Annual Report 2018-2019
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2017 - 2018 ANNUAL REPORT The NextCreating Generation Talent Pool CREATING NEW GENERATION OF TALENT POOL ANNUAL 2018 -2019 REPORT Certificate of Best Training Provider ICT Academy has been awarded the “First Prize” with a “Certificate of Best Training Provider” in the category of IT/ITES Sector for the period of 2017 - 2018, and a cash incentive by the Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation, Government of Tamil Nadu. DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PUBLICATIONS SKILL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT EMPOWERMENT FACULTY INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE DEVELOPMENT INTERACTION 7 Pillars of ICT Academy See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest. - Swami Vivekananda 06 Annual Report 2018- 2019 ICT Academy Message from the Chairman ICT Academy has been playing an instrumental role in forging stronger relationships between the academia and the industry. The Academy has been evolving in various aspects of the curriculum, research, and teaching methodologies, in a country that counts technology as its key differentiator. The efforts of ICT Academy are primarily focused on talent creation, research, entrepreneurship, and innovation. The meticulous exercises of the Academy in skilling the talent band in the nation, particularly in tier II and tier III belts, has fetched it an edge for national expansion. On behalf of ICT Academy, I humbly request your greater interest in participating in the initiatives of the Academy. - Lakshmi Narayanan, Chairman, ICT Academy and Emeritus Vice-Chairman, Cognizant 07 ICT Academy Annual Report 2018- 2019 Message from the CEO I am proud that ICT Academy has been awarded the “First Prize” with a “Certificate of Best Training Provider” in the category of IT/ITES Sector for the period of 2017-18, and a cash incentive by the Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation, Government of Tamil Nadu. This is a remarkable recognition, to our efforts in nation building. As a Skill India implementation partner, ICT Academy has been implementing Skill Saathi Career Counseling program across India in the states such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Assam and Meghalaya and has successfully counseled 75,000 students in the allotted states so far. ICT Academy is in constant dialogue with various leading companies such as Dassault Systems, SIEMENS, PTC, Ansys, Mathworks, HP, Bentley etc. to develop new range of products in CATIA, Solidworks, Automation and Electrification, STAAD. Pro, MX Road and more that focus particularly on vitalizing the academia in terms of talent creation in the emerging technologies. Apart from the newer collaborations, ICT Academy is also liaising with its existent partners like Intel, VMware, and Palo Alto to bring out products in AI, ML, Blockchain, vSphere and Cybersecurity Infrastructure Configuration respectively. With regard to services, ICT Academy envisions providing Digital as a Learning. The Academy is initiating to move its existent training content into MOOC platform to enable academia learn seamlessly through the complete digital mode. Given all the efforts of ICT Academy in bringing state-of-the-art, industry-relevant curriculum and international certifications to the desks of tier-II and tier-III students, the appeal is that the teaching fraternity should be ready to embrace the change, which is essential in order to engage with the Millennials that have umpteen avenues of access to information. - M Sivakumar, Chief Executive officer, ICT Academy Faculty Members Trained 37,251 International Journals 5 FACULTY Students Benefitted 1,862,550 RESEARCH & Research Work Published 1,083 DEVELOPMENT Institutions Benefitted 2,369 PUBLICATIONS Editorial and Review Board 550 S FDP Program Conducted 1,331 Global Indexing 21 T N E Students Trained 205,773 NDLM Certification 1,397,968 M SKILL DIGITAL Students Certified 141,683 Teachers Trained 4,027 DEVELOPMENT EMPOWERMENT E Corporate Partnered for Placement 96 Assessed & Certified 73,162 V E I Entrepreneurship Awareness Created 134,596 Students Trained 14,340 Bridge Conferences 38 H ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE States Covered 29 Conclaves 39 C DEVELOPMENT INTERACTION EDP centres 50 Total Participants 28,936 A Entrepreneurs 214 Y E Youth Summits 14 K YOUTH Summit Participants 26,243 DIGITAL PRESENCE Views on TouTube 1,83,00,000 EMPOWERMENT Youth Power Seminars 347 Youth Contest participants 129,303 Youth Recognitions 89 Faculty Members Trained 37,251 International Journals 5 FACULTY Students Benefitted 1,862,550 RESEARCH & Research Work Published 1,083 DEVELOPMENT Institutions Benefitted 2,369 PUBLICATIONS Editorial and Review Board 550 S FDP Program Conducted 1,331 Global Indexing 21 T N E Students Trained 205,773 NDLM Certification 1,397,968 M SKILL DIGITAL Students Certified 141,683 Teachers Trained 4,027 DEVELOPMENT EMPOWERMENT E Corporate Partnered for Placement 96 Assessed & Certified 73,162 V E I Entrepreneurship Awareness Created 134,596 Students Trained 14,340 Bridge Conferences 38 H ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDUSTRY-INSTITUTE States Covered 29 Conclaves 39 C DEVELOPMENT INTERACTION EDP centres 50 Total Participants 28,936 A Entrepreneurs 214 Y E Youth Summits 14 K YOUTH Summit Participants 26,243 DIGITAL PRESENCE Views on TouTube 1,83,00,000 EMPOWERMENT Youth Power Seminars 347 Youth Contest participants 129,303 Youth Recognitions 89 * As on 31 Mar 2019 Table of Contents 1. About ICT Academy 1.1 Vision 17 1.2 Mission 17 2. Board Members 2.1 Board of Governors 20 2.2 Members of Advisory Board 20 2.3 Board of Studies 21 2.4 Board of Governors (Past) 22 3. Academic Collaboration 3.1 Nodal Universities & Institutions 26 3.2 Training Programs 26 3.3 ICT Academy Training Programs 27 4. Industry Collaboration 4.1 Patron Membership: 30 4.2 Corporate Partnership 30 5. Research Publications 5.1 ICTACT Journals 36 5.2 ICT Academy Magazines 37 5.3 Conference Collaboration 37 6. Seminars & Conferences 6.1 BridgeTM 41 6.3 Chairman Connect - Breakfast Round Table 49 6.4 HR Conclave 50 6.5 Youth Technology Summit 51 6.6 Youth Leadership Summit 52 6.7 Youth Entrepreneurship Summit 54 6.8 Youth Innovation Summit 56 6.9 Infocomm 58 6.10 AICTE Leadership Conference 59 6.12 Oracle Students Day 61 6.13 Autodesk Thought Leadership Meet 61 6.14 AWS Academy Educators Meet 2019 62 6.12 Power Seminar 63 7. Awards & Recognitions 7.1 Academic Partner Excellence Award 66 7.2 ICT Academy Best Coordinator Award 68 7.3 TN Icons 2019 69 7.4 ICTAcademyIndia YouTube Channel Contributor Award 70 7.5 ICT Academy Partners in Growth Award 2019 71 7.6 Cloud Literacy Month Awards 2018 74 8. Government Projects 8.1 Employability Skills for Girl Children in 4 Social Welfare Homes of Tamil Nadu 80 8.2 Advanced IT & ITES Training for 700 Students 80 8.3 Skill Saathi - Nationwide Career Counselling Program for Students 81 8.4 Employability Skill Training for Unemployed Youth in Banking Financial Services & Insurance 81 8.5 Employability Skills Training for Unemployed Youth in Telecom - Marketing & Management 81 8.6 Employability Skills Training for Unemployed Youth in Retail - Sales & Management 81 8.7 Employability Skill Training for SC/SCC/ST community Unemployed Youth 82 8.8 Soft Skills & Industry Awareness Training 82 8.10 Employability Enhancement Training Program 82 9. Placement Initiative 9.1 LINK - Common Placement Drive 86 9.2 Recruiters List 87 10. Youth Initiatives 10.1 ICT Academy Youth Talk 90 10.2 Student Innovator Award 2018 95 10.3 Salesforce Superbadge Championship 99 11. Annexures ANNEXURE I: List of Nodal Universities & Institutions 102 ANNEXURE II: List of Members Institutions - Statewise 104 ANNEXURE III: List of FDP programs 128 ANNEXURE IV: List of Student Skill Development Programs 138 ANNEXURE V: List of Student Workshops 143 ANNEXURE VI: List of Training Programs 147 ANNEXURE VII: List of research Papers Published in the year 2018 - 2019 150 ANNEXURE VIII: List of articles published in ICT Connect magazines in the year 2018 - 2019 161 ANNEXURE IX: List of Conferences collaborated in the year 2018 - 2019 162 ANNEXURE X: List of Power Seminars conducted in the year 2018 - 2019 163 About ICT Academy 1 16 Annual Report 2018- 2019 ICT Academy ICT Academy is an initiative of the Government of India in collaboration with the State Governments and Industry. ICT Academy is a not-for-profit organization, the first of its kind venture under the Public-Private-Partnership model that endeavors to train the higher education teachers and students thereby exercises developing the next generation teachers and industry ready students. ICT Academy was started to meet the skill requirements of the industry and generate more employment especially in tier II and III parts of the country. The organization was formed with representations from Government and Industry. With training of teachers and students as the primary objective, ICT Academy has been working through a seven pillar program in the areas of Faculty Development, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship Development, Youth Empowerment, Industry-Institute Interaction, Digital Empowerment and Research & Publications. ICT Academy is continuously striving on every aspect to provide a holistic service to every stakeholder of the education ecosystem in developing the next generation of talent pool in India to make them industry-ready employees, innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders. ICT Academy is endorsed and recommended by NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India Aayog), the National Planning body of Government of India as one of the unique organizations for dissemination and replication, which is aligned to the Skill India Vision of the Government of India. Through its various initiatives, ICT Academy has been part of strengthening the India’s four important visions namely Skill India, Digital India, Startup India and Make in India We collaborate with public and private organizations to create, integrate and disseminate knowledge in the field of ICT to bridge the gap between academic output and industry requirements thus providing every learner an equal opportunity to become industry-ready.