Army Institute of Management and Technology (AIMT), Greater Noida in collaboration with Society for Education and Research Development(SERD), India, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA and Spears School of Business, USA organized two days International Conference on Big Data & Analytics for Business at Radisson Blue Hotel Dwarka, New Delhi on 17th and 18th March 2016.

On this occasion, Dr. Pawan Gupta, Director AIMT welcomed all the dignitaries, Prof. Robert Dolley, Dean, College of Business, UTC-USA, Mr. Lokesh Bhasin, Technical Advisor Government ISU, Tata Consultancy Services, Ms. Bansari Vyas, Industry Strategy Leader, South Asia, Adobe Systems India Pvt Ltd., Dr. Vikas Kumar , President – SERD and Mr. Manish Gupta, Sr. Vice President of Info Edge.

Mr. Lokesh Bhasin, Technical Advisor Government ISU, Tata Consultancy Services said “Data should be treated as value in balance sheet and if not managed rightly, it can cause huge loss to the business. He also emphasized on the legal issues leading to the security of important data. He said Big Data is nothing but digital expansion and a turning point to the digital media. Big Data is applicable in financial service, hospital, transport, automobile, distribution industry and many. Data is available in plenty, it has to be organized, harnessed, and utilized in the right way to succeed”.

Highlighting the agenda, Prof. Robert Dolley, Dean, College of Business, UTC-USA, discussed the opportunities of Big Data in business partnering, conducting business, helpful in healthcare and also supportive for the govt. He cited an example of a city in California which was transformed from the world’s dirtiest city to the first city to use strong fiber optic networking. At last he concluded by saying that life is untouched without data analytics, it can also improve quality of life. Whereas Mr. Manish Gupta, Sr. Vice-President Info-Edge talked about data analytics as a source for churning large amount of data in various sectors like fraudulent data, transactional data, electronic intelligence data etc. Also shared his experience in Indian Navy System where he used Data Analytics in positing and determining the attack patterns of enemy radars.

AIMT Patron Lt. Gen. R Ravindran ,GOC HQ Delhi Area and Chairman Maj. Gen. Rajesh Sahai ,AVSM, SM ,COS HQ Delhi Area also witnessed the program. AIMT Patron felicitated FOMS alumni with Official Letter which declared that FOMS alumni are now deemed to be considered as alumni of AIMT. AIMT alumni badges have been presented to all the alumni starting with President alumni Delhi chapter Mr. Gireesha Nema, Sanvinder Dhillon, Rajesh Banyal, Harish Sharma, Rajan Sharma, Vikas Jain, Adhiraj Dhar, Akshay Bisht and Shruti Gupta. Mr. Gireesha Nema was also honored with best alumni award of the year for his contribution towards institute.

The Conference had six technical sessions in which more than 24 research papers were presented on different aspects of big data analytics for business. AIMT students also presented research paper in this international conference BDAB 2016. All the research papers were edited by Dr. Surabhi Pandey, AIMT and Dr. Saurabh Mittal, published by SERD with an ISBN No: 978-194482051-0 in the form of conference book proceeding.

Technical session details are mentioned below:-

• First technical session on financial analytics was chaired by Mr. Pavinder Monga from axis bank and co- chaired by Dr. Saurabh Mittal
• Second technical session on Data analytics and Decision support was chaired by Col. Hari Das, Mr. Gaurav Mittal from Yash technologies as keynote and co-chaired by Dr. G.N Patel from Birla Institute of Management & Technology Greater Noida.
• Third technical session on Education and research perspective was chaired by Mr. S. K Basu, Advisor – Team Computers and Co-Chaired by Dr. Manju Gupta Dean IMS Noida.
• Fourth Technical Session on Health analytics was a panel discussion and Dias shared by Mr. Ashish Gupta ,Director (BDRAC) University of Tennessee Chattanooga, USA, Dr. Arvind Kumar , University of Delhi , Mr. Kapil Munjal, CEO – Medimarcom and Dr. Shailesh Varshney from Sharda School of Medical Science,Greater Noida.
• Fifth technical Session on Big data marketplace: development and sustainability was chaired by Dr. Sangeeta Bhardwaj, MDI, Gurgaon and Mr. Satya kaliki, CTO – indix.
• Sixth technical session on ERP and Cloud applications was chaired by Dr. Arpan Kar from IIT Delhi and co-chaired by Sweta Thota, Professor from University of San Francisco.

Closing note of valedictory function was delivered by Mr. Rakesh Pandey, Director Sales Consulting, Middleware, Oracle India, Dr. Ella Kumar, Dean Delhi Technological Women University, Dr. DejeneTessema, President Wolkite University and Dr. Dinesh Kumar Aggarwal, VC, YMCA University.

Mr. Rakesh Pandey, Director Sales Consulting, Middleware, Oracle India, said everyday millions of people are visiting various websites. Big data is very crucial, it help in connecting and identify individual’s behavior and how the business get benefited from it.Internet is playing huge role in big data. Through digital village concept every village is taken under consideration to improve the living standard.

Dr. Dinesh Kumar Aggarwal, VC, YMCA University felicitated the paper Presenter and the Best paper award winners at the eve- Amith Nag Nichenametla, SrikanthNandipati and AbhayWaghmare, Raj Sharman won first prize. SurabhiMaiti, Prajakanta, Prachi and Amit won second prize. Director of AIMT, Dr. Pawan Gupta, honored all the dignitaries of valedictory session and Dr. Vikas Kumar, President SERD.

At the end of BDAB 2016, Dr. Surabhi Pandey,AIMT proposed a ‘Vote of Thanks’ & conveyed gratitude to all the panelist , co-organizers and student coordinators for making international conference BDAB 2016 a grand success.

The conference will be an extraordinary event, reaching out not only to academics throughout the globe, but perhaps more importantly to globally prominent practitioners and innovators in the big data & analytics. This conference provided an opportunity to discuss and delineate the latest advancements in data analytics and big Data focusing on the development and use of innovative solutions for the businesses. Attendees benefited from industry expert, leading researcher and development organizations and academician.