Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 19: J&K’s first ever DevFest 2022 was organised by Google Developer Group, Jammu, J&K in collaboration with Jammu and Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institution (JKEDI), Jammu.
Amit Sharma, Secretary Department of Mining, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, who happened to be IT Secretary and CEO, J&K e-Governance Agency in the past, was invited as the chief guest of this event for motivating the gathering of technocrats and young software developers.
Amit Sharma, in his address, said that future belongs to these developers and all Government departmental services are going online including successful implementation of e-Office in all the departments leading from Civil Secretariats, both at Jammu & Srinagar.
Amit Sharma mentioned that the Government of J&K is encouraging IT reforms in a big way, taking lot of initiatives like recent co-parterning in the 25th National e-Governance Conference, promoting capacity building programmes and fests in a big way and giving a level playing platform to all the potential stakeholders of IT domain in the shape of internship programmes in J&K e-Governance Agency.
Amit also shared the features of ongoing Digital J&K campaign which was a much-needed step to take UT to next level of reforms wherein all services are provisioned through active campaigns like BEAMS, ‘Aapka Mobile, Hamara Daftar’, ‘Aapki Zameen, Aapki Nigrani’ and e-Challan and e-Marketplace in the Mining sector for the convenience of general public.
Er Ajaz Ahmed Bhat, Director JKEDI; Surinder Choudhary, Additional SP Samba; Paryavaran Ratna Awardee Sushil Singh Charak were also present on the occasion.
Earlier, Shikha Saxena, Customer Engineer, Google, started the session with her presentation and shared their highly valuable knowledge with the students. She shared about the job opportunities for developers at Google India.
Other prominent speakers include Pawan Kumar, Head of Engineering at Frontier; Ayush Shekhar, Engineering Manager at Frontrow; Aman Saini, Software Developer Engineer at Amazon; Abhishek Raj, Software Developer Engineer at Swiggy; Bhavyta Aggarwal, GDSC IIT Jammu Lead ’21; Harshita Jain, GitHub Campus Exper; Kavach Chandra, CTO at FreeStand; Loveleen Kaur, Google Android Educator, Co-organizer GDG Chandigarh; Akshay Kumar, Tech Lead Sadhana BM Private Limited; Parth Verma, Principal Engineer at C14 and Abhinandan Trilokia, Android Engineer, Organizer, GDG Jammu.
At the end, Abhinandan Trilokia, Chief Organizer of the Google Developers Group Jammu said that global trends have shaped-up in such a way that developers are thinking, up-skilling themselves and focusing on what’s next.
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