CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus

Objective: The Power BI workshop was designed to provide MBA students of Christ University Pune Lavasa Campus with an in-depth understanding of the features and capabilities of the Power BI platform. The goal was to empower participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to create and share interactive data visualizations and reports, which are essential for their future careers in business and management. Attendance: The workshop was attended by 67 MBA students, representing Christ University Pune Lavasa Campus. The attendees were a mix of students from different backgrounds, with varying levels of experience in data analysis and business intelligence. Agenda: The workshop consisted of the following sessions: Introduction to Power BI: This session provided an overview of the platform, including its key features and capabilities. The attendees were introduced to the Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, and Power BI mobile app. They also learned about the Power BI dataflow and the P...

A trial problem was provided to the students participating in the workshop. The students were allowed to bring their laptops and hardcopy of the provided case for their reference. Later the participants were segregated into two groups with a maximum of 29  members. The participation cost for an individual was completely free of any charges. There was no eligibility for participation as such, it was open for all students of the School of Law, Lavasa campus. Registration for the Workshop was started on the 16th of November 2022. The case study was released to the participants on 23rdth of November 2022. The participants had been given almost one week of time to go through the hypothetical case, and after that, they were asked to attend the workshop divided into various sessions. And the convenor for the same was Prateek Kanavi of  7BBA, LLB And the Faculty Coordinator for the same was Ms. Mehak Vohra. The workshop started with the first session giving the details of the case and...

A lot of development has been made in the field of Artificial Intelligence and the progress can be seen. AI is a dynamic tool used across industries for better decision making, increasing efficiency and eliminating repetitive work. The session started with the application areas such as Healthcare, Automobile, Banking and Finance, Surveillance, Social Media, Entertainment, Education, Space Exploration, Gaming, Robotics, Agriculture and E-Commerce that are focused by many researchers in the field of AI. AI analytics uses machine learning algorithms to constantly monitor and analyze huge amounts of data, automating the time-consuming work normally done by a data analyst. The process of taking raw data and applying some form of analytical technique in order to find meaningful patterns in the data was presented. How the field of analytics can be further broken down into several stages such as Descriptive analytics, Diagnostic analytics, Predictive analytics and Prescriptive analytics and th...

The department is signing a Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) with Smartail Pvt. Ltd (EdTech Company for AI Powered Products), Chennai, TamilNadu on 05-12-2022 between 12.00 to 01.00 p.m at Board Room, Central Block. As an Artificial Intelligence based product developer for education and industry, Smartail will work with Christ University, Pune in providing its DeepGrade AI for assessment and dashboarding.  On its part, Christ University, Pune will collaborate with Smartail in providing interns from each of the English based subjects not exceeding 3 per subject in a quarterly period (ex: Maths, Science, Social, English, Commerce, Accountancy, Statistics, Data science) for handson exposure, testing and validating one or more of Smartail’s products. The period of internship would be 4 calendar months and working days are from Monday to Saturday, after college hours. Smartail also provides the flexibility of working from remote provided the intern is equipped with minimum of a 4GB RAM ...

Machine learning is a subset of AI, which enables the machine to automatically learn from data, improve performance from past experiences, and make predictions. Machine learning contains a set of algorithms that work on a huge amount of data. Data is fed to these algorithms to train them, and on the basis of training, they build the model & perform a specific task. The resource person gave an introduction to the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning concepts. The students were provided insight into ML algorithms help to solve different business problems like Regression, Classification, Forecasting, Clustering, and Associations. Based on the methods and way of learning, the students were given insights on Supervised Machine Learning, Unsupervised Machine Learning, Semi-Supervised Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning. Supervised learning is a process of providing input data as well as correct output data to the machine learning model. The aim of a supervised learn...

The Data Science Association (DSA) conducted Cipher ‘22, a skill enhancing and cultivating tech fest, for the students of the Computer Science Department at Christ College, Pune. A total of six events were conducted: 1. à-la-Data-Carte 2. Coder’s Day Out 3. Keys on Fire 4. Reel-O-Mania 5. Art N’ Out 6. Dumb Charade ACTIVITY 1: à-la-Data-Carte à-la-Data-Carte, an event organised by the DSA in collaboration with Christ College Pune, was a smash success. It turned out to be an event jam-packed with enthusiastic participants where they got to showcase their skills and also, further develop them. The event was focused on helping students explore data visualisation using tools like Excel and thereby helping them in understanding the importance and impact of telling compelling stories using data. They were provided with three datasets in the Google Classroom, from which they could choose one based on their preferences. The participants showed great vigour and interest in the topi...

The Quality Improvement Programme was conducted from 7th -13th January, 2023. The QIP program began with Dr Praveen Vaidya giving a workshop on the best utilization of the library resources. A brief introduction to the proper use of research platforms available on Knimbus was given. Professor Dr. Shampa I Dev covered aspects of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT) and alignment of curriculum to RBT levels. She discussed the cognitive and affective domain-emotional aspects of RBT. Keywords regarding the alignment of Assessment to RBT levels were also discussed.  This session was followed by an informative workshop conducted by Mr. Naived George Eapen & Ms. Amrutha Rose Valavi, where the participants of the QIP were oriented to the course plan. All the components of the course plan were discussed in detail and suggestions regarding certain modifications to the course plan specifically for law courses were recorded.  Ms. Ujwala discussed the importance of adopting adequate teaching...

The workshop on developing the LinkedIn profile was organized by Finance Club – Harmony. Mr. Vishal Rampalle - Talent Acquisition, TCS and Ms. Tatwadnya Ganeshkar TCS were the resource people for this workshop. The participants were from MBA First year and Second Year with total of 140 students out of which only 137 were present. Finance Club Harmony had its 2nd workshop on 9th December 2022, where Prof Mohit Boralkar conducted the event with the support of Dr. Danish Hussain and the coordination of Placement Committee. The activity commenced at 1:30 PM in the presence of Prof. Mohit Boralkar, Dr. Danish Hussain, Prof. Shrutika Mishra, Prof. Tanya Sharma, Placement Coordinator Mrs. Irudaya Mary Daniel and all the MBA students. The speaker Mr. Vishal Rampalle is specialized in the field of human resource management and information technology from Savitribai Phule Pune university. He is primarily involved in sourcing, screening, recruitment, induction, and Onboarding activities at TCS. H...

A Finance knowledge competition was organized by finance club of MBA department on 10thJune2022. The Competition was titled FIN EXTEMPORE. The event intended to test students’ finance knowledge, business acumen and certain soft skills clubbed with the ability to coordinate and cooperate with different specialization students. It was expected that the competition would help the students in developing deep understanding of financial markets and concepts related to the domain. In addition, it sought to develop coordination, cooperation, and leadership skills among the participants.  The event started with a welcome address after which all the participants were grouped in 14 teams. Each team consisted of three members belonging to three different specialization of Marketing, Finance and HR. As the name of the event suggests, the event had the teams competing against one another in an extempore presentation.  Each team was assigned a finance related topic randomly and was given a p...

The committee encourages literary and debating activities and events among the law students thereby creating a strong debating society. The team organizes, oversees and regulates all inter literary and debating events, including participation in inter college events and ensure maximum participation. Students are encouraged to participate in various intercollegiate debate competitions and level up the arena of the society.  Humans have been telling stories for tens of thousands of years. Films have the power to transport us into the world of life stories. They are communicative even with the silent anecdotes of conflict between humanity, morality, existence, law and justice. Films are communicative with the silent anecdotes of conflict between humanity, morality, existence, law and justice. The committee hopes to enhance the sensitivity of students about the burning realities of life, struggles, jurisprudence of rights and livelihood. The purpose of the monthly film screenings is to...

 Prof. Shrutika Mishra’s mentees organized a mentoring competition for the 1st year MBA students called “What If…?” The competition started on 7th December & commenced on 8th December 2022 in the MBA auditorium. This competition was the first one conducted by the mentees under the guidance of Prof. Shrutika Mishra. The emcee of the competition Mr Arunava Chatterjee and Ms. Bhawana M.S gave a brief note of what is the competition all about and how the competition will be conducted along with the rules of the event. Participants were asked to create a presentation about a company that has failed in the past decade and what were the reasons behind it. They were also asked about the consultation which they need to have a comeback in the market. The winner of the participants will be provided with e-certificates. A total of 24 students participated in the competition from all the mentoring groups which was conducted on 7th and 8th of December 2022. Students selected various companie...

The session of the day started at 2 PM. Before the lectures could begin, Dr. Pratapsinh Salunke came on to the stage, expertly summarizing the topic and providing a short speech, letting the students know what the topic would consist of. Then, Mr. Visruth Raveendran provided a lecture on the topic “Human Rights of Refugees”. In the lecture he spoke on the various institutions of refugees and on the work he had done to help the Rohinga refugees within India. He further spoke on all the measures provided by the UNHRC for the protection of these refugees, yet how every effort is still lacking. Adv. Raveendran introduced the concept of ‘refugee’ to the audience by expanding on, for the benefit of the audience, the definitions of State (under Article 12 of the Constitution of India) and Statehood (through the concept of Citizenship under Article 11 of the Constitution of India). In establishing these, he brought up the concept of Statelessness- if a person can no longer be said to “belong” ...

The Quality Improvement Programme was conducted from 8th to 13th August, 2022. Dr. Ram Gambhir covered aspects of Research Design and Types of Research, Review of Literature: Theoretical Perspective and Concept Map, Overview of format of Research Proposal, Developing Research Objectives, Budget and Timeline and Tools of Data Collection spread over 10 sessions and purpose based innovative activities. Dr. Shridhar Gokhale oriented the faculties on what are the stages of research and how to develop a style of scholarly writing in research articles over two informative sessions. Dr. Madhuri Gokhale talked for two sessions on “Effective Writing in Research”. She talked about the four basic skills of research language - Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. She touched upon the aspects of styles of communication, how to improve word precision, relationship between grammar and usage. Day 1 of the QIP began with a short prayer and introduction of the Guest Speaker – Dr. Ram Gambhir, Emerit...

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