IIT alumni brings together industry, academia

Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, characterised by the coming together of digital and physical worlds and digitisation of manufacturing processes, based on cyber-physical systems, will throw up challenges in leadership and workforce skill gap, for which both industry and academia are to be prepared. PALS views itself to be in a position to facilitate measures to bridge this gap.

The conclave explored the industry-academia gap and ideated improvements which PALS can facilitate by catalysing its partners in industry and institutes. Going forward, this industry - academia conclave will be an annual affair of PALS, which will look at solutions and approaches to the challenges of ‘industry 4.0’ that can be implemented by industry and academia partners with facilitation from PALS. 

The event is a curtain raiser for a series of activities planned by PALS during 2018-19. PALS will organize residential workshops, internship and summer projects, faculty development programs, industry visits for college students and summits on educational excellence and intellectual property. 

Participants include chairman, principals and other decision makers from PALS partner colleges and CEO’s and other decision makers from the industry across sectors. As many as 40 from partner colleges and 70 from the industry participated in the conclave. 

Speaking about the importance of the conclave, Mohan Narayanan, chairperson, PALS, said, “We have designed the conclave and its theme to bring together the industry and academia for their inputs to redesign and recreate PALS solution offering in our constant endeavour to improve engineering education.”