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Pulkit Gaur: Founder, Gridbots conferred TED fellowship
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas worth spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
The TED Fellows program helps world-changing innovators from around the globe become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Fellows are drawn from many disciplines that reflect the diversity of TED’s members: technology, entertainment, design, the sciences, the humanities, the arts, NGOs, business and more.
Mantis extends its reach to 17 states in India
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Founded by alumni of IIM Ahmedabad and industry professionals, Mantis is the first company to implement Software as a Service (SAAS) model in online ticketing platform for bus industry in India.
The All India foot-print of www.travelyaari.com, their B2C website has been extended to 17 states of India.
Enpower:The Home Edition launched
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
The home edition of ENPOWER, replete with all the features that go into the Enterprise Edition was launched in October along with an energy savings race titled ‘The Social Power Array’ on Facebook. This Facebook Application lets you know how much you’ve saved, how much your friends are saving, and what the worldwide savings thus far look like. The premise is simple – while enterprises will pay for such a tool, an individual user has little or no incentive to spend on ENPOWER. However, if a large number of home users download Enpower, a free application, the impact can be significant. The initiative has seen 90 users across 7 countries collectively avoid nearly 13,000 hours of inactivity and save over 700kWh of power on their computers so far.
(http://creativeriot.com/the-social-power-array/)
To illustrate PC Power Management, the savings it represents and how Enpower can best help you realize these savings for your organization, find their brochure at: www.creativeriot.com/resources/Enpower – Plugging the leak.pdf
India Innovation Initiative – i3
Thursday, January 7th, 2010“India Innovation Initiative – i3″ was a joint effort of CII & DST along with Agilent to launch a nation-wide innovation competition for all innovators above the age group of 18+. i3 aimed to capture innovative ideas from the Indian innovators in the age group of 18 years and above, including students, innovators from R&D Institutes & Labs, Industry professionals and individual innovators / Entrepreneurs, grassroots innovators etc. IIM-A also partnered this joint initiative by providing funding and incubation support for making business proposals and for commercialization of some of the best innovations. The ESP of this initiative was identification of projects that are directly related to the industry, matured enough to be used by the industry, with a substantial potential to be commercialized.
http://www.innovationgrid.org/i3/
National Leadership Development Seminar, 2009:AIESEC
Thursday, January 7th, 2010CIIE was invited to participate in the National Leadership Development Seminar, 2009 hosted by AIESEC Ahmedabad in Silvassa.
AIESEC is the world’s largest student‐run organisation. Focused on providing a platform for youth leadership development, AIESEC offers young people the opportunity to be global citizens, to change the world, and to get experience and skills that matter today.
CIIE was invited to the conference to take sessions on their learning networks: Entrepreneurship and Technology. CIIE conducted 2 sessions: one was a panel discussion on Education, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability and another was discussion on the Revenue and Business strategy for a given product.
Prana ’09 – a B-Plan event at CEPT
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Faculty of Technology Management (CEPT University, Ahmedabad) in collaboration with CIIE (IIM-A) and dare2compete.com conducted a national level Clean energy and Rural development B-plan event “Prana-09”on 7th and 8th November 2009.
The aim of conducting Prana-09 was Enlightening entrepreneurial spirit in Rural and clean energy development and bringing Awareness about Opportunities, challenges and the funding options available for entrepreneurs to transform their ideas into a successful business.
CIIE supported this initiative by providing assistance in planning and organizing the event. Mr. Pranay Gupta, the joint CEO at CIIE was actively involved in the event and along with his team carried out the initial screening of the B-plan abstracts. Prana-09 received around 60 abstracts from all over India which included entries from all IIMs, FMS-Delhi, Symbiosis, NID-A, EDI-G, IMT, XIMB, Great Lakes Institute of Management-Chennai, IIFT-Delhi, JBIMS, Mumbai, MICA, CEPT University, NMIMS Uni., TAPMI etc. A total of twelve teams were invited for the final presentation at CEPT University.
Prior to the final presentation, CIIE guided the participants regarding “how to present the b-plan” and “the criteria for judging the event”. This kind of mentoring support helped the contestants in final presentation. The representatives from CIIE judged the participants and provided guidance to them in relation to their business plans.
Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Symposium at University of California
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Mr. Pranay Gupta, the Joint CEO at CIIE participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Global Entrepreneurship Leadership Symposium, or “GELS,” is a part of the Intel+UC Berkeley Global Entrepreneurship Education Initiative – a set of programs building and supporting entrepreneurship worldwide. GELS is focused on training expert mentors who can support entrepreneurs in their regional ecosystems.
Throughout the program the participants are introduced to concepts, processes and tools to enable qualified individuals to effectively mentor emerging entrepreneurs. The program is based on the strong principals and practices of the UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship and Innovation program, led by the Lester Center and its globally recognized faculty.
Opportunities@Incubatee Companies
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Gridbots
a) Requirement of 3-4 years experienced person for marketing and sales of the educational robot – Edubotix
b) \C++ Programmers with good experience in Wn32 ( 2-3 years of experience)
c) Full time graphics Designer
http://www.gridbots.com/index.html
Biosense
Requires Electronics Engineer with work experience of at least a year in the field of embedded systems, circuit design, digital signal processing, wireless communication using GPRS modules and server management
Global Tech
a) Requires senior persons for VC ++ technology, having 4 to 8 years of experience. The company is specifically looking for people wanting to settle down in Ahmedabad.
b) Requires young and dynamic marketing executives to sell their products/ services
If you are interested in working with any of the companies, mail us at ciie@iimahd.ernet.in
Gridbots introduces new range of robots
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Gridbots, a technology startup currently incubated at IIM Ahmedabad’s business incubator CIIE works in the field of Robotics, Security- Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence.
New products introduced by them recently:
- GroundZERO robot – which is a combat Warfield robot has been added to the latest chain of their products
groundZERO is a combat robot which can be used in hazardous environments and is designed to carry heavy payloads.
This robot consists of duplex wireless commmunication link which make it very easy for the operator to control it remotely.
The robot is designed to carry a robotic manipulator which has a capacity of up to 10 kg of payload.
groundZERO can also carry armor and light guns which can be remotely operated.
The robot has onboard li-Ion rechargeable battery bay which makes it easy to run it for longer durations.
It has 3 high resolution on board cameras which makes it easy for the robot to see 360 degree around even in dark.
The cameras have up to 10x optical zoom and pan-tilt capability.
It also has various on board sensors and GPS satellite receiver unit to navigate the robot in any hazardous environments.
- Bipedal walking robot – Which imitates the human way of walking and can turn – standup and walk
The robot is a biped walker featuring two degrees of freedom (DOF) per leg. The robot can walk forward or backwards and turn in place left or right with variable speed.
With precise mechanics and sophisticated controller – the robot can carry a payload up to 250 grams and can be controlled either wirelessly or via the commands stored in its memory.
The robot is constructed from metal which is precisely cut using laser.
Enpower joins the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI)
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Enpower is now an affiliate member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI). Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a non-profit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations.
The India chapter of CSCI, launched this year, has the backing of nine organizations: Dell, Intel, HP, Google, WWF, TERI, CII-ITC Centre Of Excellence For Sustainable Development, MAIT and NASSCOM. It has set a goal of cutting computer power consumption in half and avoiding four million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the next three years.