Session on “Industry Academia Conclave”

The Training and Placement Cell of Pillai College of Arts, Commerce and Science (Autonomous) organized an Industry Academia Conclave on 16th July, 2022 At Dr. K.M. Vasudevan Pillai Campus, New Panvel.

This session was organized to provide a platform for the placement team and members of the Board of Studies to interact with experts on the emerging industry trends to keep pace with advancing industry and technology. It was presided over by the Vice- Principal Prof. Deepika Sharma. She spoke about the College’s achievements since its inception. There were 15 delegates and 7 of them were the keynote speakers. The IQAC Co- ordinator, Dr. Aarti Sukheja briefed on the various courses and certificate courses offered at PCACS. The Training and Placement Officer, Mr. Gopakumar Pillai gave the opening remarks and elaborated on the objectives of the conclave in bridging Industry academia gap. Key note speakers of each domain shared their expertise. Mr. Anant Baddi – Security Solution Architect, Google cloud spoke on developments in IT sector with emphasis on cloud security and skill sets required by students to be successfully placed. Mr. Jeetandar Peswani, Financial Educator & Consultant gave insights on requirements for career in finance sector. Mr. Dheeraj Kumar Singh – Cluster Head, Uponly Technologies insisted on students to focus more on developing proper attitude and soft skills. Mr. Naveen Bhat –CFO, NextG Apex India Pvt. Ltd. spoke on practical learning to solve real corporate issues and use of various trending tools in commerce sector, start networking on LinkedIn. Mr. Prathmesh S Rane – CEO, Markit Official spoke on the importance of developing one’s skills. Mr. Rohit Ramchandran – Deputy Manager, Reliance Life Sciences spoke on emphasizing on right attitude and soft skill development and precise areas of Biotechnology to focus upon. Mr. Ankit Pingale – Research Analyst Morning Star said that the focus should be on the ways in which data needs to be processed.

After the key note session, coordinators of each stream interacted with the delegates of their stream and suggestions were taken on technical and non- technical skill sets required in students for successful placement in reputed companies. Valuable inputs gathered from experts will be implemented in the academic system for student upskilling. Lastly, the Co- coordinators felicitated the industry delegates with memento and goodies and the session was concluded with a Vote of Thanks by Incharge of DSDE, Dr. Kavita Kathare.

Delegates present in the conclave