Pan IIT organises Conclave 2019 on Artificial Intelligence

NEW DELHI, JANUARY 21: Union Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation, Vijay Goel inaugurated the two-day TCS – Pan IIT Conclave 2019, with Artificial Intelligence: What does the future hold for India? As the theme.

Goel reinforced the application of AI and ML across industries to propel India to be future ready. Taking this thought further, K Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, TCS, and the key note speaker, shared his vision for AI’s future in India.

The platform helped dive deep into challenges and opportunities with AI. It helped build a framework for implementation of AI in several industries. The recommendations from the conclave will be actioned along academia, government, industry and startup partners by the PAN IIT AI forum in the coming months.

The session on AI for Social Good witnessed a riveting discussion addressing the fears associated with the new technology. The eminent panel led by Dr. P Anandan, Chief Executive Officer, Wadhwani AI highlighted that the new technology need not necessarily compete with us and rather complement our efforts to magnify the positive impact for betterment of the society at large. Eminent leaders like Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information technology were part of the session.

The session on AI for Education, showcased the role of AI in re-defining India’s education landscape with a greater focus on improved learning outcomes. Session was moderated by G. S. Raghavan, Professor, IIIT- Bangalore, who shared his outlook on the opportunities and challenges within the education sector. Sudha Ram, Professor, CSE and IS, University of Arizona and Anand Rangarajan, Director, Google emphasized, “Key is content creation and curation of information. AI is really helping with predictive suggestions towards sieving information on the web. Hyper-personalization - it is now possible for you to have test applications to train you better on your weaknesses. We need to focus on creating more engaging content for the students to build connect.”