iCreate (International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology) is an autonomous centre of excellence of the Government of Gujarat and is India’s leading institution for transforming tech-based innovations into successful businesses. It is the winner of the National Award for Technology Business Incubator 2020, and to date it has supported over 520 innovations and 40+ patents with a ‘high touch, entrepreneur-first model, connecting them with mentors, markets and money. Embedded systems and IoT are a focus area for iCreate, in domains like electric vehicles, agritech, smart cities, healthtech, industrial automation, and renewable energy. Located in a state-of-the-art 40-acre campus at Dev Dholera in Ahmedabad, iCreate is home to Cisco's largest Innovation Lab in India. It has a strategic partnership with CSIR, India's apex organisation for science and technology, and with leading institutions across the world.

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Guardbook Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is the next generation provider of SaaS 2.0 (Software as a Service). The fast moving evolution in the enterprise Web 2.0 movement, driven by SOA-like services, Ajax and Mashups, is redefine the SaaS landscape. Guardbook leads the way in creating a dramatic shift not only in the way software is developed and used but is also in creating a whole new set of market opportunities. Guardbook believes that this will be a game-changer for software buyers and sellers.Guardbook is leading in the creation of a new SaaS Consumer market with its ingenious combination of Ajax and Services. Guardbook intends to fill in the following two slots: o SOA SaaS Provider – As an ISV that has a core set of services and applications for a certain domain. We offer Web UI based applications, and SOA-like services. o SaaS Market Enabler – As a company which knows how to host, manage and secure services for application consumption.

A Technology Innovation Hub - a Section-8 company under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems. IHub at Mandi was created as the hub specializing in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to make India a leader in the HCI domain including AR/VR technologies, Brain Computer Interface (BCI), and Cognitive Technologies.

We are building a team of technologists and domain specialists who would be disrupting the publishing industry and the way it works. We are already in the process of launching 3 cloud-based/SaaS Solutions, products in 2019 with more to follow. We are also looking at bringing fundamental changes to the production processes.Do you think you have the ground-breaking ideas? Do you want to be a part of the team?Reach out to me...

Value Chain International acquired Digital Publishing Solutions, Singapore in early 2006. After the acquisition my role has changed from that of the CTO for the DPSL group to that of Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) for the VCI group.