Mr. Deepak Agrawal, Full Stack Lead Engineer, Morgan Stanley (New York) delivered a lecture on “Big Data with a focus on Spark using Python” on the 17th of July 2021. The lecture was organized by the School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University. He has a BE in CS from BITS Pilani and an MS in CS from UCLA. His lecture enlightened and benefited Graduate and Master’s students, research scholars, and faculty members by giving them a high-level overview of how the contemporary and highly sought-after technology of Big Data can be used in various practical scenarios. He also demonstrated hands-on how Spark can be used to program big data problems. The session was interactive by efforts put in by the speaker, students, and the host. Prof. Jyotiprakash Mishra of the School of Computer Engineering was the host of this session.