INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CREATING SUSTAINABLE RUBAN SOCIETIES

DSBA held the first International conference on 13-14 Feb 2015. The core theme of conference was set as ‘Rubanization’ as the way forward in developing the country, i.e. the osmosis between Rural and Urban societies. The theme was discussed and deliberated internally and was finalized as ‘Challenges and Opportunities in creating sustainable Ruban societies.

The conference was blessed with presence of Sri Sri Ravishankar Guruji and other national and international delegates such as 

 Mr.Paulus Kronenberg, Co-founder of Braille without Borders (BWB) and Kanthari

Mr. Madhusoodanan, Special Correspondent and Editorial board of Times of India

Ms. Siti Roha Ramli, Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Agriculture, Malaysia

Dr.Prabhakar Rao, Trustee of Sri Sri Institute of Agriculture Sciences and Technology

Mr. Sanjeeth Hegde, Partner, BananaIP

Mr. Madan Padaki, Co-Founder of MeritTrac and Head Held High Services

Dr.Mathew J Manimala, Professor at IIM Bangalore

Dr. Sunitha Maheshwari, Director – Teleradiology Solutions

Ms.Sneha Bhandare, CEO of Nirvana Arts Pvt. Ltd.

 The event became more colourful with an Art Installation on RUBANIZATION by the famous artist/business man Mr Raj Bhandare. Mr. Raj Bhandare presented one of the master piece art work ‘Duality’ to Guruji as a token of respect and sought his blessings. 

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Hemachandra Sagar, Chairman DSI for the unending support. We would like to thank the honorable Vice-Chairman of DSI Dr. Premachandra Sagar for the support and motivation which provided the confidence to conduct the conference successfully.  Our honorable secretary of DSI Mr. Galiswamy is the key person behind the success of the conference. We are thankful to all our conference partners for the support they have extended. The support extended by Facility department of DSI, Security housekeeping was quite commendable which helped us to conduct it smoothly. Last but the not the least, we would like to thank each and every faculty members, staff and students of DSBA for the wonderful work they have done for the international conference.