UMT and MUST Co-organize International Conference on Dynamic Innovation (ICDI 2017), Malaysia
Monday, November 13 2017
University of Management and Technology (UMT) in collaboration with Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST) co-organized a research conference in Malaysia, titled International Conference on Disruptive Innovation (ICDI 2017) on November 9-10, 2017. This conference was unique, being UMT’s first conference venture, outside Pakistan. UMT very graciously provided fully funded travel grants to the faculty members and students of UMT to participate in the conference.
Dr Premkumar Rajagopal, President of the MUST, and Prof Emeritus Dr Sureshwaren (inventor of IP 6) were amongst the keynote speakers of the conference. Dr Atif Hassan, Chairperson, Department of Management was the Chairperson for the conference session and member of the organizing committee. UMT faculty members and students showed active participation through quality research paper presentations in the conference. The unique feature of the conference was that it covered dynamic innovations with diversified ideas from a variety of disciplines including Information Technology and Telecommunication, Library Sciences, Bio Technology, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business and Management, Earth and Environment and Social Sciences. The interactive question and answer sessions during the conference made the research idea presentations and discussion more purposeful.
Journal of Management and Research (JMR) partnered this conference. JMR is HEC recognized journal managed by the Department of Management, HSM. Selected papers from this conference will be published in the upcoming issue of the JMR.
Dr Premkumar Rajagopal, President MUST, concluded the conference with a special thanks to UMT for their support from conception to implementation of the conference. He regarded this conference as a learning step between the collaboration of the two institutions and as suggested by Dr Atif Hassan, he announced the Third International conference to be held next year with collaboration of UMT and MUST in Lahore.