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January 2019 Issue

The event was organized by The Department of
Information Technology & Electronics, Government of
West Bengal, in collaboration with West Bengal
Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited
(WBEIDCL) and NASSCOM. The overall project
management support is provided by the Project
Management Unit team from PricewaterhouseCoopers
Pvt. Ltd, attached to the Department of IT & E,
Government of West Bengal.

Venue Biswa Bangla Convention Centre 

At the beginning Shri Aninda Chatterjee, MD, WBEIDCL
welcomed the audience on behalf of The Department of
Information Technology & Electronics and Webel and
mentioned that this workshop is to share, enlighten,
deliberate and define the future direction of the emerging
technologies. This is the start of the journey in Bengal
taking dominant position in emerging technologies. He
welcomed the esteemed dignitaries of the inaugural
session on the dais and requested Shri Debashis Sen, IAS,
Addl Chief Secretary, Dept. of IT&E, Govt. of West Bengal,
to deliver the welcome address.
Shri Aninda Chatterjee, MD, WBEIDCL

In his welcome address Shri Debashis Sen, IAS, Addl. Chief Secretary, DIT&E mentioned that almost 500 conglomeration
start-ups, industries, academicians all over the world are working in the field of Quantum Computing. The Department
of IT & Electronics has been advocating that programming of all kinds, especially those related to AI and Robotics should
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be started from school level. Already in ICSE schools, Java is taught at 8 and 9 standard and in China they teach
Python and ARC from level 5. Very special languages such as True-Q, Q#, Corn, ARC are getting born and it is time to
learn Quantum Computing as it is going to come commercially within a decade or so.

He said, “we don’t want to fall behind this time”. Not only in terms of Quantum Computing, programming, or
specialised things that are coming along with it, but also in the chip design framework and participate in the global
design network.

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