Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics

IQPRO Analytics has hosted its Inaugural event “Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics” at Radisson, Gachibowli on 14^th Nov 2018 with 50+ participants from 30+ Institutions across Industry & Academia. The Event provided a platform for discussion by eminent academicians, key personnel from Industry and experts from SAS, who are actively working on the emerging trends in this space and applying technology to drive the change. The event kicked off with introduction and key note speech by Ram from IQPRO followed by Mr. Bhuvan Nijhawan, Regional Director Education and Academia, Asia Pacific, at SAS. The Symposium was moderated by Mr Deepak Agarwal, Associate Director, Applied Statistics and Computing Lab, Indian School of Business, with the following agenda:

• Trends in Artificial intelligence, Machine learning and Advanced Analytics
• Future of Data Science
• How Technology is changing and enabling the same

The Event witnessed multi-dimensional intellectual discussion of AI and ML:

• Technology Impact and Dimension discussions by Leadership & Personnel from organizations like 3i Infotech, Accenture, Deloitte, Dr. Reddy’s, Genpact, HSBC, KPMG
• Academic Impact discussion by Avinash College of Commerce, BITS Pilani, Loyola Academy, ClinIndia, IBS, University of Hyderabad, ISB Hyderabad, ISI Hyderabad, MSME, NAARM etc.
• Business Impact discussions by personnel from ICICI Group, Novartis, PwC, Virtusa & Wipro etc.

The forum witnessed the coverage of emerging trends, technologies and careers around the same. Business benefits and technological advancements have been clearly quantified. The Event closed with an overview of SAS Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Courses and Global relevance of the same. IQPRO promotes careers in Globally Recognized SAS Certifications and Programs across AI, ML, Big Data, Advanced Analytics and Data Management.

FDP on “Data Science & Business Analytics” at Hyderabad Business School, GITAM University, Hyderabad.

Faculty Development Programme on “Shaping a Data Science Curriculum for the 21st Century: Unleashing the Potential of Big Data Management, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence” was held in June 2019 at Hyderabad Business School, GITAM University, Hyderabad. 30+ Participants from academia attended the programme. The trainers from SAS provided a rich technical knowledge about the analytical software.

Participating faculty members also were made aware of trends & best practices in data scientists and business analytics from the experiences of Industry experts. Some of the key takeaways from the program included hands-on practice through SAS tools on Data Management, Big Data, Analytical & Machine learning and Text Mining.

FDP was spread over multiple days and sessions. The Program started with introduction to SAS, SAS Analytics Education: The Path to Analytics Empowerment and diving details of Data Management, Data Quality and Integration. After setting the context, sessions moved into advanced discussions and topics like, Big Data Management tools (SAS and Hadoop:  Programming Approach), Hands-on practice on SAS Enterprise Guide, Miner, Machine Learning and AI. Detailed explanation of Big data visualization and visual machine learning was a key highlight. The program ended with practice on SAS Visual Analytics, Unstructured Data Analytics and text Mining followed by Certificate Distribution.

Avinash College of Commerce – International School of Financial Studies offers SAS Business Analytics Course in Collaboration with IQPRO Analytics.

IQPRO Analytics announces the collaboration with Avinash College of Commerce to offer SAS Business Analytics program for undergraduate commerce students with Certification courses in Business Analytics.

Avinash College of Commerce is a dynamic and emerging educational institution offering diverse stream of certification courses and careers in commerce with major emphasis on Financial careers. The proposed SAS certification courses will be offered along with the undergraduate studies as an elective. This gives an edge to the students to be ahead of the curve and be ready to start careers in Advanced Analytics, Information Management, Visualization, Data Modelling, Analytical Reporting and Machine Learning. Students will earn certifications each year and by the end of final year, they will be exposed to all the critical areas with strong foundation. Proposed SAS Certifications are designed to provide industry endorsed concepts, robust curriculum and globally recognized certifications. Students also get hands on experience on the SAS along with other open source solutions like R & Python.

Proposed certifications are recognised by Gartner Research and are positioned in the Leaders Quadrant consecutively for the past 6 years. The program also covers multiple industry academia interaction over the next three years thereby giving the student the relevance of analytics to business.