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IET India to Organize Engineering the Future of Work Event in Mumbaiedit
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IET India is all set to organize a one-day event on the Future of Work at Taj Land’s End in Mumbai on October 22, 2019. Engineering the Future of Work conference is conceptualized and designed by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET), one of the world’s most reputed professional societies for engineers that completes 150 years of existence in 2021.
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Opinion | Smartphones can offer infinite possibilities, but tech synchronization is keyedit
When I look back at our school lives, while our choices were more straightforward, we were neither trained to make a conscious choice between the business of life and technology nor asked to be brave and experiment with the newer or unknown forms of science.
AItechnology developmentMaking Industry 4.0 work: 8 vital elements for right frameworkedit
Industry 4.0 relies on a large volume of devices and masses of data to be successful. Businesses must process data into timely and valuable information if they are to integrate it into production processes. For example, there is little use in having sensors that can track real time maintenance issues if the infrastructure is not available to suitably analyse and act on those.
data securityEdge ComputingIndustry 4.0Keen to make India $1 trillion digital economy: Ravi Shankar Prasadedit
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said that the government is keen to make India a $1 trillion digital economy that is dominated by digital payments & service, e-commerce, Internet of Things (IOT) and new technology powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
AIDigital EconomyIoTMLHeres How Home Automation has Brought the Age of Science Fiction to usedit
Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data are all new and emerging technologies which are here to stay and have a significant role to play in home automation. Conservation and Efficiency is the mantra today.
Big DataIoTsmart homesDigitising small businesses an $80 bn opportunity over 5 years, says studyedit
Digitally empowered SMBs are leveraging a combination of digital services in connectivity and communications, payments, discoverability, productivity focused technologies, and are starting to expand into the world of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and Internet of Things (IOT).
AIDigitisationIoTCyberwar Is Here: Are You Readyedit
Weve seen inklings of this for years. At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference this year, Microsoft warned that Russian state sponsored hackers may be trying to spy on companies by hacking into vulnerable office Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to corporate networks. Is that a paper jam, or has Moscow come knocking
cyber warfareCyberSecurityCurrent Act outdated, need to include cyber security in IT legal framework: DCA chiefedit
Rear Admiral Gupta made the remarks while speaking at the Capsule on Science Technology and Applied Research, organised for senior officers of the three armed forces, at the Military Institute of Technology
CyberSecurityIT SectorBusiness leaders have less than a day a year to focus on cyber riskedit
Nearly 80 percent of organizations now rank cyber risk as a topfive concern, however, only 11 percent expressed confidence in their ability to assess cyber threats, prevent cyberattacks, and respond effectively, according to this years Marsh Microsoft Survey.
cyber riskCyberSecurityAgentless visibility solutions are a must have cybersecurity requirement during M&Asedit
Internet of Things devices complicate cybersecurity M&A due diligence One factor that can make evaluating cybersecurity risk during M&A particularly complicated is the growing number of Internet of Things devices. Industry reports estimate that the number of connected devices globally now exceeds 17 billion a number that does not even include smartphones, PCs/laptops, and tablets.
cyber riskCyberSecurity3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Uprooting Salesedit
In 2015, Forrester caused a storm to brew when it announced that artificial intelligence (AI) would replace one million B2B sales jobs by 2020. This bold headline, however, failed to capture the entire picture. Sure, if sales reps continue to rely on age-old practices like cold calling and distributing spray-and-pray marketing collateral, their days are surely numbered.
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The Top 5 Major Setbacks For EV Companies In Indiaedit
While central, state governments and private sectors have been looking forward to boost the use of electric vehicles in India, flipflop in policymaking and a lack of clarity about the sector might be a reason of concern among the players.
e-mobilityEVFuture of MobilityHow lithium mining has gone up in the wake of emobilityedit
By Mainak Das
A research by GlobalData reveals that during 20102017 period, lithium supply across the world grew at a pace of around 6.4 per cent per annum. It also made a forecast that between 2018 and 2022, the global output of the ineral will reach 154 Kt, as 86 Kt of new metal capacity comes on stream to meet the increasing demand of lithiumion battries for electric vehicles and smartphones.
e-mobilityEV BatteryLithium BatteriesHimachal aims 100 per cent transition to e-vehicles by 2030edit
Himachal Pradesh is aiming to achieve 100 per cent transition to electric vehicles by 2030 in alignment with the United Nations sustainable development goals, an official said on Wednesday. A meeting to frame the draft for the Himachal Pradesh Electric Vehicle Policy 2019 was held here, chaired by Chief Secretary Shrikant Baldi.
EVEV PolicyGovt should be tech-agnostic: Butschekedit
India sold a total of 3.3 million units of passenger vehicles. The share of e-cars however, was less than 3,000 units. Presently Tata Motors — that sells the electrified version of the Tigor and Tiago models — and Mahindra & Mahindra’s e-Verito are the only two players in the mass e-car segment.
Automotive Sectore-mobilityEVGlobal share of ebuses to grow nearly 33% by 2030edit
By 2030, the Chinese market will account for 74 per cent of total electric buses in the world, while North America and European markets will jointly make up around 14 per cent of global e-buses by the same time
e-busese-mobilityFuture of MobilityElectrifying opportunity, some bumps on the wayedit
By Bharani Vaitheeswaran
A slew of researchers and entrepreneurs are working overtime to reduce battery costs and improve efficiency, while yet others are looking to put new models of electric vehicles on the road.
e-mobilityEVFuture of MobilityElectric Vehicles This Week: Tamil Nadu State EV Policy, Ather 340 Discontinued And Moreedit
By Yatti Soni
Electric Vehicles This Week: Tamil Nadu State EV Policy And More Earlier this week, the Tamil Nadu government unveiled its state electric vehicle policy on September 16. The policy proposed to promote EV startups along with introducing various incentives and concessions for the electric vehicle and battery manufacturers.
e-mobilityEVEV Policy100% transition to evehicles by 30: CSedit
This will provide sustainable, safe, eco-friendly, inclusive and integrated mobility to the public. The government has also set up a high-power committee for monitoring implementation of this policy and for development of procedures and modalities.
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Opinion | The four inexorable trends shaping the future of workedit
When I left a “regular” job some time ago to become an entrepreneur and adviser to multiple companies, a senior leader in the company observed encouragingly: “Instead of one company-many employees, work is moving to one employee-many companies. You are going to be a part of this future of work.” As if to prove his point, the very next day I settled down at my “hot desk” in the spanking new WeWork that had opened in my city and contributed my bit to its ever-expanding valuation.
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MHRD announces National Educational Alliance for Technology Schemeedit
AICTE would be the implementing agency for the NEAT programme. The scheme shall be administered under the guidance of an Apex Committee constituted by MHRD. Independent Expert Committees would be constituted for evaluating and selecting the EdTech solutions. MoUs will be signed with the shortlisted EdTech companies.
aicteHigher EducationMHRDArtificial Intelligence to boost educationedit
In a bid to provide wider access to adaptive learning technologies, the Centre plans to launch a new scheme in partnership with companies using artificial intelligence to make learning a more personalised and customised experience as per the learner’s requirements.
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