11 Sep 2014-12 Sep 2014|Gurgaon (Manesar) | Amity University Gurgaon
Amity University, Gurgaon organized International Conference on Global Performance Challenges: Building and Sustaining Competitiveness
Amity Business School, Amity University Gurgaon, organised a two day International Conference on “Global Performance Challenges - Building and Sustaining Competitiveness” on September 11 & 12, 2014. The participants were from corporate and academia. In her welcome address Prof (Dr) Padmakali Banerjee, Pro Vice Chancellor and conference chair person, cited examples of companies like Microsoft, Nokia and others and emphasised on ‘Social Responsibility’ of businesses towards peace, sustainability and resources. She emphasized on the importance of leveraging CSR to achieve the global competitiveness.
Prof (Dr) PB Sharma, Vice Chancellor AUH pointed on adopting collaborative approach in the age of uncertainty. Here iterated the significance of changing India from energy deficient to energy surplus nation.
In his key note address, Mr Chandan Ghosh, Co- Founder, Mentor and Chief Strategy Officer, Prod CoMS LLP brought out the demographic advantage of India over other nations. He implored the students to accept global hiring challenges through continuous learning and nurturing talent available in the country and to be innovative.
Dr Arbind Prasad, Director General FICCI echoed Prime minister’s words of make-in India with focus on zero defects and zero effect, need of developing industrial infrastructure and making manufacturing more competitive. He has also given thought of making village the centres of economic activities.
Mr N.K. Mohapatra, CEO, ESSCI, raised concern over increasing skill gap and suggested industry integration into academic curriculum. He also stressed on achieving quality through standardisation. Mr Rakesh Biswas, Founder and Chairman, International Youth Society of Eco-friendly and Renewable Technology (IYSERT) spoke on his experience of achieving sustainability and competitiveness through transformation of waste and pursuing innovation in every aspect.
Mr Prabhakar Dutta, Head of Quality Nokia Network added quality perspective through reducing process variation and emphasized on the need to integrate TQM in every activity. Mr Amit Tikoo, CEO HERAUD Australia proposed skill development and integrity for sustain able growth in India.
Inaugural session was commemorated with the release of proceedings of the conference along with the abstracts of the papers. Thereafter, conference convenor Dr Ashutosh Kumar briefed about the technical sessions planned over the next two days. Vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Vikas Madhukar, Deputy Director Amity Business Schools who made a special mention of Color Housing, M/s Pooja Mining and Hindustan Times-the media partner for providing valuable support.
A total of six technical sessions covering all important business verticals like Finance, HR, Organisation Behaviour, IT and Corporate Strategy Initiatives in the Global context were held over the two day period. The sessions on ‘mental health’ drew large audience applause due to the simplicity of presentation and implementable remedies.
In the valedictory session, the Conference Convenor Dr Ashutosh Kumar comprehensively revisited the key learnings of the conference. The nostalgia came to the fore when Mr Neeraj Sharma, an alumnus of ABS who is now India Manager, PAM, Harley Davidson, rose to speak to the current batch of students. Mr Vijay Mathur, Additional Secretary General, Apparel Export Promotion Council, who was the guest of honour in the session spoke good words on the conduct of the conference which was the need of the hour he added.
Conference succeeded in creating a forum that will go a long way to take on Global Performance Challenges leading to a sustainable model of development