Business Summit witnessed the presence of prominent speakers across the industries on the day.  Major General Dilawar Singh, Director General, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Government of India addressed the gathering as the Chief Guest and  Shri Raghavender G.R. IAS, Joint Secretary Department of Justice Ministry of Law & Justice Government of India as  the Guest of Honor . Other renowned experts for the business summit were, Mr. Prashant Sharma, Senior Vice President ,Kotak Securities, Mr. Vinayak Lal  , Senior GM, DS Group, Mr. Avinash Srivastava , General Manager, DLF, Ms. Latika Wadhwa , CEO (Founder), Mompreneur Circle,  Mr. Jyoti Das Business  , Head Asia Pacific, Calvin Klein,  Mr. Akash Sharma, VP – Finance ,Bajaj Hindustan Ltd., Mr. Narendra Kumbhat, Founder Mentor, Virtual  CFO Partners Pvt Ltd.,Mr. Bharat Bhushan , Head (IT& Social Media), Doordarshan,  Mr. Pramod Joshi , CEO, Winning Mantra,  Dr. Shobha Kulsrestha, Corporate Trainer, Mr. Amit Kumar Tanwar, AVP – Business Banking Group, IndusInd Bank,  Ms. Manavika Sharma, AVP –HR, BIS Research, Ms. Margaret Chari, Organization and position : Sports and Recreatio, Commission,  Business, Development and Marketing Manager from Zimbabwe, Ms. Daniela Tello Rioja, CEO and Co-Founder Tinto Libre. Social entrepreneurship on economic vulnerability reduction from Colombia,  Mr. Abdibeshir Said , Lecturer and College registrar head at Haramaya University from Ethiopia. 82 foreign delegates from 35 countries (Ethopia, Jimbabe, Afganistan, Argentina, Kenia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Columbia etc ) and 60 delegates from corporate & academia registered themselves for Summit. Foreign Delegates & other delegates from Delhi/NCR showed huge enthusiasm by participating till the last session of the Summit. 

The Summit was designed with an inaugural session, keeping focal theme in mind and three different panel sessions focusing on Marketing Practices During Innovation, Customer Engagement Trends in Financial Services, Leveraging Digital HR for Organizational Excellence  

Inaugural session of Summit started with the opening remarks of Sh. Surinder Sood, Director (PR) , I.T.S – The Education Group. He emphasized on the role of digitization for upliftment of unorganized sector, expedition of corporate social responsibility activities of business . Dr. Anusha Agrawal, (Convenor)  discussed an overview and detailed program of the Summit. Dr. Ajay Kumar, Director (Management)  delivered welcome address. He discussed issues related with digital intelligence, digital innovations, company culture and virtual business system with the help of digitalization. Sh. Arpit Chadha, Vice Chairman, I.T.S - The Education Group addressed all representatives from industry, academia, government and educational institutions from India and abroad. He highlighted achievements of the Government plan and programs initiated by Hon’ble Prime minister and role of digitalization in effective utilization of such programs. Guest of Honor Sh. Raghvendra G.R.(IAS) addressed  role of digitalization in globalized economy, copyright treaty, encryption device scheme, new disruptive technology, data mining techniques and financial inclusion in the light of  digitalization. Chief Guest Major General  Dilawar Singh stressed on evolving new business modules, creation of long term strategy with short term project, hybrid model for adopting changes, aggregation vs segregation and inspirational leadership. Finally he energized the audience with the slogan “Nation First and Character Must” and “Jai Hind”.

Session I deliberations were focused upon Marketing Practices During Innovation

Mr. Vinayak Lal  , Senior GM, DS Group was the moderator of the session through out the session he enhanced the spontaneity of the session. Mr. Bharat Bhushan, Head (IT& Social Media), Doordarshan addressed issues based on role of social media in marketing, artificial intelligence and virtual media and how rapidly data getting transmitted on regular basis on the world wide web. Mr. Jyoti and Ms. Margarate Chari  elaborated how to  create a desire for a product, relevance of E- commerce. Mr. Avinash Srivastava focused on augmented reality and virtual reality and prediction of customer need.  He focused upon disruption drivers in form of market dynamics, geopolitical disequilibrium & environmental concerns.

Session II deliberations were focused upon Customer Engagement Trends in Financial Services

Mr. Narendra Kumbhat, Founder Mentor, Virtual  CFO Partners Pvt Ltd was the moderator of the session and thus made it ensure that it provides meaningful takeaways for the audience. Mr. Amit Kumar Tanwar, AVP – Business Banking Group, IndusInd Bank expressed their views on the theme during panel discussion. He specifically pointed out development in last 10-15 years indicating scope of numerous opportunities & innovation in India. He spoke about digital revolution and innovations in Indian Banking Sector. Mr. Prashant Sharma Senior Vice President ,Kotak Securities explained customer online query related with money transfer, check balance, money investment and loans. He emphasized upon customer relationship in era of Digitization & Artificial Intelligence. Ms. Daniela Tello Rioja, CEO and Co-Founder Tinto Libre from Columbia discussed banking sector innovations with the help of digitalization and   enhancing banking efficiency in terms  of sanctioning online and offline loans to the customer in context with the country Columbia. Mr. Akash Sharma , VP – Finance ,Bajaj Hindustan Ltd. elaborated various trends in Financial Services Sector and the factors to keep in mind before investing money.

Session III deliberations were focused upon Leveraging Digital HR for Organizational Excellence  

Dr. Shobha Kulsrestha, Corporate Trainer was the moderator of the session and elaborated process of promotions and increments with effective digital system. Mr. Abdibeshir Said, Registrar, Haramaya University (Ethiopia) expressed their views on contemporary HR issues and role of digitalization in Human Development in Ethiopia. He emphasized upon technology updation of HR fraternity in order to imagine the future, design the future & align the future with the present. Ms. Malvika Sharma, AVP –HR, BIS Research addressed about hiring talent, on boarding process and rewards and recognition process with the help of digitalization. She spoke about digital revolution, virtual organization & challenges related with them. He said that the decision making will be data-driven along with inner gut & feeling in time ahead and intellectual work will be done by machines. Mr. Pramod Joshi, CEO Winning Mantra attempted issues related with interview, employee data and  HR planning  in contemporary age with rapid digitalization. Ultimately entire sessions were highly informative, productive and sensitizing to students, academicians and business professionals. He advised everyone to rethink about the concept of leaders & the leadership in changing times.

I.T.S Mohan Nagar has a rich tradition to organize such events based on contemporary social, business, academic, industrial and other developmental issues in addition to its regular academic, professional and research based activities with its prime objectives of   creating a sense of awareness among audiance and ensuring sincere efforts of the institution for  socio economic  development and thus acting as a catalyst for nation building. Business Summit- 2019 is also a part of the same endeavor to strengthen Industry- Institution- Interface to facilitate competitive and time demanding professional education and to produce business leaders and executives to cater demand of industry, business and society. 

Business Summit 2019 ended with vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Vivek Pachuari.