The conference theme addressed the issues and challenges before the business world in the ever evolving area of marketing. It highlighted the technological changes happening and concluded that the need of the hour is to embrace digital technology alongside of doing business the traditional way.

The Inaugural session commenced with lamp lighting, followed by a welcome address by Dr. P.K.Khurana, Principal SBSC. Mr. Manish Sisodia Deputy Chief Minister,Govt of NCT of Delhiwas the Chief Guest and Dr Abhishek Gupta, Chairman Governing Body along with Dr Kavita Sharma, Head-Department of commerce, University of Delhi, were the Guest of Honor. The Inaugural Session ended with a vote of thanks by Dr. Anil Sardana,Organising Secretary, SBSC.

The key note address was given by Mr Vijay Rai, President and CEO,Powerconand Mr Pankaj Dubey, Managing Director & Country Head Polaris India Private Limited. The speakers emphasised that present day era is that of “Experience” and companies should move one step ahead in delivering an extraordinary experience to customers across all touchpoints.

The next course of the conference was divided into three technical sessions. During the first session, distinguished speakers from the Industry discussed on Marketing in Transition:Evolving Competitive Dynamics. The session was chaired by Prof Harsh Verma, Faculty of ManagementStudies, University Of Delhi. The technical session II was on “Marketing in Action: Strategy Tools and Value” which was chaired by Prof Kavita Sharma, Head-Department of commerce, University Of Delhi. The technical session III was on “Legal, Ethical and Environmental Concerns in Marketing “This session was chaired by Prof MuneeshKumar, Dean Faculty of Commerce and Head-Department of Financial Studies, University Of Delhi.

The seminar attempted to arrive at a course of actionable points that accurately described the path to follow and how to meet the challenges.The conference was well received by the participants.

Session was related to Research Paper and Case study competition. The Conference had witnessed the participation of leading researchers from renowned universities and institutions all over the country who had shared their valuable research during the conference.

40 Research papers & Case Studies were presented by Research Scholars, Students & Faculty members in this track of presentation. Best two papers were awarded in each category. The session chairs were presented with memento at the end.

Dataquest T-School Conference & Awards is an annual gathering of top technology schools in India, a first of its kind event bringing together IT and Business decision makers of T-Schools under one roof to discuss how technology is aiding education and empowering IT companies around the globe.

The conference covers technology, skill development and future of education specific to technology schools and the awards ceremony recognizes excellence amongst technology schools on various parameters including placements, infrastructure, alumni, industry interface, HR scores, academic environment and more.

The Conference started with the registration of all the delegates and guests. Mr. Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia delivered the welcome note and said that this conference covers technology, skill development and future of education specific to technology schools. He welcomed all the guests and delegates who had came from various parts of country.

In his address, Mr. Saket Mookerjee, AVP Research and Consulting, CyberMedia Research briefed about the DQ-CMRT-School Survey through his detailed presentation.

Mr. Shantanu Prakash, Chairman & Managing Director, Educomp Solutions, Opening Keynote Speaker discussed about the motive of the conference and how technology is changing education and empowering IT companies around the globe.

Dr. R. Shivaraman, Director (Research), Accendere, keynote speaker talked about the Research, its potential and misconceptions.

Dr. Sandhya Chintala: VP & Executive Director, IT – ITeS Sector Skills Council, NASSCOM as one of the speakers talked about various projects in detail. She also discussed about the concept Green jobs. She said that we all have to come forward to make change and be part of this process.

Chief Guest, Shri Manish Sisodia, Hon'ble Dy Chief Minister and Education Minister, Govt. of Delhi while his address said that we should try to change the scenario of the education from schools and Industrialists should come forward to make this change happen. He also addressed all the queries of the delegates in the session.

There was also the award ceremony titled DQ T-School Awards-2015 where awardees were felicitated under various categories.

After Award ceremony there was a panel discussions based on the theme “Re-skilling India”with different panelists, Prof Pankaj Jalote, Director Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, Mrs. Tejshree Abhay, Member- Governing Council, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai and Dr. B. V. Babu, Vice Chancellor, Galgotias University, Greater Noida.After Lunch break Panel-II was scheduled based on the theme “The Future of Technology in Education” which had panelists like Brig ( R ) Dr S K Lahiri, Director, Army Institute of Technology, Pune, Vikram Saluja, Head IP, Huawei, Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Dean (R&D), IIIT, Hyderabad, Prof. (Dr.) R. K. Choudhary and Director, Asia pacific Institute Of Information Technology SD India, Panipat.

The Conference was followed by Hi-Tea. It was really a wonderful experience to be at Dataquest T-Conference at India Habitat Center.

Session was inaugurated by Chief Guest Mr Ali Illiassou (Ambassador of Ambassy of Republic Niger) with Ms Jyotsna Sitling (Director General, NIESBUD) and Mr MMP Akhouri (Former Executive Director, NIESBUD).

It was followed by Research Paper presentations in first session. The session theme was Socio Economic Transformation through Entrepreneurial Education. Prof Lalit presented his paper titled “Building Entrepreneurship Through Business Education”. This session was chaired by Dr Rajeev Thakur (Director, Jaipuria Inst Of Mgmt, Noida). Second session was started with paper presentations on Women Empowerment through Entrpreneurship which was chaired by Dr Punam Sahgal (Dean, IIM Lucknow, Noida campus).

Second day was started with third session on paper presentations with theme Entrepreneurship Education as Completion of HRD Process. This session was chaired by Dr S.P. Mishra (Former VC, Dev Sanskriti University).

Fourth session was started with paper presentations on theme Role of Social Media in Promoting Entrepreneurship. This session was chaired by Mr Sandeep Marwah (Chairman, Marwah Studio, Noida). Fifth session was started with paper presentations on Global Policies and Innovation to Foster Skill Development. This session was chaired by Dr Jatinder Singh (Secretary, PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry, New Delhi). Total 40 papers were presented in two days.

Conference was ended with valedictory address by Chief Guest Ms Stuti Kakkar (Ex Secretary, Department of Disability Affairs,, Ministry of Social justice and Empowerment). Prof. Lalit Kumar Sharma was awarded Best Paper Presenter Award at the end. Entire conference generated a lot of knowledge to all participants. More than 120 delegates were present from 27 countries in Summit.

The key note address was given by Dr. Nagendra Chowdary, ET cases. Then Professor Manoj Kumar, Chair Centre for Case Development presented overview of the national conference on Indian Cases.

Dr. Rao and Dr. Chowdary emphasized on the importance of cases in management studies. Both agreed that viewing the importance of cases in education, there is requirement of cases of Indian companies and scenario. They invited management faculty for developing and writing cases based on Indian context and incidents.

Professor Manoj Kumar told that quality and suitability of written cases is very important hence they selected only 32 case writers for presenting their cases in the conference. He shared that university received 192 abstracts but only 92 writers were asked to develop their cases and further out of that they found only 32 cases suitable for conference presentation. Most of case presenters were from IIMs and IITs. Cases were segregated on the basis of functional area as Marketing, Finance, HR, Entrepreneurship and Strategy. Parallel sessions were conducted for each area.

Dr. Raghvendra Dwivedi presented his case”Business Development and Handover (BDH) - A Case of Spiritual Finance”. In his case he elaborated crucial problems of unemployment in rural area. The character of case Mrs. Kamlesh Dwivedi was in dilemma of helping rural unemployed women or to donate money to NGOs or Religious groups. At last she decided to help unemployed village women by establishing a garment manufacturing concern by investing her hard earned savings, without asking any interest or getting back principal amount. That is why she called it “SPIRITUAL FINANCE”.

The case was very well appreciated for the primary data and for the new noble idea.

The case conference was very educating and enhances knowledge, can be used for the interest of students and the institution.

The conference was organized at RKGITW, Ghaziabad on 9th, 10th and 11th July, 2015. More than 220 teachers of English from across the country and the world participated in this highly reputed conference and presented their papers.

The conference was also addressed by Mr. Michael Connolly, Asstt. Director, English, British Council, British High Commission and Ms. Diane Miller, Regional English Language Officer (RELO), US Embassy along with other eminent speakers from reputed universities and institutions of India and abroad.

Prof. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi shared his views in the conference and presented his paper on the ‘Bilingual Approach in Teaching English to Hindi Medium Students’ which was appreciated by all.

Selected heads of the institutions were invited for this exclusive seminar cum MDP. The event was jointly sponsored by EPSI, New Delhi and BIMTECH, which is also a partner to an European Union funded project on Higher Education Quality Framework with FH Joanneum Applied University, Graz, Austria; World University Service, Austria; Universida de Alicante, Spain; Voronezh State University, Russia; University of International Business and Economics, China; Intstituto Technologico de Monterey, Mexico; Polytechnic of Namibia, Namibia; and Aston University, UK. This project was launched in October 2013 and has engaged with academia and policy makers to investigate the facets of quality aspects in higher education and how can Indian system be aligned with the global systems. Many knowledge packets have been produced on European System, and Indian, Russian, Chinese, Mexican and African system including Need Gap Report, International Mobility Document, and Knowledge Framework.

It is now in the third phase which invited higher engagement and interactions within the system and a greater interaction with their mentor partner Aston University, UK. Aston University is one of the top Universities in UK and Europe and has all three most credible accreditations of business education.

Since, Indian B – Schools are already re-orienting their Higher Education systems to graduate to the next level of quality framework for Higher Global Integration, an interaction with Aston University representatives Mr. Rebecca Aggarwal (project researcher) and Mr. Wendy Yip (Director – International Developments) was organized during the seminar, on BOLOGNA process, AACSB accreditation and the experience on managing quality in long run.

Both the executives from Aston University shared their valuable experiences on the accreditation process and overall quality enhancement process. The seminar was an eye opening event giving insights into road ahead for established B-Schools in India. Dr. Rahul Singh, Associate Professor, BIMTECH conducted the seminar. It was a highly interactive event.

It was a full day visit. Total 25 students had visited TCS, Noida along with Director (IT), Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey, Prof. Puja Dhar, Prof. Sauresh Mehrotra, Prof. Varun Arora and Mr. BalMukund. It was a full day session started with a welcome note by Mr. Mudit Mathur, Regional Operation Manager and Mr. Vishal, Operations Lead, TCS, Noida. While addressing about the Tata Consultancy services, Mr. Tarun Nehra, Global Operations Head also guided the students about the recruitment process in the companies. After a tea break students enjoyed the video about “Keepers of the Flame” which showed the actual history behind the birth of TCS in India.

In next session Mr. Mudit Mathur briefed about their ongoing project TCS iON. He explained the advantages and working of this project. After a Lunch-break Mr. Harjit Singh, Senior Consultant, TCS, Noida talked about the Cloud Computing, its benefits and various services provided by it. There was also one HR session where students enjoyed the Team Building exercise by participating in various games. At the end of the session Mr. Vishal delivered vote of thanks.

Students were all the time interacting with the speakers regarding their queries related to the recruitment process, working culture of TCS and what they look into the fresher. Students were very happy at the end of the day.