LPU organised two-day Innovation Summit-2021 with industry's top global leaders 

Jalandhar: Division of Student Welfare at LPU organized two-day Innovation Summit-2021 with industry's top global leaders. The Summit was held under the banner of AICTE, MHRD, IIC (Institutions’ Innovation Council), and MHRD’s Innovation Cell (Govt. of India). Thousands of participating LPU students interacted virtually with the leaders of top ranks including MD, CEO, Co-Founder from diverse sectors, like Wipro (US), Accenture Ventures, ICT Mumbai, Animal Aid Unlimited, TIF Labs, Kool-Kanya and more. LPU students gained an understanding of innovation across all verticals of the industry, and also imbibed the essential role of innovation in digital era businesses.

The virtual summit provided a real-time engagement opportunity for the students to experience the demos of various innovations as well as networking opportunity with speakers and other attendees. As there were no physical constraints of time and space, the impact went multi-fold in terms of scope, appeal, content and engagement.

Co-founder Animal Aid Unlimited (AAU) Ms Erica Abrams, originally hailing from US, talked about problems faced by street animals and various service possibilities and opportunities thereof. Innovator cum entrepreneur and a research scholar at ICT Mumbai Amit S. Lokhande shared his views about innovations and business ideas. Managing Director (Accenture Ventures) Avnish Sabharwal suggested innovating in the ‘Never Normal World’ and encouraged students to create and adopt the new normal world. Head of Global Strategic Alliances (Wipro, US) & World Peace Ambassador Damodar Sahi discussed the role of digital marketing strategies in achieving the business objectives, different opportunities in the digital era, and design thinking.

CEO (TIF Labs) Pranay Agarwal discussed how ‘startup’ entrepreneurship will change post COVID-19 era; and, CEO of Kool-Kanya, Vanshika Goenka focussed on the rise of women, job opportunities for them and discussed empowering women entrepreneurs to drive economic growth.

In fact, students were guided that they need not be great thinkers or good writers to be innovative entrepreneurs. There can be many products concerning their emerging ideas; however, the main thing is how their products are made with fresh perspective taking innovative steps. They were informed that innovation and entrepreneurship are important for them so as to create exemplary for the next generations to follow and innovate on the next steps, as per the needs of the time. Each and every field has a lot to work upon anew. /(January 12, 2021)