Pre-Show Webinars
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Students are now back in the classrooms, and both teachers and students are now trying to get used to the new normal. Education institutions were forced to adopt an online teaching system at very short notice and now is the time they are thinking about their long-term hybrid education strategy.
Presented by InfoComm India and Conference Partner, ICT Academy, join us for our upcoming webinar, Re-imagining Education In India, on 19 May (Thursday) at 11.30am IST to learn how educationists are planning ahead for the delivery of education.
Welcome Remarks
Sammi Zhang, Programme Director, InfoCommAsia
Opening Address
Hari Balachandran, CEO, ICT Academy
Mr. Hari Balachandran
CEO ICT Academy
Hari Balachandran has an engineering degree (B E) from Karnatak University and Masters in Business Administration from T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal. Bala has had more than 20+ years in senior management roles with globally recognized education & training companies, besides experience in management consultancy, market research and project management. Bala has been drafted into ICT Academy to continue the good work done so far and help move on to the next set of goals. He has been involved in all aspects to build a strategic roadmap for growth and success of ICT Academy. He will be closely working the team and the board to stay focused on the vision with which ICT was setup.
Panel Discussion: Exploring Opportunities for Hybrid Learning in India
- Challenges faced by Education institutes during online education
- Solutions implemented with available options during pandemic times
- Future planning for hybrid model with desired technology upgrades
Moderator:
Sooraj Dhawan, Director, Falcon Exhibitions
Panellists:
- Dr P. S. Aithal, Vice Chancellor, Srinivas University
- Dr Chandra Shekhar Dubey, Vice Chancellor, K R Mangalam University
- Dr Dharam Buddhi, Vice Chancellor, Uttaranchal University
- Dr K. Vijaya Bhaskar Raju, Vice Chancellor, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research
Dr. P. S. Aithal
Vice Chancellor, Srinivas University
Prof. Dr. Perdoor Sreeramana Aithal has 27 years experience in Teaching & Research and 15 years experience in Administration. He has worked as Principal & Director at Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, Mangalore. He has the credit of taking Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, Mangalore, India to FOURTH Rank among Top 1,000 Business schools in Global Business School Ranking announced by Elsevier’s SSRN Research network, USA during January 2018. Having four Master degrees in Physics with Electronics, Computer Science, Information Technology, and E-Business, he got his first Ph.D. degree in Physics from Mangalore University in the area of nonlinear optical materials and second Ph.D. degree in Business Management from Manipal University, Manipal, in the area of mobile banking. He worked as Post Doctorial Research Fellow at “Lasers & Quantum Optics Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad for two years. He has 235 research publications in refereed International Journals in the area of Nonlinear Optics, Photonics, Nanotechnology, Business Management, Higher Education, and Information Technology and published 36 Books & Edited books.
Dr. Chandra Shekhar Dubey
Vice Chancellor, K R Mangalam University
Prof. C S Dubey is a result-oriented leader with over 37 years of experience and demonstrated record of accomplishments in leading and overseeing development towards future of education systems. He has a strong history of devising precise and targeted plans for taking our universities and making them ready to produce future leaders.
As Professor of Earth and Environment Sciences. He had more than 60 research publications mainly in International Journals IF varying up to 7, Cumulative impact factor > 100 and his research is is highly cited along with, 3 edited books and had supervised 15 PhD thesis. He had been conferred the title of Technology Evangelist by CISCO leaders in IT and Networking.
As Academic Administrator, he worked as Director, Campus of Open and Online Learning, Chairman, School of Open Learning (>500,000 students) at Delhi University. As Director, Institute of Lifelong Learning (ILLL) He was responsible for ICT, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and was helpful in creating online eSLM, 100s of Video lectures and > 30,000 E-quizzes and preparing Live streaming of lectures for 4th Industrial Revolution innovation and skills.
He was Dean, Science Faculty, Head, and Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Geology, Chairman and Expert of Various Committees in UGC, DST, MOES, MOEF and MHRD. Delhi University got A+ grade in NAAC accreditation based on his initiative as Chairperson and Coordinator for Mock drills in Departments. He was also chairperson for the first ever LOCF based curriculum in Delhi University and India.
Dr. Dharam Buddhi
Vice Chancellor, Uttaranchal University
Professor Dharam Buddhi, an alumnus of IIT Delhi (Ph D; Energy Systems) and Ex-Professor, School of Energy and Environmental Studies, Devi Ahilya University, Indore and became University full Professor in the year 2000. Dr Buddhi has also worked in industry as Director (Technical), Chief Technical Advisor & Head R & D and also transferred the technology. His areas of Research are Renewable Energy, Energy Conservation, Energy Storage and Green Buildings. He has been International consultant to Asian Development Bank during 2016-2018 for Green Power project in Sri Lanka. Dr Buddhi is Ex-Vice Chancellor, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur. Presently, Dr Buddhi is Indian Coordinator of Indo-Australia collaboration Project on “Thermal Energy Storage for Food/Grain Drying with CST/RE to Lower Pollution”. He was member of ‘Program Advisory Committee’, on Technology System Development, Department of Science and Technology, GOI. Professor Buddhi had been Visiting Professor at UPC Barcelona Spain, Mie University Japan, Kun Shan University Tainan, Taiwan and Auckland University New Zealand. Dr Buddhi has international academic and industrial exposure of U.K, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Australia and US.
Prof. Vijaya Bhaskar Raju K.
Vice Chancellor, Bharat Institute of Higher Education & Research
Dr. Vijaya Bhaskar brings in vast academic experience spanning over almost three decades. He has been witness to changing trends in the academics. Before serving Bharat Institute of Higher Education & Research, he has served at institutions like Reva University, Gitam University and Sakthi Mariamman Engineering College. He began his academic career with Bharat Institute of Higher Education & Research, where he now is at the helm of affairs.
He holds Doctorate in Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geotechnical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science.
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Presenter:
Avinash Johri, Executive Director, CVTE India & SAARC Region
Concluding Remarks
Sooraj Dhawan, Director, Falcon Exhibitions
ICT Academy is an initiative of the Government of India, State Government and Industry. ICT Academy is a not-for-profit organization, the first of its kind venture under the public-private-partnership model that endeavors to train the higher education teachers and students thereby exercises developing the next generation teachers and industry ready students.
ICT Academy was started to meet the skill requirements of the industry and generate more employment especially in tier II and III parts of the country. The organization was formed with representations from government and industry. With training of teachers and students as the primary objective, ICT Academy has been working through a seven-pillar program in the areas of Faculty Development, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship Development, Youth Empowerment, Research & Publications, Digital Empowerment, and Industry-Institute Interaction.
ICT Academy is continuously striving on every aspect to provide a holistic service to every stakeholder of the education ecosystem in developing the next generation of talent pool in India to make them industry-ready employees, innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders.
Through its various initiatives, ICT Academy has been part of strengthening the India’s four important visions namely Skill India, Digital India, Startup India and Make in India We collaborate with public and private organizations to create, integrate and disseminate knowledge in the field of ICT to bridge the gap between academic output and industry requirements thus providing every learner an equal opportunity to become industry-ready.
Website Link: www.ictacademy.in
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All businesses have a well-defined business strategy built on experiences and best practices, and Pro AV offers the next BIG opportunity for IT Channel. However, the AV/IT convergence also presents business challenges. It’s important that IT Channel understands how to best support AV business opportunities.
Join us for our upcoming webinar, IT Business Opportunities in the Professional Audiovisual Sector on 18 June (Saturday) at 3:00pm IST to learn how the AV opportunity integrates with IT and the need for IT Channel to change and adapt processes for AV.
Welcome Remarks
Sammi Zhang, Programme Director, InfoCommAsia
Mr.Kaushik Pandya
President – FAIITA
IT Entrepreneur managing a Network Solution and System Integration
company named Kalp Systems in Ahmedabad for the last 32 years,
operating across Gujarat. Kalp Systems has a mission to adhere to customer's Information Technology needs with high availability and high performance, thus becoming a key to their digital transformation.
Keynote Address
Mr. Kaushik Pandya, President, Federation of All India IT Associations (FAIITA)
Panel Discussion: IT Business Opportunities in the Professional Audio Visual Sector
- The growing business opportunities in the Pro AV sector in India
- The business opportunity for IT Channel
- Emerging convergence between AV and IT channels
- Planning for Post Covid growth opportunities in Remote/ WFH environment
Moderator:
Sooraj Dhawan, Director, Falcon Exhibitions
Panellists:
- Devesh Rastogi, Sr VP, FAIITA
- Puneet Singhal, President, CMDA Delhi
- Kauser Dabiya, Past President, CMDA PUNE
- Sanjay Chhajer, President, Compass Kolkata
- Akash Arora, Director, Aero Digital World Pvt Ltd
Mr. Devesh Rastogi
Sr. Vice President, FAIITA
Mr DEVESH Rastogi, has been a veteran in IT business for last 20 years and has been a channel partner with almost all reputed brands. He has been a Mentor Of Computer Dealers Association of UP for number of years and also been active Industry leader in FAIITA and is currently holding post of Sr. Vice President.
He has been active in social life by holding several positions in RSS institutions as well as Secretary of Lucknow Gold Club for number of years. He is presently office bearer of LaguUdyog Bharti which is guiding force for MSME policies with GOI.
Mr. Puneet Singhal
President, CMDA Delhi
He has put in 35 years in IT Imagibg & Storage. Specializing in Govt/ institutional business.
Former Member TAC (Govt of India)
Core Committee Member CAIT
Govt Committee Chairman, FAIITA
Mr. Kausar Dabhiya
Past President CMDA, Pune, Current Advisory Member, CMDA, Pune
He is an IT Entrepreneur with 27 years of experience in Distribution and Reselling of IT Products, Rental Solutions and experience in Distribution of Mobility products. A relatively newer business area for us is Consultancy for Small Business Owners to chart their next growth phase and deliver a robust plan for change management.
Over the years he has been associated with various vendors like Dlink, Intel, Samsung, HP, Dell, Vodafone, Airtel.
Mr. Sanjay Chhajer
President, Compass Kolkata
Mr. Sanjay Chhajer has been in IT business since 1995 and member of Computer Association of Eastern India – COMPASS SINCE 1996. He had been distributing IT Peripherals in entire East India from his offices he had apart from Kolkata at Guwahati, Patna and Ranchi.
Mr Chhajer has been active in the Association at various roles in last ten years and has been contributing immensely to the growth and benefit of IT fraternity. He has been re-elected as President of COMPASS in this tenure. Mr. Chhajer is also regional director of BNI Kolkata South and active member in various social and charitable organizations of the city.
Mr. Akash Arora
Director, Aero Digital World Pvt Ltd
Questions and Answers
Concluding Remarks
Sooraj Dhawan, Director, Falcon Exhibitions
The Federation of All India Information Technology Associations popularly known as FAIITA is a registered national umbrella body representing Information Technology federations and associations from all over India. With 100+ associations as members, we are about 50,000 IT businesses across the country under the banner of FAIITA having a presence
in 25 states. We create employment for about 5,00,000 people, and in turn a livelihood for about 2.5 million people, depending on this trade for the past 25 years.
Our members are primarily from the SMB and MSME sector, spread across various geographies of the country, and have a diverse business portfolio ranging from Brick & Mortar showrooms, Regional Distributors, System Integrator and Retailers of IT products, Importers, Manufacturers as well as Solutions & Service providers. Factually these 50,000 indirect members are begetting direct and indirect employment to millions of skilled and unskilled manpower, and contribute substantially to the state exchequer through direct and indirect taxes.
Across India, many states IT federations like FITAG, FITAM, FIDTAK, CIITA, Confed – ITA, RCTA, AKIDATA, BITA, JCTA etc and city wise IT Associations like TAIT – Mumbai, ADCTA – Delhi, PCAIT – Delhi, CMDA – Delhi, TECSPA – Chandigarh, JCDA – Jammu, ITAO – Odisha, UPCDA – UP, Compass – Kolkota etc are members of the umbrella body of FAIITA. In an actual sense, the entire country is united on one platform.
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India will celebrate 75 years of independence on August 15 this year.
With a continuously growing urban population, city governments and planners have a huge challenge to transform the candidly developed Indian cities into strategically designed urban spaces that are sustainable, inclusive and liveable.
Join us for upcoming webinar, INDIA@75 The Learnings And Way Forward which co-organised by InfoComm India and the All India Institute of Local Self-Government (AIILSG) on 28 July (Thursday) at 11:30am IST.
This webinar will highlight the evolving challenges of urban planning and shed light on a roadmap for the next 25 years envisioning India@100.
Welcome Remarks
Sammi Zhang, Programme Director, InfoCommAsia
Mr. Ravi Ranjan Guru
DDG, All India Institute of Local Self-Government (AIILSG) And Program Manager – South & South West Asia, UCLG ASPAC
Ravi has a Master’s Degree in Energy Systems from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies and is currently pursuing his PhD in the area of climate change. He has hands-on experience in international and national project management, fund raising, Training Programme, external aid & development programmes; NGO, consultancy & stakeholder coordination; knowledge management, proposal development & report preparation; media & communication strategy. He has extensive experience in managing projects in India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Korea, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. His professional experience concentrated on climate change, environmental management, and sustainable development, CDM, Renewable Energy and Energy Management. He has worked in projects in energy efficiency and renewable energy sector e.g. Climate Roadmap for South Asian cities, Local Renewables Model Communities Network, AsianCitiesAdapt Madhya Pradesh CDM, 6 MW Solar Power Project at Madhya Pradesh, 2 MW Solar Power Project at Orissa, 4 MW +1 MW Solar Power Project at Andhra Pradesh, Energy Auditing at Various five Start Hotels, Commercial area, and PAT Industries. He has also worked on India’s Solar Cities Programme, Solid waste management, Local renewable Model Communities, Carbon emission reduction project, Street lighting and water pumping energy efficiency CDM project, Solid Waste Management CDM project, WWF’s Living Ganga Project, and other consulting projects.
He has also received training at Solar Energy centre. He is an expert on CDM opportunities, GHG inventorisation and accounting, technical know-how of identification and development of CDM projects as per UNFCCC requirement, business plan development, carbon credit market and sales, emission reduction purchase agreement and negotiations etc.
Keynote Address
Ravi Ranjan Guru, DDG, All India Institute of Local Self-Government (AIILSG)
Panel Discussion: “INDIA@75”: The Learnings and way forward…
- India is making rapid strides in national transformation and the next few years will be exciting. What changes are expected in the near future?
- Learnings from the past and planning for the future
- The role of technology in the journey ahead
Moderator:
Mr. Abhishek Pandey, Editor, Urban Update, A Periodical by AIILSG
Panellists:
- Ms. Golgani Hari Venkata Kumari, Mayor, Visakhapatnam
- Mr. Sunil Kumar Singh, IAS (R), Member Administrative/ Technical Real Estate Appellate Tribunal Bihar
- Prof. Arunava Dasgupta, Professor of Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Delhi
- Mr. Kulwant Singh, CEO, 3R Waste Foundation
Mr. Abhishek Pandey
Editor, Urban Update, A Periodical by AIILSG
Abhishek Pandey is a career journalist, who has worked with several reputed Indian publications, including the Hindustan Times, Eastern Media Limited, Orissa Post and Urban Update, covering a wide spectrum of areas including urban development, infrastructure, rural development, sustainable development, education, and energy.
At present, he is the Editor of Urban Update, the publication published by the All India Institute of Local Self-Government. He has also consulted many national and international civil society organisations in advocacy and planning communication strategies. He has also been part of the editorial boards of a couple of newspapers and magazines. He has also assisted United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific (UCLG ASPAC) in launching a news magazine targeted at readers in Asian and European countries. He has interviewed several Indian and Asian mayors, city leaders, union ministers and urbanists for the magazine. Over the past ten years, he has intimately worked with national and international local government associations and civil society to amplify the voices of local governments.
Ms. Golgani Hari Venkata Kumari
Mayor, Visakhapatnam
Mr. Sunil Kumar Singh
IAS (R), Member Administrative/ Technical Real Estate Appellate Tribunal Bihar
An IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer of 1983 batch of Bihar Cadre. Mr. Sunil Kumar Singh graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering from University of Roorkee (Now IIT Roorkee), Joined Indian Administrative Service in 1983 Bihar Cadre. He has experience of nearly 15 years in Urban and Housing Sector in local Government, Provincial Government and National Government. He is recipient of Dubai International Award of Improving Human Settlement. He has served Govt. of India as Joint Secretary, Housing from 2007 to 2012 and was key player in drafting the Real Estate Regulation Bill. Has the distinction of drafting two National Housing Policy, one in the year 1998 known as National Housing and Habitat Policy and Second in the year 2007 known as National Urban Housing and Habitat Policy with agenda as Affordable Housing for all.
As Joint Secretary Housing he could negotiate India being the President of the UN-Habitat. Have been Member of the World Charter on Local Self Govt. which was made by United Nation for introduction of democratic decentralization in Urban Local bodies.
Mr. Singh has also served as Financial Advisor of University Grant Commission, Addl. Secretary & Financial Advisor in Department of Agriculture and Research & Education Has also been Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor in NITI Aayog and Ministry of Statistics Program Implementation. Lastly
superannuated from Govt. of Bihar as Chairman, Board of Revenue. He has extensively travelled within country and outside country in work related to Housing and Urban and other sectors. He has travelled to USA, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, spain, Brusal, Italy, Kenya, South Africa, Mozambique, Islamic Republic of Iran, UAE, Oman, Thailand, Singapore, Nepal, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Russia and other countries.
Prof. Arunava Dasgupta
Professor of Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Delhi
Mr. Kulwant Singh
CEO, 3R Waste Foundation
Dr. Kulwant Singh, currently the President of KSS-Institute of Spatial Planning and Environment Research (India) and is also serving as the CEO of 3R WASTE Foundation- an organization working in partnership with WASTE Netherlands and serves in the board of FINISH Society. He is also an adviser to various international organizations including UN-Habitat for Waste Wise Cities Programme and BusWorld Foundation based in Belgium. Dr. Singh is also the Founder Trustee of Indian Heritage Cities Network. He is also on the Board of FINISH Society of India.
Dr. Singh earlier served as the Chief Technical Adviser for the Water, Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch of UN-Habitat, particularly in reference to the urban basic services. In his role as the Chief Technical Adviser, he significantly contributed to policy dialogues in partner countries in Asia and the Pacific and in the design and implementation of a large number of water and sanitation initiatives. Dr. Singh has been a regular visiting faculty at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft and the Institute of Housing and Urban Development (IHS), Rotterdam.
Questions and Answers Session
Concluding Remarks
Sooraj Dhawan, Director, Falcon Exhibitions
All India Institute of Local Self-Government has been the steadfast friend, philosopher and guide to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs). For over nine decades, it has contributed to the principles and practice of urban governance, education, research and capacity building. It has designed and developed a vast array of training literature and courses and trained over 1.5 million stakeholders in diverse area of urban governance and services delivery. AIILSG has also ventured into rural and tribal capacity building and handholding of rural institutions of self-governance. AIILSG also organises seminars and conferences in India and other countries to enhance the understanding of municipal officials on emerging urban challenges.
Ranjit Chavan, President, AIILSG is Executive Member of CITYNET, Japan. He is Co-President, UCLG-ASPAC, Indonesia and Vice President, Indian Institute of Public Health Engineers (India). The vision of organisation is to empower ULBs to deliver to each citizen their rights to health, education, safety, participation and development through excellent governance and service delivery.
AIILSG is considered to be a premier Institute which excels in supporting and enhancing local governance by handholding local bodies in achieving excellence in local service delivery. It also undertakes quality research and projects for the organisations and concerned stakeholders and arrange seminars and conferences to enable this.
Prominent objectives of AIILSG are to advance the knowledge of the principles and practices of local governance among ULBs, their officials and elected members. Our mandate is to strengthen and improve local government institutions through capacity building by organising training courses and programmes.
