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Bengaluru: Indian IT industry’s apex body Nasscom on Wednesday unveiled the 6th edition of its Big Data and Analytics here to highlight their disruptive role in development of AI (Artificial Intelligence) worldwide. The industry body identified six areas of specialization, spanning business analysts, solution architects, data architects, analysts and scientists, in the Big Data Analytics domain which are expected to be key to sectors growth. The capacity of workers to master these new skills and availability of talent will be key driver of competitiveness in the Big Data and Analytics industry. “Data science and AI technologies allows harnessing complex, high volume, high speed data into insights for decision making, emerging as the one of biggest growth opportunities for India to capitalise on,” said Nasscom Vice Chairman Keshav Murugesh at the summit. The participants also focused on embedding AI into business processes (back office), supply chain application, data protection in the age of AI and man-machine interface..