The Alumni Engagement Cell in association with the TechTrendz Club of the Department of Computer Science, organized a guest lecture titled “The Future of Work: Integrating AI Tools for Smarter Workflows and Innovation” on 4th September 2024 between 11:30 am to 12:15 pm in the Smart Classroom. The session was a part of the Alma Mater Series and was conducted by Mr. Prathamesh Dessai, an alumnus of the BCA Batch (2019-2022), currently engaged with a Ph.D. project in collaboration with an IBM employee and handling the Data Analytics aspect. Mr. Dessai has also completed his Masters in Data Science from Reva University, Bengaluru, and has multiple publications in his field.
The guest lecture was attended by 75 students (47 male, 28 female) and 4 faculty members and was a part of the Problem Solving and Programming Course offered as a Major Paper for FYBCA Students to learn the applicability of the Course in the field of AI. The event started with a brief introduction about the session by Ms. Alena Zion Souza, student of FY BCA Div A, followed by a welcome address from CA Subrahmanya Bhat, Department of Commerce & Management, who gave an insight into the need of using AI Tools as technology students for creating better applications for the future.
Asst. Prof. Ms. Rama Borkar introduced the Resource Person Mr. Prathamesh Desai, who began the session by highlighting the importance of AI tools in helping students learn faster and be more competent in the IT industry. He introduced the students to various AI tools namely Quill Bot, ChatPDF, SciHub, ZeroGPT, ChatGPT and SlidesGo and also depicted a lot of practical applications through demonstrations.
Mr. Dessai encouraged students to use technology wisely to improve their knowledge and adapt to a smarter future. He also provided an overview of Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and their link with Data Science. He introduced students to coder AI tools like Deep Code, Tabnine, GitHub Copilot, and Mintify, and highlighted resources such as toolify.ai and futurepedia.io for further exploration. He encouraged students to build their LinkedIn profiles and introduced the portfolio-building tool bento.me.
Additionally, Mr. Desai also demonstrated roadmap.sh, a resource used to help students in mapping career paths in order to work towards making a great and successful career. Students interacted with the resource person through their experiences and queries and the resource person was very happy to see their approach and answered their queries. The resource person shared his excitement about returning back to his alma mater and deliver a session for the benefit of the students.
Towards the end of the session, the vote of thanks was proposed by Ms. Aishwarya Nayak, student of FYBCA Div B, acknowledging the resource person for his useful insights and giving them a start in using AI Tools.The feedback link was shared with the participants who mentioned that the session was very useful and informative. Students also suggested conducting more such sessions showing the applicability of knowledge learnt in the classroom.
The faculty in-charges for the session were, Asst. Prof. Annette Santimano, TechTrendz Club in-charge, Asst. Prof. Ainsley Bernard, Convenor of Alumni Engagement Cell and Asst. Prof. Rama Borkar, member of the Alumni Engagement Cell. The faculty in-charges were Mrs. Sweta P. Shet Verenkar and Ms. Rakshavi Dessai. The Department of Computer Science thanked all the faculty members and technical and administrative staff for their contributions to the smooth conduct of the session.
Expected Outcome of the Activity:
Students will use the AI Tools for learning new technologies and processes to automate tasks.
