INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE(ICAIM) 2022

Thakur Institute of Management Studies, Career Development and Research (TIMSCDR) organized ICAIM  2022, International Conference on Advances in Information Technology and Management on 12-13 February 2022. Theme of this year’s conference was “Leveraging Information Technology for Sustainability in Agriculture and Medicine – COVID 19 Crisis” arranged in association with AMC (Association of Medical Consultants), MACCIA (Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture) and Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare (NCSH).  ICAIM 2022 was conducted in blended mode where eminent personalities from all three fields – IT, Agriculture and Medicine participated.

The conference was inaugurated on 12 February 2022 by the Chief Guest – Mr. Lalit Gandhi, President, MACCIA and guests of honor – Dr. Debiprasad Mishra, Director, DMI; Mr. Johannes Brundin, Co-Founder, NCSH, Sweden; Dr. Suresh Shan, Mahindra & Mahindra, Chairman CSI – Mumbai Chapter, CIO & Head – Innovation & Future Technologies Business Information Technology Solutions (BITS), Mr. Sudhanshu Ojha, General Manager, DLink India Ltd. and Dr. Vinita Gaikwad, Director, TIMSCDR. The Conference Proceedings of ICAIM 2022 having 104 research papers written by research scholars and academicians was unveiled.

Inauguration was followed by speaker sessions where sessions on “Carbon Sequestration through SRT” by Mr. Chandrasekhar Bhadsavle, food scientist – farmer; “Using IT in Agriculture – VegRoute” by Mr. Shyam Prashad Rajasekaran, Founder -VegRoute and “IT for Agriculture” by Dr. N. Anandaraja, Associate Professor, Agricultural College and Research Institute were conducted.

A” Hackathon – Innovation Carnival” in association with DCB Bank was arranged for students, wherein shortlisted students presented their project ideas pertaining to sustainable development goals. The event was judged by Mr. Prasana Lohar, Chief Innovation Officer, DCB Bank and his team. The 5 winning teams received trophy from DCB Bank. The position wise details of the winners are as follows:

Inauguration of day 2 of ICAIM 2022 was done in presence of Chief Guest Dr. Sushmita Bhatnagar, President, AMC and guests of Honor, Dr. Mukesh Gupta, Founder Director, Le’Nest, Immediate Past President, AMC; Dr.

Vikrant Desai, Radiologist, Program Committee Chairman, AMC; Mr. Johannes Brundin, Co-Founder, NCSH, Sweden; Dr. Suresh Shan, Mahindra & Mahindra, Chairman CSI – Mumbai Chapter, CIO & Head – Innovation & Future Technologies Business Information Technology Solutions (BITS),and Mr.Sudhanshu Ojha, General Manager, DLink India Ltd. and Dr. Vinita Gaikwad, Director, TIMSCDR. All dignitaries present unveiled the book “Healthcare on Cloud”, a joint effort of TIMSCDR and AMC, in which how Cloud and its Services can be used by doctors to provide healthcare services in this COVID pandemic is given in great detail.

Dr. Sushmita Bhatnagar, President, AMC sensitized everyone about how “Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)" aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country. Panel discussion on “Digital Health Mission – Practical Action Points" was conducted which was moderated by Dr. Mukesh Gupta, Past President, AMC and Dr. Vikrant Desai, Program Committee Chairman, AMC. The panelists were Dr. Ajay Bakshi, Co-Founder & CEO at NeuranceAI Technologies, Dr. Dhruv Joshi, Co-Founder & CEO – Cloudphysician Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Sanjay Kimbahune, Senior Scientist, TCS Innovation Labs and Mr. Kaushik Mohanraj, Director, Blazeclan Technologies, Malaysia. A fervent discussion was done on challenges of implementation of “Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission" in Indian scenario and how technology needs to play a pivotal role in it.

The conference concluded with a workshop conducted for doctors by TIMSCDR faculty on “Healthcare on Cloud”. In the workshop how Cloud and its Services can be used by doctors to provide healthcare services in this COVID pandemic was covered.  Cloud Security issues & Digital Cloud Wallet were also discussed.

Other pre-conference speaker sessions, research paper presentations by scholars and workshop on Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain for students were part of the pre-conference sessions scheduled from 7-11 February 2022.Various sessions conducted during pre-conference sessions were “Cloud Services during COVID-19 Crisis” by Dr.Sanu Anand, Director of Clinical Operations and Consultant Intensivist at Cloudphysician Healthcare and Mr.Dhruv Sud, Director of Engineering at Cloudphysician, R&D head for Cloudphysician’s key Smart ICU product-RADAR; “Opportunities in IT to enpower Indian diary farmer” by Dr. Rajeshwaran, Professor, Development Management Institute; “Agriculture Challenges During the Pandemic” by Mr. Rajendra Bhat, Agro Consultant, Nisarg Mitra Farms and “Innovation Carnival – Hackathon” by Mr. Prasanna Lohar, Innovation Head, DCB Bank.

ICAIM-2022 Proceeding contained 103 research papers on inter-disciplinary subjects selected after a rigorous review process by a highly skilled and diverse review committee and the papers were presented before the distinguished professionals from the sectors of Agriculture, Healthcare and IT.

Following is the list of professionals who chaired the research paper presentations of ICAIM-2022:

• Suresh Shan, Chief Innovation Officer, Mahindra & Mahindra
• Abhijit N. Banubakode, Principal, MET Institute of Computer Science
• Aparna Deshmukh, Head, Biotechnology, Thakur College of Science & Commerce
• Dineshkumar Singh, Group Leader, Social and Mobility Innovation, TCS

Best research paper award in faculty category was received by paper “Leveraging IT to enhance the profitability of small holding dairy farmers” by Dr. S Rajeshwaran and Dr. Vinita Gaikwad. Best research paper 1st and 2nd award in student category was received by “Blockchain smart contracts: Applications, challenges and Solutions” by Anurag Dixit and Kevin Emmatty and “Irrigation in Agriculture using Drone Technology and IoT Sensors” by Ramchandra Desai and Anmol Dubey respectively.