Microsoft to Host Machine Learning Event in India This Year

New Delhi: Software giant Microsoft will host the maiden edition of its Machine Learning and Data Sciences Conference in India this year, highlighting the importance of the Indian market in terms of future deployment of these new emerging technologies. He added that Machine Learning is one of the key focus areas, in which Microsoft is making significant inroads, both in terms of R&D breakthroughs as well as real customer impact. Using these new technologies, Microsoft has developed several apps, including the one that helps farmers in India predict the right sowing dates for particular crops, a predictive analytics app that effectively identifies students at the risk of dropping out of school and one that identifies individuals who are most likely to default on loans taken from the government?s microfinance schemes. ?In addition to large enterprises, government and academia, sessions at the Bengaluru event will be beneficial for start-ups, including current and future applicants to the Microsoft?s Accelerator programme,?