For the 8th edition of this technology competition initiated by Atos, university students from all around the world are invited to submit their innovative concepts around the theme of Machine Learning of Sustainability for the Atos IT Challenge 2019. The contest offers students the opportunity to turn their ideas into working concepts and a €10,000 prize will be awarded to the members of the winning team, allowing them to bring their app to life. Teams of 2 to 4 members can participate. Online registration is possible until November 30, 2018.
Machine Learning is a field of Artificial Intelligence that uses statistical techniques to give computers the ability to “learn”. It is a game-changing technology, already being applied in many areas including Video & Serious Gaming, Medical Diagnosis, Fraud Detection, Driverless Vehicles and Security Surveillance. We believe it is an important area for the Atos IT Challenge to explore. We are seeking how Machine Learning can be applied to the topic Sustainability, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments and the orientation of technological development are all in harmony.
The best 15 concepts from all submissions will be announced mid-December. After which, the remaining teams will start the second stage of the competition - app development. The final winner will be announced in Paris in July 2019.
On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and its 40th Anniversary Celebration, Evion (Merck’s flagship Vitamin E brand) announced its novel Tree Plantation Drive of 40000 Trees at Harda, Madhya Pradesh.
In partnership with Grow-Trees - a web-based service that enables individuals and companies to plant trees in public lands all across the world - Evion is reaching out to its physicians, partners and employees asking them to each pledge a tree. Together, they will collaborate towards ensuring that more than 40000 trees get planted to mark the brand’s 40th Anniversary in India.
Sharing his thoughts with the team at Harda - the site of the Tree Plantation drive - Milind Thatte (Managing Director, Merck India) said, “Over the last 40 years, Evion has grown to become the highest selling Vitamin E brand in India, thus creating a legacy of nourishment in the country. On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Evion is proud to announce this humble initiative to give back to the community for 40 years of trust and support. This is our small effort towards improving the health of our environment.”
Evion today is the leading brand within the Merck Consumer Healthcare setup. It is India’s no. 1 Vitamin E brand, with a rich 40-year legacy amongst health practitioners and consumers.
“At Grow-Trees, it is our mission to plant millions of trees in public lands of India while providing sustainable source of income to the forest dependent local communities. We are delighted to collaborate with Merck and Evion on this mega tree plantation drive for their 40 years celebration. It’s indeed wonderful to see a brand celebrate an important business milestone with an initiative like Trees for Rivers to give back to the community”, said Bikrant Tiwary from Grow-Trees.
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced today that its AHV hypervisor and Enterprise Cloud OS platform hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, has met SAP’s criteria for running production SAP HANA deployments. This will allow businesses that use SAP solutions to benefit from the simplicity and agility of leading HCI technology to deliver a modern IT architecture for SAP’s leading in-memory relational database platform.
SAP has certified the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS platform with AHV virtualization for SAP HANA as part of SAP’s new HCI certification program. SAP HANA is revolutionizing the speed of data processing for reporting, analytics and computational tasks. Nutanix has proven the performance and scalability required for successful SAP HANA enterprise deployments, along with simple Day-2 operations of SAP environments. This includes the ability to deliver superior throughput rates with minimal latency, as well as ensure high availability during periods of heavy database usage.
“We are delighted to announce this achievement. As customers increasingly re-platform their portfolio of enterprise workloads on Nutanix, our certification will enable them to use a single platform for all their workloads,” said Sunil Potti, Chief Product and Development Officer, Nutanix. “The certification for SAP HANA gives our customers a more modern infrastructure option. Enterprises will be able to leverage Nutanix and SAP to deliver value to their organizations by powering their database services, analytics processing, app development and more — with predictable performance and linear scalability.”
Businesses that use SAP solutions will be able to leverage the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS platform in production and non-production environments to rapidly provision, simplify management and easily scale their IT infrastructure for faster time to value for SAP HANA and other SAP applications.
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Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software is certified today for SAP NetWeaver based landscapes including SAP S/4HANA application servers and can be used for production to scale-up SAP HANA databases.
Coffee grown in Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Bababudangiri will shortly get geographical indication (GI) tag, said Srivatsa Krishna, CEO and secretary, Coffee Board, on Monday.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of ‘Naya Bharat: Coffee Par Soch,’ as part of International Coffee Day, he said that the Board had applied for GI tag for coffee grown in five southern regions, based on their uniqueness. Of these five places, three are from Karnataka. The list also comprises coffee grown in Araku valley (Andhra Pradesh) and Wayanad (Kerala). The GI tag is likely to come by January 2019.
This is the first time that GI tag has been applied for coffee-growing regions. In 2008, GI tag was obtained for Monsoon Malabar coffee blend. “The idea of doing this is to recognise the coffee, promote the brand and increase local sales. Over 70% of India’s coffee is grown in Karnataka, but the market needs to be strengthened,” he said.
To increase the production of coffee, regain the market position and encourage farmers, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act funds will be helpful, Krishna said.
“I request the Coffee Board to tie up with zilla panchayats to recoup and expanexpand the areas. Funds for coffee planters under MGNREGA will be given, on the lines of mulberry and sericulture,” he said. Krishna said the floods in Kodagu had an impact on coffee production, but things were improving.
On the occasion, the Board announced the launch of Atal Incubation Centre at Coffee Board in Bengaluru. This centre will help startups and coffee growers to become entrepreneurs. The centre is set up under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) to nurture innovative startup businesses.
So far, in India, 20 centres have been established, Coffee Board is the 21st and the first such in India, said R Ramanan, mission director, AIM. This centre is being set up in partnership with Nasscom and FKCCI. The Coffee Board also announced its partnership with Ernst and Young for ‘The Future of Coffee-Roadmap’, and with National Institute of Public Finance and Policy for a study on subsidies for Coffee Industry.
Nestlé India announces the launch of NESPLUS - a range of nutritious and delicious breakfast cereals for the entire family. A unique combination of wholegrain and multigrain, NESPLUS breakfast cereals aim to offer an array of healthy breakfast choices for Indian families.
The new range of NESPLUS breakfast cereals comes with four multigrain variants – Kokos, Choco- Burst Fillows, Strawberry-Burst Fillows and Nutty Honey Granola. Each of these is a combination of four grains - wheat, rice, oats and the traditional Indian millet, jowar. This combination of grains along with unique flavors has been specially created for the Indian palate. A key characteristic of the product is that it remains crunchy in warm milk.
Commenting on the launch, Suresh Narayanan, Chairman and Managing Director, Nestlé India said, “Breakfast is considered to be the most important meal of the day and consuming the right breakfast sets the tone for the rest of the day. NESPLUS is specifically designed for the Indian consumer and offers Vitamin D, Calcium, B-Vitamins, Iron, Folic Acid and Fibre, making it a great addition to the breakfast table.”
With this launch, Nestlé India aims to provide high quality nutritious breakfast options for the Indian consumers in line with its vision to introduce products ingrained in nutrition, wellness and health.
Staying true to its commitment to prioritize network continuity in times of critical needs and natural disasters situations, Huawei India, in association with partners, undertook disaster relief initiatives for flood affected sites in Kerala ensuring network restoration and connectivity in record 72 hours.
As an immediate response to the flooding situation in 12 districts of Kerala, an Emergency Management Team (EMT) was setup at each customer office to monitor the situation, provide necessary support and guide the 170+ member response team comprising of Huawei and its partners. Overcoming challenges of logistics, accessibility, infrastructure break-downs, disrupted electricity and disrupted fuel supply situations, the team managed to have 1440 sites operational, ensuring network restoration across Calicut, Malappuram, Thrissur, Palakkad, Ernakulum, Kottayam, Alleppy and other parts of the state. Huawei team worked in coordination with local administration, telecom operator and infrastructure service providers for immediate restoration of power in critical sites, restoring mobile services and initiating location based messaging services to eventually help enable emergency rescue support.
Speaking on the disaster restoration initiative, Huawei India shared, “Connectivity is fundamental require to modern life, posing real economic and social consequences in instances of network breakdown. Supporting stable network operations is Huawei's most important social responsibility. Even under extreme conditions and under natural situations, Huawei is committed to support network stability with the right resources and partnerships to restore networks and resume stable operations with minimal turn-around time in crisis situations.”
Huawei’s consumer business also set up free service camps for their smartphone users in the disaster affected areas.
Huawei has established a business continuity management (BCM) system that provides a contingency plan for emergencies and disaster situations. As a testament to its commitment to support stable network operations, Huawei has guaranteed network availability during nearly 200 major events, natural disasters, and special occasions globally.
Canon India, one of the leaders in the imaging space, is committed to march on with its pursuit of strengthening the imaging culture in the country. As an outreach to nurture and enhance the passion for cinematography among aspiring film makers, the organization today announced its latest inititiative ‘Streaming Frames’. A unique series of extensive on shoot training by professional filmmakers and industry experts, Streaming Frames is a programme aimed at the selection and training of 100 aspiring film makers live on field projects, spread across India on professional cinematography workflows for WEB as a platform.
It will not only offer a mix of tips & tutorials and engagement opportunities with renowned cinematography mentors to the participants, but will also provide workshops and hands on training to showcase and learn film making skills. The project is intended to take these aspirants straight to the field for professional cinematography training by industry experts, helping them create powerful, story telling video contents and short films.
Highlights of the project will include five days of extensive on-shoot training by technology and industry experts, complete insights on film making process and content design for web, detailed technology insights from Cinema Cameras to Special Multi-Purpose Cameras, sessions on production and post-production and certification from Canon India on having completed the workshop. The series of workshops will take place across four cities - Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Gujarat/Karnataka and Andaman and Nicobar, wherein Canon will introduce and showcase wide variety of Cinema EOS and Multi Purpose Cameras and lenses like: Cinema EOS- C200, XC15, C300 MARK II, ME20FSH and Canon Cine Lenses.
Elaborating on the programme Mr. Kazutada Kobayashi, President and CEO, Canon India said, “Along with providing complete input to output imaging solutions, we take pride in nurturing the imaging culture as we continue to advance our innovations. We believe ‘videos’ today have become a powerful method of art and expression. From television commercials to web series and live social media stories, videos have become integral to our everyday lives. With our latest initiative ‘Streaming Frames’, the idea is to train participants on this medium and empower them to become ace professionals in the world of cinematography. This platform will open the doors of film making for learners, aspirants and enthusiasts, where they will be trained with the best in class equipment from Canon, under the mentorship of expert film makers. We have received an overwhelming response for this project and we are optimistic that this project will bring professional film makers to the field, who will earn laurels in the future.”
Sharing his thoughts, Eddie Udagawa, Vice President, Consumer Imaging and Information Centre, Canon India, said, “Our latest endeavor ‘Streaming Frames’ is aimed at taking our Cinema segment across the length and breadth of the country precisely to train aspiring film makers in the art of professional film making for WEB as a platform. Each chapter of the project would take participants through a different city, enabling them to capture the breathtaking diversity of nature across different geographies. We believe this will inspire the participants to recognize the power of storytelling and will motivate them to deliver astounding outputs in the form of short films, that we will also be releasing towards the culmination of the project. Our first chapter for the project will be Meghalaya, a location full of stories for filmmakers for travelling films. Meghalaya as a location shall groom the film makers to have complete hands on field experience and understand the cinema EOS cameras and post production solution from shooting to the rendered output.”
The project trainings will travel in all zones of the country and will be directed and guided by Bedi brothers- Vijay Bedi and Ajay Bedi, who are brand ambassadors of Cinema EOS for Canon and highly respected film makers with three Green Oscars and several worldwide recognitions under Bedi Universal.
Further elaborating on their partnership with Canon, Bedi Brothers(Vijay Bedi & Ajay Bedi) said, “We are pleased to partner with Canon for this exclusive training session and reach out to the strongest storytelling regions of India to offer a 360 filmmaking experience on field. Our objective behind this training is to develop a platform where filmmakers where they can pick up all the necessary knowledge on professional cinema cameras, case studies and post-production to create high quality broadcast-ready content. Passing on this legacy, we are glad to demonstrate our expertise to the aspiring set of filmmakers in India.”
Streaming Frames is boarded along with leading cinematography/film making technology experts: Dell for Professional Precision 5530 Mobile workstations series which are ideal for handling complex 4K footages on field, Intel with their 8th Generation Intel® Core ™ i7 processors, Adobe with their Creative Cloud Post Production Solutions, DCP Expeditions – Organizers of Streaming Frames and well networked across with photography & cinematography professionals and enthusiasts. The short films along with the BTS ( Behind the scenes) will be viral across all social media platforms – Canon and External both. All the participants and the alliances companies – Dell, Adobe, Intel, DCP Expeditions & Bedi Universal will also be promoting the content.
