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NIC celebrates AI Day, 2021

rtificial Intelligence (AI) Day was celebrated by NIC on the 25th January
2021. Hosted at NIC HQ, the event witnessed the participation of NIC
Aofficials from across the nation through video conferencing.
Shri Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, Asia South at NVIDIA, and Dr.
(Prof) NN Mathur, Director & Additional DGHS & Director Professor (ENT)
Lady Hardinge Medical College were the invited guests who addressed the
participants of the event through video conferencing.
DG NIC, Dr. Neeta Verma launched the NIC service AIAAS (AI as a Service)
on NIC Cloud and also released the white paper on COE-AI services consisting
of NIC achievements in the last two years related to various e-Governance
applications. Top winners of the AI Hackathon which was held last year
were felicitated. It was on the same day last year, NIC’s Centre of Excellence
in AI (COE-AI) at NIC HQ was inaugurated by the Hon’ble Union Minister, Shri
Ravishankar Prasad.

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