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New KonfHub Skilling Solutions on Cloud to Mitigate Corona Crisis

New KonfHub Skilling Solutions on Cloud to Mitigate Corona Crisis by innovating new products using AI and ML in this event report from KonfHub

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Archana Verma
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From remote working to online events, Cloud is giving stability and flexibility to the next phase of ‘everything virtual or online’. This new world is bolstering demand for skilled professionals in Cloud to take India’s virtual revolution to next level and leverage modern cloud and other technologies to mitigate the ongoing global pandemic crisis.

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KonfHub, a Bangalore based startup for discovering and hosting high-quality technical events organised a big-bang virtual cloud community days conference backed by Microsoft Azure Team. Cloud Community Days conference highlighted Cloud Security, ML & AI, Cloud Migration & Deployment within multi-Cloud Environments, Serverless and DevOps as the top 5 Cloud skills which are going to be in high demand in 2020 considering the current situation.

Demonstrating the high level adoption of Virtual events and technical conferences in the country amid Corona crisis, this Conference managed to reach out to over 1,60,000 people across the country. Developers from all over India participated in this online event. 29 experts from Microsoft, Red Hat and other top tech giants from across the world presented in this conference. With seamless live streaming on YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter and Twitch, the event was supported by over 20 developer communities from across the country.

At the Cloud Community Days Conference, Ritesh Modi, Honorary Regional Director, Microsoft, presented a technology solution to identify people wearing masks from images using Azure technology stack (in specific using cognitive services in the platform). Vivek Raja - a 15x Hackathon winner - presented a few interesting use cases of AI & ML, which can be used to tackle Corona effectively.

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Talking about the growing demand for cloud computing, Hari Kiran Kumar G, Co-founder, KonfHub said, “According to a recent report by IDC, as a result of the spread of the pandemic, 64 % of the organisations in India are expected to increase demand for Cloud computing while 56 % for Cloud software to support the new normal. This transition will open a plethora of opportunities for Cloud to take the lead in the new and informed world order. We are confident that the deep-dive tech sessions at the conference by renowned experts on disruptive tools and approaches will help businesses in near future to become more nimble and foster innovation by leveraging convergence of cloud infrastructure, AI & ML to innovate at an unmatched speed and scale.”

Developer Stories – a technical blogging contest from KonfHub & Microsoft - received immense response from Indian developers with over 80+ submissions. Many blogs showcased how new technologies and solutions can widely be used to mitigate the current crisis that India is dealing with. Liji Thomas from Valorem created a chat bot for the user to get reliable guidance on Corona via voice. Leveraging the guidelines, tools and services available from Microsoft Bot Framework  and  Azure Bot Service  they planned, designed, built, tested and deployed CoVA – A Virtual Assistant to help with Corona queries. Anuraj P, Product Architect at Socxo, talked about a Corona chatbot which answers questions from the FAQ from WHO and CDC FAQs and can be integrated with different channels.

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Addressing the significance of “Learn, Network, Grow” in the new world order, Ganesh Samarthyam, Co-founder, KonfHub said, “We are witnessing a great demand and traction for virtual technical events and conferences as they are great platforms to learn from experts. Our conference successfully aimed at up-skilling IT, software and technology professionals on cloud and other modern technologies. Blogs shared for Developer Stories contest will help other developers across the globe to scale in building solutions on Azure. We are overwhelmed with the astounding response and are confident that nothing including Corona can stop India’s software professionals and developers from growing, sharing, & networking.”

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The three-day virtual, developer-focused, single track conference was sponsored by Microsoft. The sessions in these three days focused on Cloud Native, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, DevOps & Serverless as key topics.

It is to be kept in mind that during Corona-related lockdown, Cloud solution providers have been working incessantly to devise new strategies for the enterprises and MSMEs. These strategies have to deal with the increased  data access and management load of WFH and also the security issues related to this increased remote access and management.

Various Cloud solutions providers have been working   to devise strategies for public, private and hybrid Cloud infrastructure for on-premise and off-premise datacentres in the country. The demand for such solutions has risen during post-lockdown and after lockdown finishes, there is a wide feeling that this demand will not decline, as organisations my decide to keep the pace of the new ways of working.  Further, Corona spread is not going to die away soon. It has the capacity to keep on spreading in the society, especially with more and more people venturing out and workplaces and factories opening up now. There is a need in this light, to continue with more research in IT and to innovate more and more solutions using AI & ML and Cloud  technologies to   meet these challenges.

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