The sixth version of Cypher, held at Radisson Blu, Bengaluru, efficiently concluded on September 23, 2022. Organised by Analytics India Journal, this has been one of many largest conferences thus far, and in-person after three years. The occasion witnessed about 100+ audio system unfold throughout three completely different halls for 3 consecutive days. It witnessed participation from about 1000+ attendees and 300+ data-driven and AI-focused organisations from India and worldwide.
Mixing artwork and AI, each art work made for this yr’s Cypher, together with banners, posters and movies, was made utilizing the text-to-image AI software, Midjourney. However, after all, it couldn’t have been potential with out the human contact of our artistic group.
The three-day occasion was jam-packed throughout all three tracks/halls with back-to-back classes, panel discussions, hands-on workshops, masterclasses, exhibitions, mentoring classes, award ceremonies and extra. The primary two days have been fused with leaders from sports activities and literature, together with Kapil Dev and Chetan Bhagat, sharing their views on AI and analytics, life classes, motivational talks and extra.
In a fireplace chat with Chetan Bhagat, alongside Pankaj Rai, chief knowledge and analytics officer at Aditya Birla Group, Chetan mentioned that AI must be coupled with pure intelligence. “AI is there. Everyone must have some technique for it. Name it tech in case you discover it too troublesome. However, if you wish to impress, you may name it machine studying,” he added.
When requested if AI would take over jobs sooner or later, Chetan Bhagat’s reply to this was ‘YES,’ citing the redundancy of lineman’s jobs within the military and Russia utilizing focused radars, alongside his private expertise of constructing a small group for his podcast—DeepTalk, the place he now makes use of iPhone for recording and Ultimate Minimize Professional for enhancing.
“Our jobs are getting affected for positive. That’s the actuality that in sure fields, jobs will get affected. However Bangalore could not since you guys will take all these jobs,” he quipped.
In a fireplace chat with Kapil Dev, alongside Sreekanth Menon, VP – of knowledge science at Genpact, Kapil Dev insisted folks use their pure intelligence as a substitute of changing into a slave to expertise. Nevertheless, he mentioned if knowledge may also help make higher selections, why not? “However, you lose the enjoyable half… Typically in sports activities, pure issues are a lot better than delayed outcomes,” he mentioned, giving an instance of the third umpire choice when a participant eagerly awaits the outcomes.
On the final day of Cypher, the group organised an AI Quiz (AIQ), led by Quizmaster Adittya Nath Mubayi, the place the winners of the competitors gained about INR 60,000 (in whole) money prize. This was adopted by a night full of laughter—due to Biswa Kalyan Rath, a techie-turned-standup comic, who shared his humorous experiences of dwelling in Bengaluru alongside interacting with the viewers.
One other fascinating spotlight at Cypher was the session on ‘AI and the Human Unconscious’ by Santhosh Babu, an entrepreneur, motivational speaker and life coach. On this session, he launched folks to the facility of hypnosis, alongside serving to them unleash their true potential.
He mentioned that our selections are made primarily based on emotional impulse and justified later, even when they’re illogical. The identical has been mirrored within the AI methods that we construct.
Moreover these classes, this yr’s Cypher was headlined by Bengaluru’s folk-rock band Swarathma. It was no unusual efficiency; the band used superior visible and lighting instruments so as to add magic to their music—justly encapsulating the spirit of Cypher 2022.
Cypher 2022 additionally acknowledged numerous firms, analytics leaders, and academicians with numerous awards and accolades for the impression they’ve made within the AI and analytics ecosystem. This consists of the ‘Information Science Excellence Awards 2022,’ ‘Most Promising Analytics & Information Science Academicians in India,’ and ‘Greatest Agency Awards’ amongst others.
Thought Management
The ‘Thought Management’ classes have been jam-packed for all three consecutive days of the convention. The classes have been led by AI and analytics specialists from firms akin to MakeMyTrip, Genpact, American Specific, Google Cloud, Deloitte, Course5i, Optum, Elsevier, Merkle, Prince Pipes, Vedanta, Udaan, and a number of other others.
Kickstarting the primary session, Genpact’s Amaresh Tripathy introduced a chat on ‘Democratising Transformation: Main organisations into the age of algorithms,’ the place he spoke about the way forward for enterprises, on how they will leverage AI and the place to attract the road alongside funding methods for firms—whether or not to put money into AI or human capital, or each?
Elsevier’s Suzanne Janse delivered one other fascinating session on the primary day on ‘Remodeling the worldwide medical buyer expertise by way of knowledge science and innovation,’ the place she unveiled inside tech stacks and make clear the info science and machine studying fashions used to reinforce the shopper expertise within the healthcare and life sciences panorama.
On the second day, president of TuringMinds and college at upGrad-INSOFE, Anuradha Sharma’s session on the subject ‘Failure proofing AI adoption and driving in the direction of income, was additionally fairly intriguing. On this session, she spoke about not simply leveraging AI but in addition contemplating it from a monetisation and return on funding (RoI) perspective.
“Planning earlier than leaping into AI adjustments the 85% failure fee to success. There are practitioner frameworks and options out there that may assist firms not simply undertake AI however drive income from it,” she added.
Tredence chief technique officer and chief innovation officer Soumendra Mohanty’s discuss was additionally insightful. He spoke about characteristic shops and the way it permits enterprises to find, distribute, and deploy ML options at scale—leading to quicker growth, deployment, and operationalisation. He additional spoke about accelerating AI adoption and function of characteristic shops in rewiring enterprise impression.
Day three of Cypher 2022 had a number of fascinating classes as effectively. One in every of them included Vedanta chief digital and expertise officer Vineet Jaiswal’s discuss on ‘Significance of knowledge within the transformation journey of metallic, mining, and manufacturing trade.’ On this session, he defined at size the complexity of the info, alongside the challenges and alternatives prevailing within the trade.
To not neglect the panel dialogue on, ‘Ought to AI-driven face recognition tech for surveillance be banned altogether?,’ moderated by AIM’s Kashyap Raibagi, alongside Genpact’s Tarun Srinivasan, Commonwealth Financial institution’s Nidhi Sinha, and Thomson Reuters’ Shirsha Ray Chaudhuri.
The panellists mentioned numerous cases of face recognition instruments—each execs and cons and elaborated on the use instances at coverage ranges, moral implications and extra.
Data Talks
The ‘Data Talks’ was additionally brimming with AI/ML builders and practitioners alongside knowledge science specialists actively taking part in workshops and interesting with the audio system. The occasion had an fascinating line of audio system from firms akin to Boston IT Answer, MiQ, MathLogic, SBI Card, BharatPe, Birla Carbon, ITC, Google Cloud, Jubilant FoodWorks, Akasa Air, Arya.ai, Hike, Jupiter, and Duroflex amongst others.
The primary session was led by Krishna Mouli, program supervisor of knowledge science at Boston IT Answer India. On this discuss, he launched the viewers to Intel oneAPI software program that helps builders optimise AI coaching and inference on platforms akin to TensorFlow and PyTorch. This was adopted by a hands-on workshop for members/builders on the Intel DevCloud platform.
MathLogic Manu Chandra’s discuss on ‘Deep Studying: Analysis to Follow’ resonated with the viewers. He took a visit down the reminiscence lane and defined the evolution of deep studying, alongside its real-world implications and use instances.
One other fascinating session was delivered by SBI Card’s danger analyst Amit Mathur. As a digital transformation advocate at Cypher 2022, he highlighted the significance of adopting a data-driven tradition and the way it has impacted their enterprise and gross sales.
A session on ‘Jubilant FoodWorks personalisation engine’ by Rahul Bharde was additionally intriguing. On this discuss, he showcased the advice system developed by Jubilant FoodWorks’ in-house knowledge scientists and ML engineers. He additionally mentioned a number of the newest developments and the way his firm leverages knowledge science and analytics to make product suggestions, alongside creating new services and products.
The session by Akasa Air co-founder and chief data officer Anand Srinivasan was additionally fairly refreshing. He took the viewers on a journey of all the info complexity concerned within the aerospace trade and the way the corporate was in a position to create a profitable low-cost airline firm, leveraging AI and analytics in each step of the operations together with gas consumption, layovers, seat fulfilments, upkeep and restore work, and extra.
Whereas the primary day of ‘Data Talks’ was insightful, the second day obtained extra intense. Tech Mahindra’s Hasit Trivedi discuss on ‘AI – Altering Panorama of Human Interplay with Machines’ was full of visible delight, and make clear the evolution of buyer expertise alongside advice methods and extra. He additionally mentioned how AI has been in a position to ship all of those experiences in a way more personalised and efficient method.
Showcasing the significance of dealing with exterior knowledge—the session by Varun Rastogi, director at Deloitte India, alongside Moumita Sarker, director at Deloitte India, was very vital. The duo defined intimately the significance of exterior knowledge and how you can procure them, alongside explaining how you can unlock enhancements in analytics initiatives inside the organisation.
Moreover these, the discuss on ‘AI in Retail @ Walmart Scale’ introduced by Rahul Ghosh and Nataraju Vusirikala from Walmart was additionally fairly insightful. The duo illustrated how AI is getting used on the firm, the way forward for retail and extra.
Shedding mild on the challenges within the fintech house, BharatPe’s Sanjeev Singh introduced a session on ‘Actual Time Information Pipeline in A New Age Fintech Agency’ which was an eye-opener for a lot of AI/ML builders. The session delved deep into a number of the challenges within the cost and lending ecosystem and the way BharatPe is fixing them—divulging the tech stack and methods to supply a seamless expertise to its prospects and channel companions.
There may be extra. Day three of ‘Data Talks’ stored the ball rolling. Making the session extra interactive and enjoyable, ITC’s Swamy Saran Atul stole the present by awakening the internal salesman in everybody. He took the viewers on a journey of constructing personalised suggestions alongside explaining the nitty-gritties of the machine studying fashions on the way it works round probably the most essential human within the loop—the salesperson.
Moreover, Hike’s Ankur Narang made it extra immersive by presenting a chat on ‘AI and laptop imaginative and prescient for metaverse,’ the place he took us on an evolutionary journey of the metaverse, alongside exhibiting numerous AI strategies and methods to form the way forward for metaverse, exhibiting us the glimpse of how the long run seems like.
Ex-Spotify and lead machine studying engineer at Jupiter, Aarshay Jain’s session gave a freshmen perspective of what it seems like to begin an AI-backed startup, alongside showcasing a tech stack, advice engines, and extra.
Final however not least, Duroflex’s Vipin Rustagi’s session on ‘Information First Organisation’ was the icing on the cake, which gave a complete new perspective of a conventional agency adopting knowledge science and analytics to develop new merchandise and guarantee its prospects sleep higher.
Mind Field
Mind Field additionally had an fascinating line of audio system and panel discussions from firms like MakeMyTrip, ZS India, EXA, Hero Vired, Deloitte India, upGrad INSOFE, Policybazaar, TuringMinds, and others. Listed below are a number of the highlights of a number of the classes from all three days.
MakeMyTrip VP head of knowledge science, Narasimha Medeme, make clear reinforcement studying (RL) bandit experiment methods, the place the corporate is shifting in the direction of real-time and continuous studying. “We as people be taught sequentially as we develop, so the thought is to construct a system that learns equally with out forgetting,” he added, speaking in regards to the RL bandit experiment methods.
The session by Dipyman Sanyal from Hero Vired was some of the talked about classes at Cypher 2022, the place he spoke on ‘Causal AI: Causation versus Correlation.’ On this session, he cleared doubts round causation and correlation according to AI, giving a number of examples and use instances. He additionally indicated that machines won’t substitute people.
Lastly, Sarabojit Singh from Tatras Information was additionally fairly insightful. In his discuss, Singh lined a number of the core ideas of advice methods and mentioned completely different SOTA used at the moment within the trade, alongside the evolution of the approaches to collaborative filtering, conventional machine studying algorithms for regression and extra.
The Future is Right here
These are only a glimpse of India’s largest AI convention and a starting of a brand new revolution in AI and analytics in India. Hopefully, we’ll see you at a a lot greater and higher AI and Analytics convention subsequent yr.
Cypher 2022 encapsulated the way forward for innovation, balancing a number of breakthroughs in opposition to a world that has grown extra sceptical about the advantages of the AI and analytics revolution.
See you subsequent yr!
