Dataquest “Talent & Leadership” platform provides the engineering colleges to showcase their prowess to the entire ecosystem pan India. It is a forum, where-in experts across enterprise, academia’s, L&D will deliberate upon the current higher education scenarios of Indian colleges. Methods & ways to embrace the technological know-how for better training to make the younger generation future ready & technical ready. The discussion also aims at providing a sense to cultivate the research & development among the students.

In the T-School Conference & Awards, Dataquest will recognise & felicitate the best engineering colleges in India.

The conference will also focus on the biggest questions that looms the engineering colleges for decades.

Are these engineering colleges providing right technical education to empower the future generations that are employable readily by the industry and are the technical education enough to create a benchmark?

T-School platform will highlight the need to adopt the need of the hour curriculum and need of the industry participation aligning with the policy makers to revamp the system with modern technology.

Who Should Attend

Policy makers
CXO’s from medium & large enterprises
CHRO/HR heads & learning heads from large corporates
Deans, Directors, chancellors of the engineering colleges
Business & tech decision makers of Higher education
CXO’s of the edu-tech companies
Strategist & consultants
Engineering students & engineering graduates

Key Discussion points

Will education shift from offline to online?
Online education has created a new avenue of revenue.
Digital transformation: How technology is shaping the future education
Diversity is key to transformation.
Bridging the digital talent gap
Designing teams for Industry 4.0
Building teams for tomorrow

Agenda

Time	Sessions
09:30 - 10:00 AM	Welcome Note Pradeep Gupta, Chairman, CyberMedia Group Watch on Demand Click here to read
10:00 - 10:15 AM	Inaugural Session Keynote: Innovation in Academics Dr. U. B. Desai, Founding Director, IIT Hyderabad Watch on Demand Click here to read
10:15 - 10:30 AM	Inaugural Session Keynote: Education Policy in the New Normal Sushma Paul Berlia, Co-Founder & Chancellor, Apeejay Stya University Watch on Demand Click here to read
10:30 - 10:45 AM	Inaugural Session Keynote: Education Policy in the New Normal Prof. Rajesh Khanna, President, NIIT University Watch on Demand Click here to read
10:45 - 11:00 AM	Inaugural Session Keynote: LifeLongLearning in the New Normal Phalgun Kompalli, Co-founder, upGrad Watch on Demand Click here to read
11:00 - 11:15 AM	Inaugural Session Keynote: Transformation of the Industry & Skills needed Mona Bharadwaj, Global University Programs - Leader-India, IBM India Watch on Demand Click here to read
11:15 - 11:30 AM	Industry Keynote: Intelligent Security Engineered for Digital-Age Education Valan Sivasubramanian, Manager - Systems Engineering, Fortinet Watch on Demand
11:30 - 12:00 PM	Panel Discussion: Future of Indian Tech Education: Re-skilling India Prof. Rajesh Khanna, President, NIIT University Dr. Madhu Chitkara, Pro Chancellor, Chitkara University Dr. Mani Madhukar, Program Manager, Global University Programs, IBM Research Valan Siva Subramanian, Manager, Systems Engineering- Fortinet Moderated by Sunil Rajguru, Editor, Dataquest Watch on Demand Click here to read
12:00 - 01:00 PM	Panel Discussion: Technology Innovation in Higher Education Dr. J.V. Desai, Vice Chancellor, MVN University Rajesh Kumar, Technology Head, Enterprise and Government, India & SAARC, Juniper Networks Raunak Singh Ahluwalia, Founder, University18 Nitesh Rohatgi, COO, ImaginXP Narayan Mahadevan, Founder, BridgeLabz Moderated by Gajendra Upadhyay, Editor, Voice&Data Watch on Demand
01:00 - 02:00 PM	Panel Discussion: Edu-novate (Innovation in education) for education sector transformation Kirti Seth, CEO, IT-ITES Sector Skill Council NASSCOM Dr. Vinnie Jauhari, Director Education Advocacy & Skills Lead, Microsoft Sundara Rajan, Founder & Director, Thomas Assessments India and Market Search India Sahil Aggarwal, Co-founder and CEO, Rishihood University Moderated by Prabhu Ram, Head - Industry Intelligence Group at CyberMedia Research Watch on Demand Click here to read
2:00 - 2:15 PM	Dataquest 16th Annual T-School Survey & Ranking: A Synopsys Anil Chopra, VP, Research & Consulting, CyberMedia Research Watch on Demand
2:15 - 3:00 PM	Dataquest 16th T-School Awards to Top Ranking Engineering Colleges in India Watch on Demand Click here to read
03:00 PM	Thank you note & closing remarks Sunil Rajguru, Editor, Dataquest, PCQuest & CiOL Watch on Demand
Note: (*) Subject to change.