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BRIDGE 2023
54th Edition - Bengaluru

Building Human Capital, Accelerating Growth, Enabling Access

In the next five years, almost 25% of jobs are expected to change, says a report from World Economic Forum. Technology, green transition, value chain restructuring, and macroeconomic conditions are the major factors that affect job trends. For resilient economic growth, it is significant to prepare Gen Z with the skills they need for the future of work. On the other hand, the priorities of the Gen Z population are different as their focus is on workplace equity, quality of jobs, the opportunity for continued learning, and upward mobility that benefit them.

ICT Academy Bridge is the convergence of policymakers, industry leaders, and academic leaders to explore the right skills strategy to develop Gen Z for the future of work and the need to invest in people that would augment resilient economic growth. On the theme, 'Building Human Capital, Accelerating Growth, Enabling Access' - the summit helps the higher education institutions across India to focus on the acute problems that the current education system faces to prepare students for a future of rapidly changing work demands. The summit further discusses improving access to better education, skills, and newer economic opportunities for the Gen Z population.

Focus Area

  • Skills-first approach – the new way forward
  • Adapting to the future: Cultivating agility and resilience among youth
  • Emerging sectors, evolving opportunities
  • Developing human capital for the new future of work
  • The most in-demand skills now and beyond
  • What’s next for higher education?
  • Event Format

    Participants

    Academia

    Chairman, Secretaries, Principals, Training & Placement Directors, Department Heads & Faculty Members

    Government

    Policymakers, Senior Officials & Bureaucrats

    Corporate

    CXOs, Industry Experts & HR Leaders

    Chief Guest

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    Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan

    Hon'ble Minister for Information Technology & Digital Services, Government of Tamil Nadu

    Guests of Honour

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    Ramkumar Narayanan

    Chairperson of NASSCOM - Deep Tech Council, Former VP of Technology & Managing Director, VMware India

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    Sanket Atal

    Managing Director
    Salesforce India

    Speakers


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    HARI BALACHANDRAN

    Chief Executive Officer
    ICT Academy

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    ANITHA SCARIA GEORGE

    Vice President India COE and Country Leader, Celonis

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    Ravindra Elicherla

    Senior Vice President
    Technology, Virtusa

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    Krishnakumar K

    Senior Director - Technical Support
    Autodesk

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    Dr. Lakshminarayan Viju Ravichandran

    Head, Education Technical Evangelist, MathWorks India

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    Vivek Ganesh

    Regional Vice President
    MongoDB

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    MIKE MURALI

    Senior Director & Chief Fun Officer
    Capgemini India

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    Karthik S.M

    Global Head of Talent Acquisition
    Biocon Biologics

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    Dr. Harilal Bhaskar

    COO & National Coordinator, I-STEM
    P.S.A. Government of India

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    Vidya Prabhu

    Associate Director, Global Delivery - IBM Cloud Technology, Kyndryl India

    Sponsors & Partners


    Supported by

    Gold Partners

    Silver Partner

    Associate partner

    Academic partners

    Technology Partner

    Knowledge Partner

    About Bridge

    BRIDGE a flagship conference of ICT Academy aims to bridge the industry-academia gap. BRIDGE is a confluence of Educators, Researchers, Corporate, Solution Providers, NGOs and Policy Makers to find possible solutions and answers to some of the most challenging, critical and relevant questions we face in the journey towards transforming India. The conference serves as a platform in providing a strategic view on the trends that shape the educational ecosystem. The conference engages various stakeholders to seize opportunities to transform from theories to practice and become indispensable in the new digital world. Started in the year 2011, the conference has been receiving an overwhelming response from all the stakeholders of the knowledge ecosystem. Having reached multiple cities in India, BRIDGE has emerged to be the high impact industry-institute interaction event.

    BRIDGE in Numbers

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    7
    States Covered
    1900
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    Institutions Participated
    353
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    ICT Academy Awardees
    26530
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    Venue Participants
    43
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    YouTube views
    457
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    Sponsors
    53
    Editions
    816
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    Speakers

    Contact Us

    ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu

    Module No. E6-03, Sixth Floor, Block E
    IIT Madras Research Park
    Kanagam Road, Taramani,
    Chennai 600 113
    Tamil Nadu, India

    Contact mail: contact@ictacademy.in

    Phone: T +91 44 4290 6800