Two Union Ministers to address SRM-FICCI Industry-Academia conference

SRM Institute of Science & Technology (SRMIST) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) will be organising an Industry-Academia Global Virtual Conference, on July 23, 2020. The conference will be held on “Emerging Economic Scenario – Identify and Create Competencies”, from 10 am to 2 pm.

The conference will be held in 2 sessions. The first part of the session will be inaugurated by Piyush Goyal (Honorable Minister for Commerce & Industry and Minister for Railways). The second session will have a keynote by Ramesh Pokhriyal (Honorable Minister for Human Resource Development).

The first session of the conference will be on “The new world work order” and the second one will be on “Collaborative framework for new-age learning”.

Other than that the panelist of the conference will also include eminent personalities like Mr. Amit Khare, Secretary-Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Gol; Dr. Tan Eng Chye, President-NUS, Singapore; Dr. T.R. Paarivendhar, Chancellor, SRMIST; Dr. Sangita Reddy, President, FICCI & Joint MD, Apollo Hospitals; Sri. Mohandas Pai, Chairman-Manipal Global Education, and Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore; Senior personalities holding pivotal positions in Reliance, Future Group, Intel, IIT, IIM, Birla & Intellect designs, Economist and Authors, Mahindra & Mahindra.

There will be a large number of participants consisting of CEOs, CXOs, top corporate officials, regulators, Academicians, faculty members from all over the globe. They are expected to be part of the event too.

The aim of the conference is to deliberate upon the impact of ongoing changes on the economy, the swift transition towards digital interface and its impact on new-age competencies, the need for effective synchronization between industry & academia, and identifying new grounds for international collaborations.