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.

It was also a pleasure for Prof. Vijesh Jain to be welcomed at Institute campus, as chief guest and keynote speaker for the inaugural ceremony of the National Seminar. Faculty and selected students of several IP university affiliated colleges attended the inaugural ceremony followed by a half day technical session cum “faculty development lecture” by him on the topic "Current Geopolitical Environment for Business".

Later in the day, there was another half day technical cum faculty development lecture by Prof. V.N. Bajpai, Professor of Marketing at I.T.S. The topic of the lecture was – Blue Ocean Strategies. The lecture was conducted in an interactive manner with a process focusing on experiential learning. The program was also attended by a number of faculties from Kamal Institute as well as other colleges affiliated to I.P. University, Delhi.