IEEE Techsters’ Meet up, August Edition was successfully held on the 31st of August, 2017 at Hall No 03(NFC3), New Faculty Complex, University of Sri Jayewardenepura from 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 pm with the participation of  Mr. Haritha Thilakarathne (Engineer-Data Science and analytics at Tech One Global Ltd, Colombo) as the guest speaker and the mentors of the IEEE student branch, University of Sri Jayawardenepura,  Dr. P. Ravindra De Silva( Senior lecturer, Department of Computer science, Faculty of Applied Sciences) and  Dr. K. S. Lasith Gunawardena (Senior Lecturer, Department of Information technology, faculty of Management Studies & Commerce).

Session was commenced with Mr.Dulan Dias welcoming the gathering and inviting Mr. Harith Thilakarathne to deliver the guest speech for the meet up. Topics of the session were Machine Learning, AI and Chatbots. It was an interactive session with many questions raised towards the audience by the speaker to get to know the audience better and to deliver his knowledge precisely.  The audience also raised questions to fill up their gaps in knowledge and to get to know what is happening in the tech world outside the university boundaries.

Speech included audio and visual information about the topics the guest speaker was covering. It also included an interesting video about experiments carried out on Artificial intelligence. Mr. Haritha Thilankarathne concluded his speech leaving the audience enthusiastic and more interested to know about the latest advancements in the tech world.

The session was followed by a mini hackathon with the participation of all the members of the audience. They were divided into small groups of five and were to answer a few questions on coding. Everyone gathered hurrying to find the answers to the questions within the given limited amount of time. After the mini hackathon, the motivated audience were given IEEE stickers appreciating their presence at the session.

IEEE Techsters’ Meet up-August Edition concluded successfully, meeting the goals for the day, by enhancing the knowledge of the young minds of the gathering. IEEE Student Branch was immensely thankful for Mr. Haritha Thilakarathne for sharing his knowledge with the members and for spending his precious time to make this event a success.

Article By
Hasini Perera
IEEE Student Member,
University of Sri Jayewardenepura.