The 40th edition of ICT BRIDGE conference was held at Bengaluru on 24th Sep’19 at Hotel Taj, Bengaluru. The theme of this edition was “Augmenting Skills, Accelerating Growth”, which aimed to bring together Industry Experts, Academic leaders and Government policymakers to help people Up-skill and Future-proof themselves, which is expected to be the defining challenge in near future.
This conference is a platform where visionaries lay out their blueprint to set right skill combination to make existing and upcoming workforce to augment rather than compete with technology. It is the only event addressing the stakeholders and leaders in the process of bridging the Industry & Academia towards an accelerated growth path of the nation.
The Bridge Focus Areas were:-
1. Corporates As The Talent Builders
2. Strategies To Augment The Skills Revolution
3. Leveraging Human Ingenuity For Intelligent Technology
4. Cultivating The Communities Of Talent
5. Creativity – The New Resistant
6. ‘AI + Design Thinking’ The Fresh Mantra
7. Learning For The Augmented Age
The key note speakers for the event were Dr. Kalpana Gopalan, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports, Government of Karnataka; Ms. Lakshmi Venkatakrishnan, Software Development Director, Oracle India; Mr. Chakravarthy ES, Global Head – Resource Management Group, TCS; Mr. Raju Dixit, Senior Director, Samsung Research India; Naganagouda SJ, Vice President & Head HR, Global Edge and many more. The event witnessed around 14 Industry Champions from various IT Majors and 100+ Human Resource & Technology leaders & Technopreneurs.
Dr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman, Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management (SCEM) was accompanied by the Faculty fraternity from the Institute for the event. Sahyadri being the academic partner for this conference received the sponsorship felicitation at the event.