In the inaugural session that commenced at 11 AM, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Lt. Gen V. K. Sharma, AVSM (Retd.) gave the opening remarks and spoke on the new trends of entrepreneurship and business management. “Any business can only develop if we understand the actual need of the customer. New ideas will only flourish with a great team and hard work.”, he said. Mr. Sanjeev Roy, Key Expert: Higher Education, European Union Public Diplomacy in India through Policy and Outreach Partnership was the Chief Guest who spoke about globalization of product and services and how a flavor of information communication technology is the new recipe of entrepreneurs. Mr. Sudeep Gupta, Head: Business Development & Sales: CARS-24 was the Guest of Honor during the Inaugural Session. Mr. Gupta emphasized and spoke on business innovation and transformational leadership. He also said Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship both are welcome in today’s world. He also shared his career graph and few cases of companies like Airbnb, Uber and CARS24.
Present in the occasion were Prof. (Dr.) M.P. Kaushik, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Amity University Madhya, Registrar, HOIs, HODs, Members of faculty and large body of students.
Around 83 research papers were received, out of which after the proper scrutiny, only 49 were selected to be the part of conference proceedings. The book of proceedings was released by the dignitaries in the inaugural session.
The inaugural session of the conference was followed by a technical session. Mrs. Sally Holkar of the Royal Holkar Family and CEO of Women Weave was the keynote speaker. She spoke on Social Entrepreneurship and how today’s young generation should move to villages and work for rural people of India. She also mentioned how the business management students can contribute by doing proper marketing of products.
Parallel sessions were conducted in which research scholars presented their papers on different areas of Entrepreneurship, management and social sciences. Mr. Sunil Srivastava, Guest of Honor, Senior HR Head, Britannia Industries, Mr. Santosh Pathak, Guest of Honor, DGM-HR, SRF Industries and Mr. Harendra Singh, Faculty, Amity Business School, AUMP Gwalior judged the scholars on the basis of content, conciseness and research ideas.
Prof. Aman Agrawal, Director, Indian Institute of Finance and Mrs. Sally Holkar, CEO: Women Weave was the Guest of Honor in the valedictory session of the conference. In his keynote address Prof. Agrawal spoke about importance of active learning, field based learning and team learning. He also mentioned how the entire outlook of Indian GDP has become very optimistic under the present government and this is the new India we are looking at.
The following were the major conclusions of the conference:-
All entrepreneurship must result in product improvement, cost reduction, simplification/automation of procedures, and reduction in time delays, problem solving and reaching new customers.
Factors like social media, new media and digitalization could well influence business management and social sciences.
As far as Social Sciences are concerned, it is important for young India to move to rural places and work hard to improve the lives of people. Social Entrepreneurship is the need of the hour and must be encouraged in colleges.
The conference concluded with vote of thanks by Prof. (Dr.) Anil Vashisht, Director, Amity Business School and the Organizing Secretary of the conference.
The feedback on conference received was very encouraging and positive. The participants attending the conference were very happy about the deliberations and absorbed all the innovative ideas shared during the conference. Overall, the conference was a grand success as its outcome reflected very creative and innovative ideas in business management and social sciences.