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 Expert Talk Alert!!
Join us for an insightful session exploring the evolution of artificial intelligence, featuring Mr. Pratyush Talreja. Discover how AI has transitioned across platforms in our exclusive webinar: “From Data Centres to Devices: The Journey of Modern AI.”

Event Details:
Topic: From Data Centres to Devices: The Journey of Modern AI

Guest Speaker: Mr. Pratyush Talreja
Date: Saturday, 18th April 2026

Time: 3:00 PM onwards

Platform: Online Mode

Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/43024344074140?p=HJ0rbBLG9TF8oFCWvE

Organized by:
Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science In collaboration with CogniScience Club, SAKEC

For Queries, Contact:
Student Co-ordinators:
Mr. Deep Mistry: +91 9969645951
Mr. Kush Gohel: +91 7021745652

Faculty Co-ordinators:
Dr. Rahul Pachade: +91 72760 74980
Mrs. Swati Uparkar: +91 9987568757

📚 Build Better Projects, Shape a Better Future!

The Department of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, in collaboration with CogniScience, is pleased to present an Expert Talk on “Project Selection, Project Designing and Development.”

🎙 Speaker: Dr. Nilesh Awate

📅 Date: 1st November 2025
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Choosing the right project is the first step toward success. Join this insightful session to learn how to select impactful project ideas, plan and design them effectively, implement them systematically, and align them with current industry trends.

✨ Gain expert guidance on project planning, teamwork, documentation, and development practices that will help you create innovative and industry-ready projects. Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your academic and professional journey!

We are excited to announce that IEEE-SAKEC, in collaboration with TLC-SAKEC, SAKEC-TBI, IIC, CSI-SAKEC, SAKEC-ACM, and CogniScience Club, is organizing a 3-Day Online Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.

This bootcamp will be conducted by experts from the Wadhwani Foundation under the Ignite Program of National Entrepreneur Network. It is a great opportunity to gain practical insights into entrepreneurship and innovation.

 Event Details:

• Dates: 13th, 14th & 15th October 2025
• Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
• Mode: Online

 Highlights:

• Eligibility: Open to 2nd, 3rd & Final Year students from any branch.
• Focus Areas: Idea–Customer Fit, Competitive Advantage, Revenue Models, Lean Canvas & Founder Financials.
• Teams: Up to 3 members (solo allowed).
• Opportunities: Incubation Opportunities for top teams, (Ideas progressing to Ventures – IPVs) with continued Mentor Support post-bootcamp.
• Certification: Awarded on successful completion

 Registration Deadline: 9th October 2025

 Click here to Register or scan the QR code in the poster.

Don’t miss this chance to turn your entrepreneurial ideas into reality!

🚀 Unlock the Power of Large Language Models!

The Department of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, in collaboration with CogniScience, invites you to an exciting Industry Expert Lecture on “LLM Training”.

🎙 Speaker: Mr. Dhruv Rathod
📅 Date: 13th September 2025
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
💻 Mode: Online

Explore the fundamentals of Large Language Models, Transformer architecture, training pipelines, real-world applications, ethical AI, and the future of Generative AI. Gain valuable industry insights directly from an AI expert and discover how LLMs are shaping the future of technology.

✨ Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry professionals and enhance your AI knowledge!

💻 Kickstart Your Open-Source Journey!

The Department of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, in collaboration with CogniScience, invites you to “Push to Hacktoberfest”—an exciting session on Open Source, Git, GitHub, Hacktoberfest, and Google Summer of Code (GSoC).

🎙 Speaker: Mr. Ramchandra Mulik

📅 Date: 4th October 2025
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Mode: Hybrid (Offline & Online)

Learn Git and GitHub from scratch, understand version control, create your first pull request, contribute to open-source projects, and discover global opportunities through Hacktoberfest and GSoC.

🌟 Whether you’re a beginner or an aspiring developer, this session is your first step toward becoming an open-source contributor. Join us and start building your global coding profile!

We are excited to announce a special expert session by Dr. Andrew Cunningham from Adelaide University on ” AI & Humans: Collaborators, Not Competitors”, organized by CSI, Cogniscience, TLC-SAKEC, and IDP in collaboration with Adelaide University.

Topic: AI and Humans – Collaborators, not Competitors
Date: Thursday, 25th September
 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

 Venue: 7th Floor Auditorium
 Registration Link: Click here to register

 Speaker:

Dr. Andrew Cunningham

• Senior Lecturer, Information Technology – University of South Australia
• Internationally recognised for his work in Human-Computer Interaction, immersive analytics, and narrative visualisation
• Applies AI, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality to transform how people analyse data, collaborate, and make decisions

 Why Attend?
This session will provide:

• Insights on how AI is reshaping industries, education, and research
• Perspectives on AI + Human collaboration for innovation and problem-solving
• An opportunity to interact with a global expert and broaden your vision of the future

Don’t miss this enriching session that bridges technology, human creativity, and collaboration.

Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science collaboration with TLC-SAKEC, SAKEC Student Council, and IDP, invites you to attend an expert session on “Selling Dreams: Luxury Marketing in the Age of AI” delivered by Dr. Konstantia Litsiou (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK).

 This session will explore global trends, challenges, and best practices in luxury marketing in the age of AI. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain valuable insights, network, and exchange knowledge with a distinguished international academic.

Date: Friday, 19th September 2025

 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
 Venue: 7th Floor Auditorium, SAKEC

 An E-certificate will be provided to all participants by the university.

 Click here to REGISTER

Or scan the QR code on the attached poster to complete your registration.

Skill Development and Placement Program by Infosys Foundation 2024-25 Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College

✨ SAKEC’S AI & DS Department’s Cogniscience Club & CSI SAKEC presents✨
🎨 Poster Making Competition – AI Artistry Extravaganza
Theme: Artificial Intelligence 🤖

Unleash your creativity and illustrate the future of AI! Whether it’s Machine Learning, AI in Healthcare, Robotics, or Ethics in AI—bring your ideas to life with a handmade poster.

🏆 Judging Criteria: Creativity | Relevance | Presentation | Originality.
🎖 E-certificates will be provided to all participants.
💰 Prize Pool: ₹2000/- for the winners!

📜 *All the rules and regulations are mentioned in the google form*📜

📅 Date: 18th Feb 2025
⏰ Time: 10 AM onward
📍 Venue: Lab 204 & 205
🔗 Registration link

✏ Let your imagination shape the world of AI! Get ready to showcase your artistic vision!

SAKEC AI-DS Department’s Cogniscience club organized a successful event – “How to start a career in Technology” on January 18th, 2024. The event was led by the honorable speaker and prestigious alumnus of our college, Mr. Dushyant Bhatt. Mr Bhatt enlightened us about the importance of learning practical skills. Being passionate and learning new skills is the key these days. Mr Bhatt also emphasized on being persistent in our learning process.

This session was an excellent opportunity for students to learn about how to make themselves ready for their career. We also had the privilege to ask questions to Mr Bhatt on how to take the correct road that would lead us to a promising career.The session ended on a positive note with the felicitation of the speakers and overwhelming feedback from the participants. We are grateful to Mr. Bhatt for his insightful talk about building a career in various fields of technology. We hope to organize more such events in the future.

SAKEC AI-DS Department, in collaboration with the Cogniscience club and SAKEC-IIC 5.0, and in association with Microsoft Azure Developer Community, organized a successful event-“AI: Power of Prompts” on July 24th, 2023. The event was led by the honorable speaker and prestigious alumnus of our college, Mr. Adnyesh Dalpati.

Mr. Dalpati enlightened us on prompt engineering, its importance, and different types of prompts. He also demonstrated how to be more precise and to the point with prompts to get better results. We also had the opportunity to ask Mr. Dalpati questions about his work and get his insights on the future of prompt engineering.

The session was an excellent opportunity for students to explore the new era of prompt engineering and stay up-to-date with upcoming technologies. The session ended on a positive note with the felicitation of the speakers and overwhelming feedback from the participants.
We are grateful to Mr. Dalpati for his insightful talk and to all the participants for their interest in prompt engineering. We hope to organize more such events in the future.

The Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in collaboration with CogniScience Club celebrated, “AI Appreciation Day 2023” on 17/07/2023.

The event started with the presence of HOD Mrs. Tina Maru, Milind Khairnar, the Faculty Coordinator, and the students of AI&DS and various departments. The host welcomed the chief guest with a poem followed by Saraswati Vandana. After Sarawasti Vandana, the speaker was introduced to the audience and then the speaker was felicitated by HOD Ms Tina Maru. Mr. Milind Khairnar shared a few words of wisdom with the audience.

Mr Nilesh Vohra started his session by covering various aspects required in the industry such as principles and integrity of moral values and your dedication towards your work and tasks to be delivered. He also highlighted the need for innovation. He discussed the past and present of Artificial Intelligence. Sir then mentioned Cloud Computing and its usage in startups, etc.

The speaker also emphasized the usage of Artificial Intelligence in banking and finance. He shared with us some interesting information about how cloud computing with AI can power a revolution in the banking field. He also highlighted the importance of startups in a country and motivated the students in the audience for building a start-up.

Furthermore, the speaker engaged in an interactive session with the audience, addressing their questions and which led to an engaging conversation. The session witnessed active participation from students, who eagerly shared their ideas about their own start-ups with the speaker, resulting in valuable insights and inspiration for the students along with this the speaker imparted wisdom regarding moral values essential for building successful start-ups and also provided guidance on attaining success in the corporate world.
The speaker was felicitated by a token of appreciation given by Ms. Tina Maru, the session ended on a positive note with good feedback from the audience. Later there was a quiz organized by the organizers and prizes were given to winners.

Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science conducted a very beneficial workshop regarding “Professional Skills” on 13th July 2023 by our college counselor Ms. Hitakshi Vyas Joshi.

It was a very informative and interactive session that benefited a lot of students in understanding how to communicate in the corporate world and have the necessary professional skills. Ms. Hitakshi explained to us in a very detailed and interesting way about different ways to communicate professionally in a corporate environment, how to project confidence, and have a demeanor that will help students crack the interview.

She made students understand the importance of gestures and communication during giving an interview and also conducted mock interviews which gave students a better understanding and idea of how to really perform and in which areas to improve. She encouraged students to help each other to improve their communication skills by taking mock interviews of each other in order to gain more confidence.

She made the students do some fun activities and team-building exercises which helped them understand the core communication skills and which points they should work on to get better at conveying what they want to say. Overall it was a very illuminating session that ended on a good note giving all the students insights on how to use professional skills especially the communication skills rightly.

The Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science conducted a very beneficial “Goal Setting” workshop for Third Year students on 11th July 2023. The event was led by our college counselor Ms. Hitakshi Vyas Joshi.

The workshop focused on the benefits and importance of goal setting. Ms. Hitakshi Vyas Joshi shared with students the ways with which they can overcome procrastination and set efficient and realistic goals in life. Various videos were shown to students regarding strategies of goal setting and how to achieve those goals.

The session was quite interactive with a lot of activities that taught students about the importance of setting goals.

Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science conducted a very beneficial workshop regarding “Peer Pressure and Addiction” on 6th April,2023 by our college counselor Ms. Hitakshi Vyas Joshi.

The event was quite informative and interactive as a lot of students was able to express themselves during the session.Ms Hitakshi gave us an introduction regarding different aspects of Peer pressure such as social media , fear of missing out, etc. The students were introduced to different types of peer pressure.Ms Hitakshi explained each type of peer pressure and discussed the solutions on how to deal with them.

There was an activity conducted where there were five groups of four-five individuals each. These groups were given a problem and they needed to come up with their own solutions. The session proceeded further by discussing addiction and why an individual gets an addiction.

Ms Hitakshi discussed the common types of addiction these days, especially among youth and enlightened about constructive measures to deal with all the problems.The session ended on a good note leaving the students with a lot to think about and with the information necessary to make healthy choices in life!

SAKEC AI-DS Department in collaboration with CogniScience club, NDLI and SAKEC IIC 5.0
Conducted an event on AI tools titled “AI beyond Sci-Fi” on 5th April, 2023. The event had two keynote speakers which were Second Year students from AI-DS Department. The event was focussed on AI tools and how these tools can be helpful to improve business and society as a whole. The speakers also gave us an insight on how to use these AI tools effectively. The participants departed with a better understanding of the utilization and implementation of various AI tools.

The Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in collaboration with CogniScience Club and SAKEC-IIC 5.0 and in association with Microsoft Azure Developer community conducted an event “Cloud with azure” on 13th february, 2023.

The event started by seeking blessings from Goddess Saraswati by lighting the diyas. Host welcomed their chief guests by introducing them to the audience followed by felicitation of Chief guests by Mr. Milind Khairnar.

Mr Milind Khairnar also enlightened the audience with a few words of wisdom. Before inviting our chief guests on stage , the host briefed the audience about the importance of cloud.

The first speaker Mr. Nilesh Shinde is then called on stage for his speech.
He explained the term “community” and also made the audience realize the importance of certification.He also shared his journey on this path and what all challenges he faced so that audience could learn some important lessons from it.

The session was quite interactive and the speaker tried to answer various types of questions asked by many students.

The next speaker Mr. Kasam Shaikh is welcomed on stage. He explained about Microsoft Azure and what all features or platforms we can use in it. He also explained that how beginners could use Microsoft azure by introducing them to another platform called Microsoft Learn, which will be quite useful for students. The audience was interactive and asked various questions.

After the speech there was a podcast with Mr. Kasam Shaikh where he described his journey with azure. He also highlighted some fascinating features about azure. He also shared with the audience how various sectors are using Artificial Intelligence in a really effective way in order to tackle real life challenges faced by common people.

The Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Department in collaboration with Intellectual Property Rights Cell Organized a Session on Copyright Filing which was taken on 1st February 2023. This session aimed for the awareness of copyright filing and its importance. Also guided the audience for Online Copyright Filing Process. The speakers were Ms. Dimple Rathod and Mr. Yash Barai, our very own Third Year students of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Department and also the members of SAKEC IPR Cell.
Faculty coordinator: Ms. Tina Maru.