Virtual power seminar on job readiness during pandemic

The Department of Information Technology, AIMIT in collaboration with ICT Academy, India organised a virtual power seminar as part of Sky Campus, a digital learning initiative of ICT Academy for the students of MCA, M.Sc. (Software Technology) and M.Sc. (Big Data Analytics). It was held on May 29. The resource person for this seminar was Dr Ruso Tamilarasan, associate consultant for Wipro Digital, Chennai.

Dr Hemalatha N, dean of the IT Department welcomed the gathering and spoke about various initiatives that the department was taking with the support of ICT Academy such as FDPs, webinars for students and also various activities through industry tie-ups with companies such as Salesforce, Oracle, Palo Alto Cyber Security etc.

Dr Ruso began the session with a simple poem for programmers to enkindle interest in programming for the students and explained various programming tools and technologies that students need to lookout for. He explained Java 1.8 Spring Tools with a hands-on. He also explained different technologies that are essential for the future and to be job-ready. The session ended with a question-answer session. There were more than 180 participants for the session.