Hyderabad, 20th May, 2016: The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad is organizing and hosting a day long ‘Confluence Hyderabad’ on 21st May, 2016, which is a joint workshop with industry leaders and institute faculty to identify and discuss deep-technology challenges, cutting across different industries and domains.
The end-objective of ‘Confluence 2016’ is to seamlessly integrate new and innovative techniques in a corporate’s current set-up to gain an edge in business efficiency and performance. Some of the critical areas which will be deliberated upon during the workshop are Intelligence, Healthcare, Security, IOT & IOS, actionable analytics, among others.
Speaking about the importance of research and the collaboration between industry and technology, Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Dean (R&D) said, “Confluence Hyderabad is an event to help business meet technology. IIIT Hyderabad is focused on making its research relevant to the industry and society. Through a dialogue between IIIT Hyderabad faculty and industry leaders, we hope to identify a few significant Industry level problems that need attention from academic research.
Here, we are making an attempt to understand the right problems and their complexities before we start working on the solutions. It is very important to listen to the problems on the field before investing a lot of valuable research time. We hope this exercise will be of immense value to both academic and industry partners.”
