Lally professors traveled to India in December and January to present to more than 250 business professionals, academics, and students in collaboration with strategic partners IIT Kanpur, the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research and the National Entrepreneurship Network, India.
Lally Professors John Teall and Aparna Gupta
Lally represented Rensselaer as a co-sponsor at two conferences highlighting Quantitative Finance and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Mumbai and Kanpur, India.
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Quantitative Finance Workshop, Mumbai In December, Lally presented its first Quantitative Finance Workshop in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) and IIT Kanpur’s Industrial & Management Engineering Dept. Lally Professors Aparna Gupta, Iftekhar Hasan and John Teall taught 75 participants at a four-day workshop on the fundamentals of quantitative finance, covering topics related to risk modeling, risk management, investment analysis, portfolio performance and derivative pricing. Conference Brochure. Gupta reported “The increasing relevance of quantitative finance is receiving growing recognition in the Indian subcontinent. The response to the conference was overwhelmingly positive. We had originally planned for 40 seats, but we had to keep expanding capacity due to demand, and finally ended up turning away people.” The participants were a mix of students and professionals from public and private universities and industry. Due to the success of this workshop, Lally will organize an annual winter school for the future. Later, Rensselaer alumni from the Mumbai area joined Lally faculty and workshop participants for an evening reception organized by Siddhartha Misra '04.
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Global Conference on Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation, Kanpur In January, Lally Professors Lois S. Peters, T. Ravichandran, Will Tracy, Dmitri Markovitch and Aparna Gupta presented at the first Annual Global Conference on Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation 2010 (AGCETI) at IIT Kanpur. AGCETI is a gathering of Entrepreneurship and Innovation academics and research-oriented practitioners from across the globe. About 200 participants attended AGCETI 2010, the first of a series of conferences being held at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in association with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/Lally and the National Entrepreneurship Network, India. AGCETI offers a key opportunity to study and assess new directions in technology management and the strategic use of human resources to shape and enhance entrepreneurship and innovation in the South Asian context. AGCETI is the flagship event of the Asian Entrepreneurship Association (AEA), a global forum founded by IIT Kanpur, R.P.I., Mc Master University (Canada) and the National Entrepreneurship Network to focus on entrepreneurship in the Asian Context with a global focus. AEA’s mission is to bring together the various stakeholders (government, non government, academic and research institutions and entrepreneurs) promoting and practicing entrepreneurship in the Asian region.
