SPIN Chennai (Affiliated to Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) celebrates the Pearl jubilee – 30 years of excellence and innovation with organising a premier conference on AI with the theme Spinning Gen AI
@ Hotel Hablis, Guindy, Chennai
Chennai, India, June 4, 2025: SPICON 2025, an initiative by SPIN Chennai (www.spinchennai.org) marked a culmination of Knowledge base industry people across industries.
Software Process Improvement Network (a.k.a) SPIN Chennai (not for profit entity) is one of the 100+ SPINs in the world is now a 30-year-old knowledge network out of Chennai, affiliated to Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. SPIN Chennai instituted Watts Humphrey awards in memory of the world-famous quality guru Dr. Watts Humphrey (hailed as the father of software quality across the world) for contributions that generate value for customers through implementation of practices including Agile, DevOps, Automation, Design Thinking, Lean, Six sigma, CMMI 2.0, High Maturity Processes, AI-ML, Innovation etc.
President of SPIN Chennai, Dr. Rajaram Venkataraman during his welcome address spoke about the road travelled by SPIN Chennai during the last 30 years with each decade’s focus being different and how spin chennai has led the industry from the front and provided leading edge leadership. He also talked about the importance that SPIN chennai is placing on trends like AI with specific focus on Gen AI, agentic AI, SLM (small language model) and Deep tech for the current decade including the next 5 years or so.
Mr. Rajamanickam, Chair of program committee elaborated on the theme and structure of the conference.
Special Address by Guest of Honour, Dr. Sivaramakrishnan R Guruvayur, Chief AI
Scientist, Aquarians ai, Dubai & Research Advisor with Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI), IIT Madras spoke about coining to current Responsible AI, Ethics in AI, closed and open models and its bias. He spoke about the strategy to null the kill.
Inaugural Keynote Address by Chief Guest, Dr. Srikanth Sundararajan, General Partner,
Ventureast and Advisor to T-Hub, Hyderabad spoke on Leveraging AI for software productivity and highlights on product strategy and customer insights and on SLM. He touched upon the hallucinating algorithms and trust issues on Gen AI especially on fabricated legal clauses and medical prescriptions.
Dr. L.N. Rajaram, one of the core members of the founding team of Spin chennai, made a special announcement about the launch of the Formation of Deep Tech Forum, a Special Interest Group at SPIN Chennai. He addressed the need for such a forum specifically for a country like India, who houses 30,000 Deep Tech companies.
Panel Session 1 “Technologies for Generative AI”
Mr. Ramesh Krishnamurthy, chair of the plenary 1 on technologies involved in Gen AI said that technology is rapidly changing with an evolving paradigm and brings new order of value every time.
Mr. Madhan Karthikeyan Anbalagan, Senior Principal, Infosys
Spoke about autonomous agents, AI on top of legacy software and acts as an interface between software. Insights on Actionable Agentic ai for future and Humans will review on the actions of Agents. (No out of box agents, Context data matters, Reliability, Evaluation and said there need not be UI for agentic AI), and said world is moving towards Test driven development at real time Environment. AI will assist Human’s in Gen ai era whereas humans will be assistant to agents in agentic era. Also touched upon Agent-to-agent protocol and searching agents.
Dr LN Rajaram spoke about video Analytics and phygital technologies where videos from sensors like cameras about 1.5 million in India’s transport solutions to increase the range of coverage through multiple cameras located at Parking facilities, crowded area. Pretrained object modules and curated by filters through sequence analysis can provide solutions using the features of the products are compute intensive with complex models. Particularly solutions for Railways (alerting track workers, accident avoidance) and in Warehouse. AI Learning to differentiate between normal and abnormal live environments. Agentic ai will detection and translation into actions or alerts. He predicted Humans can’t be invisible in space which may become illegal in future but will be watched over all time in spite of privacy policies.
Ms. Gayathri Devi Jayan, India Chapter President, Applied AI Association.