A two-day international conference under the aegis of the Centre for Information Technology on “Next Generation Computing Technologies” (NGCT'15) in association with and under sponsorship of the UP section of Indian Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) which is based out of IIT – Kanpur was organised in UPES campus. The co-sponsors included DRDO, DST, UCOST, ONGC, and RCPl. NGCT’15 was first conference of its kind to provide an international arena to a comprehensive community of technocrats, researchers, educators, software engineers, IT professionals, and scholars to share their novel thoughts and collaborate towards technological enlightenment and growth.
It was inaugurated by Dr Rajendra Dhobal, the Director General of UCOST in the presence of Dr PK Garg, Vice-Chancellor of Uttaranchal Technical University. A scientific souvenir was also released by them in the presence of Prof. SJ Chopra (Chancellor, UPES) and Prof Shrihari Honwad (Vice Chancellor, UPES).
Mr Arun Dhand – Director for Media Affairs in UPES disclosed that almost 250 participants from various national organisations took part in various sessions including overseas participation from 15 countries. NGCT’15 platform provided ample opportunity for discussions including Tutorials, Keynotes, Invited Talks, Poster presentation and Workshops on “Android Application Development” and “Image Processing”.
The Conference was technically seeded with special Keynote addresses, including talks on “Cloud and Data Management in Sciences - Challenges and Opportunities” by Prof. Dr Ramin Yahyapour, Director, GWDG University, Göttingen, Germany; “Symbolic Computing” by Dr Ethirajan Govinda Rajan, President, Pentagram Research Centre Private limited, India; “The Internet of Things: Open Challenges and Research Areas” by Senior Member of IEEE, Dr Piyush Maheshwari, Head (R&D and Innovation), Ericsson, India; “Software Quality Assurance: A Big Challenge for Next Generation Computing” by Prof. Sanjay Misra, Covenant University, OTA, Ogun State, Nigeria; “Opportunities and Challenges in Big Data: A Practice Perspective” by Dr NR Srinivasa Raghavan, Head, Data Science and Big Data, Rolta India limited, Mumbai, India; “Protecting Critical National Infrastructure” by Dr Zaki Qureshey, Founder& CEO, E2 labs Information Security Pvt. ltd., India and “SMART Urban Transportation & Big Data Analytics” by Dr. Shailendra Singh, Vice President – Data Analytics, DIMTS (Delhi Integrated Multi-Model Transit System) limited, New Delhi, India.
The technical discussions on “current and future trends” were broadly split into six main conference tracks, namely, High Performance Computing, Business Analytics and informatics, Communication and Computer Network, Security and Privacy, Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence, and Advanced Technologies. Near to 800 original researches were submitted for consideration, Around 200 papers were accepted for presentation after a rigorous peer review and plagiarism check.
The conference was organized by a collective team of members of Centre for Information Technology and Next Generation Computing Technologies Society, UPES, Dehradun including Dr Manish Prateek (Convener),
Dr Amit Agarwal and Dr. Manas Pradhan (Conference chairs) and Dr Ajay Prasad (Secretary).