Dr. Balvinder Shukla is a professor of entrepreneurship, leadership & Information Technology and is currently the Vice Chancellor of Amity University Uttar Pradesh. She has an M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur and a Ph.D. from Queen’s University, UK. She is the co-author of several books including 'The Role of Business Incubators in the Economic Growth of India' and 'Human Resource Management'. She is a member of the East Asia Regional Committee of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Her keen areas of interest lie in promoting Entrepreneurship, Research, Internationalization, CSR, and Industry-Academia Collaborations. She has conducted several executive programs and consulting assignments for Industry and mentored many budding Entrepreneurs, Women Entrepreneurs, and Family Business Owners in various clusters/sectors.
Dr. B. K. Murthy is currently working as CEO of the Innovation & Technology Foundation, IIT Bhilai, Chhattisgarh. Previously he has been Scientist G andGroup Coordinator (R&D in IT) in the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), Government of India. He is responsible for the promotion of R&D in the area of IT. He has been conferred the prestigious VASVIK Industrial Research Award for the year 2020 in the category of Information and Communication Technology. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Software Defined Networking, Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing, and Blockchain Technologies. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree by IIT Delhi. He has published and presented more than 80 research papers in various journals and conferences and is a regular speaker at international forums. He has served as a member of the Board of Governors at Indira Gandhi Technological University for Women, Delhi, and IIIT at Allahabad, Gwalior, Kurnool, and Kanchipuram. He also served as Guest faculty at IIT Roorkee, IIIT Gwalior, and IP University.
Dr. Nitasha Hasteer is the Head of the Information Technology Department and Dy. Director (Academics) at Amity School of Engineering & Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh. She has 22 Years of teaching, research, and administrative experience in academics and industry and has a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering. Her areas of interest include Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Crowdsourced Software Development, Software Project Management, and Process Modeling through Multi-criteria Decision-Making Techniques. She has published more than 60 papers in various journals and international conferences in these areas and has guided many postgraduate students in their dissertations. She has been on the editorial board of many international conferences and obtained funding from government agencies such as the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) for organizing conferencesin the area of Information Technology.
Prof. Harpreet Kaur is the faculty in Quantitative Methods and Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Amritsar, India. She has completed her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Previously, she has worked with the Birla Institute of Management Technology. Her research interests lie in Resilient supply chains, Supply chain security, Sustainable business operations, optimization, mathematical modeling, disaster relief operations, and procurement management.
Dr. Jean-Paul Van Belle is a Professor in the Department of Information Systems, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and has been the Director of the Centre for IT and National Development in Africa (CITANDA). His particular research focus and passion is the adoption and appropriation of emerging ICTs in a development context i.e. Development Informatics, ICT4D, and Mobile for Development (M4D). He is the Prime Investigator of the FOWIGS (Future of Work in the Global South) Fair Work Network project and the Fairwork South Africa project. His other research and teaching specializations are Social Networking, Decision Support, Business Analytics, Open Government Data, E- & M-commerce, E- & M-government, Organizational Impacts and Adoption of IS, Open-Source Software, IT/IS Architecture, and Artificial Intelligence. He has active research collaborations with researchers in India, the UK, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ecuador, and Chile.
