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India Leadership Forum 2008 (Day 3 ) February 22, 2008
India Leadership Forum 2008 (Day 1 ) February 22, 2008
Nasscom India Leadership Forum 2008 Day 2 February 22, 2008
Top technology trends to watch out for February 15, 2008
Today at the Nasscom Summit, I attended an interesting session on the top trends in technology – Bruce Richardson of AMR Research talked about some interesting trends that included the usual suspects like SaaS and 3D Internet ( Second Life etc) and some not so obvious ones such as Data Visualization and “Pedias”. Data Visualization is an area that enables a business to explore and analyze enterprise information in ways that are far beyond what technologies such as search and BI can. Bruce mentioned a company called Endeca, which has strategic investments from SAP and IBM. Endeca uses the concept Guided Summarization and has created a new technology platform – Information Access Platform- to do this. A company worth watching!
Bruce also spoke of web 2.0 applied to the enterprise world, an idea that is gaining ground and was also the theme of the Day 1 Breakaway session.
Another interesting insight from Bruce was on the need, in a country like the US with its aging population demographics, for example have an urgent need to institutionalize knowledge and this will spur the demand for KM systems.
The other speaker David Levin from United Business Media spoke of the concept of Immersive Marketing and Metaverse and showcased some cool apps developed by their company.
I could not listen completely to the 3rd speaker from British Telecom as I had to get into another session. But what I heard from Bruce in particular left with me a lot of thoughts to ponder over.
Winners of ‘Innovation in IT Awards’ February 14, 2008
NASSCOM, along with Boston Consulting Group benchmarked the Indian innovation ecosystem with leading innovation ecosystems around the world and selected the top innovators in India. While the winners were announced back on 5th Feb, the India Leadership Forum was the fitting platform to felicitate the worthy winners.
Mr.A.Raja, the Hon’ble Minister for IT and Telecommunications gave away the awards to the winners. Here, he is seen giving the award to Raj Datta and N.Krishna Kumar of Mindtree for excellence in innovation in the field of Knowledge Management.
The list of winners are:
- Comat Technologies (P) Ltd
- Financial Technologies India Ltd
- Mango Technologies Pvt Ltd
- MediaLab Asia
- Mindtree Consulting
- Mistral Solutions Pvt Ltd
- MeritTrac Services Private Limited
- Texas Instruments
Click here to download a word doc that has full information about the winners. Read more about the awards here.
