BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND SMART INNOVATION CONFERENCE








Harnessing the Potential of AI, Analytics, and Robotics in Business

Date: 25 February 2025 - 1 March 2025

About BASIC 25

The Business Analytics and Social Innovation Conference (BASIC 2025) is a forum which helps stimulate, discuss, debate and publish new developments and advances in various areas of Big Data and analytics quickly and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, research, development, and applications of Big Data, as embedded in the fields of business, management and social innovation and social entrepreneurship. The conference aims at providing an excellent platform for knowledge sharing on data analytics and Social Innovation. The five-day event shall have:

Sr. No. Date Event
1 25th February 2025 - 26th February 2025 Data Quezt (Hackathon) and Preconference workshop
2 27th February 2025 Research Conference & Paper Presentation
3 28th February 2025 Smart Innovation Ideas competition
4 1st March 2025 Mumbai Darshan (City Tour)

Data Quezt

About the Data Quezt:

Ideas are the lifeblood of a company to survive in this modern digital era. Over last few decades, innovation has become one of the most meaningful resources for successful management. In order to ignite invention as the first step, a number of methods have been introduced. One of them is hackathon. Hackathons have become increasingly popular in recent years as a modern tool for innovation. It is a concept in which solutions for complex problems, products, and services are developed within a short time.


Vivekanand Education Society’s Business School organizes Business Analytics and Smart Innovation International conference (BASIC 25) from 25th February to 1st March, 2025. The Hackathon; “Data Quezt” - a PAN India competition; is organized under BASIC 25.


FIRST LEVEL:

      ✓ Participants/ Teams will be provided a Problem Statement with appropriate explanation of it.
      ✓ Teams are allowed to work on any platform like Python, Tableau and MS Excel technologies.
      ✓ Teams will be given 24 hours to solve the problem.
      ✓ Teams should submit all the observations along with original code/sheets to the given drive location.
      ✓ Jury will evaluate each group after submission.
      ✓ Top 10 teams will proceed to the next level.


SECOND LEVEL:

      ✓ Teams are required to deliver 10-15 minutes Presentation on their findings before the Jury members.
      ✓ Jury members will rate the participants and will select top 3 winners.
      ✓ Attractive Cash prizes for Winner, First Runner-up, and Second Runner-up.




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Pre conference Workshop:

Research is intrinsic to everything that we do and translates into insights that change the way we live. It has a scientific base and a definite formula that helps to resolve complex issues, reduces the possibility of false conclusions, and is based on data that can be more convincing.

Today the role of research in an academic institution is important for its growth and development, benefiting the students, the society, and the nation. Centers of Higher education are established to help in the economic, social, and cultural development of the nation. The key function of Institutes is to inspire students to do research in areas of interest, which would be beneficial for all, and encourage their teaching faculty to keep developing and strengthening the Eco system with a research culture. Thus to facilitate the pursuit of knowledge leading to research.

Academic research can be defined as the basic research carried out to increase the understanding of fundamental principles in areas of core interest. The main objective of academic research is the creation of knowledge. It has the power to alter how a particular subject is viewed. It uses the scientific method to maintain objectivity at all times. Research is crucial for everybody who enjoys learning, regardless of whether they are affiliated with a research organization. Academic research expands a person’s knowledge and competencies of the subject and career horizons. A research-based approach will definitely make a remarkable change in the teaching and learning process. VES Business School, is in pursuit of facilitating research culture to entire academic fraternity. The pre-conference workshop is a PAN India workshop.

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Research Conference

Exhibition on Smart Innovation:

Smart Innovation is the new buzz word and comes as a gift to a nation. Today's world is grappling with major social issues altering into global problems. Nations are struggling with sluggish economic problems like water scarcity, environmental pollution, poverty, unemployment, political instabilities and many more. Smart innovation signifies the design and execution of novel solutions that entail changes related to concept, process, product, or structural change, which eventually target to develop the welfare and wellbeing of individuals, communities and society.

Smart innovation unlocks resilient solution to social and environmental challenges to create sustainable practices thereby empowering people with skills, creativity and technological advancements. Smart Innovation are new procedures to meet existing social needs to enhance the existing problems. We at VBS through Business Analytics and Smart Innovation International Conference (BASIC) aims to bring students, researchers, and innovators together to create a social impact by exploring solutions to extant socioeconomic and environmental problems through user-centred research for emerging markets contributing to economic development.

BASIC provides platform for showcasing ideas for people, prosperity, planet, peace and partnership. It will provide channels though, which young generation can participate, showcase and compete generate exciting innovative ideas to address social problems.It is a PAN India Exhibition.


The competition has two dimensions:


      • Startup Idea Pitch Competition

    The Startup Idea Pitch is a unique platform for aspiring entrepreneurs to present their innovative concepts to a distinguished panel of judges. The competition revolves around a succinct presentation that encapsulates your business idea, framework, solution, marketing strategy, and competitive analysis within a strict ten-minute time frame.


      • Smart Innovation Exhibition

    The competition provides a singular platform for contestants to express their original creative ideas in the form of models and posters that address current social issues and simultaneously balance economic growth and social ideals.


Guidelines for Exhibition

      ✓ The participants need to abide by the below written rules and regulations and maintain proper discipline.
      ✓ Participants can either be individual or in a group of 2 or 3. Group registration with team and idea details is mandatory.
      ✓ Participants are requested to kindly be present at the venue a day prior if they are coming from distant places. Note: - travelling and stay expenses would not be compensated or arranged by college.
      ✓ Conference Reporting time is 8:00 am and Stall should be set up by 11:00 am sharp.
      ✓ Presentation pitch time limit 10 min.
      ✓ Participants are kindly requested to carry all of required material & equipment to showcase their idea/ model. The college shall not provide them with any.
      ✓ No hazardous, flammable, or toxic materials to be used. Candles, Bunsen burners and electrical heating devices are strictly prohibited.

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