Valedictory Announcements.

It is indeed a matter of great pride and pleasure to share with you all that the 3rd International Business Analytics Conference on the theme ‘Analytics Everywhere: Unleash the Power of Data’ organized by the Business Analytics Department at K J Somaiya Institute of Management, on 23rd March 2023, witnessed a grand success. We received a total of 50+ papers from various national and international institutes. The total number of presentations on the conference day, post the review process, was 36.

This engaging conference was addressed by Mr. Mukesh Jain, CTO, VP & Global Head of Innovation with AI/ML, Insights & Data at Capgemini as keynote speaker. The audience was quite appreciative of the insightful thoughts and experiences shared by him. We are deeply grateful to the learned speaker.

We are also thankful to our pre-conference workshop facilitator, Dr. Sri Vallabha Deevi, Principal Data Scientist at Tiger Analytics, for facilitating the workshop on Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics using Open Source Software(s) from the 20th to 22nd of March 2023. The modules were very much appreciated by each participant.

We are also thankful to the illustrious track Chairs, Prof. Gordhan K Saini (Associate Professor, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai), Prof. Neeraj Pandey (Professor & Associate Dean - Placement and Branding, NITIE, Mumbai), Prof. Pritam Ranjan (Professor, IIM Indore), Prof. Mrinalini Shah (Professor, IMT Ghaziabad), Prof. Sandeep Singh (Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Business School), Dr. Sri Vallabha Deevi (Principal Data Scientist at Tiger Analytics), Ms. Nimisha Shah (Experienced Business and Finance Controller for Specialty Chemical Industry and Oil/ Energy Sector), Dr. Surender Kumar (Founding Director and the current vice president of Maritime Trainers Guild, India), Prof. Anjali Chopra, Prof. Asha Prasuna, Prof. Bhargavi Karamcheti, Prof. Aparna Bhat, Prof. Rashmi Soni, Prof. Poonam Chauhan (Faculty, K J Somaiya Institute of Management) for their support.

We are highly obliged to the panelists, Mr. Utkarsh Somaiya (Head - Digital Transformation & Customer Analytics at Aditya Birla Group), Ms. Smita Arora (COO, Lumiere Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd.), Dr. Sri Vallabha Deevi (Principal Data Scientist, Tiger Analytics), Dr. Sharad Saxena (Principal Consultant, Statistics, Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning, SAS Global Education), Mr. Prasad Gaikwad (Business & Integration Arch - Specialist, Retail Industry Team, Tech Team - Large Data & Analytics Account) and Mr. Dhaval Thanki (VP, LogiNext) for sharing their valuable insights during the panel discussion. The audience was quite appreciative of the insightful thoughts and experiences shared by them. 

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We are exceedingly thankful to the delegates for their enthusiastic participation in the workshop as well as the conference and for making it a huge success.