Android Developer Fundamentals is an instructor-led course created by the Google Developers Training team. Developers taking the course learn basic Android programming concepts and build a variety of apps, starting with Hello World and working their way up to apps that use content providers and loaders.

Ms. Simmi Anand corporate trainer was the resource person for the training.

The course materials included:

A practical workbook: Android Developer Fundamentals Course—Practicals

Unit 1: Get started

This unit covers installing Android Studio, understanding project structure, building first app, creating activities, testing apps, and using the Android Support Library.First, One can deploy a simple Hello World app. One can go on to create an app with a simple activity, and then One can create a multi-screen app that passes data between activities. One can also learn how to use the Android Support Library to provide backward-compatibility with earlier versions of the Android system for app.

Unit 2: User experience

This unit covers how to get input from the user, implement navigation strategies, use themes and styles, test user interface, and follow Material Design principles.

One can create apps that use menus and tabs for navigation, and input controls such as spinners and picker dialogs to get information from the user. One can learn how to extract resources to create a style from an instance of a user interface element. One can write an app that displays a word list in a recycler view (and One can learn why it's better to use a recycler view than a plain scrolling list).One can also build a score-keeping app to explore Material Design guidelines.

Unit 3: Working in the background

This unit covers how to do background work, how to schedule tasks, and how to trigger events. It covers the performance implications of executing work in the background, as well as best practices for reducing battery drain. One can learn how Android determines which apps to keep running and which to stop when resources run low.

One can write an app that connects to the Internet in a background thread to find the author of any book. One can also build apps that send notifications and schedule tasks, and One can learn how to implement scheduling functionality for apps that run on earlier versions of Android.

Unit 4: All about data

This unit is all about data. It covers how to store data, update it, query it, load it, and make it available outside app.

One can build a word list and store the words in a database. To understand content providers, One can build a minimal content provider app. Then One can add a content provider to the word list app to provide an interface for querying and updating the list. One can finish by creating a separate app that uses a loader to load the word list via the content provider.

Unit 5: What's next?

This unit covers permissions, app performance, and security best practices. It explains how to run a trial of app so family and friends can try it out.

This unit also introduces some of the many additional Android features that you can add to your app, and explains how to publish your app in Google Play.

It was a great learning experience with hand on lab instructions and practical work in android developer studio.

The report was presented by Lucas Chancel, Co- Director, World Inequality Lab & World Wealth and Income Database, Paris School of Economics. Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, ICRIER delivered the welcome address. This session was followed by a lively enlightening exposure on the report by Mr. Lucas Chancel, the general coordinator of the report on economics terminologies like fiscal deficit, private economy, public economy, market economy in the context of the central term of inequality and wealth. This report has been prepared in eight languages of the world including Hindi and is accessible online. This useful report focuses on the dynamics of global income inequality. It also offers insights into employability related to skill levels. The parameters employed in the report were subjected to both endorsement and critiques by the guests.

The panel discussion by three distinguished panellists following the report presentation was chaired by Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Director& CE, ICRIER. The panellist Dr. Pronav Sen of International Growth Centre, threw light on issues related to fiscal deficit, micro finance and taxation. The panellist Dr. Himanshu of JNU, talked about Government’s recent initiatives which have served to bridge the inequality gap. Mr. Sandeep Chachhra of Action Aid discussed issues relating to industry requirement. This panel discussion was followed by vibrant question answer and comment session. Dr. Rajat Kathuria gave the concluding remarks.

The workshop was organized by Bennett University, Gr Noida in association with IEEE Computer Society.

The big data analytics and deep learning are the demanding areas of research and development. The breakthroughs in these areas has been very promising therefore they are attracting the attention of the researchers. Recently, deep learning has proved to be more accurate in solving a variety of pattern recognition problems.

The workshop was attended by around 100 international participants. The workshop had very renowned resource persons including Prof (Dr). K K Biswas(Rtd. Professor, IIT/D); Prof. (Dr) Deepak Garg, Dr. Rishav Singh, Dr. Sridhar Swami Nathan, and Dr Shubham Jain.

The workshop had a plentiful of practical exposure on various tools for Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning including programming languages like R & Python, and tools like Anaconda, Tensorflow, Stax, Cassandra, etc.

During the workshop, we also got the opportunity to visit the AI lab of Bennett University. They have procured nVidia GPU Supercomputer for Deep Learning and other complex tasks of AI. It was an amazing experience to see how Super Computer solves it all.

He received the award from Shri VS Parthasarthy, Group CFO & Group CIO - Mahindra & Mahindra. During the event he also participate in various activities including - Idea Cafe Session, Working with team on suggesting Solution Framework for a wonderful Case Study on Smart Cities, Workshops & and Round Table discussions. The process of selection was as sunder:

• Nomination - I was nominated by Shri Upkar Singh, Director (Technology) - Fidelity Global Services
• Feedback from 03 Persons (01 Colleague and 02 persons from Industry). My Feedback was taken from following: Colleague: Prof. Sauresh Mehrotra; Industry: 1. Shri Ravinder Arora - CTO, IRIS Software, 2. Shri Amit Chaudhary, Co-Founder- InMorphis
• Personality & Leadership Test
• Managerial Style Test
• Interviews by 02 Industry Leaders - 1. Shri Kamal Karnatak, Vice President, RJ Corp on 31.09.2017              2. Shri Kiran Chandra, Vice President – Technology, Johnson & Johnson 13.10.2017
• To take a Session on Pocket CIO Technology Framework - I took the Session at Hotel Pull Man, Aerocity, IGI Airport, New Delhi
• Combining the Score, Feedback and Session conducted, Interviews Results finally results were announced.

This conference also included WASME SME Excellence Awards to celebrate the Success Stories of worldwide SMEs who have scored big through innovative thinking, operational efficiency, futuristic strategies, smart marketing, business growth, contribution to employment generation and exports besides setting new benchmarks in product & service innovation. Total 12 awards was given in this event in which 9 awards secured by the Indian SMEs in field of Search engine optimization, Mobile application development, online share trading, Website hosting and services.

The Chief Guest of inaugural session of this event was Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Hon’ble Vice President, India and the Chief Guest of Second session was Mr. Shiv Pratap Shukla, Hon’ble Minister of State, Ministry of Finance , Government of Inda said that the small entrepreneurs across India deserve greater recognition for their significant contribution to the Indian economy. He also said, The SME sector plays a very important role in Indian economy, be it boosting growth rate or giving a push to exports and manufacturing. He also addressed the different schemes of Government of India about the funding to the SME sector and its supporting channels.

This conference was very useful and motivating a medium to make network with new companies and this conference was also useful for our students to know the different schemes of funding for SMEs to become successful entrepreneur.

I am attaching a copy of day-1 programme schedule for the ready reference .

The two day conference was specifically aimed at Human Resource Practices of PSUs and how to leverage them in framing better policies and business strategies.

The conference managed to take a multi-dimensional look at relevant HR issues with experts from academia, HR personnel’s at leading PSU’s & policy makers. Perspectives shared by experts like DP Singh, Vice President & Head HR, IBM India & South Asia; Abhijit Bhaduri, founder, Abhijit Bhaduri & Associates; DD Mishra, Director HR, ONGC; Saptarishi Roy, Director HR, NTPC; Dr A K Balyan, CEO, Oil & Gas, Reliance Infrastructure, Mukesh Jain Joint Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Govt. of India added lot of value to the conference theme and helped the participants in understanding how to overcome the challenges in PSUs with respect to policy frameworks.

Expert deliberations focused upon differing priorities for Public Sector Organizations globally, how to build and sustain a world class PSU in India, Coaching and Mentoring as tools for succession planning, attracting and retaining millennial in PSUs, ways to leverage CSR for building the PSU employer brand and make use of HR technology to improve HR processes in PSUs. The conference also explored the role played by PSUs in Nation building and their contribution towards sustainability efforts.

The speakers emphasized on ensuring balance among technology, decisions and people for any organizational development. People need to be developed in order to address the paucity of skilled workforce. PSUS can’t imitate private sector practices or what other Public sector enterprises are doing in western countries. They need to explore their own policy frameworks and there should be no hesitation in adopting any best practice (no matter from where it comes) which has already delivered the result.

A special talk delivered by expert from Deloitte, Mr Nitin Razdan widened the participants’ perspective related to the future of work and the evolving role of learning organizations. The second day post lunch session of conference gave an opportunity to participants to experience music and understand key business lessons with expertise of Ms Sunita Bhuiyan. The sessions also focused upon how to drive change in the organization within limitations by understanding the analogy of evolving music with same seven notes and rhythm.

Panel discussions, special talks and group sessions at the conference enriched the participants with current HR practices, challenges and possible solution in PSU sector.

The conference was held on Nov 11-13, 2017 at Nagpur, India, in which renowned computer scientist Prof. Ensar Gul from SEHIR University, Istanbul ,Turkey was the chief guest. Prof. Narendra S. Chaudhari, VNIT Nagpur , Prof. Manoj Sukla, HBTU Kanpur was the key note speaker of first and second day respectively in this international conference.

Prof. S.R. Sathe VNIT Nagpur , Dr. Poonam Sharma VNIT Nagpur, Dr. Devesh Shrivastava Manipal University Jaipur ,Dr. Anuradha Singh, IIIT Nagpur, Dr. Ganesh C. Deka , DGTE , New Delhi, Dr. Prabhat Sharma, VNIT Nagpur, Dr. Manish P Kurhekar VNIT Nagpur, Dr. Ravindra B. Keskar, VNIT Nagpur,Prof. Ashwin G. Kothari ,VNIT Nagpur, Prof. Asoke Nath St. Xavier, Kolkata, Prof. Sudhir Lande , VPKBIET, Baramati , Dr. ANkit A. Bhurane, IIIT Nagpur and Dr. Rajiv Pandey , Amity Univ., Lucknow were the session chair of this IEEE International conference.

It was a great and wonderful research oriented knowledge sharing, interactive and mutual learning experience. Thanks to our Institute, I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad for encouraging, promoting and supporting in all such endeavors

Chief Guest of the conference was Shri. Suresh Prabhu, Hon’ble Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Ayog was keynote speaker. Shri Sanjeev Chopra, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Government of West Bengal was guest of honor. Conference was divided into different sessions like inaugural session, panel discussions and paper presentation.