Prof. Yashavant Kanetkar

Author & Director of KICIT Pvt.Ltd.

India

Academic Expert

Yashavant Kanetkar has created, moulded and groomed lakhs of IT careers in the last two and a half decades through his books and Quest Video Courseware DVDs on C, C++, Data Structures, VC++, .NET, Embedded Systems, etc. His books and Quest DVDs have made a significant contribution in creating top-notch IT manpower in India and abroad. His books are globally recognised and millions of students/professionals have benefitted from them. These books have been translated into Hindi, Gujarati, Japanese, Korean and Chinese languages and are published in India, USA, Japan, Singapore, Korea and China. He is a much sought-after speaker in the IT field and has conducted several seminars/workshops at TEDx, IITs, RECs and global software companies. He has been honoured with the prestigious "Distinguished Alumnus Award" by IIT Kanpur for his entrepreneurial, professional, and academic excellence. This award is given to the top 50 alumni of IIT Kanpur who have made significant contribution towards their profession and for the betterment of society in the last 50 years. He has been awarded the "Best NET Technical Contributor" and "Most Valuable Professional" awards by Microsoft for 5 successive years for his contribution towards the Indian IT Education. He holds a B.E. degree from VJTI, Mumbai and M.Tech from IIT, Kanpur. Current Affiliations: Director of KICIT Pvt. Ltd. and KSET Pvt. Ltd. Email: kanetkar@kicit.com, Website: http://www.kicit.com.

Sivagamisundari B

Associate Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services

Industry Expert

Sivagamisundari B is currently an Associate Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Bangalore since 2018. She has worked as an IT Architect at IBM India from 2010 to 2018. Sivagamisundari has handled multiple roles such as Cloud Solution Architect, Siebel Consultant, Test Automation Engineer, Business Analyst and Developer over her extensive experience of 16 years across domains like Oil & Gas, Retail, Telecom and Banking. She holds a B.E. (Computer Science Engineering) degree from Madras University. She has trained an accounts team of 40+ associates on Kubernetes, Istio and Helm and was recognised for her efforts. She has received several recognitions including Inhouse Innovation Start Member Award for her ideas and whitepaper on topics like Haptic Solution, AI, IoT, Cloud and 5G. Sivagamisundari has a hands-on experience with building AI/ML models and has a sound knowledge in Shell and Python Scripting. She has participated in several IT domain-based events such as Microsoft Hackathon around AI and was one of the top 10 contestants.

Mimansha Chandel

Software Developer

Tata Consultancy Services

Industry Expert

Mimansha has more than 5 years of IT Industry experience. She is currently working as a Machine Learning engineer, as a part of Agile Data Center, Cloud and Edge Computing CoE, contributing to practice AI/ML operations and develop solutions in collaboration with internal leaders and clients. She has an extensive hands-on expertise in Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques and is instrumental in conceptualising and implementing POC's converting business problems into data driven solutions. In addition to that, Mimansha also has a prior experience in software development for leading UK based BFSI clients. She is skilled in languages like Python, Java and SQL. She is a tech enthusiast and a strong operations professional with a B.Tech degree focussed in Computer Science.