nasscom engineering summit 2014: welcome address - vijay ratanparakhe, nasscom engineering forum
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Vijay Ratanparakhe, Chairman, NASSCOM Engineering ForumTRANSCRIPT
Engineering Forum.
Vision & Activities
8th October,2014
Vijay Ratnaprakhe, Chair, Engineering counicl
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Samir YajnikVijay Ratnaparke Raman Subramanian
Anup SableRegu Ayyaswamy Anand Parameshawaran
Manu Parpia
Ravindra Nuguri
Engineering Council 2013-15
Karthikeyan
Valmeekinathan
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Establish COEs in To build competency in the future emerging areas
Competency Development
Enable industry academia collaboration to make the talent relevant and closer to the industry with domain
Showcase engineering in India capabilities to realise opportunities in new geographies including domestic market
Market AccessCapacity Development
Key Initiatives
IOT identified as the first candidate
Pilot implemented in 10 colleges; MOU with Anna University on the anvil;
Enable Make in India vision
Competency Development- Establishing COE
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• Creating Competence • Create industry capacity in talent, technology start-up ecosystem
• Build competency by showcasing domain capabilities and increased self reliance thru building domain research scholars and missing gurus; prototype facility
• Physical Infrastructure• Provide common physical infrastructure to de-bottleneck required resource to
convert “idea” into “reality”
• Open space for democratizing innovation ;Common space for “challenges”, “meet-ups” & “hackathons”
• Partnerships • Build capacity by aligning academia and industry to facilitate solutions to
common challenges and provide a repository of experts in the country
• Discussions on with Govts to establish a joint COE for IOT to establish multiple Labs across the country with a pilot to begin at Bangalore.
• Position products engineered for local conditions and global market and contributing to Indigenisation
New Market Access…. Collaboration with other agencies
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• Collaboration – • Aligned with Make in India campaign and Digital India program
• Develop an entrepreneurship, product and software solutions eco system in impact areas like IoT, Defence, telecom
• Joint Advocacy program with Government in priority areas
• Leverage existing capability• Rising convergence of hardware, software and services providing opportunity
for packaged solutions.
• Compelling story on India’s leadership in building and delivering IT solutions
• Provide integrated capabilities for value addition in manufacture and design
New Market Access… Views from NASSCOM Japan delegation
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• Huge amount of political camaraderie in full public view ; need to find ways to keep this momentum going in months to come
• Need to translate Political goodwill created into more business opportunities
• Challenges that confront Japan are known viz. demographic, increased competition, etc.
• Warming up to India but are still unsure if Indian IT & ITES can be reliable partner
• Perception about India is ‘hazy’ – most respect tech industry’s credentials but are not sure:
o If chaotic India can create cutting-edge solution
o Overwhelming images of Bharat than India for the ones who’ve travelled
o Popular belief seems to be - more of back office to the west
• Lower language dependency makes Engineering Services a low-hanging fruit
Capacity Development- Enabling Talent Eco system
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Objective :
Industry led program to reinforce curriculum with industry relevant content, Industry- Academia interactions, Common Assessment and Unified Certification to Improve the Industry readiness of engineering talent in the country with Engineering mindset and stronger foundation skills.
This will be achieved through: Industry defined Foundation skills Industry defined Specialization skills Faculty development program
Current Status:
Curriculum developed FSIPD as per the industry requirement FSIPD launched in 10 colleges including faculty development program by the
industry 10 more colleges identified to implement FSIPD MOU with Anna university is on the anvil