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Mr
Ninad Karpe, Deputy Chairman, CII –Western Region and MD and CEO, Aptech India
Limited, addressed the students of GITAM Institute of Management, GITAM
University, Visakhapatnam on 23rd August, 2016.
His
talk was focused on acquainting the students with technological advances and
how to equip themselves mentally to work in a highly technological workplace of
the future. He spoke of a number of technological marvels that would soon
become part of daily life. He illustrated with videos, devices such as the
advanced Japanese robots that would replace clerical staff and servants at
home, wrist watch technology that could monitor a person’s health and vital
signs and call for help in medical emergencies, Google Home that could act as a
personal assistant and manage a person’s entire routine, and various other
technologies. He predicted the end of the era of e-mail and twitter and the
beginning of an era of live video streaming for all communication. He told the
students that they were very fortunate to be entering the workforce at a time
of great technological advances which would make life easy and exciting. He
urged the students to be ready to compete with the best in the world and to be
ready to break all the barriers as there is no limit to the success of an
individual who can think innovatively and make creative use of technology.
The
talk was followed by an interactive question and answer session. Mr. Karpe was
honoured with a memento by Prof P. Sheela, Principal, GITAM Institute of
Management. Large number of students and faculty benefitted from the
lecture.
