ACM India Bootcamp on AI Development Lifecycle

April 18, 2025

ACM India Bootcamp on AI Development Lifecycle

ACM India, in partnership with IBM Research India and International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore , is conducting a hands-on Bootcamp on end-to-end AI lifecycle in May 2025.

The 3-day program is geared towards industry professionals and senior researchers to get a deep perspective of different aspects of the AI lifecycle (like data lifecycle and model lifecycle). Subject matter experts of international repute will conduct their sessions and combine it with several hands-on exercises.

Please register your names and make the respective payment to attend this bootcamp. All attendees will get a Certificate of Participation.

Bootcamp Theme: AI Development Lifecycle

Dates: Afternoon of Thu, May 22 to Forenoon of Sun, May 25, 2025

Venue: IIIT-Bangalore campus, Hosur Road, Electronics City, Bengaluru 560100

To Register:

Registration details as given below (with a special concession for ACM members and bulk bookings from Corporates/Academia). The registration fee covers the sessions, lunch on all 4 days, 1 banquet dinner and tea/snacks twice a day.

  • 1 Person - Rs. 10,000/- + GST @ 18% (in.explara.com/e/bootcamp-at-iiit-bangalore)
  • 1 Person – (for ACM members ONLY) - 10% discount on registration fee (in.explara.com/e/bootcamp-at-iiit-bangalore)
  • 2 Persons registering together from the same organization - 10% discount on the registration fee. Contact [email protected]
  • 3 Persons registering together from the same organization - 15% discount on the registration fee. Contact [email protected]
  • 4 Persons and above registering from the same organization - 25% discount on registration fee. Contact [email protected]
  • Only one of the above discounts would apply, eg: 2 persons registering together being ACM members will not get a (10+10 = 20%) discount.
  • All the above discounts will apply on a First Come basis till seats are available.
  • Cancellations are allowed up to 3 days before the event with a 50% refund (except GST). In case of part cancellation of group booking, if the total number of participants slides down to a different slab, the discount of that slab would apply while computing the refund.

About the Bootcamp on AI Development Lifecycle

This bootcamp offers a practical, hands-on journey covering the complete AI lifecycle—from data collection and preprocessing to model development, deployment, and monitoring. The bootcamp has been specifically designed for aspiring AI professionals to bridge the gap between theory and real-world applications, empowering participants to build and manage AI systems at scale.

Key objectives of the bootcamp are: Understand different phases of the AI/ML lifecycle, Collect, clean, and prepare data for modeling, Train (pre-train/fine-tune) and evaluate (using appropriate metrics and validation techniques) machine learning models, Build applications using AI models for real-world use-cases and learn aspects of Trust in AI adoption (like safety, reliability and transparency).

Program Schedule

Day 1 - Thu, 22-May-2025

Time

Topic

Speaker

14:00 - 14:15

Welcome and Introduction to the Bootcamp

Meenakshi D’Souza, Sameep Mehta

14:15 - 15:30

Data Lifecycle

Parameswaran Selvam, Shanmukha Guttula

15:30 - 16:00

BREAK

 

16:00 - 17:30

Data Lifecycle

Parameswaran Selvam, Shanmukha Guttula

     

Day 2 - Fri, 23-May-2025

Time

Topic

Speaker

09:30 - 10:30

Model Training

Dinesh Garg, Saswati Dana, Udit Sharma, Arnab Mondal

10:30 - 11:00

BREAK

 

11:00 - 12:30

Model Training

Dinesh Garg & team

12:30 - 14:00

LUNCH

 

14:00 - 15:30

AI in development and impact on software development

Vivek Adholia,
Manoj Mittal

15:30 - 16:00

BREAK

 

16:00 - 17:30

Driving innovation and business outcome

Vivek Adholia,
Manoj Mittal

19:00 – 22:00

BANQUET Dinner

 
     

Day 3 - Sat, 24-May-2025

Time

Topic

Speaker

09:00 - 10:30

Model Fine-tuning

Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri

10:30 - 11:00

BREAK

 

11:00 - 12:30

Model Fine-tuning

Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri

12:30 - 14:00

LUNCH

 

14:00 - 15:30

Building an Information Retrieval System

Rudra Murthy V

15:30 - 16:00

BREAK

 

16:00 - 17:30

Building an Information Retrieval System

Rudra Murthy V

     

Day 4 - Sun, 25-May-2025

Time

Topic

Speaker

09:00 - 10:30

AI for Social Good and Responsible AI

Mayank Vatsa

10:30 - 11:00

BREAK

 

11:00 - 12:30

Prompt Engineering Techniques

Raghuram Bharadwaj

12:30 onwards

LUNCH & Wrap up