From spam filters to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly and is deemed by many as a great transformative technology. However, very little is known as to what transpires under the hood of the AI system. As AI makes its way into our day to day life, the challenges in the field of AI is no longer limited to achieving state-of-the-art but also addressing concerns around ethics, explainability, robustness, trustworthiness, fairness, and AI lifecycle management among others. We, at IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter, bring these topics alive by interacting with the best minds in industry and academia by spearheading a two-day Flagship Symposium on “AI Life Cycle: Industry Challenges and Research Frontiers”. This symposium will focus on techniques around lifecycle management of AI models and underlying challenges, new techniques in optimization, endowed with foundational bases to enrich and accelerate training without relying heavily on augmented architectures.