Computer Society of India (CSI), an association with over one lakh membership predominantly made up of IT industry professionals, will roll out, beginning December 12, nationwide programmes to celebrate its golden jubilee from Hyderabad.
An established destination for the IT industry and also home to leading education, research and development institutions, the Pearl city will play host to the 49 annual convention and student convention being organised as part of CSI@50 by the Hyderabad Chapter.
The highlight of CSI-2014 annual convention, the Chapter leaders said, will be an international conference on ‘Emerging ICT for Bridging Future.’ The three day event is being organised by the Chapter in association with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad and Defence Research Development Organisation.
Panel discussions on various topics, including e-governance, cloud computing, cyber security, smart cities and internet of things, digital Telangana and e-governance are to be conducted, CSI-2014 Organising Chair J.A.Chowdary and Convenor K.Mohan Raidu told presspersons here on Friday. Tutorials for students by academicians and IT industry professionals figure prominently in the programme, including on Big Data and the menace of plagiarism in research.
One of the objectives of the event is to help spread the word on the significance of re-skilling. Mr.Chowdary said re-skilling is essential for the employees and serve them immensely when lay offs as is the practice in the US become a norm in Indian IT industry too.
CSI vice-president (region 5) Raju L.Kanchibhotla said the dignitaries scheduled to address the convention, in which around 1,000 participants from 60 cities are expected to participate, include union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Bandaru Dattatreya and Y.S.Chowdary and Telangana IT minister K.T.Rama Rao. Senior government officials and top executives of various IT firms would be addressing the programme, to be held at JNTU here.
