January 31st, 2012
@karenjoy

CEO of Technopark Company Wins Star Entrepreneur Award at Innovation Summit

 

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Lepeesh Parat, the founder and CEO of Technopark Trivandrum-based Zesty Beanz Technologies has won the “Star Entrepreneur Award” at the 5th Indira International Innovation Summit held in Pune in January this year.

 

The award was conferred on Parat in recognition of his leadership and contributions to the area of entrepreneurship and innovation. The award consists of a trophy and a citation.

 

Presented by the Indira College of Engineering and Management (ICEM) at Pune, the annual Indira International Innovation Summit aims to develop an insight into developing a mindset for innovation. This year’s theme was “Imagination, Creativity and Ingenuity: Leading a Culture of Innovation.”

 

Parat founded Zesty Beanz Technologies at the National Institute of Technology TBI at Kozhikode (NIT-K) in October 2008. In May, 2011, the company expanded its operations to Technopark Trivandrum. Today, a major part of the development, support, and sales team is based in Thiruvananthapuram. The centre at NIT is maintained for training and R&D. The company also has a divisional office in Belgium and plans to start operations in Frankfurt (Germany) later this fiscal.

 

Source: KeralaITNews

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January 31st, 2012
@karenjoy

UST Global Conducts Talent Hunt Among Government School Children

 

As part of its community reach-out programmes to transform lives, UST Global recently initiated a talent hunt among the students of government schools in and around Thiruvananthapuram Corporation area. The competition will be conducted separately for lower primary, upper primary and high school/higher secondary students. Finally, two schools–one champion and one runner-up–will be identified.

 

The first session of the three-week long “Talent Hunt” was held on January 26, 2012, at the company’s centre in Technopark Trivandrum. The competitions that day were for the “Higher Secondary” category and included essay writing, elocution, skit, quiz, and painting competitions.

 

 UST Global aims at recognising and awarding six winner schools; two in each category. Similar activities will be conducted for the other two categories as well and the events will be organised in the second the third week of February 2012.

 

Source: KeralaITNews

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January 31st, 2012
@jays

Thiruvananthapuram Corporation to Implement RFID Project

 

The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation has immediate plans to implement a centrally sponsored Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) project that will enable full-fledged connectivity between every household in the city and the Corporation offices. An RFID tag will be installed at convenient location near the front door of each house within the Corporation area to enable the connectivity.

 

RFID is the use of a wireless non-contact radio system to transfer data from a tag attached to an object, for the purposes of automatic identification and tracking.

 

RFID will enable the Corporation gather up-to-date information on collection of solid waste, identify households, enhance and speed up the issue of occupancy and residency certificates, and even improve the handling of grievances and suggestions from citizens.

 

The RFID tag marked “MAXenna” will contain a Radio Frequency Identifier with details of house and households, which is equivalent to the sensors installed in shops to prevent theft of goods. The officials from Corporation or Clean Well unit members from Kudumbashree will swipe the reader on the installed Maxeenna tag at the door steps. At that time, the GPS system will pass the information to the server installed in the Corporation office. Thus the Corporation can effectively monitor the successful collection of solid waste, completion of site visits by corporation officials, etc.

 

The Corporation authorities have assured the citizens that their privacy will not be affected in any way by using this mechanism.

 

Bangalore-based MAXrad Software (Maxsoft) has been awarded the order for RFID-based solid waste collection management. MAXenna is a full subsidiary of Maxsoft and is engaged in the R&D of state-of-the art RF & Embedded products for the applications in RFID & Industrial automations.

 

Source: KeralaITNews

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January 31st, 2012
@cutedawn

Technopark Trivandrum All Set to Host State School IT Fest on Feb 1 and 2

 

Technopark Trivandrum All Set to Host State School IT Fest on Feb 1 and 2

 

On February 1 and 2, 2012, Technopark Trivandrum will host the 11th edition of the State School IT Fest that will see the participation of about 500 students from across the State, including the first and second position winners in district-level IT fests.

 

Technopark is hosting this event for the fifth consecutive time. The Fest website was launched on January 27. The inaugural function scheduled for February 1 has been cancelled due to official mourning.

 

The competitions would be held separately for high school and higher secondary/vocational higher secondary sections at four venues in the park campus. Competitions will be held on an open source platform in Digital Painting, Multimedia Presentation, Web Page Designing, IT Project, Malayalam Computing, and IT Quiz.

 

The IT Mela would also see sessions on various IT topics of interest to the students. The students would also get a chance to interact with the IT Professionals in Technopark and visit the companies there. The International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) Lab will also host some competitions.

 

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will give away prizes to the winners of the competitions during the valedictory function to be held on February 2, 2012. The handing over of the e-India Award 2011 won by IT@School Project and screening of animation films by students will also be held at the function. The competition results, videos, and photos of the State School IT Fest will be uploaded live on the fest website (itfest.itschool.gov.in). The ViCTERS channel will have two special bulletins everyday on the fest.

 

Source: KeralaITNews

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January 31st, 2012
@cutedawn

Kozhikode to Host NASSCOM Emerge Forum Fridays’ 2.0 on January 31

 

Kozhikode to Host NASSCOM Emerge Forum Fridays’ 2.0 on January 31

 

Kozhikode will witness the 16th session of NASSCOM EMERGE Forum Fridays’ 2.0 on January 31, 2012. The event will be hosted by the Malabar Chamber of Commerce, and its highlight will be a talk by Dr. Saji Gopinath, Dean, IIM Kozhikode on Blue Ocean Strategy. The event is free for both members and nonmembers; however, prior registration is mandatory.

 

The Blue Ocean Strategy moves away from the conventional way of thinking and advocates a systematic approach to migrate into a market space–the blue ocean–to make competition irrelevant. The talk on Blue Ocean Strategy is designed to enable the audience have an in-depth understanding of the principles of formulating and executing Blue Ocean Strategy through reconstructing the market boundaries and reaching beyond conventional demand/ consumers so as to develop the right strategic sequence needed to implement the same. The focus of the lecture will be multi-dimensional, covering the strategic, organizational, and human resource management issues in order to familiarise the participants with nuances of blue ocean strategy formulation and implementation in their own organizations.

 

Source: KeralaITNews

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