Joint International Conference 2018

Department of Commerce jointly hosts international conference at Malaysia

Department of Commerce at St Joseph’s College, India, Sunway College, Malaysia and Victoria University Melbourne jointly organized its first international conference on “Business Dynamics & Creating innovative and sustainable businesses for strategic social economic growth” at Sunway College, Malaysia during 26^th and 27^th November 2018.

This conference officiated by Dr. Mohd Nor Azman Hassan, Deputy Director General at Dept. of Higher Education Malaysia in the presence of His Excellency Andrew Goledzinowski, Australian High Commission, Malaysia, Puan Sri Datin Seri Dr Susan S. C. Cheah EXCO member, The Sunway Group, Dr. Elizebeth Lee, Senior Executive Director, Sunway Education Group, Dr Christo Selvan, Prefect of Commerce at St Joseph’s College, India, Ms. Greeja De Silva, Director of SCVU programmes and Dr. Benedict Valentine, Chairman ICBD 2018. 77 undergraduate and post graduate students and 7 faculties from Department of Commerce and Department of Psychology attended the conference from St. Joseph’s’ College, Bangalore, India.

The conference was a significant event, bringing together 204 scholars from countries like India, Spain, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, Italy and many more. Scholars, researchers, economists, social anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists were meeting together to present their research on Business Dynamics – Creating innovative and sustainable business for strategic social economic growth.

Corporate Genesis: Sowing Startup Culture in Students

The Two-Day national seminar cum workshop “Corporate Genesis” was held on the 22^nd and 23^rd of February 2018 organized by the department of commerce.

“Corporate Genesis” focused on equipping budding entrepreneurs with the skills and ideas necessary to start up their own businesses. Session were organized featuring speakers and resource persons prominent in their fields who gave inputs to students on who to pitch for a new business idea, the steps for starting and planning for a new business as well as the legal measures that need to be handled before meeting prospective investors. The seminar was inaugurated by Dr. Balaveera Reddy, former vice chancellor of VTU and Mr. Aga Sultan, Former syndicate member of BU and VTU. They stressed on the importance of bridging the gap between entrepreneurship and education and encouraged the participants to work on nation building.

The first session on day one was conducted by Mr. Amit Punjabi founder of Sankalp Academy a vibrant personality and leader. He spoke on the difficulties of starting a business and the steps that the students have to look into before preparing a business plan; his session was thought provoking and encouraged many of the participants to start working on their own ideas. The second session was conducted by Mr. Christopher Roa and Mr. Prateek Lala, both advocates by profession, specializing in legal formalities and compliance for startups. They spoke legal aspects of business plan and conducted activities to help understand the legal formalities. The last session for the first day was conducted Mr. Nitesh Meti Co-founder of Inspiron and also a life skills coach. His session was focused on how to prepare psychologically approaching venture capitalist. The session was beneficial as the participants were able to understand psychological aspects.

Day two kicked started with a stimulating session by Mr. Shreeyans Jain Co-founder of under 25 club. He session provided insights on implementing a business plan. To cover his points, he discussed many cases. Overall his session was very insightful focusing on strategies for preparing a business plan. The last session for the was conducted by Dr. Faman Ali, founder Docfort meducation, his inputs were focused on convincing investors. His presentation was informative and invigorating. He also made the students to present their business ideas. He also demonstrated students how to convince a prospective investor on investing in a business idea. The two-day seminar ended with a short valedictory with Dr. Christo Selvan, Dean and Prefect of commerce as the chief guest, he highlighted the importance of entrepreneurship for the youth. Corporate Genesis the two-day seminar will be a genesis for the ideas of the young participants and will help them become India’s future entrepreneurs.

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