THE SEAT OF
KNOWLEDGE
THE HEART OF
TRANSFORMATION
Theme: Empowering Humanity
(10th – 12th December, 2024 )
LEAD-2024 is an International Conference focusing on the intersection of emerging technologies, analytics, and development. With the overarching theme of “Empowering Humanity,” LEAD-2024 seeks to bring together thought leaders, researchers, innovators, and policymakers from around the globe to deliberate on how cutting-edge technologies can be harnessed for the greater good of society. This conference provides a unique platform for interdisciplinary discussions, fostering collaboration between experts in AI & analytics, sustainability, different areas of management, and IT.
At LEAD-2024, participants will be able to delve into a wide range of topics, including the ethical implications of emerging technologies & analytics, their impact on social justice, and strategies for ensuring inclusive and sustainable development. The conference will feature keynote speeches from renowned experts, panel discussions, and interactive tutorials, creating a dynamic environment for exchanging ideas and formulating innovative solutions. By focusing on the theme, LEAD-2024 aims to inspire a collective commitment to using technology for positive change, addressing global challenges, and advancing the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide.
As the world grapples with complex challenges, from climate change to economic inequality, LEAD-2024 is a crucial platform for fostering collaboration and exploring the untapped potential of emerging technologies. Through this international gathering of minds, the conference aspires to chart a path forward toward a future where technology catalyzes empowerment, equality, and sustainable development on a global scale.
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The conference will feature keynote presentations, paper presentations, industry and academic panel discussions, pre-conference workshops, and tools/application demonstrations.
Researchers, academics, industry professionals, policymakers, students, and other stakeholders interested in the application of emerging technologies for empowering humanity.
The conference provides a global platform for engaging in dialogues and deliberations. Papers are welcomed for the following topics (not limited to):
Eminent Scholar and Verizon Chair at Virginia Tech - Pamplin College of Business
Served in editorial roles in various journals, including:
• Management Science
• MIS Quarterly
• Information Systems Research
• Journal of Operations Management
• Journal of the AIS
• Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
• Production and Operations Management
• Decision Sciences Journal
Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Eminent Professor of Commerce
Immediate Past President, Association for Information Systems
Editor-in-Chief, Information Systems Research (INFORMS)
Professor at University of Colorado Boulder
Senior Editor at Information Systems Research and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Member of the MIS Quarterly Policy Committee
Served as Senior Editor at:
• MIS Quarterly
• Decision Sciences
• AIS Transactions on HCI
Dean of the Woody L. Hunt College of Business at The University of Texas at El Paso
Serves on the editorial board of Psychology and Marketing.
Published in prominent journals: Journal of International Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Psychology and Marketing, Journal of Management Studies, International Marketing Review, and International Business Review
Type of Submissions:
LEAD-2024 invites academicians, research scholars, and corporate/industry executives to submit Full paper (Research Paper (Qualitative / Quantitative/ Mixed Methods), Literature Review, Case Study, Conceptual paper, Tools demo paper). Authors wishing to submit multiple papers will have to do separately.
Author Guidelines:
All papers must be original and not previously submitted for any other conference or journal. Authors must follow the ICIS 2024 Format while preparing their manuscript. Manuscript must have a minimum of 5000 words, excluding abstract and reference list. The similarity of the text must not exceed 10% (including similarity in literature review). Authors should mention the name of the track to which they are submitting their work.
Review Process:
Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process based on relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Authors will be notified of revision/ acceptance/ rejection by the specified deadline.
LEAD-2024 will be conducted in hybrid mode. Indian participants will present papers physically at the IIM Shillong campus. International participants may present their papers virtually.
| Last date for full paper submission | 31st July, 2024 (Submission Closed) |
| Submission of extended extract | 30th September, 2024 |
| Final Decision on acceptance/rejection of full papers | On or before 31st August, 2024 |
| Registration Begins | 1st September, 2024 |
| Registration Closes | 31st October, 2024 |
| Participants | Amount |
|---|---|
| PhD scholars | ₹8000 |
| Academicians | ₹10000 |
| Industry Officials | ₹12000 |
| International researchers | $125 USD |
University of Texas at El Paso
ICT4D Research Group, University of Agder, Norway
Publication of Conference Proceedings: All accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings by Springer in their Scopus-indexed book series.
Journal Publication Opportunities (For papers registered and presented during Conference):
The following journals accepted to consider selected papers for publication as per their norms of reviews:
1. Global Business and Organizational Excellence, (ABS, SCOPUS,Print ISSN: 1932-2054, Online ISSN: 1932-2062), by Wiley
2. International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness, (ABDC, Print ISSN: 0973-4619, Online ISSN: 0976-1888), by Springer: Selected papers from the track: “Management of Technology and Competitiveness**” and selected papers related to competitiveness from other tracks will be considered for publication in JGBC. For more information about the journal, visit: https://link.springer.com/journal/42943
3. IIMS Journal of Management Science, (EBSCO, Print ISSN: 0976-030X, Online ISSN:0976-173X), by Sage. For more info about the journal, visit: https://journal.iimshillong.ac.in
Conference Patron: Prof. D.P. Goyal, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Shillong
Conference Co-chairs
Committee Members
Conference Coordinators
Conference Email: leadconf@iimshillong.ac.in
Conference Website: https://www.iimshillong.ac.in/events-and-conferences/conferences/lead
Phone no.: 0364-2308027
Address: Indian Institute of Management Shillong, Umsawli, Shillong, 793018, Meghalaya, India
About IIM Shillong
IIM Shillong, the seventh IIM in India, has been set up with a vision to become an internationally recognized Management Institute with a Global outlook grounded in Indian values. From its inception, it has been constantly working towards a lofty mission to generate and disseminate knowledge in all aspects of management education with a focus on Sustainability and building innovative leadership.
Travelling to Shillong
Surrounded by verdant hills, Shillong offers a beautiful panoramic view of the graceful scenic countryside. Shillong can be reached by taxi from Guwahati airport/railway station, which is about120 km away. Guwahati airport is well connected to many major cities in India including Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata. Helicopter services are also available between Guwahati and Shillong. Shillong is connected to Assam, Manipur, Tripura, West Bengal and New Delhi through direct flights.
Indian Institute of Management Shillong
Umsawli, Shillong – 793018
East Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya, India
P. (0364) 230-8000
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Shri Vivek Singh is a public policy and communications professional. He was serving as OSD (Officer on Special Duty) to the Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister. He has been a part of the FM’s team in the last 5 Union Budgets and also worked in the Raksha Mantri’s office from November 2018 to May 2019. He was a corporate banker before joining the government.
He is an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), ICAI and IIM Shillong. He is a regular contributor of articles and opinion pieces in leading business dailies where he writes on macro-economy and policy-related topics. While at IIM-Shillong, he was a part of the Student Council and won the Gold Medal for being the Best All-rounder and making the ‘Most Positive Contribution to Campus Life’.
Ex-OSD, The Union Finance Minister,
Alumnus, IIM Shillong
Mousumi Bhattacharya is an Associate professor in finance whose research interest spans the field of FINTECH and Financial Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Restructurings, Corporate Finance, Business Valuation, Corporate Governance, Earnings Management, Banking and Financial Econometrics. She has done her post graduate degree in business finance, M.Phil. and PhD from University of Calcutta and she was a rank holder at both M.Phil. and post-graduation level. She also has a diploma in business finance from ICFAI University. She has more than 50 scholarly research publications in peer reviewed journals. She is currently the Editor in Chief of IIMS Journal of Management Science the journal of the Indian Institute of Management Shillong that publishes research contributions in all areas of management and its allied discipline.
Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Calcutta
Rohit Joshi is currently working as a Professor in the Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques area at IIM Shillong. He is a Fulbright fellow. He has done his Postdoctoral Research work at UCLA, the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He has obtained his Ph.D from Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has received Master in Technology from Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, in Industrial Engineering and his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Gold Medalist and the University topper in his M.Tech and B.Tech respectively. His areas of interest in consulting and teaching assignments include Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Six Sigma and Lean Thinking, Business Statistics, Project Management, Value-engineering, Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving.
Professor, Ph.D, IIT Delhi,Postdoc – UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Maneesh Jaikrishna is currently serving as Regional Vice President for Middle East, APAC and Africa at Embross. Prior to this, he had had an illustrious 21 years career at SITA as the Vice President & General Manager for Indian Subcontinent, Dubai, Eastern & Southern Africa. He brings with him an extensive leadership experience in building organizations from ground up, business transformation and leading multi-functional teams in medium sized and large organizations across 30+ countries across ME, APAC, Indian Subcontinent & Africa while growing profitable businesses in the global Travel & Transport Industry. He has been instrumental in enabling win-win business outcomes through application of advance technology led IT systems and services to improve the travel experience, safety, security and operational efficiency for his airport, airline, government and other industry stakeholders.
Recipient of several awards, he had been nominated to SITA Board for 16 years and currently is an ExCo member in Embross. He has authored several articles, white papers as the media spokesperson which have been covered extensively in leading national and international publications. He had also been nominated to the Sectoral Innovation Council of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and as a member in the FICCI Civil Aviation Committee.
He holds a first class first B.E. (Hons.) degree in Electronics & Telecommunications of Mumbai University, and also an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from IMD Business School, Switzerland.
Regional Vice President for Middle East,
APAC and Africa at Embross
Dr. D P Goyal, Director, IIM Shillong, is an internationally acclaimed academician and researcher. He carries over thirty-five years of rich experience in teaching, research and various leadership roles in few of India’s finest institutions including MDI Gurgaon, IMT Ghaziabad and Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He is also a visiting Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Prof Goyal has already supervised fifteen PhD research scholars; published over 60 research papers and has been principal investigator of several sponsored research projects. He has more than a dozen books to his credit which includes three highly popular text books in Information Systems area. He has also been the editor of a couple of research journals and is on the Editorial Board of several national and international journals.
Prof Goyal has been on the expert/assessment/selection committees of various National bodies and is also on the Board of Governor/Governing Council; Academic Advisory Board; Academic Council; Board of Studies of a large number of business schools and universities.
Director,
Indian Institute of Management Shillong
Shri. Ashutosh Dikshit has over 16 years of professional experience in the roles of Presales, Innovation Consulting, Marketing and Program Management. During his career, he has worked across organizations such as Deloitte, IBM, Wipro Technologies, Birlasoft and University College London. In his current role, Ashutosh leads the CxO and Executive Briefing Program for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is based in London. He is an alumnus of IIM Shillong (PGP 2008-10) and is one of the winners of the prestigious Global Peter Drucker Challenge (2015).
CxO Advocacy and Executive Marketing - Senior Manager EMEA,
Amazon Web Services & Alumnus, IIMS
Dr. Paula Sengupta is an artist, academic and curator resident in Kolkata. She graduated in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, followed by an MFA and PhD in Printmaking from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan. She is currently Professor at the Department of Printmaking at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
She is author of The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking published by DAG, New Delhi and Foreign & Indigenous Influences in Indian Printmaking with LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany.
Her curatorial projects include a soul (un)gendered: Anupam Sud – A Retrospective for DAG MODERN & KNMA, Delhi in 2019-20; Ghare Baire at the Old Currency Building, Kolkata for DAG MODERN and the Archaeological Survey of India in 2019; Popular Prints and the Freedom Struggle at the Drishyakala Museum, Red Fort, Delhi for DAG MODERN and the Archaeological Survey of India in 2019; the landmark exhibition Trajectories: 19th-21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan for the Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE in 2014; and six editions of The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking for DAG MODERN, India from 2012-18.
Professor,
Ravindra Bharati University
Shri Atul Chandrakant Kulkarni is an Independent Management and Strategy Consultant in Infrastructure domain with special focus on Maritime Industry.
He has been advising various domestic and international clients on Feasibility Study, Project Master Plan, Business Plan, Operations and Strategy. He serves as Director on the boards of Eurasia Special Technologies Pvt Ltd. (Defense Equipment), Varti Agro Pvt Ltd. (Exports of Fresh Fruits), 3.Yuva Vikas Society (Skill Development), etc. He is also associated in the advisory committees and governing councils/boards of SNDT University, Mumbai, Adi Sankara Group of Institutions, Kerala, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, among others.
He had earlier been associated in various roles including ‘C Level’ position with Chowgule Ports & Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., V R Marine Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Indian Ports Association, Gas Authority of India Limited, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd, Ministry of Shipping, GoI, Camlin Ltd. and many others over his 3-decade professional career.
He is also Chairman of a Public Charitable Trust SEIL (Students’ Experience in Inter-state Living) focusing on National Integration.
Management Consultant,
Director Eurasia Special Technologies Ltd
Shri Shishir Bajoria is a well-known Industrialist and the head of S K Bajoria Group – manufacturing ceramics for the steel industry in India, UK, USA, Germany, China. His businesses also include insurance services involving health and travel insurance administration, claim settlement, insurance and re-insurance broking; as well as an Art Gallery.
He has been the President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce- Kolkata, Honorary Vice Counsel for Denmark in Eastern India and has also been a Director of the State Industrial Development Corporations of Orissa (IPICOL) and West Bengal (WBIDC). He has been Knighted by the Governments of Denmark in 1998 and Italy in 2006.
Chairman Board of Governors, IIM-S
Head of S K Bajoria Group