Delegates from IT institutes and the corporate sector participated in conference. Chaman Lal Garg, PIMT chairman, stressed upon the need for industry-institute interface. He also laid stress on research and development as this helps in an interaction with the academic world.

In the first session, the keynote speaker Dr Kanwaljit Singh, Director, University Computer Centre, Punjabi University, talked about building intelligent application for economic growth through e-governance. He said that e-preparedness is the only solution to eradicate corruption permanently.

He further added that there is a trend towards more and more usage of online intelligent applications in the service sector. Professor Maninder Singh from the Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Thapar University, talked about the different issues related to security in the cyber world.

Himanshu Gupta, Senior System Engineer, Telecom, Seimens Information