The Analytics Club of Department of Business Economics, Datamatics, organized its Annual Analytics Conclave, Vishleshan on 10th September, 2015. The inaugural session began at 9:15 am, with students of the department along with students from various b-schools, professors, sponsors and corporate speakers from various organizations in the audience.
After the lighting of the lamp, Dr. Suresh Aggarwal , the head of the department talked about the department and its niche course structure which creates managers for the analytics industry .The first corporate speak session started at 9:45am with Mr. Ankur Singh, Director-Analysis, dunnhumby, talking about the three different versions of customer analytics that has evolved over time and the role played by the data in the evolution.
Following him, Mr. Rajesh Kumar Shukla, AVP Decision Analytics, EXL Service, talked about analytics of fraud in the credit card industry. Following him, Ms. Debleena Datta, Senior Manager, who is also the department’s alumni, explained the whole credit card industry and its analytics in an easily understandable manner. The following session focused on solving the mystery of unstructured data by Mr. Anurag Srivastava, Manager, Deloitte Consulting.
Post high tea, began stat-wars in which 4 teams were shortlisted out of huge participant pool to give presentations in front of 3 member jury panel, which consisted of corporate from Deloitte Consulting and a fortune 500 credit card company. The winner of Stat-wars was Team JnJ, DBE and the runner-up was Team VinA_IIMRanchi, IIM Ranchi.
After lunch, the second corporate speak session started at 2:30pm with Mr. Krishna Kumar, Head, India Operations, Abzooba, talking about various IOT used currently and which can be used in real life that would help in analytics. Following him, Ms. Susmita Nandi, Practice Manager, Bluestar Infotech, spoke about how customers’ needs have changed over time and the need for customer analysis. This following session focused on innovation in retail industry by Mr. Anshul Goyal, Analytics Head – India, Capillary Technologies.
Post evening high tea, began case study competition in which 4 teams were shortlisted out of huge participant pool based on online prelims round to give a presentation on the case study, which was released 1 day ago in front of 2 member jury panel which consisted of Mr. Vitesh Kalambi, Absolutdata and Mr.Anshul Goyal, Capillary Technologies. The winner of the case study competition was Team Engima, IIM Rohtak and the runner-up was Team StatCats, DBE.
The event came to a successful end by the vote of thanks by Mr. Prakash, Student President of the department, thanking the title sponsor- dunnhumby, the event sponsor – Abzooba, online partners- askme.com & DU Beat and the print media partner – Business Standard.