Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 23: Three day “International Conference on Innovation and Sustainability in Business Development”, organised by International Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and Human Resource Management (ICccR & HRM) University of Jammu, in collaboration with the University of the South Pacific, Fiji and Directorate of Distance & Online Education, JU began here today.
The key note speakers for inaugural ceremony of the conference were Prof Gurmeet Singh, Deputy Vice Chancellor & Vice President, Research & Innovation, University of the South Pacific, Fiji and Prof Haywantee Ramkissoon, Professor, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
The inaugural ceremony was presided by Prof Neelu Rohmetra, Dean Research Studies, JU & Founder Director, ICccR & HRM, University of Jammu.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Gurmeet Singh highlighted the importance of creating balance between sustainability and innovation for creating inclusive and ecologically balanced enterprises, communities, societies and nations.
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Prof Haywantee Ramkissoon delved deep into the solving of societal and community imbalances through place attachment theory. She enabled attendees to have a global perspective of sustainability with reference to institutional practices and individual interventions.
Prof Neelu Rohmetra, Dean Research Studies JU, narrated the journey that the ICccR & HRM has undergone and the milestones that has helped the centre to carve a niche for itself in India and abroad. She highlighted the role of youth engagement in startups and called academia and corporate stakeholders to look at the broader issues of society through the lens of transdisciplinarity.
Prof Hardeep Chahal, Director, ICccR & HRM JU, presented the conference highlights, and the geographic scope of research papers that the conference has been able to fetch from India and abroad.
Prominent among others present in the inaugural ceremony, were Prof R D Sharma, former Vice Chancellor JU; Prof R K Singh, University of Delhi; Prof Rishi Raj, GNDU Amritsar; Prof Mushtaq A Darzi, KU; Prof Tejinder Sharma, Kurukshetra University; Prof Mahesh Gupta, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA; Dr Anil Gupta, Director, SHTM, JU; faculty members, officials from other departments of University of Jammu, conference delegates, and alumni of ICccR & HRM, JU.
The Day I of the conference was virtual day with different plenary sessions and conference presentations. The prominent plenary speakers were Prof Vipin Gupta, California State University, USA; Gaurav Roy, Country Manager QSL Vietnam Liability Limited Company, Vietnam; Prof Vijay Pereira, NEOMA Business School, Reims Campus, France and Prof Spring H Han, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
The ceremony was coordinated by Dr Isha Sharma, Assistant Professor, ICccR & HRM, and other faculty members.
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