A Research Agenda" in the International Conference on Inclusive Development through Social Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges held at Army Institute of Management & Technology, Greater Noida on 28th February 2020. The esteemed panel of judges appreciated the research idea presented and also accepted the paper for publication in the AIMT Journal of Management. The Conference was inaugurated by Honourable Minister, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Jal Shakti.

The conference provided a platform to present and discuss innovative and creative research ideas and it was a good learning experience.

The International Conference on Inventive Computing Technologies (ICICT 2020) was held at Coimbatore from 26th to 28th February 2020. It was organized by RVS Technical Campus under the aegis of IEEE.

The Inaugural Session of the conference was graced by Dr. D. Nirmal, Chair – IEEE ED Coimbatore Chapter, IEEE Madras Section. He spoke about the impact of the Internet of Things, and why it was imperative for research in this field to progress further. He also cautioned against the threat of security compromises, including the growing menace of identity theft. At the same time, he also alluded to the need for democratizing the phenomenon by involving the general population, ultimately leading to better governance practices.

The three-day conference featured several speakers and delegates from a diverse cross-section consisting of corporate practitioners, academics, research scholars and students. Papers presented covered some of the most cutting edge work in this field.

Dr. Mandal presented an empirical paper titled “Solving Bi-Objective Stage Shop Scheduling Problem by Flower Pollination Algorithm with Fuzzy Orientation”. Dr. D. Vinoth Kumar, IEEE AES Madras Section, and Professor, BioMedical Engineering, VMU University, presided as the Session Chair. The conference afforded widespread opportunities for exchange of views on a wide range

along with CMEE & North American Society for Marketing Education in India on "Conducting and Publishing High Quality Research in Empirical Modeling for Marketing Strategy" by Dr. Venkatesh'Venky' Shankar (Mays Business School, Texas A & M University) on Thursday and Friday, 6th & 7th  February 2020.

Dr.Garima Srivastav got opportunity to Design and present her Research Proposal on “FOMO:A Shift in Behavioural Trend”. It was the great opportunity to get a chance for research proposal presentation and to get it evaluated byDr. Shankar himself. The sights of the workshop laid emphasis on the issues like –Framing Research ideas and question, Methodological skills, Casual Modelling, Big Data Machine learning and AI, Structural Modelling, Future marketing Models.

The workshop fostered high quality research in Empirical Modeling, Strong Research Ideas, Issues and question, Methodological Skills, crafting the paper and revising the paper, participants working on proposal, analysis of proposal and strategy formulation for the participants. There were total of 36 participants from across the Length and breadth of the country including IIM Kozikhode, PDPU-Ghandhinagar ,RGPIT Amethi, IIM-Lucknow.

Mr. D. K Aggarwal, President, PHD Chamber gave his welcome remarks focusing on health sector of economy as well as on tax reforms as the need of the current economy of the country. There were varied experts from taxation, academia, think tank, industries, media and banking sector who interacted over the opening remarks.

Mr. Gopal Krishna Agarwal National spokesperson of BJP expressed that to reach the summit of economy, we need to focus on investing for asset and make our country an export hub by focusing on every district and the product characterizing it.He specifically mentioned that we are earmarking capital of 5 trillion in next five years reflecting upon the confidence of the current Indian government.

Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, Senior President, PHD Chamber highlighted his views on social sector and infrastructure sector of the economy.Mr. Pradeep Multani, Vice President, PHD Chamber and Mr. Rajeev Talwar and other experts commented on the health sector and corporate taxation.Mr. Lalit Khaitan, Chairman, Economic Affairs Committee, PHD Chamber expressed his views on the working system of cyber security and artificial intelligence as the essential part of our economy.

These were followed by Pin pointed deliberations by Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Director and CE of ICRIER and Dr. Subhash Chandra Pandey, former Special Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of commerce and Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Ministry of Textiles on the subject of start ups and small scale enterprises towards the boosting up of economy. Dr. Rajat focused on the subject of international and Indirect tax structure. Prof. Rajesh Chadha, Program Director- National Resources, Brooking Institution in his pinpointed deliberation expressed thoughts on institutional growth and foreign investments.

Mr. Rajeev Talwar,Chairman of PHDCCI concluded the session by asserting that we need be multi dimensional while approaching the policies.

Overall the message of the budget speech by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman touches upon the three pillars like aspiration economy, economic development, and caring society for women, enterprises, startup, housing, culture, tourism, infra, taxation and health sector and skill education that should be invested with young minds and engineers. 

Prof. Yachna focused on importance of Clinical communication in Medical Profession and for achieving professional excellence. With experiential exercises, and Listening techniques, she sensitized the importance of active listening to improve doctor patient relationship.

The training was a mix of both the slide show coupled with some interesting activities to sensitize the Faculty members (Doctors) for giving effective and quality service in general and making their interactions with patients more polite, clear and result oriented.

An interesting activity on Tree of Time Management was conducted which helped the doctors to understand the techniques to manage time in both their personal and professional life. Various exercises helped participants to identify specific tools they need to use, to gain control of their time for effective decision making. The learning environment was highly interactive and resulted in deep routed team cohesiveness among the participants.

The Conference was Addressed by Shri Narendra Modiji, Honorable Prime Minister of India at VigyanBhavan, New Delhi as the Chief Guest. In his address he enlightened the audience with Government initiatives tpo boost the Indian Economy and steps being taken to promote FDI and entrepreneurship. He said the in last few years Country has gained respect from globally and its rank for Ease of Doing Business has jumped to 63rd Position from 142 in 2014. Hon’ble Prime Minister assured that Government shall keep it continued to fuel the Industry and all the concerns of Industry shall be addressed with open mind. He spoke on various initiatives taken by Government of India with Social inclusion of every segment of society. 

Dr. Pandey was invited on Day-2 as a Resource Person to speak and share his perspective on the theme "AI, Machine Learning, RPA and Deep Learning". In this Session other speakers were:

1. Mr. FaizAlam Shaikh, CIO, StopSpoof
2. Ganesh Viswanathan, SVP-PMO & CISO, Head-IT & Analytics, Aithent Technologies Pvt Ltd
3. Vivek Ahuja, Director IT - MEA & India, IDEMIA
4. SachinWaingankar, Assistant Vice President & Head - Cloud, Webwerks

 In his address, Dr. Pandey spoke on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, its Business Applications, need of re-skilling and training of employees to prepare pool of competent resource with required skills, opportunity & challenges with systems coming up with applications of AI & Machine Learning and Security Challenges in these applications.

In this 03-Days Summit, about 500 CIOs of globally renowned Companies, CEOs and Top Leaders of all the verticals including IT, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Media, Security, Publishing Houses, Automobile, participated, Transport, Tourism, Public Sector, Government Organization etc.

The session was well appreciated by the Audience.

Programme on “IoT and its application” organized by Inderprastha Engineering College, Ghaziabad in Association with E&ICT IIT Roorkee,  during  10th -Dec-2019 to 14st-Dec- 2019. The objective of this FDP was to increase understanding and skill set of Internet of Things (IoT),sensor programming with NodeMCU micro controller, controlling the IoT device form web and mobile apps, storing the sensor data on AWS cloud ,API development for IoT and its real life applications of home automation.

Prof. Dharma P. Agrawal,  University of Cincinnati, USA and Mr. Umang Kejriwal ,Technical Expert form IIT Roorkee were the resource person of said one week faculty development programme . Prof. Dharma taken a session  on first day based on IoT and its application in our day to day life with simple example of IoT enabled sports shoes , smart bands and their functioning. Mr. Umang  conducted the rest workshop on discussion cum hands- on mode . Mr. Umang demonstrated the NodeMCU microcontroller and integration of many sensors(Like LDR sensor , DHT sensor, Smoke sensors , ultrasonic sensor, etc   )to this chips and its programming using Lua (Some sort of C/C++)language , blynk app introduction and demonstration, thingspeak framework and its demonstration, AWS integration to the microcontroller and storing sensor data on the AWS database.

 The FDP was very useful and we learnt many new concepts and hands-on based on IoT and its application to our day to day life.