Times Of India : Edu Icons 2026 Award

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Discover the transformative power of technology in revolutionizing the practice of law at Edo Icons 2026, organized by The Times of India. This insightful session explores how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping legal education and practice, emphasizing the crucial need for continuous technological investment.  Learn why embracing new technology is essential to avoid obsolescence and stay ahead in the dynamic legal field. The discussion highlights the importance of guiding students on the effective and ethical use of the ever-increasing number of AI tools, focusing on enhancing efficiency rather than replacing fundamental knowledge.  The event also featured the esteemed presence of Chief Guest Thiru. T. M. Anbarasan, Honourable Minister for School Education, Tamil Nadu, alongside distinguished guests. This gathering celebrated educational excellence and honored pioneers in the field, recognizing their significant contributions to the future of education.  #EdoIcons2026 #LegalTech #AIinLaw

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00:06Edo Icons 2026 organized by the Times of India.

00:19How technology is changing the practice of law.

00:23What form of AI I am going to use?

00:25I often tell my students, think of AI as a source or a cumulative impact of multiple sources.

00:34You would read AI source but go back and just try to see how good or bad the source was.

00:40Nonetheless, you can't ignore AI as a source.

00:43I personally feel that we have to invest in technology on the go.

00:49There are only two types of investments.

00:51One is technology when it just appears because that is exciting, new and possibly opening doors for both faculty and

01:01students.

01:02And the second part is probably after three years, four years of others using it, one can invest.

01:08It will be inexpensive but the window is lost.

01:13And possibly not just the window lost, the technology would be obsolete.

01:18So we need to change first.

01:20Then we need to really tell them how to integrate AI.

01:24See there almost we are going to cross two crore AI tools.

01:29We are going to cross two crore AI tools.

01:32So we need to tell the students the AI tools when, where and how much to use.

01:38Not just to replace the knowledge.

01:41See first we need to tell the students that AI tools should not replace the knowledge to replace,

01:48I mean sorry to increase your efficiency, work efficiency.

01:51That we need to really prove them.

01:53The change is here, we need to change with it.

01:56Thank you very much.

02:07We would like to welcome our Chief Guest Tere A Raj Mohen Avarigal,

02:12Honourable Minister for School Education, Summer Development, Information and Publicity, Government of India.

02:19With a huge round of applause let's welcome our Chief Guest of the event Tere A Raj Mohen Avarigal,

02:27Honourable Minister for School Education.

02:30Thank you very much.

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03:50May I now request the Honorable Minister

03:57to kindly step forward and light the ceremonial lamp lighting.

04:06I also like to welcome Ms. Pushpalata, Ms. Abhinaya Kalpati, Mr. V.C. Praveen to kindly join us

04:14and we will also like to welcome Selvi Rakshana to please join on stage for the lamp lighting please.

04:37To formally begin this wonderful evening, may I now invite Mr. Manikand Naya,

04:43Associate Vice President and Response Head, The Times of India for the welcome address please.

04:53Good evening and thank you Honorable Minister Rajmohan.

05:04And most of you know that we are the largest read and circulated English daily in the country.

05:17We are also number one in Chennai.

05:22Thank you panelists.

05:24I think it was so wonderful.

05:25And thank you for coming here.

05:28He is the chief guest for the evening to honor 30 icons who have been pioneering in the field of

05:37education.

05:38A very, very warm welcome to you.

05:40And very, very warm welcome to all of you.

05:43Thank you so much.

05:44Enjoy the evening and look forward to hosting you for a good dinner

05:48because I don't want to stand between minister, you and the dinner.

05:53Thank you so much.

05:56Ladies and gentlemen, now I request everyone to kindly join me in extending a warm and hard food welcome

06:04to our distinguished chief guest, Honorable Thiru Rajmohanavarikal, Minister for School Education, Tamil Development, Information and Publicity, Government of Tamil

06:14Nadu.

06:27So, I take this opportunity to first of all thanks Times of India to organizing such a prestigious platform for

06:35celebrating the educational excellence.

06:38Congratulations to every single awardee, every nominee.

06:42Every single award going to be presented over here is not only recognition of the past, but also for the

06:49future.

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06:57the one that is the one that is the one that is the one that is the one that is

06:59the one that is the one.

06:59Amitsar Raghakakadayar.

07:01Thaminaatoude STI-Lewa Black Mark Abidance on a black dance on a black dance on a huge disaster.

07:07One small private school, a small rules followed by a small fire accident,

07:13and started in the battle of 80 plus kids in matter of hours.

07:18they killed different visas on a white house.

07:20They traveled everywhere.

07:23It took difficult things in this trip past three years,

07:28they got run a renewalしくils around three years,

07:31on the license to believe the rule once we take the ruling where they get to this disaster.

07:37Here we are perceived of killer example.

07:39There is a lot of joy that he received in the chamber and he said that he was a sub

07:47-collector.

07:48He said that he was a sub-collector.

07:51But many collectors have been there?

07:54How many entrepreneurs?

07:56How many adulterers?

07:58How many adulterers?

07:59How many adulterers?

08:00How many adulterers?

08:02I don't know.

08:03I don't know.

08:04I don't know.

08:07Okay.

08:08Rules are follow up.

08:09Certificate.

08:10That's the most important thing in this education industry.

08:13We have to do everything.

08:15We have to follow rules.

08:17There is a standard.

08:19This is a 80 plus sub-collector.

08:22That's the most important thing.

08:25The entire government is done.

08:28We are not in Singapore.

08:30No one is in Singapore.

08:31No one is in Singapore.

08:33No one is in Singapore.

08:35Now, I am not in Singapore.

08:37To give a minute to do lunch.

08:40You can't do lunch.

08:43How many people do lunch?

08:43I am very concerned about JP Sir.

08:45My students are learning a career cadence of my student.

08:49Now, I am talking about the education minister.

08:51I am talking about the same thing.

08:53They are talking about the same thing.

08:53Continuous.

08:54They are talking about the same thing.

08:55I am wondering.

08:57I'm going to ask you about this question.

09:01I'm going to ask you what I'm saying.

09:03I'm going to go to government schools.

09:05I'm going to ask you about STEM education.

09:07I'm going to ask you about this question.

09:11This is the first principle.

09:13I'm going to introduce you to you.

09:20Artivision in India, you are going to get a prompt engineering government school to discuss it.

09:26That's why we are going to discuss it.

09:28The chairman of Mr. Miles Samir,

09:31He is in Tamil Nadu in Tamil Media.

09:34He is in Tamil Nadu.

09:35He is in Tamil Nadu.

09:36He is in Tamil Nadu.

09:37He is in Tamil Nadu.

09:41He is in Tamil Nadu.

09:47The state to the future minds.

09:48The educational excellence is also in the times of India.

09:57My best wishes, congratulations to every awardee.

10:01Thank you so much.

10:02Welcome.

10:03It's now time to recognize and celebrate the Edu icons gathered here.

10:09Our first recognition, Chennay's Amrida International Aviation College.

10:14May I now invite on stage Mr. R. Bhuminathan,

10:18visionary founder and chairman,

10:19who has pioneered experiential job-oriented education.

10:30The next is Dorff School of Design.

10:34Welcoming to the stage Dr. A. R. R. Ramanathan.

10:44ACS Arun Kumar Sir, I request Professor Dr. M. Ravichandran,

10:49Pro Vice-Chancellor Dr. MGR Deemed University,

10:52to kindly join us on stage to receive the moment to please.

11:00Mrs. V. Maheshwari, Chief Education Executive Officer.

11:12Let's welcome Dr. P. Satya Narayanan,

11:15Pro Chancellor of SRM-ISD for the day Dr. Kaatangalathur.

11:20My best wishes to get jobs and advice for you to take the time.

11:33In the same time, the government of India has a revolution in the same time.

11:41In the same time, in the same time, there is a wipe in 63 years.

11:46However, in the same time, there is a wipe in the same time.

11:53In the Times of India, there is an organization in the same time.

11:57In the same time, there is a lot of design.

12:06There is a lot of design.

12:07There is a lot of design.

12:08In India, there is a lot of Korean.

12:11It is a lot less in Tamil.

12:13Therefore, there is a lot of design.

12:17Moving to the next, we have Ms. Leema Jacob,

12:20Director of Greenfield Chennai International School.

12:30Our next recipient is Guru Nanak College

12:34and Honorary General Secretary and Correspondent Mr. Manjit Singh Nair on stage.

12:47Founder of Acharya Group and WOW Academy, Dr. Jay Aruvindan, the Managing Director.

12:53He grew India.

13:02Karunia Institute of Technology and Sciences.

13:05While Chancellor Dr. Paul Dinagaran sends his warmest wishes,

13:10receiving the honors on his behalf as a distinguished academic leader,

13:14please welcome Professor Dr. Elijah Blessing, Vice Chancellor of Karunia University.

13:28I now invite Ms. Indu Murugeshin, Vice Chairman of KIT Coimbatore.

13:41Greenfield Chennai International School is a K-12 CBSE school,

13:45wherein we provide holistic education to the children enrolled with us.

13:49And right now we have initiated a right-brain education program across India, Pan-India,

13:55in the name of HeGuru from Japan.

13:57I am thankful for the efforts taken by Times of India. Thank you.

14:01Karunia is recognized as a category one university by the Government of India,

14:07with the highest grade of NAC A++.

14:11And we also feature in Times Higher Education ranking and QS rankings.

14:16And once again I would like to thank Times of India for this wonderful opportunity.

14:21So I personally believe that empowering young minds is empowering the family

14:27and ultimately empowering the society.

14:30Thank you Times of India for this recognition. Thank you.

14:33Next we celebrate Veranda K-12.

14:35Let me welcome the Head of Marketing Ms. Abhinaya Kalpati onto the stage please.

14:48Live Life Education. Founder and CEO Dr. Kannan Girish.

14:58Here we have Dr. P. Krishnakumar from Nehru Group of Institutions.

15:11Pushpalata Educational Centre.

15:13To receive the recognition I would like to welcome Mrs. Pushpalata Poornanan,

15:18Director and Correspondent.

15:25Veranda Reyes, our CEO Mr. S. Bharat.

15:36And I am Head of Marketing at Veranda K-12.

15:40I streamline our branding, digital, community engagement initiatives at Veranda K-12.

15:47For educators who work passionately in the field of education,

15:50I think EduIcon Awards is the pinnacle by Times of India

15:53to showcase the great work done by multiple educators across different varied fields and different areas.

15:59Basically, Nehru Group of Institution is 50-year-old institution

16:03and we have institutions from school to medical college, 25 plus institutions

16:08and now we have P.K. Das deemed to university.

16:10One school doesn't need to manage management.

16:15Students, teachers, parents, everyone who can engage and cooperate and participate.

16:24I am founder of Veranda Reyes.

16:26We have been coaching students to get government jobs for the past 15 years.

16:31We have been coaching Phylac students so far.

16:35Archana, our Managing Director of Sun Academy Group of Schools.

16:46Sandhanam Vidyalia, Senior Secondary School.

16:48Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in extending a warm welcome,

16:53Mr. K. Chandrasekran and Miss Yes Aparna.

17:03Mrs. Lajisha Praveen, Vice Chairperson of Shri Gokulam Public School.

17:16Please welcome to the stage Dr. S. Sriram.

17:20And we have Professor V. Sita Rahman, Principal and Clinical Coordinator to the College Physiotherapy.

17:33Shri Sai Ranganathan Engineering College.

17:37Dr. R. Murugeshian, Chairman of the institution.

17:40On behalf of Dr. Murugeshian, I request Dr. M. Praveena, Secretary and Associate Professor,

17:45to receive the honors, please.

17:58This award truly belongs to all the gurus, the teachers,

18:02who sacrificed day in and day out for the welfare of our students.

18:07So we dedicate this award to all the amazing teachers of our school

18:12and our group of education institutions.

18:14I'm Lajisha Praveen from Shri Gokulam Public School.

18:18And thanks to Times of India for recognizing Shri Gokulam Public School.

18:23And thanks to my father, Gokulam Gopalan.

18:26He's the chairman of the group of schools.

18:28At Shri Ramakrishna Institute of Paramedical Sciences, Coimbatore,

18:31we are committed to value-based education,

18:34which leads to transforming the knowledge to skill.

18:38Thank you, Times of India, for honoring us.

18:42We started our Shri Sai Ranganathan Pharmacy College.

18:45So with respect to our college, what we feel is, as the panel discussion topic also goes,

18:51it says beyond smart classrooms.

18:54In the same way, what we feel is, apart from teaching the normal syllabus,

18:59we feel going with hands-on training is the most important

19:03or it can be considered as equally important with the subject matter.

19:06So I would really like to thank all the organizers of the Times of India.

19:11Next is School of Law of SRM.

19:13On behalf of Dr. Satya Narayanan, I'd like to welcome

19:16Professor Dr. Indranath Gupta, Dean School of Law, to come and receive the honors, please.

19:29On behalf of Dr. Satya Narayanan, may I now welcome

19:32Professor Dr. J.R. Jayanti, Dean SRM Medical and Health Sciences, to receive the honors.

19:46May I request Ms. Maya George, CEO of SSVM Institutions, to receive the honors.

19:52On behalf of Dr. Manimiglay Mohan, please.

20:01Next on stage is St. Peter's Institute of Higher Education and Research.

20:07Trustee Dr. Lasya Thambudurai.

20:16Thagur Educational Trust.

20:19To receive the honors, please welcome on stage Dr. M. Mala, Founder Managing Trustee,

20:25Ms. Selvi Rakshana, Trustee and Dynamic CEO of Jerusalem College of Engineering.

20:37I'm representing SRM School of Law. I'm the Dean, Professor Indranath Gupta.

20:42And we are doing some interesting work in SRM.

20:46We are offering several programs at the undergrad level and post-graduate level.

20:50We believe in interdisciplinary education in a multidisciplinary university.

20:55Hope you would be able to join us in SRM.

20:57It's truly a huge privilege bestowed on the college and on the faculty and the staff of SRM Medical College

21:05to receive this EduIcon Award from Times of India.

21:09Indeed a pleasure and honor to be a part of the EduIcons event hosted by Times of India.

21:15I think education is seeing a lot of transformation, a lot of technology, a lot of development in terms of

21:20the recent advances.

21:22So it's important that the institutions also keep abreast of what's happening in the industry.

21:28Hi, this is Rakshana, representing Tagur Group of Institutions.

21:31And I'm the CEO of Jerusalem College of Engineering.

21:33So it is indeed a great honor to be a part of the Times of India magazine.

21:38Universal Group of Institutions, Jholar Pettai.

21:41Please welcome the visionary leader who founded and built this institution into a pillar of academic success.

21:47office chairmen, Dr. Srivaprakasham.

21:56Mr. S. Manivan and Avrigal, correspondent of Vani Vidyalia School.

22:06Wales Group of Institutions, Dr. Ishadi K. Ganesh Avrigal is a visionary philanthropist.

22:13On behalf of Dr. Ishadi Ganesh sir, here we have Dr. Chandrasekhar Registrar, Veranda IAS,

22:27receiving the honor on behalf of the institution is an accomplished education strategist, Dr. Vigneshwar Kumar, Vice President of Veranda

22:37IAS.

22:44Please welcome Dr. V. Shanmuga Prabhu, Chairman, Driving Value Based Leadership and Institutional Growth

22:52and Mr. V. G. Suresh Avrigal, Director, bringing over two decades of educational innovation and student-centric leadership.

23:45I would like to really thank and appreciate Times of India and EDICON for recognizing the education institutions which is

23:55really needed.

23:55On behalf of getting prepared students for competitive exams and getting placed in the government sector, I feel really happy

24:03that we have done a great job in previous years and this recognition means a lot to us.

24:07We are very happy and delighted to receive this award. It's a pride moment to our school and thanks for

24:14this opportunity for us to participate in this Organizing Excellence in Education Award.

24:21I request all the recipients to kindly join us for the group picture.

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