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Mr. Manish Advani

TEDx Speaker, Start-up Advisor,

Founder & CEO

MIMO POTENTIO, Maharashtra.

Biography

Manish Advani is an 8 times TEDx Speaker, Award Winning Story teller and a Business Leader who has 20 years of Corporate Experience spread across Change Management, Marketing, Purpose based Branding, Public Relations, Internal Communications, Corporate Communications, Risk Management, Business Development, IT Project Management and Development. Manish has worked with some of the leading companies such as Microsoft Canada, Jaguar Land Rover, Mahindra SSG, Schindler, National Centre for Transportation, and Industrial Productivity - USA, on Managerial, Consulting or Leadership roles in different geographies such as India, Canada, Middle East and the United States of America. Manish is expert in integrating Leadership & Employee Development with Internal Communications and Personal / Employer Branding. Manish has featured in the Economic Times, The Hindu Business Line, Awesome TV's Show, NJIT's Highlander Show, Sustainability Next, Times of India, Bakstage's Podcast. Manish assists individuals and Organizations in addressing mental obstacles or roadblocks, unleashing their potential, improving performance and in exceeding expectations of the stakeholders.

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Prof. Mohamed Fayad

Full Professor, Entrepreneur, Innovator

San Jose State University

San Francisco Bay Area.

Biography

Dr. M.E. Fayad is a full professor of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University since 2002. Previously, he was J.D. Edwards's professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, from 1999 to 2002. Between 1995 and 1999, he was an associate professor of Computer Science and a faculty of Computer Engineering at the University of Nevada. He has more than fifteen years of industrial experience in addition to ten years as a software architect in companies, such as McDonnell Douglas and Philips Research Laboratory. His reputation has grown by his achievements in the industry—he has been an IEEE distinguished speaker, an associate editor, editorial advisor, a columnist for The Communications of the ACM (his column is Thinking Objectively), a columnist for Al-Ahram Egyptians Newspaper (2 million subscribers), an editor-in-chief for IEEE Computer Society Press—Computer Science and Engineering Practice Press (1995–1997), a general chair of IEEE/Arab Computer Society International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2001), Beirut, Lebanon, June 26–29, 2001, and the founder and president of Arab Computer Society (ACS) from April 2004 to April 2007.

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Prof I.C.Gupta

Professor emeritus

Dean of Management and Tourism

Devi Ahilya University
Indore

Biography

QUALIFICATIONS:

Ph.D. (Services Marketing), MBA,(Marketing), M.A.(Economics), M.A.(English Literature), A.T.M. (Advanced Tourism Management-(IITTM-WTO Spain)
INTERNATIONAL TEACHING EDHEC, Lille, France, Assumption International University, Thailand University of Mauritius, Mauritius GBS Royal University of Bhutan

RESEARCH CONDUCTED:

1. Research Council of Thailand Bangkok, "POSITIONING THAILAND AS TOURISTS

2. UNICEF & Government of M P India "EVALUATING DISTRIBUTION OF IODIZED SALT".

3. Marketing Research for Ten Corporate Houses in India.

4. Participated in Mercer Research Competition Singapore "FACTORS AFFECTING MOBILITY OF MIGRANTS TO THAILAND".

5. Research Project for Ministry of Tourism “FUNCTIONING OF TOURISM POLICE”.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

1. Indian Air Force

2. Marketing of Consumer Durable

POSITIONS HELD DEAN:

MANAGEMENT & TOURISM INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

DEVI AHILYA UNIVERSITY INDORE INDIA.

PRESENT POSITION:

1. UGC (GOVERNMENT OF INDIA) Subject Expert for Management and Tourism.

2. Professor Emeritus, Oriental University, India