250 students participate in Tech Mahindra Nirmaan 2018

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 20: Tech Mahindra hosted Nirmaan 2018, a ‘Campus Connect Program’, at its research & development arm - Makers Lab facility in Pune, to provide upskilling opportunities in next gen technologies to students. The aim of the program is to support the digital transformation journey of India by encouraging student-industry collaboration to build smart machines of the future.

More than 250 students across universities and institutes, including - Symbiosis Institute of Technology (Pune), AISSMS Institute of Information Technology (Pune), Bharathi Vidyapeeth (Pune), Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College (Aurangabad) and Changu Kana Thakur College (Mumbai) participated in the event. The students also got a firsthand experience of how customer-centric innovation is carried out in Tech Mahindra’s Makers lab using next generation technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality, Business Intelligence, Robotics.

Speaking at the event, Nikhil Malhotra, Head of Makers Lab at Tech Mahindra said, “Industry-academia collaboration is key to driving innovation in next gen technologies, and to ensure that the future talent pool is in sync with the changing market dynamics. Through Tech Mahindra’s Campus Connect program, we hope to inspire enthusiastic students to innovate, and be the change agents in the digital world.”