Respected Chief Guest Mr Suresh Narayanan, Heads of our sister institutions, representatives from partner companies & guests, Chairpersons of our programmes, faculty colleagues, staff members, family members and friends of our graduating students, and last but definitely not the last, students from the graduating class of 2019, I extend a hearty welcome to each and every one of you to your graduation ceremony.
My talk this year is a little different because my role is to present not only the institute view, but also update progress in each of four programmes.
I do this on behalf of our programme Chairpersons: Profs Vasant Sivaraman; Prof Prem Chandrani; Prof Preeta George and Prof Ashita Aggarwal, each of whom are dynamic leaders in their own right, and I will make a humble attempt to do justice to the passion and concern they (and their teams) bring to their respective programmes.