Tech Saksham Collaborated with Microsoft, SAP & Edunet Foundation| Women Special Certified Program

Hello women learners! Are you, a woman who wants to learn about AI, Cloud Computing, Web Design, and Digital Marketing then we have come up with a fantastic opportunity for you as Tech Saksham Collaborated with Microsoft, SAP & Edunet Foundation for launching a program that covers aspects of AI, Cloud Computing, Web Design, and Digital Marketing so stay here until the end of the post to know more about this program.

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Table of Contents

1. About Tech Saksham
2. About Microsoft
3. About SAP
4. About Edunet Foundation
5. Objective of Tech Saksham Women Special Certified Program
6. Eligibility Criteria of Tech Saksham Women Special Certified Program
7. About Tech Saksham Women Special Certified Program
8. Topics covered in Vertical 1: Artificial Intelligence
9. What will you learn in Vertical 2: Cloud Computing
10. Topics covered in Vertical 3: Web Design and Digital Marketing
11. Benefits of Tech Saksham Women Special Certified Program
12. Learner’s Journey
13. How to apply

About Tech Saksham

The country has one of the youngest workforces in the world but with a large skill gap with regard to the jobs of the future, and an even higher gender disparity when it comes to STEM careers. To address this issue and attempt to turn this impending adversity into an opportunity, the Tech Saksham program aims to equip women with skills of the future and encourage them toward tech careers.

About Microsoft

Microsoft Founded in 1975, (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft set up its India operations in 1990. Today, Microsoft entities in India have over 10,000 employees, engaged in sales and marketing, research, development, and customer services and support, across 11 Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai,
and Pune. Microsoft offers its global cloud services from local data centers to accelerate digital transformation across Indian start-ups, businesses, and government organizations.

About SAP

SAP India is the fastest growing subsidiary of SAP SE, the world’s leading provider of business software solutions. SAP India began its operations in 1996 with headquarters in Bangalore and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, and a direct presence in nine cities across India, besides having marketing associates in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Declared as the ‘Hub of the year in the Asia Pacific and Japan” in 2007, SAP India witnessed an unprecedented growth of over 100% both in terms of license revenue and customer acquisition.

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About Edunet Foundation

Edunet Foundation (EF) promotes youth skilling, innovation, and entrepreneurship. It works with top global technology companies and Indian multinationals to further its goals. It has been working across the education spectrum – with government agencies, colleges, and schools around India – to help prepare our future workforce for future careers. Edunet Foundation enjoys “Special Consultative Status” with the Economic and Social Council at the United Nations. Edunet Foundation was recently certified as a “Great Place To Work”, by the Great Place To Work
Institute, the global entity that evaluates workplaces on key criteria such as credibility, respect, fairness, pride, and camaraderie.

Objective of Tech Saksham Women Special Certified Program

The main goal of the program is to progress women learners from degree completion to employment by (1) leveraging and expanding – experientially – their pre-existing knowledge of the curriculum that they have already gone through as a part of their existing programs (2) developing career readiness or employability skills. 

TSP curriculum helps build technical and project skills in participants so that they can be successful in the workplace. Students would, most probably, not have studied this content during their undergraduate curriculum. These areas will be addressed via lectures, hands-on sessions, assignments, learning activities, and a project.  

This program consists of core technical training content of around 80 hours to be delivered in instructor led sessions over a course of 16 weeks as per participating institution’s choice. The total duration of this program is around 200 hours to be run over the course of two semesters and it contains of about  24 weeks of learning activities. The program is broken into discrete modules, where each module has its own objectives and learning activities.   

Eligibility Criteria of Tech Saksham Women Special Certified Program

Women Learners from pre-final and final year pursuing degree / diploma courses in the field of BE/ B.Tech, B.Sc / M.Sc, BCA /MCA, PGDCA etc.

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About Tech Saksham Women Special Certified Program

With IR 4.0 technology being rapidly adopted across all industries and trades, the job roles are also transitioning from the traditional ones. To quickly adapt to this transition in the job market and be ready to take up the available jobs, getting the right set of skills needed for these jobs is of utmost importance. The most ubiquitous new job roles are related to the technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and Web Design, hence the modules being delivered in this program are also related to these skills. 

In a Total of  24 weeks, 100 hours of instructor led core technical training content, 20 hours of self-paced employability skills, and 40 hours of individualized review content is delivered as part of the program.

The core technical content breakdown has been delineated below.

Topics covered in Vertical 1: Artificial Intelligence

• Introduction to AI and it’s Fundamentals

1. Introduction to AI and understanding different AI terminologies  
2. Understanding the evolution of AI and the AI winter cycle 
3. The AI applications transforming various industries 
4. Current AI market trends and opportunities 
5. Chatbot fundamentals  
6. Building and hosting a chatbot 

• Fundamentals of Linux

1. Introduction to Linux Kernel and vital role of Linux in application development  
2. Working with Linux shell commands and different Linux text editors for Shell scripting 
3. Managing Linux files, users and permissions 

• Data Analysis with Python

1. Data Science vs Data Analysis vs Data Analytics 
2. Working with Python for Data Science  
3. Python packages for Data Analytics applications  
4. NumPy  
5. Matplotlib  
6. Pandas 
7. Data Analysis use cases 

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• Machine Learning Algorithms with Python

1. Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and Deep Learning (DL) 
2. Understanding how DL helps solve classical Machine Learning limitations 
3. Implementation of deep learning networks like CNN with TensorFlow  
4. Deep learning use cases 

• AI with Deep Learning Frameworks

1. Perceptron model and Learning rule  
2. Deep neural networks and its components  
3. Understanding how DL helps solve classical Machine Learning limitations 
4. Implementation of deep learning networks like CNN with TensorFlow  
5. Deep learning use cases 

• Engagement Activities/Bootcamps

1. Computer vision applications with OpenCV and OpenVINO toolkit- Introduction to computer vision and its applications, Developing computer vision applications with OpenCV, Computer vision use cases and Deep learning model optimization and deployment for inference at the edge with OpenVINO toolkit  
2. Natural Language processing with Python-Introduction to NLP, NLP applications, market trends and opportunities,Classification of NLP Working with python packages to develop NLP applications, NLP use cases 
3. Text based Chatbot development-Introduction to chatbots, Chatbot applications, market trends and opportunities,Understanding chatbot architecture  and Development and deployment of text based chatbots.

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What will you learn in Vertical 2: Cloud Computing

• Cloud Computing Concepts: A quick dive

1. Cloud computing evolution, challenges and opportunities  
2. Cloud computing fundaments and classifications   
3. Characteristics of Cloud Computing  
4. Cloud Deployment Model  
5. Cloud Service Delivery Model 
6. Cloud Global Infrastructures  

• Insights into Azure Cloud Environment 

1. Azure Core Services and its classifications  
2. Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services  
3. Building applications with azure cognitive services 

• Building and Managing Cloud Application with Microsoft Azure 

1. Customer Managed IaaS  Fully Managed PaaS  
2. Serverless Applications (Code-Only)  
3. Introduction to Containers  
4. Container vs VM  
5. Docker Containers  
6. Container Images and Repositories  
7. Container Orchestration using Kubernetes  

• Artificial Intelligence- the Azure Way of doing it! 

1. Challenges related to AI implementations  
2. Solutions from Microsoft Azure for AI implementation  
3. Computation Made Easy  
4. Analytics is more fun  
5. Data Management is a game  
6. Automation at its best  

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Topics covered in Vertical 3: Web Design and Digital Marketing

• Understanding Web Application Architecture

1. Web application components and classification of web applications
2. HTML for web Layout
3. CSS for Page Design
4. JS for Client-side scripting 

• Handling the Web Data at Backend

1. Understanding Server-Side Scripting Web application dev with PHP, Syntax, semantics, data types, variables, flow control and loop control 
2. Handling Client-side data using PHP 
3. Managing Sessions at Server and Cookies at Client 
4. Creating sessions, session data, reading and writing cookies at client side 

• Connecting End-to-End

1. Introduction to relational databases- MySQL Introducing relational databases, need for database, persistent storage benefits, MySQL basics, commands 
2. Handling databases 
3. CRUD operations using SQL, DDL and DML 
4. Managing data in databases using PHP 
5. Connecting to MySQL DB using PHP, performing CRUD operations using PHP, persistent storage of front-end data to MySQL DB 

• Modern Web Development using ReactJS and JQuery

1. ReactJS framework, develop using React components and single page applications 
2. JQuery for web application development, using component properties and dynamic handling of pages 

• Getting Started with Digital Marketing and its Applications

1. Quick dive into digital marketing fundamentals  
2. Digital marketing trends, challenges and opportunities, web elements involved, scope in web development 
3. Applying the DM concepts in web 
4. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for websites/ webapps, connecting through social media, routing and landing to marketing strategic locations on web

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Benefits of Tech Saksham Women Special Certified Program

• This programme is fully supported by Microsoft and SAP. The course is FREE. 
• Market linked upskilling in key high demand areas
• Project based experiential learning with technology boot camps, hackathons and community centricprojectwork
• Tech talks and career conversationswith industry leaders and experts
• Access to internships, jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities to all participants that meet program requirements.
• Students who satisfactorily complete the program will receive course completion certificates (certified by both Microsoft and SAP) and placement/internship assistance. 

Learner’s Journey

How to apply

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