Young Indian start-up IGEN Edu Solutions successfully organized South India’s Plenary Session, the 2nd premier virtual event of National Web Series on NEP 2020. This event was powered by AWS and Intel. More than 1,000 faculty members and top 50 academic leaders participated. ASSOCHAM supported the virtual event. The event was technically supported by IEEE-Prakash Bharati , IEEE IISC SB WISE, Edulife India, IIMT Studies United Kingdom, 2b Innovations Mohali and eBastaa.online.
Prof. Inderpreet Kaur, Director-IGEN Edu Solutions Pvt. Ltd. coordinated the event. Dr. Manpreet Singh Manna, Former Director AICTE, Swayam, MOE India was the program chair and moderator for the event. The co-chair for the event was Mr. Dilpreet Singh, Employability Consultant, AWS India Internet Services Pvt. Ltd.
Prof. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, Hon’ble Chairman, AICTE , MoE, India graced the event as the Chief Guest. Sri. Navin Mittal (IAS)-Commissioner, Telangana State Council of Higher Education was the Keynote speaker. Life time achievement award in the field of technical education was awarded to Prof. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, Hon’ble Chairman, AICTE, MoE by AWS, INTEL, Assocham and IGEN Edu Solutios.
Prof. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe addressed the participants and emphasized on the role of NEP2020 on Research Innovation Ranking. He shared unique features and challenges of NEP2020.
The objective of the event was to develop industry-institute associations to bring technology in education (IIA-TIE). Dr Prachi Kaul- Director, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Prof. Krishna Vedula- Dean Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, Prof. Kuncheria P Isaac, Director General, XIME Bangalore, Chennai, Prof. P. D. Jose- Strategy & Chairperson, Strategy Area, IIM Bangalore, Dr. Karisiddappa, Vice Chancellor- VTU, Belagavi, Karnataka, Mr. Sunil PP, Head -Education AWS India Internet Services Pvt. Ltd and NPO’s, Ms. Akanksha Balani, Regional Alliance Head for AWS Asia Pacific & Japan Intel, Dr. Ramesh Unnikrishnan, Former Director, AICTE, MoE, India, Dr.T.Srinivas, Professor, IISc Bangalore, Dr. A. Srinath, Dean Skill Development, KL University Vijaywada ,Prof. K.K. Raina-Vice Chancellor- M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Karnataka, Dr. S. N. Subbramanian- Chairman SNS Group of Institutions, Tamil Naidu, Dr. P Sojan Lal, Principal, MBITS, Kerala, were the esteemed panelists of the event.