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The I-MACX Summit & Demo Day (Spring 2015)

by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2015 09:37 AM
IIIT-B Innovation Center organized this event in Bangalore on June 18, 2015. Sunil Abraham participated as a speaker.

Programme

TimeAgenda
1.00 p.m. Registration
1.15 p.m. Welcome Address
1.30 p.m.

Keynote: “Solving Civic Issues through Technology Platforms” by

  • Dr. Pramod Varma, Chief Architect – Technology, UIDAI
1.50 p.m.

Panel Discussion: “Opportunities and Challenges in Civic-Tech Startup Space”

  • Ms. Radha Kizhanattam, Principal – Unitus Seed Fund
  • Mr. Shyam Menon, Co-founder – Infuse Ventures
  • Mr. Sunil Abraham, Executive Director – The Center for Internet & Society
  • Mr. Rajith Shaji, Product Manager – Janaagraha
  • Mr. VS Prakash, Director – Karnataka State Natural Disasters
  • Monitoring Center (Retd.); Currently Registrar – IIIT Bangalore
  • Mr. Syed Suhale Perveez, Senior Manager – Emergency Management Research Institute (108)
  • Moderated by Dr. TK Srikanth, Professor – IIIT Bangalore
2.45 p.m. Startups Pitch
3.55 p.m. Vote of Thanks
4.00 p.m.

Investors – Startups discuss over High Tea

  • Startups demonstrate their innovative solutions

About the Summit:

The I-MACX Summit is a civic-tech focused event that intends to bring together innovators from government and social organizations along with civic-minded startups, influencers, activists, investors and entrepreneurs.

The I-MACX Summit aims to not only bring out the opportunities and the challenges in the civictech space, but also showcase the offerings that are being created by the civic-tech startups nurtured at IIIT-B Innovation Center.

The I-MACX Summit, envisions itself as a thought-leadership forum that would delve into how the various players in the civic-tech ecosystem could potentially transform governance and society, using the emerging technologies (IOT, Data Analytics, Sensors, Mobile, Cloud).

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