GIRLS IN TECH INDIA: INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE COMPUTING and IoT FROM IBM
DATE: APRIL 11th, 2017
TIME: 10:30 a.m
VENUE: FTAPCCI Auditorium, Federation House, Red Hills, Hyderabad.
Girls in Tech India and IBM Global Entrepreneur Program in association with FTAPCCI is organizing a session on
"Introduction to Cognitive Computing and IoT from IBM".
Speaker: Radhesh Kanumury, Country Lead, Global Entrepreneur Program, IBM India
*Free registration. Event is for women founders, developers/faculty.
Objective: Get to know how to adapt and grow using emerging IBM Cognitive Computing technologies and IoT into your business.
Eligible businesses: Any industry using Technology. A few examples include but not limited to: Adtech, E-commerce and retail, federal cloud, financial services, gaming, health care, high performance computing (HPC), Media and entertainment, private cloud, reseller hosting, social command center, telecommunications, virtual desktop and VMWare.
Brief Note on the session by the speaker:
Cognitive Computing is one of the emerging technologies, which is getting adapted by Startups and Enterprises. IBM has been in the forefront in developing technologies around Cognitive Computing. In this session, one will get an Introduction to Cognitive Computing, demos around IBM Cognitive computing platform with examples of how a few Startups are adapting Cognitive solution as their core product.
Smart Devices and Sensors come in every shape and size, from nanochips and smart dust to gigantic machines. The number of connected things will grow exponentially from 15 billion in 2015 to 200 billion in 2020. Get an introduction on Internet of Things. You will get a quick overview of how to build applications on Internet of Things using IBM Bluemix services.
About Global Entrepreneur Program and how it would impact startups/developers/faculty attending:
IBM Global Entrepreneur offer IBM Bluemix (which now includes Softlayer) credits to Startups. They provide this for registered Startups less than 5 years having revenue less 1 million USD Cloud and not existing customers of IBM Cloud.
The credits provided by us 1000/month for a year upto $10000/month after going through additional Q&A and approvals.
Developers for : " Bluemix is the cloud offering from IBM®. It enables organisations and developers to quickly and easily create, deploy, manage and scale applications on the cloud. This is an invitation call for all Developers who are interested in exploring this platform can join us on April 11th. We are conducting workshop on where you will get exposure towards IBM cloud bluemix platform and IBM cognitive service capabilities.
For IBM GEP Youtube channel has some testimonials for the program and for Smartcamp,
Below are some of the Startups using IBM Cloud.
About Girls in Tech India/Girls in Tech Foundation:
Girls in Tech India is an NGO in India with special focus on women towards the engagement, education and empowerment in the areas of STEM( Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and Entrepreneurship.In India, while the number of women in STEM is increasing, the percentage of women in workforce in STEM and entrepreneurship continues to be a woefully low 12.7% with 40% of female engineers remaining unemployed. Girls in Tech India thus brings together industry experts, Government officials, startup ecosystem enablers, VC's, entrepreneurs, organizational heads/representatives, Corporate, social sector and includes key decision makers from Corporate to institutions as mentors/enablers to women who are graduating from colleges, returning mothers and women entrepreneurs. It also has special focus areas for aspiring women entrepreneurs, women aspiring to take up STEM as well
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