Infrastructure conference at UPES from tomorrow

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, February 4

College of Management and Economic Studies in the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) will orgainse the International Conference on Management of Infrastructure (ICMI) on the UPES campus at Kandoli here on February 6 and 7. This is a B-school conference that focuses on infrastructure and other sectors linked with it.

Noted industry scholars and academicians would arrive on the Kandoli campus of UPES on February 6 and 7 to participate in the third edition of this conference. The previous two editions of the ICMI were dedicated to energy domain. The conference focuses on infrastructure and transportation this time.

Dean of College of Management Studies in UPES, Dr Anirban Sengupta, shared that Dr OP Agarwal, Executive Director, Indian School of Business (ISB), Mohali, has consented to deliver the inaugural address on February 6. Cherian Thomas, CEO IDFC Foundation, IDFC, will deliver the valedictory speech at the conclusion of the conference on February 7.

Those invited to deliver talks include Prof Archish Maharaja, Point Park University, Pittsburg, USA; Chris Kost, Technical Director, ITDP; Prakash DC, Regional Director, UITP; Dr BS Negi, a former member of PNGRB; AJ Rao, president, IPA; Dr L Ravi, CEO, GMR Airport International; Cherian Thomas, CEO, IDFC Foundations, IDFC; Asim Tiwari, CEO, Bharat Road Networks; and Sudip Sural, Senior Director, Crisil. A panel discussion on “Barriers and Opportunities in Transportation Management: India 2025” will feature some of these experts. It will be moderated by Cherian Thomas from IDFC.

Convener of ICMI-2015 Dr Tarun Dhingra said as many as 10 technical sessions dedicated to various emergent issues in the field of infrastructure would be organised at the two-day conference. More than 120 research papers from the corporate sector and the academia have been shortlisted for presentation.