ACM India Industry Webinar Series

Sessions by eminent technology leaders from the Indian computing industry

Every ACM India Industry Webinar is:

Delivered by an eminent technology leader from Indian industry on a topic of significance to the computing industry
Typically held on Saturdays, 11 AM to noon IST
Open to all students, faculty, and professionals

List of webinars conducted so far (register anytime for on-demand replay):

Rahul Ghosh (Senior Director of Data Science, Walmart Global Tech India) on "AI in Retail @ Walmart Scale", 14th December 2023. | PDF of Webinar
ACM India Live Interaction Session on "Digital Transformation: The Road Ahead", 2 March 2023 | Video

Shouya Roy (Senior Research Director, Flipkart) on Why Do We Need Data Science in E-Commerce?, 19 October 2021 | Presentation
Nishanth Chandran (Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research India) on Secure Machine Learning: Opportunities, Advances, and Challenges, 14 August 2021
ACM India Live Interaction session on The Changing Threat Landscape and New Security Strategies for India, 19 June 2021. (Passcode: ^V1k7kdc)
Pamela Kumar (Director General, Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India) on Standards Driven Research–The Most Efficient Way to Achieve Atma Nirbhar Bharat, 17 April 2021. (Passcode: !7r&6c2N). Access pdf for the talk here.
Kumar Sivarajan (CTO of Tejas Networks) on Advances in Communications Technology, 27 February 2021. (passcode: FQN66&=^)

Ranjita Bhagwan (Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India) on Using Data to Build Better Systems and Services, 12 December 2020.
Rashmi Urdhwareshe (former Director of Automotive Research Association of India) on Smart and Intelligent Computing Trends in Automotive Technology, 10 October 2020
Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Co-founder of CityMandi.com and former president of ACM India) on End to End Testing of AI Systems: Putting Quality Assurance Centrestage to Avoid AI Accidents, 18 July 2020
Lipika Dey (Principal Scientist at TCS Research and Innovation Labs) on Text Analytics for Health Care, 20 June 2020
Chitra Lele (Founder and MD, ActuReal Services and Consulting) on Drug Development and Lifecycle Maintenance--What’s It Got to Do with Computing?, 6 June 2020
Manish Gupta (Director of Google Research India) on AI for India and Beyond, 23 May 2020
Suparna Bhattacharya (Hewlett Packard Labs Distinguished Technologist) on AI/ML/Big Data Analytics: When Will System Software Catch Up?, 9 May 2020
Madhav Marathe (Professor at University of Virginia) on Computational Science for Real-time COVID-19 Response, 25 April 2020
Anand Deshpande (Founder and Chairman, Persistent Systems Ltd.) on How to Manage Your Professional Career, 11 April 2020
Aloknath De (Corporate Vice President of Samsung Electronics and CTO of Samsung R&D India) on IoT: Connectivity to Cognition, 1 February 2020

Sriram Rajamani (Managing Director, Microsoft Research India) on Program Synthesis Meets Machine Learning, 14 December 2019
Kaarthik Sivakumar (Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems India) on Behind the Green Lock: Security for Today's Internet, 5 October 2019
Monish Darda (CTO and co-founder of Icertis) on The Ethics of AI: Musk versus Bezos, 3 August 2019
Dr. Gargi Dasgupta (Director IBM Research Lab India and CTO of IBM India/South Asia) on Cognitive Technology Support, 1 June 2019
Dr. Rajeev Rastogi (Director of Machine Learning, Amazon) on Using Machine Learning to Innovate for India, 30 March 2019
Dr. Gautam Shroff (Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of Research of TCS) on Enterprise AI: Automation, Amplification, and Managing Complexity, 2 February 2019
Dr. Pandurang Kamat (Associate CTO and Chief Technologist of Persistent Systems) on Blockchain in the Enterprise—Creating Value Beyond the Hype, 28 november 2018