The conference commenced with an interesting panel discussion on ‘New Challenges of leadership in the Emerging Business Environment’ highlighting the dynamic business environment anddirect competition of Public organizations  with agile Private Organizations . Mr. Suresh Sethi, MD & CEO, India Post Payments Bank discussed about Igniting Transformational Change. In this session, he shared insights on how to drive change at a transformational level in the organization with an example of Indian post office system. Mr. Prithvi Shergill Advisory Partner, Tomorrow/Smarten Spaces & Former CHRO – HCL deliberated on role of talent analytics in HR and its implementation in PSEs. A panel on Future Ready PSE Leaders explored into what attributes leaders must have, to be Future Ready.Mr.Stephane Michelin, Chief Executive Officer, Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services, India,  elaborated the relevance of new-age employee benefits in the digital world to keep a highly motivated and productive workforce. Panel discussions also delved into strategies to engage and motivate employees and how to utilize CSR funds for the growth of a new India by 2022. Ms. Garima Garg Director, Deloitte India shared insights on the future of work and HRs changing role. Mr.D.D Misra, President, "Janm" Trust and Former Director HR, ONGC, had drawn very interestinginsights from Indian Mythology, the Ramcharitmanas, focusing on the three attributes of God Hanuman to create learning for employees. Conference also witnessed the launch of ‘A Stranger Truth', book by Ashok Alexander Founder-Director of ‘The Antara Foundation’. He is the man who led the India office of ‘Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’ from its inception in 2003, until 2012 and created Avahan, which became the best ever private prevention program in HIV, and a model of scaling up health delivery.

In nutshell, the conference was an eye opener on various dimensions of HR as well as PSEs challenges & perspective related to workforce, HR strategies and expectations of all stakeholders including government as one of the key player.

The session had witnessed the participation of 40+ young faculty members and researchers from renowned colleges and universities. In this session, various communication technologies and its impact on different real-life applications were discussed. While discussing about proliferation of technologies, a detailed discussion on IoT devices in MANETs, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks & FANETs, IoT based Routing Protocols RPL and its empirical research issues was presented. In addition to this, Introduction of Cisco Packet Tracer, NetSim, its Importance, types of Network Simulators, Requirements and simulation of IoT devices were also explained through demonstration using Cisco products.

G – 20 members are heterogeneous with varied levels of development, economic growth, spread of technology and financial strength. Apart from the G-20 members, other multilateral institutions and international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) participate in the discussion at the G-20 Summit and pre-summit planning. While the members cooperate against economic crunches, cooperation without consensus could be futile in the long run when countries are governed by varied political ideologies and policies.The 13th Annual G-20Summit to be held in Argentina is centred on the topic “Building Consensus for Fair and Sustainable Development”.

ICRIER has been organising annual international conferences since 2009 prior to the G-20Summit. The discussions in these Conferences have provided a platform for engaging eminent researchers, academicians and policymakers in rich debate on topics of relevance to the G-20 Summit.The broad topics and the impending questions or issues covered in the two day conference wereEvaluating Global Financial Architecture and Regulatory Practices, Future of Work,Trade, Investment and the Multilateral Process, Role of Technology for Mitigating Climate Change, Crypto- Currencies and Blockchains - The Right Approach, Financing Infrastructure for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Food Future.

The scholarly deliberations were delivered by eminent national and international speakers from the government, embassies, international institutions like IMF, World Bank, academia and industry like Shri Suresh Prabhu, Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Sanjeev Sanyal, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Jaimini Bhagwati, Suman Bery, Fred Bedore, Sujata Mehta, Usha Thorat, Ashima Goyal, Alok Sheel, Parag Waknis, R Nagaraj, Manoj Pant Imran Valodia, Shankar Acharya, Bustanal Arifin, Ashok Gulati, Daniel Chuburu, Hideki Asari, Andreas Bauer.

Rich exchange of ideas featured all the sessions.

The Session was conducted by Dr. Amita Srivastava Director BCRTC. The workshop was graced by the presence of President Noida Management as the guest of the event.

The session objective was to resolve stress, how to make life healthier and happy, how to overcome the fear , balancing between heart & brain , how to make life energized & how to control our minds.

The session was full of activities to reduce stress, stress test and burnout test. Dr. Amita enlightened the “Flight or Fight” concept, causes of stress. She talked about the action oriented & Emotion Orientation approaches also.

The workshop was based on experiential learning and wonderful experience for participants.

The Summit was focused towards the government’s objective to drive the right to education being implemented as a fundamental right. The Summit was packed with the sessions delivered by the eminent speakers from the Academia & Industry.

The welcome address was delivered by Raj Chengappa, Group Editorial Director (Publishing), India Today Group.

The Inaugural address was delivered by Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of Ministry of Human Resource Development. Mr. Javadekar touched upon Education and discussed about importance of it for transforming a human being into resource for country. He said that, government schools like kendriya Vidyalaya and Navyadya Schools are giving good CBSE results as compared to private schools. He has answered all the queries raised during the discussion with audience.

Raj Chengappa thanked Union Minister of Ministry of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar for taking the lead in delivering the inaugural address. Chengappa further announced that the summit will see the impressive line-up of addresses by the Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbaz Naqvi, and later on by Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia, followed by the State Cabinet Minister of Vocational Education and Skill Development, Uttar Pradesh, Chetan Chauhan.

Speakers for the day were CMA Sunil Sigh, Chairman of Northern India Regional Council of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Dr. K.P Kaushik, Professor, National Institute of Financial Management, Dr. Ajay Garg, Certified corporate Valuer and Mr. Ravish Bhateja, Motivational Speaker.

Mr. Sunil Singh elaborated the traditional investment options and their return history with reference to government policies in last 7 years.

Dr. K.P Kaushik explained the derivative market and about new instruments which can be traded in capital market.

Mr. Ajay Garg explained that how secondary income can be generated and how much it is important to link the family regular expenditure with savings. He also explained the risk associated with each investment option.

The purpose of the program was to enhance the understanding about the different investment avenues available in the financial system, so that one can contribute towards the economic development. The program also aimed to enhance the knowledge of capital market and hence to better prepare students as well equipped advisors and investor.

FDP was very insightful for the participants.

Participants were highly delighted to have such an opportunity to learn and add new set of skills and competencies so as to develop and enrich their capabilities as a successful teacher and to contribute the best possible to their students and hence the learning environment was highly interactive and resulted in deep routed team cohesiveness among the participants.

Prima facie, Dr. M. K. Jha gave opening remarks on Time Management and Problem Solving and addressed the participants to accept and appreciate the concept, significance and application of Time management and sensitized them to participate actively during the session with greater enthusiasm and expectations.

Initially to get connected with the participants, ice breaking session was conducted to get affiliated with each other by introducing each other with sharing their feelings and disclosure of strengths and weaknesses so as to predict personality traits of the participants.

Prof. Shilpi Rana presented slide show in order to illustrate a systematic and organized over view of Time Management and Problem solving in day to day personal and professional life and how to balance work life of working females.

Time Management activity (Group Juggling Game) was conducted by Prof. Yachna Malhotra and Prof. Shilpi Rana among the participants to make them understand how to perform duties and responsibilities during the shortest time period judiciously without exerting stress with complete involvement and participants were over whelmed with the outputs and experiences they had during the game. Again this was followed by Simon Says activity, problem solving activities and ultimately by Query Handling , where participants shared their problems and got insight to resolve such problems.

Dr. M. K. Jha offered thanks to all participants for their patient listening and active participation during the session. The essential arrangements and hospitality hosted by school principal was praise worthy.

Today, more than ever, young women and men are change-makers, building new realities for themselves and their communities. All over the world, youth are driving social change and innovation, claiming respect for their fundamental human rights and freedoms, and seeking new opportunities to learn and work together for a better future.

This Youth workshop is with the objective to provide the framework for constructive platform and partnerships to be developed with youth. It is built on the premise that youth are the new wave to carry forward, world brotherhood communities. Dr. Sujata Kapila Menon along with Ms. Rashmi, IAS Officer were the speakers.