Economic Times Education Summit

 I participated as a speaker on a couple of panels. Overall, it was a nice attempt to bring together thought leaders from government regulators, academic leaders and industry participants. IBM and Google were two major industry partners, apart from many others. 

I talked about the need to leverage alumni connects, and the need for autonomy, or freedom from excessive regulation of the unnecessary kind in our country. Higher education needs to be free to experiment and innovate with programs, curricula, pedagogy and more. The UGC chairman hinted that these would happen, with the NEP and a new outlook. He also talked about how industry and academia need to support each other. 

Pics from the event. My colleagues Sudhir Pradhan, and Anju Jadon also participated.

Above- One of the panels in which I was a speaker.

Below- another Round Table at the event, moderated by Devina Lason of ET. 

This (below) was the Round Table topic, with industry and academia participating.

Sudhir Pradhan, and Anju Jadon- above.

An ad for the event, on the ET page.