Analytics Club

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Analytics club Inauguration Report

WeSleshak, the students’ Analytics club at Welingkar, has been established with a specific focus of facilitating and building analytics platform across disciplines and beyond. The club was officially inaugurated on December 03, 2019 by Mr. Philip V Varughese, Vice President & Global Lead – Applied Intelligence & Analytics: Accenture Security. The world is churning huge volume of data every day and this volume comes from apps, social media sites, videos, online searches, emails and so on. The key challenges before the organisation is therefore how to analyse and interpret such Big Data to improve business performance.

WeSleshak is a platform to nurture this huge skill requirement in the area of Analytics with three objectives:

• To equip the future manager with certain skill sets of drawing insights from structured and unstructured data and solve real time business problems; • To promote academic and industry projects in the form of internship and/or of any other contractual agreement; • To strengthen the relationship with other B-Schools by adopting various co-curricular and extra-curricular activities including management fest, competitions and so on.

The programme started with a welcome speech by the student volunteer, followed by the dignitaries and the Chief Guest lighting the lamp to inaugurate the occasion. We had the Analytics club Logo being launched by the Chief Guest. In the inaugural address Mr. Varughese emphasised on the significance of data analytics for the growth and development of any organization and being competitive in this VUCA world. The function concluded with a thanks giving speech from the student coordinator.

Mr. Philip V Varughese with Faculty Members and students of WeSleshak