The 3rd edition
of Data Science Congress (DSC) 2020 virtual, an initiative of Aegis School of
Data Science and Cyber Security; with support of All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE), Chamber partner Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce & Industry (FICCI); powered by mUni Campus, with support of
Cloud4C & Dunhummby for maximum women participation concluded with a bigger
bang this year with participation from across industries, sectors and
nationalities on 6th and 7th June. DSC 2020 was inaugurated by
Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Human Resource
Development, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology,
Government of India. This edition of DSC discussed topics around banning the
production and usage of killer robots, insights about India’s 1st Data protection
bill; technical talks by various experts including co-creator of
Tensorflow, a bioinformatician showcased how to store data in one’s DNA; IBM
Chief Scientist showcase how to create a scalable Artificial Intelligence, panel
on challenges & opportunities for women in data; highlights of the both
days was keynotes by Dr. Juergen Schmidhuber, Father of modern Artificial
Intelligence and Father of Internet and Dr. Vint Cerf, Father of Internet.
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At the event, Dr. Vint Cerf, Father of Internet and
Creator of TCP/IP facilitated and appreciated 20 talented students
from India selected through Aegis Graham Bell Award National Talent Hunt for
Data Science, AI and Cyber Security Phase II who were provided with a 100%
scholarship to study Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Data Science; PGP in
Applied AI, Machine Learning & Deep Learning and PGP in Cyber Security from
Aegis School of Data Science & Cyber Security in association with IBM.
In Phase I, likewise 20 students were awarded the scholarship in the month
of February 2020 by Shri Nitin Gadkari, Hon’ble Minister for Road Transport
& Highways of India
and Shipping Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Government
of India. The candidates were selected from across the country who has the
potential to grow as leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security.
Inaugurating the event and addressing the Indian
Artificial Intelligence ecosystem, Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Hon’ble Union Minister of
State for Human Resource Development, Communications and Electronics &
Information Technology, Government of India commented, “Limited
availability of sufficient skilled and updated manpower is one of the big
challenges which the academia must look into. The skill set imparting knowledge
is still mainly in English, whereas we have tremendously talented youth
studying in regional languages as well. There is a huge void of content
creation in local languages.”
Dr. Vint Cerf,
Father of Internet said “I am very impressed with
this event and the program of honouring students with 100% scholarship. These
students have worked very hard to reach here. This shows a great deal of
creativity and energy in a tremendous way. Congratulations to all the students
and have a bright future ahead.”
Dr. Jürgen
Schmidhuber, Father of modern
Artificial Intelligence raised the concern about the pandemic Coronavirus, he
mentioned in his key note, “Artificial
Intelligence based on deep neural networks and deep learning can help to fight
the COVID-19 virus in many ways. Neural networks can learn to detect patterns
in data from viruses and patients, we can use those neural networks to predict
the future consequences of possible actions and we will act to minimise the
damage.”
Adding to
Hon’ble Minister points on AI role in academia Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, AICTE mentioned, “I believe India with 1.35 billion population
which is 1/6th of the world
population, If we are transforming we are transforming 1/6th of the world.
Dilip Chenoy,
Secretary General, FICCI mentioned, “Indian
data and technology service market is segmented by solutions and we are
expecting India
to become the largest data science market in the world with better use
cases and significant opportunities for data scientist in the future therefore
the emphasis should be on education.”
“Learning
in the last 2 days from these world leaders at the event will surely help in
paving a path for the mission of making India as a world leader in research,
education, and skill development in the fields of AI, Data Science and Cyber
Security, Thank you to our partners AICTE, FICCI, AIQRATE, ASMA, Dunnhumby,
Cloud4C, Safe N’ happy Periods for making this event a grand success,” said Bhupesh Daheria, Founder, mUni Campus, and
CEO, Aegis School of Data Science & Cyber Security.
Mumbai, Maharashtra ,
India