1. A Confluence of Academia & Industry

2. Seema Shah

3. Mainframe Grid Computing Cloud Computing

4.  Faculty :  Students :
 Content  What do they learn?
 Teaching  Learning methods
methodology  Developing
 Delivery mechanism appropriate skillset
 Feedback
 Encouraging
creativity
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a
vessel.” ― Socrates

5.  Institute: Quality of graduates and
employability
 Teaching learning processes
 Research activities
 Use of technology in classrooms
 Use of laptops, handhelds, ipads and even
mobile devices, online testing, LMS, CMS etc.
 Real life applications and Live projects

6.  Web
 Data Centres
 Utility Computing
 Service Computing
 Grid Computing +
 P2P Computing
 Cloud Computing
 Market-Oriented
•Ubiquitous
Computing
access
 … •Reliability
•Scalability
Paradigms •Autonomic
•Dynamic
discovery
•Composability
•QoS
•SLA
•…
Attributes/Capabilities

7.  Are we geared to produce the skill set
needed tomorrow ?
 Are we producing engineers for the next
generation?
 Do we know the technologies which are
needed today and even a few years down
the line?
 Are we inculcating hunger for
knowledge among students ?
 Is qualitative research happening in
Institutes?

8.  Cloud computing
 Big data

9.  Industry Institute Interaction
 Understand the gap
 Skillset gap:
 Attitude
 Technical skills (technologies which are relevant
today and tomorrow)
 Logical and Analytical thinking skills
 Learning to Learn
 Communication skills
 Team work

10.  Move from traditional structural programming
platforms to python, Ruby on rails, Spring etc.
to do app development on various web
enabled devices used

11.  Range of
portable
devices
 Web enabled
apps
 Hosted on
cloud
 Using
Hadoop

12.  Encourage students to apply concepts, relate to
live scenarios
 Internships in Organizations and within and
Institute
 Live projects
 Maintain Institute website, VIOLA 3.0 , V
Print, Vrefer, V place, V
Feeds, VAiOS, Live@edu, On demand
information, and many more
 Strong focus on enhancing Faculty competency
 Enhance Industry Institute Interactions and
alliance programs

14. Initiated in 2010
 Faculty STTPs
 Faculty Lounge
 PIVOT-2010, Industry Academia meet
 Daily technical feeds:
http://www.facebook.com/EMCacademicalliance
 EMC webinars
 Expert talks by seniors from Industry
 Certification benefits
 Many more

15. Mega trends in IT:
Cloud Computing and Big Data:
Are here to stay.
Deployments and usage will increase over a
period of time.
Is the Academia ready to join this journey?

16. “Coming together is the beginning. Keeping
together is progress. Working together is
success.”
― Henry Ford