Education Innovation Conference 2019

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Creating an Attitude… As the global economy has converged countries into borderless entities, the corporate world is continuously pushed by knowledge, fueled by technology. Innovation and creativity have become the key drivers. Indian corporates are growing in a fast forward mode, creating innumerable opportunities for enterprising young men and women. Global corporations are looking at India as a valuable source of manpower of high quality and competency. Imparting critical analytical skills and decision making capabilities among the students is essential. Sound academic foundation, strong and effective content delivery, by competent faculty, exposure to current business practices, through industrial visits, seminars and summer intensive projects as well as management research projects will pave the path and guide the students in their journey from campus to corporates. ISBR, an institution of new age, believes in the best and endeavours to create the robust, incorporating values and imbibing ethics in its approach to developing students. With flexibility to bring in innovation in teaching methods and the state of the art learning technologies, enriched by the wisdom of experienced faculty and committed leadership, the institution is geared to provide future leaders of India Inc . Our students, fired with determination to excel, march forward with grit and will, confidence and competence. To enable and empower them is our mission

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A purpose driven leader who works towards accomplishing organisation goals, by aligning, scaling and sustaining initiatives and programs that translate into accomplishing the final outcomes. At NASSCOM, over a period of 5 years he has scaled SME vertical to newer heights taking it global locations, strategized regional member outreach to become the strongest value add to the organization, and transformed non-performing assets into performing trends for IT BPM industry ecosystem, initiated disruptive initiatives to strengthen NASSCOM’s Skilling and reskilling goals.

With over 30 years of experience of working with IBM as a Geo Expansion Leader, and HP/Compaq/Digital as a transformation leader, he has the acumen of building and nurturing teams that hold up the vision of the organisations.

He is a member of the IT High power committee of GOVT of Kerala and in the board of ICT skills academy Karnataka and the NAIN (New age incubation network) board member of the Govt of Karnataka. He is also in the advisory board in numerous consulting firms in the areas of leadership and D&I.

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Vipul Redey is the Head – School Enablement at Khan Academy. An alumnus of Stanford University, he helps schools make the most of Khan Academy’s online learning resources in their classrooms.

He has also worked for Cisco, managing a large part of their multi dollar IT training and professional certifications portfolio. As a CXO at Global Discovery Schools and Director of Academics at Pearson Schools India, he has designed the daily classroom experience of thousands of students nationally. He is a multifaceted personality.

He is an educator, writer, lover, fighter, saint, sinner, an ice-cream-holic and a “wannabe engine driver” – as his Twitter bio says. He is also a TED-Ed Innovative Educator and a TEDx Colombo speaker.

Transforming the classroom learning experience and the education system from a race to resource is his IKIGAI.

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Natasha Joshi leads the education Systems Strengthening vertical at Tata Trusts, and oversees projects in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Tripura. She holds a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, and has worked in the policy implementation space with UNICEF for a number of years, and more recently at NITI Aayog. Her views on different topics in education have been carried by periodicals like India Development Review, The Ken and Swarajya Magazine.

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Ritika has over 10 years of experience in various sectors and responsibilities, including IT change management, implementation of personalized e-learning tools and managing sales, human resources and operations. She has a passion for improving the quality of learning and education and making learning more meaningful and joyful for everyone, including children, teachers as well as parents.

She has authored “Let’s talk about my feelings” – a rhyming book for children (reading level 7+ yrs) that is a one-of-its-kind on building emotional vocabulary. It is a collection of 12 short stories, each urging the child to express their emotions around difficult topics, such as bullying, gender stereotypes, friendship dynamics, chores and even abuse. 

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Dr. Hari Krishna Maram is the Vice Chancellor at Universal Digital University-USA, Digital Brand Ambassador- Vision Digital India, Chairman and Founder CEO, Imperial Group Trust and Imperial College, Bangalore. A highly motivated, experienced creative communicator with proven ability to “Achieve beyond Expectation”. He is specialized in concept development, market research, marketing, brand positioning, sales, sales training, educational consulting, university/AICTE/UGC guidelines, Institutional building, international marketing. He had been the Digital Brand Ambassador, Vision Digital India. He is also the Chairman and Founder- CEO of Imperial College. He has been a visiting professor at ICRI Group and Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal. He has done his B. Pharmacy from Gulbarga University, PGDIBO in International Business and EEDC in Management from Indian School of Business. He has his articles published on Data Science and Scenario of Indian Higher Education.

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Dr. Preeti Bajaj is an Electronics Engineer Graduated in 1991, Post graduate in year 1998 and awarded as doctorate in year 2004. She has 25 year of academic experience. Currently she is Director of G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur. Her research interest includes Intelligent Transportation system, Soft Computing, Hybrid Intelligent Systems & Applications of Fuzzy logic in areas of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Her professional society affiliation includes Fellow- Institute of Engineers, Fellow IETE, Senior Member- IEEE. She is active volunteer of IEEE and handled many key activities like being Secretary of IEEE India Council 2017, 2018, founding Chair of IEEE Nagpur Subsection chair 2017- 2018, Vice Chair students activities IEEE India Council 2012-2016. Member CGAA EAB 2016- 2017, Member India Strategic Initiative 2017 -18 Committee appointed by President IEEE, R-10 Students Retention India, Member MGA SAC 2017-2018 and now on BoG of IEEE HKN. She has chaired many session in international conferences in India & abroad. She is founder General Chair of ICETET series of IEEE Conferences and organized and hosted 7 ICETET conferences in India and Abroad. Six Doctoral students have been awarded PhD & 25 have done Masters under her. She has authored & co-authored three book chapters & 100 plus reviewed Publications. Her major contribution is in design and development of driver assistance systems -drivers fatigue detection system, driver’s action and emotion detection system, driver’s behavior modeling. She is founder General Chair of ICETET series of Seven IEEE Conferences.

Dr. Bajaj holds several awards like Best Teacher award, “Bhaskar Woman’s Award” for
year 2010 and “Faculty of Month” for September 2011, by Teacher Academy,
Hyderabad. She is also been recognized as resource person by National board of
accreditation for creating awareness of Outcome Based Education and Outcome
Based Accreditation System and conducted workshops at Jaipur, Hyderabad, Nagpur,
Bangalore etc. She was In-charge of official Nodal Center of National Board of
accreditation for imparting Training on OBE. She was on General Council of National
Board of accreditation. She has visited countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, UK,
Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, USA and gulf countries for presenting her research work.
She is intensely engaged in shaping the students to build skilled-based India and
actively involved in promoting entrepreneurship activities and stat ups in the campus
She is renowned assessor for the NAAC(National assessment and accreditation
council)

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Managing Director for boutique economic consulting firm EPG, specialising in economic analysis, strategic communications and market entry assistance with India, with offices in London, Bangalore and East Africa.

He was additionally, until August 2017, UK Director for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the premier and largest industry body in India. He is also the co-founder of a tech start-up in the CSR space. Previously he worked in Economic Consulting at FTI Consulting and Deloitte in London and Abu Dhabi, with a focus on public policy and arbitration. He was Chairman for a not-for-profit membership organisation with several thousand members for three years.

He studied Economics at Warwick University, where he was awarded the Prize for Excellence, and LMU University of Munich. His dissertation won a prize at an international economics conference at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He has published academic research on behavioural economics and social impact and is a regular commentator on public policy and India across print, TV and online media, featured on BBC News, CBC, CNBC, CNN, NDTV, South China Morning Post and Huffington Post.

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