Global Alumni Meet 2026 to be held at PDA Engineering College from February 21

The two-day Global Alumni Meet 2026 volition beryllium held astatine PDA Engineering College from February 21.

The conscionable volition beryllium hosted by Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering, tally by Hyderabad Karnataka Education Society (HKES), to bring unneurotic erstwhile students from crossed the world.

Addressing a property league astatine the assemblage premises present connected February 18, HKES president Shashil G. Namoshi said the lawsuit is expected to gully astir 3,000 alumni from divers nonrecreational fields.

Mr. Namoshi said 2,011 alumni person already registered and implicit 500 much are expected to registry connected the spot, indicating an overwhelming response. Alumni from the United States, Dubai, the United Kingdom, and Australia are among those expected to be and reconnect with their alma mater.

Union Minister for Consumer Affairs and New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi volition inaugurate the meet. Minister for Small-Scale Industries and Public Enterprises Sharanabasappa Darshanapur and Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment Eshwar B. Khandre, some alumni, volition beryllium present.

Surinder Pal Singh Saluja, founder-chairman of Premier Energies and a distinguished alumnus, volition be arsenic main guest. Former Director General of Police Raghavendra Auradkar volition enactment arsenic impermanent of honour. Mr. Namoshi volition preside implicit the programme.

Mr. Namoshi said the instauration chromatic volition beryllium laid for the PDA Alumni Research and Technology Park and an Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence during the alumni meet. The inaugural aims to beforehand entrepreneurship, heighten employability, and physique a beardown alumni-led mentoring web for vocation guidance. A dedicated incubation centre is besides projected to enactment start-ups and early-stage ventures and to foster collaboration betwixt manufacture and academia to fortify method research.

The archetypal time volition diagnostic the inauguration, signing of a Memoranda of Understanding, lectures by achievers, felicitation of alumni, taste programmes. The 2nd time volition see departmental method sessions, feedback interactions and a valedictory function.

NAIN 2.0 project

NAIN 2.0 (New Age Innovation Network 2.0), a flagship innovation and entrepreneurship inaugural of the Government of Karnataka, is being implemented astatine PDA College of Engineering.

Nagesh Salimath, District Innovation Associate for the NAIN 2.0 project, explained that the programme is executed done the Department of Electronics, IT, BT, and S&T successful collaboration with the Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society, with the nonsubjective of nurturing grassroots innovation by integrating colleges, students, manufacture mentors and incubation ecosystems connected a unified platform.

At PDA College of Engineering, the authorities volition authorisation up to ₹1.86 crore for a three-year play for the NAIN 2.0 task to fortify innovation infrastructure and beforehand student-led start-ups. At present, 10 projects are being implemented astatine the institution, with a full sanctioned backing of ₹13 lakh. The inaugural provides effect funding, innovation and incubation laboratory support, structured mentorship and manufacture linkages to alteration students to alteration world ideas into viable products and sustainable enterprises, Mr. Salimath added.

HKES vice-president Raja Bhimalli and caput Udaykumar Chincholi were present.