Conference Objectives

Anticipate Future Business Trends and Innovations

• Identify upcoming trends and technologies that will shape the global business environment.
• Foster discussions on transformative technologies like AI, block chain, and automation that could redefine business operations and strategy.

Promote Sustainable and Ethical Business Practices

• Highlight the importance of sustainability and ethical responsibility as core to future business success.
• Explore practices and frameworks that align with global environmental and social governance (ESG) standards.

Encourage Global Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing

• Facilitate networking among international researchers, industry experts, policymakers, and students to foster a global business community.
• Provide a platform for exchanging research insights, case studies, and best practices.

Address Policy and Regulatory Challenges

• Discuss the regulatory landscape and the impact of government policies on business innovation and sustainability.
• Analyze how policies can support or inhibit the growth of emerging sectors and guide ethical practices.

Enhance Digital Literacy and Future-Ready Skills

• Highlight the importance of digital literacy, data analytics, and tech-savvy skills for future business leaders.
• Offer sessions on skill development that align with evolving industry demands, such as leadership in digital transformation.

Examine Global Business Challenges and Solutions

• Address pressing global business challenges, such as supply chain disruptions, data privacy, cybersecurity, and economic uncertainties.
• Encourage collaborative approaches to creating resilient and adaptable business models for the future.
• These objectives would make the conference a comprehensive and insightful event, positioning it as a platform for fostering innovative, sustainable, and forward-thinking business strategies.

Program Schedule

Important Dates

Themes

International Conference on the Future of Business explores the impact of emerging technological trends, geopolitical conflicts and risks, demographic shifts, sociocultural movements, and global climate challenges on the economy. With this objective, we, the conference organizers, invite abstracts,research papers, articles, case studies, and teaching cases broadly in the following areas:

• Track 1: Business applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Track 2: Adding and delivering value through digital transformation and automation
• Track 3: Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and business transformation
• Track 4: Cyber-security measures and policies for protecting business data, cash flows and customers
• Track 5: Blockchain applications in business and finance
• Track 6: Shifting demographics, the future of work, and changing consumer choices
• Track 7: Socio-cultural shift and diversity and inclusivity at the workplace
• Track 8: Technological advancements and flexible work arrangements
• Track 9: Green innovations, sustainable mobility, and clean energy solutions for a circular economy
• Track 10: De-globalization and new supply chain management
• Track 11: Technology-enabled on-demand labor models and platforms
• Track 12: Social media platforms and marketing
• Track 13: Business Ecosystem, Strategy and Future of Business

These listed themes are just indicative and are not exhaustive.

Keynote Speakers

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Venue

Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur
35 Km Milestone Katol Road,
Nagpur - 441502, Maharashtra, India 

Pre-Conference Workshop

Pre-Conference Workshop Details
On 10th of January 2025, a pre-conference workshop will be organized to enhance research capabilities of academicians and researchers. The following experts will be conducting the workshops/seminars.
 

Experts

• Dr. Madhu Kalimipalli, Professor in the Business Department at Wilfrid Laurier University - Waterloo, Canada
• Dr. Sangeeta Khorana, Professor of International Trade Policy Aston University, United Kingdom
• Dr. Lalit  Khullar, Director, Tripude College of Management
• Dr. Surajit Bag, Full Professor, Department of Supply Chain, Purchasing and Project Management, Excelia Business School, France
• Dr. Sudhir Rana, Associate Professor, College of Healthcare Management and Economics, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, UAE
• Dr. Arpan Kumar Kar, Professor in Information Systems at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
• Prof. Rajendra B. Kakde, Advisor-I & Head, Scholarships and Grants Bureau, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, India
• Dr. Debarun Chakraborty, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur (IIM Nagpur), India
• Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan, Associate Professor, Chairperson - Research Center, Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Organisers

Conference Managing Committee

Dr. Veena Keshav Pailwar Professor, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India M.Phil from Cambridge University, UK, and PhD from GIPE (Pune University), Dr.Veena Pailwar has around 30 years of research and teaching experience. Before joining IMT, Nagpur, she worked in various capacities with XLRI Jamshedpur, NIPFP New Delhi, NCAER, New Delhi, and NIFM Faridabad. She has published several research papers, cases, and books. Her research interests include the electric vehicle market, tourism industry, workplace diversity, cement industry, financial sector modelling, foreign capital flows, the impact of financial, fiscal, and external sector reforms, economics and business environment, and forecasting methods.
Dr. Sarbjit Singh Oberoi Associate Dean (Research Accreditation's) & Professor, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India Sarbjit Singh is a faculty member in the area of quantitative techniques and operations management. He is presently holding the position of Chairperson of Research and Accreditation's. He obtained his PhD. and Masters in Inventory management of perishable products. He has a PGDBA from Symbiosis University. His research interests include Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, Circular Economy, Business Analytics and Lean Six Sigma. He has published 40 research papers in various International and National Journals.
Dr. Ajitav Dash Assistant Professor, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India Ajitav Dash is a faculty member in the area of Marketing. He has rich and varied experience of fourteen years both in academics and research in different capacities and institutions. His teaching expertise includes Marketing Analytics, Marketing Research, and Digital Marketing. His areas of research interest are technology adoption and marketing modeling, which apply statistical and machine learning methods to structured and unstructured marketing data. He has several publications to his credit in refereed national and international journals, of which six are indexed in the ABDC-B category, and seven are indexed in ABDC-C.
Dr. Asif Khan Assistant Professor, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India Dr. Asif Khan is currently an Assistant Professor of finance at the Institute of Management Technology (IMT) in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. Before joining IMT Nagpur, Dr. Khan was associated with the School of Business, Woxsen University Hyderabad, as an Assistant Professor of finance. He has also worked with the School of Business, UPES Dehradun, as an Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) in finance for over two years. He has published research papers in the Journal of Internal Repute, e.g., ABDC-A, B, and Web of Science (WoS) – Q1 Journals.
Dr. Ishwar Kumar Assistant Professor, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India Dr. Ishwar Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Marketing Management at the Institute of Management Technology (IMT) in Nagpur, India.  Dr. Kumar earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee in Marketing Management, with a thesis titled “Scale Development and Modeling of customer-based hospital brand equity.” His research focused on measuring Customer-based brand equity, customer experience, sustainable supply chain management, and entrepreneurship. He has published over nine research papers in the Journal of International repute indexed in ABDC (B), Scopus, and Web of Science, with a citation count of over 469 as of March 2024.
Dr. Mantha Raghu Head-Librarian, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, India Dr. Mantha Raghu works as Head-Librarian at the Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur. He has done his PhD at Dravidian University in the area of Library & Information Science. Dr. Mantha Raghu has substantial experience handling academic libraries. Also published two Book Chapters in IGI Global Publications, USA. Listed in Scopus, published articles, and presented papers in various Seminars and Conferences.

Partners

Review Board

Dr. Abhishek Narayan Singh, Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Dr. Akhter Mohiuddin, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon 

Dr. Asif Khan, Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Tripathy, Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Dr. Hanish Rajpal, Goa Institute of Management

Dr. Jasbir Singh Matharu, Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Dr. Rajesh Gangakhekar, Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad

Dr. Santosh Shrivastava, Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad

Dr. Sarbjit Singh Oberoi, Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Prof. Sayan Banerjee, Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Dr. Shivraj Singh, CCS University, Meerut

Dr. Smita Singh Dabholkar, Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Dr. Soma Sharma, Symbiosis University, Nagpur

Dr. Vandana Mehta, Symbiosis University, Pune

Dr. Veena Pailwar, Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Dr. Gajavelli V. S., Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Dr. Vinod Kumar Mehta, Flame University, Pune

Dr. Tapas Kumar Chatterjee, Professor, Institute of Management Technology

Call for Papers

Call for Research Papers, Case Studies, and Teaching Cases
Institute of Management Technology Nagpur, in association with AIMS, is pleased to announce its International Conference on the Future of Business (ICFB-2025) on January 11 & 12, 2025, in Hybrid mode and the Pre-conference Seminar/ Workshop on January 10, 2025. Rapid technological innovations, geopolitical upheavals, demographic shifts, socio-cultural movements, and climate change concerns are changing consumer tastes, preferences, and behavior and forcing business organizations to revisit their existing offerings, processes, alliances, and locations. To remain relevant and competitive in a rapidly changing business environment, business organizations must develop new innovative products, relocate production and sourcing destinations, and devise new business models and strategies to remain cost-effective and efficient.

Conference Themes
International Conference on the Future of Business explores the impact of emerging technological trends, geopolitical conflicts and risks, demographic shifts, sociocultural movements, and global climate challenges on the economy. With this objective, we, the conference organizers, invite abstracts,research papers, articles, case studies, and teaching cases broadly in the following areas:

• Business applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Adding and delivering value through digital transformation and automation
• Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and business transformation
• Cyber-security measures and policies for protecting business data, cash flows and customers
• Blockchain applications in business and finance
• Shifting demographics, the future of work, and changing consumer choices
• Socio-cultural shift and diversity and inclusivity at the workplace
• Technological advancements and flexible work arrangements
• Green innovations, sustainable mobility, and clean energy solutions for a circular economy
• De-globalization and new supply chain management
• Technology-enabled on-demand labor models and platforms
• Social media platforms and marketing

These listed themes are just indicative and are not exhaustive.

Conference Registration Details

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Beneficiary Name: Institute of Management Technology Nagpur Saving Account No.: 005901041608 Bank Name: ICICI Bank Ltd. Branch: Civil Lines, Nagpur - 440001, Maharashtra, India IFSC Code: ICIC0000059

 

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Submission Guidelines

General Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit their Abstract and full-length papers as per instruction given below:

• Research papers describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, experimental, applied and theoretical work or research. Submission of a manuscript implies that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• The author’s name or affiliations should not appear anywhere else in the body of the manuscript to facilitate the blind peer review process.

For Abstract Submission

• The acceptable word range for the abstract is 150-200 words.
• Keywords: Minimum 3 and Maximum 5

For Full Paper Submission

• Suggestive Paper Structure
  • Introduction
  • Literature Review
  • Methodology/ Approach
  • Findings/Results
  • Conclusion/Implications
  • Recommendations
  • Acknowledgements (when appropriate),
  • References,
  • Appendices
  • Tables / Figures (at appropriate in the text).
• Headings and subheadings must be short and numbered. The primary and sub-headings should be in title-case capitalization first letter of each word in the capital and in bold.
• Figures/ diagrams/ graphs preferably in an editable form and numbered consecutively. The source should be indicated at the bottom. The figures, diagrams and pictures should also be given relevant titles.
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources.
• Tables preferably in an editable form and numbered consecutively. It’s ‘title’ should be placed above the table and ‘source’ should be indicated at the bottom. Tables should be numbered and referred to in the text as Table 1, Table 2, etc. Tables should not duplicate results in graphs. The minimum amount of descriptive text should be used on graphs and drawings (label curves, points, etc. with single letter symbols). The tables and figures should be clearly visible, readable and monochromatic in nature. Avoid inserting pictures of tables and figures in the manuscript.
• References should be included at the end of the paper and arranged in alphabetical order. The references must follow the style guide of the American Psychological Association (APA) 6th edition (refer: https://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/APA6th/referencelist)
• All manuscripts will be subject to double-blind peer-review and are expected to meet the scientific criteria.
• The text should be in English. American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of both.
• All submissions should report original and previously unpublished research results no matter the type of research paper you are presenting.
• All papers will be tested for plagiarism through a plagiarism software.

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