Heartening to see #India's rank in #GII (global innovation index) rising up by 29 notches...from 81st (Y2015) to 52nd (Y2019). The report said, "Given its size--and if the progress is upheld--India will make a true impact on #global #innovation in the years to come." #Samsung R&D encourages employees to pursue innovation....file #patent around cutting-edge technologies...our [...]
A salute to #startups in #India for their formidable journey! Thanks to 200+ online and print #media for covering #Samsung initiative of startup investment. We talk about first set of #investment from #SamsungVenture...how different from others...focal themes...why now...from now-to-next... Rakesh Deshmukh Ganesh Gopalan Avinash Gautam Snehal Deshpande Anil Viswas Ayatiraj * Samsung Newsroom: https://lnkd.in/frdXVzv * [...]
Fascinating to take a few hours break from work and understand implications of #India's macro initiatives on central #budget day, particularly on #Science, #Technology and #Innovation. * National Research Foundation (#NRF) formation to assimilate #research funds of all depatments and across fields under "single window". * #ISRO space power enhanced thru entity for commercialization of [...]
Today's #CIOs have gamut of responsibilities: from managing smoke in #datacenter to deploying cloud architecture... physical-to-digital. In a recent summit, for a #CTO-of-the-Year award, my #keynote presentation was on "#IT Leadership: Mastering the #DigitalWorld". Presented around: #leadership qualities, e.g. creating safe-to-fail environment, persuasion, make vs. buy...CIO's tasks-at-hand: the gap of #skills what they need vs [...]
In a meeting of #FICCI's #Science, #Technology and #Innovation committee. Summary of recent meeting deliberations as Co-Chair with Chair Makarand Phadke and team: * Govt. Policy influence pertaining to committee's direction for "#India as #RnD Hub". * Review of "DST-FICCI Global R&D Summit 2019" held in Hyderabad with nations from #Africa as partner countries. And [...]
At the end of six formidable months of the year, let me share about a social initiative. hashtag#Chetana is a hashtag#Karnataka govt program (hashtag#GoK) with hashtag#Samsung and hashtag#Infosys. It is all about "empowering girls with hashtag#technology and hashtag#entrepreneurship". ~450 girl toppers in govt schools...selected from tenth standard board exam...spent five days in Infosys, Mangalore campus...from [...]
#IoT is witnessing gradual deployments in many verticals. In 7th India IoT Symposium, Mumbai (24-May), we deliberated on technology, services and hindrances. At the end of panel moderation, I could sum up that #Interoperability, #Security and #Manageability are three topmost challenges. Strong #DataAnalytics are fundamental for #Preventive, #Predictive & #Personalized Services. And examples showed IoT [...]
#Internship is a first formal interaction between #students and #industry...exploration of how to fulfill millenial dreams...a good few hundreds join from 3rd year #engineering to #Samsung #India every year. This year, a select 2nd year interns also join thru #Parichay coding contest program. A warm welcome to all in our R&D center...And a glimpse of [...]
Inventors naturally file patents in any organization...But how do we build an #innovation-led org?...What does it take to inculcate a #patent-driven culture? New-entrant induction program...analysis of weak dimensions in invention...precise scoping...global benchmarking all are factors behind #Samsung #India's leadership in #intellectualproperty. In my interaction with #Hindu #Businessline, I highlighted how patent-driven approach pays off whether [...]
Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (#BCIC) organized a friday evening #meetup session in Samsung Opera House. Dr. L. Ravindran, chairman and team spoke various initiatives of BCIC #startup expert committee. Abhinay Choudhari, cofounder of #BigBasket, shared company's journey lucidly and some cues against challenges. In my presentation, I talked about how big companies have [...]