Academic Activity:  IT Assembly Session
Event Date & Time: 29 Feb 2020; 4:15 to 5:15 PM

IT Assembly Session under Academic Activities was organized on 29 Feb 2020 from 4:15 to 5:15 PM. The objectives for conducting IT Assembly Session for the students are: To enable the student’s community, to come together and share latest aspects of IT world that are of worth. To provide a medium for communicating matters of significance from one generation to another. Following topics were taken during IT Assembly Session.

1. Brain Computer Interface
2. Neuromorphic Computing

Ms. Sonali Kathar, FYMCA, speaking on Brain Computer Interface

Mr. Shubham Patil, SYMCA, speaking on Neuromorphic Computing

Students engrossed in the IT Assembly Session

Mr. Shubham Patil, SYMCA, answering student’s questions

Academic Activity:  Flip Class-Room Session
Event Date & Time: 22^nd Feb 2020; 4:15 to 5:15 PM
Flip Class-Room Session under Academic Activities was organized on 22^nd Feb 2020 from 4:15 to 5:15 PM. The objectives for conducting Flip Class-Room Session for the students to put forth the thoughts and their views on a particular topic in front of the classmates. Discussion on following Technical Talks was conducted under Flip Class-Room Session.

1. Fogonomics: The Coming Era of Fog Computing - Tao Zhang
2. The incredible inventions of intuitive AI
3. Why China's winning the quantum computing race

Outcome of the event: Flip class session helped students to understand computing principles and advances in computing.

Flip-Class Room Session – Students listening to the session on Fog Computing

Flip-Class Room Session – Students listening to the session on Quantum Computing

Event Name: Expert Session on Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence

Event Type: Expert session under Special Interest Group of Artificial Intelligence Event Date and Day: 11^th January 2020, Saturday Class: MCA-I and MCA-II Venue: Seminar Hall, D.Y. Patil Institute of MCA and Management

Under the Special Interest Group of Artificial Intelligence, the expert session was conducted on Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence by, Mrs. Veena Sarda for MCA-I and MCA-II students. The session was organized on 11^th January 2020. Mrs. Veena Sarda, AI, ML, Deep Learning Consultant/Trainer conducted the session. She gave a brief idea to the students about the Artificial Intelligence and also demonstrated various applications of AI.  She also discussed about the different tools used to develop AI based applications. Total 100 students from MCA-I and MCA-II year participated the event. The entire event is coordinated by Mrs. Manasi Pandharkar and Ms. Sheetal Patil under the guidance of Dr.Kavita Suryawanshi,HOD MCA.

Expert Session on “Artificial Intelligence”

Mrs. Veena Sarda delivering the session

Mrs. Veena Sarda explaining the applications of Artificial Intelligence

Students engaged in session

ORIENTATION  SESSION, Event date: 21/01/2020 Time 2:15 to 3:15
Venue: Seminar Hall, DYPIMCA&M, Akurdi  

Orientation Session for SYMCA Students by
Dr. Kavita Suryawanshi, HOD, MCA

Dr. Kavita Suryawanshi, HOD, MCA,
guiding students during Orientation Session Jan 2020

IT ASSEMBLY SESSION 

Event Date & Time: 31st Jan 2020; 4:15 to 5:15 PM
IT Assembly Session under Academic Activities was organized on 31^st Jan 2020 from 4:15 to 5:15 PM. The objectives for conducting IT Assembly Session for the students are: To enable the students community, to come together and share latest aspects of IT world that are of worth. To provide a medium for communicating matters of significance from one generation to another. Technical Quiz activity was conducted under IT Assembly Session. Following rounds were conducted in Technical Quiz activity.

1. Round 1: Guess the Organization name through Logo
2. Round 2: Guess the correct logo
3. Final Round: Guess the Organization name through Jingle/Motto.
4. Puzzles for audience

Welcome Address and Elaborating of Rules for the
Technical Quiz Activity by Mr. Sourabh Lanke, SYMCA, Div-B

Students engrossed in the IT Assembly Session

Event Coordinators: (L To R) Prathamesh Kale,
Sourabh Lanke, Soumitra Joshi, Ganesh Kadam,
Shubham Patil and Sameer Ghogre from SYMCA

Winner Team of the Technical Quiz Activity

Orientation Session by Dr. Kavita Suryawanshi, HOD, MCA

TED Talk on The future in AI and Soft Robotics 

Soft robotics, intended as the use of soft materials in robotics, is a young yet promising and growing research field. The need for soft robots emerged in robotics, for facing unstructured environments, and in artificial intelligence, too, for implementing the embodied intelligence, or morphological computation, paradigm, which attributes a stronger role to the body-ware and its interaction with the environment. 

Introductory Speech by Dr. Kavita Suryawanshi, HOD, MCA 

Students listening to the Talk on “Meet the robot designed like an octopus tentacle” By “Mr. Merck KGaA”, Darmstadt, Germany

Students discussing and expressing their views about AI and Soft Robotics

Students discussing and expressing their views about AI and Soft Robotics

Alumni’s Invited for Project Viva 

Mr. Kedar Tiwaskar, Senior QA Engineer, Smartek21 Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Gaurav Hargude, CEO, AutoFlow Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Expert Lecture on - Python Programming

Expert Lecture on Industry Requirement for Web based Project Development

Mr. Vishal Pai, Software Engineer, Persistent Systems, was invited as a Speaker at the 22ndJuly 2017, in Dr. D Y Patil Institute of MCA. He has discussed about Python’s Standard Library, known as the “batteries included” philosophy of Python

 “Industry Requirement for Web based Project Development” by Mr. Amit Dabali, Technical Head, Nirmal Technologies, Pune. He initiated the session with a brief description of the challenges faced by Industry while developing web based applications.

Workshop on Internet of Robotic Things

In order to create awareness about the recent and booming concept of IoRT, the Institute had organized a session on “Internet of Robotic Things”. This session was organized on 8^th March 2018.We have invited Mr. Pranav Das, Senior Corporate Trainer, Jabalpur,as resource person for this session. 

Mr. Rishabh Pradhan MCA-I year student representing IoT Project 

Student explaining their IoT project to Dr. Kavita Suryawanshi

TED Talk onHow the Blockchain will radically transform the economy 

 Bettina Warburg, is a TED Speaker for 27^thJan 2018 session, which was organized by Dr. D Y Patil Institute of MCA, Akurdi, Pune. Bettina Warburg in her talk said - blockchain, has the potential to eliminate huge amounts of record-keeping, save money and disrupt IT in ways not seen since the internet arrived.Blockchain is a public electronic ledger - similar to a relational database - that can be openly shared among disparate users and that creates an unchangeable record of their transactions, each one time-stamped and linked to the previous one.

Student participation in TED Talk, How the Blockchain will radically transform the economy

IT ASSEMBLY
Dr. D Y Patil Institute of MCA, Akurdi, Pune conducted IT assembly at 8^th  _{& 28} ^th February 2018, on Java- Lambda expressions, JVM JavaScript engine, VB Script, iPhoneX- Animoji. & Li-Fi Technology, BYOD, Mobility, The main idea of this session was to enable the students’ community, to come together and share latest aspects of IT world that are of worth.

Mr. Vikas Choudhari, MCA-I year student on Java features - Lambda expressions 

Mr. Sreyas Jadhav, MCA-I year student in IT ASSEMBLY on Mobility

Ms. Nikita Pawar, MCA-II student, Speaks On Home-Made Power Bank

Dr. Kavita Suryawanshi, Chairman Academics, interacting with student

PARENTS TEACHERS MEET
Parent Teacher Meeting in the current academic year (2017-2018) was conducted on 5^thJan, 2018 in Board Room,DYPIMCA. It was planned in advance, so all class-teachers and GFM were invited to all parents of MCA-I & MCA-II year students.

Parents and GFM were discussing ward evolution

TCS Agile Foundation using Jile Certification

D. Y. Patil Educational Complex has conducted the Expert Talk on “Agile and  jile Overview” by Mr. R. Vaidhanathan, Relationship Manager- Strategic Accounts, TCS on  7^th September 2018 in view of student progress and career guidance. D. Y. Patil Institute of MCA and Management has taken initiative for “TCS Agile Foundation using Jile Certification” for students to become Agile certified associates with Jile product knowledge, giving them a competitive edge over others in the industry. Students has appeared for exam held on 27^th October 2018, 9.00 a.m. at iON Digital Zone iDZ Narhe.  Dr. Kavita Suryawanshi, HOD, MCA was the co-ordinator for the certification program.

Inauguration of IoT National Level Seminar