Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | 4th June 2020: Aegis School of Data Science is organizing the 3rd edition of Data Science Congress (DSC) which will be a virtual event on 6 and 7 June 2020. The event is supported by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) as chamber partner along with mUni Campus as powered partner and also DSC supports Safe n Happy Periods which is creating awareness on shamefree and painfree menstruation time.
DSC 2020 is a confluence of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Cognitive, and Cyber Security. Data Science Congress was initiated in 2017 with a vision of bringing India at the center stage of the world forum for AI, Data Science, Cyber Security research, education, and skill development as India is having the largest pool of talents exposed to math and coding skills which are essential for these exponential technologies.
In DSC 2020, the world authorities, leading researchers, AI experts, Data Scientists will be speaking and over 10,000 educators, engineers, CXO’s, CTO, CEOs, students are likely to join the event.
Hon’ble Minister Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India will be inaugurating the event.
The speakers and contributors enlightening the topics are the crème de la crème of the data industry:
- Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
- Dr. Vint Cerf, Father of Internet
- Dr Juergen Schmidhuber, Father of Modern Artificial Intelligence
- Justice BN Srikrishna, Chief Architect of India’s 1st data protection bill
- Dr. Rohini Srivathsa, National Technology Officer (CTO) – Microsoft India
- Rama Akkiraju, Master Inventor and IBM Fellow
- Dr. Dina Zielinski will showcase how we can store digital data in DNA
- Mathangi Sri, Data Science Leader; Top 10 Data Scientists in India; 20 Patents
For more speakers list, please visit www.datasciencecongress.com.
Hon’ble Minister Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India said, “New technologies like AI, Robotics, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics have tremendous potential waiting to be tapped. These could be the key components towards building economy that brings quantum jump. These are the building blocks of Atmanirbhar Bharat.”
Dr. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Dean, Aegis School of Data Science said, “Considering the current unprecedented situation around the world, Data Science Congress this year will be a virtual event and so the pivot was to get the best of the content. With the current assembly of speakers which are prime, pre-eminent and celebrated in their respective spheres, we are confident that this virtual event will be a treat to all the data admirers. Come join us on 6th and 7th June 2020.”
Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman AICTEcommented, “Data is the new oil in new digital economy. Hence people who know data science and data analytics will provide solutions to future challenges, be it pandemic, banking, insurance, education, agriculture or healthcare”.
“We initiated Data Science Congress with a vision of making India as a world leader in research, education, and skill development in the fields of AI, Data Science, Analytics, IoT, and Cyber Security. India can lead as we are having the largest pool of talent with maths and coding skills which are essential for these exponential technologies,” commented Mr. Bhupesh Daheria, Founder of Data Science Congress; Founder Director of mUni Campus.
“COVID-19 and the lock down has fast tracked the use and development on new uses cases for data analytics across industry and society. While the data science market will continue to grow in India, there will also be an emergence of industry/society -specific analytics use cases, and a need of skilled professionals in terms of technology, it’s application and policy. FICCI will be delighted to engage with all stakeholders to establish India as a global hub of data science and analytics,” said Mr. Dilip Chenoy, Secretary General, FICCI.
Aegis School of Data Science
Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication was founded in the year 2002 with support from BhartiAirtel to develop cross functional technology leaders. In 2015, Aegis and IBM collaborated to launch, India’s first Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Data Science, Business Analytics and Big Data and later in 2017 PGP in Cyber Security. These programs are jointly certified and delivered by Aegis School of Business in association with IBM. IBM has set up high-end Business Analytics and Cloud Computing Lab at Campus. Also, Aegis and NVIDIA partnered for Deep Learning and applied AI courses. Aegis is the no. 1 School of Data Science and among the top 5 in Business Analytics. Aegis takes up various industry projects, research and consulting assignments in the field of data science under its initiative ‘Data Science Delivered’ and ‘Data Science for social good’, and helping organizations for devolving skills on data science, ML, DL, Big Data, Analytics etc.
For further information, please visit: www.aegis.edu.in.
