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16 Oct 2025

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Hyderabad, India

Elite Panel, Elite Discussions and Elite Outcomes

Valedictory Session on "Academic Campuses as Industry Incubators" at CII EDU Summit

Mr. Srikanth Talluri, Founder 6D Varsity & Co-Convenor – Education & Skills Panel, has hosted a Valedictory Session on "Academic Campuses as Industry Incubators" at CII EDU Summit. A great session that left strong impressions and recommendations towards the #FutureofWork collaboration between Industry-Academia 


A heartleft thanks to Distinguished panelists- Ms. Madhuri Kalidindi , Dr. Jagadeesh Gandla , Mr. Anand Jadi & Mr. Sreekanth Perepu for sparing their valuable time, and sharing invaluable knowledge, insights and recommendations coming from their vast experience serving organisations at scale.



Panel Discussion Summary:

  • Stories from #Kyndryl, #ITC, #FABA on their current state of academic collaboration towards talent pipeline development. 

  • How talent grooming can happen within/outside the campuses while solving the #real industry problems.

  • #Student & #Faculty Engagement into the Industrial #Problemsolving 

  • CSR vs #Investment Mode of Engagements

  • Academic Campuses as #Corporate Innovation #Sandboxes - Possibilities, Opportunities, Challenges et al.

  • #Democratising the Model - with #Design based Engagements first which needs Minimal Lab Infrastructure, followed by #Prototyping next which demands Lab & People Infra coupled with Financial Support demanding the Team, Time & Cost based #ROI 

  • #AI emergence, white collar #cobots aka Agents Solving Lower-Order Problems, need to shift the baseline towards Solving #Complex Problems & #HigherOrder-Works



Mindset: 👉

Industry begins from College Campuses ( Pro Lite version @ Campus )

Professional life begins from Day 1 of College ( Pro Max version @ Industry )



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