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AipmA At work

AIPMA 'S AMTEC & EXPLORRA Education Centre

Launch of 21st Century Innovation, Emerging Technology, Creative Entrepreneur Campus in Mumbai &
Gurgaon

IPMA has partnered with India’s leading Innovation Alumnus and academicians from reputed institutions like
A& Research Foundation’s EXPLORRA to establish 21st Indian Institute of Management, National Institute of
Century State-of-the-art Innovation & Emerging Tech- Design shall actively contribute to the programs.
Creative Entrepreneurship Campuses at Mumbai and A consulting division has been setup focused on
Gurgaon. Range of programs at the campuses will directly
Innovation for AIPMA Members, Corporates & Government
organizations. The main focus of the consulting division
will be on solving challenges through best practices. The
consulting team has academicians and professionals from
IIT, IIM-A, NID, MICA, Harvard, Stanford.
AIPMA will also be launching Courses on Artificial
Intelligence, Design Thinking, Augmented Reality (AR),
Virtual Reality (VR), UI/UX Design & Digital Media Design.
support AIPMA Members as well as Industry (organizations These campuses would provide access to the high tech
& professionals) and Community (Students & Specific Artificial Intelligence Lab, 3D Printing Lab, Augmented-
section of society) at large. The programs are specialized Virtual Reality Lab as part of Industry 4.0 initiatives for
value-added programs that will result in enhanced AIPMA members, Industry & Community. The Centre would
skill, competence and provide employment at national also host Incubator focused at emerging and environmental
& international level. These programs are supported friendly technologies and services that might be needed
by institutions of International repute such as SSOL of as the business and industry evolves leading to more
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, One-Fourth Lab of streams of opportunity for startups and pushing the need
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Red River College, for Innovation.
Manitoba, Canada and Gujarat Technological University.

Report: AIPMA Environment Cell At PVI 2020

IPMA Environment Cell was placed at Hall No. 1, Stall Plastic Collection Drive, a series of Industry Meets,
ANo. D1-4 during the recently concluded 11th edition Seminars & Conferences etc. to educate the public
of Plastivision India 2020 Exhibition. During the exhibition about the importance of Recycling & Plastic waste
, a lot of visitors approached management.We had people from different industries,
the AIPMA Environment Cell organisations, Academic Institutes, etc. that visited
and enquired about AIPMA, our stall to learn more about the environment work,
its various Environmental government regulations etc., while some came with their
issues , AIPMA EPR activity, concerns and questions and manyy were keen to associate
Plastic Positive Certification with AIPMA through in one way or other.
and many more, followed by People showed a keen interest to register and associate
interactive meetings. with AIPMA for their EPR Activities. Also, some recyclers
To create awareness about AIPMA’s contribution to & waste management Companies were eager to offer
the Plastic Industry & Environment, among public their Recycling & Waste management services to AIPMA.
we promoted AIPMA's EPR Activity, Plastic Positive People enquired about activities conducted by AIPMA
Certification and also displayed various Environment like seminars, conferences, industry meets, collection
related activities that have been conducted by AIPMA drives and CSR Activities etc. and showed an enthusiastic
till date for example say The Versova Beach Clean-up, interest to participate in future events.

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