IoT:

• Historical Evolution of Technology that led the foundation of realization of the concept of IoT
• Different domains of Technology evolution – Database Technologies, Storage Technologies, Network Technologies, Applications
• Discussion on vision of IoT, Growth, Conceptual Framework & Applications
• Research Dimensions & Opportunities in this Area
• Challenges & Issues in IoT
• Case Study

The Session was followed by Q & A Session of about 30 minutes and it was a nice experience to interact with the participants & delegates and address their queries. It was a wonderful learning & networking experience where I meet some of the old friends and domain experts.

This conference was an initiative to bring the research, academia and industry on the same platform to discuss the various initiatives and consequences of brands and its management. More than 500 researcher and scholars from across the globe have joined at this international conference, which was being further supported by Adobe and emerald as digital and knowledge cum printing partners of this international conference research proceedings. This two days international conference widely addressed the issues of startup branding and valuation, Public sector branding, branding by not for profit organization, technology branding, b2b and ethical branding.

The conference was jointly inaugurated by department of management studies of IIT Delhi along with Curtin University, Australia. Dr. Harish Chaudhary, Dr. Mahim Sagar, Dr. Kanika Bhal, Prof. sushil , Prof. Ravi Shankar, Prof. S.S Yadav, Dr. S.K. Jain, and Prof. Tony Travaglione , Prof. Lucey, Prof. Camerford, Prof. David Groth are the few names who were available there during the two days international conference.

This conference was an initiative to bring the research, academia and industry on the same platform to discuss the various initiatives and consequences of brands and its management. More than 500 researcher and scholars from across the globe have joined at this international conference, which was being further supported by Adobe and emerald as digital and knowledge cum printing partners of this international conference research proceedings. This two days international conference widely addressed the issues of startup branding and valuation, Public sector branding, branding by not for profit organization, technology branding, b2b and ethical branding.

The objective of this workshop was to analyze Big Data. The details of the workshop are as follows:

The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. MukeshMohania IBM Researcher, Dr. T.V.Vijay Kumar JNU, Dr. D.P.Vidyarthi JNU. Dr. Mohania has delivered his keynote talk on “Big Data Analytics and Application” The workshop was divided into 5 different talks by 5 eminent speakers.

Talk 1:

Topic :“Bid Data and Contextual Intelligence”

Speaker: Dr. L.V. Subramaniam, IBM Researcher.

While addressing the participants Dr.Subramaniam discussed about the sources and characteristics of Big Data with 4 V’s used into it.

Talk 2:

Topic : “An Overview of the Map Reduce Research”

Speaker : Dr. Himanshu Gupta,IBM Researcher.

Dr. Gupta has started his talk by defining HDFS in detail. He also explained why and how replication is done. He also discussed in detail about Map Reduce. He concluded his session by mentioning some research areas of Map Reduce.

Dr. GuptatTalk 3:

Topic : “Scalable Graph Algorithms on Massively Parallel Computers”

Speaker: Dr. Yogesh Sabharwal,IBM Researcher.

While addressing the participants, Dr. Sabharwal briefed about Single Source Shortest Path.He also talked about basic algorithmslike Dijkstra and Bellman-Ford in detail. At the end he has given comparison on between the basic algorithms.

Talk 4:

Topic : “Introduction to Knowledge Graph Stores with Application”

Speakers: Dr. Sameep Mehta,IBM Researcher.

Mr. Mehta discussed about , Apache and about the Challenges for Cloud Computing like availability of service, what happens when the service cannot deliver service, data confidentiality and availability is a serious problem. He said that security is the major concern in cloud computing. He also discussed about the knowledge graph stores with applications. He also gave some live examples of day to day life.

Talk 5

Topic : “Issues and Challenges in Sentiment Extraction from Financial Data”

Speakers: Dr. Ananda Swarup Das,IBM Researcher.

While addressing the participants Dr. Ananda talked about the issues and challenges in Sentiment Extraction from Financial Data. He nicely explained each aspect related to the financial data and how it is extracted from the live data.

At the end of this one workshop, certificates and mementos were distributed among participants.

Overall it was a good and new learning experience about BigData.

It was really a wonderful platform for exchange of knowledge, research & works by researchers across the country from leading organizations and institutions. The grand success of this event is credited to the able mentorship & able leadership of Prof. Mn Hoda and his team

The session was kept on the theme of “sustainable Computing” total 18 papers on the theme related to High Performance Computing.