10th Aegis Graham Bell Awards for Innovation Announces its Winners and Finalists in New Delhi

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NEW DELHI, March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Chief Guest Shri. Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways; Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India; Guest of Honor Shri. Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Hon'ble Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Fisheries and MSME and Special Guest Shri. R.P. Singh, National Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), felicitated the award winners and the finalists at the grand ceremony of the 10th edition of Aegis Graham Bell Awards on 27th Feb 2020 at NDMC Convention Centre, New Delhi.

Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) was initiated in 2010 by Aegis School of Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecom to recognize young top brains who has potential to grow as technology leaders; start-up founders; innovators; entrepreneurs; intra entrepreneurs who are transforming the lives of millions of Indians by their work in the fields of education, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data science, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart city, Telecom, Mobile, Health, eCommerce, Blockchain, Fintech, Cloud, social good, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Governance, MSME, Transportation, Retail, Cyber Security, and many more. AGBA is supported by NITI Aayog, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) and powered by mUni Campus.

Shri Nitin Gadkari Minister for Road Transport & Highways ; Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) the Chief Guest of the event commended, "Congratulations to the winners, finalists and also the Aegis team for encouraging the innovators and their work. I would like to reiterate the innovators to concentrate more on rural, agricultural, tribal areas and on the world's import substitute and improve the export. There is no dearth of innovation in India, and so in the world market I want our talent to be highlighted in innovation, skill, technology and entrepreneurship. To make India super economic and to achieve the 5 trillion economy goal we need to concentrate on the research and development."

At the event, Hon'ble Minister Shri. Nitin Gadkari recognized 20 talented students, who were provided with a 100% scholarship to study Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Data Science; PGP in Applied AI, Machine Learning & Deep Learning and PGP in Cyber Security from Aegis School of Data Science & Cyber Security in association with IBM. The winners were selected through Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) National Talent Hunt from across the country who has the potential to grow as leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security.

Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), the Guest of Honor for the evening said, "This award is named after Graham Bell and it is recognition to young talents who inspire other entrepreneurs, scientists, and technocrats to work and strive hard towards excellence."

He also appreciated the technocrats by saying, "You are all experts and so all your expertise should be put together to achieve the national goal and to achieve the 5 trillion common goal we should make all efforts in the same direction"

The award day started with 'Innovators Talk' and a keynote address by Mr. Sonam Wangchuk, an Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist. He is the founding-director of the Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), as well as panel discussions and key talks around the theme 'India at the power of innovations' by various innovative pioneers and learned orators.

The winners and finalists for the 10th AGBA:

Winners
    

Finalists

Innovation in Artificial Intelligence
    

Innovation in Artificial Intelligence

LivNSense Technologies
    

Analyttica Datalab
    

Playment
    

Innovation in Data Science
    

Innovation in Data Science

Intelligence Node
    

Course 5 Intelligence
    

Quantiphi

Innovation in Cyber Security
    

Innovation in Cyber Security

WiJungle
    

Seclore Technologies
    

Volon Cyber Security
    

Innovation in Internet of Things
    

Innovation in Internet of Things

LetsTrack
    

Sixth Energy
    

Tata Communications
    

Innovation in Robotics Process Automation
    

Innovation in Robotics Process Automation

Hethi Inc
    

Vodafone Idea
    

Quantiphi
    

Innovation in Managed Services
    

Innovation in Managed Services

Wipro
    

Spectra
    

Innovation in Digital Transformation
    

Innovation in Digital Transformation

Porter
    

IFTAS
    

Sigmoid Analytics
    

Innovative Enterprise Solution
    

Innovative Enterprise Solution

Idea Bridge
    

Cisco
    

Locus
    

Innovation in Cloud
    

Innovation in Cloud

Parallel Wireless
    

ESDS
    

Cloud4C
    

Innovation in Blockchain
    

Innovation in Blockchain

Wipro
    

Wipro
    

Siemens
    

Innovation in eCommerce
    

Innovation in eCommerce

Niki
    

Meesho
    

Ntex Transport (Elastic Run)
    

Innovation in Health Tech
    

Innovation in Health Tech

Xcellence in Bio Innovations and Technologies
    

HCL
    

MetFlux Research
    

Innovation in Clean Tech
    

Innovation in Clean Tech

Mudita & Radheshpvt.ltd.
    

Lithion Power Private Limited
    

Innovation in EdTech
    

Innovation in EdTech

Odo Technologies
    

The Prayas India

Simplilearn
    
    

Innovation in Transport Tech
    

Innovation in Transport Tech

Yulu
    

Lithium Urban Technologies
    

Shadowfax
    

Innovation in Governance Tech
    

Innovation in Governance Tech

NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Technologies
    

Param Paisa
    

Innovation in FinTech
    

Innovation in FinTech

Finnew Solutions
    

Pay1
    

Bharti Airtel Limited
    

Innovation in Consumer Tech
    

Innovation in Consumer Tech

Bobble AI
    

Bharti Airtel Limited
    

Comviva Technologies
    

Innovative Mobile App for Consumer
    

Innovative Mobile App for Consumer

Uber
    

Data Xgen Technologies

ShareChat
    
    

Application for Social good
    

Application for Social good

Reliance Foundation
    

Bliss and Style Mobility
    

Vodafone Idea
    

Innovation in Telecom Infrastructure
    

Innovation in Telecom Infrastructure

Ramboll India
    

Parallel Wireless
    

STL Technologies
    

Innovative Telecom Product
    

Innovative Telecom Product

C-DOT
    

Neron Informatics
    

Huawei
    

Innovative Smart City Solution
    

Innovative Smart City Solution

Bharti Infratel
    

Cisco
    

Ramboll India


Bhupesh Daheria, CEO of Aegis School of Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecom and Founder of Aegis Graham Bell Awards said, "Congratulations to the AGBA winners and finalists. It's very important for India to recognize the innovators as they are the major drivers of the economic growth. Participating firms alone at AGBA and innovators contributed hugely by employment generation of over 8 lakhs+; 65000+ crores revenue and raised investment over 6000+ crores."

He also congratulated the 20 talented students who were selected through AGBA National Talent Hunt and who will get a 100% scholarship for courses in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. He said, "With the AGBA talent hunt we want to identify and nurture the future technology leaders."

Aegis School of Business Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication:

Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication was founded in the year 2002 with support from Bharti Airtel to develop cross functional technology leaders. In 2015, Aegis and IBM collaborated to launch, India's first Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Data Science, Business Analytics and Big Data and later in 2017 PGP in Cyber Security. These programs are jointly certified and delivered by Aegis School of Business in association with IBM. Aegis is the number One School of Data Science. Aegis takes up various industry projects, research and consulting assignments in the field of data science under its initiative 'Data Science Delivered' and 'Data Science for social good', and helping organizations for devolving skills on data science, ML, DL, Big Data, Analytics etc. For further information, please visit: www.aegis.edu.in or www.bellaward.com

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