Page 6 - iimv-news-letter-vol-3-issue-1-v5

DISTINGUISHED GUEST LECTURES, FACULTY RESEARCH SEMINARS,

AND INVITED TALKS

PGP-DGM ‘Distinguished Lecture Series‘

18 SEPTEMBER
Shri V Srinivas, Additional Secretary, Department of Administrative
Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India and

Director-General, National Centre for Good Governance, was invited
for the Post Graduate Program in Digital Governance and
Management (PGP-DGM) ‘Distinguished Lecture Series’. In his
lecture, centred around the topic ‘Transforming Our Future: Public
Policy Solutions for Improving Quality of Life’, Shri V Srinivas spoke
about building digital institutions, while sharing illustrations from the

many projects he has been involved in, such as the Digital AIIMS,
e-Office, or CPGRAMS. He elucidated the digital transformations in India’s governance models between
2014 and 2021 and emphasized the need for developing digital interfaces providing for increased ease of
living, greater transparency, and improved quality of governance. PGP-DGM participants, and faculty
members of the Institute attended this virtual event. The PGP-DGM ‘Distinguished Lecture Series’ is a

hallmark of IIMV’s PGP-DGM program and complements the in-class learning of students with
knowledge-sharing by distinguished personalities with extensive experience in the field of Digital
Governance and Management.

Research talk on Business Data Analytics
29 OCTOBER

Dr. Ravi Vatrapu, Professor at Ryerson University, Canada,
delivered a research talk on ‘Business Data Analytics: Transforming

Big Data Sets into Business Assets’ where he discussed how
researchers may generate business value from in-house and open
big data sets and explicated the paradigms for developing
competitive advantages and business value from new
technologies.Commenting on his takeaway from the program, Prof.
Vinay Yadav, faculty IIMV (Decision Sciences area), said, “The talk
was quite interesting. Through various case studies and illustrated
examples, we learned many things relating to another country’s policies, decision-making strategies, their

type of regulation and efficiency, data analytics, and approaches to qualitative research”. Faculty,
students, and Ph.D. participants from IIMV were present for this talk.

Vaktavya - Leadership Talks 2.0

IIM V organized ‘Vaktavya’ – a series of leadership talks to offer its students a platform to listen to and
interact with experts and the best minds from the industry. A total of thirteen episodes of this edition were
hosted between September and December 2021.

4 VOL. / ISSUE /SEP DEC