Sri City, November 6, 2019:- A five member team of business leaders visited Sri City on Wednesday. Mr. Ravindra Sannareddy, Founder Managing Director, Sri City extended a warm welcome gave a presentation on the unique features of the Integrated Business City.
Expressing happiness on their visit he said, “We consider your visit very important, as each one of you lead business across diversified sectors. Your views and suggestions will be useful for us, as Sri City hosts, besides large, medium and small enterprises, educational institutions too.” He requested them to visit IIIT and address the students.
The team, that included Mr. K. Mahalingam, TSM Group, Chennai, Mr. Srinivasan Ramakrishnan, Ipath Technologies, Chennai, Mr. Sundar Krishnamurthy, Rakuten Inc., California, USA, Mr. Bala Elango, CoX Communications Inc., Georgia, USA, and Mr. Seetharaman Narayanan, Adobe Systems, California, USA, went round the industrial park and visited the production units of CETC, Foxconn and Hunter Douglas.
Later, the delegation visited the the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Sri City (IIIT-S). Dr. G. Kannabiran, Director, IIIT extended them a warm welcome and briefed them on the new curriculum that supports practice-based learning through semester-long industry-based projects, co-curricular development and opportunities for creating research bent of mind. The students actively interacted with the guests and the discussion encompassed different areas, viz., higher studies, opportunities in emerging technology areas, career options, entrepreneurship, etc.,
One of the guests emphasised ‘DAC’ as the three skills – viz., Design thinking, Analytical skills and Communication – which are essentially needed to thrive in any walk of life.