Webinar: Future Enabling Education in the East by Collegedunia

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About This Webinar

There have been various unprecedented changes in the Education sector in recent times. We’ve seen fast technological adoption requiring infrastructural improvements, policy change leading to a major shift in the way education was perceived, and various other changes resulting from our continuous evolution.

In this fast-changing world we need to continuously evaluate the relevance of existing skills and knowledge and at the same time adopt new ones. These changes also highlight the shift of jobs from one sector to another and how new technologies can create new opportunities for the skilled workforce.

Agenda

Improvements required in infrastructure to make education accessible to all
To adopt and integrate technology into the education sector seamlessly.
The knowledge and skills required to remain relevant in this fast changing world.

Presenters

Collegedunia

Organizer

Prof. Sasmita Samanta

Pro Vice Chancellor, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Dr. Sasmita Samanta is a Ph.D. in Human Resource Management. She began her career in 1996 and has held various responsible positions in KIIT. An astute academic administrator, she has also been officiating as Director, Admission since 2004.

Dr.Ashok Kumar Mohapatra

Vice Chancellor, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University

Dr. Mahapatra completed his MBBS in 1975 from MKCG Medical College, Berhampur and, Master of Surgery from AIIMS in 1979 and Master of Chirurgiae (MCh) in Neurosurgery, the Post Doctoral degree, from AIIMS in 1982. His interest areas include paediatric neurosurgery, head injury and skull base surgery, among others. He has carried out 30 research projects in the last 40 years and authored nearly 900 papers, chapters, and books.

Prof. (Dr.) Naveen Das

Vice Chancellor, Adamas University

Prof. Naveen Das has a perfect blend of academic and corporate experience. He completed BTech (Hons) from IIT Kharagpur, PGDM from IIM Calcutta and PhD from NLU Jodhpur (in collaboration with IMT, Ghaziabad). In almost a decade of corporate experience, he has held positions like SBU Head at Godrej & Boyce, Kolkata; Vice President, Jnanasoft Inc., USA; and Vice President, Intellectual Capital at Everonn Education Systems, Chennai. In his academic career spanning more than two decades, he has held positions like the Founding Dean and Director, IBS Business School at both Hyderabad and Kolkata, and has had a stint as Associate Director, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, before serving NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata, as Director, School of Business & Management.

Prof. Gopal Pathak

Vice Chancellor, Sarala Birla University

Prof Dr Gopal Pathak, the former Vice Chancellor of Jharkhand Technical University is currently the Vice Chancellor of Sarla Birla University. Dr. Pathak graduated in Civil Engineering from BIT Mesra in 1977and studied ME (Civil) from the same institute. After this he obtained a PhD. He contributed to the Civil Engineering Department at BIT in the year 1980. He became a professor in the year 2000. He has also held various administrative positions at BIT Mesra including, Dean, Student Welfare, Dean, Administration and Campus Development and Dean, Faculty Development and Head Civil Department.

Prof. (Dr.) Biswajoy Chatterjee

Vice Chancellor, UEM Jaipur (IEM Kolkata)

Prof. Dr. Biswajoy Chatterjee is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Jaipur. He completed his Ph.D. from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala specializing Nano-Science and Nano-Technology. He is pursuing research in the same domain in addition to Computer Vision and Speech Processing. He is a known name in the field of Applied Robotics and has conducted several National level workshops in Robotics. He played an active role in the introduction of Applied Robotics amongst the graduate students back in 2005, when work in this field was just at a nascent stage. Now he is an author of 23 SCI International Journals research papers and many other international and national journals and conferences. He is a member of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Computer Society of India (CSI), and IEEE. He is also a member of the Academic Council and Governing Board of other Universities and is the Chairman, Academic Council, and Vice-Chairman, Board of Management, UEM Jaipur.

Prof.(Dr) A.K.Nayak

Advisor, IIBM Group & Former President, Computer Society of lndia

He is presently the advisor of IIBM Group of institutions is the former president of Computer Society of India & former director of Indian Institute of Business Management, Patna (a 42 years old premier B School). He has more than 36 Years of Experience in teaching, training, research & administration in the field of Computer Science, Information Technology & Management.
The former president of ICT section of Indian Science Congress Association & former Chairman of Indian Society for Technical Education Bihar- Jharkhand Section, prof. He is the Fellow of Computer Society of India, International Society for Research & Development, UK, United Writer Association, National Association of Computer Educators & Trainers and Management Studies & promotion Institute, New Delhi.