Happiest Minds Technologies Announces Expansion Of Its Noida Campus

Happiest Minds Technologies Limited (NSE: HAPPSTMNDS), a ‘Born Digital .Born Agile’ digital transformation and IT solutions company has today announced the expansion of its Noida facility (“Smiles 5”) increasing its delivery capacity and leveraging the area’s diverse high-technology talent pool. With the additional facility, the Company will have a capacity of 450 in the NCR region.

Venkatraman Narayanan, MD & CFO, Happiest Minds Technologies said, “NCR is a digital hub with a strong eco-system of vibrant start-ups, successful enterprises, and education hubs which makes it an important talent source for us while dovetailing nicely well with our overall growth strategy.”         

This launch closely follows the announcement of Happiest Minds’ new office space acquisition in Bengaluru of a grade A 1,600-seater property in July this year and also an expansion in newer locations like Bhubaneswar planned later this year.

About Happiest Minds Technologies:

Happiest Minds’ Technologies Limited (NSE: HAPPSTMNDS), a Mindful IT Company, enables digital transformation for enterprises and technology providers by delivering seamless customer experiences, business efficiency and actionable insights. We do this by leveraging a spectrum of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud, digital process automation, internet of things, robotics/drones, security, virtual/augmented reality, and more. Positioned as ‘Born Digital. Born Agile’, our capabilities span digital solutions, infrastructure, product engineering and security. We deliver these services across industry sectors such as automotive, BFSI, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, edutech, engineering R&D, hi-tech, manufacturing, retail, and travel/transportation/hospitality.

A Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, Happiest Minds is headquartered in Bangalore, India, with operations in the U.S., the UK, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East.

Medvarsity Partners With Wolters Kluwer To Augment Its Courses And Improve Learning Outcomes

* All Medvarsity Fellowship courses now come with a one-year subscription to Wolters Kluwer Ovid’s online medical information

Wolters Kluwer is a major player in professional information for clinicians and nurses with the well-known Lippincott solutions and Ovid platform under its Health solutions. On the other hand, Medvarsity is Asia's largest healthcare ed-tech company that offers online and blended learning Certificate, Advanced Certificate, and Fellowship programs for healthcare professionals. In the last five years, Medvarsity has positively impacted the careers of over five lakh clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals across 192 countries.

Now, Medvarsity and Wolters Kluwer have joined hands to create a revolution in the healthcare education sector. The online course content for Medvarsity Fellowship courses has been redesigned to leverage relevant information from Wolters Kluwer's Ovid platform. Additionally, students enrolled in these courses will also get a year-long subscription to core clinical books and multispecialty medical journal’s database from Wolters Kluwer. The high-impact books and journals offer working physicians the ability to stay up to date on latest disease guidelines. This association between the two esteemed organizations allows Medvarsity to significantly – and positively – impact healthcare education.

Ruchi Tushir, VP & GM for Wolters Kluwer Global Growth Markets said: “At Wolters Kluwer we pride ourselves on helping clinicians provide the best care no matter where they are. This collaboration with Medvarsity helps us further that, by increasing access to impactful evidence-based research and books, keeping them up to date to advance decision making.”

Gerald Jaideep, CEO Medvarsity said, “We at Medvarsity have always looked to encourage and implement innovation in education. We believe that “knowledge changes lives”. To that end, we have partnered with Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading information provider, to enhance the content of our courses. All Medvarsity students will now get a 1-year subscription to publications from Wolters Kluwer when they upskill with a Fellowship course from Medvarsity. This includes their peer reviewed medical journals and clinical books in medicine spanning a breadth of healthcare specialties. This content will be mapped to each of the courses to allow an enhanced learning experience to the user.

About Medvarsity

Medvarsity is India’s emerging healthcare ed-tech brand, offering online/blended learning fellowship and certificate courses to healthcare professionals. Under the leadership of CEO Mr. Gerald Jaideep Medvarsity has established itself as a leader within the healthcare ed-tech segment.  The company caters to the requirements of both healthcare professionals as well as non-clinicians to make sure industry demand and skilled workforce are in perfect equilibrium. Medvarsity.com is specially designed to offer online and blended learning fellowship, advanced certificate and certificate courses across 20 medical specialties, management and healthcare quality. Medvarsity has also commenced several other initiatives including BookMysim.one, India`s first medical simulation aggregator platform launched in May 2021; Dosily.com, which offers 1000 courses across 27 specialties, and Healthjobs.one, an exclusive job platform for the healthcare industry, with the objective of catering to 360-degree aspects of Healthcare Ed-Tech.

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer (WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the clinicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, and tax, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and regulatory sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with advanced technology and services.

Wolters Kluwer reported 2021 annual revenues of €4.8 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,800 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.

Wolters Kluwer Health provides trusted clinical technology and evidence-based solutions that engage clinicians, patients, researchers and students in effective decision-making and outcomes across healthcare. We support clinical effectiveness, learning and research, clinical surveillance and compliance, as well as data solutions. For more information about our solutions, visit https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/health and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @WKHealth.

10 Successful Teams Get Smart Farm Grant Challenge (SFGC) - Grant

Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) distributed Rs. 5 Lakhs each to 10 shortlisted Teams under the Smart Farm Grant Challenge Programme. The grant distribution and the award ceremony were held at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, New Delhi, where Sh. Alkesh Kumar Sharma (Secretary, MeitY) handed over the cheques to the winning teams. The award ceremony was attended by Sh. Arvind Kumar (DG, STPI), Dr Saurabh Srivastava (Chairman Emeritus TiE Delhi-NCR and former Chairman NASSCOM), Sh. Roshan Lal Tamak (Executive Director, DCM Sriram) and senior officials from the Ministry and STPI.

The 10 shortlisted teams were A2P Energy Solution Private Limited, Ag Automate Private Limited, Aigret Innovations India Pvt. Ltd, ARMS  4 AI Pvt. Ltd, Bharat Rohan Airborne Innovations Private Limited, Plaksha University, G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Innosapien Agro Technologies Pvt Ltd, Satyukt Analytics Pvt Ltd and TFBOT PRIVATE LIMITED.

“Last-mile innovations focused on smallholder farmers are key for India's Agri & allied ecosystem and Agri #startups should develop their products keeping smallholder farmers in mind,” said Sh. Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary, MeitY.

“Agriculture is one of the key economic sectors of the country & #innovation through ICT enablement for this sector will help in achieving the target of $5 trillion economy by 2025,”mentioned Sh. Arvind Kumar, DG, STPI on the occasion.

“Increasing productivity of Agriculture is a critical requirement of our farmers. Iam delighted that MeitY has come up with the SFGC which focusses on their problem statement and invite Start-ups to find solution in an innovative way and financially support them,” accentuated Dr Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman, Emeritus, TiE Delhi-NCR (former Chairman NASSCOM).

“Optimum time of Sugarcane Harvest can be predicted using technologies like AI & ML etc,” said Sh. Roshan Lal Tamak, Executive Director &CEO, DCM Shriram.

The Smart Farm Grant Challenge (SFGC) programme was launched on 9th May 2022 by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) with grant-in-aid of Rs. 2.54 Cr. STPI is the designated implementation agency with Neuron CoE at Mohali as the anchor CoE. The challenge programme was launched to identify path-breaking solutions from startups, Innovators, Entrepreneurs etc. to address the problem statements identified for sugarcane harvest. Sugarcane is an important commodity for human consumption as well as trade. Information and communication technology in agriculture (ICT in agriculture) has the potential to significantly impact the agriculture sector by utilizing ICT tools.

The programme received an overwhelming response and received a total of 474 applications.  108 applications found suitable were further screened and 25 selected were pitched before the Jury committee of members from Industry, Academia, Domain experts and stakeholders.

The Jury’s recommendation of the 10 best proposals that have shown innovation and technological acumen to predict the optimum time of sugarcane harvest in a given plot area with reasonable accuracy are being provided financial support of INR 5 Lakhs each to develop a working prototype of the proposed solution within three months duration

These 10 teams will now have to develop a working prototype of the proposed solution within three months and compete again to enter the next critical phases of the Smart-farm Grant Challenge. As part of the next phases, they will demonstrate the prototype, get selected for Stage-2, receive Rs. 20 lakh support, develop the final product and compete again for the grand award of Rs 50 lakh along-with support of INR 10 lakhs per year for next 2 years towards Operations & Maintenance. Teams having innovative approaches, solutions which are reliable, having accuracy in percentage, correlation with the real time data etc. and can cater to scalability, usability, ease of deployment & roll-out, have a great chance to progress further.

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Announces Prices of The Top Four Grades For The Much-Awaited Urban Cruiser Hyryder

* To be revealed in a phased manner, TKM competitively prices the Urban Cruiser Hyryder

Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM), today initiated the announcement of the prices of its brand-new Toyota Urban Cruiser Hyryder. To be announced in a phased manner, the top four grades of the latest offering from Toyota are competitively priced between Rs. 15,11,000 to Rs. 18,99,000.

The brand-new SUV was unveiled in early July and the bookings were also announced at the same time. As one of Toyota’s sustainable mobility offerings, the Urban Cruiser Hyryder inherits Toyota’s famed global SUV lineage with bold and sophisticated styling, along with advanced technology features making it a perfect choice for the customers.

Commenting on the significant milestone Mr. Atul Sood, Associate Vice President, Sales, and Strategic Marketing, TKM, said, “We are truly humbled and honoured to receive such an overwhelming response for the Urban Cruiser Hyryder and we are grateful that our customers have put their faith & trust in brand Toyota. Today, we have decided to announce the price of the Urban Cruiser Hyryder in a phased manner. The prices for the remaining grades will be announced shortly.

The first of its kind self-charging strong hybrid electric vehicle in the B SUV segment, the Urban Cruiser Hyryder is aimed at delivering exemplary performance, best in class fuel efficiency, quick acceleration, connected car features and is designed for a greener future. We have introduced a very competitive pricing for the Urban Cruiser Hyryder, as it is through the Hyryder that we aim to encourage widespread acceptance of environment friendly technologies, thereby creating a positive impact and enhance energy security of the country”, he concluded.

Available in two powertrains- Self-charging Strong Hybrid Electric powertrain & Neo Drive, the Self-Charging Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicle is powered by an e-drive transmission and runs 40% of the distance and 60% of the time on electric power, with engine shut-off, offering a fuel efficiency of 27.97km/l. Additionally, the Neo Drive comes with a 1.5-liter K-series engine, a five-speed manual transmission, and a six-speed automatic transmission with 2WD and 4WD options.

On World EV Day, Tata Motors Announces Expansion Of Its Portfolio To Make EVs More Accessible In India

Tata Motors remains committed towards realizing the vision of making India the EV hub of the world. The Company, Tata Passenger Electric Mobility (TPEM) has been established with TPG Rise Climate to offer new mobility solutions. TPEM aims to ride the green wave and support the government’s vision to have 30% electric vehicle penetration by 2030.

Announcing its plans on World EV Day, Mr. Shailesh Chandra, Managing Director, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd., and Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Ltd. said, “World EV Day is indeed a special day for us, as we look back and reflect on our journey so far. We are proud to lead the EV market in India, with a lion’s share of 88%. As early entrants, we have shaped the market and seen it grow with Nexon EV and Tigor EV. We have over 40,000 Tata EVs plying on road and we are grateful to the early adopters who have shown faith in the brand. Leveraging group synergies, we have also established Tata UniEVerse, a one of its kind EV ecosystem, which is further propelling the EV adoption.

“Earlier this year, we had unveiled our 3 phased approach towards building a comprehensive EV portfolio. As we accelerate our future journey, we are committed to launch 10 EVs in different product segments, body styles and affordability levels. Today, is a momentous occasion for us, as we announce the expansion of our EV portfolio further with a new mainstream intervention from the stable of Tata Motors, the Tiago EV.  As a leader, we are now pioneering the next phase of the EV market expansion, which will bring all the EV benefits of an exciting yet easy drive, silent cabin, low cost of ownership to a more accessible level.”

Happiest Minds Technologies Achieves Select Tier Partner Status With Snowflake

Happiest Minds Technologies Limited (NSE: HAPPSTMNDS), a ‘Born Digital, Born Agile’ digital transformation and IT solutions company, today announced that it has achieved Select tier partner status from Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. As a Select partner, Happiest Minds can accelerate the digital transformation of its joint customers who can fully leverage the performance, flexibility, and near-infinite scalability of the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Happiest Minds and Snowflake are able to mobilize the world’s data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud by catering to the demand for simplified data administration through robust, cost-effective, and proven technology solutions. Happiest Minds is proud to strengthen its relationship with Snowflake and is excited to bring innovation and new capabilities to joint customers in their data journey.

The Snowflake Partner Network unlocks the potential of the Data Cloud with a broad array of tools and partners. Certified partnerships and integrations enable customers to leverage Snowflake’s flexibility, performance, and ease of use to deliver more meaningful data insights.

Ajay Agrawal, Senior VP and Head of CoE- AI/Analytics, Happiest Minds Technologies said, “As part of the data strategy and implementation, we see the sustained movement towards a cloud-native approach. The Snowflake partnership allows us to quickly build an efficient, secure, and scalable enterprise analytics platform. With Happiest Minds’ experience in building modern data platforms for our global customers, coupled with our focus on Data and AI, we see ourselves adding pace to the Snowflake adoption.”

Dinesh Ramachandran, SVP & Global Alliance Head, Happiest Minds Technologies said, “We are excited to partner with a global leader like Snowflake. Happiest Minds’ focus on next-generation, disruptive technologies & data analytics, along with Snowflake’s highly scalable platform can certainly help customers seamlessly manage large amounts of data, innovate at scale, and modernize their data infrastructure to derive valuable insights.”

Vimal Venkatram, Managing Director, Snowflake India said, “Happiest Minds’ expertise in digital transformation combined with Snowflake’s Data Cloud creates a digital modernization capability for our joint customers, further supporting our goal to mobilize the world’s data in the service of the enterprise.”

About Happiest Minds Technologies:

Happiest Minds’ Technologies Limited (NSE: HAPPSTMNDS), a Mindful IT Company, enables digital transformation for enterprises and technology providers by delivering seamless customer experiences, business efficiency and actionable insights. We do this by leveraging a spectrum of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud, digital process automation, internet of things, robotics/drones, security, virtual/augmented reality, and more. Positioned as ‘Born Digital. Born Agile’, our capabilities span digital solutions, infrastructure, product engineering and security. We deliver these services across industry sectors such as automotive, BFSI, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, edutech, engineering R&D, hi-tech, manufacturing, retail, and travel/transportation/hospitality.

A Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, Happiest Minds is headquartered in Bangalore, India, with operations in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East.

RFPIO’s 3rd Annual RISE UP Conference Goes In-Person And International

*Sign up to receive a discount to attend live in North America or Europe

RFPIO, the company bringing efficiency to the revenue lifecycle, today announced the dates and locations of its RISEUP 2023 conference. Now in its third year, RISEUP is the must-attend event for sales, pre-sales, and proposal teams across all industries looking to up their game and grow as a professional, elevate their knowledge of the RFPIO platform, and enhance their organization’s ability to create revenue efficiently. The in-person event will take place in Austin, TX May 2-4, 2023 and Amsterdam, Netherlands June 20-22. 

This two-day event will feature both in person and streaming content including exclusive presentations and interactive sessions geared at resolving the inefficiencies sales and proposal teams face as they work to increase pipeline and drive growth. 

“Efficiency is critical for B2B revenue teams,” said Ganesh Sankar of RFPIO. “With RFPIO, we’re making it possible for revenue driving teams to adapt to rapidly changing expectations of key prospects and customers, and to bring efficiency to the entire revenue lifecycle in ways that no other platform can do today.”

Past events have featured keynotes from Christina Brady, Chief Strategy Officer at Sales Assembly and Steve Silvers, Vice President for the sales operations practice at Forrester. Sign-up here to be among the first to hear as details for 2023 are released as well as receive a code for $100 off registration. 

RFPIO is the response management platform of choice for organizations like Accenture, Adobe, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Visa, Zoom, Cigna, and more. To learn more about RFPIO, please visit www.rfpio.com/.  

About RFPIO

RFPIO is the market leader in response management software and the industry's first AI-enabled RFP software, trusted by some of the world's smartest companies to manage responses to RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, Security Questionnaires, and DDQs. Through robust and bi-directional integrations, with an open API, teams can connect their people and improve content quality and accessibility — enabling collaboration without boundaries. RFPIO supports response management for growing organizations of all sizes including Google, Adobe, Atlassian, Microsoft, Tenable, Zoom Video and others. For more information, visit rfpio.com or follow @rfpioinc on Twitter.