Training on Artificial Intelligence held at BASIS

Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and senior experts of PUM Netherlands have jointly organised an exclusive nine-day training session on “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” aimed at helping ICT companies develop new AI-based products and services.

The training session from March 13 to March 21 was held at the BASIS auditorium in Dhaka. A total of 12 participants from six leading IT companies of the country attended the event, read a press release.

During the training session, participants learned how to develop their own company business strategies by using AI and they prepared a business model as per their training session.

On the final day of the training, BASIS Vice-President (Admin) Abu Daud Khan was present at the certificate-giving ceremony and handed over the certificates to the participants.

He thanked the trainers and said this type of training will help the IT industry to develop new AI-based products and services. And from the training BASIS members will be benefited, he added.

Hashim Ahmed, BASIS secretary, conducted the certificate-giving ceremony and Khaleda Begum, training coordinator from BITM, coordinated the training session.

Michiel Kupers, Claude Ndabarasa, and Paul Schreuder from PUM Netherlands conducted the training session.

PUM Netherlands and BASIS signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which is valid until December 31 this year. According to the MoU, PUM Netherlands will provide some services to BASIS as B2B matchmaking, and training sessions by senior trainers.

The session has been designed for business development, customer value proposition, business risks and assumptions, machine learning, clustering methods: k-means clustering, hierarchical clustering applications, neural networks: fitting, pattern recognition, sentiment analysis, natural language processing, transformer architecture example: GPT-3, applications.

The companies which took part in the training session are - Leads Corporation Ltd, MF Asia Ltd, Millennium Information Solution Ltd, RTC Hubs Ltd, Software Shop Ltd, and TMSS ICT Ltd.