Analytics Society of India Kolkata Chapter created by NSHM Institute of Computing & Analytics presented a two-day Analytics Global Conference 2024 (AGC2024), on the 6th and 7th of March at Biswa Bangla Convention Center, New Town, Kolkata. The event was inaugurated with blessings by Swami Ishteshananda (Sandipan Maharaj), Headmaster, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur. Prof Indranil Bose from IIM Ahmedabad, Mr Ambarish Dasgupta, Senior Partner, Intueri Consulting LLP, Mr. Cecil Antony, Chief Mentor of NSHM Knowledge Campus, and Prof Krishnendu Sarkar, Director, NSHM Knowledge Campus graced the inaugural session. 30+ eminent speakers, including Prof Bimal Roy (Professor, Indian Statistical Institute), Mr. Debasis Sen (IAS (Retd.)), Swami Vedatitananda (In-charge, Ramakrishna Mission Shilpamandira, Belur Math), Dr. Bipasha Shukla (Scientist, ISRO), Dr. Kamal Das (Senior Research Scientist in Climate & Sustainability, IBM Research) and many others enlightened the audience. The experts expressed their happiness with the event as an industry-academia meet and expressed their hopes that AGC will propagate Kolkata as the city of Analytics.
Analytics Global Conference (AGC) is a confluence for the exchange of ideas and knowledge between industry and academia for rich industry-academia collaboration. The keynote sessions delivered by Prof Bimal Roy, Swami Vedatitananda, and Dr, Kamal Das offered deep insights into Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, Statistical Learning vs Machine Learning, and the necessity of country-specific research for upliftment of the society. The panel discussions by expert panelists from ISI, Jadavpur University, IIFT, TCG CREST, ISRO, ABP, IBM, TCS, PwC, RS Software, and many more spoke on currently relevant and engrossing topics such as Space Data Analytics for Industrial, Social, and Environmental Advantages, Urban Development, Disaster Management – Sustainable Infrastructure Development with AI, The Security Dilemma with Large Scale AI, Quantum and 5G for AI, and Generative AI. The discussions enthralled the students, scholars, faculty members, and industry professionals in the audience alike.
AGC facilitated the exchange of views and ideas, allowed deliberation on challenges, and ignited minds to research ideas. Scholars presented 35+ research papers shortlisted from a large number of submissions. The abstracts have been published in a book of abstracts with an ISBN 978-93-6128-993-4. Selected papers will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) by Springer, indexed in SCOPUS, SCImago, DBLP, JST, etc. The conference is expected to motivate students and young scholars to engage in quality research and impactful projects in analytics that will help build a strong analytics ecosystem in the region.