4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
“NEW DIRECTIONS IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH & PRACTICE”
(NDMRP-2018)
CONFERENCE MAIN THEME: “Promoting Multidisciplinary Academic Research For Sustainable Development and Service To Society”
Prof. Carsten Rennhak
University of the Federal Armed Forces Germany in Munich
Prof. Carsten Rennhak serves currently as Dean of the Business Science faculty at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Germany in Munich. He is a Professor of PR and Marketing. Before joining the University of the Federal Armed Forces he held chairs in Marketing at ESB Business School Reutlingen and Munich Business School. Prof. Rennhak is a visiting scholar at Zagreb School of Economics and Management, SP Jain Mumbai, Polytechnic State University, St. Petersburg and Haaga-Helia, Helsinki.He received his Bachelor (1993) as well as Diploma degree (1997) in Business from Augsburg University, a Master in Economics (1995) from Wayne State University, Detroit, and his doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (2001). Prior to his academic career, Prof. Rennhak worked as a management consultant and project manager for Booz Allen & Hamilton in the telecommunications, media, high tech and utility industries for seven years. His primary research interests cover marketing communication, direct sales and corporate strategy. He has published 18 books as well as 190 articles and working papers in various research areas. He is a member of the editorial board of the Transactional Marketing Journal as well as the World Journal of Marketing Management and a reviewer for multiple journals and publishers,
Prof. Rozhan M. Idrus,
Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)
Prof. Rozhan is currently the Dean of the Centre for Graduate Studies (CGS) in the Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia. He is a Professor of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) & Technogogy with 30 years of experience as an e-learning analyst, consultant, presenter and workshop facilitator. He has presented 48 Keynote addresses in 18 different countries and has published more than 190 publications in international citation-indexed journals, books and handbook chapters. Spearheaded the first home-grown electronic portal (2003) and pioneered use of sms in teaching of physics (2008) while in the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He has also garnered awards in mobile learning in the World Education Summit (2011), e-INDIA Awards (2010) and the Asia Pacific Mobile Learning & Edutainment Advisory Panel (APACMLEAP) Mobile Learning Initiatives Recognition (2009), Gold Medal Award in the Innovation and Invention in Education Competition 2016 in the Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Malaysia and more recently Gold Medal Awards in the 3rd World Invention Innovation Contest 2017 (Korean Invention News) and in the 2nd International University Carnival on eLearning 2017. He has given a definition to the term ‘technogogy’ and is passionately promoting it. He is the founding chief editor of the Malaysian Journal of Educational Technology, and Chief Editor of both the Video journal of Innovative Pedagogies (VJIP, 2017) and the International Journal of Excellence in e-learning of the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University Dubai, UAE.