Keynote in International conference of Machine Learning and Data Science

Looking forward to give keynote and speak in International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science tomorrow. ICMLDS conference is getting organized in Bennett university. Various eminent people of academia is coming and presenting in the conference. I m privileged to give keynote and explain about how Artificial intelligence is been used in enterprise world to resolve some of the social challenges

Showcased DRISHTI in Aegiis Graham Bell Award

The Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of the telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. As mentioned in their site," This Award is intended to promote innovation, entrepreneurship in the field of Telecom, Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, Security to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators" . One of the category for this award was mobility and social good. it was a great chance to showcase our Visual impaired solution for blind aka DRISHTI which i architected, designed. It was indeed developed by my team in Gurgaon.  I went ahead and demonstrated and showcased DRISHTI at 8th Annual Aegis Graham Bell award 2017. It was indeed a great time showcasing DRISHTI infront of Jury. Results are going to be announced in February. Travel was really hectic to me as I need to travel and return back on the same day from Mumbai to go for another conference GHCI to present my paper. I would be writing a separate blog on it very soon.

Speaking in GHCI Conference on Machine Learning and AI at edge

GHCI is one of the eminent conference conducted by Anitaborg institute in collaboration with ACM India. Looking forward to speak in GHCI 2017, talking about how are we using Machine Learning to help changing the way survey data is collected even without Internet.. Yes.. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence on the edge !!. My session would under "Research advances in Interactive Technology" on 16th November. Applying new technologies like AI, ML, IOT, Blockchain etc in some particular domain have been a favorite passion since last year or so. Our current solution solves a great purpose of how and why to use Machine Learning and AI on edge to help getting more accurate data, results. More about it, during the speaking session !!

Featured in Forbes video showcasing AI solution

It's time to get featured in Forbes showcasing DRISHTI solution that we created for visual impaired people in GITEX Technology Week, Dubai Click here to view a less than 2 minute video about DRISHTI that i architected and designed.

Showcased AI solution in Amazing Gitex Conference

Gitex (gitex.com) has been one of the amazing and go to conference for any technical person. Tech pioneers and futurists, business leaders and IT professionals come to GITEX to experience the world’s most advanced technology and drive digital transformation. It's 2nd largest technology event of the world. I was fortunate enough to  Gitex technology week was organized this year in Dubai from October 8-12. Loved so much innovation happening around the world with various start ups and companies in 5 days..Got Featured and live on various Dubai channels like "Khaleej Times" during Gitex event, Dubai showcasing our AI solutions.

Keynote and Cognitive session at AI Bootcamp

Microsoft has organized the Artificial Intelligence boot camp to help folks jump start and get acquainted with their offerings on Microsoft technologies especially on cognitive services.  I was privileged to take the keynote session and then 2 hr long cognitive deep dive session  on Microsoft technologies.  In spite of heavy rainfall in gurgaon, we got a good 

audiences around 60+ to attend the event. Event start at around 10 AM with my keynote. It was very nice to see some of the common faces who came to attend the session from various places. Quiet a no. of college and engineering folks attended the session. I personally felt that it's so fortunate for these kids to get knowledge and understanding of Artificial intelligence during their college days. It would certainly boost up their future aspiration.  Certainly all most all companies would and are seeking people having AI and ML experience. I'm sure attending such session would definitely help them to jump start their career in field of Artificial Intelligence. Thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring the event.

Digitilization of Agriculture Conference

Privileged to provide my thoughts on IOT and Artificial Intelligence in "Digitilization of Agriculture" at India Habitat center, New Delhi in front of eminent dignitaries of Agriculture. Keeping in mind the immense potential in digitalization of agriculture in India and the need to engage all stakeholders to discuss the opportunities and challenges, Conference invites ministers, policy makers, IT solution providers, agribusiness companies, academicians & researchers, entrepreneurs and progressive farmers to participate in the conference. Conference is to

·  Promote IT in Agriculture to enhance farmers’ income

·  Encourage technology enabled partnership among various stakeholders for benefiting farming communities

·  Project government policies and initiatives to popularize IT in agriculture

·  Showcase latest  Digital Technology Platform and Success Stories

This event provide a platform for companies to showcase their technologies, innovations and discuss over strengthening Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs) in agriculture and data ecosystems to support the development and delivery of timely, targeted (localized) information and services to make farming profitable and sustainable socially, economically and environmentally. The event highlights innovative solutions developed by start-ups and companies for development of agriculture and food sectors.

I had a great time speaking about usage of Internet of Things(IOT) and Artificial Intelligence. Agriculture has its deep roots from the inception of human to its present day. Since the early age of humanity till date, agriculture has become the oldest and most vibrant area focusing on food supply. Technologies exist right now to help farmers take informed decision. Need of an hour is to educate farmers and avail these technologies at low cost, scale up high so we can roll it out to larger masses. I have also written an article about Life in Agri business with emerging technologies. In coming post, I would be sharing it soon

Launch event for "Artificial Intelligence for .NET"

One of best thing post your all 10 months of dedicated effort, swamped weekends of research, sleepless nights to come up with book is it's launch. 

Over the years, I have been celebrating the launch of my book with my family and friends in a closed stuff. This time our launch is been in the presence of global leadership of Accenture. Paul Daugherty, CTO of Accenture, Marc Carrel-Billiard (Our labs global lead), Sanjay Podder (our India Labs head) and Adam (our Global Lead for Advanced Technology & Architecture) have been generous enough to provide their presence for the launch. Our Labs marketing team did a fantastic job in creating some great book samples for showcasing as shown in the attached pic. All in all, the celebrations in itself was grand enough. Paul, Sanjay, Adam and Marc really loved and appreciated the book. Each of them expected to read this book and as i promised them , I am working to send my signed copy of the book to each of them.  I certainly want to thank our Labs head Sanjay Podder for working with Marketing team to give such a pleasant suprise to me and Anurag on the eve of the launch.

Artificial Intelligence for .NET Book Launch

Over the last few months, I have been busy on authoring book. Unsurprisingly, it comes from one of my favorite topic "Artificial Intelligence". Book title is "Artificial Intelligence for .NET" and is now available on global online store like Amazon at here This book will introduce you to the world of artificial intelligence by providing genuine insights on AI concepts like Speech , Language and Search. The book also provides extensive examples to make it easier to put the new concepts into practice. Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search will show you how to start building amazing capabilities into your applications today. Anurag Bhandari, who is been working with me since couple of years in Accenture has also worked as a contributing author in this book. I am sure you would love to read it. In next few coming blogs i would speak more about this book.

Drishti - Our Artificial-Intelligence-Powered-Solution-Improve-Visually

It was a great honor to see solution architected by my team getting released across the globe in almost all the newspaper. Drishti which means “Vision” in Sanskrit was developed as part of our Tech4Good initiative. I got the pleasure to architect, design and develop this Artificial intelligence system. Watch the video here to get more insights. You can get a chance to get a glimpse of me in the video as well at couple of places too. 

Drishti powered solution to help the visually impaired improve the way they experience the world around them and enhance their productivity in the workplace. Lot of people have reached out to us asking how it is better than other competitors in market.  Being in consulting company like Accenture gives you opportunity to collaborate with any of the companies rather than sticking with one. Rather than reinventing the wheel, we focused on exactly the missing pieces and uses some of the best in industry as well.

Drishti is been designed by taking some of the industry best breed of technologies combined together with Accenture IPs to produce very useful insight. If you haven’t get a chance to look on more detail, have a look on release like here and here. It was initially piloted with National Association of Blind. As you see in the release, we are currently focusing on releasing and testing it with various geographies within Accenture. We have been focusing on it and making it more user intuitive by adding various features. It was so soothing to use Artificial intelligence and other latest technologies to resolve social problem like blind. One of my best days in Accenture is still the day when we started pilot with NAB. It was so soothing to see all blind people in NAB pleased with using Drishti.  There is no doubt that technologies like AI is been disrupting the entire market with varied angles but one of those angles has been to improve the way people live and work. Drishti at some extent attempts to bring more equality and joy to the all people and certainly provides ability beyond disability with bringing How Visually Impaired People Live and Work

Disability Asia Conference - Met Two huge source of Inspiration

Last week , I went to Disability Asia conference to showcase our AI solutions. In this article, I am not going to talk about any AI technologies but talk about 2 huge source of inspirations that I met during the Disability Asia conference. Disability Asia conference is been conducted on 27-28th of July. This conference has been run by SpringBoard consulting in collaboration with Accenture. I was fortunate to showcase some of our AI based solution including Drishti to the audience. Audience loved our AI based solution. During showcase and meeting with various like-minded people, I came across two huge source of inspiration.

Deepa Malik

It was exciting to meet like-minded people in the conference. During the conference, I also heard the story of Nation icon Deepa malik. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in Paralympic Games. She is Padma shri and Arjun Award winner. Huge source of inspiration. After meeting Deepa, All I can say is Adversity causes some to break, and some to break records.

Indian Blind Cricket Team

Got a chance to meet some of the players of Indian Blind cricket team. This team has won 2 T-20 World cups, 1 40 over world cup and Asia cup as well. This team unfortunately is not been funded by BCCI but by Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI).

This team has brought so much accolades but they are not been supported advertised by any of the companies. Team was very cheerful and passionate about cricket. Being Passionate of cricket since my childhood days, I got to chance to understand little more about blind cricket with them on various levels like B1, B2 and B3 which are various categories of blindness. 

Both Deepa and Indian blind cricket team are a huge source of inspiration. I salute their passion and commitment for excelling in life.

My Session at M-enabling Summit

I went ahead and provided my thoughts on m-enabling summit at here

Accenture AI accessibility solution

Over the years, I have been involved in architecting, designing and developing application related to AI and Machine Learning. Very recently, I got a chance to create an Accenture AI accessibility solution as part of our Tech4good initiative. This application has not getting popular but cause it's based on human centric design and is for social cause, application is very close to my heart. A video glimpse of what that solution is all about can be seen at  the link above. You can also see me in playing some of the roles in the video.