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  • IIMB and ISPMA host Software Product Management Summit

    05 March, 2023: The fifth version of the Software Product Management Summit India 2023 titled “ Bridging New Frontiers and Opportunities – Product Management as a Catalyst” co-hosted by the Centre for Software and IT Management (CSITM) at IIM Bangalore and the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) was held on 03 and 04 March 2023.

    Three pre-conference workshops had been held on March 02. With over 50 members, all of the periods and the workshops performed by Malthi SS, Pragathi Neelaiahgari / Aditi Gangwar and Magnus Billgren had been interactive and informative.

    The summit was inaugurated by Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore, Prof. S. Sadagopan, Summit Chair, Prof. Rajendra Okay. Bandi, Dean – Administration, IIM Bangalore, Prof. Shankhadeep Banerjee, Chairperson, CSITM at IIM Bangalore, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman ISPMA, Dr. Ajai Chowdhry, Founder HCL.

    Dr. Spurthy Dharanikota, Program Chair (Academic Track) and Muthu Ranganathan, Program Chair (Industry Track) gave this system overview for the two days of Summit.

    Prof. S. Sadagopan, Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan Haragopal Mangipudi welcomed the members.  Dr. Ajai Chowdhry delivered the keynote deal with.

    The summit had Academic / Research and Industry tracks. There had been a number of shows, panel discussions and fireplace chats with trade leaders

    Prof. Sadagopan, the Summit Chair remarked, “The time has come when India can do software program merchandise; and Indian corporations will do software program merchandise from India for the world”

    SPM Excellence Awards

    The jury for the Excellence Awards comprised of Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Chairman, ISPMA, Prof. Guenther Ruhe, Professor of Software Engineering, University of Calgary, Peter Stadlinger, Head of Products, Freshworks (Freshsales Suite), Venkatesh Balakrishnan, Manager, CSITM, IIMB and Sunil Mishra SVP Product Management, Odessa Inc.

    The winners had been

    Category – Startup: VendorApp from VendorApp

    Category – New Software Product from Established Company: Behavioral well being security & attendance from Oracle Cerner

    Category – Platforms: ZEE5 from Zee Technologies

    A Special Jury Award Special Jury Award for Outstanding SPM Practice was awarded to Eightfold Talent Flex from Eightfold AI

    Best Academic Paper Awards

    Dr. Spurthy Dharanikota, Program Chair (Academic Track) introduced the awards for the Academic Track.

    The winners had been

    Best Research Paper – Second Runner Up: Paper titled “Parental information, perspective, and apply towards their kids’s oral hygiene of age 2 to 12 years (A Web-Based Study)” authored by Lipsa Aggarwal, Himakshi Lohani, Jyoti Sen, and Pratibha Taneja

    Best Research Paper – First Runner Up: Paper titled “How product leaders can contribute to create SCA in Software product– based mostly organisations?” authored by Dr. Harbir Singh

    Best Research Paper- Winner: Paper titled “Using Mobile Ethnography as A Research Tool in Launching a New Social Media App” authored by Sweta Thota

  • Ambassador David Friedman to Serve as Chairman of the Ariel University Foundation

    5 March 2023

    Ariel University Foundation in the United States proudly publicizes that former United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has agreed to serve as its chairman.

    The Ariel University Foundation is devoted to supporting the development and enlargement of greater schooling at Ariel University, supporting its breakthrough analysis and its tutorial excellence.

    “Ariel University’s distinctive place as a supplier of greater schooling and medical companies to all residents of the area makes it singular in its means to affect the area for the profit of all”, remarked Ambassador Friedman upon accepting the place of chairman.

    In addition to Ambassador Friedman, Mr. Arnold Schlesinger, who helps the University’s “Schlesinger Family Particle Accelerator Center”, Israel’s solely college particle accelerator heart, will serve as Vice-Chairman of the Foundation.

    Mr. Bobby Brown, Ariel University’s Senior Vice-President acknowledged that, “The Ariel University Foundation’s new management, with their huge expertise, power and strategic considering will contribute enormously to the continued success and improvement of Ariel University. It has grow to be famend for its modern analysis and academic excellence for the profit of its 17,000 college students who characterize the mosaic of Israeli society.”

    Ariel University congratulates and appears ahead to working with Ambassador Friedman and Arnold Schlesinger on advancing Ariel University’s faculties, schools, and analysis facilities for the profit of the State of Israel and all its residents.

    For data relating to the Foundation or donations, please contact Abigail Szymkiewicz at +972 3 937 1418 or abigailsz@ariel.ac.il.

  • Navrachana University now offers Major-Minor disciplines

    The facility will enable college students to decide on any one of many seven diversified disciplines as Minor disciplines together with the Major Program.

    Vadodara: Students of Navrachana University, the area’s premier multi-disciplinary non-public college, will now be capable of pursue a Minor self-discipline aside from their Major diploma program.

    The University has recognized seven disciplines of which college students can select anybody as a Minor self-discipline. For instance, BBA college students can select a Minor in Interior Design, B Sc Chemistry college students can select a Minor in Computer Science, and so forth. Students will get a separate certificates for the Minor self-discipline together with the primary program diploma on the finish of the educational program.

    “Minor disciplines provide college students an excellent alternative to diversify their pursuits and acquire knowledgeable edge by pursuing a Minor self-discipline of their curiosity together with the Major program. This is in step with our agency perception that studying should not be restricted to a set topic or matter and college students should be inspired to pursue topics of their curiosity and inclination even when it isn’t part of the course they’re finding out. I can proudly say that Navrachana University is among the many few universities in India that provide such a chance and adaptability to college students. I’m assured that college students will take advantage of this chance. I additionally congratulate our school for arising with such attention-grabbing Minor disciplines,” mentioned Prof. Pratyush Shankar, Provost, Navrachana University.

    The seven Minor disciplines obtainable to college students embrace General Management (School of Business and Law), Business Law (School of Business and Law), Interior Design (School of Environmental Design and Architecture), Health Science (School of Science), Mechatronics (School of Engineering and Technology), Computer Science (School of Engineering and Technology) and Film Production (School of Libera Studies and Education).

    To attain a Minor, college students might want to do 18 credit score value of programs from the above programs. The 18 credit can be carved from college students’ elective credit score financial institution. Electives that can be supplied in all semesters can be designated for a selected Minor.

  • La Trobe University strengthens partnerships in India

    La Trobe University

    March  2023, New Delhi – La Trobe University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Dewar AO, is in New Delhi this week with Australian Education Minister, The Hon. Jason Clare MP, to cement strategically necessary partnerships with universities, analysis facilities, and business companions in India.

    Official agreements signed at ceremonies over the three-day go to will strengthen international analysis and business collaborations and create new worldwide studying alternatives for employees and college students at La Trobe, and its companion organisations in India.

    Professor Dewar will meet with representatives from a few of India’s main instructional and analysis establishments, together with the Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre, Lady Shri Ram College, and Jindal Global Law School.

    Professor Dewar stated he was excited that these newly established partnerships with main analysis and instructing establishments and industries would additional deepen La Trobe’s already established relationship with India.

    “We have a protracted and proud historical past of shut ties with a lot of India’s main analysis, instructional and cultural establishments, and deeply worth the contribution they make to our campuses and communities,” Professor Dewar stated.

    “Whether providing Shah Rukh Khan scholarships for aspiring feminine researchers, partnering with the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, or graduating 1000’s of scholars with Indian heritage who now maintain senior positions throughout the globe, our partnerships in India are crucial to our success as a college.”

    Professor Dewar stated the ceremonial signings throughout his journey to India would reap many advantages for employees, college students, and communities in each international locations.

    “As a world University, we’re all the time searching for new methods to foster and improve worldwide collaborations that not solely profit our personal college students and workers however create new and thrilling alternatives for these establishments with whom we construct partnerships,” Professor Dewar stated.

    “This is strictly what these thrilling agreements signed as we speak will do, and I very a lot look ahead to us working productively with these 4 establishments over the approaching years, in addition to with our many different valued companions in India.”

    La Trobe took half in the next signing ceremonies on 2 March 2023, in New Delhi:

    Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre – Signing of Memorandum of Understanding

    Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC) is the biggest Biotech start-up hub in India – a state-of-the-art translational analysis and entrepreneurship middle catering to all of the wants of start-ups in life science. With funding from the Victorian Government, La Trobe will open a brand new Bio Innovation Hub and Digital Innovation Hub in 2023, connecting researchers and early-stage corporations inside this ecosystem to construct their product growth pipeline each in Australia and in India. This new collaboration between La Trobe and BBC will create a pipeline of improvements as start-ups. BBC has a really robust mandate to create international linkages to facilitate the scale-up for its start-ups and to offer comfortable touchdown pads for overseas start-ups.

    Lady Shri Ram College – Signing of Letter of Support and renewal of Student Mobility Agreement

    This Letter of Support extends a long-standing association between Lady Shri Ram College (LSR) and La Trobe for LSR Students’ Mobility in addition to workers change to undertake skilled growth actions at La Trobe annually. This association helps LSR’s mission to “empower girls to imagine management roles in a globalised, quickly altering, technology-based nation and world”, and sits alongside a pupil mobility settlement that has seen an change of about 60 college students between the 2 establishments since 2011. Since its inception in 1995, the La Trobe-LSR partnership has gone from energy to energy and has led to cultural exchanges, and actions supported by the New Colombo Plan. Lady Shri Ram College for Women is dedicated to extending horizons, creating new metaphors that may spotlight all that’s particular and of advantage in India whereas nurturing multiculturalism.

    Jindal Global Law School – Signing of Articulation Agreement Juris Doctor

    This settlement will allow undergraduate regulation graduates from Jindal Global Law School to finish years two and three of the Juris Doctor at La Trobe University. JGLS, as a extremely regarded regulation faculty in India, fosters curriculum, analysis, and collaborations of the best requirements, and with a world perspective, via a college drawn from, and educated all through, the world. This settlement will give JGLS undergraduate regulation graduates the chance to review overseas and attain a graduate regulation diploma from La Trobe Law School, one in all Australia’s most progressive regulation colleges. It is envisaged that this collaboration will result in cross-institutional analysis initiatives, workshops, and seminars.

  • Admission Alert Of Academy Of Fashion & Art (Afa)

    The Academy of Fashion & Art (AFA) is inviting Online/ Offline purposes for varied programs. All college students who not too long ago acquired promoted to lessons eleventh and twelfth are eligible and invited for on-line/offline teaching at AFA all through India for NIFT- B des/M des/B F Tec/ MFM/M Tec, NID -B Des/M Des, UCEED, CEED, UID, PEARL, TDV, JSAA, UPES, IIAD, JEE B ARCH PAPER-2, BFA, NATA and different Art and Design Entrance Exams throughout India and overseas for the 12 months 2023. AFA delivers applications that present college students with high quality teaching for Design Entrance Exams throughout India.

    The Course Academy of Fashion & Art gives varied programs which embrace

    Weekday/Weekend – Online/Offline lessons, Summer Crash Courses, Winter Crash Course,10 Days Express Courses, GAT, CAT, DAT, NIFT Situation Test, BFA Special Courses, Test Series, Design Aptitude check, General Aptitude Test, Situation Test/Studio Test, Group Discussion and Interview Concept, Interview, Portfolio Preparation.

    How to use:

    Interested candidates can go to the official web site to get extra updates.

    Deadline: thirty first March 2023.

    Official Website: – https://www.afaindia.com/index.php.

  • Aditya Birla World Academy Presents First package of Female Reproductive System Models Customized Specially For Visually Impaired Students

    Aditya Birla World Academy

    Mumbai, March 2023: As half of a novel, joint initiative between Aditya Birla World Academy (ABWA), one of India’s main worldwide faculties and Ujaas, a social enterprise, an initiative of Aditya Birla Education Trust engaged in selling menstrual well being, each underneath the aegis of Aditya Birla Education Trust, a delegation from ABWA visited Smt. Kamla Mehta School for the Blind offered the primary package of feminine reproductive system fashions personalized particularly for the wants of visually impaired women. The fashions are meant to be used by Ujaas trainers of their initiative to drive menstrual hygiene and consciousness amongst Indian women who lack entry to such training. In the primary section, college students made 40 fashions and would proceed to take action as per the requirement from the Ujaas staff.

    Female reproductive system fashions at present obtainable available in the market aren’t designed to accommodate the wants of the visually impaired, which prevents them from understanding the system. ABWA college students have created a particular mannequin which makes use of recycled cardboard and is texturized to facilitate studying by contact. Using the fashions, trainers from Ujaas performed a menstrual hygiene workshop for the visually impaired, at Smt. Kamla Mehta School for the Blind. This is the primary of a collection of such workshops they’ve performed in Mumbai and plan to conduct such workshops throughout Maharashtra.

    Discussing the initiative, Radhika Sinha, Principal, Aditya Birla World Academy, stated: “I’m extraordinarily gratified by, and proud of, the revolutionary concept developed by ABWA college students, which demonstrates their intelligent use of design pondering to resolve a real-world, however very underrated, social problem. At ABWA, we encourage our college students to assume deeply in regards to the world round them and take the lead in driving lasting social impression. Our collaboration with Ujaas to drive menstrual hygiene consciousness is according to our emphasis on growing artistic thinkers and nice leaders who will work to advertise inclusivity and create a unified, holistically-aware society.”

  • World Sustainable Energy Days Celebration at EuroKids Munnekolala, Bangalore

    EuroKids Munnekolala

    Bangalore, March 3, 2023: EuroKids Munnekolala centre in Bangalore celebrated World Sustainable Energy Day by organising an exercise to coach the pre-schoolers concerning the significance of wind and solar energy. The exercise centered on explaining and educating the youngsters about sustainable vitality and the way it will help us in the long term. Children discovered concerning the varied methods of producing vitality by way of wind generators and photo voltaic panels and the way these vitality sources might be harnessed and used to energy our houses, faculties, and workplaces. The kids had been inspired to be accountable electrical energy shoppers and use it correctly. It is necessary to boost consciousness about these points early in order that kids can develop up accountable residents who care concerning the atmosphere.”

  • Admissions Open: B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture Program at NMIMS SAST Shirpur

    Shirpur, 03 March 2023: School of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SAST), Shirpur, the primary college of Agriculture below SVKM’s NMIMS, has began admissions for a four-year skilled undergraduate diploma B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture program to supply holistic training in agriculture and allied sectors.

    Agriculture contributes to 17% of GDP and employs about 54% of the inhabitants in rural areas. Providing specialised coaching and ability units will profit the scholars to serve this sector. Through a targeted strategy, the School goals to arrange agricultural graduates to undertake accountable jobs, entrepreneurship, and agricultural scientists and thereby promote sustainable farm profitability and livelihood safety to the agricultural inhabitants relying straight or not directly on agriculture. In the Rural Agriculture Work Experience program, the scholars achieve first-hand perception into the problems impacting farm sustainability and supply viable options.

    The program is designed as per ICAR advisable syllabus in order that the coed’s studying is in step with the nationwide curriculum. The School might be going for ICAR accreditation shortly and therefore present equal alternative to the scholars on a par with different schools. The syllabus balances concept and sensible and all sensible classes are held in totally outfitted laboratories or on the farm. The college students can even be uncovered to varied analysis institutes and are oriented towards an agri-business perspective. The college students will perceive the agricultural setting of agriculture and allied sectors; the socio-economic situations of the farmers and points, particularly with regard to varied pests, illnesses, and physiological issues confronted by the crops and animals. By organizing interactive outreach actions below the steering of the school, the scholars are endowed with enhanced communication abilities and make use of varied information administration instruments. The 2-month lengthy business internship supplies a possibility to intently observe the day-to-day functioning of business and purchase entrepreneurial abilities.

    Eligibility Criteria:
    Students searching for admission for the B.Sc. (Hons.) program should have:
    ● Passed Higher Secondary Examination (HSC) or 10+2 from both state boards, ISE or CBSE.
    ● Minimum 50% combination with physics, chemistry and biology or equal program

    Dr.Akshay Malhotra, the Director of the Shirpur Campus stated, “Our endeavor at SAST is to be a globally acknowledged agricultural establishment of reputation that produces socially accountable self-motivated graduates. The built-in NMIMS Shirpur campus supplies a great setting to supply holistic training to our college students that encourage them to develop into lifelong learners. At NMIMS Shirpur, we’re very aware of our bigger duty to serve the farming group and we be sure that the identical worth system can also be imbibed in all our college students. This is in step with the imaginative and prescient of our Hon’ble Chancellor, Shri Amrishbhai Patel. We guarantee our college students are given adequate on-hand discipline in addition to laboratory expertise in order that they’ve an opportunity to excel within the profession path of their selection, whether or not it’s service within the business, increased training, and even, entrepreneurship.”

    Dr.Suseelendra Desai, Dean, the School of Agricultural Sciences and Technology stated, “The School of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, situated within the prime agricultural belt of North Maharashtra, is a superb place to be taught. With 117 acres of farm land and well-equipped laboratories, we intention to be a world establishment for agricultural training, analysis, and outreach actions. The nation wants a well-trained agricultural graduate empowered with proper ability units to contribute to sustainable farm livelihoods, rural financial system and cloth. Under the visionary management of Shri Amrish Bhai Patel, a passionate agriculture fanatic, a full-fledged School advanced might be prepared by the following educational 12 months to supply state-of-the-art facilities for the promotion of agricultural training. In future, Dairy know-how and Veterinary faculties envisaged will give a holistic studying about built-in farming techniques. We have partnered with many industries for a minimal 2-month lengthy internship and in dialogue with the reputed worldwide universities to supply value-added training to the scholars.”

  • GNIDSR, Saveetha Dental College join hands for Advancement of Inter-Institutional Academic Progress

    Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Sciences and Research

    Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Sciences and Research underneath JIS Group and Saveetha Dental College join hands for the Advancement of Inter-Institutional Academic Progress

    The MoU focuses on the Advancement of Inter-Institutional Academic Progress

    third March 2023, Kolkata: Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Sciences and Research (GNIDSR) together with Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Chennai, ranked 1 amongst 300+ personal and public dental faculties by the federal government of India in 2022, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advertise inter-institutional collaboration and progress within the discipline of dental schooling and analysis. The occasion was graced by dignitaries together with Dr. Dibyendu Mazumdar, President, Dental Council of India; Dr. S. Aravind Kumar, Dean, Saveetha Dental College and Sardar Taranjit Singh, Managing Director, JIS Group. The MoU facilitated each establishments by collaborative analysis initiatives, alternate of college members and college students, a number of joint conferences and workshops, and shared assets and experience. The alliance would end in important developments in dental schooling, analysis, and affected person care, together with creation of new alternatives for college students and college members to collaborate, study, and develop collectively.

    Speaking on the event, Sardar Taranjit Singh, Managing Director of JIS Group mentioned,” We at all times attempt to inculcate applications which might assist each our establishment and fulfil the societal trigger. This initiative would assist up-skilling our college students by sensible publicity and we will rightly contribute to the betterment of dental science.”

    Speaking on the event, Prof. (Dr.) Jayanta Bhattacharyya, Principal of Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Sciences and Research (GNIDSR), mentioned, “We are delighted to companion with Saveetha Dental College to advertise collaboration and progress within the discipline of dental schooling and analysis. By leveraging our collective strengths, we hope to create a platform for exchanging data and experience that can profit our college students, college, and sufferers.”

    Commenting on the collaboration, Dean of Saveetha Dental College S. Aravind Kumar, mentioned, This MoU is a testomony to our dedication to excellence in dental schooling and analysis, and we sit up for a productive and fruitful collaboration”

    L-R-
    Prof. (Dr.) Jayanta Bhattacharyya, Principal , GNIDSR
    Prof. (Dr.) Deepak Nallaswamy Veeraiyan, Director of Academics, SIMAT
    Sardar Taranjit Singh, Managing Director, JIS Group
    Prof. (Dr.) Dibyendu Mazumdar, President, DCI
    Prof. (Dr.) S. Arvind Kumar, Dean, Saveetha Dental College
    Sardar Simarpreet Singh, Director, JIS Group

  • World Sustainable Energy Days celebration at EuroKids, Jalna

    World Sustainable Energy Days celebration at EuroKids, Jalna

    World Sustainable Energy Day was celebrated by EuroKids Jalna from February twenty eighth via March third 2023, with nice enthusiasm and a powerful concentrate on elevating consciousness amongst younger minds in regards to the significance of vitality conservation. On the event of WSED, Ishwari Chavan, Centre Head, Jalna, mentioned, “At EuroKids, we consider that schooling is the important thing to constructing a greater future, and what might be a greater solution to educate younger minds than instructing them the values of sustainability and conservation. Such engagements and actions facilitate the kids’s studying about renewable vitality and assist them realise how they will considerably save the planet by utilizing renewable assets. We goal to construct a technology of conscious residents dedicated to creating the world a greater place and caring about their affect on the atmosphere.”