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A contest to win free passes for Innovations 2011

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:17:27 +0000

Innovations-2011 is just around the corner. PuneTech is hosting a contest where you could win free passes to the event. The topic is Briefly describe a product or service that the tech community can design, develop and deploy for the benefit of the citizens of Pune .. so go ahead and express yourself at http://punetech.com/innovations-2011-contest-what-productservices-can-the-tech-community-build-for-pune

Registrations for Innovations 2011 are open

admin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 05:56:05 +0000

Registrations for Innovations 2011 are now open. The event will be held on 8th January 2011 (Saturday) at Dewang Mehta Auditorium at Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune. We have lined up an exciting set of Innovations from various sectors for this event. We are privileged to have a distinguished keynote speaker, Mr. Chetan Maini of Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles to grace the event. We look forward to hear about his Innovation journey, along with those of other invited speakers. Check out the event schedule for the day. We have limited seating capacity in the auditorium, so please register early to avoid disappointment.

IITBAA Pune Chapter ties up with CIIE at IIM-Ahmedabad to promote Innovations

admin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:42:06 +0000

IITBAA Pune Chapter has tied up with the Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at the IIMA for the benefit of creative minds and technocrats who qualify for Innovations 2011. This provides a great opportunity for innovators to get mentored by the stalwarts from the field of technology and management. The CIIE will make its expertise in incubating and mentoring available to select innovations from Innovations 2011. These would also be eligible to participate in MentorEdge, the mentoring programme from industry experts at CIIE.

We annouced this at a press conference in Pune recently. The news got good coverage in the media …

Submissions for Innovations-2011 are open

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:30:41 +0000

Submissions for Innovations 2011 are now open. Registration details are avaliable on the website.

Your entry may be a process, product, design, method, application or even a business model or a model of social entrepreneurship. Innovations from all fields are welcome. Entries are sought from individuals, research/academic institutions, NGOs, or corporate entities.

Eligibility criteria for submitting an innovation entry are

Innovation must be a truly novel idea
Must be based on the application of science / technology
The idea should have been introduced in practice

Please download the information brochure for details.

Innovations 2010 was a grand success

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:55:58 +0000

Innovations-2010 event was held on 9th January at the Dewang Mehta Auditorium at Persistent Systems. It was attended by ~250 people from various industries. The event started with an inspirational keynote by Sanjay Nayak, CEO of Tejas Networks. Later, 12 innovators presented their ideas and answered questions from the audience. The afternoon session had three successful innovators share their experiences with the audience.

View the complete proceedings of the event online. This includes and slides and video recordings of all the talks. Please do write send us your feedback and comments on the event. A few photographs of the event are attached below…