As part of industry-academic alliance, ITM has collaborated with IBM, for imparting professional training to IBM employees at ITM. The faculty of ITM will impart knowledge to IBM employees. The MOU was signed on 26th June 2007 by Dr. Guru Prasad, IBM, India and Mr. Avdhesh Mishra, Founder member, ITM, Gurgaon. This further strengthens the credentials of ITM and makes ITM as the only college in North India which has such an important tie-up with IBM. On behalf of IBM, Dr. Guru along with Dr. Murugan Krishnan and his team, graced the occasion. Host ITM was represented by Mr. Avdhesh Mishra, Dr. Rakesh Ranjan, Principal, ITM and Prof. Praveen Kr. Gupta, Head, Training & Placements cell.

Mr. Avdhesh Mishra emphasized the need of bigger role for private institutions with less bureaucratic hassles to meet the country’s growing requirements. Dr. Rakesh Ranjan said it is important that industry professionals interact with students to help them understand the industry requirements in a better way. Prof. Praveen Kr. Gupta said that industry should conduct trainings for faculty development also to give them hands on experience of the latest technologies.