 ready. Tell me when to start. Good afternoon and welcome to this face to face session on technical skills. I am particularly happy to introduce my friend Anirudh Aynapure, Executive Director in J. P. Morgan and two of his colleagues who will be conducting this session later. Mr. Amol Hatwar and Mr. Zubin Kavrana, they are both vice presidents in J. P. Morgan and I must tell you that they and their other colleagues have spent enormous amount of time and efforts in making this course a very useful proposition for all of you. As I had mentioned earlier in the technical skills course, you will all be led to work towards a larger project which you will have to work in teams and the expectation is that you learn how exactly large projects can be conceptualized, designed, implemented and operationalized. Today, I wanted to spend a few minutes telling you about two important points which were raised in our earlier courses and which I believe are very relevant for this program as well. The first and foremost is that when you view the video sessions that have been pre-recorded, you will usually view them sitting at your home or workplace and watching things move on the TV or on your video screen and listening to what is being stated. So, it is almost like a lecture that you are attending, but many of you may not use the simple discipline of having a paper and a pen or pencil with you wherein you take notes. After all when you attend classes, you do take notes. The idea of these notes is that they act as reminders later whenever you wish to refer to the major point that have been covered. Unfortunately and we have observed it not only with you, but practically everybody else who attends a MOOC course that they tend to view the video lecture sessions as if they are watching a movie that means without any paper and pencil. Of course the expert faculty makes it a point to ensure that the explanations are very well designed and very well delivered which means whenever you are viewing these you do seem to understand everything that is going on. However, please note that as is true with all of us human beings we tend to forget things later particularly when we have to correlate on what we studied last week and what we studied week before that and so on. It often happens that we forget some important points. Taking notes is a very useful way of keeping the collective wisdom of all these sessions together in a short form so that you can refer to those points later. The second point I wish to make is that many of our students are weak in the use of English language. Nobody is to be blamed after all majority of us Indians throughout all our activities we tend to use our native language. Many of us have studied in our native language while doing the school education and English therefore is not necessarily a strong point with most of us. Going forward since the ambition in this program from college to corporate is to prepare you very well for your corporate professional life then you must remember that not only in India but almost all over the world English is the language which is used in most of the communications written or verbal which means there is no option but all of you must become very good at using this language. For this I had suggested earlier and I will repeat that suggestion now that please try to ensure that you undertake a separate course in making yourself more proficient in use of English in both verbal and written communication. There are many courses which are available as I had mentioned once we are ourselves preparing a course specifically for students who are weak in English. There should be a course in basic English and it will empower you in both verbal and written communication unfortunately this course will come later because we have realized the need only recently will be launching this course in May those of you are interested along with all other colleagues might want to take this course but I wish to observe an important point here most students who claim that they are not good at English or they can't write proper English or they can't speak proper English forget that most rarely they are not good in their native languages as well. Try to write for example some 20 sentences in your own native tongue be it Marathi Hindi or Telugu and I can bet that there are high chances or you are making mistakes in that written script independent of which language you write. Similarly try to record whatever you speak even in your native language and try to listen to that recording it is again my hunch that a majority of you will find that you are making mistakes even in spoken language even though it is your native language. I am not blaming you but I am trying to suggest that this happens because we have not disciplined ourselves in using a language properly if that mental discipline is there believe me you will speak well and you will write well in any language that you are required to use. So my humble suggestion is please try to make sure that you discipline your minds to write well and speak well and in particular since English is going to be the language that is used for communication in majority of your cases in India and even outside India all over the world it is absolutely essential that you enrich yourself and empower yourself in using a good quality of language in both your written and verbal communication. I will also reiterate that when you attain video sessions or interactive sessions such as these please make a point to take some short notes and please keep all these notes ready with you whenever you are trying to solve a larger problem because you never know which aspect discussed in which way could become very useful and important and therefore it is very necessary that you are able to recall the collection of all such points described during different parts of this course. This is all I had to share with you as a matter of what I would call basic activities at URA. Of course this technical skills course is an important course and my colleagues from J. P. Morgan who are driving this program are doing a wonderful job. I had also mentioned last time that two of my colleagues Professor Sudarshan and Professor Ganesh Ramakrishnan are preparing some additional material. Unfortunately this will be released only about a week later. This will be material which will introduce you to the notion of parallel databases and use of things like Mongo on one hand and the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. As I had mentioned each of these run as multiple courses both core and elective courses for the whole semester which means it is not possible for you to acquire the necessary level of skills and competence in these particular topics. However, since many of these tools and techniques will be used a backdrop as a introduction to these topics will be given by Professor Sudarshan and Professor Ganesh Ramakrishnan. I have also advised them to provide you additional links of videos and other reading material. Those of you are interested in specializing further in these fields may benefit by looking at those things but looking at those things subsequently after or while this course is going on. Finally, let me come back again to introduce my friend. I will call him Professor Aniruddha because Aniruddha Amol and Zubin and their other colleagues who are conducting these sessions they are absolutely top grade professionals but they are also professors today because like us they are all engaged in ensuring that you learn better. So, thank you very much for coming here. I would just like to add one thing while a large number of people from JP Morgan have worked tirelessly as I mentioned. I would like to specifically observe that it was entirely Aniruddha's initiative taken more than a year ago whereby we forged a relationship and JP Morgan came forward to support this important and ambitious program. I am particularly thankful to him for taking this initiative and being with us and I look forward to many such programs with our mutual association in coming years. Thank you so much. Over to you Aniruddha. Thank you, sir. Yeah, it's okay. Just keep it nearer. Good afternoon to all the students across hundreds of colleges spread across India. This is Aniruddha Aina Puri from JP Morgan. As professor rightly said the entire team not only from JP Morgan but various professors from IIT Mumbai or IIT Bombay have spent tirelessly efforts for getting this program up to this level. While Professor Fatak, myself and Amol who will be joining for the session soon. If I be nostalgic I think we started talking about it almost 18 months back. Yes, 18 months. Yeah. And it was the three of us you know I think it was one of the sessions where we said this is a program something which will be fill the void which is happening and which we see across India. And if I move fast forward we have already completed three modules. The program was launched in September if I recollect rightly where we did the soft skills, the workplace communications, financial literacy and the fourth module we are starting now. I am really glad to start this module. While we call it as a technology skills and some of the focus for the curriculum for the next four modules will be around software and software development. However, I would like to assure all of you that we have designed this course for keeping all engineering students in mind. So don't feel left out if you are from non-com science background. The technology is integrated part of life. If I give an anecdote typically in 1960s and 70s the industrial revolution started and then in 1990s when it was fast forwarded with technology using IT. 2010 onward that fast forward is really moving at a multiple speed. Whatever technologies we are using maybe those were sufficient enough maybe for someone to make a living for 20 to 25 year career. However, we all need to be agile and keep on ready to understand new technologies and what these technologies are. We will give flavors of couple of them in today's sessions as well as as Dr. Faduk said they will be shared a bit later as a part of recorded session and maybe some live sessions as well. Moving on I will come again during the week of 10th March and at that time we will talk about one aspects of financial literacy which we kept it in intentionally for the last session which is about the stock exchanges. We will be talking about how the stock exchanges work across the world and taking that as a case study we will explain how to go about design a large program while we will talk about technically how to design IT systems for this but it will also help you to understand how to go about implementing a large programs because we strongly believe once you have this under your arsenal and once you step into a corporate world or for that matter out of college world most of the thing which we encounter is basically about implementing programs or implementing projects and how to go about narrowing down a big problem into a smaller program which we can take it something called as a bite size and put a analytical hat on and implementing a solution for it will really help you in your life to take it forward. So that is what we will consider in the March 10th session followed by March 17th where some of my colleagues will explain how to actually implement the solutions and also during these sessions we will take your questions live and try to address as many of them either during the live sessions or maybe through the wall where you will get an opportunity to post your questions and we will try to address that. So with that I would like to thank again and thank Professor Fatak for giving us the opportunity and thank IIT for giving the opportunity for JP Morgan to collaborate for this such a wonderful program and would like to take this program forward feel free to ask questions this program is actually designed for all of you so the real value of the program will come if you interact and ask questions and take the value forward for your career. Thank you. Thank you all.