Event: 17th South Asian Management Forum (SAMF) - 2026.
Dr. (Mrs) Santosh Dhar and Dr. Upinder Dhar attended the SAMF and presented a paper.
Title of the paper: Leadership Effectiveness as a Function of Resilience and Innovation.
The Forum was organized by the Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA) and hosted by Royal Institute of Management, Bhutan from May 11-12, 2026.
Event: 32nd International Conference on IT Applications and Management: February 23-26, 2026.
Venue: University of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka
Event: 36th AIMS Annual Convention: 2025 on Management Education: India @ 2047
Dr. Upinder Dhar and Dr. Santosh Dhar attended the Convention at SOA University in Bhubaneswar from 11th to 13th December 2025. Both of them were panelists in various sessions of the Convention.
Dr. Upinder Dhar was felicitated as Past National President of AIMS by Chairman-AICTE, Dr. TG Sitharam, on 11th December in the presence of a large gathering of academia and professionals from industry.
Event : Forum On The Role Of Entrepreneurship
Dr. Upinder Dhar and Dr. Santosh Dhar were invited to attend the 2025 JINJU INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE ERA OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES held at Jinju , South Korea from October 26-28, 2025.
Event : 31st International Confrence Of IT Applications And Management (ITAM)
1. Dr. Upinder Dhar delivered keynote address on Entrepreneurship, Spirituality and Positive Impact in the 31st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF IT APPLICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT (ITAM), hosted by the Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea held from October 26-30, 2025. The theme of the conference was Entrepreneurship, Spirituality and Resilience. The 2025 Jinju Forum was part of the conference.
Event : Visit to Jinju K-Entrepreneurship Center.
Visited the Jinju K-Entrepreneurship Center on 26th October 2025. This Center was established by remodeling the former Jisu Elementary School which produced the founders of global companies such as LG, GS, Samsung, and Hyosung – key drivers of South Korea’s economic growth – after Jinju was declared the capital of Korean Entrepreneurship by the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration (KASBA) on July 10, 2018. It was a pleasant surprise to see my name and photograph in a book kept in the library of the Center.
Jisu-myeon in Jinju City is symbolic as the ‘Cradle of Business’ where the founders of Korea’s four major global companies – Samsung, LG, GS, Hyosung – spent their formative years. Visited Seungsan Village, located in Seungsan-to, Jisu-myeon, Jinju City which is a village with 600 years long history and tradition. Had an opportunity to visit the homes of Hur Man-jung (GS), Koo In-Hwoi (LG), Lee Byung-Chull (Samsung), and Cho Hong-jai (Hyosung), where they had spent their childhood.
