AISEC is a global platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential. Since their inception, they have engaged and developed over 1,000,000 young people who have been through AIESEC experience. They are a Non-Political, Independent and Not for Profit organization run by students and graduates of institutions of higher education. Their members are interested in world issues, leadership and Management. The internships offered are in the following broad areas: Marketing, Digital Marketing, Sales, Content Writing, Business Development, Graphic Designing, App. Development, Education, Web Development, Education, Accounting and Finance, Human Resources, etc.The recommended countries are: Bahrain, Eqypt, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Mainland of China, Malaysia, Nepal, Poland, Turkey,  Vietnam and many more.

The Post Graduate students of I.T.S interacted with the team with full enthusiasm and zeal. They were looking forward to opportunities like this in our esteemed Institute and are ready to encash on it very soon.

The conference commenced with an interesting panel discussion on ‘New Challenges of leadership in the Emerging Business Environment’ highlighting the dynamic business environment and direct competition of Public organizations & with agile Private Organizations . Mr. Suresh Sethi, MD & CEO, India Post Payments Bank discussed about Igniting Transformational Change. In this session, he shared insights on how to drive change at a transformational level in the organization with an example of Indian post office system. Mr. Prithvi Shergill Advisory Partner, Tomorrow/Smarten Spaces & Former CHRO – HCL deliberated on role of talent analytics in HR and its implementation in PSEs. A panel on Future Ready PSE Leaders explored into what attributes leaders must have, to be Future Ready. Mr. Stephane Michelin, Chief Executive Officer, Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services, India,  elaborated the relevance of new-age employee benefits in the digital world to keep a highly motivated and productive workforce. Panel discussions also delved into strategies to engage and motivate employees and how to utilize CSR funds for the growth of a new India by 2022. Ms. Garima Garg Director, Deloitte India shared insights on the future of work and HRs changing role. Mr.D.D Misra, President, "Janm" Trust and Former Director HR, ONGC, had drawn very interesting insights from Indian Mythology, the Ramcharitmanas, focusing on the three attributes of God Hanuman to create learning for employees. Conference also witnessed the launch of ‘A Stranger Truth', book by Ashok Alexander Founder-Director of ‘The Antara Foundation’. He is the man who led the India office of ‘Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’ from its inception in 2003, until 2012 and created Avahan, which became the best ever private prevention program in HIV, and a model of scaling up health delivery.

In nutshell, the conference was an eye opener on various dimensions of HR as well as PSEs challenges & perspective related to workforce, HR strategies and expectations of all stakeholders including government as one of the key player.

The paper was well received by the session chair and audience. Apart from the paper presentation, Dr. Vijesh Jain also chaired one technical session at the conference and was one of the panel members of the panel discussion on the main theme of the conference.

A number of academics and scholars from national and international universities and educational institutes attended this 2 day conference. A number of students from other universities also presented their stories about their entrepreneurial ventures and discussed the success and failures of their projects. Some of these projects were very promising projects and got the attention of banks and other investors at the conference itself.

PGDM (2015-17) Batch students Shalvika Singh, Shashank Paliwal, ShwetaTyagi, Shwetank Srivastava, Anchal Grover, Ankit Sirohi, Sameer Mohd, Pawan Chauhan, Swati Sharma,Tusher Kaushik, Awanitka Chand along with faculty members Dr. D.K Pandey and Prof. Parul Gupta attended AIMA's 2nd National Leadership Conclave “Breaking Through: Making India a Creative Superpower” at Hotel Le-Meridien, New Delhi on 3- 4 March, 2016

The conclave was organized by All India Management Association (AIMA). This two day conclave was divided into multiple sessions which covered different dimensions related to the idea of making India a creative superpower.

Session 1 on Budgeting for Growth: Balancing Discipline and Stimulus

Panelists-
• 1. Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal (Senior Vice President, AIMA and Joint Managing Director, Hero Motocorp Ltd and Chairman, Hero Corporate Service Pvt Ltd)
• 2. Mr. Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda- Indian Politician, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), Biju Janata Dal
• 3. Mr. N.K. Singh (Former Member (Rajya Sabha), Economist and Senior Member, BJP)

The discussion in the session focused on budgetary measure to increase investment in India and on increased public spending without breaching its fiscal deficit target.

Session 2 on Make in India: Building for Long-Term Growth

Panelists
• 1. Mr. Rahul Bajaj (Chairman, Bajaj Auto Limited, India and Head, Bajaj Group)
• 2. Mr. R C Bhargava (Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, Maruti Suzuki India Limited)
• 3. Mr. Amitabh Kant (Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Government of India)

This session focused on political and policy environment reforms for quick and easy implementation of infrastructure and industrial projects.

Session 3 on Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India

Speaker – Mr. Jairam Ramesh (Senior Leader, Indian National Congress, Member of Parliament

This session detailed on the efforts to change the way environment is viewed both by proponents of environmental security and those who prize economic growth at all costs.

Session 4 on Budget 2016: A Boost for the Economy

Speaker: Mr. Jayant Sinha (Minister of State for Finance, Government of India)

This Session analysed the budget 2016 in its implications for the poor section of the society.

Session 5: Talent Economy: Creating Global Knowledge & Skills Hub

Speakers:
• 1. Mr. S Ramadorai (Chairman, National Skill Development Agency & National Skill Development Corporation)
• 2. Mr. Vineet Nayar (Former CEO of HCL Technologies and Founder of Sampark Foundation)
• 3. Mr. Vinay Sheel Oberoi (Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development,Government of India)

In this session the speakers discussed on how India’s demographic dividend be turned into a key asset for durable growth.

Session 6 India Ventures: Becoming Entrepreneurial Nation
• 1. Mr. Patu Keswani (Chairman and Managing Director, Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd)
• 2. Mr. Rajesh Magow (Co-Founder & CEO – India, MakeMyTrip)
• 3. Mr. Raaja Kanwar (Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Apollo International Limited)

This session focused on measures to promote entrepreneurial attitude and the leadership needs to facilitate an ecosystem for start-ups

Session 7 Energizing Growth: Powering Productivity

Speaker: Mr. Piyush Goyal

Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, Government of India

The session focused on measures to provide uninterrupted power supply to cater to the increasing demand of growing India.

Session 8 “PaxIndica: Shaping a New World Order”

Speaker: Mr. Shashi Tharoor (Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha and Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs)

The speaker focused on how India can be a global creative superpower using the soft power it possesses.

Session 9: “Exponential Technology Advances, Disruptions of Industries, and Opportunities for India”

Speakers
• 1. Mr. Vivek Wadhwa (Fellow, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University and Director of Research, CERC, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University)
• 2. Mr. CP Gurnani (CEO and the Managing Director of Tech Mahindra.)

Session 10 Indestructible Brands: Building Brands to Survive Disruption

The conference theme addressed the issues and solutions surrounding Innovation, Sustainability and Change in marketing of goods & services.

The Inaugural session commenced with lamp lighting, followed by a welcome address by Mr. Vivek Singh Tomar, the conference co-chairperson. Dr. Thomas Mathew, IAS, Additional Secretary to the President of India was the guest of honor for the inaugural. Other eminent speakers from the industry were also present for the inaugural.

The speakers emphasised the need for innovation in an ever changing marketing environment.

The Inaugural Session ended with a vote of thanks by the session co-chair.

The next course of the conference was divided into three technical sessions. During the first session, distinguished speakers from the Industry discussed on the “Contemporary Issues Challenges in Marketing”. The session was chaired by: DR. Hemendra Dangi, Faculty of Management Studies University of Delhi.

The technical session II was on “Innovations in Health Care and Services Marketing” which was chaired by DR. Sanjay Dhir , ‎Professor, Strategic Management Area, DMS, IIT Delhi.

The technical session III was on “Sustainability in Social Media and Online Marketing”. This session was chaired by Dr. Rakesh Singh, Professor IMT Ghaziabad.

Delegates across Industry and Academia presented their research during the two day Conference.

The seminar attempted to arrive at a course of actionable points that accurately described the path to follow and how to meet the challenges.The conference was well received by the participants.

The conference saw a great gathering of wonderfully acclaimed speakers throughout the world. This conference was devised to create a platform for discussion on the current and contemporary issues on E- Business, Process Excellence and Supply Chain Management. The conference had also allowed the participants to discuss current and pressing issues with senior level executives and academicians from different countries.

On the behalf of I.T.S - Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad; Prof. Alok Singh has participated among the elite galaxy of eminent scholars and presented his research paper titled “A Review of Literature on Supply Chain Performance Evaluation of Perishable Products in India”. More than 100 quality research papers across the world were submitted by different area experts in their different domain of expertise. The conference was inaugurated with benign presence of Mr. Sanjiv Paul; MD, Tata Metaliks.

This three day international conference was organized by Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.