Keynote Speakers

Professor Tapan K. Sarker is an author, media commentator, and Professor of Finance at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He received his PhD from the ANU College of Business and Economics, specialising in sustainable and climate finance. He is ranked among the top 5% of scholars globally in sustainability research by ScholarGPS. Professor Sarker serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals and is a regular contributor to major media outlets, including ABC, Sky News, SBS, and The Conversation. His research has been published in leading international journals such as Business Strategy and the Environment, Resources Policy, Global Finance Journal, Economic Modelling, and the International Review of Economics and Finance. He has secured $3.7 million in external research funding (including over $1.5 million as Chief Investigator) and has supervised 16 PhD completions, with eight candidates currently under supervision. He is also an assessor for prestigious grant schemes such as the Australian Research Council (ARC) and a sought-after PhD thesis examiner in Business and Management. Professor Sarker has held visiting academic appointments at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, and is a partner at Antarpath Impact Consulting, a strategy consulting firm supporting business growth and impact.

Professor Moinak Maiti holds the FirstRand Foundation Chair in Financial Data Science at the Wits School of Economics and Finance. The Chair drives innovation and excellence in finance, data science, and business, collaborating with industry and mentoring future leaders. He is a Fellow of the Machine Intelligence & Neural Discovery Institute (MIND), Editor of the Investment Analysts Journal (Taylor & Francis), Associate Editor of Research in Globalization (Elsevier), and Associate Editor of Business Strategy and Development (Wiley).

Dr. Friske is the Endowed Chair in the College of Business and an Associate Professor of Marketing at Missouri State University (MSU). He joined MSU in 2015 after completing his doctorate at Texas Tech University. He primarily teaches Marketing Research and Marketing Analytics. Dr. Friske is the Editor of Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship. He also serves as the Vice Chair of Early Career Membership and Communications for the Entrepreneurial Marketing Special Interest Group (EMSIG), which is part of the American Marketing Association (AMA). His broad research area is marketing strategy, but he is particularly interested in the marketing-entrepreneurship interface and the sustainability and marketing systems dimensions of macromarketing. His research appears in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Industrial Marketing Management, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Macromarketing, among others.

Professor in the area of Operations Management at IIM Calcutta she taughts - Operations Research - Risk Management - Operations Research in Marketing - Mathematics - Stochastic Optimization - Management Game (the experiential learning simulation) At IIM Ahmedabad - Mathematics for Management (PGP-ABM Preparatory Program) - Quantitative Methods in Decision Making(PGP-PMP, tutor) - Data Analysis (PGP-PMP, tutor) At other IIMs and leading B-Schools - Simulation - Statistics - Optimization - Project Management - Supply Chain Management - Business Research Methods In Executive Training Programs - Data Analytics - Statistics for Analytics - Supply Chain Analytics - Supply Chain Modeling - Project Management - Quantitative Analysis for Decision Making - Operations Management Training Programs Coordinated/offered - Leveraging Digital Disruption for Competitive Advantage and Business Growth - General Management Program for UPSC recruits (IAS/IES) for National Academy for Defense Production - Executive General Management Program for Deloitte - Advanced Program in Supply Chain Management - Executive Program for Young Managers

Rajesh is an Assistant Professor in the area of Operations Management & Decision Sciences at IIM Tiruchirappalli. He previously worked as an Assistant Professor at ABV-IIITM Gwalior. He has completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST (ISRO)), Trivandrum. He works in supply chain risk management, resilience, sustainability, decision-making, and grey theory. Currently, he has an h-index of 31 (Google Scholar) and over 5000+ citations (Google Scholar).

Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan is Professor and Chairperson of the Research Centre at Thiagarajar School of Management (TSM), Madurai. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of sustainability, supply chain management, quality management, and decision sciences.He serves as Associate Editor for leading international journals, including the International Journal of Logistics Management (Emerald; ABDC-A; IF: 6.4), Journal of Knowledge Management (Emerald; ABDC-A; IF: 9.5), and Journal of Intellectual Capital (Emerald; ABDC-B; IF: 6.8), and as Assistant Editor for Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer; IF: 4.9). He has also served as Guest Editor for special issues in reputed journals such as Journal of Business Logistics (JBL), International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM), Sustainable Production and Consumption (SPC), and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

Dr. Abhishek Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Human Resource Management (HRM) area at XLRI - Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur.

Shri Akhilesh Mishra Divisional Railway manager, East Central Railway.