Artificial intelligence’s (AI) greatest impact by 2020 will be in functions outside of IT such as marketing, customer service, finance and HR
London | Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, has unveiled its Global Trend Study titled, ‘Getting Smarter by the Day: How AI is Elevating the Performance of Global Companies’. Focused on the current and future impact of artificial intelligence (AI), the study […]
Read More →Artificial Intelligence is the need of the hour: ASSOCHAM-PwC study
Mumbai: Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, robotics and cognitive automation in direct proportion bestow rise in the quality and quantity of training data that the systems are exposed to, the conditions are ripe for India to emerge as a leader in AI, said an ASSOCHAM-PwC paper. India is already on the path of […]
Read More →Smart India Hackathon 2017 is set to become the world’s biggest Hackathon
New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Mr Prakash Javadekar yesterday ( 23 March 2017) interacted with the media here in New Delhi about the ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’ which has already been launched in collaboration with i4c, MyGov, Persistent Systems, NASSCOM and Rambhau Mhalgi Pabodini. Speaking on the occasion the Minister detailed out the […]
Read More →Winners of the India Region Round of the 1st China (Shenzhen) Innovation and Entrepreneurship International Competition announced
Bengaluru: Winners of the 1st China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition have been announced even as the competition fired the imagination of young Indians where nearly 200 brilliant minds competed to showcase their talent and innovation and in the end the best of the best got not only richer by lakhs but are also […]
Read More →Shruti Shibulal, Promoter and Director – Strategy and Development The Tamara, bags Young Global Leader 2017 of World Economic Forum
Bangalore: Shruti Shibulal, Promoter and Director – Strategy and Development, The Tamara has been named as Young Global Leader 2017 by World Economic Forum. The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a community of over 800 enterprising, socially-minded men and women selected under the age of 40 from across the world. On its website, announcing […]
Read More →With emerging automation and digitization, Enate spells out the future of shared services industry in India
Bangalore: The current industrial revolution is unfolding disruptive technologies in the form of automation, robotics, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, genomics, etc. globally, and has started replacing human resource in large number. In India alone, millions of jobs are at stake in the next five years. On this context, Enate, a pioneer in simplifying automation in […]
Read More →XLRI presents Entrepreneurship Conference ‘The Startup Conclave East 2017’
Jamshedpur: XLRI – Xavier School of Management recently hosted entrepreneurship conference the 1st-ever ‘Startup Conclave East 2017’. The conference was organized by the Entrepreneurship Cell (E-cell) of XLRI in collaboration with Entrepreneur Café on 4th and 5th March, 2017. The conference aimed to provide opportunity local start-ups to interact with industry experts and gain insights […]
Read More →News Corp VCCircle honours promising stars from Startup, PE & VC Ecosystem
New Delhi: News Corp VCCircle, India’s leading publisher of alternative investment, deals and startup news, data and information has announced the winners of the 6th News Corp VCCircle Awards held in Mumbai. The awards, which are the pre-eminent honors for disruptive and fast-growth business in the startup, private equity and venture capital ecosystem, had prominent […]
Read More →IIM Bangalore-Goldman Sachs Women Startup programme select 15 women entrepreneurs-in-the-making
Bengaluru: The NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment bank and active investor in India, selected 15 women entrepreneurs-in-the-making and their ideas for incubation over the next year as the final phase of its Women Startup Programme, India’s first customized […]
Read More →Vivek Chaand Sehgal of Motherson Sumi Systems awarded as the EY Entrepreneur of The Year India 2016
New Delhi: Vivek Chaand Sehgal of the Motherson Sumi Systems Limited (MSSL), the flagship company of Samvardhana Motherson Group (SMG), was named the EY Entrepreneur of The Year (EOY) India 2016. Samvardhana Motherson Group, with MSSL, has presence in more than 26 countries across six continents and is amongst the top auto-component suppliers across the […]
Read More →Paul Writer in Association with Oracle India launches India’s First CX Portal on Customer Experience
Bangalore: Paul Writer in association with Oracle India launched an exclusive site focused on Customer Experience (CX) and dedicated to customer experience, sales, digital and marketing professionals. Companies today are challenged by the new environment of rapidly rising customer expectations and disruptive innovations like social, mobile and cloud technologies. How can data and technology help […]
Read More →Social Impact summit was organized by XSEED of XIMB
Bhubaneswar: A Glocal (Global+Local) Social Impact summit, as a part of “Thinking Social”, a series of “Tata Social Enterprise Challenge” by Tata Trust and IIM, Calcutta, was organized by XSEED, The Entrepreneurship Cell of XIMB, GSIS, a PNV foundation, and eKutir initiative and MyCityLinks at Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier University Bhubaneswar on 18 February […]
Read More →Idein Ventures hires co-founder of India’s first car rental company as Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Mumbai: Idein Ventures, a seed-stage VC fund with offices in the United Arab Emirates, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, has recruited David Back, co-founded of the first company in India to offer ‘self-drive’ car rentals Zoomcar, to advise the UAE-India Venture Capital Fund and its portfolio companies. David will provide advice to Idein and to its portfolio […]
Read More →The President meets Ashoka Fellows
New Delhi: A group of Social Innovators from the Ashoka Innovators for the Public (ASHOKA) including newly inducted 2016 Ashoka Fellows called on the President of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee yesterday (February 11, 2017) at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President said that India is a diverse country and this diversity is its strength and needs to […]
Read More →Axis Bank launches crowd-sourcing competition and invites Ideas on ‘Future of Jobs in India’
Mumbai: Axis Bank, the country’s third largest private sector bank, launched the largest crowd-sourcing competition, ‘Future of Jobs in India’, seeking ideas from young minds. The competition, under the aegis of ‘Axis Moves’, is open to all Indian citizens in the age group of 18 to 30 years. Participants, in teams of 2, can select […]
Read More →Four-member team of IIM Bangalore’s EPGP students wins first prize at IIM Lucknow’s entrepreneurship summit
Bengaluru: A four-member team of Executive Post Graduate Programme (EPGP) students, from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, has emerged as the winner at IIM Lucknow’s entrepreneurship summit ‘Ventura’. The team from IIM Bangalore beat 165 participating teams from 36 B-schools including IIMs, IITs and ISB, to win the finals of the competition, held from […]
Read More →SPJIMR’s Business Academia Conclave discusses how India can become the innovation capital of the World
Mumbai: SBAC 2017, SPJIMR’s annual Business Academia Conclave this year, brought together four leading CEOs, over 50 CXOs, faculty members, students and staff for an exchange of ideas around the theme of innovation. SPJIMR Dean Dr. Ranjan Banerjee, “We have identified two words that we want to own: ‘innovation’ and ‘social sensitivity’. The catalyst will […]
Read More →S P Jain School of Global Management launches professional postgraduate program in Fintech
Mumbai: Rapid technology transformation, automation and the rise of Fintech also calls for long-term skill management programs to ensure future employability of the population. It is estimated that nearly 30 to 50 percent of jobs will be automated within the next few years and people will need completely different skillsets to remain masters (rather than […]
Read More →Top Ten global universities that breed the founders of unicorn start-ups: IITs at fourth
London/Mumbai: Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India’s premier technology institutes, has brought many laurels by enlisting their names in global start-up map. Now, IITs added a new feature in their cap as they achieved fourth rank in the global list of universities that have produced the most unicorn start-up founders. The most popular universities that […]
Read More →New Delhi-based online school aggregator platform SchoolForSure.com successfully raises funding
New Delhi: New Delhi based online school admissions platform SchoolForSure.com has announced that the company has raised an undisclosed amount in angel funding from private investors amongst which is Rohit Chadda, co-founder Foodpanda and founder, PayLo. The Ed-tech startup will use the proceeds to expand its team and enter new geographies. SchoolForSure.com which operates a […]
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