Dr Palanivel Thiagarajan (Minster for IT & Digital Services) who graced the event as the Chief Guest, delivered a thought provoking address blending analytical observations and vision for the future, in his trademark candid style. Tracing the macroeconomic trends of the last 30 years, he emphasized how the current change in direction that is unfolding, could be effectively tapped by India with its demographic advantage. He highlighted the abundance of IT talent that Tamilnadu creates, nurtures & even lends to global organizations. His closing remarks that there is going to be a surplus of opportunity, even after the states in India have garnered their maximum, is profound and is to be contemplated especially by the entrepreneurs.
Karthikeyan VK spoke on the theme “Why JEPA Proves LLMs are Inefficient for Human-Level Reasoning”. He eased the audience into the topic by touching upon the basics of Vision AI, LLM. After pointing out the limitations of LLM, he introduced the audience to the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture, which attempts to “import common sense” in the realm of AI and thus could be quite handy in Planning, Forecasting, Simulating hypothetical scenarios and of course much lesser compute cycles.
Vivek Rajagopal spoke about “AI in Healthcare – Eliminating Doctors or Eliminating Patients”. He pointed out how healthcare has difficulties in penetrating the different regions of the country especially rural. Also, the cost of healthcare quite often remains expensive and elusive. With reduction of cost as a focus, he took various use cases of AI in varied touch points of patient journey in health systems such as fixing appointments, outpatient consultation, data capture, health checkup, emergency room, lab and diagnostics, pharmacy and medication management, a comprehensive exposition. Special note must be made of his gentle humour!
Ilyas F ☁☁☁ took upon ‘Ethical Considerations in building AI systems’ a topic that is generally less talked about but critical. He emphasized the importance of building trust and went on to describe fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency and accountability that are Microsoft’s AI principles. He further explained how Govern. Map, Measure & Manage as the components to bring these principles to life
Santosh Hegde delved upon “Analytics Beyond Relational Databases: Unlocking the Power of Schemaless Data” It was a session intensely technical yet impressively delivered. After pointing out about limitations of traditional ETL, inability to act upon the velocity of data and thus losing the ability to bring actionable insights, he underscored how the Capella Columnar (a cloud dBaaS) attempts to solve this problem
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