Experts at Amity’s 4th Global leadership conference stress on education for a healthy society

NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 28: Experts at the 4th Global Leadership Research Conference (GLRC-2019) stress on the need for education that helps students to build be a part of a healthy society. They were speaking at the annual research conference. The theme of the conference is “The Transformational Power of Enablement: Combining Innovation and Efficiency”.

Dr. R.K Mitra, Advisor (Police), Ministry of Home Affairs said that today’s students are going to be the leaders of tomorrow. He said that according to him, innovation must be done based on an implicit set of values and it must serve mankind in general. Addressing the students, he said that apart from innovation and production, one must also focus on value creation. The students must be able to distinguish between problem and truth. He called upon the students, not to get intoxicated by success because it could be a tragic flaw and can make you arrogant and oblivious.

According to Prof. Sanjeev Bansal, Director, ABS and Chairperson GLRC-2019 in his welcome address deliberated upon the four areas of discussions viz Marketing, HR, Finance and Operations, which would take place. He also apprised about a new reform that Amity University was initiating in the form of Education 4.0, by providing a common platform to the industry and the academia. He exclaimed that “we want to shape our curriculum in such a manner which would facilitate the students to get into the industry. We want to train our students in such a way that they meet the requirements of the industry”.

Dr. Balvinder Shukla, Vice-Chancellor, Amity University, Noida said that leadership is not only limited to the corporate world. We want to build a society with a pure and healthy mind. She asserted that Amity University focuses on inculcating human values in society by constantly being involved in social work. She stressed on the importance of learning and said that she is sure that GLRC-2019 would help the students by lending them relevant experience.

Amit Dubey, Chief Security Architect, Tech-Mahindra apprised about the revolutions that have taken place in the automobile industry. Addressing the students, he said that creativity can play a huge role in escalating your careers. He said that India is expecting a need for around 3 billion server security professionals by 2020 and we are considerably lagging behind in these numbers. In order to reduce these shortfalls, we are participating in these conferences and trying to introduce new technologies to enhance the skills of the students.

During the first day of the GLRC-2019, discussions & deliberations were held on topics such as Transformation of Financial Services: Redefining Value Enablers; HR innovation and change in the age of disruption, Value driven Marketing and Issues and over 75 research papers were presented by the scholars.

Amity Excellence Awards were conferred upon Radico Khaitan Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd and MakeMyTrip Ltd. on the occasion.