Manipal International University in collaboration with the School of Management (now Manipal Institute of Management), MAHE, India, hosted its 1st International Conference in Contemporary Issues  (ICCI’19) in Business, Education, Engineering, Media and Science on 27^th and 28^th of March 2019. The world being in state of continuous change poses the challenge of evolution and retention. This, needless to say is across all domains of development, be it Engineering, Media, Education, Business or Science to name a few.   Sustainability strategies have become the raison d’être for existence and survival while striking a balance between investment, innovation and inflation. The urging need to raise the standards of the core deliverables whilst modernizing to cope with expectations of the community makes contemporary thinking imperative.

The conference brought together a conglomerate of thinkers, researchers and eminent speakers who presented, discussed and validated varying aspects of issues that were contemporary in nature in their respective domains.  The university was host about 150 visitors over the two days that included 74 participants, 7 key note speakers, several invited guests and attendees.  42% of the participants hailed from outside Malaysia.

Hon. Charles Santiago Anthony s/o R. Santiago, Member of the Parliament of Malaysia, Klang Constituency, Selangor & Chairman of the Water Commission, SCAN, and Member: Democratic Action Party in the Pakatan Harapan Coalition inaugurated the conference delivered the inaugural address.

The conference received a host of sponsorship with the T A Pai Management Institute as it platinum sponsors and several co-sponsors. Emerald Publishing House and the Taylor University extended have supported ICCI 2019 as the publishing partners

The next edition of ICCI will be held in early quarter of 2020.