IEEE Pune Section Monthly Updates- July 2018 : vTools eNotice

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IEEE Pune Section Monthly Updates- July 2018

Dear IEEE Members,

Our section will be organizing PuneCon 2018, an International Conference on Data Science and Analytics on 30th Nov, 1-2 Dec 2018 along with Symbiosis Institute of Technology. The preparations for this event are in full swing. We have got quite a few eminent researchers, academicians and industry experts as advisors to the conference. Also we have lined up some very good experts to conduct pre conference tutorials. I would request you create awareness about this event and to support and encourage the organisers; it is important that we make this flagship event of the section a big success.

I would like to congratulate the WIE affinity group for organizing the WIE Symposium at I²IT, Pune. It is very encouraging to see our women engineers lead and contribute to learning and sharing and I would like to scale and sustain this effort with support from industry partners. We got a very good feedback from the participants of the symposium and we will follow up on their asks to engage more professionals and build up on the momentum.

The Pune Section had the privilege of hosting the IEEE India Council members at Pune for their quarterly review meeting. TCS Pune Sahyadri Park campus was the host for this meeting. Earlier that day the IC members were present at the awards ceremony of the Late Shri Pralhad P Chabbria awards. We appreciate the partnership of the Hope foundation for working closely with us to institutionalize these awards. Congratulations to Ms Jayati Vijayawargiya and Dr. Soma Biswas for winning the awards.

We have been making steady progress on the SIG-Affordable Agriculture and have seen quite a few collaborations working out in this context.

I had also met Dr R A Mashelkar to update him on the initiatives of the Pune Section and have sought his guidance and support, which he has kindly agreed. Dr Mashelkar spoke to me on the need to look at the theme of "Climate Literacy" and how we can educate ourselves and the community on the impact of our actions on the environment and climate change.

During the quarter, we also had the opportunity to meet with two of our IEEE stalwarts Mr F C Kohli (in context of affordable agriculture and the theme of education) and Mr D M Tagare (on the topic of how to leverage industry experts effectively). Both Mr Kohli and Mr Tagare are 94, and continue to be a big source of inspiration for all of us - and more commendable is how they keep themselves informed about the latest in technology and how to leverage IEEE effectively for continuous learning and developing communities and forums.

IEEE elections for the year 2018 are round the corner. It was observed that in the past, our section’s voting percentage has been very low. Request all voting members of Pune to exercise their voting rights and contribute to the process. The voting window starts from 15th August 2018.

Best regards,
Dina

Dinanath Kholkar
Vice President and Global Head of Analytics & Insights, Tata Consultancy Services
Chairman IEEE Pune Section
Phone: (Cell) +91 9850816047, (Work) +91 20 67940204
Mailto: dina.kholkar@tcs.com

Other updates from our Section

The National Level IEEE Women in Engineering Symposium 2018 was successfully conducted during 22-23 June 2018. The symposium was jointly organized by WiE, IEEE India Council and WiE, IEEE Pune Section.

https://wiesymp.ieeepunesection.org

Late Shri Prahlad P Chhabria Awards 2018 were bestowed on Ms. Jayati Vijayawargiya (best outgoing student) and Dr. Soma Biswas (best women engineer/scientist Early career) during the closing ceremony of “National Level IEEE Women in Engineering Symposium 2018" on 23 June 2018, at Hope Foundation’s International Institute Information Technology (I²IT), Pune.

IEEE India Council’s Meet was hosted by IEEE Pune Section on 23^rd June at TCS Sahyadri Park campus.

Progress on planning and execution of IEEE Pune section’s Conference PUNECON

Announcements

IEEE Pune Section Annual Awards “Call for Nominations” https://ieeepunesection.org/?page_id=1197

Student Branch Activities

Five days short term training program on “Internet of Things” by IEEE Student of Department of Information Technology at G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering and Management from 11-15 June 2018.

https://ieeepunesection.org/?page_id=1013

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