Archive for the ‘innovation’ tag.
Pune engineer’s solar-powered crop irrigator covered by MIT Technology Review
Pune-based Padmakar Kelkar has developed a solar-powered crop irrigator that can be a huge boon for farmers in these times of failing monsoons and 14-hour rural power cuts. I had no idea what pivot irrigation is, so I looked it up in wikipedia, and to save you the trouble, I’ve copied the relevant paragraph here: [...]
The Venture Center Library for Entrepreneurs and Innovators in Pune
The Venture Center Library will support and enhance the entrepreneurial ecosystem in and around Pune. They are targeting entrepreneurs, scientific researchers, technology innovators, IP & technology commercialization professionals and venture investors to take advantage of their collection of books, periodicals, reports and research services.
Nominations open for Innovations 2010 – Showcase your ideas
Innovations is an annual event hosted by the Pune Chapter IIT Bombay Alumni Association in January every year, with the aim of helping innovators and entrepreneurs of India to create and expand the ecosystem around them. The event showcases the select few innovators to an elite gathering of VCs and experts. Innovations 2010 is the fourth event in their series and will feature presentations by 16 selected innovators from around the country.
Nominate your innovative ideas for being showcased in this event.
Innovation Flow – The Science of Flowing Ideas and Inventions into Innovation – 27th Aug
What: Innovation Flow – the science of flowing Ideas and Inventions into Innovation by M.V. Shankar, Principal Scientist, Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd, Pune. This is the 6th talk in the NCL Innovations Seminar Series. When: Thursday, 27th August, 4:00pm Where: Second Floor Lecture Hall, Main Building, National Chemical Laboratory, Pashan Road Registration and fees: [...]
TZen: Community Powered Innovation with the PlanetAikon platform
A team from Zensar technologies decided to open source the process of developing a testing tool, called TZen, and used Pune-based startup PlanetAikon’s “community powered innovation” platform to great effect. Prateek Dubey writes about the whole experience in this article.
Pune-based SMSONE runs SMS news service for rural communities
A Pune-based company has been running a SMS newsletter service for mobile phone owners in rural Maharashtra dedicated to local news for the last two years. This service reaches out to nearly 300 communities spread across 25 districts in the state.
Free Mentoring Workshop for Startups with Baba Kalyani, R Sriram etc.
TiE Pune in conjunction with Innovations 2009 is conducting “From Innovations to IPO” – a free workshop for mentoring startups on Sunday 9am to 2:30pm, at the Dewang Mehta Auditorium at Persistent Systems on S.B. Road. TiE has limited free seats for the i2i Event, strictly on first come first served basis. To avail of [...]
Govt. of India’s Technopreneur Promotion Programme
Yesterday, Dr. A.S. Rao, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) was in Pune, to meet with innovators of Pune and talk to them about DSIR’s Technopreneur Promotion Programme. This was immediately after NASSCOM’s innovation awards roadshow (liveblogged by Manas Garg (part 1, part 2)). The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) [...]
Nominate yourself for Innovations 2009 conference
Innovations is an yearly conference that tries to showcase the best innovations in any field in India. It is organized by the IIT Bombay Alumni Association of Pune and will be held on January 10 and 11, 2009 at Persistent Systems, Pune. The last date for submissions is 30th September, so if you have done [...]
Hi-Tech Pune Maharashtra conference 2008 – Day 2
Yesterday, I live-blogged about Day 1 of this conference. That was more about the speeches given by dignitaries. Today I am attending one session, and this one promises to be more technical talks. To refresh your memory, this is the Hi-Tech Pune Maharashtra 2008 organized by Suresh Kalmadi backed Pune Vyaspeeth, this is the 5th [...]