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CoE-incubated startup Cradlewise winner of Qualcomm Design in India Challenge (QDIC) 2018In today’s fast-paced world, taking care of a child has become highly demanding and one of the biggest challenges new parents ini�ally face is ensuring the baby has a proper sleep cycle. The rise of nuclear families in India, long working hours and inflexible maternity & paternity leave policies at the workplace has le� young parents stressed out and sleepless.This was the reality for Radhika and Bharat Pa�l, who experienced firsthand the challenges of caring for a newborn when they had their first baby. This led them to develop Cradlewise, an IoT-based cradle, fully loaded with sensors designed to detect a range of movements of the baby and possible anomalies in the cradle. The sensors constantly monitor the child and send updates to the parent on an app. Cradlewise was named as one of the winners of the Qualcomm Design in India Challenge (QDIC) 2018. QDIC is an ini�a�ve to support the growth of product startups by providing access to accelerator services, government connec�ons and support patent filing ini�a�ves. Cradlewise has also received a grant from the Govt of Karnataka, as part of ELEVATE 100. Read more about Cradlewise’s cu�ng edge technology here - http://www.coe-iot.com/blog/oh-baby-deep-technology-learns-to-rock/

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INNOVATION INITIATIVESNASSCOM Center of Excellence launches flagship ini�a�ve for Digital Transforma�on in Manufacturing NASSCOM Center of Excellence IoT has launched its flagship ini�a�ve in manufacturing �tled The Forum for Manufacturing, Automa�on, Digital Transforma�on & Innova�on Excellence (MADE), which will explore the intersec�on of innova�on & technology in manufacturing and how this can aid the next wave of digital transforma�on.At the Digital Transformation & Supply Chain- Inflection Summit & Awards 2019 held in Mumbai recently, NASSCOM CoE IoT-DSAI par�cipated in two mee�ngs – a Panel Discussion on Game Changing Trends in Automotive Supply Chain – Fuel to Future and the second, a closed group roundtable with industry leaders on Opportunities & Impediments to Accelerate Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Ecosystem within Indian industry, led by Jayen Desai, Lead – Digital Transforma�on, Industry 4.0 for NASSCOM CoE IoT-DSAI.

Innovate2Build Co Crea�on Day – The New Paradigm for Innova�on As a catalyst of innova�on across industries and emerging deep technologies, NASSCOM Center of Excellence has conceptualized a portal Innovate2Build – a pla�orm for enterprises and startups to synchronize and collate data on industry use cases and technologies that can solve them. The first Co-Crea�on Demo Day for Innovate2Build was conducted at NASSCOM Bangalore recently, where more than 30 startups gathered to join this pla�orm and gain access to use-cases presented by enterprises that partner with NASSCOM Center of Excellence. Some use cases presented by market leading enterprises include the Use of Advanced Technologies In Predic�ng the Es�mated Time of Arrival of an Airline and Using Imaging & AI Solu�ons For Gender Masking During An Ultrasound. Interested startups and enterprises can register on www.innovate2build.com

NASSCOM CoE IoT supports Open Connec�vity Forum India Chapter, aims to enhance IoT Standard Operability Norms The vast number of connected devices in India unfortunately lack standard operability norms. Now, the Open Connec�vity Forum India Chapter will promote the Open Connec�vity Forum in India, supported by the NASSCOM Center of Excellence. The launch event was held at NASSCOM Bangalore on May 9th, 2019. More than 35 members from leading IT and digital transforma�on experts like Intel India, L&T Technology Services, Samsung R&D India Bengaluru and the NASSCOM Center of Excellence for IoT were present. Dr. Aloknath De, CTO of Samsung R&D India who is also the India Forum Chair led the OCF India Seminar on IoT Standards & Connec�vity spoke at the event. The session was a�ended by nearly 30 industry representa�ves and startups in the IoT space, and a range of topics were discussed at length including interoperability efficiencies, IoTvity being a game changer, Indian companies’ efforts to enhance IoT standards, and OCF’s role in making this happen. Read the en�re report here - https://community.nasscom.in/communities/iot-ai/ocf-india-chapter-indias-iot-market-is-ready-for-standardization-norms.html

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INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPSNASSCOM CoE IoT signs MoU with GE HealthcareAt the 5th Lifesciences & Healthcare Innova�on Forum (LHIF), Na�onal Associa�on of So�ware and Services Companies (NASSCOM) through its Center of Excellence-Internet of Things (CoE-IoT) announced a strategic partnership with GE Healthcare. The partnership is intended to flourish the start-up ecosystem in the country and work with them to bring digital healthcare solu�ons to the market. Mr. Dileep Mangsuli, Chief Technology Officer, GE Healthcare South Asia said, “Digital solu�ons help drive access to be�er quality healthcare, significantly reduce cost of treatment and improve quality of health outcomes. We are commi�ed to drive digital adop�on in India but we know that we can’t do it alone. We need an ecosystem of partners with whom we can work to supplement the work already underway at our research centers. This partnership with NASSCOM CoE-IoT will help us bring to market solu�ons that improve people’s lives.”

Astra Zeneca strengthens innova�on partnerships with NASSCOM CoE IoT AstraZeneca launched a strategic partnership with the NASSCOM IoT Centre of Excellence to set up an accelerator programme meant to support Indian start-ups develop new innova�ve solu�ons to NCD care in India and beyond. Mr. Leif Johansson, Chairman of the Board, AstraZeneca PLC said, “As a science-led organisa�on, AstraZeneca is commi�ed to strengthen innova�on in healthcare in India. We are pleased to collaborate with the government, start-up eco-system and industry partners to achieve the shared vision of making meaningful interven�ons in improving the lives of pa�ents impacted by Non-Communicable diseases in India.”

CDAC and NASSCOM CoE discuss India’s EHR standards; iden�fy cu�ng edge startups for next phase of innova�on C-DAC, an en�ty of MeitY, is at the helm of innova�on in technology for several industries including healthcare and is working on improving EHR standards, API integra�on, Data Privacy and Security Standards across government hospitals in conjunc�on with exis�ng healthcare programmes.NASSCOM CoE-IoT organized a workshop where technical and leadership teams from C-DAC will provide an overview of EHR/PHR systems developed and implemented by them. Following this presenta�on, CDAC interacted exclusively with startups in a panel discussion led by Mr. Raghuram Janapareddy, Director, Open Innova�on (Lifesciences & Healthcare), NASSCOM Center of Excellence IoT broaching subjects like Open APIs, Data Standards, Privacy and Security. The panelists present were Mr. Vivek Khaneja, execu�ve director of C-DAC and Mr. Praveen Srivastava, Joint Director, C-DAC.

From India to Germany: The Quest For Innova�onGermany is an economic behemoth that is shaping the course of business in Europe. The country is ac�vely driving several technologie including Industry 4.0, for which Germany is ac�vely seeking skilled talent. In order to enable ac�ve par�cipa�on of ecosystem partners in both na�ons to foster innova�on, a week-long visit was organized by the Consulate General of Germany Bangalore for four individuals - Mr. Subramaniyan Venugopal Ganapathy, co-founder and CEO of Axilor; Dr. Madanmohan Rao, Research Director at Your Story; Mr. Navratan Katariya, Director – Innova�on & Entrepreneurship at Na�onal Associa�on of So�ware and Services Companies (NASSCOM) CoE IoT & AI and Mr. Sathyanarayana B.V, Deputy Head, Karnataka Startup Cell, KITS, Department of Informa�on Technology and Biotechnology, Government of Karnataka. The purpose of this visit was to allow the visitors, who are sector specialists, to seek prospec�ve partners in Germany who can assist in the development of innova�ve solu�ons across industries, and generate poten�al for the Indian players overseas. This visit also enabled the par�cipants to network ac�vely with key stakeholders in Germany’s thriving startup industry, iden�fy poten�al collabora�on areas, and specifically accelerate ac�vity in areas namely AI, Industry 4.0 and technology-based diagnos�cs.


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EVENTSLHIF 5.0 sets the pace for digital propulsion in universal healthcareThe 5th Lifesciences & Healthcare Innova�on Forum (LHIF) was held in New Delhi’s Shangri-La Eros Hotel on April 29th, 2019, with the central theme of Digital Propulsion in Universal Healthcare.

There was earnest par�cipa�on from the main pillars driving healthcare in India – technology, policy and hospitals, while several senior industry leaders presented their views on the future of healthcare in India. Keynote speeches were made by Mr. J Satyanarayana, chairman of UIDAI, Mr. Dileep Mangsuli, CTO, GE Healthcare, Dr. Indu Bhushan, CEO, Mr. Ayushman Bharat, Ms. Debjani Ghosh, President, NASSCOM; Mr. Ajay Sawhney, secretary of MeitY; and Mr. Pramod Bhasin, founder, Genpact. Following these key developments, the forum was thrown open for tailored interac�ons through panel discussions on key topics like Digital Interven�on in Home & Remote Healthcare; Digital Interven�on in Pa�ent Lifecycle Management and A Roadmap for Adop�on of Electronic Health Records. Concurrently, Mr. Raghuram Janapareddy, Director – Open Innova�on for Healthcare & Lifesciences, conducted an industry roundtable on char�ng the way ahead for India’s healthcare industry by ensuring the synergy of technology players, pharma companies, medical organiza�ons, hospitals and innovators. In line with the event’s main theme, Google Cloud Services made a presenta�on on the rising relevance of players like Google in the healthcare space and how technology companies can play a cri�cal role in enhancing the reach of healthcare solu�ons across a country diverse as India. This event was a golden opportunity for startups to showcase their innova�ons to some of the industry’s best. Pitches were made by Shubhaarogya, Zeolr Technologies, Nemocare Wellness, Onward Assist, ChironX, Colortokens, FitGalaxy and DocVita. For a detailed synopsis of the event, click http://www.coe-iot.com/blog/universal-healthcare-digital-propulsion-30th-april-2019-at-shangri-las-eros-hotel-delhi/


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K-BITS Delega�on Visits NASSCOM (Healthcare)

Deputy CM of Karnataka visits NASSCOM CoE IoT

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Industry 4.0, Digitaliza�on of Manufacturing, 19th June, Chennai

Industry 4.0, Digitaliza�on of Manufacturing, 21st June, Pune

Smart Ci�es Expo 2019 22nd-24th May, New Delhihttp://www.smartcitiesindia.com/ http://www.coe-iot.com/events/smart-cities-india-2019-expo/

Digital Transforma�on of Manufacturing & Heavy Industry, 24th May, Punehttp://www.coe-iot.com/events/digital-transformation-of-the-manufacturing-and-heavy-industry/

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IoT/AI startup Torchit ligh�ng up the lives of many Cofounders Hunny Bhagchandani and Mohit Chelani have taken it as a mission to empower the visually impaired community. Their product Saarthi helps the blind navigate across various environments – be it a closed room or a crowded road. The next version of Saarthi is AI-enabled to auto-sense the environment for obstacles. Users can toggle between three range sets – low (2 feet distance), medium (4 feet distance) and max (8 feet distance). Saarthi has a 99.7% accuracy level, and has been tested on more than 1,200 users. The device has gained accredita�on from the Na�onal Associa�on of Blind, and Blind People Associa�on for being an innova�ve and impac�ul product. The device is being used by more than 8,000 visually impaired individuals in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Mumbai and New Delhi. Bhagchandani and Chelani hope to empower more than 1 million lives in the next two years.Accolades: Top 5 promising social start-ups awarded by PM Modi, Millennium Alliance Round 5 award – TDB, USAID & UK Govt., Social Accelera�on awarded by IIM Ahmedabad and Winners of IIGP 2.0 .Read their success story here: https://community.nasscom.in/communities/iot-ai/ai-for-an-eye-makes-the-world-better-for-the-visually-impaired.html


INVESTOR SPECIALInvestor Hours with Chiratae Ventures: High Level Engagement on Early Stage Investments in Fintech, Healthtech, Enterprise SaaS, Industry 4.0 & Consumer MediaNayrhit Bha�acharya from Chiratae Ventures (formerly known as IDG Ventures) was invited to NASSCOM CoE Gurugram on 4th April 2019 to enable an exclusive pitching opportunity to the 12 deeptech start-ups shortlisted by CoE Gurugram. Nayrhit is part of the investment team at Chiratae Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage investments in FinTech, HealthTech, Enterprise SaaS, Industry 4.0 and Consumer Media. Apart from iden�fying opportuni�es across sectors, he also supports in helping the por�olio companies grow and building the investment thesis around sectors. A total of 12 start-ups teams pitched for during the session included, PranisCOM technologies Private Limited, Capital Quant Solu�ons Pvt Ltd, Docsinblocks, AgSmar�c Technologies, Finbot Private Limited, DeepSight AiLabs Pvt Ltd, Datacultr, Kashware, Ringlerr, DronaMaps, Veda Labs and Wobot.AI.

Investor Hours with Indian Angel Network (IAN): 4 out 7 incubated startups invited to next round of pitching at IAN HQ Investor hours with Indian Angel Network was held at CoE Gurugram on 10th May for pitching session with the curated start-ups.The IAN members formed two panels for the pitching session. Mr. Sanjay Rishi, Head of Interna�onal Business Development and President, South Asia & ANZ, American Express, and Mr. Vikas Kuthiala, MD, First India Assistance (24-hr global emergency assistance services) were the part of the first panel.In the second panel Mr. Anku Jain, MD, MediaTek (MediaTek Inc. is a leading Taiwan based global fabless semiconductor company that is in developing innova�ve systems-on-chip (SoC) for the mobile device, home entertainment, connec�vity, and IoT products) and Mr. Anirudh Agarwal (Execu�ve Director, Sharda Group) was formed.CoE Gurugram shortlisted 12 teams and invited them for pitching sessions including DocsInBlocs, Parkzap, DataCultr, DronaMaps, Veda Labs, Shellios, Fins�nct, ChironX, Devnagri, Eventus Life, Kashware and TorchIt. Seven teams out of 12 are incubated in CoE Gurugram.Six teams have been invited to the next round of pitching to the Investment Commi�ee mee�ng at IAN’s headquarters in May, including 4 out of the 7 incubated teams in CoE Gurugram.

NASSCOM CoE-IoT, IIC join hands for promo�on of Digital Transforma�on of Manufacturing IndustryThe Digital Transforma�on of the Manufacturing and Heavy Industry conference jointly organized by NASSCOM & IIC was held on May 24, 2019 at Sheraton Grand Hotel, in Pune. The objec�ve of the conference was to highlight the impact by crea�ng an ecosystem of technology players, manufacturing enterprises and innova�ve start-ups. The combina�on of advanced manufacturing process and diverse digital technologies con�nues to proliferate digital transforma�on of manufacturing enterprises in India, but at the same �me it experiences setback and resistance to the adop�on. The wireless communica�ons, internet, innova�ve solu�ons, and predic�ve maintenance allows manufacturing industries to benefit from lower adop�on costs and increased produc�vity and efficiency.

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World Auto Forum on IT was held in Delhi on 27th April at Holiday Inn, Aerocity. A day-long event brought together the CXOs from Honda, HeroMotoCorp, Mercedes Benz, JBM, Uno Minda, etc at the forum. Mr. Sudhanshu Mi�al, Director, Industry4.0 at NASSCOM was invited to a Power Panel & was also the Key Note Speaker at the event. Addi�onally, leading decision makers & industry experts from the Automo�ve sector apart from the Innovators & Professionals represen�ng emerging technologies that could impact the Automo�ve sector were present to share their thoughts.

Mr. Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, and Mr. Gopalakrishnan S, Joint Secretary, MeitY, Govt of India paid a visit to CoE Gurugram on 6th May. Secretary of MeitY was here to observe on-ground impact analysis of start-ups work.Start-ups like DronaMaps, Airveda, ChironX, Shellios, Stackfusion, Gesture Research, Devnagri were present to showcase their work and interacted with the officials.

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The panel discussions were around the fact that most of the solu�on providers working in the area of Analy�cs, AI, Predic�on don’t have domain knowledge when they pitch their solu�ons to the users and these turn into a long dura�on co-create projects for users. Also, the challenges in scaling from PoC to actual deployment and even iden�fying the right solu�on partners were discussed. The discussion was moderated by Mr. Sudhanshu Mi�al from NASSCOM CoE-IoT.

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NASSCOM COE-DSAI is building India’s ecosystem in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence by catalyzing innovation through industry collaboration, talent development & lighthouse projects of social & economic impact

Analy�cs, Data Science, IoT and Ar�ficial Intelligence have the promise of be�erment of human lives. AI has the power to assist in improving ci�zen centric services like improving healthcare, public safety, enhance the efficiency in governance which will lead to public transforma�on.With the adop�on of emerging technologies like AI, NASSCOM COE-DSAI is commi�ed to bring the benefits of innova�on to make a huge posi�ve societal impact by working closely with Govt, in addressing their real �me challenges.

MyGov-Ci�zen Voice Challenge: MyGov, innova�ve pla�orm to build a partnership between Ci�zens and Government, interacts with over 8 million users. These interac�ons primarily in Hindi and other Indic languages are cri�cal in understanding ground-level ci�zen issues, sen�ments and help enhance par�cipa�ve governance on key policy ini�a�ves. However, the magnitude, the complexity, mul�tude of languages of interac�ons poses a challenge to decipher manually. There were no off-shelf / readily available solu�ons and the need was an innova�on that catered to Indian Languages leveraging Voice and Speech AI. CoE DSAI curated Ci�zen Voice Challenge which harnessed the power of AI to bring out automated solu�on(s) for the next emerging billions through a voice-first medium, foster their par�cipa�on in governance and holis�cally consume and implement their feedback. The cura�on was a 3 stage process that assessed capability, model/algorithms efficiency, scalability and value proposi�on of 40 innovators in NLP helping iden�fy the top 5 innova�ons.

Karnataka Forest Department: Revenue from sale of ‘dead’ �mber is a major source of revenue for the Karnataka Forest Department. However, there was no predictability on the expected baselines and revenues. Also no insights generated pre/post the sale process. This resulted in loss of opportunity in maximising revenues leading to a be�er process of KFD of mee�ng their objec�ve of a “Be�er Forest”NASSCOM CoE DS-AI helped in addressing this by enabling applica�on of Data Science through “Strategic Consul�ng” to assess the op�mized revenues that needs to be generated. Also developed the landscape for the technical solu�ons to build the predic�ve models, assessed the data structures and created an approach for anonymizing data. Knowledge sessions were held for the Innovators with KFD to help understand the domain and business processes.Curated a group of 16 start-ups, out of which 9 par�cipated and 5 were selected to the final round of comprehensive innova�on demonstra�on to KFD resul�ng in adop�on process of one Innova�on

Karnataka State Pollu�on Control: KSPCB is responsible to prevent, monitor & abate pollu�on across Karnataka. The monitoring is being done by mul�ple vendors using different systems where they give data in different formats and their own visualiza�ons. With the repor�ng schedules are also being inconsistent, KSPCB did not have a ‘single’ view by area / loca�on across different monitoring sta�ons & elements of Air, Water & Noise. A ‘one’ view is cri�cal for the policy makers to monitor and take correc�ve ac�on.CoE DS-AI with KSPCB conducted workshops with its stakeholders and vendors to study the ac�on plan towards 'One View' and determined the addi�onal data a�ributes to be tracked along with targeted alert mechanism. It helped with one 'Consistent Visualiza�on' for Ambient Air Monitoring, be�er u�liza�on of KSPCB experts to ensure ac�on on data.

Floatbot: Bot’s the Way To Smart Governance Successful and efficient governance is when a ci�zen feels his voice is heard, and his queries resolved. Governing a billion ci�zens is no mean task, but technology can go a long way in easing this process. Floatbot is one such. The omni-channel customer engagement AI chatbot pla�orm allows businesses to create chatbots and float across mul�ple pla�orms in a ma�er of minutes.The Bangalore-based chatbot pla�orm is working with mul�ple government en��es & public u�lity companies such as Rajkot Municipal Corpora�on, Pune Municipal Corpora�on, CESC in addi�on to corporate en��es such as Andhra Bank, Stra�on Markets and Payworld.You can read more about Floatbot here: https://community.nasscom.in/communities/iot-ai/bots-the-way-for-smart-governance.html


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AI For Good:NASSCOM COE-DSAI is driving innova�on which will lead to faster adop�on of newer technologies in cri�cal areas such as Agriculture, Healthcare, Manufacturing & Educa�on to speed up the technology driven development.

“AI for Good”, an ini�a�ve for social impact was launched to surface and encourage promising AI Solu�ons to unlock the poten�al of Ar�ficial Intelligence in addressing some of the most common & complex problems in the public domain, which can be solved only by an AI. The ‘AI for Good’ program challenged par�cipa�ng organiza�ons from start-ups to corporates across the country to present their best deployed and deployable solu�ons which leveraged Analy�cs, IoT, Computer Vision, Robo�cs, AR, VR and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in areas of healthcare, agriculture, educa�on, public u�li�es, safety, smart ci�es, natural resources, transporta�on, governance, waste management and fiscal management.

The program a�racted 200+ submissions, among which top 25 AI solu�ons made it to the final round, out of which top 10 winners were selected. An eminent jury consis�ng of people from academia and Industry were present to evaluate the top contenders, the jury was chaired by Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary, IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka. The top 10 are given the �tle of “AI Social Impactors”.

Top 10 AI Social ImpactorsIntello Labs, MyCrop Technologies, Jungroo Learning, DataGlen Technologies, Vinfinet Teachnologies, Surajya Services, Voxta Communica�ons, Tricog Health, Aindra Systems, Netradyne


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Faculty Development Program: It is expected that the data science and ar�ficial intelligence industry in India (IT and non-IT industries) will be worth US $16 billion by 2025, and is likely to spur an addi�onal employment of 150,000 professionals in the country. NASSCOM COE-DSAI aims to upskill nearly 2000 faculty members in Ar�ficial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning through mul�ple interven�ons and impact nearly 25,000 undergraduates pursuing AI related courses.In associa�on with Future Skills, NASSCOM COE-DSAI has launched ‘Faculty Development in AI Founda�on’ program. Broadening its resolve to democra�ze AI learning, the Faculty Development Program in founda�on of Ar�ficial Intelligence offers a comprehensive blended program curated to provide the faculty the necessary exposure to real-life business problems by working closely with the industry experts and access to latest tools & technologies in the AI space. The program delivers a blended offering consis�ng of 100 hours of online learning in areas of Predic�ve Modelling, Programming Languages, Time Series Forecas�ng, Machine Learning, Op�miza�on Techniques, Visualiza�on, Natural Language Processing, Image & Video Analy�cs. On successful comple�on of the online learning, the industry experts will be providing 25 hours of lab-based training on cu�ng-edge business problems.The induc�on program held on 10th June witnessed par�cipa�on from 8 academic ins�tutes & 35 faculty members registering for the program. We are looking forward to host the induc�on program for the next batch of facul�es in the month of September with more academic ins�tutes registering for the program

AI PaathShala: With the growing need to upskill the present workforce with the latest tools & technology to stay industry relevant, NASSCOM COE-DSAI has launched “AI PaathShala”, a mentorship ini�a�ve to facilitate Technical Deep Dive workshops by leading prac��oners across the industry in AI space.The workshops are curated to enable innovators with technical knowledge skills which in turn will help them further enhancing their products or solu�ons. This has created a pla�orm for mee�ng & networking with other innovators in similar area of interest.We have hosted few tech series in the recent past in areas ranging from High Performance Compu�ng in solving Ultra large scale problems like Weather predic�on, Computer vision at scale, NLP for Indian languages etc conducted by some of our leading industry partners like Intel, Reverie Language Technologies, Inkers.ai, Argoid & Capegemini to name a few. The tech series benefi�ed 220 professionals across different ver�cals as we step into the 5th session of the workshop to be held in July.Skilling in Computer Vision: NASSCOM COE-DSAI collaborated with Inkers.ai to provide a comprehensive course of 3 months in Computer Vision. It helped in empowering the ecosystem by training more than 1000 professionals.

AI is emerging as one of the key transforma�on technologies globally. Every industry, be it healthcare, retail, banking, manufacturing, agriculture, u�li�es etc.as well as government is increasingly leveraging the power of AI. So there is an urgent need of industry ready talent pool, for which skill development is a pathway.NASSCOM CoE-DSAI is spearheading skill development in the field of AI by conduc�ng skill based programs for students, facul�es & working professionals through Future Skills pla�orm.

DEVELOP TALENT

IIIT-Hyderabad Machine Learning Lab and TalentSprint have entered into an agreement with NASSCOM CoE-DSAI to upskill around 10000 IT professionals & over 1,000 tech professionals from Hyderabad and Bengaluru have enrolled for the programme in the first eight months of its launch.


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Innovate2Build: In order to catalyze co-innova�on, NASSCOM CoE-DSAI has built a pla�orm “Innovate2Build” for enterprises & start-ups to explore opportuni�es of co-crea�on. A use case driven pla�orm will connect the solu�on seeker with the solu�on provider. An enterprise can publish their problem statements along with data or use cases for solu�ons providers to solve. NASSCOM COE-DSAI has assisted 3 major corporates Firstsource Solu�on Ltd, GE Avia�on & Unisys India to expand their capabili�es by leveraging the solu�ons offered by the innovators.Please refer to www.innovate2build.com

BFSI Strategy Innova�on Group: AI is expected to have a far reaching impact on the financial services industry on tradi�onal cost bases. In order to affect change within the industry and catalyse a difference in approaching business challenges, new solu�ons need to be more economically impac�ul than the current tradi�onal cost. Now, the �me has come to take this burgeoning industry to the next level by leveraging the power of technologies like Ar�ficial Intelligence & Machine Learning. While the innova�on in the BFSI industry right now is largely restricted to chatbots, experts believe that this is just the “�p of the iceberg” – and a whole new world of innova�on awaits the new-age customer. In light of accelera�ng innova�on in BFSI, NASSCOM CoE has formed a Strategy Innova�on Group (SIG) and first roundtable mee�ng with thought leaders in the BFSI industry was held on 5th March 2019,which focused on mobilizing AI & Fintech start-ups, bridge the gap between problems & solu�ons, Data Management, Innova�on in other tech like Blockchain & IoT

In con�nua�on to this, to enable the technology-led innova�on, CoE for Data Science & Ar�ficial Intelligence is organizing “Xperience AI” on 5th July – a pla�orm where the innovators will demonstrate how their innova�ons / solu�ons enhances business value and how organiza�ons can Co-Innovate with these innovators in solving some of the cri�cal business problems.

Co-Innova�on is a new catalysis paradigm for organiza�ons to differen�ate & maintain compe��ve edge. The core of co-innova�on includes engagement, co-crea�on & compelling experience for value crea�on.

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