The objective of this FDP was to provide theoretical and practical background with state of art research practices, current and future research trends.

The above mentioned FDP was conducted by TEQIP team at NIT Jalandhar where various eminent resource persons from reputed academic institutions and from reputed IT Industry shared their research and technical exposure. The first day first session was taken by Prof.(Dr.) Mayank Dave from NIT Kurukshetra in which he discussed about the concepts of Cloud computing, Fog computing and Edge computing. Dr. Dave also highlighted some latest trends and updates being happened in the area of Cloud computing like IBM Mean, App Cloning, Node.js, NPM, QoS and QoE etc.

The next session was continued by Dr. Sandeep Kr. Sood from GNDU, Amritsar. In this session Dr. Sood highlighted the concepts of creation of PaaS on Google App Engine. Dr. Sood also discussed about No SQL Databases, JSON, CPS: Cyber Physical System and Concepts of IoT with Cloud. The next sessions were taken by various other eminent resource persons on various research trends and its applications in the area of Cloud Computing like: Dr. OP Verma from GB Pant Govt. Engineering College New Delhi, Prof. (Dr.) Sanjeev Sofat from Panjab Engg. College Chandigarh, Dr. Kamlesh Dutta from NIT Hamirpur, Dr. Kuldip Kumar from NIT Jalandhar, Dr. Avtar Singh from NIT Jalandhar and Dr. Harsh Kr. Verma from NIT Jalndhar.

In the next sessions on the next day’s several resource persons from reputed IT Industries shared their Industrial and core technical exposure with the participants and demonstrated some practical aspects on ongoing and in use technology in the cloud industry. In these sessions Dr. Amit

Sangroya from TCS Research department discussed practical and research aspects of Map Reduce technology on MRBS Simulator. Mr. Karamvir Singh Rajpal from GiagByte Networks conducted hands on Tensor flow to implement the concepts of machine learning and shown how neuron network implemented in application.

On the last day a practical and hands on session was conducted by Dr. Mani Madhukar from IBM. Dr. Madhukar demonstrated the process of creation of cloud instances on IBM cloud and he also conducted hands on exercise to create a Banking Chatbot on IBM Cloud. Dr. Madhukar also made the participants aware about latest trends and technologies coming up in the IT Industry like concepts of Block Chain, Crypto Currency and Bit Coin

 The FDP was very useful and I learnt many new things from this programme.