• NASSCOM Foundation to discuss current CSR trends from across the IT-BPM Industry
• NASSCOM Foundation to bring together 300+ delegates – Industry leaders, NGO heads, Government Officials, CSR thought leaders, civil society members and social innovators for the CSR Leadership Conference

Bengaluru, Dec 3, 2018: NASSCOM Foundation today, announced that it would be hosting India’s largest Tech for Good driven conferences – The CSR Leadership Conference 2018 in Bangalore on the 10^th and 11^th December 2018 at The Leela Palace Hotel and Sterlings Mac Hotel.

The event will be supported by Accenture, discussing Skills to Succeed. Societe Generale and Wells Fargo have also come forward to support the knowledge platform, along with Sonata Software. It will have over 300 delegates consisting of CEOs, CXOs, CSR Heads, policy makers, influencers, NGO Leads, Tech4Good champions, and social innovators come together to discuss innovative approaches to CSR and help create a roadmap to a new, developed and inclusive India.

In the five years of the mandated CSR era, India Inc. has made significant progress – from adoption to the application of the law, and now to alignment to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goals. This year, the CSR Leadership Conference (CLC) will go beyond discussing intervention areas, to talk about new developments, innovative tools and disruptive ways of making the ecosystem better, more impactful and efficient.

To this end, the first day of CLC will have interactive panel discussions and impact talks on Reskilling the workforce for future, Environment protection initiatives, Collaborative Models of CSR, STEM Education, Rural Development, Reimagining Healthcare,  among others

The second day of CLC will deep dive into engaging learning experiences in Employee Volunteerism (with a session by MyGov on Self4Society), Mapping CSR to SDGs, Design Thinking for Development and Best Practices for Monitoring and Evaluation

Shri Arvind Gupta, CEO, MyGov as the Guest of Honor for the event, will share his immense knowledge and experience on how the private sector through volunteering and CSR initiatives can work with the government to help create sustainable impact. He will also talk about how corporates can align their volunteering goals to the national causes through the Self4Society portal.

The CLC has grown over the years to become the largest IT-BPM specific CSR conference. This year the CLC will host the leadership from across all relevant stakeholder groups involved in the CSR ecosystem – The IT Industry, NGOs, Social Enterprises and Ecosystem support agencies. Some of the participating organizations include – IBM, Intel, Teamlease, Labournet, Atal Innovation Mission, NSDC, Tata Strive, Accenture, Akshaypatra, ACC Limited, Cognizant, Vodafone and Deutsche Bank, Dalberg, PwC, Sattva Consulting, and Storywallahs.

The CSR Leadership Conference will have a host of networking opportunities, and enable NGOs and Corporates to find relevant partners. CLC will also host some of the best social innovation project demos.

The NASSCOM Foundation CSR Leadership Conference, therefore, promises to provide a 360-degree opportunity for all stakeholders to connect, learn from peers and experts, and strive to solve the most significant challenges facing development and diversity in India. A detailed agenda to the conference and registration details can be further referred to at www.clc.nasscomfoundation.org

About NASSCOM Foundation:

NASSCOM Foundation is a leading non-profit organization driving technology for good. The Foundation’s work is just as expansive and evolutionary as the potential that technology and corporate India entail. Drawing strength from its parent body NASSCOM, the Foundation works closely with four major stakeholders: NASSCOM member companies, NGOs, emerging social enterprises and Government to foster a strategic relationship between technology and development. NASSCOM Foundation’s core initiatives include working for Persons with Disabilities, fostering innovative solutions for social good, creating unique skilling models for underserved communities, helping transform Indian Public Libraries into community engagement, information and knowledge centres and digital literacy where it is the industry partner to the Govt. of India’s National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM / PMGDISHA)

Know more at www.nasscomfoundation.org

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• Built with an investment of INR 1100 crore, Intel India’s new state-of-the-art facility in Bengaluru, SRR4, is aimed at advancing cutting-edge engineering and innovation
• Institutes Innovation Award in collaboration with the Government of India to be conferred annually to recognize pioneering work and contributions made by eminent scientists and innovators in three categories – technology advancement, research and product innovation
• Establishes a framework for ‘Women Innovators, Social Leaders and Entrepreneurs’ (WISE)[*]

– an initiative towards promoting inclusive participation of women in the industry

• Over the last 20 years, Intel has invested over INR 30,000 crore in India

15^th November 2018, Bengaluru: Furthering its commitment to advancing research & development (R&D) and innovation in the country, Intel India marked its 20^th anniversary today with the inauguration of its latest state-of-the-art design house, SRR4, at its Bengaluru campus. It also announced key initiatives to promote innovation in the technology ecosystem and support inclusive participation of women in the industry.

Built with an investment of approximately INR 1100 crore, the newest facility located at Intel’s 44-acre campus on Sarjapur Ring Road (SRR) in Bengaluru, has 620,000 sq. ft. of space including 100,000 sq. ft. of world-class lab infrastructure.  Extending Intel’s R&D presence in India, it will house technologists who work on cutting-edge engineering across hardware and software.

A smart and green building, SRR4 is the second** building in India to be constructed with the innovative ‘One Storey High Technology,’ with each floor being built on the ground, then lifted and attached to the top of the building. This technology resulted in the reduction of scheduled construction time by up to 60% compared to traditional methods.

The new building is equipped with IoT-based smart features, including smart lights and real-time occupancy management, as well as innovative energy harvesting tiles installed at the entrance of the building that generate and store energy as people walk into the building. In addition, it uses renewable energy sources like solar and fuel cells for power generation, which is expected to meet 40% of the building’s power demand and reduce CO₂ emissions by 37%.

The state-of-the-art design facility was inaugurated by Shri Manoj Sinha, Minister of State (IC) for Communications and Minister of State for Railways, Government of India, and Bob Swan, CFO and interim CEO of Intel Corporation in the presence of many other delegates from the government, industry and academia.

Bob Swan, CFO and interim CEO, Intel Corporation, said, “This year Intel celebrated its 50^th anniversary, marking a half-century of innovation that has profoundly changed the world. This milestone is an opportunity to embrace a new Intel, a different, fast-paced, global company that’s adapting, growing and building the future. Intel India has grown tremendously over the past 20 years to become a strategic site and a key growth engine for Intel as it transforms to a data-centric company. The inauguration of the new research and development (R&D) facility reinforces our commitment to India. We have robust collaborations with the vibrant and mature technology ecosystem in India and look forward to the next 20 years of innovation.”

“Over the last 20 years, Intel India has been relentlessly focusing on advancing technology development and innovation in the country by working closely with the vibrant ecosystem in India. Intel India plays a strategic role in Intel’s growth by making significant contributions to Intel’s technology and product portfolio in areas such as Cloud, Client, Graphics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G and Advanced Driver Assistance System.,” said Nivruti Rai, Country Head of Intel India and VP of Data Center Group, Intel Corporation. “Our newest design facility, initiatives to promote the culture of innovation, Diversity & Inclusion, reinforce our long-term commitment towards technology advancement in the country. We are excited about the tremendous opportunities to innovate, collaborate and contribute towards a better India and a better world, specially the work we are doing in the area of urban and rural connectivity, AI and enabling the manufacturing ecosystem in India,” she added.

Intel Technology Awards in honor of the late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

In an effort to accelerate innovation and research, Intel India in collaboration with the Government of India is instituting national-level awards named in honor of former President of India and eminent scientist, the late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. These annual awards have been introduced with the intent to recognize and celebrate the pioneering work and contributions made by distinguished scientists and innovators across three categories:

• Intel Product Innovation Award in honor of Dr. Abdul Kalam
• Intel Technology Advancement Award in honor of Dr. Abdul Kalam
• Intel Research Award in honor of Dr. Abdul Kalam

The first recipients of these awards will be honored for work that has created significant impact to society, businesses, environment and livelihood over the last 20 years. The awards are part of Intel India’s ongoing efforts to inspire Indians to actively pursue technology and research, making India a hub for technology advancement, research and innovation.

Framework for WISE initiative to promote inclusive participation of women in the industry

Intel India is part of Women Innovators, Social Leaders and Entrepreneurs (WISE), a collaborative initiative with key women leaders who offer leadership, mentoring, and development opportunities for women entrepreneurs and innovators in an effort to increase women’s participation in growing India’s economy.

As part of the initiative, Intel India has developed the WISE-Readiness (WISE-R) framework that enterprises can use to accelerate inclusive participation of women in the industry. With a goal to have 500 enterprises WISE-Ready over the next 5 years, the framework includes key parameters like gender diversity representation and retention in the organization, number of women who have rejoined work after a career break, benefits for women in the workplace that promote work-life balance, number of women-led businesses in the supply chain, women-led startups being supported by them, and number of girls/women trained in STEM by enterprises.

About Intel

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), a leader in the semiconductor industry, is shaping the data-centric future with computing and communications technology that is the foundation of the world’s innovations. The company’s engineering expertise is helping address the world’s greatest challenges as well as helping secure, power and connect billions of devices and the infrastructure of the smart, connected world – from the cloud to the network to the edge and everything in between. Find more information about Intel at newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.

[*] ^{Women for Women Innovators, Social Leaders & Entrepreneurs (WISE) is an industry-wide initiative led by the US-India Business Council (USIBC) that works with the vision of “women supporting women to participate in creating the future of India”.}

** ^{SRR3 at Intel India’s Bengaluru campus on Sarjapur Ring Road was the first building in India to be built using Top Down construction technology}

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World Record Single Largest Training on Child Safeguarding

Collaborative initiative by CII-Young Indians Bengaluru & Samagra Shikshana , Karnataka trains 1336 teachers.

Bangalore, 17^th September: The role of a teacher in shaping a student cannot be understated. Recognising that the future of our country is taking shape inside the classrooms, CII-Young Indians collaborated with Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan to conduct the world’s largest “Children Safeguarding Training” at Srinivasapura, Kolar with 1336 Teachers.

“Most of us read newspaper reports of children being abused. It leaves us angry. At Young Indians we decided we needed to Play A Part. The teachers trained will ensure that all children in Srinivasapura are educated on how they could safeguard themselves”, shared Ajith George, Co-Chair Young Indians Bengaluru.

He further added,”one of our members Rana is skating 6000 kilometres across India to raise awareness on child safety and we wanted to.match him.”

The event saw 1336 teachers attentively writing notes and also asking questions like students. Experts Harish Bhuvan (compassionate clowns) and Ashwini (Muktha Foundation) along with volunteers from Sankara Eye Hospital walked them through the concepts of Body Boundary, Safe-Unsafe Touch, Safety Network and nuances of the POCSO act.

Ms Lalitha Chandrashekar Joint Director (Admin) Samagra Shikshana – Karnataka shared, “Government of Karnataka has looked to implement a strong child protection policy. Towards this we are pleased to work with partners to empower our teachers. We have made a start today and will work to ensure that atleast 10 lakh children benefit from this awareness”,

This unique initiative was supported by Kempegowda International Airport and Wipro through a grant.

Young Indians Bengaluru, an integral part of CII comprises of professionals and entrepreneurs who volunteer towards various projects aimed at Nation Building. One of our key projects is “Masoom” which looks at eliminating child sexual abuse through improved awareness among stakeholders. Through its project Leher , it looks at creating a one minute video on aspects of child safety that would be released once a week for a year.

For more information on Young Indians Bengaluru  log onto www.yibangalore.com or www.youngindians.net.

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Bengaluru, August 07, 2018: PaisaSavvy.com, a Bengaluru-based fintech startup, has launched an innovative way to save and invest money. By offering hassle-free and lucrative investment plans, the platform motivates young professionals to start saving early on in their career.

The idea behind PaisaSavvy is simple, yet innovative and effective. A person’s salary account gets linked to the service. The user spends from his or her account, as per requirement, during the month. When the next salary gets credited, the last month’s surplus automatically gets invested in money market and equity focused funds.

Talking about the innovation, PaisaSavvy founder and CEO Mehul Marakana said, “We are delighted to offer this unique platform to assist millennials to start saving in their early 20s and achieving their financial goals. We intend to take the hassles out of the investment process and that’ll be a big motivation for them.”

“We offer several salient features that make ours an interesting proposition for our young customers. You can park your money for daily use with mutual fund that generates more return than a regular savings or fixed deposit account. Be it Rs 10 or Rs 100, the returns are deposited in your bank account on a daily basis, and not annually. You also get a recognised bank’s debit card which can be used for regular transactions and withdrawals. Moreover, we make the concept of saving money even easier by having your leftover money auto-invested at the end of every month to suitable investment instruments basis your risk appetite. And with all your investments linked with one card, you can encash your money anytime,” he adds.

“We offer a pseudo-savings account to help users save for short-term cash requirements. Also, from this account, we help them build a habit of investing in equity mutual funds for long-term goals,” added Mali Mukesh, co-founder and CTO of PaisaSavvy.

Flexibility in savings, investments and withdrawals makes this an attractive offering for young, first-time investors. The platform will soon announce various other investment tools for its customers.

About PaisaSavvy: PaisaSavvy is a Bengaluru-based fintech startup that has launched an innovative way of saving money. Specially crafted keeping in mind the needs and requirements of young professionals, the platform helps auto-invest the surplus from its user’s salary account into Mutual funds. But the liquidity remains intact. They can withdraw money per their requirement whenever they want to while earning a better rate of interest when the money remains invested. The venture is co-founded by Mehul Marakana an IT post-graduate from DA-IICT and an AMFI Certified Mutual Fund Distributor, and co-founder Mali Mukesh, a computer science graduate. 

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Bengaluru, July 12, 2018:  Following the success of last year’s inaugural TAKE Solutions Masters, the tournament will be returning to the Karnataka Golf Association, Bengaluru, from August 9^th – 12^th this year. With an increased prize fund of US$ 350,000 the most exciting Asian Tour and Indian golfing talent will be taking part in what promises to be, a very exciting competition.

TAKE’s ambassadors SSP Chawrasia, the six-time Asian Tour and four-time European Tour winner will be returning along with Khalin Joshi, whose second-place result made him India’s top finisher in last year’s event at his home course and the 2015 winner of the Panasonic Open India, Chiragh Kumar.  They will also be joined by Bangalore boy, Chikkarangappa S.  India’s formidable line-up, along with the region’s talented Asian Tour stars, will complete the elite field at the TAKE Solutions Masters.

The tournament is also an opportunity for the top players on the PGTI to test themselves against a world-class field.  Co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and PGTI, the money earned in the tournament will be counted on the Asian Tour’s Habitat for Humanity Standings and the PGTI Order of Merit. The tournament will also carry Official World Golf Ranking points.

Thai rising star Poom Saksansin won the TAKE Solutions Masters last year and broke four years of Indian dominance at international tournaments played in the country.  Whatever the nationality of this year’s winner, a strong international field will be sure to provide four days of high quality, exciting golf.

TAKE Solutions is a globally recognised domain expert offering end-to-end Life Sciences solutions and is committed to putting Indian golf and its players on the global map.  TAKE has been associated with golf for over 15 years in efforts to create better infrastructure and greater playing opportunities in India and internationally.  Srinivasan H R, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, TAKE Solutions said, “We are committed to seeking every opportunity to expose Indian golfing talent to international opportunities and TAKE Solutions Masters is a fantastic way to achieve this.  After the success of last year’s tournament, it’s great to be coming back to Bengaluru with an increased prize fund”.

Asian Tour Chief Operating Officer Cho Minn Thant said, “We would like to thank TAKE Solutions for their vision to grow the game in India and across the region. It is fantastic news that this year’s tournament will see an increased prize purse of US$350,000 from last year’s US$300,000.

“We truly appreciate Srinivasan H R’s effort and continuous support of the Asian Tour and the development of golf in Asia.  It is great to see more and more Indian players doing well on the Asian Tour, especially with the likes of Shubhankar Sharma, Gaganjeet Bhullar, Ajeetesh Sandhu, SSP Chawrasia and Shiv Kapur all winning on the Tour last year.  This is truly a testament to TAKE’s commitment to golf,” he added.

Speaking on behalf of the PGTI, CEO, Uttam Singh Mundy said, “The TAKE Solutions Masters is a great opportunity for our Indian players to test themselves alongside the best in Asia and experience a truly world-class event, on one of our country’s finest golf courses.”

The tournament is promoted and managed by Kreeda Events who are looking forward to working with all the stakeholders to build on the success of last year and over the coming years develop the tournament into one of the leading events on the Asian Tour.  This year one area of focus will be to increase awareness among the Karnataka region’s golfers and encourage as many spectators as possible to make the most of the opportunity to witness world-class golf on their doorstep at the KGA course in Bengaluru.

About TAKE Solutions

TAKE Solutions is a globally recognized domain expert offering end-to-end Life Sciences solutions and is committed to putting Indian golf and its players on the global map.  TAKE has been associated with golf for over fifteen years in efforts to create better infrastructure and greater playing opportunities in India and internationally.  TAKE supports SSP Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi and Chiragh Kumar.  Shubhankar Sharma, the two-time European Tour winner and the first Indian to ever lead both the European and Asian Tour Orders of Merit at the same time and Chikkarangappa S have also recently been supported by TAKE.

www.takesolutions.com @TAKEgolfing #TAKEgolfing

About Kreeda Events

Kreeda Events specialize in the delivery of world-class events and is the promoter and manager of TAKE Solutions Masters.  Kreeda’s two principals, Andrew Wells and Rahul Singh have a combined international events experience of more than 55 years and have successfully delivered more than 100 professional golf tournaments worldwide and worked in more than 30 countries.  In the last 10 years, their team have also been responsible for delivering some of India’s most prestigious major golf tournaments.  Andrew is one of the most respected Sports Event Directors in the world and Rahul has a deep understanding of the Indian and international Events arena through his ownership of highly acclaimed, Choices Entertainment.  In India, Kreeda also manage the Panasonic Indian Open on behalf of the Asian Tour.

For Kreeda information please visit: www.kreedaevents.com

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• Also introduces virtual assistant EVA on Alexa, Google Home

Bengaluru (Karnataka), April 26^th, 2018: HDFC Bank today launched IRA 2.0, its interactive humanoid. In its new avatar, IRA will enhance user experience for customers visiting the Koramangala branch in Bengaluru. IRA will interact with customers, answer bank-related queries, frequently asked questions, and guide them inside the branch with voice-based navigation. HDFC Bank also launched its virtual assistant ‘EVA’ on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

IRA 2.0 has been developed by HDFC Bank in collaboration with its technology partners Invento Makerspaces and Senseforth Technologies. HDFC Bank became the first bank in the country to introduce a humanoid for customer service. Launched in January 2017 at the Bank’s Kamala Mills Branch in Mumbai, the first version of IRA is currently stationed at the Palarivattom Branch in Kochi.

To offer the simplicity and convenience of a voice conversation to banking transactions, HDFC Bank’s virtual assistant ‘EVA’ has been successfully integrated with Amazon Alexa, making it the first bank to offer voice banking experience on Alexa. Since its launch, EVA, which stands for ‘Electronic Virtual Assistant’ has addressed over 65 lakh queries on voice and chat-based channels with over 85 per cent accuracy. With this integration, HDFC Bank customers can now chat with EVA using voice from the comfort of their homes, without having to pick up a phone, tablet or laptop.

In the first phase, customers can ask EVA on Alexa about bank’s product features, fees and charges, interest rates, credit card reward points / payment date / expiry date, and branches (address, IFSC). Customers can also enquire about how to block / unblock card, what to do if one forgets pin, and updating personal information.

Going forward, EVA on Alexa will support banking transactions and deliver hyper-personalized services using voice. HDFC Bank collaborated with Senseforth and Amazon to build India’s first Banking skill on Alexa.

To give the experience of conversational banking using voice to the masses, EVA has been integrated with Google Assistant, making it available on millions of Android devices, as well as on Google Home. Customers can directly ask their queries to EVA on Google Assistant using voice, instead of manually typing on Google search. Users can just say “Ok Google, talk to HDFC Bank” to their Google Assistant to interact with Eva.

With these technological demonstrators, HDFC Bank aims to deliver a truly omni-channel experience to their customers by placing EVA at every customer touch point like web, mobile, social, and other channels so that customers can use the channel of their choice and will get a consistent experience as they move across channels.

The latest voice integration through the Google Assistant will enable HDFC Bank’s customers to interact with Eva through simple and intuitive voice interactions through their smartphones instead of using a desktop, laptop, application or screens.

“The launch of IRA 2.0 and EVA on Alexa and Google Assistant in Bangalore is a testament of the Bank’s endeavor to move from convenience to giving an experience to our customers using cutting-edge technologies,” said Mr. Nitin Chugh, Country Head – Digital Banking, HDFC Bank. “Today, technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are being deployed across all touch points, including branches. We want to adopt the same technologies and platform that our customers are becoming accustomed to in their daily lives. We foresee a future where these technologies will complement the Bank’s physical network and help our employees add value to our customers.”

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Ventures into Machine Learning & Data Sciences to build personalised offerings for partner restaurants and end consumers
Plans to attract best tech talent from Industry and Research Institutes in the country and abroad

13 March 2018, New Delhi:  Foodpanda, India’s leading online marketplace for food delivery today announced the launch of its dedicated technology centre in Bengaluru. The state-of-the-art tech centre will be aimed to strengthen the technology infrastructure, product capabilities and end user experience for the company. A blueprint has been drawn to hire ~100 team members with strong tech background in a span of 6 to 9 months. The tech center will be fully operational in a couple of weeks. The centre will be headed by Nitin Gupta, who is recently appointed as the Head of Engineering at Foodpanda.

The tech centre will extensively work on re-imagining the product, integrate functions and introduce specialised domains of Machine Learning and Data Sciences. This would be directed to develop more personalised offerings for the restaurant partners and millions of prospective customers in the country. The tech centre is envisioned to become a hub for the best tech talent working in the food tech space in the country. The centre will also be used for aggressive R&D functions in the future while leveraging best practices from around the world.

Pranay Jivrajka, CEO, Foodpanda India, said, “Through the technology centre in Bengaluru, we envision to bring together the best team of tech enthusiasts working on building a future ready product. Leveraging robust data sciences and machine learning, we intend to personalise offerings for all our stakeholders. Following the commitment to strengthen our delivery network, this is an instrumental step towards building a strong food tech ecosystem in the country.”

With Foodpanda’s recent allocation of INR 400 crore for delivery logistics, the tech centre will ensure an aggressive push in the direction of building a seamless experience for all its stakeholders – partner restaurants, riders, and end consumers – and creating a significant long-term business value. The tech centre is intended to provide an avenue for cross-pollination of talent within domains and fields in the food tech landscape.

About Foodpanda

Foodpanda is India’s leading online food ordering and delivery platform. With menus from 20000+ restaurants across 150+ cities in India available on its cutting edge app & website, foodpanda is leading people discover and order great food every day. In December 2017, Ola acquired foodpanda with a commitment of infusion of funds to the tune of INR 1300 crores from parent ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd.

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• Four City Based Social Innovators – Blank Solutions, Thinkerbell Labs, Empathy Design Labs and Danamojo, shine at National Level at the Prestigious NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum 2018
• Win national recognition, grants and industry mentorship to help scale-up their impact

Bengaluru, February 21, 2018: NASSCOM Foundation, in collaboration with industry leader Mphasis, today announced the winners of the tenth edition of the NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum – a platform that fosters innovative use of technology to create sustained social impact.

The largest Social Innovation Honours in India, NSIF received over 1900 applications this year out of which, the final winners were chosen after going through a rigorous two level Jury process in the categories of Education, Accessibility, Healthcare, Financial Inclusion, Environment and other socially relevant areas.

The announcement was made at the World Congress on Information Technology – The Olympics of the global ICT Industry. The winners were felicitated by Shri K.T. Ramarao, Cabinet Minister for IT E&C, MAUD, Industries & Commerce, Mines & Geology, Public Enterprises and NRI Affairs, Telangana.

Bengaluru based organizations, Blank Solutions and Thinkerbell Labs made a clean sweep in the accessibility category, while Empathy Design Labs and Danamojo were one of the winners in their respective categories of Healthcare and Financial Inclusion.

The fact that the highest – four winners were from Bengaluru speaks volumes of its start-up prowess. The Karnataka state government’s continuous efforts and focus towards facilitating innovation can be seen rubbing off well with more social innovators coming from the state.

Blank Solutionswas awarded for creating ‘Sparsh’, a single cell refreshable Braille display that converts any form of digital data into its equivalent Braille form.It is a stand-alone portable device running on a microprocessor aimed at introducing the visually impaired to the digital realm. It helps visually impaired to easily get connected to the internet and browse documents, websites etc.

Thinkerbell Labs won for its innovation – Annie, an audio-tactile device that makes self-learning and classroom teaching of Braille possible. Annie runs on a Raspberry Pi and consists of three major modules – a refreshable braille display, a digital braille slate, and a Perkins style braille keyboard – in one device, thus helping visually impaired children learn how to read, write, and type Braille on their own.

Empathy Design Labs got recognition for its unique innovation – KRIYA, a wearable IOT (Internet of Things) device placed on an expecting mother’s belly to screen the relevant pregnancy data and provideinformation, alerts and further suggestions on a mobile app.

Danamojo was awarded for becoming India’s first payment solutions platform designed specifically for NGOs to help them collect donations with ease.

Blank Solutions and Thinkerbell Labs will also receive catalytic grants of INR 10 lakh each from Mphasis while all the winnerswill be provided with support to scale services and industry led mentoring as well.

The complete list of winners included:

* The winners who will be receiving INR 10 Lakh each as catalytic grants.

The jury that selected the winners comprised of many renowned industry stalwarts including Debjani Ghosh, President Designate, NASSCOM; Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network; Srikanth Karra, CHRO, Mphasis, P. Balaji, Director-­‐Regulatory, External Affairs and CSR, Vodafone India, and Deepak Maheshwari, Director -­‐ Government Affairs, India & ASEAN, Symantec.

Mphasis has been a constant supporter for enabling Technology for social Good. Commenting on the occasion, Srikanth Karra, CHRO, Mphasis, said,“Two areas that I am passionate about are accessibility and innovation. The sweet spot of social innovation is more encouraging and invigorating than ever before.  T. The quality of innovation we saw from across the country is phenomenal and I am proud of Mphasis’ association with NASSCOM Foundation on this. I am delighted to see the NSIF award becoming an aspirational one for the technology innovators in social space“.

Reflecting on this amazing journey, Shrikant Sinha, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation, said, “For the last ten years, NSIF has been the corner stone of Tech4Good in India. It has seen ideas take shape into industries, people change to adapt to new innovative technologies, and technologies create impact to change economies. Growing from strength to strength, NSIF today is an ecosystem of 2000+ social innovations, awarded 80+ social innovation projects, helped mentor 20+ innovations through its support to scale program and already given overINR 1 Crore in catalytic grants. This is just a start and we hope that our journey inspires development of new frugal innovations to fulfil our ultimate goal of creating a truly Inclusive India using technology for good. We are glad to share this dream with a lot of our partners through the years and would like to thank our long standing partners Mphasis for all the support they have given us”.

Talking about this year’s entries and the winners he added, “It is great to see that social innovators are not shying away from the new technologies but instead are embracing them. Most of the entries we received this year were using new age technologies like Internet of Things, wearables, predictive analysis and self-learning algorithms. Each chosen winning innovation today has a promise to create a country wide sustainable impact and we hope that NSIF can help them make this happen.”

Through the collaborative force of social impact through ICT created in the last 10 years by NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum, NASSCOM Foundation hopes add momentum to the technology wave across the country.

About NASSCOM Foundation:

NASSCOM Foundation is a leading non-profit organization driving technology for good.  The Foundation’s work is just as expansive and evolutionary as the potential that technology and corporate India entail. Drawing strength from its parent body NASSCOM, the Foundation works closely with four major stakeholders: NASSCOM member companies, NGOs, emerging social enterprises and Government to foster a strategic relationship between technology and development. NASSCOM Foundation’s core initiatives include working for Persons with Disabilities, fostering innovative solutions for social good, creating unique skilling models for underserved communities, and digital literacy where it is the industry partner to the Govt. of India’s National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM / DiSHA)

For more information, visit www.nasscomfoundation.org

About Mphasis

Mphasis enables customers to reimagine their digital future by applying a unique formula of integrated cloud and cognitive technology. MphasisX2C2 TM formula for success, (anything to cloud powered by cognitive), drives multi-dimensions of business value with an integrated consumer-centric Front to Back Digital Transformation, enabling Business Operations and Technology Transformation. Mphasis applies advancements in cognitive and cloud to traditional application and infrastructure services to bring much needed efficiency and cost effectiveness. Mphasis’ core reference architectures and tools, combined with domain expertise and hyper specialization are the foundation for building strong relationships with marquee clients.

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The personalized digital marketing technology leader seeks talent to accelerate technology development in big data integration, machine learning and Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO)

Bengaluru, 23rd January 2018: Silicon Valley-based Jivox, the personalized digital marketing technology leader, has announced the expansion of its tech team in India with the formal launch of its second Engineering Centre at Bengaluru in response to the rapid growth in both its platform capabilities and customer base. Located at Sarjapur road, this new centre would drive the continuous development of Jivox’scutting edge technology encompassing big data integration, machine learning and Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO). Development work would also include scaling Jivox’s machine-learning based personalization platform, Jivox IQ, for large brands’ digital marketing operations across the globe.

“The Jivox IQ Platform is a powerful solution for engaging consumers with the right message in real-time across all channels. It is the backbone of many successful personalization advertising campaigns run by large global brands” said Naren Nachiappan, Managing Director of Jivox India. “We are seeing rapid growth in our engineering team and are seeking engineers to be placed at our new Centre at Bengaluru—those with deep experience as well as young, bright university graduates—to take us to the next level of innovation. We are actively recruiting at top-tier universities in India, including BITS, NIT and IIT.”

“Jivox addresses a key pain point that has been deeply felt by digital marketers,” said Shankar Venkataraman, SVP Engineering for Jivox. “Today online ads that broadcast the same message to everyone are not delivering performance and ROI. This is why global brand marketers turn to Jivox for help with personalizing ads. In less than ten milliseconds, the Jivox platform can search through petabytes of data, apply machine-learning algorithms and construct a relevant messaging to every micro audience—at the right time.”

About Jivox

Jivox is transforming the way the world experiences digital marketing. We connect brands with their audiences in the most personalized way: using big data, machine learning and Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) technology to serve relevant messages across all channels. Our flagship Jivox IQ is purpose-built to assemble and deliver 1:1 messages on-the-fly—through advertisements, email and social media. Powered by Neuron Machine Learning technology, this intelligent platform helps brands deliver, at scale, thousands of hyper-personalized messages through a real-time omni-channel experience—all made possible by integration with data of every kind: proprietary, audience, contextual, campaign. Jivox is trusted by hundreds of leading companies including InterContinental Hotels Group, Cars.com, Sony, REI, QVC, Bayer, and more.

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• NASSCOM Foundation to release ‘Catalysing Change’ – a report onthe current CSR trends from across the IT-BPM Industry
• The mega event to be focused on themes such as Future of Skills, Social Impact Investing, Data Driven Development and Sustainability
• NASSCOM Foundation to bring together 300+ Industry leaders, NGO heads, Government Officials, CSR thought leaders, civil society members and social innovators for the CSR Leadership Conference
• Shri Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary, IT, Karnataka will grace the event as the Chief Guest

Bengaluru, 24^th November 2017: NASSCOM Foundation today, announced that it will host one of India’s largest IT-BPM industry specific CSR Conferences – The CSR Leadership Conference 2017 in Bangalore on the 29^th of November 2017 at The Leela Palace Hotel.

The event will see over 300 CXOs and CSR Heads, of the top most companies from across the industry with the NGO Leads, Government officials, Tech4Good champions, social innovators come under one roof to discuss innovative approaches to CSR in the wake of the fast growing economy and shifting demographical needs and help create a roadmap to a new, developed India.

This year, the CSR Leadership Conference (CLC) will try and go beyond discussing intervention areas, to talk about new developments, innovative tools and disruptive ways of making the ecosystem better, more impactful and efficient. In this process, the CLC will deep dive into

Re-Calibrating Employability through CSR, Social Impact Investing, Leveraging Big Data for Impact, Unlocking the Value of Corporate Sustainability in the form of panel discussions, fireside chats and impact talks.

Shri Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary, IT, Karnataka, as the chief guest for the event, will share his immense knowledge and experience on how the private sector through its CSR initiatives can work with the government to help create sustainable impact.

The CLC has grown over the last three years to become the single largest IT-BPM specific CSR conference. This year the CLC will host the leadership from across the diverse IT Industry ecosystem.  Representatives from IT Engineering companies like Texas Instrument Services, Aricent; Social Media giants like LinkedIn and Twitter, IT Hardware companies like Cisco, Juniper, Dell;, IT-BPM Services companies like Bosch India, e-Clerx, Sonata Software, Bridge i2i Analytics, Mindtree, Wipro, Accenture, Hinduja Global Solutions, Cognizant, NTT Data, Mphasis, SAP, VmWare, USGT; e-Commerce companies like Amazon; Consulting firms like Boston Consulting Group, Sutherland Global Services have already registered to attend. The CLC has also attracted representation from other sectors with Logistics Companies like Maersk, CMACGM; Global Investment Management Firms like Principal Global Services, Social Venture Partners, Unitus Capital, Financial institutions like Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Societe Generale, AllState and Fidelity Investments; and Retail companies like Target also participating.

The CSR Leadership Conference will also have on showcase, innovations from various social startups and NGOs like Sohum Innovation Labs, Neurosynaptic, EYE-D, Bleetech Innovations, Sankalpturu, Foundation for Ecological Securities, Headstreams and CFBT.

The NASSCOM Foundation CSR Leadership Conference therefore promises to provide a 360-degree opportunity for all stakeholders to come and connect to solve the greatest challenges facing development and diversity in India. A detailed agenda  to the conference and registration details can be further referred to at www.clc.nasscomfoundation.org  .

About NASSCOM Foundation:

NASSCOM Foundation is a leading non-profit organization driving technology for good. The Foundation’s work is just as expansive and evolutionary as the potential that technology and corporate India entail. Drawing strength from its parent body NASSCOM, the Foundation works closely with four major stakeholders: NASSCOM member companies, NGOs, emerging social enterprises and Government to foster a strategic relationship between technology and development. NASSCOM Foundation’s core initiatives include working for Persons with Disabilities, fostering innovative solutions for social good, creating unique skilling models for underserved communities, helping transform Indian Public Libraries into community engagement, information and knowledge centres and digital literacy where it is the industry partner to the Govt. of India’s National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM / PMGDISHA)

Know more at www.nasscomfoundation.org

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