Software giant Microsoft will host the maiden edition of its Machine Learning and data Sciences Conference in india this year, highlighting importance of the Indian market in terms of future deployment of those new rising technologies.
The 2-day event, to be held in Bengaluru on August 8-9, is expected to see participation from over 600 people, including government officials, startups, developers, students and trade executives.
“It is time of transformation at Microsoft as we tend to sharpen our focus around mobile and cloud and lay out ambitious plans that may have an enormous impact on way forward for computing because it is practiced by billions of users around the world,” Microsoft india R&D director Anil Bhansali told PTI.
He added that Machine Learning (ML) is one in all the key focus areas, in which Microsoft is creating significant inroads, each in terms of R&D breakthroughs as well as real client impact”At the event, we are going to showcase a number of the terribly latest developments during this area. it’ll facilitate gain new insights into however the facility of analytics and ml will remodel businesses and society,” he said.
ML, that may be a variety of artificial intelligence (AI), provides computers with the ability to find out while not being explicitly programmed. It detects patterns in information and adjusts program actions consequently.An example of ml is Facebook’s News Feed, that uses the technology to change every member’s feed. Microsoft’s voice assistant Cortana is another such example.
Microsoft is hosting an identical event at Atlanta known as data Science Summit in september this year.
Using these new technologies, Microsoft has developed many apps, as well as the one that helps farmers in india predict the right sowing dates for specific crops, a prophetical analytics app that effectively identifies students at the chance of dropping by the wayside of faculty and one that identifies people who area unit possibly to default on loans taken from the government’s microfinance schemes.
“In addition to massive enterprises, government and world, sessions at the Bengaluru event are going to be useful for startups, as well as current and future candidates to the Microsoft’s Accelerator programme,” Bhansali said.
He additional that india is a crucial market in terms of future readying against the background of the government’s initiatives like Digital India and start Up India.
