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Mangaluru, Sep 28: Post Graduate Department of Commerce, St Agnes College (autonomous), here organized a two day international conference on the theme 'Business Resilience in turbulent global markets'.

Mangaluru, Sep 28: A two day international conference on the theme 'Business Resilience in turbulent global markets' was recently organised by the post graduate department of Commerce, St Agnes College (autonomous) here.

The conference was inaugurated by Dr Gilbert Nduru - director of international programme for Linkage and Research, Karatina University, Kenya.

The keynote Speaker for the conference was Dr Prasanna Chandra - retired professor of IIM- Bengaluru. 

Vishwa Nath Goel, chairman - Shivam Holdings Pvt Ltd was the chief guest for the inaugural function.

The inaugural programme was presided over by Sr Dr Jeswina AC - principal St Agnes College. Dr Catherine N Rao - conference convener welcomed the gathering and Dolan Banerjee, co-convener compered the programme.

In his keynote address, Dr Prasanna Chandra spoke on business resilience of various multinational corporations like Berkshire Hathaway, TCS and several Indian companies like Reliance Group, Maruti Suzuki etc that have been resistant through the years. Dr Chandra also emphasized on the various financial debacles caused by mergers and acquisition all over the world.

In the inaugural address, Dr Gilbert discussed the various facts of academic linkage programmes and spoke about the relevance of the topic of business resilience and the challenges faced by the corporates across the world.

The chief guest Vishwa Nath Goel said that if there is no turbulence in the business, the implication is that the business is heading toward extinction. Thus turbulence in business is absolutely necessary for business health.

The president of the function, Sr Dr Jeswina AC commended the conference organizers for providing opportunities for deliberation on the topic of risk management and disaster recovery, crisis management and currency volatility which threatens a company toward extinction. 

The highlight of the conference was the Memorandum of Understanding signed by St Agnes College (autonomous) with the Karatina University, Kenya. A total of 300 delegates participated.