Prof. Dr. Jatinder Gupta
Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, USA
________________________________________________________________________
Jatinder (Jeet) N. D. Gupta is currently the Director of Integrated Enterprise Lab, Eminent Scholar of Management of Technology, Professor of Information Systems, Industrial and Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama. In his career, He held several technical and managerial positions in the US Postal Service and US Department of Energy where he received the superior job performance award. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University, a M. Tech in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and a B. E in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.

Dr. Gupta is an international authority in research and teaching related to production scheduling, planning and control on one hand and supply chain and information technology on the other. A recent paper published in the International Journal of Production Research (2015) ranks him within the top 30 researchers in Production and Operations Management in the World.

Dr. Gupta is a frequent keynote speaker at various international conferences. He has published numerous papers in journals and proceedings such as: IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions, Production and Operations Management, Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS Journal of Computing, Operations Research Letters, Annals of Operations Research, OMEGA, Journal of Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Scheduling , International Journal of Production Research, International Transactions in Operational Research, Information Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Electronic Commerce Research , International Journal of Information Management , Supply Chain Management, , Computers and Operations Research, and Production Planning and Control. Co-author of a textbook and editor of several research monographs and handbooks, he served as the North American Editor of the Journal of Flexible Systems Management, an Associate Editor of OMEGA, a Department Editor of IIE Transactions, and an editorial board member of various reputable national and international journals. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Decision Sciences and International Journal of Planning and Scheduling .

Editor of special issues and books, he received the Outstanding Research and Outstanding Faculty Awards from Ball State, the UAH Distinguished Research award and the UAH Foundation Research Award. In spring 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2020, and 2021 he received College's Outstanding Graduate and Online Teaching Awards at UAH. In 2011, he received the Outstanding Service Award from UAH and Outstanding Business Person award from Beta Alpha Psi Society. At Ball State, he received Dean's teaching awards . In 2017, he received the Outstanding Faculty Award from UAH. In 2019, he received the Lifetime Distinguished Educator Award from the Decision Sciences Institute (a flagship organization of faculty members in decision sciences related disciplines in the world) on the basis of excellence in teaching and learning on one hand and exceptional contributions to teaching/educational innovations on the other.

Dr. Gupta is a frequent distinguished visiting faculty member at various universities in several countries including Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, and United Kingdom. In addition to his regular teaching in Operations Research, Supply chain Management, Information Systems, and Operations Management, he taught research methodologies to several graduate students at several universities and countries. He also collaborated in research with the faculty and students from various institutions and countries to publish in high quality refereed journals. In doing so, several students from various countries visited his campus in USA to work with him on joint research for which he was their supervisor in USA. He has served as a mentor to several students, research scholars, and faculty members from various universities and countries.

A consultant to government and industry, Dr. Gupta served as the President of Decision Sciences Institute and its Immediate Past President. In the past, his service includes serving as the President of Production and Operations Management Society. He also served as the President of Huntsville Association of Technical Societies, Founding President of the Indian Subcontinent DSI and Regional Vice President of DSI. He served as the Founding Chair of the Alabama Chapter of ASUG (America's SAP Users Group), and Vice-President of Decision Sciences Institute. His conference leadership activities include being the chair of the second World Congress on POM and Fifth and Eighth Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management. Based on his exceptional research contributions and publications, he has been inducted as a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute as well as a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society , two top reputed global professional and academic societies in the world. Recently, he received Dennis E. Grawoig Distinguished Service Award from the Decision Sciences Institute.

Recognizing the need for professional and academic societies in India, he founded the Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute and an Indian Chapter of the Production and Operations Management Society. He served as the founding President of the Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute and its founding Regional Vice-President on the Board of the Decision Sciences Institute. He received the Distinguished Services Award from Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute for his outstanding and important service to the Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute over a long period.

Dr. Gupta's current research interests include Business Analytics, Corporate Governance, Renewable Energy Supply Chains, Energy Policies for Renewable Energy, Enterprise Resources Planning (including SAP), Information Security, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Information and Decision Technologies, Scheduling, Planning and Control, Enterprise Integration, and Social Aspects of Corporate Activities. Within these areas, he is interested in exploring the relationship between social responsibility, organization and social culture. He is particularly interested in widening the managerial and technical research to a societal level to help various societies to solve their problems. In doing so, he is interesting in mentoring and developing the research capabilities and skills of younger generation all over the world.

Topic:
Enabling Innovation for Sustainable Development

Dr. Prof. Gopala Vasudevan
Professor of Finance, Charlton College of Business,
University of Massachusetts, USA
________________________________________________________________________
Professor Vasudevan currently is Professor of Finance at the University of Massachusetts. He was a faculty at Northeastern University and Suffolk University in Boston. He does research on Bankruptcy, Seasoned equity offerings, Mergers and Acquisitions and other topics in corporate finance. He has published extensively in high ranked journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Finance Research and Journal of Financial Intermediation.

He received his Ph.D. in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University, Masters in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University and his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Trivandrum Engineering College.

Topic:
Special purpose Aquisition Company

Prof. Dr. Md Hamid Uddin
Associate Professor, University of Southampton, Malaysia
________________________________________________________________________
Associate Professor Dr. Md Hamid Uddin received his Ph.D. degree in Finance from the National University of Singapore and taught at the same institution. He also taught at the University of Dhaka, Prince Sultan University, the University of Sharjah, and Taylor's University before joining the University of Southampton Malaysia.

Dr. Hamid held several key administrative roles in the past. For example, he was the Director of the Doctoral Programme at Taylor's University Malaysia. At the University of Sharjah UAE, he was a member of the college council for the College of Business Administration; he also served in several important committees such as curriculum development, study plans, and academic research. Dr. Hamid is an active researcher who supervised several Ph.D. students, implemented research projects, and published widely within the broader disciplinary area covering Finance, Accounting, and Economics.

His current research focuses on cybersecurity risk and bank stability, corporate governance and business conglomeration, Islamic and socially responsible Finance, and micro-financing. His earlier research covers government share ownership, corporate risk-taking, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, dividends, and capital structure. Dr. Hamid has been serving as an Associate Editor for two prominent Finance Journals: Studies in Economics and Finance and International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. He was the panelist speaker at the 2019 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conference in New Orleans USA and invited speaker at the 2018 Annual Liquidity Conference in Budapest, Hungary.

He is an active member of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), British Academy of Management (BAM), and Financial Management Association (FMA). Dr. Hamid is the recipient of Texas A&M International University's best paper award in Financial Markets at the 2020 Southwestern Finance Association Conference. He is engaged with different industrial and professional entities. For example, Dr. Hamid worked for developing the first code of corporate governance in Bangladesh and served as the invited discussant at the World Bank-Dubai Economic Council conference in 2012.

Topic:
Cyber security Risk Disclosure and Value Effect for Banks

Dr. Ramesh Subramoniam
Clinical Associate Professor, Naveen Jindal School of Management, USA
The University of Texas at Dallas
________________________________________________________________________
Ramesh Subramoniam, Ph.D. is a Clinical Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas, Dallas. He worked in the industry and consulting for 27 years and led supply chain teams for GM, Amazon, Verizon and FTI Consulting before he joined UT Dallas as a full time faculty in 2018.

Ramesh holds a Ph.D. from Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Mastersdegrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Texas Tech University. He graduated from CET with a degree in Mechanical Engineering (1984-1988 Batch).

Topic:
Supply chain disruption and mitigation strategies

Panel Discussion Topic: Fintech Revolution: Ease of doing business