One Day Online National Workshop on “Blockchain Technology” Workshop Summary Report Ganpat University (Faculty of Computer Applications) hosted a one-day online national workshop on “Block Chain Technology” on 2nd May 2020.This event was organized in association with ACM Ahmedabad Professional Chapter. It was sponsored by Cavitak Marketing (P) Ltd. The organizing team consisted of 1. Dr.Satyen M. Parikh, Executive Dean (FCA) as Chairman, 2. Dr. Jyotindra N. Dharwa, Associate Professor (FCA) as Convener, 3. Dr. Bhavesh R. Patel and Mr. Bharat B. Prajapati, Assistant Professor (FCA) as Coordinators of the event. The Invited guests, keynote speaker, dignitaries, attendees joined the workshop online from their home through zoom meeting. The workshop started at 10:00 am in the presence of academic leaders and luminaries Dr. Mahendra Sharma, Pro. Chancellor and Director General of Ganpat University, Dr. Amit Patel, Pro. Vice Chancellor and Executive Registrar of Ganpat University, Dr. Rajen Purohit, Executive Dean, Ganpat University, Dr. Satyen Parikh, Executive Dean, FCA, Dr. Nirbhay Chaubey, Dean, FCA, Keynote Speaker Dr. Parikshit N Mahalle, Professor and Head-Department of Computer Engineering, STES,SKNCOE, Pune, Invited guest Dr. Nilesh Modi, Professor & Director, School of Computer Science, Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University and the resource person was Dr. Kalpesh Parikh (MD and CEO at Intellisense ITsys Pvt Ltd). 1 Welcoming and Addressing: Dr. Satyen Parikh Sir (Executive Dean- FCA) welcomed all the participants, dignitaries, keynote speaker and expert. He also congrats all the participants for attending a workshop in such awful and stressed situation. He briefed about the workshop and ensures that everyone will get something that would be helpful in their academic as well as research career. Dr. Mahendra Sharma Sir addressed all the guests, participants, speaker and expert. Sir talked about current pandemic situation of COVID-19 and mention the scenario that now we have to cope up with the situation. He also requested to the IT experts to provide suggestions and solutions for the situation. 2 Dr. Rajen Purohit (Executive Dean, Ganpat University) also welcomed all the dignitaries, participants and faculties and wishes for the success of the workshop. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Parikshit Mahalle, the keynote speaker shed light on the blockchain technology and made easier to understand the complicated topics 3 Resource Person: Dr. Kalpesh Parikh, today’s eminent speaker and expert delivered his knowledge about the topics like Crypto Currency, Etherum, Hyper Ledger and many more advances in Blockchain Technology and also solved doubts and queries generated by attendees. He was getting feedback continuously throughout his speech from the participants. He delivered amazing speech. After the completion of his speech, the chairman of the event Dr. Satyen Parikh sir said in appreciation that he had really created magic on that day. The beauty of the workshop was that the audience had remained connected till the end though it was a virtual conference and they were attending from their home About the Workshop The workshop got overwhelming response from all the states of India. Total 465 faculty members had registered themselves from the majority of the states of India like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, New Delhi, Kerala, Kolkata, Andhra Pradesh etc.139 (29.89%) registrations were from Gujarat, 325(69.89%) registrations were from other states and 1 (0.22%) registration was from outside of India. Delegates from 19 states participated in the workshop. The delegates registered from the reputed academic institutions, research organizations and industry also like IIST - Indore, ICT academy - Chennai, NIT - Uttarakhand, UIET - Kurukshetra, MIT – Aurangabad, Punjab University - Chandigarh, TCS – Gandhinagar, CEPT University - Government of Gujarat, KIIT University - Bhubaneswar, PICT - Pune, NIT - Srinagar, IES – Kerala, IPR- 4 Gandhi Nagar, Nirma University - Ahmedabad etc.344 participants across India joined the online workshop and got benefitted. Dr Kalpesh Parikh sir discussed about various parameters of blockchain technology like Crypto Currency, Etherum, Hyper Ledger and many more advances in Blockchain technology. As every participant have queries and questions in their mind, participants raised queries in workshop by zoom raise hand as well as questions and answers sections. Dr Kalpesh Parikh sir read all the questions and answered accordingly that satisfies queries of all the participants and he also discussed about various possibilities of technology. 5 End of Workshop with Vote of Thanks: Workshop ended with a vote of thanks delivered by the convener of the workshop Dr. Jyotindra Dharwa, Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Applications. He thanked all the guests, attendees, coordinators and committee members. Feedbacks received by Participants: In the end, feedbacks were taken from the participants about the workshop. Feedbacks were taken live as well as by Google forms. The feedbacks were satisfactory. Attendees were satisfied with overall coordination, session quality and content delivery. The workshop got a grand success, considering the efforts from organizing team, quality content delivered by the experts and very good feedback received from participants. 6 Feedbacks of Participants We have got very impressive and highly satisfactory feedbacks from almost all the participants. Here find the some few sample feedbacks. (1) Behra Anand Kalucharan “Arrangement was superb one and knowledge gaining workshop.” (2) Ranjeet Bidwe “Excellent. Kindly notify over email about future events” and Nice coordinated in such critical times too (3) Nisha Raote “Well organized and very well executed” and “Very nice speaker. Good work by all the team members” 7 8 Feedback of Dr. Dharmendra T. Patel, Associate Professor,, CMPICA, CHARUSAT 9 Feedback of Tejas N. Sarvaiya, Scientist/Engineer-SE, Physical Research Laboratory, (Dept. of Space, Govt. of India) 10 Total 237 participants have given the feedback online through Google Form on the following questions (from 1 Not Very to 5. Very Much) and we have got average rating as per the below table. The overall rating of the event was 4.42. Sr. Question Average Rating No 1 How are you satisfied with the event? 4.47 2 How relevant and helpful, Do you think to extend your knowledge? 4.42 3 How are you satisfied with the services provided by Ganpat 4.27 University, Faculty of Computer Applications? 4 How are you satisfied with the session content and Delivery of the 4.51 speaker's session? Overall Rating 4.42 11 Statistics of the workshop: 1. Sate wise participation Sr. No State Name Number of Percentage Participations 1 Gujarat 139 29.89 2 Maharashtra 81 17.42 3 Andhra Pradesh 48 10.32 4 Kerala 35 7.53 5 Chhattisgarh 26 5.59 6 Rajasthan 23 4.95 7 Odisha 21 4.52 8 Karnataka 16 3.44 9 Punjab 14 3.01 10 Madhya Pradesh 13 2.8 11 Tamil Nadu 12 2.58 12 Delhi 11 2.37 13 Haryana 6 1.29 14 Uttar Pradesh 6 1.29 15 West Bengal 6 1.29 16 Jammu & Kashmir 3 0.65 17 Uttrakhand 2 0.43 18 Goa 1 0.22 19 Telangana 1 0.22 20 Canada 1 0.22 State wise participation Percentage 29.89 17.42 10.32 7.53 5.59 4.95 4.52 3.44 3.01 2.8 2.58 2.37 1.29 1.29 1.29 0.65 0.43 0.22 0.22 0.22 12 2. Designation wise participation Sr. No Designation Number Percentage 1 Professor/Director/Principal 44 9.46 2 Associate Professor 38 8.17 3 Assistant Professor 300 64.52 4 Research Scholar 10 2.15 5 Others 73 15.7 Designation wise participation Professor/Director/P rincipal 9% Others Associate Professor 16% 8% Research Scholar 2% Assistant Professor 65% 13 3. Organization wise Participation Sr. No Organization Number Percentage 1 Academic Organization 426 91.61 2 Research Organization 10 2.15 3 Industry 29 6.24 Organization wise participation Academic Organization Research Organization Industry Organization 2% 6% 92% 14 List of organizations of the registered delegates Sr. No Name of Institute Address 1 A. V. C. College of Engineering Mayiladuthurai, Tamilnadu 2 ABES ENGINEERING COLLEGE Campus -1, 19th KM Stone, NH 24, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201009 3 Acharya Motibhai Patel Institute of Computer Ganpat University Mehsana-Gozaria Studies Highway, Kherva, GJ SH 73, Gujarat 384012 4 Anand Agricultural University College of Agriculture, pij- Vaso road, Vaso, kheda 5 Arignar Anna Institute of Management Pennalur, Sriperumbdur, Kancheeburam Studies Dist, Chennai 6 ARIGNAR ANNA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ARIGNAR ANNA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY,PENNALUR ,SRIPERUMBUDER, CHENNAI-60117. 7 ASMT Sec-34, Near Marble Market,Gurgaon 8 Audisankara group of institutions NH-5, Bypass Road, Aravinda Nagar, Near (Audisankara college of engineering for Hanumy Temple, Gudur, Nellore district, womens) Andhra Pradesh. 9 AZOVA DEV PVT LTD B-907, Time Square 2, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad 10 B N PATEL INSTITUTE OF PARAMEDICAL NEAR N S PATEL CIRCLE ,BHALEJ AND SCIENCE,ANAND ROAD, ANAND 11 Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Information Technology Kalkaji 12 Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Management, Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Kolhapur. Management, Kadamwadi, Kolhapur. 13 BIT A-7, sector 1,Noida 14 Brilliant Education Society Brilliant Campus , Fatehpur , Sikar, Rajasthan 15 BSSS,Bhopal Bhopal 16 C P Patel and F H Shah commerce college Near NSPatel circle Bhalej Road Anand 388001 17 Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi. Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. North Campus, Chhtra Marg. 18 Career