e- Summit program had received an overwhelming response with registrations of 700+ participants which includes 394 Faculty members from 345 institutes and participants from the different foreign countries as well. The e-Summit had the enlightening and insightful two sessions. All the renowned Resource Persons were IIM Alumni, and presented deep insights of Strategies adopted by the organizations to overcome the challenges of Covid-19 and measures to adopt this New Normal in our life.                                                                                                        

These were really informative sessions by the following renowned Expert Speakers:

1. Ms. Madhusmita Aggrawal, Director Operations Support Services, Thales India Ltd(Alumnus-IIM Lucknow
2. Dr. Asit Mohapatra, Secretary Board of Governors, IIM Ranch
3. Ms. Monica Srivasatva, Lead Corporate Communications,Oracle (Alumnus-IIM Lucknow)
4. Prof. Dr. Jyoti Rana, Director Centre of Excellence for Innovative Leadership and Entrepreneurship (Alumnus-IIM Ahemdabad)
5. Mr. Prateek Agrawal, Head Finance (Modelling and Valuation), Asian Paints(Alumnus - IIM Indore)
6. Mr. Nitin Sharma, Director Solution Sales, South Asia, Dormakaba, BOG Member at IIMShillong (Alumnus-IIM Ahemdabad)

Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, ITS - The Education Group presented his address and shared about the major life changing situations arising out of the Corona crisis how the businesses have to undergo a complete 180-degree transition.

Welcome address was presented by Director (Management), Dr. Vidya Sekhri. She shared the objectives of this e-summit and encapsulated that how the world is quietly gravitating towards this New Normal.During the Session-I, Ms. Madhusmita Aggrawal and delivered a very informative session about the various norms adopted by Thales India and other organizations, both within the country and outside. Dr. Asit Mohapatra, referred to the impact of Covid-19 in the Education Sector and also suggested various methods to the students to make themselves employable during this time and tried to draw participant’s attention towards the specialized skills and learning.

Ms. Monica Srivastava, discussed with the students the changing landscape of Advertising and Branding Post Covid-19. She also enlightened the participants with the new methods of collaboration, sharing values and agility among organizations.Prof. Dr. Jyoti Rana, presented an interactive session and discussed the changing role of Leadership post Covid-19, She also emphasized on the concept of Leadership with empathy for Purpose, which will be the key for teams to succeed.Mr. Prateek Agrawal, presented the comprehensive view of the Challenges in the Paint Industry post Covid-19, and how the industries are using this time as an opportunity to diversify and innovate.Mr. Nitin Sharma, delivered a very motivating and inspiring session with the special emphasis on the different needs of Students during this pandemic. He suggested various learning tools to the students and motivated them to work on themselves and explore their uniqueness.

The e-Summit marked out an intellectually profitable learning program for everyone.

All the participants sincerely appreciated the deep insightful sessions delivered by all the IIM Alumni Resource Speakers during the e-Summit on Progressing in the Covid-19 World –The New Normal.

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for management students under the Leadership Talk series.  The Talk was delivered by the distinguished speaker Ms. Shalu Manan, VP- HR Transformation, Genpact.  The objective of this webinar was to make students aware about how to deal with Covid and to better prepare for a tough 2020 and 2021. The session started with a formal welcome address by Prof. (Dr.) Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management) followed her thoughts on the present crisis of Covid 19. Ms Shalu Manan congratulated I.T.S- The Education Group for completing it’s 25 years of existence. She said that life as we know has changed forever, old operating models will not be helpful, as measures of success have transformed.

She emphasised on understanding that “Every End has a New Beginning” and suggested to accept the new reality, as denial and depression are not going to help. She advised students to learn new skills, and find their IKIGI (a Japanese concept), a reason for being. She motivated participants by sharing that every journey has a secret destination, the traveller does not know about. At the end of the session many questions related to HR Roles post Covid 19, how to collaborate with virtual environment, internships, priorities of HR Department and work life balance were raised. Dr. Vivek Pachauri extended a vote of thanks for such an informative session by Ms Shalu Manan. Prof Yachana Malhotra moderated the session very well.

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by Mr Piyush Kumar Srivastava, alumni of MBA 2011-13 batch on 31st May, 2020. He is currently working as a Branch manager at Prathama Gramin Bank. The session was organised to make aware students about the upcoming challenges in the banking industry. In his talk Mr Piyush has explained about the challenges the banking industry is facing especially in rural areas. He has advised the students to keep them updated with the current news related to the banking industry and the announcement made by RBI. He has also laid emphasis on the communication skills of the students and advised work on English communication skills and And the vocabulary. He has also shared his good memories at the institute.

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Trainer for the session was Mr Avinash Jain, and renowned corporate trainer, he has taken training for WHO, RBI, Microsoft and many other companies. The session was organised with the motive of providing a basic and advanced platform to the students. The award show was organised for PGDM and MBA students of the institute. Mr Avinash make students aware about how to make formulas, dashboarding and other tools of MS Excel. Total 196 students in 5 faculty members have attended the workshop.

Mr Avinash also related the applications of MS Excel with all the disciplines of Management.

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The Conference was attended by over 700+ Participants from 32 States of the Country and from other countries including Dubai, South Africa, Malawi, Bangladesh, Malaysia etc attended the event with over 3500+ LIVE views at Facebook Live on Friday, 29th May 2020. In this event,

Shri Vishal Vikram Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police - STF - UP Police and Shri Rahul Mishra, Cyber Security Advisor - UP Police and Shri Vineet Love, Director (Cyber Security) - Mazar India were the Key Resource Persons. During the Session various real life cases of Cyber Crimes, causes and their possible solutions were discussed by the Resource persons. Earlier Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, ITS - The Education Group, Ghaziabad welcomed the Guests. On this occasion, Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey, Director (IT & UG) briefed about the objectives and significance of the Topic. Proff .Nancy Sharma, Vice principal (UG) also welcomed the Guests.

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Trainer for the session was Mr Avinash Jain, and renowned corporate trainer, he has taken training for WHO, RBI, Microsoft and many other companies. The session was organised with the motive of providing a basic and advanced platform to the students. The award show was organised for PGDM and MBA students of the institute. Mr Avinash make students aware about how to make formulas, dashboarding and other tools of MS Excel. Total 196 students in 5 faculty members have attended the workshop.

Mr Avinash also related the applications of MS Excel with all the disciplines of Management.

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The session started with a warm welcome of Mr. Jain, by Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management). In her opening remarks, Dr. Sekhri said, the new work-from-home reality in which we’re living in, brought enormous challenges and opportunities at both personal and professional front. One’s ability to adapt to these changes will decide success and growth in the days to come.

Mr. Sukesh Jain, shared his thoughts on the topic with multiple examples of his own life experiences with a variety of organizations, he was associated with in the past, including Airtel, and Motorola. He emphasized on being a continuous learner and shared that quick learning in both B2C and B2B segments has made him adaptable to different business environments leading to transforming & significantly growing revenue & margins.  He said that in this pandemic situation planning cycles are shrinking, predicting future growth trajectories are difficult, business assumptions that once were used to be guarantee for success are now being questioned.

It was great to have such deeper insights on the issue by the expert. At the end, Director Management, Dr. Vidya Sekhri proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Jain for sparing his valuable time and enriching the participants of the webinar with his words of wisdom.

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Dr Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management) extended a warm welcome to the guest and said that Constant change and disruption in the market is affecting business and career. One should make use of this time to upgrade one’s skills. Upgrading skills can not only help to take on new tasks at work, but also increase your ability to articulate to employers, how you can make a difference in the job assigned to you.
Mr. Manpreet Singh Manna in a very interactive session made participants understand, Self realization as key to success. He said that we should always learn to trust our own culture, own language, own religion, wherever we are. He shared meaningful life lessons and experiences among the young participants. He said that there is no better teacher than grandparents. Until and unless young generations spend their time with their grandparents, they would not learn new things and our culture will not reach our children.
The initiative to have such speakers with extensive exposure and outlook was appreciated by all participants. Director Management, Dr Vidya Sekhri ended the webinar with vote of thanks to the guest for his encouraging talk and sharing his own life lessons and perspective towards life and goal. Prof Yachana Malhotra, the moderator of the session thanked everyone who supported to make this session a very successful one. 

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In this Summit, Top Industry Leaders, Global Experts and Seasoned academicians addressed the participants in this Summit about the forced rapid speed of Technology adoption, un-prepared Migration to Digital Platform from conventional processes and systems, challenges involved and how to make sure these challenges are overcome and organizations, especially Academic Institutions are ready to accept & respond to changing New Normal. The discussion was also focused on Impact on Businesses and How much we are equipped with infrastructure and what challenges are present in building a competent ICT Infrastructure to deal with such situation. In the Summit following experts shared their perspective with audience:

1. Shri Arvind Thakur, Advisor to Board, NIIT Technologies & Ex. Vice Chairman, CEO and Managing Director, NIIT Technologies

2. Prof. Vineet Kansal, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow

3. Shri Jay Chaudhary, Chairman & CEO, Zscaler Inc., San Jose, California, USA

4. Shri Renato de Castro, Global Smart City Expert, Rovolon, Italy

5. Shri S. Sridhar, Vice President, Tata Communications, Bangalore

6. Shri Bohitesh Misra, COO & Chief technology Officer, Xiphais, Bangalore

7. Shri Ankit Jhamb, Associate Director - Learning & Development, KPMG & FOunder - AaoKhilayen

8. Shri Abhinav Sinha, Co-Founder & CEO, Eko

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The session started with the welcome of the guest by Dr Vidya Sekhri followed by address of Shri Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S The Education Group. He shared that Flexibility, Innovativeness, Dynamism and being Relevant are key success mantras for every company to survive and grow. He reminded participants to be optimistic and futuristic to win over the tough times. Dr Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management) highlighted the importance of such sessions that provide opportunity to supplement classroom learning with the experiences and knowledge sharing by the experts like Mr Manish Kumar. Mr Kumar covered in depth the functioning of a media industry, revenue models of media company and the challenges & opportunities media companies have due to global pandemic. He shared that Covid-19 pandemic is disrupting every industry, media industry is not an exception. It has  created both opportunities and challenges. On one hand, social distancing has led to an increase in at-home media consumption and an upswing in numbers to news providers for timely and trusted information. At the same time, some of the most valuable programmes —such as live sports are being cancelled or postponed, leading to spending reallocations by advertisers and drop in income for media companies.

Students and faculty members participated in webinar with great enthusiasm and asked several questions. It was a great learning for all the  participants.

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Dr. Vidya Sekhri, Director (Management) extended a warm welcome to the guest. The interactive webinar started with the opening remarks of Mr. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman of I.T.S – The Education Group. He encouraged students to be optimistic and use such wonderful opportunities to learn more about current industry trends. He said that the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity is our attitude towards it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

Mrs. Ritika Jatin Ahuja shared a comprehensive analysis of import and export, supply chain control and its future influence on the industry of supercars due to COVID-19. She explained how various trends, challenges and barriers will impact the development and market size of upcoming markets. She further added that now Luxury car industry in the country have one more reason to cheer as a supercar-selling firm has introduced an online facility to buy such vehicles.  Mrs. Ritika said that this newfangled concept in the automotive arena lends the company an undisputed supremacy in the dynamic and ever changing industry. In her talk she emphasized that adaptation is only way out, faster you adapt higher the chances of success.

The initiative to have such speakers with extensive exposure and outlook was appreciated by all participants. Director Management, Dr Vidya Sekhri ended the webinar with special vote of thanks to Mrs. Ahuja and thanking everyone who supported to make the event a very successful one. It was very well coordinated by Prof Shikha Arora.

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On Sunday evening the participating teams were highly enthusiastic and passionate to win. The event started at 7:30 pm, where we shared the Home ID and Password to the participants in the presence of Dr. D.K. Pandey Sir and all the members of the Statesman Club. 62 participants enrolled for the event.

It was a great evening and each participant was displaying team efforts to win the game. The event required presence of mind, alertness and agility. The event came to an end at 8:40 pm. It was a great experience and much required change for all the students during this lockdown period. The event ended happily with much of learning for each team.                                 

The event was a grand success. All students appreciated the initiative taken by team "STATESMAN".  

The Session started in the evening of the 21st May,2020 at 6.30 PM  and  the Director (Management) Dr Vidya Sekhri welcomed all to the enlightening learning exercise. She referred to these difficult times as an opportunity not only for the education sector, but also for the other parts of the economy to rise to the occasion. She succinctly encapsulated the situation as the abnormal becoming the new normal. Lauding the government for its ground breaking revival package, she said that leaders from various sectors needed to deliberate threadbare on the issues involved. That was the avowed purpose of the online FDP programme.

Next the Honourable Vice Chairman- The I.T.S Group, Shri Arpit Chaddha Sir addressed the gathering. He described the faculty as the unsung warriors as they had to respond quickly to the unraveling situation arising from the unexpected lockdown at short notice. He pointed to the major life changing situations arising out of the Corona crisis and added that we need to be  prepared for wholesale changes in the way we conduct our lives. He hoped that the FDP would provide a fertile ground for a fruitful exchange of ideas.

Our resource person of this FDP, Dr. Justin Paul, an internationally acclaimed management professor, University of Puerto Rico, Saun Juan, PR , USA, Editor in Chief International Journal of Consumer Studies and eminent author (International Marketing and Business Environment) started his deliberation on  FDP theme  with wide coverage of various dimensions in research paper writing for premier journals of different category and also discussed types, nature and characteristics  of research papers  (viz Emperical Paper, Behavioral Theory Paper, Conceptual Papers and Case Base Papers). He also shared generalized super findings that are particularly visualized by the experts while grading quality of research papers on the basis of Antecedents, Decision and Outcome (ADO).

Further session was continued with Bruce and Dartenco framework of Do’s and Don’ts and discussion revolved uninterruptedly around plagiarism, hypotheses, interview variety, research paper questions, robustness check, citations, writing conceptual papers based on prior studies, english proof reading and contrast of findings from other research papers etc and emphasized on highlighting Uniqueness, Novels and Abstracts out of research work to capture notice of reviewers.

He cautioned researchers not to avoid citations from local and regional journals, website materials and references and suggested for generalized title of research paper not limited to a particular area, state or country and advised for not spending much time on formatting of the text and not defending reviewers.

Dr. Justin Paul disclosed himself frequently asked questions (FAQ) and clarified doubts of researchers  with respect to listing of journals, selection of journals, length of research papers, duration of publication, degree of plagiarism, features of abstracts (purpose, methodology, findings and originality), and avoidance of long sentences.

Ultimately this was a wonderful, mind blowing, interactive and enlightened session and participants were extremely delighted with the valued inputs that they gained during this FDP session. This is worth highlighting that the resource person answered all questions raised by the participants (more than 15 questions)   judiciously. 

More than 250 participants from different parts of the country were registered for this FDP. E- Certificate of participation was given to all participants. 

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Mr. Jain started by mentioning that entrepreneurs mostly take the road less travelled, and as such, solve those problems which are not taken up by others. He gave the example of companies like Microsoft and Apple which were founded during the recessionary market in the US, and yet went on to become strong players which defined an industry. He cautioned that it was not easy to be an entrepreneur, yet anybody can take up this vocation.

Clarifying that the startup culture is all about following a passion, he frequently gave the example of Mr. Vijay Shankar Sharma, the founder of Paytm, and the things that he himself had learnt from this long term association. He referred to how the small town background of Mr. Sharma had helped him grasp the needs of the common man in India, which ultimately contributed to the success of Paytm as it went about setting up its digital payment interface.

Mr. Jain mentioned how anxiety filled the work of an entrepreneur which is filled with uncertainties and risks at every corner. He interestingly classified startups into three groups – winner takes all, lifestyle and social, providing examples of each type. He also enlightened the students about the eight types of intelligence, clarifying that three of these viz., - inter, intra and naturalistic – were crucial for entrepreneurial risk. 

The main part of Mr. Jain’s lecture concentrated on what he described as the Startup Canvas – the nine step guide to success in the entrepreneurial universe. He delineated these on the basis of three focus areas, i.e., - product, people and purchasing power – compared against the three organizational growth stages – search, build and scale. Interspersed amidst all this were critical elements like the product-market fit; the organization – comprising of the founders, the core team and the major functional areas; and the enabling processes and people, like bootstrapping, angel investors and venture capitalists. While the actual process was easier said than done, Mr. Jain’s lucid examples from his own knowledge and experience made the issue most approachable for all concerned.

The myriad examples offered by Mr. Jain had the effect of greatly inspiring the students, many of whom appeared intent on exploring the world of startups. The constant stream of questions from the youngsters almost right from the beginning demonstrated not just their excitement about the theme, but were also a proof of Mr. Jain’s hold on the topic as well as his convincing arguments. All in all, it was a very fruitful session for one and all.

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Alumni of MCA (2015) batch, Abhishek Aggarwal, Senior Technical specialist, HCL Technologies, Noida was the speaker of this session. In the Session, Mr. Aggarwal talked about the latest trends in IT Industry and explained the important attributes of communication needed for a successful start of career. He also guided them as how to prepare themselves for corporate. The session was very interactive, informative and knowledge enriching. Mr Abhishek Aggarwal has also answered the queries raised during the session. The session was full of learning and interaction for the students.