A workshop on the Mediation Chatbot Studio was conducted by the Centre combining concepts of Artificial Intelligence, legal reasoning, system design, and product thinking.
The session was be led by Prof. Spriha Bhandari, Assistant Director – CSCAILR along with Ms. Anya Batra (COO, Jhana.AI), Mr. Devansh Ghatak (Co-founder and CTO of Simplismart; Ex- Machine Learning Engineer at Google), and Mr. Barnik Bhattacharya (Product Manager – Data Science & AI at Omnissa). Also, an Advisor Meeting was held with Mrs. Veena Ralli, Advocate and Organising Secretary of Samadhan, the Delhi High Court Mediation and Conciliation Centre. Post this meeting, the Studio reached a critical early milestone, viz., transitioning from conceptual exploration to structured prototypes, legal frameworks, and interdepartmental collaboration. The project gained its direction towards building a Mediator Training Simulator: an AI-driven tool to train mediators through realistic simulations.