The key element in this process is the faculty. Understanding faculty’s role as a catalyst within a structured academic system is one of the most important pre- requisite for creating a great learning organization. Keeping this in focus Institute of Technology & Science, Ghaziabad organised a Faculty Development Programmes on “Entrepreneurship” from 16th to 27th January, 2017. Twenty three Participants from ITS & other institutes of Delhi NCR participated in FDP.

The program was inaugurated by Shri Venugopal Gupta, Head- incubation & venture accelerator centre. In his inaugural address Shri Venugopal Gupta highlighted the importance of entrepreneurial culture in an education institute, he talked about various aspects of entrepreneurship & several hardships which are associated with entrepreneurship. Dr. A.K. Puri, Director General, I.T.S Mohan Nagar presented overview of the program. Dr. S.P. Mishra, Advisor, I.T.S- The Education Group, with sensitization of participants towards Entrepreneurship FDP & its importance in today’s Scenario. Post Lunch Session was addressed by Dr. Rita Sen Gupta Ex-Director (B/S) - NIESBUD, she gave an overview of Entrepreneurial Qualities & Motivation Development.

Second & Third day was chaired by Dr. Rita Sen Gupta continued the session with exercise on entrepreneurial qualities, continuous exercises were done to collect data of participants on entrepreneurial qualities, so that participants can be motivated to become entrepreneur. Post lunch was on motivation development, to motivate faculty for promoting entrepreneurship in students.

Dr. Govind Sharma, an IPR expert from New Delhi was the keynote speaker for first session of Day Four. He discussed the relevance of IPR for entrepreneurs, especially technical entrepreneurs. How in present day scenario IPR plays an important role in building brand & he also shared various examples where copying of technology & patents were penalized in international courts. Post Lunch session was chaired by Mr. C.K. Sabharwal, MD Crop Health products Ltd. discussed how to sense business opportunity & identify a product & market for new product. New innovations & ways to identify new product was discussed.

Friday, 20th January, 2017 Day -5 was dedicated to financing options for entrepreneurs; First Session was addressed by Mr. Sunil Joshi, Expert & Prof. Sharda University, shared his expertise on different financing options for entrepreneurs. Traditional approach to seed funding & present day ease in getting seed funds, which made entrepreneurship a comparatively easy option. Role of different institutions & what are Do’s & Don’t for project report, from the point of view of financial institutes was discussed. Second session was chaired by Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Expert incubation- MSME, session was enlightening, various government incentives were disused, several new government schemes information was shared, Incubation centre requirements & how to set up incubation centre was shared, information about incubation in nearby areas. How MSME is helping in promoting entrepreneurship was discussed & in what ways we can help budding entrepreneurs in taking advantage of these schemes of government.

Saturday, 21st January, 2017 was dedicated for entrepreneurial competencies tools, techniques & Guidance, session was chaired by Dr. V.N. Bajpai, Associate Professor, I.T.S Mohan Nagar. Session begin with different innovations & new business ventures. Participants undertook a small exercise on Refrigeration industry; small groups were formed & analyzed various features in refrigerators, then groups were required to design a new product for refrigeration industry. Groups presented their products, marketing strategies were developed. Small competition took place. A unique type of refrigerator ‘Chotu Cool’ example of shared with audience.

Day-7 i.e. 23rd January, 2017, Group visited Mother Dairy Plant, Parparganj, Delhi. Participants interacted with concerned person & facilities were visited. Complete process from procurement to processing till final delivery was elaborated. Several quality checks implemented at different stages during the process were told. Visit gave a holistic view of enterprise management to participants.

Day-8 i.e. 24th January, 2017, Key note speaker for first session was Dr. A.K.Puri, Directr General, I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, session focuses on ‘Critical issues in Entrepreneurship development & growth’ Dr. Puri shared his expertise on creating entrepreneurial culture & what are the major challenges faced during this & how we as faculty can promote this culture in our organization & promote more students to take entrepreneurship as a career option. He explained the importance of entrepreneurial growth & role of a mentor. Second Session of the day was chaired by Mr. C.K. Sabharwal, MD, Crop- Health Product, addressed the need & importance of financial management in managing an enterprise, session was interactive & participants learned that not only raising of funds is important but how to effectively manage long term & day to day finances of venture.

On Day -9, i.e. 25th January, 2017, Mr. Girish Shivani, Director at yournest Angel Fund, a renowned name in Venture capital Industry of INDIA, enlightened the members about how do venture capitalist evaluates & appraises entrepreneurial venture. Role of Venture capitalist in promoting & how new entrepreneurs can leverage venture capital. Second session was chaired by Dr. Lokendra Tyagi, Expert, Personal management in Entrepreneurial Venture, explained the Need & importance of personnel management in managing an enterprise, during the session various interpersonal aspects were illustrated, that an entrepreneur shall take care. How to identify a right employee, what is expected from entrepreneur & employees especially in startups was discussed followed by a role play.

On Day -10 first session was addressed by Dr. S.P. Mishra on ‘Curriculum Planning and its presentation’, as the faculties are well equipped with knowledge this session explained different ways through which they can transfer their learning of FDP to their students & promote more entrepreneurs. Chief guest for valedictory session was Dr. Usha Dixit, Scientist "C", National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), addressed the gathering & shared various live examples which flourished under the aegis of NSTEDB, followed by certificate distribution.

22 faculty members from ITS Ghaziabad and Various other institutes took part in FDP. Fun filled knowledge rich and self exploring journey left faculty members with a new orientation about themselves & Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Peeyush Goyal, Technical Architect, Tata Consultancy Services, Noida & MCA Alumni 2004 batch pass out was the resource person for this session.The objective of this workshop was to make students aware about the Framework requirements for developing Mobile Apps.

While delivering his welcome address, Director-IT, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey said that we are privileged to have good support of our MCA Alumni and they are always ready to guide their juniors. He suggested the students to emphasize on the fundaments and basics of whatever they study and should be connected with the corporate.

Chairperson-MCA, Prof. Puja Dhar said that this is one of the proud moments for her to share the dias and listen her student as a speaker of the session. She advised all the students to clear their doubts regarding the career opportunities in the area of Mobile App development

While addressing the students, he discussed about the various topics like:

• Three Approaches of Technical Architecture
• Difference between Native Client, Web Client and Hybrid Client
• iOS-Native App Development
• Android –Native App Development
• Windows Phone – Native App Development

He also explained the detail Device Client Architecture of Native Client. He also discussed about the Mobile Middleware Architecture and Pros and Cons of each type of client. While addressing he also throw some light on Mobile Web Architecture. He also shared a video showing the usage of Technology in 2020 and also advised students to update their skills.

Overall it was an interactive and new learning session for students.

Before starting of the session, Mr. Ashish Bhatia was warmly welcomed by Dr Sunil Kr Pandey Director-IT by presented him a bouquet. In this session, Mr. Ashish Bhatia delivered talk on “UI Technologies and AngularJS”. He has discussed about AngularJS and also focused on NodeJS, ReactJS, Web Services and Agile Methodologies. The objective of this programme is in series of efforts to create a platform for faculty members to meet, listen & interact with the visionaries and experts who have contributed immensely in the domain of computer science & IT. Dr Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director-IT, I.T.S Ghaziabad delivered vote of thanks to Mr. Ashish. Mr. Ashish Bhatia also interacted with faculties and answered the queries raised during the session. It was a wonderful experience to have MCA Alumni Mr. Ashish Bhatia at the Institute (I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad) after about 15 Years and visit the infrastructure and facilities. During the interaction he shared his experience in the Industry and developments trends. He was overwhelmed and happy to see the growth of the Institute. This was a completely interactive & knowledge enriching session.

Before starting of the session, Mr. Pankaj Gupta was warmly welcomed by Dr Sunil Kr Pandey Director-IT by presented him a bouquet. In this session, Mr. Pankaj Gupta delivered talk on “Understanding Data Temperature & Analytics”. He has discussed about Data and also focused on with focused discussion on evolution of Database, Column based data access, SAP HANA, Performance issues, Memory Access, In-Memory Databases, Optimization issues in Data Access. This was a completely interactive & knowledge enriching session. The objective of this programme is in series of efforts to create a platform for faculty members to meet, listen & interact with the visionaries and experts who have contributed immensely in the domain of computer science & IT. Dr Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director-IT, I.T.S Ghaziabad delivered vote of thanks to Mr. Pankaj. Mr. Pankaj Gupta also interacted with faculties and answered the queries raised during the session.

In this session, pioneer of data structures & Computer Scientist Prof. Sartaj K. Sahani delivered talk on “Dimensions of Data Structures & Algorithms”.

In his address, he explained the concept of Time and energy efficient computing and importance of energy conservations. Prof. Sartaj K. Sahni enlightened on the impact of energy efficient computing in information technology, evaluation of system performance along with time and energy metrics, involvement of super computers into these computing techniques, top 5 well established super computers, K Computers, Tianhe-1A, Jaguar, Ncubulae, Tsubane 2.0 , single core, multicore architechture, gaming industry, GPU, multithreaded programming, cache matrix multiplication.

He provided a detailed insight with his recent research and latest technique - Matrix Multiplication on GPUs. He also explained the method for effective programming by using example of matrix multiplication in terms of less memory consumption. He described that legacy single core codes will need to be rewritten to benefit from future advances in computer architecture and GPU performance can be increased if we do programming with millions of threads. Dr Sunil Kr. Pandey, Director-IT, I.T.S Ghaziabad delivered vote of thanks to Prof. Sartaj K. Sahni.Prof. Sartaj K. Sahni also interacted with faculties and answered the queries raised during the session.

In this session, Mr. Vitaly delivered talk on “Wireless Communications, Industrial Automation and Internet of Things”. He has discussed on different dimension of Applications of IT, in Agriculture. This was a completely interactive & knowledge enriching session in which Mr. Vitaly addressed the queries, concerns and issues of faculty members. During this sessions were relevant issues as mentioned below, were answered & addressed,:

• Current Situation of Agriculture in India
• Enhancement in Traditional Agriculture by incorporating latest Technologies
• IoT based System Composition
• Country wise Quality of Product Survey

In addition to above many other queries of faculty members were addressed.

In this session, Prof. San Murugesan delivered talk on “Perspective of Research Issues & Publications”. He has discussed about “issues in research publications” and also focused on "How to write research papers" in journal/magazine/letters repute. This was a completely interactive & knowledge enriching session in which Prof. San addressed the queries, concerns and issues of faculty members. During this sessions were relevant issues as mentioned below, were answered & addressed,:

• Opportunities for Publications and their scope
• Differentiating the requirements of publications for Journals, Magazines, Letters, Book Chapters
• How to frame & structure a Quality Research Paper
• Why Title of Papers and Abstracts are important
• Why, in most cases, Papers are rejected even before initial review
• What are the factors considered while selecting a paper by a reviewer in any standard good journal
• Significance of Impact Factor, its objective and does it really matter?
• Research work should be taken up further to validate its Practicality

In addition to above many other queries of faculty members were addressed.

The Conference was Sponsored/ Technically Supported by Computer Society of India, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, Bank of Baroda, ISACA, International Journal of Computer Applications, USA and International Transactions in Mathematical Sciences & Computer. On Day-1, Eminent Speakers including Shri Anil Swarup, Secretary to Govt. of India, Ministry of Coal & an IAS Officer of 1981 Batch known for his contribution in Ministry of Coal & brain behind reforms in Coal Block Allotment through e-Auction process, Founder Vice Chancellor of GGSIP University, Delhi - Prof. K.K. Aggarwal, Renowned Smart Cities & E-Governance Expert - Shri Shushovon Saha and Prof. Frank Bond from Goldsmith University of London, London addressed the gathering during the inaugural Session. Thereafter parallel Paper Presentations were organized. On Day-2: Shri M.S. Vilkhu, Chief of Information Security & Head Airtel Africa, Shri Nafees Ahmed - Group CIO Indiabulls Group, Shri Ajay Shrivastava - CTO of OYO Rooms, Prof. MN Hoda, National Chairman - CSI Div-I, Prof. Sanjay Tanwani, Professor & Head - School of Computer Science, Devi Ahilyabai University, Indore, Shri. Praveen Pipara, General Manager at SOPRA Group and other eminent Guests addressed the gathering during the two days of this International Conference. During the conference, the gathering of the Conference was also addressed by renowned guests & experts through video conferencing. These included : Shri Ajay Kumar, Regional MD, Asia Pacific, Entrusted Datacard(Singapore), Shri S. Sridhar, Vice President, HCL Insys, Singapore, Shri Renato De Castro, Executive Director, Bouman Consultany, Padova, Itlay, Shri. Pavan Malladi, CIO, Dhiraagu Telecom, Bahrain,Shri Pankaj Gupta, General Manager, PSE, Washington, Mr. Gautam Hazari, Worldwide Technical Director - GSMA (Heading 5G Project). In addition to above Parallel Paper Presentation Sessions were organized on both the days in which Research paper Contributors presented their papers. These sessions were addressed by seasoned academicians. On Day-2 of the Conference, In afternoon, parallel Paper Presentation Sessions were scheduled in which Research Scholars, faculty members and students presented their Papers which were assessed & evaluated by Team of Session Chairs & Co-Chairs and based on their recommendations Best Paper Awards were given. Best Paper Award ws given to Dr. K.N. Mishra from BIT - MESRA, Dr. S.C. Pandey, BIT MESRA and Dr. Sanjay Singh from Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, Uttrakhand. The Conference was concluded with a grand success witnessing participation of International Guests, Delegates, large number of delegates, Research Scholars and students of UG & PG Programs.