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Spirathon AI Conference, An Application To Create Solutions

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Spiralogics is hosting a first of its kind, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference in Nepal this February – a platform for AI veterans and students to come together and network.


This year, Spiralogics is focused on exploring and explaining the ways how AI can create a positive impact on different aspects of our life. It is a platform which will act as a driving force in encouraging the implementation of AI (especially in the Nepalese environment). Our purpose is to bring together professionals and students under one roof to rediscover the possibilities that AI can create in our day to day lives.

The conference will include speakers with extensive knowledge of AI. This will be your chance to network with veterans and revolutionaries of the IT industry. Five teams shortlisted and mentored by Spiralogics will also provide a Demo and present their AI application.
The program will include Spirathon Finale with AI Application Demo and Presentation, Key Note Speakers and Awards Distribution.
Conference highlights:
AI experts were talking on state-of-art, most recent areas of research.
Veterans, revolutionaries along with angel investors, business people, and startups.
Place for beginner to expert, non-technical to AI master.
Learn, connect and get inspired by Experts.
Discussion on the opportunities, challenges, and future of AI in Nepal.
You can register via – https://tinyurl.com/y7oc3ud8Find more about our event at spirathon.spiralogics.com
Speakers:
1. Dr. Pramod Parajuli (An AI Consultant and a former IBM Fellow with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Senior Vice President at NPCERT)
2. Suraj Regmi (Data Scientist in The World Bank, Nepal Country Office. With a passion for mathematics and AI, Mr. Regmi has been actively involved in different AI communities.)
3. Saunak Ranjitkar (COO and CTO of Spiralogics Inc. and a former Software Consultant of AI-based enterprise application at Verizon, USA.)
Please make sure to apply by January 20, 2019, as we have limited seats. Ticket Price: Rs. Five hundred for Professionals, Rs. 300 for Students
Venue: Bougainvilla, Tripureshwor
Date: 2nd Feb 2019
Time: 10:30 am to 3 pm 
For any inquiry, please contact at 01-4787644 between 9:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m.

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Spiralogics Concludes It’s Five AI Workshops Series In December

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Spiralogics concludes it’s Five AI Workshops Series in December Spiralogics organized a series of workshops throughout December as a pre-event leading up to its main event – Spirathon. The workshops were centered around Artificial Intelligence & done in collaboration with Nepal.ai community. A total of 5 series of workshops were conducted where the fourth and the fifth series were combined into one. All of the workshops took place at various IT colleges within the Kathmandu Valley.

The first one was held at Apex College on 8th December where Mr.Ashwin Dhakal, Associate Software Engineer from Yomari covered the topic ‘Insights on Deep learning for Natural language Processing.’ The second workshop was led by Aayush Subedi, Former CEO of Tootle and Co-founder of Moonlit and took place at Softwarica College of IT and E-commerce. The workshop focused on the ‘Art of using Naive Bayes for Binary Classification and Spam Detection.’ Next one was at Kantipur City College and facilitated by Akash Adhikari, Co-founder: Nepal.ai, Country Representative of deeplearning.ai. The topic covered was ‘Deep Learning for Face Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks.’ The last workshop titled ‘Deep Learning – Extensive Code Edition’ was done collectively by the Nepal.ai Team and was held at Islington College.

Not only did it included IT students but also saw quite a lot of professionals attending the workshops with the desire to increase their understanding of AI. Each workshop attracted
around 50-60 participants, totaling up to 200 participants for the overall event. At the end of each seminar, a Networking Session was carried out where participants interacted with the speaker as well as each other.

Spiralogics Family would like to thank all the facilitators for taking out the time and conducting such engaging sessions. They are also thankful to the colleges for assisting their team during each event.

What’s next?
This year 2018, Spirathon is focused on exploring and explaining the ways how AI can create a positive impact on different aspects of our life. Spirathon-AI for Impact is not just any ordinary Appathon. It is a platform which will act as a driving force in encouraging the implementation of AI (especially in the Nepalese environment).

The registration has been extended until January 6th, and interested participants can apply via online by logging into spirathon.spiralogics.com. Alongside the appathon, the main event will also include an AI conference where experts in Artificial Intelligence will be sharing their insights. It will be a platform where investors, IT professionals, students and entrepreneurs can come together to share their ideas and network. You can check out our Facebook page for more updates on our upcoming events.

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Spiralogics To Host Appathon On AI

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Spiralogics is organizing an annual event named ‘Spirathon’ for the second time in January 2019. Registration has officially opened for the appathon. Participants can go through the website spirathon.spiralogics.com for the listing. The record will remain open throughout Dec, and top 10 teams will be selected to compete in the main event in January.

Spirathon is an annual appathon organized by Spiralogics International in partnership with Spiralogics Institution of Technology. At this event, a team consisting of a maximum of three members will need to build a prototype application based on a specific agenda.

The team members will need to turn the raw idea they have into a real-life computer application. The team can build its use in any computer language & platform. There are no set barriers for this. Spiralogics as well as other top profiled software companies will be providing mentorship to each of the team. Each team will be assigned the mentor two-weeks before the appathon to guide them on their project.

Professionals from the top IT companies and non-government organizations will be judging the event and choosing the winners.

Spirathon 2019 This year’s theme is AI for Impact. The organizers will conduct various pre-events leading up to the main event. Besides the appathon, they will also be inviting keynote speakers and attending a workshop during the pre-events.

We will be selecting teams from different IT colleges to compete with each other for the winning title. Each group will be assigned a mentor two-weeks before the appathon to guide them on their project. Teams will present their application and give a demo in the finale. Each side will be scored on different criteria by the judges.

What’s different this year? Spiralogics is organizing five different workshops throughout December as a pre-event leading up to its main event – Spirathon. Each workshop is held at different venues regarding various topics related to AI. Regarding the first workshop, Ashwin Dhakal, Associate Software Engineer from Yomari aims to provide an insight into deep learning for Natural Language Processing. The event is organized on 8th December at Apex College.

The second workshop is led by Aayush Subedi, Former CEO of Tootle and Co-founder of Moonlit and will take place in Softwarica College. The workshop will focus on the art of using Naive Bayes for Spam Detection.

Alongside the appathon, the main event will also include an AI conference where experts in Artificial Intelligence will be sharing their insights. This will be a platform where investors, IT professionals, students and entrepreneurs can come together to share their ideas and network.

About Spiralogics Spiralogics International is an American based software development company that currently employs over 60 members in Nepal. It has an office in Kathmandu, India as well as Atlanta. The company primarily builds applications for the American Health Insurance industry. Some of its clients include Walmart, Examworks, and AIG. Most of the client are among the Fortune 500 companies.

Spiralogics was established in 2002 in America and 2009 in Nepal. With 15+ experience in the software industry, the ICT Company has always desired to teach the new and upcoming developers with what it has learned over the years. Out of that idea, Spiralogics Institute of Technology (SIT) was born in 2017. SIT is a sister company of Spiralogics. SIT’s mission is simple: Makes you the best software engineer you can be.