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Hub in the Sky facility at IIT Madras Research Park
The IIT Alumni Industry Interaction Center (AIIC) inaugurated its second facility, ‘Hub in the Sky’ at the IIT Madras Research Park on Thursday. With IITs being a hub of innovations and the Research Park having the facility of an incubation cell, AIIC will bring closer the industry requirements to novel ideas and solutions.
New Delhi: The IIT Alumni Industry Interaction Center (AIIC) inaugurated its second facility, ‘Hub in the Sky’ at the IIT Madras Research Park on Thursday. With IITs being a hub of innovations and the Research Park having the facility of an incubation cell, AIIC will bring closer the industry requirements to novel ideas and solutions.
As a step closer to achieving the PM's seven point focus Charter for IITs, a part of its vision to project India as a brand worldwide, AIIC, at the function, declared collaboration of the academia with apex corporate houses and business institutions on Financial Technology (FinTech) innovations.
Suresh Kalpathi, President IIT AIIC, said, “With giants like Cognizant, TCS, Saint Gobain, L&T, Sundaram Finance, JK Fenner and Carborundum Universal Limited as our institutional members providing industrial expertise to technological innovations from the IIT eco system, AIIC will facilitate mutually beneficial dialogue between academia and industry.”
Prof Nagarajan, Dean, International & Alumni Relations, IIT Madras, said, "IITs and their alumni share one common characteristic-- innovation in all their endeavours. The AIIC is another example of that; it’s a path-breaking effort to integrate academia/alumni/ industry interaction into traditionally social setting.
I'm sure the success of this initiative at IIT Madras Research Park will spur similar Centres at other IITs as well". Through this initiative, AIIC will systematically map and group IIT alumni to leverage on their collective experience in different sectors, identify innovation and serve as a platform that inspires path-breaking changes.
AIIC Patron Member, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder, Infosys congratulated the Center on the success of a pan IIT initiative of such magnitude and said over a video call, “I am glad that IIT Alumni Club is moving to the IIT Madras Research Park. With larger area, the activities of the club can increase and serve the IIT Alumni community better. I hope all IIT Alumni will join and take full advantage of the facilities.”
