The fear of Covid-19 has opened doors for ‘virtual platform’. Everything that was a distant dream a few days ago, has become the reality as the world tries to cope up with its challenges.

Keeping these in mind, JIS Educational group has come up with an innovative idea for the first time in Eastern India to conduct a three-day-long virtual summit from 11 August-13 August across Zoom video conferencing platform. The Virtual Summit was inaugurated by Shri Bratya Basu, Minister-in-charge, Department of Science and Technology and Bio-Technology, Government of West Bengal, and Mr Simarpreet Singh, Director, JIS Group today.

The three-day-long summit focused on various topics considering this pandemic situation which includes sessions on Education, Cyber Security, Culture, Sports and Healthacre. These sessions were attended by leading industry experts from different spheres. The Day 1 Session was themed on Challenges faced by Education sector due to Covid-19 &the next career options. Dr. Malay R Dave, Principal, JIS College of Engineering chaired the panel which comprised eminent educationists Mr.Saikat Maitra, Vice-Chancellor, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Padmasree Prof. Ajoy Ray, Director, JIS Institute of Advanced Studies and Research, Kolkata, Dr. Bimal Chandra Mal, Vice-Chancellor, JIS University, Mr. Indraneil Sengupta, Head of the Department, CS, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Session on Cyber Security was attended by Sandeep Sengupta, MD, ISOAH Data Securities Pvt Ltd, Tamal Kanti Mukherjee, Lawyer and Public prosecutor for Government of West Bengal and Nirupam Chowdhury, Head, NASSCOM East.

The second day focused on the cultural perspective where eminent directors like Anindya Chatterjee and Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury attended to talk about the issues which they are facing in their sector.

Day three focused on “Sports and Covid” and talked about how sports and physical activity help the world in fighting with any disease and also on how sportspersons are facing challenges. Gurbrux Singh, former Hockey player, Sanjoy Sen, Assistant coach ATK Mohun Bagan and Deep Dasgupta, former cricketer and commentator attended the session.

The final session brought eminent doctors like Dr Kunal Sarkar, Dr Arindam Biswas and Dr Gautam Mukhopadhyay on board to discuss every aspect of Covid-19 and give us tips on how to live with the virus. The topic for the same was “Viruses don’t discriminate”.