National Association of Software and Services Companies [NASSCOM] launched India’s first Centre of Excellence – Internet of Things [CoE- IoT] at the NASSCOM Startups Warehouse in Bengaluru. The centre was inaugurated by Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Law, in the presence of Mr. Priyank Kharge, Minister for Information and Broadcast Technology, Govt. of Karnataka, along with Ms V Manjula, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology, e-Governance & Science & Technology, Govt. of Karnataka, Mr. R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM among others. The CoE will focus on leveraging IT strengths & creating a new age industry with the support of IoT based ideas.

Ms V Manjula, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology, e-Governance and Science & Technology, Govt. of Karnataka said

We recognise the scope for growth and development in the IoT space and are very pleased on partnering with NASSCOM and the private sector to launch the CoE in Karnataka. We have always strived to create a conducive ecosystem for IT companies in the state, with this initiative we hope to give start-ups an opportunity to innovate in the field of IoT and take the IT sector into newer and greater heights.

The CoE is a joint initiative between the Department of Electronics and Information Technology [DEITY], Education and Research Network [ERNET] and NASSCOM. The CoE is also supported by Accenture, CISCO, Cyient, EMC, Intel, HCL Technologies, Qualcomm, Tata Consultancy Services, L&T Technology Services, Robert Bosch and VMware as Strategic partners.  Amazon Web Services [AWS], Digital Ocean, IBM, Microsoft have signed up as Infrastructure partner to the initiative.

Dr Ajay Kumar, IAS, Additional Secretary, DeitY said

IoT is one of the high growth potential areas in the IT sector. With the growing number of IoT based SMEs/Startups in the Indian market, it becomes imperative to create an enabling ecosystem to help evolve this space, empowering companies to build technologies that provide global solutions.

Dr Neena Pahuja, Director General, ERNET said

Paradigm shift from IT to IOT, together with smooth shift of data & utilities using different electronic hardware structured with analytics, is going to enable a smart integrated & networked world. Starting from streamlining Airlines operations, Smart Cities to Disaster Management, IoT can play a major role in this connected world. With the growing number of IoT based SME’s/Startups in the Indian market, it becomes imperative to create an enabling ecosystem to help evolve this space, empowering companies to build technologies that provide Indian and Global solutions. We are happy to partner with NASSCOM, which is bringing-in Industry to help democratise innovation, by creating Centre of Excellence [COE] for start-ups in PPP mode.

Image Source - Twitter
Image Source* – Twitter

The CoE laboratory along with the NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Warehouse has the capacity to incubate up to 40 start ups and can accommodate around 10 emerging companies per shift for prototype/ design and usage of lab facilities. The CoE also provides a separate space for validation, verification and demonstration as well as concept labs for developing IoT solutions for application areas like Agriculture, Automobile, Telecom, Healthcare and Consumer IoT.

Expressing his thoughts on the launch of the CoE, Mr R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM, stated

NASSCOM is pleased on launching the IoT Centre of Excellence, which takes forward our efforts towards establishing India as a global tech hub. This Centre of Excellence has been created to act as a catalyst for developing the IoT SME/Startup ecosystem of the country as well as an accelerator of IoT capabilities providing the concept and scale for industrial and societal needs. The CoE will also function as an enabler of Funding, Accelerating, Mentoring & Enterprise for the key emerging IoT startups who have been selected for incubation, after a rigorous process.

The digital revolution accelerated by intelligent devices along with a booming startup environment has presented the need for a Centre of Excellence with a complete focus on the Internet of Things. With a presence of over 120 IoT focused IT companies and an expected market opportunity of USD 15 billion by 2020, India is set to gain a prominent position in the global IoT market. An increase in the adoption of IoT based technology in areas of home, retail and industrial automation, health & fitness monitoring and connected vehicles as well as the advent and growth of Smart cities, has resulted in a greater need of better solutions that lead to the evolution of a lifestyle dominated by technology. NASSCOM is focusing on systemically expanding the technology ecosystem and the IoT CoE will play the role of collaboratively addressing challenges such as the lack of understanding that leads to low adoption levels and security issues faced by the industry.

Multiple IoT based firms will be selected from over 250 entries to be incubated at the CoE, through a roadshow held across Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The first five companies out of the total entries are Uncanny Vision, LightMetrics, ThingsCloudSAAR Microsystems and Wireless Controls.

What would be widely selected option for the Poll Question – Which is the job category where the job security is Almost guaranteed ?. Without even looking for the Poll Options, you would have mentally decided that ‘Government Job’ is the most secure job option in India 🙂 Before the advent of the Private Organizations in India, there was natural inclination towards Govt Jobs since it was considered a matter of pride & prestige to secure a job in Government sector.

However, with the flurry of Private Companies, the enthusiasm among the youth to join government sector jobs drastically reduced. One of the main reasons was the lack of information about the jobs available in the sector [across various industries like Banking, Finance etc.] and rampant corruption in those jobs. But situation seems to have changed after the BJP Government came into power 2 years back, the main reason being many entrepreneurs [like Nandan Nilekani of Infosys fame, Amit Ranjan of Slideshare fame etc.] have played major role in the transformation of the government to ‘Digital Government’. Though Nandan Nilekani was from Congress, his legacy i.e. Aadhar or UIDAI is still playing a crucial role in life of every Indian. PPP [Public Private Partnership] is definitely making things more transparent and execution of government projects much faster !!!

Image Credit - Sarkari Naukri
Image Source* – Sarkari Naukri

There is awesome news for people seeking jobs in the government sector, over two Lakh posts are estimated to be created by the Central government in it’s various departments [Source* – ET] If you are an engineer planning to pursue UPSC, than this is the right time to switch to your dream career 🙂 You may ask, why are we discussing about Sarkari Jobs – One of my colleagues wanted to move to Government Job since he had interest in it but due to family pressure he landed in Engineering 🙁 While looking out for an appropriate job, we found that there is no dedicated source that lists latest govt jobs until we came across Sarkarijobmilegi. Sarkarijobmilegi.in provides latest Govt Jobs in various government sectors namely Bank Jobs, Teaching Jobs, Railways Jobs, Police Jobs, Defence Jobs, UPSC Jobs, SSC Jobs, Public Sector, PSC etc.

Since the site as well as the Android App was quite helpful to my ex-colleague, we decided to do a thorough review of Sarkarijobmilegi – One stop site for all your Sarkari Job requirements!!!

Sarkarijobmilegi : Niche vertical job website

Unlike other job sites that have jobs catering to numerous categories, Sarkarijobmilegi is a fresh breather since it’s target segment is pre-defined i.e. Only Govt job aspirants. This makes the user-interface also minimalist & less cluttered. Blog kind of interface makes navigation, search and performing other activities on the website very easy!

Sarkarijobmilegi : Government jobs listed across sectors

Whether you are a 10th pass-out or 12th pass-out and aspire to pursue government job that match your skills, this site has the answer. It tries to cover each and every category of government jobs. Be it job in any particular sector or job in any particular State etc, you would ideally find it on Sarkarijobmilegi.

Some important government sectors include Bank, Railway, SSC, UPSC, BHEL, Insurance, Medical, Media and they have it all covered. You can can also filter Latest Govt Jobs by State/Qualification/Job category etc which makes searching for the RIGHT sarkari job all the lot easier 🙂 For example: You can find all the Revenue Department jobs here

Sarkarijobmilegi : Differentiation via Hindi Videos

With the advent of 4G and the growing penetration of internet, it becomes very critical to capitalize on all the sources that can provide useful information to the user. In case of Sarkarijobmilegi, they use the medium of videos to dish out latest information on Government jobs via their YouTube channel

If you are a government job aspirant, you can subscribe to their channel [videos are in Hindi which also increases the overall reach] and get updates about the Latest Govt Jobs

Sarkarijobmilegi : Job Alerts on Mobile

As mentioned in the previous point, tapping every user-channel for better user conversion is very essential. Sarkarijobmilegi also have an Android App where you can view any of the Govt jobs at the click of a button. Their YouTube channel is  also embedded in the App so that you can get latest informative videos on Government jobs.

In case you do not want to miss out on any government job posted on Sarkarinaukrimilegi, you can subscribe to get Push Notifications for latest job posted every day. The great part about the Sarkari Naukri App is that it works even without the Internet which means it might occupy some more space in your device [for offline storage of data]. We tried the app on low-end & high-end Android phone(s) and did not observe any noticeable difference in the performance of the Sarkari Naukri App..

You can also join their Facebook group to connect and get necessary support from other job aspirants. If you aspire to get into government job and want to stay updated with the jobs, job related news etc. than do give Sarkarinaukrimilegi a spin !!!

If you have used Sarkarinaukrimilegi for landing to your dream #Sarkarinaukri than do leave your feedback in the comments section…

With a focus on bridging employability gaps within the industry NASSCOM has partnered with Autodesk Inc., a world leader in 3D design technology, with a new standardized course-ware Product Design Engineer- Mechanical, so as to enhance skilling in this field. This course-ware will empower students in India with the required competencies at the entry level within the larger occupation of Product Engineering Design in the Engineering Research & Development [ERD] sub-sector of the industry. This course-ware will help create a skilled talent pool, trained on global standards, with the ability to usher in a design-led future of making things.

To ensure the creation of an academic course that is both relevant and viable, NASSCOM partnered with key industry stakeholders namely-ANSYS, Autodesk, Geometric, Imaginarium, JCB, L&T Technology Services, SQS, Tata Technologies and TCS. Their inputs have significantly enhanced the design of the curriculum and course-ware, which also addresses the need for faculty support, and seeks to achieve this by acquainting trainers with the latest advancements in pedagogy.

Tim Scanlon, Global Engagement Lead, Autodesk Education Experiences (AEX), said

India needs an evolved education ecosystem built on the foundations of design thinking. This will ensure that the skill-sets possessed by the workforce is relevant and in-sync with the changing requirements of the manufacturing sector. Autodesk has many global initiatives aimed at enabling design skills, right at the grass-root – the students, who eventually join the industry and fuel the growth of national economies. The partnership with NASSCOM will help us in empowering design and engineering professionals and students in India and make them ready for the Future of Making.

Pradeep Nair, Managing Director Autodesk India & SAARC, said

The manufacturing sector in India is evolving and making rapid strides towards the future. Students and professionals need to possess the relevant technology skills that can enable them to be industry-ready and capable of driving innovation in product design and engineering. Fusion 360 is a highly advanced design tool that combines industrial and mechanical design, collaboration, and machining in a single package. The course-ware based on Fusion 360 will not only up-skill the students but also enable them to dovetail into the evolving requirements of the manufacturing sector in India. Through our collaboration with NASSCOM and IT-ITeS Sector Skill Council NASSCOM, we aim to contribute in up skilling the huge talent pool in India.

R. Chandrashekhar, President NASSCOM, said

Through this tie-up we hope to provide Indian students an opportunity to upgrade their knowledge in the domain and be at par with global industry standards. NASSCOM is confident that this course will help enhance the skills of professionals in the industry making them market ready.

India is one of the world’s largest population base of employable youth and is poised to become a sought-after destination for those seeking higher value add and specialized services. Per industry figures, the manufacturing industry contributes nearly 15.1% of India’s GDP and its contribution is expected to be around 25-30% by 2025. The sector is expected to reach USD 1 trillion by 2025 in the process creating 90 million jobs. This initiative is a collaborative effort with NASSCOM, Autodesk and other industry members, is of great importance for all stakeholders concerned – the industry, academia, and the students. This initiative is expected to build new employability standards, bearing in mind the changing scenario of talent demand and supply in the industry. 

About Autodesk

Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you are ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything. For more information visit Autodesk

Swipe Technologies, India’s leading mobile internet company has launched a premium tablet experience that is reckoned to set a disruption in the category. Swipe X703 is a combination of innovation and technology with splendid IPS display to provide crystal clear images and a number of other compelling features that will make the tablet highly desirable for all, especially, India’s aspiring young population.

The new tablet’s highly efficient processor enables fluent multitasking with minimal lags. It is equipped with a powerful battery that never lets you run out of the juice with its triggered performance. 10.1 inch is a size which is used in not only consumer segment but also in education & enterprise segment due to its reading and multimedia experience yet being very lightweight and portable in comparison to bulky laptops.

Launching the new Swipe X703 tablet on 4th June, Shripal Gandhi, Founder and CEO of Swipe Technologies, said

As a leading player in the smartphones space in India, we are committed to offer superior products to our customers every time. After tremendous success of our previous products, it is important for us to live up to our customer’s rising expectations. We continuously seek feedback from our users and incorporate them in our new offerings. Swipe X703 is an outcome of such customer engagement and it is ready to take the experience to the next level. It is a combination of innovation and technology that is designed to provide an ultimate tablet experience to its user.

What makes Swipe X703 unique is its 25.65 cms [10.1 inch] IPS display, which offers wide viewing angle along with a splendid colour resolution. The Swipe X703 offers unmatched entertainment experience with its rich, detailed and crystal-clear colors. Its brilliant display resolution of 1280*800 pixels vastly improves your gaming & video watching experience. You can even watch your favourite TV series on this tablet with smooth streaming and amazing clarity. Its extensive screen display also provides rich detailed fragmentation to every shot that you watch.

It’s 1.3 GHz Quad-Core processor provides a smooth support for multitasking so that you can easily switch between multiple applications. It also allows you to easily stream and watch videos directly from YouTube and other video-streaming applications. It’s 1GB RAM provides an enhanced trigger to effective speed of multitasking.

It is designed with great care to capture your fondest memories with its 5MP rear camera and save your pictures on its 8GB of internal memory. The rear camera is designed in a way that you cannot miss out a single shot of perfection with rich details and fragmentation. The Swipe X703 tablet is also equipped with a 2MP front camera to click endless selfies whenever you want and wherever you are. You can upload your latest selfies and stay connected and updated socially.

Swipe X703 Tablet comes with a powerful 6000 mAh battery. The splendid back-up support of this battery allow you to play games, watch movies and videos, browse on the internet and attend long calls seamlessly. The battery is designed in such a way that you can keep going with your work all day and night long without fresh recharge. It also uplifts your user experience with the latest Android 5.1 Lollipop Operating System. The in-trend Operating System provides better Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity along with an effective maintenance of output profiles. It is designed to ensure optimum device protection all day and night long.

Swipe X703 tablet from the House of Swipe is available exclusively on Snapdeal from 4th July 2016

About Swipe Technologies

Swipe Technologies is an innovation-centric mobility solutions company, having started its operations in July 2012. Within a short span of time, Swipe has become the leading tablet and Smartphone maker in India. Swipe was started with an aim to bring exciting devices in the growing Indian market and today, it is the leading consumer brand with key innovations across products, pricing and customer support.

Founded by technocrat Mr. Shripal Gandhi, Swipe raised $5 million in May 2014 from the Venture Capital firm Kalaari Capital. For more details, please visit JustSwipe

Planning road trips in India just became a little easier. With the latest update on Google Maps on Android [coming soon to iOS], now you can plan your road trip with multi-stop directions.

Just open the app, enter a destination, tap the corner menu, and then click “Add stop”. To rearrange the order of your stops, tap and hold the three dot menu to the left of “Add stop” and drag it to the position you want – you can even search for types of places like petrol pumps, ATM’s or restaurants like you normally search. You can add as many stops as like and once you’re done, tap “Finished” and your multi-stop routing is complete. When you enter navigation mode you will have the same seamless driving experience you are used to, whether you are running errands or hoping beaches in Goa.

A lot of the fun of travelling is the memories created while exploring new places with friends, family or even solo. Pictures are a traditional way to remember those moments, but now with “Your Timeline”, users on Android can preserve their travel memories and info in a new way. Google Maps users that have the Location History enabled can open Your Timeline, select a date from their recent vacation or everyday life and add notes to help remember what they did that day-or save important notes for later.

Sanket Gupta, Product Manager, Google Maps, said

No matter where your travels take you this monsoon season and beyond, these new Google Maps features will get you there and help keep track of all the memories you make along the way.

Download the latest Google Maps for Android from here

Doing It Together has always been an entertaining affair. From picnics to assignments to sharing quality time with family, all of us have memories of doing unforgettable things together. These memories are hitched with us forever and are cherished for a lifetime. Inspired from this feeling of doing it together, GroupDrop has launched first of its kind social e-commerce portal in India with an aim to bring a change on how consumers perceive and buy products of their choice online. GroupDrop aims at leveraging the power of community purchase by bringing the like-minded consumers together and buy products at the best possible price.

Image Source* – GroupDrop

The idea came to Gaurav Kapadia when he heard of a group of people in India who bought 150 high end luxury cars together at a discounted rate. This was such a big announcement that the CEO of the luxury car brand went down along with his senior management team to hand over the keys to the buyers. Gaurav soon roped in Shyam Gursahani and both of them then developed a business model to help like-minded people to meet with one another, on a common platform, share opinions and buy the products of their choice at an irresistible price. The portal will be dealing with wide range of products across automobile, audio, gaming and photography genres.

Image Credit* – GroupDrop

Speaking on the launch, Shyam Gursahani, Director, GroupDrop said

This is a proud moment for both Gaurav and I. We aim to connect people with similar likes and provide them with a common platform, where they can discuss all the pros and cons before buying a product. We want to leverage the power of the people in community purchase. This will help us become the preferred space to help consumers buy what they need and not what is offered at the best price, and promote the experience of #DoingItTogether.

GroupDrop aims to grow and offer more choices to the customers.  All products on GroupDrop are chosen, created, or inspired by people, which are called ‘drops’. Consumers can search for products they want, and discuss and vote for the products they would like to buy. Once the consumer decides what product they’d like to buy together, GroupDrop contacts the vendor directly on behalf of them to get a great group discount, and allows the consumer to buy the product by joining the drop.

About GroupDrop

GroupDrop is first of its kind social e-commerce portal launched in 2016, with an aim to change the future of how the customers buy products of their choice. GroupDrop is only place where consumers from all parts of the world can connect with like-minded people, ask for products that they want, have conversations, share their expertise or opinions and also be able to buy these products at discounted price in groups. The more people that join the drop, the lower the price gets. GroupDrop services are available through the web-portal, and the made-for-mobile web service. The GroupDrop app on the Android play store and iOS app store should be available soon. For more information, please visit GroupDrop

As a customer, what if you are paid just for checking-in or walking into a mall or a shopping outlet 🙂 It sounds exciting since you are incentivized for doing a small act !!! This is what Bounty mobile app has in store for it’s users and that too without your phone’s Bluetooth or GPS being turned ON (so you gain points without loosing any battery juice).

Bounty is a Bengaluru based startup founded by Satish Medapati. Today, we have a brief chat with him where he shares details about Bounty, his startup journey, entrepreneurship, funding & all things related to startups 🙂 So let’s start with the Q&A…

Image Source - Bounty App
Image Source* – Bounty App

Can you give a small background about you, your start-up and it’s founders ?

Satish Medapati is the founder of bounty. He has a total of about 12 years of varied  experience across analytics, portfolio management, banking, entrepreneurship.  The other founder has similar level of experience in core data sciences. The core team also has Anita and Sandeep who manage Engineering and Growth respectively.

Bounty is a hassle-free mobile app that rewards users for just walking into a business location. Every time a user walks into a place, be it a restaurant, pub, saloon, spa, retail store etc, the app automatically recognises the person and location and alerts him/her to check-in. You have to just tap once to collect the reward points. These rewards can then be redeemed against a host of offline and online gift cards with no conditions and no couponsBounty works even without your GPS being on or when your internet is switched off too. Bounty app’s ‘Intelligent Assist’ feature automatically recognises your location and alerts you to collect reward points.

Every idea is born out of a problem, what was the trigger of starting Bounty ?

Bounty began its journey on Feb 8th, 2015. The source of inspiration behind bounty is – How knowing and understanding a simple activity like eating or a weekly activity of visiting a mall can be so powerful in driving consumer experience that also results in businesses targeting efficiently without spamming the consumers with what they do not need..

How did you come up with name Bounty [is it somewhat co-related to Bug Bounty] ?

No its not related to bug bounty. We initially came up with lots of names and most were taken in this field. The idea was it’s a frictionless rewards app that gives you a lot and since we wanted it to be sweet and short, and not a hassle for people to remember either the spelling or the name, we came up with ‘Bounty’

Can you detail on the technology used in development of Bounty [i.e. Is it BLE based/Beacons based ?]

No, we do not use any hardware. In fact, bounty’s superior positioning in business circles is also due to this fact that there is no effort from a business to do business :). We do  indoor positioning to give automatic check-ins through intelligent assist. This patent-pending indoor positioning technology works without GPS or even without 4G/3G/internet.

Who are some of the existing partners of Bounty [Stores & redemption partners] ?

In terms of redemptions, we have more than 30+ brands including Flipkart, ebay, Amazon, movie vouchers etc. where you can redeem bounty points for gift cards or physical products without any conditions/coupons. In terms of physical stores, you can earn bounty points across 7500+ places in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

Can you list the cities in which Bounty is currently operational ?

We are currently in Bangalore and Hyderabad though we have a small presence in Chennai too.

Can you take us through the entire process of redemption ? [Right from entering the partner store to process of redeeming points]

When a user visits a partner place, bounty app will automatically detect and send a notification alert. User clicks on the notification to check-in and collect points. User gets anywhere between 2 to 20 points (1 point = 1 rupee) depending on the store and other factors. Users needs a minimum of 100 points (pretty easy to get) to redeem for gift cards/physical products. The hardest part is select the gift that he/she wants to redeem. It could be amazon, flipkart, ebay vouchers or products like earphones, bags etc. Also, there is no social posting or anything for the check-ins. It’s all hassle free rewards!

Please share some numbers (downloads, offers redeemed etc.) with us

We have over 450k users who cloak millions of off-line check-ins every month. We drive over 100k transactions/month to ecommerce players. You can guess the value and GMV 🙂

Who are some of Bounty’s competitors (epecially in the O2O space) & what are some of the stand-out features as compared to other apps (in similar space)

In terms of technology, we have most bigwigs competing with us on indoor positioning technology, we have the likes of  Google, Apple, Qualcomm etc. In terms of business model, there are quite a few without our vision.

Bounty’s stand-out feature is the proprietary location technology that works even without internet and GPS! Not many companies in the world have such a technology. Not to forget, it’s also how the technology is applied in real life for hassle free rewards. Consumer has to just install the app and from there on the app will keep reminding them to collect reward points like a rewards assistant.

Team Bounty
Team Bounty

What are the major changes that you experienced when you moved from an Employee to an Employer [or Entrepreneur]

Mind set is the first change – Everything is YOU and adaptability and survival is the key. Secondly, hunger should  far dominate anything as you hardly have money, success, team or infrastructure. All you have is a un-ending faith and a will to survive all odds to succeed.

What are your key advice(s) to aspiring entrepreneurs ?

Please do not think and over analyse. Just get into it. Make sure you/your family have enough money for food and shelter [Clothing can be borrowed ;)]. Extremely pathetic lifestyle, really there is no glamour so get in only if you really want to. Funding [especially for growth stage startups] has dried up with companies picking funding at lower valuations, your take on the scenario [and current situation]. Market slowdowns will always impact average and below average companies as there is no cash flowing freely. However, its also the best time for a great company to raise as there is no cacophony.

Valuations are really notional and as long as you build your business in the right direction, you should be happy not minding too much on valuation.

Lot of startups (food-tech etc where Customer acquisition cost is high & margins are less) expand pan-city and struggle in keeping the momentum going, your words of advice for entrepreneurs trying to scale up(or expand Pan-city) ?

Have enough foresight to know when to expand. Always ask yourself why is “Scale” important. Does scale multiply my losses or get me to an advantageous situation. Get to unit economics as fast as you can and then if scale is the only plausible way for your business, by all means grow rapidly.

Some hiring tips for entrepreneurs [especially the core team] ?

I have been lucky to get my team. However, you need to struggle a lot to get the right members in your core team.  People who believe you, your vision and are mad go-getters like you.  Failed entrepreneurs, never giving up types,  people who underwent hardships in life – everything is a data point for you.

Do give Bounty app a shot and share across your feedback/questions in the comments section. If you have any questions for the Bounty founder about the app, entrepreneurship etc., email them to himanshu.sheth@gmail.com

National Instruments (NI) successfully hosted its first Certified LabVIEW Architect Summit 2016 in Bengaluru. The summit was an endeavor by National Instruments to bring together the most skilled LabVIEW developers from across India who are working on a variety of test, measurement and control applications.

Reflecting on the event, Jeff Kodosky, Co-founder and NI Business and Technology Fellow at National Instruments also known as the Father of LabVIEW commented

I am excited to have been a part of the first CLA Summit in India this year and witness the vibrant community of LabVIEW users and their innovative and advanced applications that our LabVIEW Certified Users here are developing to solve real-world engineering challenges.

The Certified LabVIEW Architect is the final step in the three-part LabVIEW certification process. The exam for this step presents a set of high-level requirements and tests the user’s skill in building a program hierarchy with LabVIEW and a project plan for delivering an application that fulfills those requirements. This level of certification validates the LabVIEW programming capability and the ability to architect reliable, efficient and well documented project.

Senthilkumar Murugesan, CEO, Unilogic and the chairperson of the CLA community said

This has been a great opportunity in bringing together the certified LabVIEW users from various industries in India and have them share their experiences and insights about their applications. The sessions included best practices shared by the CLAs, NI experts providing tips and tricks to help the engineers become more productive and efficient.

Adding to that, Jayaram Pillai, Managing Director, NI India said

With the growing Indian economy, companies today face many new trends and technological challenges. The need for skilled LabVIEW developers in the community is ever more. The CLA summit has helped in developing the Certified LabVIEW Architects Community manifold and contributing towards the sustainable development of the Indian engineering ecosystem.

For further information on LabVIEW Certification please visit NI LabVIEW Certification Page