IIM Shillong organised its 10th International Conference on Sustainability (SUSCON X), an attempt to address global sustainability challenges.
The three-day intellectual exchange drew the participation of 120 global delegates, creating a platform for discussions and insights.
The theme of SUSCON X was ‘Revisit, Revive, and Restore’. A total of 77 research papers were presented and categorised into 15 distinct technical sessions.
These sessions comprehensively addressed sustainability through seven different lenses of management, including economics and public policy, finance and control, organisational behaviour and human resources, operations and quantitative techniques, marketing, information system and analytics and strategy and liberal studies.
At the inaugural ceremony, chief guest Rajiv Mangal, Vice President of Safety, Health and Sustainability at Tata Steel, discussed the life cycle assessment in the steel industry from the perspective of environment, technology, society and costing.
Guest of honour Kartikeya Vikram Sarabhai, a global leader in environmental education, discussed the role of lifestyle in ensuring sustainability.
Sarabhai brought forward a new perspective on sustainability, which not only talks about use and consumption of resources but also the environmental impact of these consumptions that left all with an idea of not just counting the footprints but also highlighting the significance of palm prints, that depicts the positive impact on environmental sustainability.
In his keynote address, Sekhar Prabhakar, CEO and founder of CEdge Software Consultants and a social entrepreneur who has been working closely with silent environmentalists like wastepickers, referenced his organisation HasiruDala to emphasise people-centric sustainability initiatives that can be replicated all over the country.
