Name and Title of the Programme   :    Webinar on “ANN Basics, Deep Learning & its Applications”

Date   :   20^th November, 2021

Organized by     :    Jointly by:-

                                  1. IEEE Delhi Section and 
                                  2. Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi

In collaboration with       :    1. Computer Society (CS) Chapter of IEEE Delhi Section
                                          2.      Consultants Networks ffinity (CNA) Group of IEEE Delhi Section
                                            3.      Inter Society Relations (ISR) Standing Committee of IEEE Delhi Section
                                            4.      Industry Relations (IR) Ad-Hoc Committee of IEEE Delhi Section
                                            5.      Life Members Affinity (LMA) Group of IEEE Delhi Section
                                            6.     IEEE Communication Society and IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics
                                             7.  The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications (IETE), Delhi Centre
                                           8.  The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Delhi Section
                                           9.  Computer Society of India (CSI), Mumbai
                                            10.  The Institution of Information Technology Professionals, New Delhi
                                            11.  AICTE’s IIPC of BVICAM, New Delhi
Report:

The Webinar was held in the benign presence of Prof. Subrata Mukhopadhyay, Chairperson, CNA Group and Former Chairperson, IEEE Delhi Section The webinar began with the welcome address by Prof. M.N. Hoda, Director, BVICAM who motivated the participants with his words. He emphasized that these webinars act as networking tools to connect people from across the world and help them to adapt to a New Normal life, a new ecosystem caused by COVID-19 now COVID-21. He also discussed the five phases of COVID-19 i.e. Denial, Anger, Bargain, Depression and Acceptance and motivated the participants to directly move to Acceptance phase from Bargain phase without going into Depression phase, which is also one of the objectives of these weekly webinar series. He also motivated participants to keep learning continuously regardless of all disruptions.

Mrs. Sumita Narang, Senior Software Development Manager, Amazon was the lead speaker of the webinar. The webinar was aimed to give an overview of Artificial Neural Networks and their application to deep learning. Sumita beautifully explained how different digital forces are altering the current scenario.

The session concluded with Question & Answer session where participants willingly asked their queries. Prof. M. N. Hoda gave his heartfelt appreciation to Ms. Sumita for her valuable and detailed session. He also thanked all the participants and panellist for giving their precious time in attending this webinar and making all the webinars hosted by BVICAM, a huge success. The webinar attracted more than 300 participants from across the world.