Tools to Working from home in Sri Lanka.

Working from home is getting more important in these days due to lockdowns in many countries. Following free and paid tools helps you to manage your work efficiently at home.

Skype

We all know Skype for conference calls, instant messaging with clients or chat rooms. But if you haven’t been using it for business, you may have missed out on some new functionalities. Record Skype calls to capture key decisions, and use live subtitles to read the words spoken. Easily share presentations, images, or anything on your screen during a call with integrated screen sharing. Access one skype account across multiple devices—even Alexa!

https://www.skype.com/en/

Slack

Slack is the communication tool that brings remote teams together. The platform organizes conversations into channels, which team members can join and leave, as needed, so nobody receives messages or notifications irrelevant to them. Conversations can also be had in threads, which keep messages outside of the main channel so chats don’t get in the way of main topics and projects.

Key features

• Instant messaging: Live communication between every team member for seamless collaboration.

• Statuses: Users can set availability statuses to focus on individual tasks as needed.

• File sharing: Drag-and-drop file sharing for PDFs, images, videos and other common files types.

• Voice & video calls: Voice and video calls directly from within Slack.

• Screen sharing: Allows team members to show their work to others in real-time for stronger collaboration.

https://slack.com/intl/en-lk/

GoToMeeting

GoToMeeting is a web-hosted service created and marketed by LogMeIn. It is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real time.

https://www.gotomeeting.com/

Zoom

Zoom is a suite of video conferencing and communication tools designed for remote teams, virtual businesses conferences, webinars and other corporate purposes. We use Zoom for our virtual meetings, which we can use to run video and voice calls, but it’s capable of much more than this.

Key features

· Video meetings: Remote teams can run video meetings and one-to-one video calls.

· Voice calls: You can also run group or one-to-one voice calls when face-to-face meetings aren’t necessary.

· Webinars: You can also use Zoom to host webinars.

· Messaging: Team members can send messages using Zoom.

· File sharing: Share files during and outside of video/voice chats for collaboration between members.

https://zoom.us/

Microsoft Teams

Teams is a chat-based collaboration tool that provides global, remote, and dispersed teams with the ability to work together and share information via a common space. You can utilize cool features like document collaboration, one-on-one chat, team chat, and more. Microsoft Teams is also fully integrated with many other Office 365 services, such as Skype, SharePoint, Exchange, and Yammer.

https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/work-remotely

Team viewer

TeamViewer is a remote access software that allows desktop sharing and file transfer. It is an exceptionally secure software that does not disturb the functioning of existing firewall or antivirus in your system. TeamViewer 14 protects your data simultaneously while you are sharing your desktop screen through remote access.

TeamViewer helps in increasing your output significantly. The remote access software helps in sharing files while your system is on the screen sharing mode.

Features of TeamViewer 14

• Advanced Device Grouping

• One-Click Remote

• Optimized for macOS

• Custom Device Information

• Performance stability on low bandwidth

• Improved connection quality

• QuickSupport for service camp integration

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/

Cisco Webex

Cisco Webex is a cloud-based collaboration suite comprised of Webex Meetings, Webex Teams and Webex Devices. The Webex suite is a merger of Cisco’s WebEx web conferencing platform and Cisco Spark team collaboration app. The services rebranded under Webex in April 2018 to centralize Cisco’s collaboration portfolio.

Features of Cisco Webex

• HD Video Conferencing

• Platform Versatility and Data Protection

• Secure Online Meetings Anywhere

• Integrated Communication

• Easily Share Desktops and Documents

https://www.webex.com/

Data Science Lecturing at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT).

Recently I had conducted Data Science Lecturing at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology for Data Science batch.  Lecturing was span across six week for 40 students covering following topics –

• Introduction to Spyder IDE, Jupiter Notebook with Python basics
• Azure Machine Learning
• Python Data science libraries / Pandas /Scikit Learn
• Introduction to tenser flow basics
• Basic Neural Networks using tenser flow

Data Science and Machine learning Bootcamp training at Singapore.

Recently I did Data Science and Machine learning Bootcamp training at Singapore for VISA Employees.

This 3 days training was focus on getting started with Data Science technologies. Azure machine learning studio, R studio, Jupyter Notebook , Spyder with Python for data science. It also includes real world usage of machine learning for regression, classification and product recommendations.

Course Outline –

https://uditha.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/data-science-bootcamp-training-sri-lanka-singapore/

5  developers from Visa Worldwide ,Singapore attended 3 Days training.

https://www.visa.com.sg/

For Training Requirement Contact-

udithamail@yahoo.com

udithait@gmail.com

training@bluechiptraining.biz

Global AI Night , Colombo – Sri Lanka 2019.

The Global AI Night is a free evening event organized by local communities all over the world that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on the Microsoft Azure.
The event takes place on the Tuesday 2nd of April on venues all over the world centrally organized by our HQ in the Netherlands, supported by Microsoft. The event is the perfect balance between quality content, awesome lectures, getting your hands dirty and learn & share with other community members.

Dive in and learn how to implement intelligence into your solutions with the Microsoft AI platform, including pre-trained AI services like Cognitive Services and Bot Framework, as well as deep learning tools like Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio Code Tools for AI, and Cognitive Toolkit.

During this AI Night you will get inspired through sessions and get your hands dirty during the workshops. By the end of the night you will be able to infuse AI into your applications.

Event Contact-
udithait@gmail.com
training@bluechiptraining.biz

http://datasciencesrilanka.education
+94716092918

Meetup Page- https://www.meetup.com/Colombo-AI-Technology-Meetup/events/258786956/

Registration URL – https://bit.ly/2Tcb10I

AI , Data Science and Machine Learning Workshop at Yangon, Myanmar.

Recently I did 2 Days AI , Data Science and Machine Learning Workshop at Yangon, Myanmar for Microsoft partners.

I covered following topics at the training.

Introduction to Machine Learning

Introduction to Azure Machine Learning

Managing Data-sets

Building Azure Machine Learning Models

Using Azure Machine Learning Models

Using Cognitive Services

Building Product Recommender system

Microsoft BOT framework

Data Science Frameworks

Deep Learning Frameworks

15 Software developers from Yangon attended 2 days of training.

For Training Requirement Contact-

udithamail@yahoo.com

udithait@gmail.com

training@bluechiptraining.biz

Colombo AI Technology Meetup.

We had recently started Colombo AI Technology Meetup group.

This Meetup group we are planning to Promote Data Science ,

AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning technologies in Sri Lanka.

Right now we have close to 200 members in this groups.

https://www.meetup.com/Colombo-AI-Technology-Meetup/

First major event we planning is Global AI Night – Colombo

https://www.meetup.com/Colombo-AI-Technology-Meetup/events/258786956/

Machine Learning and AI Workshop at Microsoft Sri Lanka.

Recently I had conducted  Machine Learning and AI workshop at Microsoft Sri Lanka.  Around 40 attended the workshop. Employees from various IT companies and organizations attended the event. Their ware 700+ registration for this workshop.

Topics covered at the workshop-

https://uditha.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/big-data-and-machine-learning-workshop-sri-lanka/

Data Science and Machine Learning Workshop Sri Lanka.

Register Now –

https://goo.gl/Y5VkU2

Event Page-

https://www.facebook.com/events/407562449787674/

Big Data Workshop Sri Lanka.

The main purpose of this workshop is to give students the ability to use Microsoft R Server to create and run an analysis on a large dataset, and show how to utilize it in Big Data environments, such as a Hadoop or Spark cluster, or a SQL Server database.

Module 1: Introduction to Big Data

Big Data – Current Industry Trends
Why Process Big Data?
Challenges in Data Processing
Why Hadoop?
Hadoop Network Structure
Hadoop Eco-System
Hadoop Core Components
Hadoop HDFS

Module 2: Exploring Big Data

Understanding ScaleR data sources
Reading data into an XDF object
Summarizing data in an XDF object

Module 3: Visualizing Big Data
Visualizing In-memory data
Visualizing big data

Module 4: Processing Big Data
Transforming Big Data
Managing datasets

Module 5: Parallelizing Analysis Operations
Using the RxLocalParallel compute context with rxExec
Using the revoPemaR package

 

Conducted by-
Uditha Bandara is specializes in Microsoft Development technologies.  He is the South East Asia`s First XNA/DirectX MVP (Most Valuable Professional).  He had delivered sessions at various events and conferences in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and India. He has published several books,articles, tutorials, and game demos on his Blog – https://uditha.wordpress.com

· Contact    +94 071-6092918

· udithamail@yahoo.com

· udithait@gmail.com

Data Science and Machine Learning Workshop Sri Lanka.

Register Now –
https://goo.gl/uXxzWp

Event Page-

https://www.facebook.com/events/1891216794296922/