Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM’s) IIPC, New Delhi, organized one day workshop on IBM Cloud and Services on 15^th June 2019. Event was held in collaboration with IEEE Delhi Section, CSI Delhi Chapter and IBM India. Keynote speaker of the workshop was Dr. Mani Madhukar, Program Manager, IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Mani started the workshop by giving an introduction on Cloud Computing with its features of providing on-demand availability of computer resources, related to storage and computing power. Continuing in his talk, Dr. Mani explored features of IBM cloud and facilities provided by it. IBM Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services from IBM that offers both platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). With IBM Cloud IaaS, organizations can deploy and access virtualized IT resources -- such as compute power, storage and networking -- over the internet.

In his workshop, Dr. Mani also gave hands-on training on IBM Watson services. Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language developed in IBM’s DeepQA project. One can use Watson for natural language processing, visual recognition and machine learning. He gave a detailed overview on IBM Watson services and product such as Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning, Watson knowledge catalog etc.

At the end of the workshop participants were awarded with the certificate of participation. Faculties of BVICAM, students and participants from other colleges and Institutes attended the workshop enthusiastically and willingly asked their queries at the end. The entire event was co-ordinated by Dr. Sunil P. Singh and Dr. Imran Khan, Assistant Professor, BVICAM