in  15th INDIACom ; 8th International Conference on “Computing for Sustainable Global Development” organized at BVICAM, New Delhi during 17th – 19th March 2021 in association with IEEE Delhi Section, CSI Delhi Chapter, ISTE Delhi Section.

In the session, a total of 12 papers on the theme related to High-Performance Networking and Information Security were presented by authors from different colleges in different states and abroad. 
It was throughout nice interaction with the authors during the session.

The country is poised to the next phase of growth. The strong digital infrastructure and digital India hold potential for the socio-economic growth of the country. According to the reports, the potential economic value of $1 Trillion in 2025 comes from the new digital ecosystem in diverse sectors including e-governance, healthcare, jobs and skills, agriculture and various other areas.

The objective of third edition of Governance Now Digital Transformation Summit was to focus on roadmaps, partnerships and collaborations among the center and state governments, private sector, industry associations, consulting firms, and academia which are critical to achieving these digital goals. In this Summit, special focus was also on reskilling and upskilling the government practitioners for the digital transformation process.

One day event was comprised of Inaugural sessions, plenary Panel Discussions and Industry presentations.

Inaugural Session was planned on theme “Tapping the Trillion Dollar Digital Opportunity”. In this session, Shri Kunal Kumar, Joint Secretary and Mission Director (Smart Cities), Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Government of India ,Shri Puneet Chawla, Chairman & Managing Director, RailTel Corporation of India Ltd ,Shri Sarvesh Singh, Chairman & Managing Director, Bharat Broadband Network Limited, Dr Neeta Verma, Director General, Shri Gopalakrishnan S, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, Shri Subhash Chandra Garg, Former Economic Affairs and Power Secretary, Government of India , Shri Rajeev Mehta, Vice President, Vodafone Idea Ltd were present . In this session, experts has discussed on Digital Transformation Roadmaps,  E-governance of the Future, Unlocking the transformative power of digital technologies, Interdependence complexities between departments and governments, Tapping the potential of billions of screens of opportunity and digitally workforce transformation for digital India.

After Inaugural session, Shri Dhruv Singla, Major Accounts Manager, Fortinet and Dr Mohan Chandrasekaran, Founder & CEO, AdStringO Software Pvt Ltd presented Industry presentation on “Security Transformation in Today’s Digital World”.

Three Plenary Panel Discussion were also planned on following themes:

1. Panel Session 1: Digital Transformation Accelerator for Governments

In this session, eminent experts Shri NSN Murty, Partner & Leader - Smart Cities, PwC IndiaDr. Dinesh Kumar Tyagi, CEO, CSCSPV & Chief Investigator, CSC e-Governance Services India Limited Smt S Radha Chauhan, Principal Secretary, Department of Vocational Education & Skill Development, Department of Technical Education, Govt of Uttar Pradesh Shri Ajay Chagti, Special Secretary (IT), Department of Information Technology, Government of NCT of Delhi Shri Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director, Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) Shri M K Yadava, Managing Director, Assam Electronics Development Corporation Ltd Shri Nikhil Kumar, Country Head, HERE Technologies were present. In this panel Discussion experts shared their experience and knowledge on “

1. Panel Session 2: Cybersecurity challenges and sensitive public data protection

In this session,Shri Sambit Sinha, Partner Cyber Security moderator the session and he has discussed on cyber security and its importance todays era with other panelists Ernst & Young Dr Muktesh Chandra, Special Commissioner of Police ( Operations ), Delhi Police Dr. Prashun Gupta, Deputy Director(CCTNS & NCTC), National Crime Records Bureau (MHA) Shri Golok Kumar Simli, Principal Consultant & Chief Technology Officer Passport Seva, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India Shri Munish Chandan, Head - SeMT and CISO, Department of Electronics and Information Technology Government of Haryana Shri Avneesh Vats, Head – IT, Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL).

1. Panel Session 3: Digital Transformation in States.

In this session, Shri Arpan Bansal, Global Head –Government Practice - Center of Excellence & Delivery, Newgen, Dr. Ajay S. Singh, Chief Controller of Account, Department of Rural Development, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, Shri G T Venkateswar Rao, Commissioner, Electronic Service Delivery, IT, E & C Department, Government of Telangana, Dr Sundar Balakrishna, Director, Electronic Service Delivery (Mee Seva), Department of IT, Electronics & Communication, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Shri Sarvesh Singhal, Special Secretary (IT), Department of Information Technology, Government of Jharkhand, Shri Ramkumar S, Deputy Commissioner, South West Garo Hills District, Government of Meghalaya. Panelist of this session focused on  Changing Digital Services Landscape, Process Automation and e-Services and  Ensuring Sovereignty, Safety and Security of Digital Communications.

Event was concluded with the Digital Transformation Awards Ceremony 2019. In this ceremony, Shri Kailashnath Adhikari, Managing Director, Governance Now, Sri Adhikari Brothers Group, Shri S N Tripathi, Director, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Shri Vinit Goenka, Member, Governing Council of CRIS; Member - IT Task Force, Ministry of Road, Transport & Highways and Shipping, Government of India Shri Suresh Prabhu, Hon’ble Member, Rajya Sabha facilitated  the Award Winners.

It was overall nice learning experience.

I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad was one of the major contributors to the GMA 29th Annual Convention as GOLD SPONSOR. I.T.S students served as volunteers at the convention and were highly active throughout the convention. The sponsor’s contribution was acknowledged with the sharing of Mementos. Dr. Ajay Kumar (Director- Management) and Dr. VN Bajpai received the memento from the Chief Guest. The Technical Session- I was on the topic: Preparing & Retaining Talent / Skill. The Technical Session-II had the very first speaker as Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director Management. He spoke about the challenges for industry/ service sector because of automation & digitalization.  The Valedictory session was with the topic: Public Policy for inclusive development in era of automation & digitalization. Ms. Bhavna Saxena, IPS. SPL Commissioner, APEDB, spoke about the public policy on automation & digitalisation. During the end of the convention, a “Lucky Coupon Draw”, was undertaken and Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director Management was lucky enough to receive a laptop out of the total participants available.

The basic purpose of FDP was to demonstrate application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools based on data analytics for increasing faculty efficiency, students' engagement and expediting accreditation work with a common goal to improve learning and teaching experiences more effective, time saving, efficient and universal manner for higher education institution. 

All faculty members of Management Department actively participated with zeal and enthusiasm in order to explore and enrich their data driven decisions for students, courses and institution.

The conclave shared the Indian Government vision for progress and prosperity. Main guests and members of parliament in conclave who shared the Government’s vision were Mr.Anurag Thakur, Dr. Satyapal Singh, Mr. Varun Gandhi, Mr. Vijay Goel, Mr. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Mr.Babul Supriyo, Mr. K.C Tyagi, Mr. Baijayant Jai Panda.

The conclave's important areas of the discussion included Surgical Strike, Rural India manifesto, India ahead and social media. 
List of guests also included many important people from indian politics, policy makers, journalists and academicians.

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.