APIS, Ministry of IT, Govt of Andhra Pradesh Signs an MoU With the CTE to Jointly Establish CoE for Information Technology and Cyber Security

As part of the MoU, CTE will also conduct and support seminars, workshops, innovation challenges, hackathons, start-up events, to upskill entrepreneurs and address information technology and cybersecurity related challenges.

Consortium for Technical Education (CTE) and the Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society, functioning under the IT Electronics & Communications Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, enters into an MoU to establish a Centre of Excellence in Information Technology and Cyber Security for Universities, Engineering colleges, Polytechnics, Schools and Government Departments throughout State of Andhra Pradesh. MoU was exchanged in presence of Shri. Gudivada Amarnath, Minister of Industries, Infrastructure, Investment & Commerce, and Information Technology, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

MoU Exchange in presence of Shri. Gudivada Amarnath, Minister of Industries, Infrastructure, Investment & Commerce, and Information Technology, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

In collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society, CTE will set up software evaluation and testing labs in relevant domains and will organize innovation challenges across institutions and startups providing prizes and exposures to global event to winners and create opportunities to showcase their products at international forums. 

CTE will distribute to the Centre of Excellence software and cyber security products, virtual labs and video-based training courses on the latest technologies. CTE will invite industry and academic experts and innovators to conduct seminars, conferences and workshops periodically at the Centre of Excellence. It will also provide the latest Compliance Frameworks and Policy Management Training programs.

Mr. K. A. Alagarsamy, Director, Consortium for Technical Education (CTE), said “We are building a network of ‘Centre of Excellence’ in Information Technology and Cyber Security in association with several states in India to facilitate innovations, Start-up entrepreneurship and help bridge the gaps in knowledge between academia and industry. This partnership with the Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society takes us step further in achieving our mission of advocating product-oriented entrepreneurship, giving them access to a world-class Center of Excellence in IT and Cybersecurity, to counter their security challenges and support their innovations and growth.”

Mr. Sairaman Srinivasan, Chief Strategy Officer, CTE, said, “We have always aspired to promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and startups among the entrepreneurs, researchers and students. Our association with APIS will enable us to guide entrepreneurs through the technical programs designed to address the prevailing information and cybersecurity challenges that hamper their growth and development.”

Consortium for Technical Education (CTE) is a non-profit organization established to provide innovative programs and services to bridge the knowledge gaps between academia and Industry. Through this partnership, the organization aims to create a supportive ecosystem for the deep tech start-ups associated with the Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society and other incubators in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Global Tech Summit 2023 Join Hands with NRDC, APIS to Honour Tech Innovation in India

The Global Tech Summit leaders unveiled a 3-minute video to highlight the significance of the summit and how it is elevating India’s G20 presidency.

The Global Tech Summit 2023 organisers today unveiled a three-minute video highlighting the significance of the tech summit and how it is elevating India's G20 Presidency, becoming a go-to-platform for tech entrepreneurial opportunities, and showcasing Indian tech power to the world. 

Left to Right- Dr K Ail Kumar CEO AP Innovation-Dr. Srinubabu MD Pulsus Group-Dr Bijay Kumar Sahu Regional Director NRDC Ministry of Science and Technology

The Global Tech Summit 2023 announced an “Innovation Awards” section, in partnership with the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) and the Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society (APIS), that recognizes and showcases innovation in emerging technologies in the fields of agriculture and healthcare.

Dr. Srinubabu Gedela, lead organiser of Global Tech Summit 2023 revealed this in Visakhapatnam today to the media alongside the key representatives from the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the governments of India and Andhra Pradesh.

The summit, which is set to take place in Visakhapatnam, is expected to attract over 1,000 business delegations and 10,000 participants. It will cover a range of technology-related topics and feature guest speakers from diverse backgrounds. The NRDC and APIS will also join forces with the summit to showcase and reward innovation in India.

The Global Scale Summit will feature a range of tech-related topics, including pharma tech, edutech, agritech, fintech, metaverse, biotech, and startup fest.

Addressing the media, the Honorable Minister for Industries, Infrastructure, and IT, Shri Gudivada Amarnadh, extended the Ministry's cooperation and support and urged the Global Tech Summit leaders to actively promote the Andhra Pradesh economy while explaining the significance of the Vizag G20 summit meetings. Visakhapatnam is becoming a hub for global meetings under the leadership of the chief minister, Shri YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. The summit will highlight futuristic. 

Left to Right- Dr Srinubabu MD Pulsus Group-Minister Gudivada Amarnadh -Dr Anil Kumar CEO AP Innovation Society

Dr. Anil Kumar, AP Innovation Society CEO, said, "On behalf of the APIS, we would be happy to associate with the Global Tech Summit as a state knowledge partner for making an incredible Tech Summit that showcased Vizag's dynamic and growing tech sector and innovation leadership." 

Andhra University Vice Chancellor Professor Prof. PVGD Prasad Reddy said, we will provide the necessary support to the proposed global tech summit.

The Vizag Tech Summit which will be held on 16-17th February 2023 is supported by the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Government of India, the Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society, the Government of Andhra Pradesh and organized by Pulsus Group. The platform which anticipates culmination of projects worth Rs. 3000 Cr aims to provide a space for influential tech and business leaders from around the world to connect and share insights.

Nexus backed Hasura raises $25 Mn in Series B Funding

Hasura Raises $25mn in Series B funding, Brings Instant GraphQL to MySQL and SQL Server for Rapid API Development to Unlock Siloed Data

Hasura also announced $25 million in series B funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (US) with participation from existing investors Vertex Ventures US, Nexus Venture Partners, Strive VC and SAP.io Fund and new angel investors including John Thomspon, the current chairman of Microsoft, bringing the total raised to $36.5 million. Hasura is using the funding to accelerate its hiring and investment in its open source and commercial product development to support its millions of users.

“We’re very impressed by how developers have taken to Hasura and embraced the GraphQL approach to building applications. Particularly for front-end developers using technologies like React, Hasura makes it easy to connect applications to existing databases where all the data is without compromising on security and performance. Hasura provides a lovely bridge for replatforming applications to cloud-native approaches, so we see this approach being embraced by enterprise developers as well as front-end developers more and more,” said Gaurav Gupta, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and Hasura board member.

Hasura, the data access infrastructure company, today announced that it has added GraphQL support for MySQL and early access support for SQL Server to its existing support for PostgreSQL. Hasura now supports three of the most popular database technologies. A great deal of valuable data lives inside existing MySQL and SQL Server databases, and developers want to access that data to build new applications. By expanding its support to more database types, Hasura makes it easy for developers to access that data with a modern GraphQL-based API with inbuilt security, scalability and governance.

“Data lives in lots of places, and in many different databases. We want our users to be able to access that data instantly with Hasura’s secure, scalable data access infrastructure so adding support for MySQL and SQL Server was our obvious next step. It opens up huge potential for all the developers who need to access the vast amounts of data that lives in MySQL and SQL Server today. Now they can enjoy instant data access with a modern GraphQL API, and Hasura’s built-in security, governance and scalability features will get their applications into production quickly and safely,” said Hasura co-founder and CEO Tanmai Gopal.

Organizations already have data they want to use but it is trapped in silos. Rather than trying to use outdated approaches to overcome this problem like consolidating fast-moving operational data into static data warehouses or datalakes, Hasura provides a new option: simply connect applications by federating access to where the data lives, using a modern API-based approach that includes security, governance and scalability as standard features. With support for MySQL, SQL Server and PostgreSQL, using Hasura means developers aren’t forced to migrate data to make it accessible from their applications.

Hasura’s ability to auto-generate modern, GraphQL based APIs and its built-in security, governance, and scalability features means developers can rapidly build applications that connect to data without waiting for costly, time-consuming infrastructure projects to finish building the pieces they need. Instead, they can concentrate on solving business problems with data and rapidly build and ship applications that add value to their organizations. The speed and flexibility provided by Hasura is truly transformative for organizations trapped in outdated ways of working.

Major Company Milestones

• 2017 Hasura was founded by Tanmai Gopal, CEO, and Rajoshi Ghosh, COO, to make access to data easier for application developers struggling with outdated approaches to API development. Hasura has made instant data access possible by auto-generating modern GraphQL APIs with in-built security, governance, and scalability. With secure, rapid access to data, time-to-market for applications reduced dramatically for developers using Hasura.
• 2018 Hasura announced $1.6 million in seed funding led by Nexus Venture Partners.
• 2018 Hasura released its popular open source GraphQL engine that connects to databases and microservices and auto-generates a production-ready GraphQL backend to accelerate product development of modern, data-driven applications. The product has tens of millions of downloads and more than 18,500 GitHub stars.
• 2018 Hasura joined the GraphQL Foundation as a founding member.
• 2020 Hasura announced $9.9 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures US.
• 2020 Hasura released its on-premises version with enhanced enterprise features for security, scalability and compliance.
• 2020 Hasura released Hasura Cloud, a managed service that provides instant and secure access to data across hybrid- and multi-cloud environments with a unified GraphQL API. Hasura Cloud helps organizations create data-driven applications without costly investments in infrastructure or operational management. The service brings new cloud-specific functionality such as dynamic data caching, auto-scaling, global availability and consumption-based pricing.
• 2020 Hasura held its first user conference Hasura Con ‘20. The virtual conference had speakers from Airbus, Cherre, Credimi, General Assembly, GraphCMS, Krafteer, Lineup Ninja, Meow.vc, NuxtJS, Observable, OneGraph, Philips Healthcare, Prefect, RESULT, Swiggy, SZTAKI, Tarbh, The Chicago Reporter, The Guild, United Health and WorkClout.
• 2020 Hasura won API World’s Best in DevOps APIs award for being a leader in its sector for innovation and for its developer adoption.

About Hasura

Hasura is helping to build the modern world of globally relevant, data-driven applications and APIs. Hasura’s range of data access solutions helps organizations accelerate product delivery by instantly connecting data and services to applications with GraphQL APIs. For more information, go to: https://hasura.io or follow @HasuraHQ.

EnableX.io equips Preksh to efficiently resolve complex Customer Queries through its Advanced Video APIs

EnableX.io, Asia’s leading cloud communication service provider, today announced its partnership with Preksh, India’s leading AR/VR-enabled Visual Marketing Solutions provider. The partnership complements Preksh 3D online retail storefronts with proactive video chat feature, allowing retailers to instantly address shoppers’ queries, the way it happens in brick and mortar stores. 

The partnership would allow Preksh retailers to offer a comprehensive, enhanced online shopping experience to their customers through each stage of their buying journey. Shoppers could now easily navigate online, view products through 3D graphic-rich content, and also visually interact with the brand representatives or sales agents for any kind of support or assistance, before actually putting the items in the cart. This would ultimately help businesses to increase sales and reduce their cart abandonment rate. 

Commenting on the development, Pankaj Gupta, CEO & Founder, EnableX.io, said, “With more and more consumers now resorting to online shopping, video-powered experiences have started to gain increasing traction amongst businesses and consumers. Video adds a personalised touch to the overall online shopping experience, which has become a key requisite in today’s buying process. We are excited about our partnership with Preksh & look forward to taking the online shopping experience to the next level with Preksh’s cutting edge platform.”

According to MA Kodandarama, Founder & CEO, Preksh Innovations, “At Preksh, we are always committed to creating new, enriched online shopping experiences for our customers at any given point of time. The changing trend is that customers are now increasingly getting accustomed to the idea of shopping through visual realities and experiences, and therefore our partnership with EnableX.io is a crucial step for us. Earlier, by allowing them to preview and virtually experience the products in a distinct, realistic manner, we were able to partially aid our customers in their buying decisions. However, the human interaction with the brand representative was missing. With EnableX.io advanced APIs, we are now able to  provide our customers with better, enhanced experiences. The overall integration has been seamless and we look forward to a long-term association with EnableX.io.”

Over the years, EnableX.io has been rapidly expanding its sales presence across Asia-Pacific region, witnessing significant growth amongst the Service Providers, System Integrators, Independent Software Vendors, and enterprise customers.

About EnableX.io

EnableX.io, a product of vCloudx, is a communication platform for integrating real-time communication into applications and websites. The scalable and secure global platform provides developers and service providers with powerful APIs to create video, voice and messaging conversations with ease. From one-to-one chats to large scale broadcasts, EnableX.io makes communications more flexible and personal, helping enterprises stay ahead in the digital world.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, EnableX.io has established a strong foothold in APAC countries. Backed by a team of 50+ passionate technologists, it constantly challenges the status quo to empower Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups across the globe with its highly interactive and powerfully engaging customer experience platform. Facilitating individuals and groups to seamlessly engage in real-time, it has delivered immense value to companies in Healthcare, Education, Fintech, and the Commerce space, among others.

In the wake of the growing demand for remote communication services globally, the company in March 2020, forayed into the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space by developing a state-of-the-art Video Conferencing Solution. With this, EnableX.io became one of the few global players with a complete suite of services ranging from Communication Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) to Video Communication Software-as-a-Service. 

About Preksh

Preksh Innovations, founded in 2015, is an AR/VR company delivering India No. 1 Visual Marketing Solutions (VMS) to various industries such as Education, Healthcare, Retail, Tourism etc. Started and driven by a team of experienced and passionate professionals with vast industry experience, they have significant expertise in image processing and developing AR / VR solutions. Preksh is currently catering to more than 100 customers through their proprietary AR/VR platform and plans to democratize AR/VR technology across industries through their solution.