The session was initiated by the opening remarks of Mr. Amit Sinha Roy, Vice President, Global Head of Marketing & Communications, Tata Communications Ltd. Special Address was given by Mr. Aman Sharma, Secretary, Postal Services Board Department, Ministry of Communications, Government of India and Mr. G. Narendra Nath, Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat. Launch of the “CIO Awards” was executed by the dignitaries on the dais and the closing remarks were made by Col Suhail Zaidi (Retd), Head- CII Centre for Digital Transformation.

The session addressed the scenario for customers (both B2C and B2B) with people adjusting to the hybrid world to drive more efficiency, productivity and access to newer markets across the borders. They also discussed on how our future strategies should be shaped to deal with this Hybrid Reality.

Further the session was divided into two panel discussions. The first panel discussed “Changing Governance Dynamic in the Hybrid Reality”. The Session witnessed industry leaders sharing their perspective on the subject and deliberated upon the transformation required for the governance dynamics in the Hybrid Reality. It was moderated by Mr. Deepak Talwar, National Security Officer, Microsoft India Ltd and panelists were Mr. Sunil David, Advisor and Consultant, IOT & AI Startups;Mr. Ankur Goyal, Client Director, IBM India Pvt Ltd;  Mr. Rajesh Gupta, VP, Product Marketing, ICS Tata Tele Services;  Mr. Kapil Mehrotra, Chief Technology Officer, National Collateral Management Services Limited and Mr. Sonic Garg, Regional Sales Leader, Hewlett Packard Enterprises.

The second panel was about “Hybrid Cloud Adoption Trends and Challenges”. The hybrid cloud reflects enterprise IT’s overall shift from a centralized to a distributed model. Session was moderated by Mr. Sumit Monga, Head Government Relations, Lenovo. The panelist for this session were Mr. Sounak Biswas, Head, Technical Strategy Dell Technologies; Dr.Vibhu Agarwal, Senior Director Data Science, Medidata andMr. Anand Sinha, Global Head IT and Digital BirlaSoft.

The session concluded with discussion on Resilient Supply Chain and “WINNNOVATE- Win + Innovate”. It was an informative session and the participants enjoyed the deliberations.

UFlex is India’s largest end-to-end flexible packaging materials and Solutions Company that manufactures a wide variety of flexible packaging films like BOPP films, BOPET films, CPP film, Metalized films, Alox coated films, Specialty films, and PCR grade PET films Asclepius, for varied industry sectors across the world. The objective to organize this visit was to provide students an exposure to the Operations management and production process of the company. UFLEX Ltd. produces environment friendly and recyclable packaging products and recycles their waste in the production process to make the final product.

Students were taken to the conference room where Mr. Sanjeev Gupta (Senior Vice President ) and Mr. Tushar Kumar(Head HR) addressed the audience. They threw some light upon the history of the company, its major products and USP of the products. Discussion was very interactive where participants asked queries about the company and their product.

Later on Mr.Sudhanshu Gupta (Manufacturing dept.) explained the whole process of manufacturing the film in the plant step by step. Participants were taken inside the plant to understand more clearly about the process and how it is carried out. At the end of the visit refreshments were given to the participants .

The session was full of knowledge and learning where participants got the in depth insight of how actually film are being manufactured.

UFlex is India’s largest end-to-end flexible packaging materials and Solutions Company that manufactures a wide variety of flexible packaging films like BOPP films, BOPET films, CPP film, Metalized films, Alox coated films, Specialty films, and PCR grade PET films Asclepius, for varied industry sectors across the world. The objective to organize this visit was to provide students an exposure to the Operations management and production process of the company. UFLEX Ltd. produces environment friendly and recyclable packaging products and recycles their waste in the production process to make the final product.

A small interaction session was organized by the company where Mr. Sanjiv Gupta, Senior Vice President, Operations, UFLEX;Mr. Tushar Kumar, AGM, HR and Kritika Sharda, Asst. Manager, HR gave a brief presentation about the company, its operations in India and abroad and the Production Process. They also handled the students’ queries to their satisfaction. It was followed by the plant visit where the students got the chance to see the line production of the flexible packaging films.

It was a great learning experience for the students and they thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality extended by the UFLEX team throughout the visit.

The volunteers for the day were students of PG Management including Anuj, Akash, Sourav, Sakshi, Mahima, Divyanshi, Priyanshi, Shobhit, Surendra, Abhijeet, Awnish, Anurag, Radha Krishna, Puneet, Animesh, Nargis, Ayushi, Poorvi, Simran, Akansha, Soumya Rahul, Kartik, Rupali.

Volunteers distributed hand-flags among the children. Children participated in the celebration enthusiastically. They recited poems and performed on various patriotic songs. Performers were awarded with Tricolor badges. Also our students made the children aware about the importance of the occasion and shared with them the struggle of the freedom fighters to bring this Independence.

in the campus with flag Hoisting, joined by Dr. R. P. Chadha, our Honorable Chairman of I.T.S – The Education Group followed by beautiful cultural performances, poetry etc. by our students to celebrate 76th Independence Day.

On this occasion, students, faculty & staff members of the Institute were present and greeted each other.

Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is an initiative of the Government of India to celebrate and commemorate 75 years of independence and the glorious history of its people, culture and achievements. A mesmerizing session was organized on the same theme in the campus.

Faculty coordinators, Prof. Nitin Saxena and Prof. Shilpi Rana along with student volunteers of Utthan club of PGDM (2021-23) Batch coordinated the session.

Poem recitation competition was organised for the students of class 1 to 5, in which 8 participants recited beautiful patriotic poems. For class 6 to 8, Speech competition was conducted, where 6 students participated with great enthusiasm. Best 3 performers from both the competitions were awarded with exciting gifts. A Voluntary dance performance was also given by the school girls on patriotic songs.  Dr. Timira Shukla, Director graced the session with her benign presence and motivated the students with her words of wisdom.

Students were seen with full of energy and enthusiasm holding tricolours in their hands and chanting “Vande Matram” on this occasion.  

At the end, all the students were given refreshments.

A team of domain experts enlightened the students with mantra of ‘wellness and happy living’.

 Mr. VN Jha- Founder President of People’s Foundation discussed how the changing lifestyle is creating problems with the health of people irrespective of their age groups. 

Dr.Rajesh K. Singh, a Naturopathic Physician then proceeded with the information on how one can adapt to a healthy lifestyle by having a right diet plan. He discussed in detail the dos and don’ts for having a healthy body and mind. Acharya Mukesh- Yoga & Wellness Expert, Ministry of External Affairs Govt. of India then demonstrated few Chair-Yoga exercises for quick relief from stress and suggested students to adopt Yoga practice in their daily routine for a healthy life.

The students found the session highly informative and asked relevant questions pertaining to their health, habits and lifestyle. The session concluded with a presentation of memento as token of gratitude by the Director- ITS School of Management to the guests.  

The workshop was conducted by Dr. Vivek Pachauri and Prof. Yachna Malhotra. The program started with the opening remarks by Prof. Yachna Malhotra in which she sensitized students on the need of value education and helped the students to understand the gaps in the current system of education in the society. Initially to get connected with the participants, a video was demonstrated so as to make students active listeners and generate their curiosity and explore various thoughts for the session.

Dr. Vivek Pachauri introduced the process of Self Exploration with the help of an activity and focused that how it can help in having the right understanding of one’s desires and goals in life. He also explained about the Holistic Development and Role of Education in Life and its application in solving the problems of life. The primary goal of the session was to give the exposure and understanding of how values give worthiness and respect to life.

At the end of session a real life video example was demonstrated to the students so as to make them understand that how a person who is not having the right understanding about self and is ignorant about the value system underperform at the individual level, at the level of family and finally fails at the society level. The session was a mix of both the slide show coupled with some interesting activities, to enrich the participants with need of value education and their holistic development. The Participants were over whelmed and enthusiastic with the outcomes of self-exploration exercise.

·      Mr. Pradeep Chaprana, (2006-08 batch), Compensation and Planning lead at Samsung

         Electronics;

·      Mr. Deepak Verma, (2006-08 batch), Regional Sales Manager at Fossil Group;

·      Mr.Abhishek Das, (2015-17 batch), Sales & Marketing at Aditya Birla Group, Paper

     Division;

·      Ms.Parul Garg, (2015-17 batch), Area Sales Manager at Samsung Electronics;

·      Mr. Prateek Jain, (2016-18 batch), Asst Area Sales Manager at Berger Paints;

    ·      Mr. Ankit Pal, (2017-19 batch), Team Manager-SDS at Amazon.

Prof. Durba Roy (Associate Vice President, CRC) welcomed all the alumni. Prof. Durba Roy moderated the session.

By sharing their success stories, alumni informed the prospective students about the significance of learning and development. The participants were most excited and interested to hear from the alumni about various stories and activities they enjoyed during their life at I.T.S School of Management. The alumnus also shared their memories about fears, weaknesses and how I.T.S School of Management helped them to overcome those challenges due to which they achieved great heights in their professional journey. During the session participants asked various queries, which were addressed by the alumni.

Towards the end of the session, Dr. Timira Shukla (Director), Dr. Anusha Agarwal (Chairperson), Dr. D.K. Pandey & Prof. Durba Roy presented plaques to all the alumni as a token of appreciation and gratitude for their time spent with the participants. 

The session was conducted by the expert resource person Mr. Surya Narain Bahadur, Transformation Enable, Corporate Trainer, Chief Happiness Officer and lead trainer of ATDC. Mr Surya initiated the session with understanding the value of success. He shared some useful tips with the students in terms of realistic goal setting. Some of the important areas that were highlighted in the training program included understanding oneself, importance of self-discipline, self-determination, overcoming fear of failure and dealing effectively with difficult situations.

He made students play various indoor and outdoor games that made them do teamwork and interact with each other. He also explained the importance of assertiveness in a student life with the help of an interesting video. The session was quite interactive as participants asked many relevant questions and Mr. Surya answered them to their satisfaction. He showed some Ted talks and videos that taught the participants to learn from failure and move ahead in life. Session was then concluded with the presentation of plaque of honour as a token of gratitude.

Overall, it was a power packed, engaging and enlightening session.