Pratik Marwah, CO-Founder and COO at iAugmentor Labs Pvt.was the only Indian entrepreneur invited to be a part of Global ICT symposium 2016. He shared his views on the role of technology in enabling the “Universities of the Future”. CBS-2016 took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 6 to 8 September 2016. He enlightened the audience on ‘A new digital generation: Young innovators’ This brought young people from all over the world whose technological innovations contribute to capacity building leading to socio-economic development. Pratik addressed the gathering from across the world, including International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ,on how to effectively implement various technological innovations thus reinforcing the need for collaborative efforts at an international level amongst the worldwide ICT capacity building group. For the participating colleges and educators,the symposium provided an opportunity to gauge the necessities of the business sector thus helping them shape their future programs keeping the new millennial in mind.
About Pratik Marwah Pratik is a co-founder and COO at iAugmentor Labs Pvt. As COO, he heads operations, partnerships and alliances across India, MENA focusing on colleges as well as individuals. Pratik is the head of Business Development & Operations, responsible for strategizing and optimizing channels to increase sales and revenue for the company. He plays a crucial role in the organization, working to expand and acquire new diverse clientele.
About ICT Symposium The ITU Global ICT Capacity Building Symposium (CBS) is the main global event for capacity development in the field of information and communication technology (ICT). The Symposium brings together stakeholders from across the world to discuss trends and developments in the sector and their implications for human and institutional capacity building. CBS initially focused only on matters related to human resources and thus was targeted mainly to human resources practitioners. It has since broadened its scope to embrace human and institutional capacity building, drawing on a global network of expertise from different regions and stakeholders. About iAugmentor iAugmentor is a pioneering technology enabled learning platform, bringing together technology, human intervention and a whole gamut of learning activities under one roof with the intention of making learning more effective, intimate and accountable. It was founded in 2016, and is a brain child of Arindam Sen, Ankit Ruia, Pratik Marwah, Sameer Sikka and Sarvagya Mishra. They have recently got funded. The company designed a first-of-its-kind learning platform giving access to a personalized mentor to every individual who desires to learn to augment (increase/enhance) his skill sets to achieve his potential. The assessment based learning tool is a Personalized and Adaptive medium that intuitively suggests a learning roadmap to an individual as per the learning tendencies, learning competencies and learning proclivities of the individual, constantly tracking progress as well. Headquartered in Gurgaon, the company has achieved great success and within a short span of four months, they have sold subscription to 3 colleges in India. They have also established a presence in the international markets and started operations in Egypt by associating with Cairo University who has bought subscriptions of this intuitive technology enabled learning platform. |