Program | India 2021

Overall Conference Program

Day 1 – August 16 (Monday)

7:45 am – Welcome Keynote – Dr. Nagahanumaiah, Director, Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, An Autonomous R&D Institute under the Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Govt. of India, Tumkur Road, Bengaluru
8:00 am – Keynote Speaker I: Dr. Devdas Shetty, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, USA – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
8:40 am – Keynote Speaker II: Dr. Bala Bharadvaj, Globally recognized Aerospace Expert, Former MD of Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center, Advisor and Former President of SAEINDIA, Bangalore, India – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
9:20 am – Keynote Speaker III: Prof. Prem Vrat, Pro-Chancellor, NorthCap University, Gurugram, Haryana, India and Professor of Eminence & Chief Mentor – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
10:00 am – Keynote Speaker IV: Dr. Kapil Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg- Republic of South Africa – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
10:40 am – Break
11:00 am – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
12:45 pm – Lunch Break
2:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
3:45 pm – Break
4:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
5:45 pm – Break
6:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
7:45 pm Break
8:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
9:30 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3

Day 2 – August 17 (Tuesday)

7:45 am – Welcome Address: Dr. Shekar Babu, Founding Head, AMRITA School of Business, AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Bangalore, India
8:00 am – Keynote Speaker V: Dr. Neil G Murray Jr., DEMS, Engineering Manager at ZF and Adjunct Professor, Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
8:40 am – Keynote Speaker VI: Jatinder (Jeet) N. D. Gupta, PhD, CFPIM, Director, Integrated Enterprise Lab, Eminent Scholar and Professor, College of Business, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
9:20 am – Keynote Speaker VII: Ramanathan Narayanan, Managing Director and CEO, San Engineering, Bangalore, India – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
10:00 am – Keynote Speaker VIII: Dumidu Ranaweera, CEMBB, Global Director APAC, Middle East, Oceania, Africa & Canada, Dr. Mikel J. Harry Six Sigma Management Institute Asia, Colombo, Sri Lanka – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
10:40 am – Keynote Speaker IX: Prof. Vikas Kumar, Director of Research and Scholarship and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
11:30 am – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
1:00 pm – Break
2:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
3:45 pm – Break
4:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
5:45 pm Break
6:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
7:45 pm – Break
8:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
9:30 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3

Day 3 – August 18 (Wednesday)

7:45 am – Welcome Address – AMRITA Dean
8:00 am – Keynote Speaker X: Wilkistar Otieno, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
8:40 am – Keynote Speaker XI: Venugopal G, General Manager and Head, Digital Advisory and Industry 4.0, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
– Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
9:20 am – Keynote Speaker XII: Prof. Abid Haleem, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi -110025, India – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
10:00 am – Keynote Speaker XIII: Dr. S. Viswanathan, Professor of Operations Management and Associate Dean (Research), Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1
10:40 am – Break
11:00 am – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
12:45 pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
2:45 pm – Break
3:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
4:45 pm – Break
5:00 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
6:30 pm – Technical Presentations – Zoom Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
8:00 pm – Conference Awards Ceremony

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