The activity was in Two Rounds:- The first round of the activity was by floating Google form to the participants through link in which Reasoning and Aptitude questions were there containing 30 questions, which has to be done in 15 minutes

The second round of the activity was An Extempore round which checked the ability of the students that how much they are confident and able to communicate on virtual forum with their best of knowledge. The participants spoke on their respective topics allotted to them by the club on the spot and they were having 2minutes to speak.

Judging was based on 3 criteria: Content, Communication skills, Confidence level.

The activity started sharp at 4.00PM with the introduction video. We had our seniors as the judge of the competition. Out of 8 participants, top 3 performers of the activity were awarded with Appreciation Certificate and rest others were given the Participation Certificate.

The Activity was conducted by Finvest Club members of 2020- 22 batch under the guidance & supervision of Finvest club coordinator Dr. Anurag Bahadur Singh & the senior member of batch 2019-21.

Mr Piyush pratap singh secured first position, second position Ms. Anjali Sharma and at third by Sparsh singhal.

Batch by  Mr. Syed Rahim, Senior Director – CSC- Manthan, Middle East & Africa on the topic  “Digitalization- Revolutionizing Marketing Strategy" on 25th  January, 2021

Mr. Syed Rahim explained that Digital marketing strategies and platforms are evolving at an astounding rate requiring all marketers and companies to be creative and innovative to keep up with the trends. He further added that now companies need to concentrate on Identifying the ‘inflection points’ indicating a shift in the customer’s needs.

Ms. Syed said that AI technologies are the future of work, because they enable companies to collect, analyze and apply data in the right place at the right time. There is enormous potential for increasing sales by enabling businesses to make informed data-driven decisions and improve personalization.

Mr. Rahim emphasised that companies does not need to complete overhaul of their digital marketing initiatives. Instead, businesses can adopt a strategic evolution of their digital marketing strategies and how they engage with customers.

The session was very participative. There were various queries from the student’s side, regarding the digitalization. The Session was concluded by honouring her with a virtual plaque and a special vote of thanks.

successfully completed  AICTE sponsored Six Day Short Term Training Programme (STTP) under AQIS  Quality Teaching and Research  fromJANUARY 18-23, 2021 organized by IMI Bhubaneswar.

The STTP  was focused towards conceptual overview and hands on experience on many facets like Teaching pedagogies , Creating effective presentation for class ,Case method of teaching ,Research problem and research ,Introduction to multivariate data analysis , Creating a manuscript publishable in an international journal .The  6 days course was packed with session delivered by the eminent speakers from IMI Bhubaneswar and other reputed institutions

Theoverall objective of STTP was to familiarize participants with updated pedagogical tools and techniques and to develop among participants the competency to assess a business predicament under uncertainty and choose the appropriate research technique to generate relevant insight. The program also highlighted how to publish in high category journals. Participants also got an insight of multivariate statistical methods for quality research.

The training program was enriched with learning and knowledge.

While addressing the students Director-IT, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey said that NetajiSubhas Chandra Boseis known for his role in India's independence movement. A participant of the non-cooperation movement and a leader of the Indian National Congress. He was brave and a great freedom fighter, a great diplomat with full of patriotism. He was a brilliant student and intellectual and cleared the Civil Service exam in his first attempt. He was a true freedom fighter. He also appreciated the participation of students in various activities like speech and poem recitation.

Prof. Puja Dhar, Chairperson- MCA said while addressing said that students should follow the foot-steps of the freedom fighters like Neta Ji Subash Chandra Bose. He was a bright student as well as a good leader. She also appreciated the efforts of students of MCA who on a short notice prepared for this occasion.

Prof. Smita Kansal, Coordinator-MCA also wished students best luck and said that they too should build patriotism within them and should work for the betterment of country.

Faculty members of Department of I.T. also participated on this occasion by reciting poem and some presented their views on the biography of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose.

Students participated with full patriotism and were well prepared for this occasion. Their participation made this celebration more patriotic.

The objective behind the event was to create the brands and general awareness of products used in COVID 19 among the students by making videos about these products of their new brand.

The activity was conducted in Two rounds. In the first round, students were asked to make a short video of 60 seconds upon the marketing of the products of their own brand used in the period of COVID 19 pandemic. A link was provided to everyone on the Gmail account where they have to upload that video. Out of these videos 10 innovative videos was shortlisted for the second round of the activity. Second round will be question & answer round where few questions were asked from these video presenters.

A filler round was also kept for the audience as well, the audience has to identify the brand logos and CEO for the images displayed on their screen.

The Top Three winners were as follows: -

First                      :     Shefali Saini, Section- C

Second                 :     Piyush Pratap Singh, Section-C

Third                    :     Saurabh Vaish,22 Section-C & Riya Aggarwal, Section-D

The Activity was immensely informative, Elucidative and interactive, student remained captivated throughout the activity.

The Activity was performed under the supervision of Club Coordinator Dr. Garima Srivastav

Mr Anand Rai started the webinar with his experiences. He suggested the students to understand the market in a very practical method and also told that books have only theoretical knowledge, but the students need to update themselves in current general awareness. He also asked to spend more time in libraries or with books and the students should also need to focus on research sections as they really enhance our knowledge and analytical thinking.

In the current scenario of COVID 19 which is pandemic, it is not at all difficult to grab a job but it only depends on our skills and talent. If we have it then we'll definitely get a job.

As the organization want proactive employees so the candidate need to keep themselves updated  so that they can make themselves available for the organization with right and needed qualifications.

He also shared his the experience that we need to focus on our buyer because not all the time our consumer and a customer is the same person, so we need to focus on the buyers and partially on decision influencer also.

The webinar was really interactive and knowledge for the students. Director Management Dr Vidya Sekhri has also joined the session and addressed the audience with her words of wisdom. She presented the virtual plaque as a token of gratitude and remembrance. Students enjoyed the session. 

Department of I.T., I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad organized VIBGYOR-2021, an inter-institutional Technical Fest in association with CSI Student Branch, Ghaziabad during 19th& 20th January, 2021. The inaugural ceremony was scheduled on 19th January, 2021. While addressing in the inaugural ceremony, Director-IT, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey said that I.T.S, Ghaziabad always believes in providing the platform where students can showcase their talent in various activities. He also congratulated the team VIBGYOR-2021 for their efforts & huge participation in the each activity. Initially Prof. Puja Dhar,  Coordinator-VIBGYOR-2021 welcomed all the participants and Prof. Saurabh Saxena, Coordinator-VIBGYOR-2021  briefed about the different activities of both days. Prof. Smita Kansal, Coordinator-VIBGYOR-2021 briefed about the rules and regulations of each activity. At the end of inaugural ceremony Prof. Varun Arora, Coordinator-VIBGYOR-2021 delivered the vote of thanks.

There were more than 4000 Registration of students all across the country covering almost all the states of the Country including Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nada, M.P., Bihar, Maharashtra, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Gujpat, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, West Bengal, J&K and Assam in all Technical Activities including C Programming, IT Quiz, Poster Presentation, Java Quiz, Project Idea Presentation, C Quiz, Extempore and General Quiz having over 600 Registration in each of the Activities.

We had received good responses from the students of different institutes of the country. The  registration details in each activity is mentioned below:

Sr. No.

Activity

No. of Online Registrations received

1

IT Quiz

622

2

C Quiz

650

3

C Programming

563

4

Poster Making

277

5

Project Idea Presentation

280

6

General Quiz

692

7

Extempore

275

8

Java Quiz

447

9

Online Presentation

288

 

On Day-1 i.e. 19th January, 2021inaugural session was followed by  different technical activities including General Quiz, C-Programming, Poster Presentation, Online Presentation, Extempore and Project Idea Presentation. Participants were very enthusiastic in each activity.

Each activity was coordinated & Judged by Faculty members of Department of I.T (PG & UG both)

Day-1(19-Jan-2021)

Sr. No.

Activity

Time

Faculty Coordinator

1

General Quiz

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

Prof. Saurabh Saxena/

Prof. Smita Kansal

2

C-Programming

11:15 AM-12:45 PM

Prof. Abhay Kumar Ray/  

Prof. Varun Arora

3

Extempore

01:15 PM onwards

Prof. Puja Dhar/ Prof. Varun Arora

4

Project Idea Presentation

01:15 PM onwards

Prof. K.P. Singh/ Prof. Neeraj Jain

5

Online Presentation

01:15 PM onwards

Dr. Umang/ Prof. Shreyta Raj

6

Poster Presentation

01:15 PM onwards

Prof. Smita Kansal/

Prof. Barkha Kakkar

 

On Day-2 i.e. 20thJanuary, 2021 other different technical activities were conducted including IT-Quiz, Java-Quiz and C-Quiz. There was a huge registration in each activity.

Each activity was coordinated & Judged by Faculty members of Department of I.T (PG & UG both)

Day-2(20-Jan-2021)

Sr. No.

Activity

Time

Faculty Coordinator

1

IT Quiz

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

Dr. Umang/

 Prof. Smita Kansal

2

Java Quiz

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Prof. K.P. Singh/

Prof. Saurabh Saxena

3

C-Quiz

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Prof. Abhay Kr. Ray/

Mr. Balmukund Singh

 

On Day-2 i.e. 20th January, 2021 at the end of all the activities, online Prize-distribution ceremony was organized. While addressing the students, Director-IT, Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey congratulated all the winners of all the activities. He said that participation is more important than winning the contest. It is appreciated that students from various institutes dare to participate and compete in that activity with huge competitors. He also congratulated the faculty coordinators of VIBGYOR-2021, Prof. Puja Dhar, Prof. Saurabh Saxena, Prof. Smita Kansal and Prof. Varun Arora for the success of this Online Mega Event.

The winners of the various activities  are as follows:

 

 

C-Programming Winners

Position

Name of Participant

Institute

State

First

Rahul Datta

Institute of Technology and Science

UP

Second

Shashikant Kumar

International School of Management Patna

Bihar

Third

Prakhar Gupta

Maharaja Surajmal Institute

Delhi

 

GENERAL QUIZWinners

Position

Participant Name

Institute Name

State

First

Anshika Bhatnagar

Institute of Technology and Science

Uttar Pradesh

Second

Saksham Sabharwal

The NorthCap University

Delhi

Third

Diya Susan Eapen

Saintgits College of Engineering

Kerala

 

PROJECT IDEA PRESENTATIONWinners

Position

Participant Name

Institute Name

State

First

Pagadala Sumanth

K. G. Reddy college of Engineering and Technology

Telangana

Second

Jatin Mishra

BBDU

UP

Third

Chitra Maurya

ITS Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad

UP

 

POSTER PRESENTATIONWinners

Position

Participant Name

Institute Name

State

First

Sheetal Prajapati

ATC

MP

Second

Chandramouli S

S.A Engineering College

Tamil Nadu

Second

Tarun Kotagiri

KG Reddy college of engineering and technology

Telangana

Third

Savez

I. T. S, Ghaziabad

Uttar Pradesh

 

EXTEMPOREWinners

Position

Participant Name

Institute Name

State

First

Vikas Mishra

Greater Noida Institute of Technology (GNIOT), Greater Noida

U.P.

Second

Retik Singh

Dhole Patil College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Third

Nancy Sharma

Allen Institute of technology

U.P.

Third

Chitra Maurya

Institute of Technology and Science, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad

U.P

ONLINE PRESENTATIONWinners

Position

Participant Name

Institute Name

State

First

Chitra Maurya

I.T.S, Ghaziabad

UP

Second

Sunil Singh

Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Lucknow

UP

Third

Tarun Kotagiri

KG Reddy College of Engineering and Technology,Hyderabad

Hyderabad

Third

Arshad Raja

I.T.S, Ghaziabad

UP

 

JAVA QUIZWinners

Position

Participant Name

Institute Name

State

First

V GANESH

Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science

Telangana

Second

Badam Jwala Sri Hari

Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science

Telangana

Third

Romesh Varshney

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

UP

 

IT QUIZWinners

Position

Participant Name

Institute Name

State

First

Vasu Sharma

I.T.S, Ghaziabad

UP

Second

Romesh Varshney

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

UP

Third

Prakhar Gupta

Maharaja Surajmal Institute

Delhi

 

C-QUIZWinners

Position

Participant Name

Institute Name

State

First

Vaibhav Sharma

Institute of Technology and Science

Uttar Pradesh

Second

Rahul Datta

Institute of Technology and Science

Uttar Pradesh

Third

V Ganesh

Kakatiya institute of technology and science

Telangana

 

At the end of the event all the winners were awarded with online merit certificates. Students had shown full enthusiasm in each activity. The event concluded on a grand Note with the display of high degree of competitiveness, sportsman spirit and great display of technical, logical and interpersonal skills & abilities. Prof. Saurabh Saxena ,Prof. Puja Dhar, Prof. Smita Kansal and Prof. Varun Arora were the Faculty Coordinators of this Mega Event.

on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. The activity was online so that students could participate from their homes during pandemic situation due to Covid 19.

This event focused on analyzing the IQ scores and knowledge of the students through an online quiz using the google forms. There were 30 questions related to the Taglines, CEOs and Logos of the various Indian companies which seems to be foreign and the total allotted time was about 15 minutes.There was active participation as we recorded 79 responses for the event. The questions were tricky but simple to test the knowledge of the students.

There were top three winners of the event. The active participants were more enthusiastic to anlyse themselves, and were influential for the success of this event. This activity also helped the students in building their resumes and knowledge.

The winners were as follows:

1.     Vikash Kumar

2.     Prakhar Chauhan

3.     Avinash Dixit

Overall feedback we received was overwhelmingly positive.

Ms Marina Kharitonashviliaddressed and interacted with our students of Computer Applications at I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad on 14th January 2021.

The topic of his talk was “Challenges and Opportunities to Study in Abroad”. In this session, Ms. Sujeda talked about the best European universities include UK, Swiss, Swedish and German institutions.

Ms. Sujeda told that increasingly competition at global, the education sector  is undergoing a moment of far-reaching transformation that urges onto an accurate reflection around educational offer in the fields of architecture, design and engineering.She has also focused on global opportunities in work Europe, industry partners and students’ life style in different university too.

 

Overall, it was a unique and very knowledge enriching session which was followed by a Q & A session which lasted for about one and a half hour in which queries of students were addressed.

Dr. Feza Tabassum Azmi is a renowned Professor at Faculty of Management Studies & Research, Aligarh Muslim University. She is the author of the book on Strategic Human Resource Management published by Cambridge University Press, University of Cambridge (UK).

The guest was welcomed by Director Management, Dr. (Prof) Vidya Sekhri, who enlightened the students with her words of wisdom. In the beginning of the session, Dr. Feza highlighted the tremendous change taking place in the organization and the emerging need for flexible organizational structures. She elaborated the rise of the gig economy and how the focus on flexible project-based work is gaining popularity. Businesses today are looking for agility and responsiveness and for that they have to quickly respond to the challenges posed by the dynamic and turbulent environment. She explained the contemporary organization designs like Hyperarchy which paves way for a fluid, team based, cross functional collaborative work arrangement. She also highlighted the fact that there will be no innovation or free thinking if there will be too much of hierarchy. She also talked about the concept of Velcro organization which is based on easy fastening and unfastening of Velcro hooks by quoting examples of FORD & General Motors. She further discussed about the virtual organization/communities as- HUB & SPOKE design.

It was a very insightful session and students participated enthusiastically as they raised a number of queries which were addressed by Dr. Feza. At the end, a virtual plaque was presented to Dr. Feza as a token of gratitude and remembrance.

The virtual summit was graced by the presence of three guests of honour:

·            Mr. Amanjot Malhotra, Director of Product Management at LCX, Gurgaon

·            Mr. Atul Tripathi, Data Scientist Ex-National Security Council Secretariat (Prime Minister’s Office) Advisor IISER, Mohali, Delhi, India

·            Dr. Sindhu Bhaskar, Chairman and CEO of EST Group EST Global Inc(Cambridge Innovation Center, MIT, USA) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States).

The session commenced with the welcome address by Prof.(Dr.) Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management).

The first speaker Mr.Amanjot Malhotra started the session by giving a brief presentation on Introduction of Blockchain and Its Use Cases.He explained how  blockchain has evolved over the years and why blockchain technology is the future.He mentioned that blockchain was introduced after the financial crisis of 2008 and since then,it is experiencing exponential growth.

He then explained the working of blockchain in a simplified way and highlighted that it is basically a network in which a millions of nodes are present to validate the transaction and depends on a decentralised entity making it a safe,transparent and tamper proof  technology.He described some of the services provided by the blockchain like money services,payroll and insurance, and many more, and also explained how the blockchain concept can be implemented for a liquid democracy, what advantages blockchain technology can bring to supply chains,how problems of document manipulation can be fixed with blockchain technology and how the blockchain is related with IoT(The Internet of Things).

The next speaker, Mr. Atul Tripathi (Data Scientist Ex-National Security Council Secretariat (Prime Minister’s Office) Advisor IISER, Mohali) carried forward the blockchain discussion towards the Career Path and Opportunities in Block Chain and Data Analytics for management students.He emphasised the importance of  maths, statistics, programming and communication skills for a data scientist. He motivated the students to get certifications for technical and non-technical courses in Blockchain. Before ending he effectively answered the queries of the students regarding the opportunities in the field of data analytics and Blockchain.

Dr. Sindhu Bhaskar (Chairman and CEO of EST Group , EST Global Inc.( Cambridge Innovation Center , MIT , USA) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)enlightened the students on “Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Fintech Application in India” and also talked about emerging Fintech (Finance + Technology) & different faces of Indian Fintech where he spoke about payment and settlements, lending, supply chain & higher technology. He also talked about trends in Indian fintech where he explained Box Banking, P2P Lending, Financial Inclusion, AI and IOT based Security.

Towards the end of each session, Q/A round was held in which the guest speakers answered all the questions of the students and cleared all their doubts regarding blockchain technologies.

The summit was attended by around 400 management students of I.T.S School of Management,Ghaziabad. It was truly an enlightening session for all the participants.At the end of each session,Dr.Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management) ITS presented a virtual plaque as a token of gratitude and remembrance to the guest speakers and thanked them for sharing such valuable insights on the blockchain technology and fintech.

Fellow of IEEE, ACM Distinguished Scientist addressed and interacted with our students of Computer Applications at I.T.S Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad.

The topic of his Talk was “Ambient Intelligence for Smart Living”. During his talk, Prof. Piuri spoke about Adaptivity by using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Biometrics in a Worldwide Cloud-based Environment. He also addressed the issues related to Ambient Intelligence including technology for ambient environment, Infrastructure Technology convergence for integrated pervasive support to ambient intelligence. He also talked about various Technologies including AI & ML, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics. Characterizing individuals, AI for Data Fusion. Overall it was a unique, research-based, and very knowledge enriching session which was followed by a Q & A session which lasted for about one and a half hour in which queries of students were addressed.

addressed the gathering in Online Session on “Writing Research Papers for a Productive Career” on 4.2.2021. Prof Fung told that research process allows individual to gain expertise on a topic of respective choice, and the writing process helps the researcher to remember what individual have learned and understand it on a deeper level. Publication is very important in the academic career as research provides information and knowledge. Research and publications are crucial and essential to grow and prospect in an academic career. Prof Fung suggested how we should take care of citations and indexing to keep it with the trend. He told about publication plan, frequency of publication; worthiness of publishing material, selection of publishing editor; Important measurables after the publication of the paper. The session was very interactive, informative, and knowledge enriching for the faculty and students. Participants have asked the queries during the session with speakers. It was an overall good experience for participated Faculty & Students.

The invited Speaker for the occasion was Dr. V. K. Arora , CEO of Indira Gandhi Technical University for women IGDTUW - Anveshan Foundation. He is also a trainer in entrepreneurship, strategic management and the functional areas of management.

In her welcome address, Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director – Management, and President, IIC ITS, advised the students to stay dedicated and try to make most of the crisis instead of making excuses. She also emphasised that students must be courageous enough to take risks because every failure brings you one step closer to success.

Dr .V.K. Arora greeted the students by describing how a policy towards innovation helps in building a strong path for entrepreneurship and also justifies the role of the government and its support services. Dr Arora spoke about the various aspects of entrepreneurship like unemployment, GDP, VUCA environment etc. He discussed about the improved ranking of India since 2014 with regard to the ease of doing business and also threw some light on the vision of our Honourable Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, including the push towards an Atma-Nirbhar Bharat.

He emphasised upon the Triple Helix Model and the role of the incubation centres at different levels in the corporate world. He also advised students to think innovatively and encouraged them to visit the various government portals like those for Startup India etc. He also highlighted that "When there is problem, there is an opportunity"; in other words students need to work on the problem part and try to come up with different innovative ideas.

The session was very interactive and encouraging; students participated with zeal and raised a variety of queries at the end. The session concluded with the presentation of a virtual plaque by the Director (Management) as a token of gratitude to Dr. Arora. Dr Rajeev Johari, Convener, IIC ITS, praised Dr Arora for his insightful ideas and expressed the hope for similar interactions in future.

The main objective of this activity was to enhance the knowledge of the students about the famous books, authors and writers like Valmiki, Tulsidas, Shakespeare, Aristotle, Plato etc. who died centuries ago but the books written by them are living and are still guiding us.

There were two rounds in the online activity. The first round of activity scheduled on 24 Dec 2020,was a quiz based on current affairs. Total 10 students were shortlisted for the second round.

The second round of activity, scheduled on 29 Dec 2020 from 3:30 pm, was conducted on a virtual platform-zoom. Each participant was asked four questions related to prominent authors/books/novelists and thirty seconds time was given for a single question.

All the participants performed really well and all the students have gained some knowledge from this enthralling and informative activity.

Winners of this online activity were:-

1.     Shrang Singh (Sec. A) secured 1st position.

2.     Anjali Sharma (Sec. A) secured 2nd position.

3.     Tisha Gupta(Sec. A) secured 3rd position.

Winners and all the participants were felicitated with e-certificates.

This online activity was a great success where students got an opportunity to build up their awareness about the renowned authors/books/novelists.