Resonance Colleges, Hyderabad, organized the Career Clarity Conclave & Expo – 2026, a focused career-guidance and awareness initiative for students and parents on career options after Class 12, today at the JNTU Auditorium, Hyderabad. The day-long conclave featured 5 structured expert sessions with interactive student–parent Q&A. Ramesh Loganathan (Dean, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad) message to the students was “Choose Computer Science based on aptitude and fundamentals—strong problem-solving will always stay relevant.” The conclave brought together leading voices from premier institutions and industry to provide practical guidance on career pathways, course selection, competitive exam direction, admissions awareness, and emerging opportunities across Engineering, Medicine, Science, Technology, and allied domains. Each session included one keynote speaker and two panel members, enabling students to gain multi-perspective clarity and real-world insights.

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad hosted the Urban AI Forum: Rethinking Cities by Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, an official pre-summit event of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, in partnership with Bordeaux Métropole, NASSCOM and iSPIRT on 29 January. The forum on campus brought together policymakers, academics, industry leaders and civil society representatives to explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence in shaping the future of cities. The Urban AI Forum served as a platform for dialogue on how AI-driven technologies can enhance urban governance, sustainability, inclusivity and democratic participation. The event aimed to move the conversation beyond conventional smart city narratives towards a deeper understanding of Urban AI as a critical enabler of data-driven, citizen-centric urban transformation. The programme featured two panel discussions and a thematic presentation highlighting global and local perspectives on AI-enabled urban development.

A multilingual, spatially mapped news aggregation engine developed at IIITH is evolving into a powerful tool to track governance and the quality of urban life across the country, with Hyderabad as its first live testbed. In the world of e-governance, pictures often speak louder than reports. Maps, charts and visual dashboards help administrators see patterns such as distribution of government initiatives, where crimes are rising, which districts face repeated civic issues, and how different regions compare in real time – all that would otherwise remain buried in spreadsheets. By turning complex data into intuitive visual form, pictorial and spatial representations have become a cornerstone of modern, data-driven governance. It is this belief – good governance begins with good visualisation – that lies at the heart of a new research platform being developed at IIITH. The project began as a spatial mapping of a news aggregation engine: a system designed to collect news from multiple newspapers, translate it across Indian languages, and plot every report on a map to show where issues were emerging across the state.