Dear all, Greetings from Blind Graduates Forum Of India!
We have just emerged from one rather unexpected year to a (hopefully) bright and happier new year. For us at BGFI, we hope to be able to apply our learnings from the pandemic pause to better our work. Speaking of, our first session for this year is a rather exciting one! This last year forced us all to function completely within the four walls of our homes. While many of us have started moving out, we are yet to a grate extent required to manage our professional work from our homes. While this sudden shift has been a difficult one for even abled individuals to adjust to, those of us with disabilities may have had to find new ways to cope with these changes. So, our first session for the year involves a panel discussion with three extremely accomplished individuals on their experiences with adjusting to working from home and newly acquired hybrid model of a regular work week. We will have a detailed conversation on ways to make the best of this work from home for the times to come in terms of networking, improving efficiency at your work, appropriately managing the privacy of the data and much more. Session date and time: Saturday, January 23RD 5 PM to 6:30 PM. Our first panelist is Mr. Amit Jain. Mr. Jain is a faculty member at SPJIMR and a research associate with the Centre for Disability and Integration, University of Saint Gallen. He completed his post-graduation from the highly revered IIM Ahmedabad. Mr. Jain worked in the industry for almost 8 years before associating with IIM Calcutta for a PhD. He completed his postdoctoral research at the university of St. Gallen. He is very passionate about issues relating to diversity and inclusion, with an emphasis on persons with disabilities. His work at both the doctoral and postdoctoral level has been in the field of disability inclusion. He has presented his work at various national and international forums. During his stay at IIM Calcutta, Amit has worked with the institute’s administration to make the campus and studies more accessible. Our second panelist is Mr. Arjun Malhotra. Mr. Malhotra completed BA Hons. (English) in year 2013 from St. Stephen’s College University of Delhi; followed by an LL.B. from Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in year 2016. He then went ahead and completed his LL.M. (Cyber Laws) from USLLS, GGSIPU, as well as his Post Graduation Diploma in Cyber Crimes and Cyber Law from GGSIPU, USLLS, both in year 2020. He is currently working as Asst. Manager (Law) in Power Grid Corporation Of India Limited from 2016. Our third panelist, Ms. Swati, in keeping with the trend, also has an extremely impressive profile. She completed her Post Graduation in Management from the prestigious IIM Bangalore in 2013. In 2011, she was awarded 4 gold medals by the Governor of Karnataka for securing the 1st rank in all of Bangalore University, comprising of 654 colleges. In 2015, she was a youth delegate representing India at the 7th United Nations Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities held in New York City. She currently works as Manager of Talent Management at Indegene Pvt. Ltd. Given how accomplished all our panelists are, we can say for certain that this discussion is going to be a rather interesting and enriching one! We are extremely excited about venturing out into this year with a session such as this, and we hope you are too! Where will this discussion be taking place? A very important question indeed! We shall be requesting the help of our best friend of one year- Zoom! How can you get the link to the Zoom meeting? It’s quite simple actually! You just have to click on the below link: Blind Graduates Forum of India is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Pannel Discussion on Making the Best of Work From Home Time: Jan 23, 2021 05:00 PM India Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84583786952 Meeting ID: 845 8378 6952 Passcode: 134081 for any queries, write to us at [email protected] We really look forward to seeing you there! -- Regards Blind Graduates Forum of India. Phone: 9892145699 Website: www.bgfi.in follow us on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blind-graduates-forum-of-india Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/bgfifacebook Twitter: https://twitter.com/blind_grads YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEvshxvn7YC9kBz4LDngasA -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. 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