The inaugural for the Certificate Program in Data Analytics for officers of HPCL was held online on August 14, 2021. The fast-paced program was developed keeping in mind the inputs from senior management of HPCL and feedback from the previous program batch. The program aims to connect data with decision-making and includes foundation courses such as statistics, operations research, and advanced analytics courses such as machine learning, Artificial intelligence, and social media analytics. 

During the inaugural, the following dignitaries were present and delivered inaugural messages to the participants of the certificate program: Prof. Nagarajan Ramamoorthy, Director IIM Amritsar; Prof. Vartika Dutta, Executive Education, Chairperson, IIM Amritsar; Prof. Mahima Gupta, MBA-Chairperson, IIM Amritsar; Ritvik Rath, Chief General Manager, IS – Strategy, HPCL; Vipul Maheshwari, Executive Director, Integrated Market, HPCL; Abhishek Dutta, Director, Human Resources, HPCL.  Amitabh Basu, General Manager, Capability Building, HPCL; Nikhil Verma, Deputy General Manager, Capability Building, HPCL; Odile Soreng, Assistant Manager, HPCL were also present during the inaugural.