Standard Chartered Hosts TechExpo 2010 – A platform for EMERGING Technology Companies to Showcase Innovation
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Further to the post that we had written earlier on NASSCOM EMERGE Community breaks new ground with sales focused community platform for Emerging & Start-up Companies. Yesterday we had 12 companies which exhibited and showcased their products/solutions at the Standard Chartered. Here is a press release which was issued yesterday to the media.
Standard Chartered, NASSCOM EMERGE Forum and CIO Association of India (CAI) partner to present TechExpo 2010 – a platform for emerging technology companies to showcase their innovative technology and products. At the exposition, 12 emerging technology companies (short-listed out of 60 entries) will display and demonstrate products in the areas of enabling software for collaboration, productivity & in-context mobile customer experience, niche & emerging banking areas, data security & biometric identity management & infrastructure optimization. The first of the series, TechExpo will provide these 12 companies an opportunity to present their offerings to Standard Chartered Bank’s Global Technology Leadership Team.
Speaking about TechExpo, Mr. Akshaya Gaur, Executive Vice-President says “We, at Standard Chartered Bank, have come together with NASSCOM and CAI with an objective of providing emerging entrepreneurial technology companies an opportunity to showcase their products to a relevant target audience. Standard Chartered is strongly committed to promote innovation within the organization and in the countries in which it operates and we aim to do that through this initiative”.
The small enterprises sector is a vibrant segment of the Indian economy which has contributed over 39 percent of the industrial output and provided employment to about 20 million people across India. Small enterprises in the Technology space have emerged as a force within this segment. While they have the technological expertise and innovative thinking ability, they lack platforms to showcase their capability to the right audience. TechExpo aims to do just that – fill that gap and provide a stage for emerging technology companies to demonstrate their talent and capability to the right audience.
Mr. David Awcock, Group Head of Technology, Standard Chartered Bank says, “We believe in using innovative technology solutions to enhance customer experience and improve efficiencies across the organization. It is fascinating to learn about new technologies that have been developed by these entrepreneurs.”
Speaking about TechExpo 2010, Rajiv Vaishnav, Vice President – NASSCOM says, “Small and emerging technology companies are often vanguards of disruptive innovation and a platform like TechExpo is a huge enabler for the distinguished ones among these to showcase their strengths to the world. In line with its commitment to promote world-class innovation in the Indian IT industry, NASSCOM is pleased to lend its support to Standard Chartered and CAI for this commendable initiative.”
“We are delighted to participate in this unique collaboration along with Standard Chartered Bank and NASSCOM which will benefit our country’s developing software product ecosystem. It is also envisaged that this event will serve as a useful prototype for other large enterprises like Standard Chartered Bank to select IT partners to add business value to their organizations.” – Tapan Garg, Founder & CEO – CIO Association of India.
Standard Chartered Bank espouses a culture of innovation founded on which the Bank has initiated many programs both within the organization and in the community. iLab is one such initiative where Standard Chartered, in collaboration with the Singapore Management University (SMU), has set up an Innovation Centre at SMU with the objective of developing intellectual capital amongst faculty and students to drive successful innovation. TechExpo 2010 is another such activity to nurture innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.
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I would sincerely thanks Nasscom-Emerge and CAI (CIO association of India) for providing a platform for showcasing innovative products from small & emerging technology companies to established organization like Standard Chartered Bank for its TechExpo-2010.
This platform will help in providing a win-win situation for both, the emerging companies and established organizations. The amalgamation of speed and innovative aspect of emerging companies and business reach and depth of established players like Standard Chartered Bank will provide an exceptional success mix, which is a need of today’s fast changing word.
My personal thanks to the Nasscom-emerge team, CAI (CIO Association of India) and Standard Chartered Bank for organizing this exceptionally professionally. Every thing was at the right place and right time from stalls to presentation co-ordination.
Once again my sincere thanks to Nassocm-Emerge, CAI and Standard Chartered Bank for giving us an opportunity to showcase our product.
We look forward to formal feedback from Standard Chartered Bank.
With Regards
Mukesh Jaiswal
Founder-COO
Mobile Nirvana Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
http://www.mnirvana.com