The Resource Person of the workshop was a renowned educationist Dr. Mukti Sanyal, Principal, Bharti College (Delhi University), New Delhi. The participants were from various reputed universities and colleges like Amity University, Shiv Nadar University (HCL Group), BML Munjal University (Hero Group), SRM University and other prestigious institutions

The full day workshop was split in two sessions. The first session was on the ‘Prominent Changes in ELT Principles in This Decade’ in which Dr. Sanyal insisted for the following points –

• Content and context based learning: The students wish to learn only what is relevant to their lifestyles and career.
• Focus has now shifted from the language to the language user.
• English learning for employability rather than just a language skill.
• Teachers now have to be a lifelong learner.
• The second session of the workshop was after the lunch. During this session, the participants were divided into groups of 7-8 people each to discuss the utility of Language Lab for learning a language, its limitations and suggestions to make it more effective. The deliberations were frank and thought provoking.
• The workshop proved to be enriching and relevant for all the participating English and Communication Teachers. Even participants like Dr. Anannya Dasgupta (from SNU, Greater Noida) who has done her post graduation and PhD from Rutgers University, USA, found the workshop extremely useful.

The programme was full of Learning and interactive session with eminent speakers including Prof. Jamal Farooquie, AMU, Aligarh, Dr. V Shekhar, IIM, Dr. Saurabh Agarwal,IBM, Dr. Neena Sondhi, IMT, Dr. Ajay Chauhan,IMT, Gzb and Dr. A. Ramesh, IIT, Roorkee. Very informative and an eye opening sessions on Formulation of Hypothesis, Research and Sampling Design, Sampling tests like T-test, ANOVA, Correlation Analysis, Regression Models, ANCOVA, Qualitative Research, CFA, EFA and at last about the Plagiarism & Ethical consideration in research and intellectual property.

In this function, Dr. Umang was awarded with “Young Faculty in Science (Computer Application)” during the meet. The objective of this Meet was to provide a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Higher Education. During the meet discussion and deliberation centered around Technical Talks, Research Discussions and Faculty Awards. The Faculty Awards aimed to honor the achievements of faculty and accelerate their role in Educational Institutions across the Globe. The Awards are bestowed in view of recognition of their Role, Outstanding Contributions, Significant Achievements and Sustained Excellence in their area of expertise and significant contributions made in Colleges & Universities. The Awards were bestowed to the Winners of the VIFA 2017 by the Guest of Honors namely Dr. Deborah Andrews, London South Bank University, England, Dr. Kiran K Velpula, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, USA and Dr. Myat Thu Thu Win, AIMST University, Malaysia, Dr. Thinagaran Perumal, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, Dr. Chijioke J Nwalozie, De Montfort University, England at Vijaya Hall Green Park Chennai. In this event, participants and winners were from renowned universities of different countries including England, USA, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia etc.

It was overall wonderful learning experience.

The conference was focused towards the integration of the today’s Cloud Computing Infrastructure to meet the future needs of the industry for Integration of Cloud Computing Infrastructure for better manageability and performance. The conference was packed with the sessions delivered by the eminent speakers from the Industry.

The welcome address was delivered by Mr Shalil Gupta, AVP, Insights & Consulting, IDC India.

The Keynote address was delivered by Mr Sharyathi Nagesh, Senior Research Manager, IDC and his address was focused on the Future of Multi-Cloud Environments and the proposed Frameworks for putting it into work. He also elaborately explained about the process of creating the CoE at our organization for achieving it.

Session 1 was delivered by Mr Gurdeep Singh, Head, Business Development (North & East), Cloud Security & CDN Services, Tata Communication. His talk was focused on Smart Hybrid Clouds and their binding at a single point provide a one faced business values for the corporate. He also discussed about various case studies in which they have delivered customized solution for integrating various types of Cloud Environments at a single point, which created the business value for their customers.

Session 2 was delivered by Mr Matthew Allcoat, Chief Architect, Asia, Middle East, Africa & Turkey, BT Global Services, BT. He focused on the possibilities of the Future Digital Era which is not so far to come and the possibilities for the business houses to leverage the functionalities offered by the Multi-Cloud Computing Environments using the BT solutions. These solutions had made it much easier to connect and configure multiple clouds platforms according to the business needs.

Session 3 was delivered by Mr Anjan Srinivas, Sr. Director, Product Management, Nutanix. His talk was focused towards the changing business need and leveraging Cloud Environments to fulfill these changing business needs. He discussed about the upcoming challenges and how corporate are making themselves ready to address the future issues with respect to Cloud Computing Environments. He also talked about the Nutanix Single Point Multi-Cloud Hardware Platform which can make this tedious task much easier for the CIO’s and IT Managers.

The entire conference was a worth attending and it exposed us towards the fast changing Cloud Environments and the challenges which are also approaching us in the near future. They also gained information about the various solutions on which various solution providers are working to addressing these challenges.

Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey was invited as a panelist and to receive the Data Center Summit & Awards for “Capacity Management” of ICT Infrastructure & Facilities at I.T.S, Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad.

Dr. Pandey was invited as a panelist in one of the sessions based on the theme “The Growth of Software Defined Architecture and Data Centers” The focus of the discussion was on the fact that Data Centers are in a state of flux due to emerging technologies and user requirements. Whether we have in-house data center, plan to collocate or have a hybrid strategy in place, how they look, feel and perform in future. The discussion included different perspectives including elements like computer storage & network to be Software defined, the value of Software Defined Storage in the Data Center, How will software-defined architecture dominate the future data centers, disaggregated rack-scale server architecture, Large-scale erasure-coding solutions, Exotic Architectures, New Storage Architecture an Reviewing and evaluating SDN Eco-Systems & Architecture for Deployment.

The CIOs, CTOs of leading organizations including Smasung, Tata Communications, KPMG, Cadila, PwC, Softvision, CMS, ApON, HCL Technologies, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bharti Axa, JK Cement, Adani Ports & SEZ, Essar Group, KPIT, Boehringer Ingelheim, globally renowned experts from leading Data Centers including Sify Data Centers, CtrlS, E.T.N,, Web Works, Cloud Enabled etc were also present in the event.

The Award Ceremony was organized in which he selected for Data Center Summit & Awards – 2017 for “Capacity Management” of ICT Infrastructure, services & facilities and at I.T.S, Ghaziabad.

The FDP was divided into 16 sessions and 4 open discussion sessions which were delivered by the eminent speakers to cover the various aspects of Information Systems Frontiers.

Day 1

Inauguration session was held in the first half of the day 1. After that Prof.SubhashBhalla has discussed about the topic “Exploring Scientific Data Set Archives”.

Mr. Gaurav Saxena in his talk discussed about “Digital Philosophy and Its Impact on Society”. The talk was the summarization of hisown readings and ruminations of academicians & scientists who have used the language of science and technology to comment on the ancient philosophical questions posed by humans when faced with evil, suffering and their mortality. He discussed the effect of information technology on society, for the better and worse.

The focus of the talk on“Role of Mobile Computing Systems in Information Era” delivered by Dr. K. Rajlakshmi is how mobile computing targets to narrow down the gap of computing by bringing computer communications to areas without preexisting infrastructure and enable mobility along with new applications. She discussed in her talk about recent advancements in mobile technologies, various issues/solutions in mobile computing and the amalgamation of mobile computing in other aspects of computation technologies like cloud computing & pervasive computing.

Day 2

A session on “Cognitive Informatics” was delivered by Prof. Krishna Asawa. In her talk she discussed about the mechanism of the cognitive process operate in the human mind for building Cognitive Information System. She elaborated on how the cognitive data analysis and interpretation models make it possible to extract new, extremely significant information i.e. semantic information from the analysed data sets. With the help of a case study on Biometric Information System she has shown how semantic interpretations uncovers deep layers of information for the person conducting the analysis process and extend the attempts of traditional data interpretation whose end result is recognizing the analyzed object, feature, information or data.

Dr. Parmeet Kaur talked about “NoSQL for Big Databases”. She has discussed the need of the development and adoption of a new class of non-relational databases, referred to as NoSQL databases. She has shown how the requirement of database for the modern day information systems being distributed, scalable, voluminous, unstructured and open source is the impetus for the accelerated rise of the NoSQL. She introduced one database from each of the four main NoSQL data models (key-value, column family, document, and graph), along with case studies that highlight the needs that drive the development and use of each database model with the criteria that decision makers should consider while making a choice of the database most suited to the information system being developed.

A session on the topic “Sensor fusion for Ubiquitous Information Systems” is taken by Dr. Sangeeta Mittal. In her talk she highlighted our future dependency on sensors based Ubiquitous Information Systems. She discussed the sensors are the integral part of such information systems. She discussed in detail various level the data fusion methods and inferencing required to handle inherent characteristics like redundancy, heterogeneity, uncertainty, imprecision and volume, of the data from sensor sources with fusion models and architecture.

Day 3

Dr. MukeshSaraswat has discussed the concepts of the “Deep Learning” for information classification and understanding. He has shown how multiple processing layers to learn the representations of data with multiple levels of abstraction can significantly enhanced the state-of-the-art in visual object recognition, speech recognition, object detection and many other domains such as drug discovery and genomics. The complete process was explained with the help of a case study on image classification.

Dr. MuktaGoel in her talk on “E-learning” emphasize that E-learning systems can handle the time and space problems through web based learning environment to gain knowledge anywhere at any time in an efficient manner. She elaborated E-learning architecture which consist of different type of agents can impact on teaching and learning process. She has discussed how E-learning systems embraced and benefitted by the different type of tools such as E-mail, audio chat, online forum etc., which allow learner to study at their own pace. She mentioned that automated processes for different learning styles and different method of assessing the learner to personalize the learning could improve learner’s performance.

Day 4

Dr Shelly Sachdeva in her talk on the topic “Health Care Informatics” discussed the various facets of health care informatics. Recent advances in location tracking technologies have led to an explosion in the availability of trajectory data. Dr.SayanRanu in his Talk on “Trajectory Analytics” discussed that the way trajectories are collected today has undergone a dramatic shift, which has rendered existing techniques ineffective. He mentioned majority of the trajectory data today is generated as a by-product of another service e.g detail records from telecom operators, social network check-ins, credit card transactions, geo-tagged photo albums, and smart phone messaging apps etc. Consequently, there is no quality control and these datasets are noisy, inconsistently sampled, multi-modal, and highly dynamic. He discussed the research efforts made by himself that seeks to bridge the gap- data-rich but informationally poor world.

Dr. Shikha Mehta mentioned in her talk on “Frontiers in Streaming Data Analytics” that the data generated in this interconnected world where "smart" devices allow things and people to be connected from anyplace, anytime, with anything and anyone loses its value if it is not exposed and acted upon instantly. She mentioned critical challenges is using such data when it is in motion and extracting valuable information from it. In her talk she discussed on the state of art, problems and prospects in streaming data analytics.

Day 5

Around the globe people are trying to find out patterns in the data. Whether it is business intelligence, healthcare, defence and research, we need patterns to make good analysis.The session conducted by Mr. PulkitMehndiratta on “Predictive Analysis through R language” provided the current state of the art of predictive analysis and the processes of prediction through practical demonstration using R programming language.

Mr. Ashish discussed the architecture of map reduce with some practical demonstration to illustrate the concept of “Parallel clustering using Hadoop”. He has also discussed how Hadoop architecture can be used to in data mining to handle large scale data with k-means algorithm.

As we know there is no field that has been left untouched by cloud computing and at the rate data is growing today, it's not surprising that cloud storage is also growing in popularity. Mr. ShariqMurtuzain the talk entitled “Cloud Storage Architecture”discussed about the different public/private cloud models that are being deployed across the industry to serve the customers their required data efficiently and effectively. He has shown how the companies like Amazon and Google leverage the cloud to deliver their YouTube and other video content seamlessly all across the globe. He has also explored the technologies like CDNs and Internet Peering that enable such large scale information systems to work flawlessly using Any casting and Software Defined Networks methods.

Over the past two decades, dramatic improvement in computing efficiencies and hardware costs have made cyber and IoT systems omnipotent, and control many aspects of human lives. However, information assurance in a smart world environment is extremely important because of the indispensable dependency of the cyber systems’ performance on the operations and safety of a smart world. Dr. ArunBalaji examined in his talk on “Information Assurance for Smart World Environments”certain critical areas in smart world environments, which require security hardening. In addition, he explored thechallenges of providing sufficient security in such an environment and current state of the art that addresses some of these challenges. Future research directions to meet the unmet challenges in these critical areas were also discussed.

Day 6

No information system cannot be made to put into practice until unless its performance is not ascertain. Mr. Sanjeev Patel in his talk on “Performance Evaluation Methodology to Computing Systems” discussed how to select appropriate evaluation techniques, performance metrics and workloads for a system testing. A Systematic Approach to performance evaluation and commonly used performance metrics was demonstrated by him with the help of a case study.

In addition to these lecture sessions, four open discussions sessions were held on the topic –

• How to Leverage the Benefits of IoT for Growing India By Mr. Nilesh and Hardik
• Impact of Immigration Policy on Indian IT Sector : Is it Boon or Threat By Sudhanshu
• Impact of Social Networking On Lives of Us: Are We Together Or Far by Dr. Vidushi Singh
• How Safe Our Digital Economy from Cyber Attacks By Mr. ShariqMurtuza

On this occasion, Prof. Qamar Ahsan, globally renowned economist & Honorable Vice Chancellor, Magadh University, Bodhgaya, Prof. K.N. Paswan - Honorable Pro- Vice Chancellor of Magadh University, Dr. A.K. Nayak - National Secretary of CSI and other eminent personalities, Scientists and experts were also present.

On Day-2 Prof. Rakesh Roshan and Prof. Abhay Ray conducted a Workshop on “Mobile Applications Development using Android”.

The Objective of this Conclave was to bring together myriad educators teaching environment and sustainability in the Delhi NCR region to make an impactful contribution in educating the next generation for sustainable development. The conclave was to deliberate and articulate ideas on how academia could contribute to a pursuit of better living conditions in the Delhi NCR region whilst creating meaningful and enduring employment opportunities.

In the Starting, Dr. Seema, Convener has presented Overview, Concept, Objectives and Outcomes presentation on the theme of Conclave. In this Conclave, Session Chairs Prof. Sarita Nanda, Prof Sarita Ghai, from University of Delhi and Prof. Amit Lahiri from Jindal Global University were present. Prof. Sydney Robero, University of Delhi, Prof. Radhey Shyam Sharma, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi have moderated the Conclave. The concept was to create a collaborative consortium of academia, community, policy, and industry with academia playing a pivotal role.

It was overall good experience.