Mehreen Mushtaq Shamim, a teacher from Bengaluru’s Delhi Public School has bagged an award in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Intel AI Global Impact Festival.
She was selected as one of the four winners of ‘AI impact shapers: Teachers with innovative AI teaching learning practices’. Mehreen has been teaching AI in DPS East for nine years now. The CBSE curriculum had introduced AI as a subject for classes 9-12 in 2019.
Under the guidance of Chetan R, senior assistant professor, the final year, Shri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology & Management (SMVITM) ECE students Namana, Pranav, Adithya and Gowri have built the wearable smart and cost effective device which assists in sitting and standing using the Lead Screw mechanism, this is achieved by receiving input from the user through an Android app, which has been developed.
To foster technology-led innovation and seamless passenger experiences, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) has partnered with Microsoft India for the ‘BIAL Genie Hackathon’ to develop an app using Microsoft Azure.
IT major Infosys has bagged the ‘IT Ratna of Karnataka’ award for the company’s outstanding performance in IT exports in the above Rs 10,000 crore category. Apart from this award, 20 other companies, including Wipro, Mindtree and TCS, were awarded ‘IT Pride of Karnataka’ award given by STPI (Software Technology Parks of India) and the Karnataka State Government, as part of the Bengaluru Tech Summit that began in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Chimera Technologies Co-founder and CEO Padma Duraiswamy bagged the ‘Woman Entrepreneur of the Year-IT’ award and the ‘High Growth in Exports- IT/ITES’ award (exports greater than Rs 1000 crore and up to Rs 2000 crore) was bagged by Standard Chartered Global Business Services.
The Bengaluru Impact awards were given away on Day 2 of Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021, to a number of recent as well as established startups from Karnataka. Bigbasket, Apna, Meesho, Curefit, Blackbuck were among those which took home the laurels, watched by a startup audience with participants from deep tech and medtech.
Fintech companies were also present, particularly CoinSwitch Kuber, a crypto exchange platform where more than 100 cryptos like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple etc can be traded at the best rate, and which offer a variety of payment options.
Among the fintech awardees present were Zerodha, Cred and Groww. One of the awardees was online gaming platform Mobile Premier League (MPL). The lack of women entrepreneurs on stage was apparent, with an all-male fraternity gathering to receive awards.
With the inauguration of the 350-bed Infosys Foundation cardiac hospital complex on its premises, the State-run Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research is now better equipped to accommodate increasing daily caseload for cardiac emergencies and elective cardiac care.
With the addition, Jayadeva Hospitals will have a total of 1,800 cardiac beds making it the largest heart care destination in the country, including the ones at Bengaluru, Kalaburagi, and Mysuru centres.
Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM), a special entity with a mandate to take enterprises beyond the State capital, launched its ‘Beyond Bengaluru Startup Grid’ to facilitate network access, market access, mentor access and investment access for startups.
The team included researchers from the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering (BSSE) at IISc., the Mazumdar Shaw Center for Translational Research and Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation.
Dr Gururaja Karajagi was conferred the Ramanashri Lifetime Achievement Award while Dr Shantha Imrapoor, Dr Pradeep Kumar Hebri, Dr Nanda Patil, Dr Bhagyamma G Smitarao Bellur, Swami Vivekananda Integrated Rural Health Centre and Pantanjali Yoga Education Committee were other recipients of the Ramanashri Sharana Awards.