On 8 August, HCLTech and Economic Times conducted an eight-hour online AI Masterclass for second, third and fourth-year engineering students , designed to equip them with the artificial intelligence (AI) skills needed to become industry-ready. Around 300 students from 70 colleges, selected as campus ambassadors, alongside top performers of AMPlified – The AI Challenge participated in the masterclass.
Opening the masterclass, HCLTech’s Corporate Vice President & Global Head of Digital Business, Pawan Vadapalli , emphasised that skills in the AI era goes beyond coding. Students, he said, need to learn how to frame problems, understand business context, communicate ideas and exercise engineering judgement. “AI can make coding faster,” he noted, “but it does not remove the need for engineering thinking.”
