Faculty of Computer Applications (FCA) organized an expert lecture on ‘SMAC (Social Mobile Analytics Cloud) Technologies and the future’ under FCA ACM Student Chapter. The guest speaker was Mr. Ajay Deshpande, Vice President, Zimbra Technologies PVT Ltd, Pune. He is an ACM eminent speaker and an alumnus of IIT Bombay. Dr S S Tyagi, Dean FCA and Dr. Shaveta Bhatia, HOD welcomed the guest.

Before starting the expert lecture, the 3^rd issue of newsletter of FCA was released by Mr. Ajay, Dr S S Tyagi and Dr. Shaveta Bhatia. He started his speech by putting light on four pillars of current & future trends i.e. social, mobility, analytics & cloud (SMAC) and prompted how pillars of computing will shape the future. He ended his talk by giving an idea of the projects to work on.

The event was ended by presenting the appreciation certificate to Karan Chandra and Chandan Kumar (BCA Final Year Students) for their valuable contribution in designing and publication of 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd edition of the newsletter. The faculty and students have appreciated the knowledge shared by the guest speaker. In the end, Dean-FCA and HOD-CA felicitated the guest by momento.