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Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has launched “She Innovates”, an inaugural to beforehand entrepreneurship among pre-final twelvemonth pistillate engineering students crossed its affiliated institutions, done the Visvesvaraya Research and Innovation Foundation (VRIF).
The programme is designed arsenic an entrepreneurship and incubation inaugural for pre-final twelvemonth pistillate students of VTU, and it has already attracted implicit 5,000 registrations.
The programme aims to make 100 women-led start-ups wrong 1 year, fostering a caller procreation of women founders from engineering campuses. This inaugural is jointly supported by starring ecosystem partners, including Wipro, JAN AI, UN Women, the Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM), and the TiE Chapters of Hubballi, Bengaluru, Mangaluru, and Mysuru.
There are 220 engineering colleges nether the VTU, with much than 300,000 students enrolled. Eighty miss students from each assemblage volition beryllium allowed to registry for this programme. A contention volition beryllium held for students to find solutions to problems astatine assorted levels.
Finally, 100 students volition beryllium selected for this project. The VTU volition service arsenic a level for the large-scale implementation of the projects developed by the students by providing fiscal assistance for the prototype models.
The main nonsubjective of this programme is to supply solutions to societal and economical problems astatine agrarian and territory levels utilizing artificial quality (AI) technology.
S. Vidyashankar, Vice-Chancellor, VTU, said, “We person designed this programme to recognise and promote the talents of women students. We volition springiness archetypal precedence to those from agrarian areas. Several companies person travel guardant to assistance america with this. Selected students volition besides beryllium fixed mentors.”
Several tech companies similar Wipro person expressed beardown enthusiasm for expanding Generative AI innovation to agrarian India. Wipro has besides emphasised semipermanent field engagement and continued collaboration with the VTU’s VRIF.
Sanjeev Jain, main operating officer, Wipro, has announced Wipro’s committedness crossed 4 cardinal engagement pillars successful the “She Innovates” programme: conducting Yukti Manthan hackathons, grooming students successful problem-solving and innovation, providing mentorship from Wipro employees, and offering associated certification for programme participants. Furthermore, helium explained that the programme would see method onboarding utilizing platforms specified arsenic Hugging Face and Gradio, followed by a structured hackathon execution phase, valuation and shortlisting, and yet incubation oregon acceleration pathways for selected teams to guarantee continuity and start-up development.
