14 Apr 2020
Leadership Talk Series with Dr. Anand Deshpande
Number of Participants: 80
Date: 14th April 2020
Time: 11:00 AM
Organizer: MHRD, AICTE
Topic Name: Opportunities youngsters/start-ups will have in post Covid world
Students & Faculty of REVA University, Bangalore attended the Leadership Talk Series with Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems Ltd. on 14th April 2020 11: 00 AM.
In this talk series Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD Innovation cell and Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems Ltd. discussed the following points:
- Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems Ltd. Explained how Covid 19 affected business and India role in the Covid war.
- In persistent systems all the workers doing work from home.
- In business point of view we are focusing on survival business because all the cash flows are stopped because of the lock down.
- Next 3 months are difficult for large scale business and small scale business.
- In Business point of view companies are looking for reduce cost and cross cuttings.
- This pandemic situation is good for students, researchers to learning new things, and explore the new innovations.
- Also This pandemic great opportunity for early stage startups. Currently all the startups are facing issue with this pandemic but later stages all the startups will sustain.
- In this Stage Government need to think about collaborative research program (remotely) for students, professors in globally.