International Conference- 2023 on “ Innovations, Agility and Sustainability in Global Business Environment”.

International Conference- 2023 on “ Innovations, Agility and Sustainability in Global Business Environment”.                                                  

I.T.S Ghaziabad organized International Conference- 2023 on the theme of “ Innovations, Agility and Sustainability in Global Business Environment” on 28th and 29th April 2023.

The conference had an enlightening inaugural session followed by four technical session and two online Plenary session accompanied by global eminent speakers from France, Philippines, USA, Peru & UK. It was organized on two subsequent days, i.e. on 28- 29 April, 2023.

The event commenced with the virtual invocation of Goddess Saraswati. Prof. (Dr.) V.N. Bajpai, Director- I.T.S Ghaziabad warmly welcomed all the eminent speakers and shared his valuable insights on the focal theme with the audience. An overview of the conference and introduction of the theme was given by Conference Convener, Dr. Manoj Kumar Jha.

The inaugural session was graced by honorable Chief Guest Lt Gen A. K. Singh,  PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM (Retd),Former Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Additional Administration of Puducherry) Sainik Farms, Delhi. He deliberated on the unique aspects of leadership in a VUCA world. HE alluded that corporartes could benefit from employing a model that focuses on life and death decisions without limiting itself to simple profit and loss evaluations.

Guest of Honor Prof. S. K. Jain, Former Vice Chancellor, Sri Mata Vaishno Devi , University , Jammu, traced the development of innovation ni various fields, pointing out how the decreasing life cycles are having major implications for companies as well as consumers and &  Dr. Ravi Shankar, Professor, IIT Delhi invoked the concept of Triple Bottom Line stressing on the need to achieve the parallel objectives of economic growth, social benefit and environmental protection.

During the Panel Session-1, participants got enriched on the theme “Sustainability of Business in Volatile global Business Environment” by professors from IIM-A, IIM-I, IIM-K,IIM-Kashipur & others . The conference witnessed international Panel Session-2 on theme “Innovations , Agility and Sustainability in Global Business Environment” with academic luminaries from the USA, England, Vietnam, Romania and Peru.

For Panel- Session-1 , following were the expert speakers :

1.  Dr. V. K. Gupta, Professor  (Finance), IIM Indore

2.  Dr. G. Sridhar, Professor (Marketing), IIM Kozikode

3. Dr. K M Baharul Islam,Professor and Area Chair (Communication)Chair, Centre    of Excellence in Public Policy and Government, IIM Kashipur

4. Dr. Piyush Sinha, Professor,IIM Ahmedabad

5. Sh. Ravi Ranjan Mishra, Director,(Advisory Services),IFCI Government of India, N Delhi

6. Dr. Suman Pathak, Professor, MATS Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Banglore

The session was moderated by Sh. Ravi Ranjan Mishra, Director( Advisiory Services) , Govt. of India.

For Panel Session-2, following renowned Experts deliberated on the given theme-

·         Prof. Justin Paul, Professor, University of PR, San Jaun, PR, USA, Distinguished Scholar,IIM Kerala,Editor in Chief- International Journal of Consumer Studies, Editor- EMR, AE-EMJ & Top Journals

·                     Dr Tran Thi Hong Ngoc,Head of Department of Natural Resources and Environment Management, An Giang University, Vietnam,

·                     Prof. Alex Tabarrok,   George Mension University,   Fairfax, Virginia

·                   David Wittenberg,ISME College of Management and Entrepreneurship, Mumbai, Visiting Professor at USA, UK and South East Asian Countries

·                     Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu, Professor, University of Craiova, Romania

·                     Prof. Ivan Ivan Muniz Rothgiesser, Director ACCEDU, Universidad Andres Bell, Peru

·                     Dr. Nikkie Grover, CEO NG EDUWISER PVT LTD, India, Dubai, Singapore, Canada

The International Conference witnessed 4 tracks of presentation for 2 subsequent days. The heartening feature of the conference was substantial participation and presentation of academicians, researchers and business professionals with thought provoking concepts and ideas on the Focal theme in diverse areas of Management and Information Technology.

The International Conference-2023 was  thus concluded with the Valedictory session presided by eminent guest Sh. Bhagirath Singh, Vice Chancellor  Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay, Shekhawati  Univ, Sikar, Rajasthan and declaration of best paper award  of  all tracks and felicitation to awardees with certificate and trophy. Prof. (Dr.) V N Bajpai presented virtual plaques to all the eminent guests as a token of gratitude.