About

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – Indian Women Network (IWN) West Bengal, organised a “Session on New Age Careers” on 25 September 2020 from 1700 hrs.

The New Education Policy 2020 has taken a fresh look at education and drafted elaborately on multiskilling and upskilling a new generation of human resource. The session will deliberate on the need for imparting new skillsets to students embarking into the professional world and what are the new-age careers and how to get trained.

The discussion also elaborated about the adoption of emerging technologies like AI for the development of new-age skills as per the demands of the economy and industry and how it should be integrated into the formal education system right from the school stage.

Agenda

Panel Discussion: New Education Policy & Emerging Careers : Focus AI

Moderator – Mr Dipankar Chakrabarti

Executive Director, Emerging Tech, X-LoS R&Q, Data Control Officer

PricewaterhouseCoopers India (PwC India)

Speakers

Moderator – Mr Dipankar Chakrabarti

Executive Director, Emerging Tech, X-LoS R&Q, Data Control Officer, PricewaterhouseCoopers India

(PwC India)

Panelists –

Dr Saikat Maitra, Vice Chancellor, MAKAUT
Dr Pankaj Mittal, Secretary General, Association of Indian Universities (AIU)
Srabani Roychowdhury, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Anindya Datta, Founder & CEO, Mobilewalla
Padmanabhan Ramanujam, Chief Knowledge Officer , QS I-Gauge
Rajit Bhattacharya, CEO, Data Sutram
Mini Gyan Gautam, Partner, Aquilaw
Dipankar Chakrabarti, Executive Director, Technology Optimisatin, PwC
Sarajit Jha, Chief BTDS & CP, Tata Steel Ltd

Contact

Sumana Datta – 9073105314 – sumana.datta@cii.in

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Media Reports -

Biswa Bangla Sangbad - https://biswabanglasangbad.com/2020/09/27/the-key-role-in-the-corona-situation-is-played-by-artificial-intelligence-the-speakers-said-in-the-webinar/ Tinsel Talks - https://youtu.be/CRN1cCgMccE