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CAMTech India, a United States Agency for International Development [USAID/India] funded public-private partnership which aims to accelerate medical technology innovation for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health [RMNCH] in India. It will hold its second annual hack-a-thon [Jugaad-a-thon] in Bengaluru on June 26-28, 2015.

Organized in partnership with Lattice Innovations and hosted by GE Healthcare India, the event brings together some of the world’s brightest minds to develop innovative and affordable health technologies that can help save the lives of women and children across India.

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Speaking about the event, CAMTech’s Director, Elizabeth Bailey said

We are building on the success of last year’s Jugaad-a-thon by bringing together a highly motivated and diverse group of innovators to tackle important challenges like newborn survival, safe births and family planning,” said  “The CAMTech INDIA platform allows us to harness ground-breaking ideas from a talented community of innovators from all over the country who are united by a common goal of saving lives.

The CAMTech INDIA Jugaad-a-thon [derived from the Hindi word “jugaad” meaning an innovative fix or work-around], invites clinicians, engineers, entrepreneurs & end-users to co-create solutions to identified and pressing clinical challenges through an open innovation platform.

In 48 hours, teams will move from ideas to prototypes with early business models that have the potential to transform RMNCH outcomes in India and around the world.

The event will take place at GE’s John F. Welch Technology Centre in Bengaluru, the company’s largest innovation center. GE Healthcare is at work for a healthier India and is focusing on some of the toughest healthcare challenges faced by India today – lowering maternal and infant mortality rates, enabling early detection of cancer for early treatment and addressing heart diseases.

Speaking about the event, Milan Rao, President & CEO, GE Healthcare South Asia said

We are pleased to partner with CAMTech once again to help spur the innovation of accessible, affordable healthcare solutions for a healthier world. As the leading innovator of healthcare technologies and solutions, we would like to offer our expertise, advanced laboratories and industrial design facilities to these budding innovators for forging a culture of open innovation and co-creation of healthcare technologies.

The Jugaad-a-thon will be directly preceded by a Clinical Summit, which will convene clinicians, healthcare workers, government public health experts and patients from across India to identify the most pressing RMNCH needs and best practices in delivering care.

The Summit will also include a Technology Showcase for early-stage and newly marketed medical technologies that aim to improve quality and access for RMNCH in India.

Highlights of Jugaad-a-thon

  • This year’s event includes monetary prizes of Rs. 9 Lacs for top innovations that focus on specific RMNCH challenges, including a USAID-sponsored award of Rs. 1.5 Lacs for the team that best addresses its challenge in the field of Family Planning and Reproductive Health.
  • Other awards include those sponsored by CAMTech/USAID, GE Healthcare, Merck for Mothers and a special post-Jugaad-a-thon award from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry [FICCI] & Terumo India for the top two innovations that make the most progress 30 days after the event.
  • Teams will be judged by a panel of experts from public health, engineering and business, reflecting CAMTech’s cross-sector approach to innovation.

Neha Kumar, a professor of international development and human-computer interaction at the Georgia Institute of Technology [and winner of last year’s winning team, Baby Steps] speaks about the event

In a world that is witnessing technological advancement take place at breakneck speed, the Jugaad-a-thon creates a space for researchers and practitioners to channel this growth – through exciting ideas and innovations – towards social good.

She’ll return this year not only as a participant, but also as a budding entrepreneur. Since 2012, CAMTech has brought together over 1,500 innovators from more than 300 clinical, academic and commercial organizations to participate in medtech hack-a-thons, award programs and entrepreneurial-building initiatives. These efforts have helped spawn nearly 350 new technologies addressing intractable problems such as newborn asphyxia, post-partum haemorrhage & cervical cancer.

CAMTech’s initiatives, including its newly launched Online Innovation Platform, help connect and support a global community of innovators working to improve health in developing and emerging markets.

About Lattice Innovations

Lattice Innovations offers medical technology design & development services. Their areas of expertise include bedside and wearable monitoring systems, imaging for tele-pathology and mHealth applications. The founding teams brings with it 20 years of sector specific skills in product development, marketing & sales, clinical research and regulatory compliance, complemented by technical and business degrees from Harvard, Wharton, Cornell and IIT. Learn more about Lattice Innovations here

For more information on Jugaad-a-thon, please visit the following link

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ITC Infotech, a leading global IT services & solutions company and a fully owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd has announced the launch of iTech 2015, an annual technology conference platform to foster technology innovation.

The hackathon will provide participants with an opportunity to develop ideas to prototypes across a wide range of business challenges. This platform is also a testimony to ITC Infotech’s commitment towards accelerating innovation in disruptive technology areas.

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Aimed at boosting talent amongst technology enthusiasts and providing an acceleration platform for entrepreneurs, ITC Infotech is seeking to engage with innovators and will partner with the winners to help them develop the solution, create a joint go-to market and provide market access. The programme is part of the company’s larger initiative to encourage and nurture start-ups.

About iTech 2015

An entry free competition, iTech 2015 IoT hackathon is a team-based event. Participation is open to students, professionals and developers and IoT start-ups, who will go through a short-listing and selection process. Teams can register on the iTech 2015 registration site and submit their IoT solution idea, post which ITC Infotech will notify the short-listed entries.

As part of the iTech 2015 platform this year, ITC Infotech will organise a 2-day IoT hackathon at its campus in Bengaluru on 4th & 5th July.

Competition categories at iTech 2015

Smart Retail – Retail is about continuously enhancing customer shopping experience. It is also about ensuring availability & visibility of stocks, specifically in Consumer Goods. Entries in this category can focus on anything from stock keeping and inventory management to in-store customer experience. Selected teams will be provided with actual retail display shelves, using which their solutions can be demonstrated to solve this real-world challenge.

Smart Manufacturing – Entrants should create a solution to constantly monitor and predict in real-time the health of machines and equipment to enable proactive servicing and avoid disruption of manufacturing units. Entries and solution ideas can also be shared on creating smart manufacturing units and assembly lines, which can utilise analytics to optimise the production process – a step towards realising the ‘Make in India’ drive.

Smart Supply Chains – Entries should have ideas on how IoT solutions can help create a smarter supply chain – warehouse, inventory management, transportation, planning and tracking, demand-planning, etc.

Smart Agriculture – Entries should have IoT solutions that provide feedback/recommend corrective action from remote farms to research laboratories for agriculture.

Open Category – For entries on IoT ideas that do not fall in the challenge areas mentioned above. ITC Infotech’s panel of experts will assess the submission on the strength of the business case presented and its viability for companies to adopt and implement.

Commenting on the event launch, Ms. Sushma Rajagopalan, CEO & MD, ITC Infotech, said

iTech 2015 is one of our multi-dimensional initiatives for encouraging innovation and boosting tech entrepreneurship. This year’s theme is the “connected world” and “Internet of Things”. We have created this platform to aid participants in developing prototypes of their ideas to address real-world business challenges. We will nurture some of the relevant ideas in our Innovation Lab to drive competitive advantage for ITC’s businesses or our clients’ businesses.

The winners and runners up will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 2,00,000 & Rs. 1,00,000 respectively.

For more information on iTech 2015, please visit iTech 2015 official page

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The June edition of “Startup Saturday [Hyderabad]” is planned on 13th June. The theme for the meetup is “Exploring opportunities in the Learning & Education Space“. This is a  discovery format Startup Saturday to uncover some of these new startups coming up in this booming space.
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Meetup Agenda

Detailed agenda of the meetup is below:

Introduction

10:00 – Registration
10:15 – Introduction
10:25 – Ecosystem Announcements

Startup Speak

10:30 – OutLife, Founder Diyanat Ali
10:42  – MyRank, Founder-Savinay
10:55 – WeMakeScholars, Founder
11:07 – Kaddy, Founder-Govind
11:20  – TBD
11:32 – TBD

Expert Speak

11:45 – Serial Entrepreneur in Edu space [TBD]

Investor Speak

12:00 ~ 12:15 – Investors from Hyderabad Angels
12:30 Networking

Location & Timings

La Makaan [13th June, 10 AM]. Registration can be done at the following link.

In case, if you wish to nominate an expert speaker or a start-up for the above mentioned theme, you can email the details to the following email-id.

Social Media details – Facebook Event Page
Share/Like/Post/Tweet: hashtag #SSHYD

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Intel in India and the Department of Science and Technology announced the call for entries for the Intel & DST- Innovate for Digital India Challenge. The challenge is aimed at fostering a culture of innovation, create solutions that can address local needs and build an empowered ecosystem for pervasive technology adoption in the country.

The challenge will be open to aspiring and existing entrepreneurs, innovators, academia, designers, engineers & makers from diverse backgrounds.

To participate in the challenge, candidates must log on to Innovate For India & register their projects at the earliest. The registration closes on June 22, 2015

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Participants of the Intel & DST- Innovate For Digital India Challenge will be mentored by industry stalwarts and Intel experts. The participants will be trained in technical know-how, will be provided access to product kits and infrastructure and multiple commercialization opportunities.

Some key insights of the Innovate for “Digital India Challenge” are:

  • IIM Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship to execute the challenge. Intel, CIIE & MyGov to work together for application management, program facilitation and popularization.
  • The challenge, running from April 2015 to January 20161, is open to academia, aspiring entrepreneurs, innovators, and startups.
  • Total grant worth Rs.1.5 crs; top three to get access to seed fund of Rs. 20 Lakhs each.

Speaking about the challenge, Narendra Bhandari, Director, Software & Services Group, Intel Asia Pacific said

Innovation is part of Intel’s DNA. This challenge combines Intel’s history of creating innovative technology with government’s Digital India vision, complemented by entrepreneurial talent to create a sustainable technology ecosystem. Through this challenge, we aim to encourage people to come forward and participate and create solutions that will help make Digital India, a reality.

Naganand Doraswamy, EVP & co-founder SPAN Infotech & President TIE Bengaluru, said

It is wonderful to see Intel actively collaborating with the government in the product start-up space. The Intel & DST Innovate For Digital India Challenge will offer a platform to the young creative minds of Karnataka to showcase their ideas and build start-ups that can make a difference in the Indian market.

Speaking at the event, Shankar Maruwada, Co-founder & CEO Ekstep said

Innovate For Digital India Challenge promises to be a timely platform for young creative minds across the country and we are extremely excited to be part of this challenge as this is the right time for students, innovators, and aspiring entrepreneurs in Karnataka to come forward and pave the way for enabling an innovative ecosystem.

Detailed T&C on the challenge and prize money are available at InnovateForDigitalIndia

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Building on the creative energy that Startup Weekend 2014 brought to the city, global leader in online payments, PayPal, announced today that it will host Startup Weekend in Chennai for the second consecutive year at the PayPal India Technology Center, Chennai from June 5 – 7, 2015.

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What is Startup Weekend ?

Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event where aspiring entrepreneurs come together to form teams, build products and try to develop viable startup ideas. The global grass-roots movement, which promotes creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, is the largest community of entrepreneurs in the world, with over 1,800 events organized in 120 countries in 2014.

At Startup Weekend, participants get to meet, brainstorm and form groups based on their interests. They will also have the chance to work with mentors from technology and business fields, as well as angel investors to discuss and get insights on coding, designing, business model creation and market validation to help their idea development. At the end of the weekend, the teams will present their final plans to a panel of expert judges from across the industry.

Speaking about the event, Anupam Pahuja, General Manager, Technology, PayPal Asia Pacific said

We are thrilled to be hosting Startup Weekend in India for a second time. Through such events, we hope to be able to create a community for technology and startup enthusiasts to come together and collaborate on great ideas. As a leader in online payments and one of the world’s largest startups, we hope that the technology mentorship PayPal can provide will help enable and drive innovation within the technology ecosystem in India.

Details about Startup Weekend Chennai

Startup Weekend Chennai will focus on solving challenges in the financial technology space, encompassing areas related to credit, payments, security, asset management, currencies, etc.

How to register for Startup Weekend Chennai

The contest is open to developers, designers, product managers, marketers and startup enthusiasts – anyone with a creative idea and the desire to learn. Interested applicants can register for this year’s Startup Weekend at the following link. The registration closes at 12 P.M on June 4, 2015.

Why should you attend Startup Weekend

Participants will have the opportunity to interact with technology leaders from PayPal, including Anupam Pahuja, General Manager, Technology, PayPal Asia Pacific, as well as renowned industry experts such as Deepak Krishnan, Associate Vice President of Growth, FreeCharge.in & Ashwini Asokan, CEO and Co-founder, Mad Street Den & Mad Street Labs, and Ramanan RV, CoFounder at Juspay.in who will be mentors and conduct workshops during the event.

The top three teams who will be crowned at the end of the 54-hours will have a chance to enter the Start Tank Incubation Challenge organized by PayPal, which provides early-stage startups a world-class incubation space and access to global mentors, angel investors and venture capitalists.

In 2014, the Startup Weekend witnessed participation from over 100 startup enthusiasts, well-established CEOs, and a network of angel investors.

About Startup Weekend

Startup Weekend is a global movement to promote entrepreneurship, which takes place in over 550 cities. Many existing companies have also raised angel funding as well as gone onto accelerators like The Morpheus, 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Microsoft Accelerator etc. They are supported in their efforts by Google for Entrepreneurs, NASSCOM & 500 Startups.

In the past 3 years, 500+ startups have started & 15,000+ entrepreneurs have been inspired. Teams have even started to generate revenue during the 54 hour event & others have even gone on to raise funds from Business Angels or Venture Capitalists.

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A month after the first StartEdu competition, Unitus Seed Fund held its second online event, called StartEdu 1B. After receiving record number of applications for the startup competition, only ten made the finals.

Get Set Sorted emerged as the winner securing 5 Lakhs, while Classalyze bagged the runner up title. Both the winner & runner-up get introduced to angel investors who are interested in early stage education companies. The companies were assessed based on factors including Impact on the masses, Team, Innovation, Business Model, and Presentation after hours of reviews and deliberations.

More about the Winner & Runner-Up

Get Set Sorted based out of Pune is a career guidance platform offering end-to-end guidance to high school students through online and offline channels. They suggest top 3 career options based on: Aptitude, Interest, Personality, Career motivations as well as connect them to counselors along with providing career content. 

Classalyze, located in Gurgaon is an online tool that helps teachers check for & improve understanding using formative tests. Besides creating high quality formative tests, which can be conducted both offline and online they also provide meaningful and actionable feedback through online dashboards to teachers and principals.

Speaking about the event, Will Poole, managing partner & co-founder, Unitus Seed Fund said

We extend huge congratulations to the competition winners. The prize money, as well as receiving the benefit of training and mentoring from our Speed2Seed incubator and accelerator partner is sure to secure a bright future for these innovative startups.

The quality of the projects presented by all of the entrants proves that India is brimming with innovation and energy from a growing community of visionary entrepreneurs focused on the opportunities in the education sector

The 2nd edition of the StartEdu competition was held over a 4.5 hour marathon online pitch-fest, with viewers in Seattle and Boston USA, Bangalore, Jaipur, Goa, Hyderabad and Noida. The StartEdu program is presented jointly by Unitus Seed Fund & Sylvant Advisors.

Announcement of 3rd edition of StartEdu

Applications for the third & final edition of StartEdu competition for 2015 would open from July 1st, 2015. For more information, please refer the official StartEdu Page

About Unitus Seed Fund

Unitus Seed Fund is a new $23 million seed-stage investment fund based in Bangalore and Seattle that invests in startups innovating for the masses in India. More information here

About Sylvant Advisors

Sylvant Advisors works with entrepreneurs and early stage companies to accelerate their growth. Beginning with critical investment or fund raising effort, drafting business strategies, providing operational support and being a part of an entire growth lifecycle are the key levers to accelerate the growth of these entrepreneurial ventures. Sylvant is based in Bangalore. More information here

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Innovative Search & Discovery Platform Xploree, powered by KeyPoint Technologies has been declared amongst the top 50 technology product finalist award winners at InTech50 2015 event held on 15th and 16th April at Bangalore.

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Xploree was shortlisted as one of the finalists in a rigorously contested award process that received nominations from 228 companies. Winners of InTech50 receive advice, on-going mentoring, product marketing support and funding to scale their offering to global markets.

Winners of prestigious InTech50 receive advice, on-going mentoring, product marketing support and funding to scale their offering to global markets. The winners are chosen by an Advisory Board comprising global and Indian CIOs of marquee companies, product company heads, venture capitalists and analysts after a rigorous evaluation process.

KeyPoint Technologies presented an accelerated five minute pitch of its innovative search & discovery platform Xploree to renowned CIOs from leading global multinational companies. Xploree is industry’s first, revolutionary search and discovery platform that connects mobile application users to the most relevant brands and services during conversations.

The innovative, user-initiated and multi-lingual platform can predict a mobile device user’s needs and guide them through their journey across applications through relevant content, deals and services. The application is available to Indian users and will eventually roll out in other global markets.

Speaking at the occassion, Sumit Goswami, CEO of KeyPoint Technologies mentioned

InTech50 is a showcase of some of the most promising and innovative technology and software products created by new and emerging companies. Being adjudged a Top 50 finalist by an eminent panel of CIOs and leaders is a validation of Xploree’s disruptive innovation in connecting mobile device users to relevant brands and services in the precise moment of need.

Xploree’s ability to pre-target users with relevant services in the mobile moment enriches consumer conversations and engagement with brands thus strengthening purchase intent. Our results have shown that Xploree can hike consumer engagement rate with brands by over 10 times industry average.

Key Features of Xploree

Hyper-Contextual – Location, environment, user intent, past actions and more – relevant information, always in context.

Immediacy – Information, services and product purchases in your mobile moment and time of need in real-time.

Simplicity – Mobile search made simple with one tap – easy to find what exactly you want.

To view Xploree in action, please visit http://bit.ly/1LQKJqo

For Xploree updates please visit http://www.xploree.com/

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Unicom Learning, a Global B2B platform for IT industry & KPMG India together presented the 2nd edition of World Business Excellence Summit 2015 at Movenpick, Bangalore recently with the theme Meet Leaders in Business Assurance.

Two contests viz. India Quality League 2015 & IT Manager Olympiad 2015 was held together under the World Business Excellence summit. The contest had several rounds including online written tests, on stage quiz etc. This event saw thousands of QA professionals from 112 companies participating from across the nation.

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The Winners

Mrinal Chatterjee & Dipan Lahiri from Tech Mahindra emerged as the winners of the prestigious India Quality League 2015 whereas Samgram Das, Associate Director – IT-IS & Arvind Rao, Director – Development from Team Zyme Techno Camp. Zyme Solutions emerged as the winners & grabbed the Gold.

In the earlier edition of one day conference on World Business Excellence Summit, the best practices used like the Balanced Scorecard, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, ISO, CMMI, Change Management, People and cultural issues were discussed.

This year the focus was on Lean, Kanban, Scrum Ban, DevOps, Innovation Games & Mind Mapping along with other important frameworks and issues related to quality assurance and change management.

Congratulating the winners Nitesh Naveen, Co-founder and CEO of Unicom Learning shared

I wish all the best to the winners and my heartiest congratulation to Tech Mahindra and Zyme Solutions for having this year’s India’s most knowledgeable quality champions with them.

India Quality League 2015

1st place : Team Dark Horses [Mrinal Chatterjee & Dipan Lahiri] from Tech Mahindra
2nd place : Team Atos Excellence [Samir Umrikar & Ramesh Ramanathan] from @ATOS
3rd place : Team QRM Deloitte [Neetu Kar & Shrikrishna Pandey] from Deloitte Consulting

IT Manager Olympiad 2015

1st Place : Team Zyme Techno Champ [Sangram Das, Associate Director – ITIS & Arvind Rao, Director – Development] from Zyme Solutions.
2nd Place : Team Zyme IT Team from @Zyme Solutions [Santosh Phalle, IT Manager & Binaybhusan Nanda, IT Manager]
3rd Place : Team TechMighty [Pankaj Kumar, Test Manager & Piyush Sinha, Test Lead] from Tech Mahindra

About UNICOM Learning

Unicom Learning is a leading player in the Knowledge Forum industry giving a Global B2B platform for the IT industry founded by Professor Gautam Mitra [Chairman & Co-Founder] & Nitesh Naveen [CEO & Co-Founder]. The organisation holds 150 knowledge conferences (forums) across the globe annually, out of which 100 are held in India. UNICOM has close to 10,000 professionals attending each of these conferences cum training platforms. Over the years, Unicom Learning has gained deep insights with organising knowledge forums in multiple disruptive technology domains like, Agile, Big Data, Cloud computing, Internet of All Things among others. UNICOM Learning’s knowledge partners include KPMG, CISCO, INTEL, Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam among others.  For further information, please visit Unicom Learning

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