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MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence Celebrates International Women’s Day with Global Women Leaders on Emerging Technologies

PUNE, India, March 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence (MIT FuSE), MIT Art, Design and Technology University celebrated International Women’s Day with their 2nd International Virtual Summit (IVS) on Women Frontiers in Exponential Technology. This summit was aspired to firstly, appreciate Women tech-influencers from all over the world and secondly, to facilitate a plethora of information on the top most trending topics on technology from Power BI, Robotics, FinTech, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Cloud Security, NFTs and Metaverse. Over a period of 4 days, from March 5th to 8th, the summit delivered 29 power–packed TechTalks by the most influential tech leaders and connoisseurs from India, Australia, UK, Switzerland, New Zealand & USA. The FinTech Job Report by Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship CFTE, London, was also exclusively launched in the event.

Technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last few decades. Technologies change every 2-3 years, and it is critical for a professional working in the technology space to stay up to date in order to quickly advance up the career ladder and keep updated with the Techade. The International Virtual Summit (IVS WFET) addressed concerns, sharing information, and ways to make improvements in the skills and learning space, in order to assist firms in developing a future-ready strategy for the common benefit of global workplaces, as well as challenges in computing technology for generation Z for a complete digital transformation.

Dr. Elizabeth Xu, Chairman of the Board and CEO, A2C Leadership Group & Co-Founder, California Science and Technology University, deliberated the concept of Digital Twin. She meticulously amplified how one’s digital twin can project their intended image with the world through platforms like Youtube, Insta, Facebook, TikTok & LinkedIn. Ms. Divya Ashok, Vice President Strategy and Innovation, Salesforce specified the role of Women leaders in the domain of Cloud Computing. She shares an interesting mantra to be a leader, “be KHC, viz., be Kind, Humble and Confident.“ Ms. Tram Anh Nguyen, Co-Founder Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) & one of the top 22 Key Opinion Leaders in FinTech, gave an overview of career opportunities in FinTech. She also launched CFTE’s world’s largest FinTech Job Report. This book is the first research that analyses 40,000 new jobs offered by the 225 largest FinTech companies in the world.

Ms. Payal Manan Rajpal, Director-Robotex India stressed upon the importance and growth of women in the field of Robotics. She shared the interesting journey of ‘Hack the Crisis, India‘ & ‘Global Hack’ the first digital initiative with the Ministry of Electronics and IT India MEITY, MyGov India. Ms. Sophia Lopez, Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Kaleido from North Carolina, explained with interesting facts on Blockchain, Privacy, Data flow & Digital Assets. Ms. Leila Etaati, Co-Founder RADACAD, Data Scientist & BI Consultant from New Zealand enumerated the perks of automated machine learning in BI space with an overview of Business Intelligence (BI). Ms. Tanushri Bhattacharya, Director of Finance at InnoWise delivered an insightful session on women empowerment in the digital economy from the USA. She emphasized women’s role in technology and focussed on the scope for women in the field of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Ms. Shamane Tan, Chief Growth Officer of Sekuro and TEDx Speaker & Global Cybersecurity Influencer from Australia described how a modern day Cyber Security expert deals with everyday threats. She portrayed how cyber leaders use different and innovative strategies to face any cyber attack even before it takes place. Ms. Alice Beverly Cole, Independent Corporate Director of Bank OZK, Global Innovator & Influencer shared interesting facts on the global supply chain, cyber security and the importance it holds in today’s society. She also advised on embracing technology as the normal if you don’t want to be left behind.

Ms. Natalie Evie, Founder Natalie Evie Consulting & Former Executive Director of Goldman Sachs, from Hong Kong shared her journey from a workaholic to a holistic working professional by choice. She pointed that a person’s situation depends on their reaction to it, and not by someone else’s nature. Her session focussed on the importance of EQ for success. Ms. Vandana Verma, Chair at OWASP & Founder of Infosec Girls, deliberated on how data is our responsibility & how it is sensitive yet exceptional. She discussed ways of managing the cloud and its security architecture. Dr. Martha Boeckenfeld, Metaverse & Digital Transformation Leader from Switzerland, gave valuable suggestions on winning digital consumers focussing on hyper personalization, context-sensitive experience impressions & creating ecosystems. She stressed on the importance of perceiving the customer intent to ensure better interaction and results. Ms. Peggy Tsai, Chief Data Officer at BigID & Board Member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from New York, detailed the role of data for business decisions considering the challenges in data management. She also suggested how AI & ML can help achieve effective data governance.

Ms. Helen Wall, Founder and Principal of Helen Data Design, from the USA, reiterated the power of Business Intelligence with its key features. BI plays an important role in organizational strategic planning for measuring performance progress toward business goals. Ms. Rupa Singh, Founder of AI-Beehive, Bengaluru, AI-Ethicist & Thought Leader pointed out that long before the development and creation of autonomous AI agents, the potential dangers need to be gauged.  She emphasised the importance of an AI code of ethics to provide stakeholders with guidance when faced with an ethical decision involving the use of artificial intelligence. Ms. Neha Dhyani, Senior Security Consultant, Nokia, Australia, explained in detail the challenges in endpoint detection response. She enumerated the reasons why it’s important to have strategies before a threat is detected. She also mentioned the triggers which begins the threat hunt. She discussed various career opportunities in the field of cyber security. 

Ms. Sailaja Vadlamudi, AppSecLead & Senior Director of SAP Labs India & Founder of Women in Cyber Security & Privacy (WiCSP) gave insights on the basics of information security along with the security core principles, including confidentiality, availability and integrity. She shared the intention of WiCSP initiative, i.e to raise Cyber Security awareness among women, young girls, and children in order to alert them to digital threats and cultivate them in their personal development. Ms. Irina Ghose, Executive Director, Cloud Solutions – Microsoft India, narrated the power of AI and inference, networking with interesting examples and storytelling. She demonstrated how the future of education, hospitals, businesses, services, etc. could completely change with the use of technologies like AI & Metaverse. Mr. Sandeep Alur, Director Microsoft Technology Center provided the immersive & emerging tech demonstration through online interaction. He deliberately explained the intervention and deployment of artificial intelligence in healthcare as well as education sector. Ms. Sristhi Assudani, Director of SettleMint & Metaverse Evangelist, shared mind-blowing facts on the most talked about concept of 2022, Metaverse. She gave interesting insights on what it is, who has already started working on it, what can we expect in the world of Metaverse and so on.

Executive President & Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Mangesh T. Karad congratulated MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence for hosting this spectacular event on International Women’s Day. He was enthralled to see the world’s leading women influencers in exponential technologies being part of this International Virtual Summit who served as role models for other women. He said that these successful torchbearers of technology demonstrate how traditional gender barriers can be overcome resulting in high levels of accomplishment. 

Prof. Suraj Bhoyar, Project Director, MIT Centre for Future Skills Excellence confirmed the intent of initiating the International Virtual Summit. The International Virtual Summit (IVS WFET) is dedicated to addressing concerns, sharing information, and ways to make improvements in the skills and learning space, in order to assist firms in developing a future-ready strategy for the common benefit of global workplaces, as well as challenges in computing technology for generation Z. He promised more such events for tech enthusiasts in future. He also focussed on why it’s important to be equipped with exponential technologies like IoT, Data Analytics, Robotics, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, etc. 

The summit was a great success with it being telecast live on YouTube and Facebook for global viewers aspiring for a career in trending technologies. More details about the 2nd International Virtual Summit on Women Frontiers in Exponential Technology can be found on www.mitfutureskills.org/wfet 

About MIT-ADT University

MAEER’s Trust which is known to set the strong precedence for the privatization of Engineering education in Maharashtra had taken a first mover’s advantage by establishing the Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT-Pune), in 1983, which continues to remain the flagship institute of the group.

MIT Art, Design and Technology University, Pune has been established under the MIT Art, Design and Technology University Act, 2015 (Maharashtra Act No. XXXIX of 2015). The University commenced its operations successfully from 27th June 2016. The University is a self-financed institution and empowered to award the degrees under section 22 of the University Grants Commission act, 1956. The University has a unique blend of Art, Design, and Technology as the core of its academics.

Recently, MIT Art, Design and Technology University, Pune has accomplished the following accolades:

  1. Ranked in Band Excellent for ARIIA 2021 by the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.
  2. Received 5 Star rating for exemplary performance by the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Council, Govt. of India.
  3. Conferred with Best University Campus Award by ASSOCHAM, New Delhi
  4. Granted with Atal Incubation Centre under ATAL Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India

MIT Art, Design and Technology University has been taking a holistic approach towards imparting education wherein the students are being motivated to build a complete winning personality which is “physically fit, intellectually sharp, mentally alert and spiritually elevated”. The students are being encouraged to participate in yoga, meditation, physical training, spiritual elevation, communication skills, and other personality development programmes. Currently, we have 7500+ students studying in various schools of higher education under the University viz. Engineering and Technology, Food Technology, Bioengineering, Arts, Design, Marine Engineering, Journalism and Broadcasting, Film and Television, Music (Hindustani Classical Vocal and Instrumental), Teacher Education, and Vedic Sciences.

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Project Director

MIT-FuSE, MIT-ADT University, Pune

Mobile No.: +91-9028483286

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Lumina Datamatics Wins IMC RBNQA – Performance Excellence Trophy 2025 in the Service Category

MUMBAI, India, May 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lumina Datamatics, a strategic partner to global publishers and eCommerce retailers, has won the IMC RBNQA – Performance Excellence Trophy 2025 in the Service category. The award was presented at a prestigious ceremony held at the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Mumbai on 30th April 2026.

This esteemed recognition is part of the IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality (RBNQ) Awards for 2025, one of India’s most respected benchmarks for organizational excellence. The award underscores Lumina Datamatics’ unwavering commitment to business excellence, quality-driven processes, and continuous performance improvement. Notably, Lumina Datamatics Limited is the only organization recognized in the service segment this year, representing excellence across the Business Process Management spectrum.

The selection followed a rigorous multi-stage evaluation process conducted by an eminent panel of judges, assessing organizations on key parameters such as leadership, strategy, customer focus, operational effectiveness, and overall business performance.

Speaking on the achievement, Sameer Kanodia, Managing Director & CEO, Lumina Datamatics, and Vice Chairman & CEO, TNQTech said, “We are deeply honored to receive this recognition. This achievement reflects the collective dedication, collaboration, and relentless focus on quality demonstrated by our teams across the organization. It reinforces our commitment to delivering consistent value to our clients worldwide while continuously striving for excellence in everything we do.”

The milestone highlights Lumina Datamatics’ strong foundation in operational excellence and its ongoing efforts to set new benchmarks in service delivery across global markets.

About Lumina Datamatics:

Lumina Datamatics is a trusted partner in providing digital Content Services, Retail Support Services, and Technology Solutions to companies in the Publishing and Retail Industries worldwide. We are among the largest service providers in the Content space, and our customers include 8 of the top 10 academic publishers and 3 of the 5 largest Retailers and Marketplaces. Lumina Datamatics’ expert solutions combine its various in-house and client-facing platforms, partnerships with global technology leaders, and more than 7,500 professionals across the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Philippines, and India. This integrated global capability enables the company to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions to clients worldwide.

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HOP Events, helmed by Kalpesh Kinariwala, bridges Indian talent and global prestige at the Shows of India 2026 Conclave

  • The anchor sponsorship of the Shows of India 2026 Conclave marks HOP Events’ official pathway into the Indian subcontinent; the UAE-based premium live entertainment company aims to source and showcase extraordinary Indian talent in the markets it operates in.
  • This move will bridge the gap between iconic Indian artists — rooted in Indian and South Asian culture — and world-class international venues and global audiences.
  • In addition to headlining the conclave as its anchor sponsor, HOP Events also made its presence felt in crucial conversations and networking hubs, with Founder and Chairman Kalpesh Kinariwala gracing the conclave as a speaker.

NEW DELHI, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HOP Events, a UAE-based premium live entertainment company, made landfall on Indian shores through the eagerly awaited Shows of India 2026 Conclave. The sixth edition of the event, which drew to a close on May 2, brought together high-profile industry veterans, change-makers, and disruptors who are shaping the future of India’s live entertainment economy.

Led by industry trailblazer Kalpesh Kinariwala, HOP Events not only participated as the anchor sponsor for the conclave but also broke new ground by offering Indian talent and agencies unprecedented inroads into global markets and prestigious productions.

Held at Delhi’s upscale The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, the two-day Shows of India 2026 Conclave is India’s most anticipated flagship gathering focused on the live entertainment, events, and experiential segments. It brings together key players from across the industry’s value chain, including event professionals, artist managers, promoters, brands, and creators, and facilitates industry-shaping conversations and collaborations.

HOP Events’ rationale for backing the Shows of India 2026 Conclave was simple but powerful – as a hub for some of the greatest artistic talent in the world, India stands to benefit immensely from HOP Events’ proven expertise in the premium live entertainment industry. With the conclave sitting at the intersection of India’s creative excellence and its commercial ambition, it is the perfect avenue for HOP Events to seek the artists, managers, collaborators, and cultural voices they want to elevate and present to the world. This anchor sponsorship is thus a declaration of HOP Events’ intent to champion Indian talent and carry it far beyond India’s borders.

Elaborating further on the sponsorship, Kalpesh Kinariwala, Founder and Chairman of HOP Events, who also spoke at the conclave, shared:

“India is producing some of the most streamed, most loved, and most culturally significant artists on the planet. Arijit Singh ranks ninth among Spotify’s top artists globally. A.R. Rahman has 75 million followers and ranks ahead of global superstars. Rishab Sharma is the number one followed sitar player in the world. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Aditya Gadhvi, Anuv Jain — these are artists with massive, passionate global fanbases.

Yet their presence on international stages, particularly in the Gulf and beyond, remains far below what their stature deserves. That is the opportunity HOP Events is seizing. The UAE is home to a millions-strong South Asian diaspora — professionals, families, and communities who are hungry for these artists and have both the means and the desire to attend premium live experiences. The Shows of India 2026 Conclave gives us the needed platform to engage with this talent ecosystem at exactly the moment when appetite for Indian talent on the global stage has never been higher.”

The conclave’s growing eminence as a premium, high-production-value platform was further underscored by its association with HOP Events, an industry leader in creating large-scale experiential events. Through the years, the Shows of India Conclave has differentiated itself through its trailblazing properties and a star-studded artist line-up. By essaying the role of anchor sponsor for India’s premier business and entertainment conclave, HOP Events is throwing the doors open for partnerships with Indian artist managers, talent agencies, record labels, and creative professionals.

As the force behind the sold-out Etihad Arena concert with Arijit Singh, A.R. Rahman, and Rishab Sharma, HOP Events knows what it takes to market Indian artists to global audiences, fill premium venues, and create experiences that do justice to the cultural magnitude these artists carry.

In the mid-to-long term, HOP Events aims to become the defining bridge between Indian artistic talent and the global stage. The company is actively scaling across the GCC and extending further into South Asian diaspora hubs globally, with the goal of bringing world-class talent backed by high-end productions and marketing sophistication to deep, passionate, and underserved audiences for Indian and South Asian cultural experiences.

About HOP Events

Founded by industry veteran Kalpesh Kinariwala, HOP Events is one of the UAE’s most prestigious names in premium live entertainment. It is hailed for curating global live experiences across the UAE and beyond. The company brings together eminent international artists, creativity, and immaculate organization on one stage, delivering world-class live concerts and entertainment experiences that make a lasting impression on the cultural fabric of the region. HOP Events’ expertise spans from close-up intimate performances to sold-out iconic arenas and includes notable names such as Arijit Singh, A.R. Rahman, and Rishab Sharma. The company differentiates itself through the three pillars of innovation, excellence, and a strong community focus. In doing so, it creates experiences that anchor communities, build connection, and foster a stronger sense of belonging, while delighting audiences with seamless execution, elevated experiences, and disruptive thinking.

https://hopevents.ae/

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MSEED and SCOPE Global Skills University Sign Strategic Partnership to Shape the Future of Experiential Marketing Education

MUMBAI, India and BHOPAL, India, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Premium education institute MSEED (The Management School of Events and Experience Design) today partnered with SCOPE Global Skills University, Bhopal, to introduce a two-year MBA in Event Management and Experiential Marketing.

Besides boosting students academically, this association intends to equip them with the evolving demands of events and the experiential marketing ecosystem. Furthermore, the collaboration will be fueled by industry expertise and academic structure, helping students build a career in the fast-growing fields of events, entertainment, and experiential marketing.

At a time when experiential marketing is ‘evolving from a tactical activation to a strategic growth engine for brands’, this collaboration serves right.

Speaking on this exclusive partnership between MSEED and SCOPE, Joshua Newman, Vice-President – Marketing & Partnerships, MSEED, said, “Our focus has always been on outcomes, not just education. This partnership allows us to extend that vision by working with SCOPE Global Skills University to create a program that prepares students for real careers. From curriculum to classroom delivery and industry exposure, every aspect is designed to ensure that students graduate with confidence, clarity, and practical experience.”

The MBA program is designed to:

  • Provide a recognized postgraduate qualification with a specialized focus
  • Build practical skills through real-world projects and case studies
  • Offering industry interaction, mentorship, and exposure
  • Support students with internship and placement opportunities

Dr. Vijay Singh, Vice Chancellor of SGSU, hailed the launch as a landmark moment for the city. “This is a remarkable event not just for our university, but for the city of Bhopal. We are witnessing a paradigm shift in how specialized education is delivered in Madhya Pradesh. By launching this MBA in Event Management, we are providing our youth with a platform to master the art of execution, creativity, and management right here in their home state,” he said.

The partnership was formally cemented through the signing of an agreement between the two institutions in the esteemed presence of Mangubhai C. Patel, the current and 19th Governor of Madhya Pradesh, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of industry-integrated education in India.

For more information on events and experiential marketing, please visit our website.

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About MSEED

MSEED, a part of EVA Group, India’s one of the largest live event companies, and backed by 200 odd industry veterans, the institute brings with it deep-rooted industry expertise and real-world insights. It is a creative business institute designed for the next generation of storytellers, strategists, producers, and brand builders. The mission is not just to prepare students for jobs, but to lead industries. 

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