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:-

• 1. First technical session on financial analytics was chaired by Mr. Pavinder Monga from axis bank and co- chaired by Dr. Saurabh Mittal.
• 2. 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.
• 3. 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.
• 4. 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.
• 5. Fifth technical Session on Big data marketplace: development and sustainability was chaired by Dr. Sangeeta Bhardwaj, MDI, Gurgaon and Mr. Satya kaliki, CTO �indix.
• 6. 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.

Based on the ‘Make in India’ campaign conceptualized by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, aimed at facilitating investments and fostering innovations for the manufacturing sector in India, the Army Institute of Management and Technology (AIMT) at Greater Noida organised a day-long Seminar at its campus on 9th May 2015. The Seminar was one of its kind where cross-section audience including Army, Corporate, Students and Academician interacted on a issue of National importance. The event was sponsored by Yes Bank, HAL, BEL, Tata Power, PNB, Coke and AWES. The seminar comprises of an Inaugural session followed by three technical sessions.

Lt. Gen. Philip Campose, Vice Chief of Army Staff inaugurated the seminar and emphasised on the need for a synergised approach by all stakeholders to ensure success of the campaign in full measure. Shri G Mohan Kumar, Secretary Department of Defence Production delivered the Thematic Address at the Seminar and highlighted the need for a concerted effort on part of Defence Industry to leverage on the Governments initiative and give a fillip to defence production. Shri Mohan Kumar assured full cooperation of the MoD in providing requisite environment and impetus to facilitate defence production.   Lt Gen KJ Singh, AVSM**, General Officer Commanding in Chief Western Command, had initiated the seminar to not only collect the best speaking minds from a cross section of the country, as also to coalesce the academia at AIMT with the industry, so asto play a lead role for a cogent approach to make the ‘make in India’ dream of our Prime Minister a  reality.

This was followed by three technical sessions, the first being ‘Make in India: Concepts, Processes and Infrastructure Facilitating Business in Changing Environment and Raising Global Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing Sector’. The session was chaired by Lt. Gen. Rakesh Sharma. The panel includes Sh. Amit Cowshish of IDSA, Sh. Rajinder Bhatia of Bharat Forges, Sh. Ravin Kulshrestha of DPP, Sh. Prateek Kishore of DRDO. The think tanks discussed on an enabling policy framework, the emerging opportunities in defence manufacturing, supply chain sourcing opportunity and defence offsets.

The second Technical Session focussed on ‘Make in India in Defence Sector; Challenges and Opportunities; Industry Perspective’. The session was chaired by Prof. V.K. Seth and panel includes Sh. Sujeet Sujoy of Tata Power SED, Lt Gen Narendra Singh, Smt. Shikha Gupta of Bharat Electronics and Sh. Sanjay Mandavkar of Yes Bank. The session uncovered the critical issues in implementation of DPP 2013 and the way forward.

The final technical session covered the ‘enabling policy framework for ‘Make in India’ in the Defence Sector’. The session was chaired by  Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal. Maj Gen Souresh Bhattacharya from MoD, Cmde Mukesh Bhargava (Retd.) of L&T, Mr Ashish Puntambekar of Planning Lab. The session was highly informative and interactive. It emphasised on various initiatives taken by government of India towards indigenisation in the defence sector.

The seminar was highly fruitful. It was a platform to build network across student- corporate, corporate-corporate, Army-corporate. There were around 250 delegates from various industries like Jubilant group, Airbus, Zee Media, ICICI Bank, Nokia, BOB, CII, Coca Cola, BSES, General Motors, NTPC, Lease Plan and many more. The delegates were also exposed to a review of stalls laid by Army Western Command to display various defence equipments.

A National Seminar on “Talent and Key Skill, Knowledge Matrix Required In Financial Sector At Entry Level” was held on March 4,2014 at Army Institute of Management & Technology. Various eminent speakers from Academia and industry were invited to deliberate on the concerned theme.

The Seminar was inaugurated by Retd. Major General SP Rai, MD, Army Group Insurance Fund. The inaugural session was being followed by Technical session -I where the resource person were Mr. Dhruv Dhanda, MD, Energised Solutions and Dr. GS Grewal, M/S Grewal and Singh, Chartered Accountants Firm. Both the speakers give insight about the financial strategies required for financial institutions to sustained in the dynamic environment. The session also throw light upon that how SMEs can fulfill the needs of finance. Technical Session –II &III throw a light upon the changes coming in the economy and impact on BFSI sector.In this session eminent speakers were MR. MA Mateen, Vice – President, British Paints, Dr. Rajnish Kataria, Director, National Institute of Banking and corporate Management, Prof. Satish Kumar Malhotra, Amity Business School,Amity University,Noida.All the students and faculty gained new insights about financial sector and key skills required to excel in the financial sector.

For many people today, a career for life is no longer an option. Most people expect to hold jobs with a variety of employers and move across different employment sectors through their working life. While your education and experience may make you eligible to apply for a job, to be successful at the job you will need to exhibit a mix of skills ’employability skills’. This means that the specialist, technical skills associated with different roles may be less important than the ‘soft skills’ that can be transferred between different jobs and different employment sectors. For employers, getting the right people means identifying people with the right skills and qualities to fulfil the role and contribute to the organisation’s success. Candidates may have the qualifications and hard skills needed to be able to manage the job role but without a well-honed set of ‘soft skills’ employers are less inclined to hire.

A talk was organized on the Corporate Employability Skills by The HR Club, Mumbai on August 26,2013. The HR Club is an association of HR Directors, Vice Presidents, Managers and Executives working in the industry. Currently there are more than 40,000 HR members in 31 locations across India. The essence of the talk was – “ In an increasingly competitive employment market, employers are looking beyond simple academic achievement when considering applicants for a job or internship. The keynote speakers were

Ms B.Jayasree – A key member of the club, and the director of MPwoer Business Facilitators Ltd. and is leading the HR practices and coaching of the organisation.

Mr. Srinivasan Iyer – The founder and core committee member of the club, an entrepreneur and a certified NLP trainer from NFNLP, USA.

With this initiative in mind The HR Club TM is organising a Campus2 Corporate National contest along with The Engineers Club, The Managers Club, The Finance Club and TEN India (The Entrepreneurs Network).

The students actively participated in the seminar and the registration rate for the contest as compared to the other institutions was higher in AIMT and the enthusiasm and participation of our students was lauded by the speakers. The HR club team was completely enthralled by the quality of students and commitment they showed in the event. This C2C contest would help the students to groom up their basic skills required to be corporate ready and know the areas of improvement thereby facilitating them to work upon them.

A National Seminar on � Contemporary Issues in Business Environment & Financial Markets� was held on 10th Oct 2012 at Army Institute of Management & Technology. Various eminent speakers from Academia and Industry were invited to deliberate on the concerned theme. As we all know that we all have been swept into the vortex of financial mayhem these days and there are numerous questions which are creeping in everybody�s mind as what is going to happen in world as well as Indian Economy. It is very true that �When World Financial market sneezes, our markets catch cold immediately� which reiterates the fact that our financial markets are highly influenced by world markets and this trend is very much pertinent in the last few months also. The devaluation of rupee further gave sleepless nights to many economists as well as to the importers. Suddenly we have been observing a influx of bad and uncertain business environment. Apart from this, many innovations and euphoria of reforms are also being observed at global level as well as in India. FDI in single brand, multibrand retail, insurance and airlines sector have really captured a huge attention from everybody. Whether these reforms are going to stabilize our economy or not? Whether Europe markets will regain its past glorious days? The purpose of the seminar was to threadbare this situation and to make us aware about many unanswered questions.

The seminar was inaugurated by Dr Ashok Kumar, Senior Professor, Grand valley State University as chief guest and Dr A.K. Puri, Director General , ITS Ghaziabad as guest of honour.Both the speakers came up with very fine observations about the Financial environment which is prevailing nowadays. The inaugural session was being followed by Technical session one which had Dr Faisal Ahmed(Associate Professor, Fore School of Management), Dr Vikas Kumar( Professor, Asia Pacific Institute of Management) and Mr Anurag Bansal (Entrepreneur) as the resource persons who beautifully highlighted various issues in business environment. Technical Session two threw light on many key aspects of the world and Indian Financial markets. Prof. Akhil Swamy( Professor, Amity University) and Mr M.A Mateen ( Vice President, British Paints) were the key speakers in this session. All the students and faculty gained new insights through this seminar.

AIMT Organised an HR Seminar on Achieving Outsourcing Success through Effective Relationship Management (ORM) on 15th Oct 2011. The three aspects covered during the Seminar included

• 1. Management Strategy – determining the most appropriate combination of contractual terms and relationship management techniques. It was taken by Mr. Manuraj Sharma, President, Paradigm Consulting & Training
• 2. Organizational Structure – building the appropriate in-house management/oversight structure and mechanisms. It was taken by Prof. S.P. Chauhan, Professor FORE, Delhi.
• 3. IT Infrastructure – the supporting infrastructure to enable the monitoring and management of a network of external service providers. It was taken by Mr. Nitin Maheshwari, IT Associate Consultant, Oracle Corporation.

The seminar was a huge success with participants from various Institutions from Greater Noida. The event was organized with precision, pomp and pageantry.

The Seminar was inaugurated by Mr. S. K Basu, Vice President and Country Manager, NIIT Technologies. The key note address was delivered by Mr. Sandeep Mishra, Director, Defense Business Oracle India Ltd. He shared his experiences on the pivotal role of IT and strengthening productivity and reducing the operational cost of an enterprise through Strategic Information System. The Session-I was chaired by Prof. M.P. Jaiswal, Dean- Research and Fellow Program, MDI, Gurgaon on Enterprise Resource Planning and other speakers were Mr. Amit Gairola, Principal Consultant, Oracle India and Mr. Arvind Bindal, Group Manager & SAP Consulting, JK Technosoft. The Session-II was chaired by Dr Chandan Choudhary, MD, Invigorare Solutions Pvt. Ltd. on Supply Chain Management and other speakers were Mr. Aditya Saurabh, Senior Solution Consultant, Oracle and Mr. Sujoy Choudhary, General Manager, NIIT Technologies.

Finally the valedictory session was chaired by Prof Yogesh Singh, Department of USIT and Controller of Examinations, GGSIP University. He complimented AIMT for organizing IT Seminar on such a vibrant topic as this and the immense benefit attaining Global Strategic Competitive Advantage through SCM & CRM. The session kept the audience spellbound through the entire day. The participants included senior academicians/faculty from Educational/Training Institutes in the field of IT & Management and Industry delegates like HR Heads, Training Manager, Facility Manager, Middle & Sr. Level Management, Research Scholars and Students. Various B Schools from Delhi and NCR participated in this event and making it a grand success.

On 5th March, 2016 a Post Budget Panel Discussion “Vishleshan 2016” was organized at Army Institute of Management & Technology, Greater Noida. It was a rare opportunity for the participants to have an understanding of the various facets of Union Budget 2016 and its implications on different sectors, individuals and projected growth of the country. Following were the distinguished speakers

• Mr Kunal Saraogi, (Moderator) CEO & Editor at Equityrush. A distinguished person regularly appearing on business channels such as NDTV Profit, ET NOW, CNBC Awaaz, Doordarshan and Zee Business
• Dr Jagdish Shettigar, Panel of Experts at Government of India, DIPP, Government of India, Ex Member , Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council ,Member Board of Governors IIT Madras, Currently Professor & Chairperson Economics Area ,(BIMTECH)
• Dr. J.D. Agarwal, Currently Professor of Finance & Chairman, Board of Governors at Indian Institute of Finance , Visiting faculty Cleveland State University, USA, Editor- in-Chief Finance
• Dr. Meenu Mishra, Advisor Regulatory Services BSES Yamuna Power Ltd.

Session started with the welcome address by Dr. Pawan Gupta, Director, AIMT. MBA Students from AIMT & Indian Institute of Finance participated alongwith faculty members and had a great learning experience from of the session.