Merge pull request #117 from IIIT-ECell/Events_team_2023

Updating the Team Page with new recruits from UG2k22

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+I"�<p>A talk on “DFINITY: The Road to Randomness” by Arthur Falls was conducted by E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad on August 8, 2018 at IIIT Hyderabad.</p>
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+<p><strong>About the Speaker:</strong></p>
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+<p>Arthur Falls has a background in journalism, content marketing, and media production and has produced several popular blockchain-centric podcasts, most notably Beyond Bitcoin, The Ether Review, and The Third Web.</p>
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+<p><strong>About the talk:</strong></p>
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+<p>Blockchain networks rely on one thing above all others for security: The generation of unpredictable, non-manipulable, verifiable randomness. This is used to select a block maker, build a wall of security, and in future platforms, assign special roles to network participants. 
+This talk was a quick introduction to randomness generation, covering Proof of Work (Bitcoin), Commit &amp; Reveal (Ethereum - Proof of Stake, Tezos), and DFINITY’s verifiable random function, Threshold Relay.</p>
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+I"D<p>E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad hosted the third iteration of their flagship hackathon, Megathon 2017 on 23rd – 24th September at IIIT-Hyderabad, Gachibowli Campus.
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+During the 24-hour hackathon, students were given 5 problem statements divided into two categories – Corporate and Social – provided by Amazon, IBM, PwC and She Team – Hyderabad Police. The problems statements covered topics like Smart Cities, Privacy and Security, Women Safety, Chat-bots and E-commerce.
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+In each category, participating teams presented their solutions to their respective jury panels comprising industry veterans, startup founders and people from academia. The winning team walked away Rs. 20,000 cash prize and the runner-up team Rs. 10,000.
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+The second edition of the flagship event was the largest student hackathon in Hyderabad. A total of 185 teams, comprising of over 600 students from 65 different colleges and 35 cities across several states including Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.participated in the hackathon.
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+Multiple dignitaries including DCP Vishwa Prasad, Kalpana Saroj – CEO of Kamani Tubes &amp; an inspiring entrepreneur, Ramesh Loganathan – Professor of Co-Innovation at IIIT Hyderabad and industry veterans from Amazon, PwC, IBM and Capgemini graced the event.</p>
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+I"�<p>The semester was off to a great start with the E-Cell introducing itself to the then freshly addmitted UG2k18 batch of IIIT-H as part of their induction into the system.
+The students were briefed on what E-Cell is and what it does. This was followed by a game where students had to form a team and come forward to pitch an idea of a product chosen by them to the audience.
+The competitive and fun-filled session ended with one team emerging as the winners and the other teams being rewarded for their will to come forward and participate.
+The event succeeded in creating a positive impression in the minds of the students on entrepreneurship and inducing a will in them to join the E-Cell IIIT-H team.</p>
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�<p>E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad is a proud partner for BotHack organized by Hackmania. BotHack is an AI/ML bot hackathon. Participate and get an opportunity to intern or get incubated at flydubai’s Development Centre in Hyderabad, India.</p>
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+I"5<p>E-Cell IIIT-H is the coolest thing ever</p>
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+I":<p>E-Cell, IIIT Hyderabad in association with GyanDhan is organising a session on ‘Financing Higher Education’ and an expert lecture on Entrepreneurship. The session will focus on securing finance - scoring assistantships, getting loans and scholarships, and will also touch the admission process. On the entrepreneurship front, the session will focus on the following points:</p>
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+  <li>Rationalizing the decision of leaving a six-figure pay package and opting to enter the startup world.</li>
+  <li>Raising funds from corporate and non-corporate sources.</li>
+  <li>An interactive session for doubts and concerns.</li>
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+<p><strong>The Speaker</strong> : Ankit Mehra, CEO, GyanDhan<br />
+<strong>Time &amp; Date</strong>: 5:30 PM, 21st March 2017<br />
+<strong>Venue</strong> : Himalaya 103, IIIT Hyderabad</p>
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+I"K<p>E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad is partnering with Entrepreneur India for the 15th annual Entrepreneur Start-up Summit, 2018 scheduled on May 19-20 2018 at HITEX Exhibition Centre, Hyderabad<br />
+This 2 day event will be packed with perspective building insight, training, coaching and mentoring for businesses during their critical start-up years and getting ready to take up growth challenge. The forum will focus on inspiring and educating young startups and entrepreneurs.</p>
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+  <li>Standard Delegate Fee: INR 12,000 per individual.</li>
+  <li>We are offering a discount fee of INR 5000 for all Students (On presentation of valid student id) . This participation fee includes entrance to the conference, exhibition, tea-coffee and lunch for both the days.
+For Registration and Payment Methods please refer the attached document.</li>
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+I"�<p>India’s largest student run hackathon-Megathon is back!<br />
+Featuring Embibe as title sponsor and Micron India as associate sponsors and Qualcomm and PwC as challenge sponsors, E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad brings to you the 4th Edition of Megathon.<br />
+From its inception in 2016, Megathon has invited huge participation from across colleges and cities with last year seeing more than 1000+ participants from over 35 cities and 65 colleges. <br />
+An amazing opportunity to test your problem solving skill, Megathon gives you an experience of a lifetime and gives you a platform to make your solution recognised. And don’t forget the awesome goodies you’ll take home! <br />
+So, pull up your socks, think out of the box and get ready to hack!</p>
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+I"�<p>How to make your venture profitable? How to scale your product to reach a large audience? Learn answers to these and more questions at the Zero To One Crore Workshop by Ishwar Jha, a well-renowned entrepreneur with years of experience in successfully scaling multiple ventures across various sectors. E-Cell, IIIT Hyderabad and IIIT Hyderabad Foundation cordially invite all early stage entrepreneurs and enthusiasts to this workshop followed by lunch.<br />
+The half-day workshop will prepare entrepreneurs who’re thinking of launching a new venture or scale their existing venture with the essential mindset, methods, and tools for running a profitable business and generate one crore in revenue. With the help of our revolutionary workbook and our training, you can quickly assess the opportunities and risks, build product/market fit product and develop strategies that inspire confidence at all stages of their entrepreneurial journey.</p>
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<p>UNIspotter is a mobile platform connecting the right students with the right universities. For students, UNIspotter is the destination for every step in the university application journey - adding ease, accessibility and transparency.<br />
+For universities, UNIspotter is a reliable &amp; trustworthy source of international student recruitment. They receive all relevant information about the course and university, fees, expected careers and industry trends.</p>
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<p>Megathon’18, organised by E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad on 29th and 30th September, 2018 saw a participation of 450+ students from all over the country.<br />
+The opening ceremony was addressed by P.J. Narayanan, the Director of IIIT Hyderabad, and representatives from the sponsors explaining the problem statements.</p>
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+I"(<p>A guy who is fed up with the college education system and has this really original and genius idea decides to dropout of college and implement that original and genius idea. Years later he has proved everyone wrong and is the Founder of some big company whose products and services almost everyone around the globe uses. It all just sounds so legendary and perfect, right? It is a movie script waiting to happen for which Leonardo DiCaprio will win another Oscar. But maybe that’s not how it works in the real world. Atleast not for everyone.</p>
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+I"r<p>E-Cell, IIIT Hyderabad has partnered with TapChief Global Ideathon - a unique Idea Pitching competition where you can pitch your startup idea to top investors &amp; mentors across the world, without having to travel anywhere. The Ideathon Jury boasts of some of the most prolific Investors, Mentors and Industry Experts from prestigious firms like Unitus Seed Fund, Kae Capital and Matrix Partners to name a few; Firms which are always on the lookout for innovative ideas to mentor and invest in. NOTE : All the startups participating via E-Cell, IIIT Hyderabad get 50% DISCOUNT. Use promo code : IIITH Register here :</p>
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+I";<p>Prasanth Garapati is an IIIT-H Alumnus and the CEO and Founder of Commut, a Hyderabad-based bus-shuttle service app and one of the most successful startups from our college. Commut was recently acquired by the Dubai based transportation network company Careem, which has its presence in over 100 cities in 14 countries.</p>
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+<p>The highly interactive session went on for more than an hour and a half with Mr. Prasanth and the other co-founders of Commute narrating the journey of Commute from an idea of a few students to an immensly successful company worth millions of dollars at the time it was acquired by Careem. The talk helped the students dive directly into the world of entrepreneurship and learn more about the challenges and risks involved along with the sense of satisfcation and freedom that comes with it.</p>
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<p>Founder and former CEO of UTV group (later acquired by Disney)
+Produced 70+ films like Barfi!, Rang De Basanti, Swadesh, ABCD, Fashion, A Wednesday , Udaan, Chennai Express, etc
+Time’s 100 most influential people in the world
+Founded Unilazer Venture (invests in potential startups) and Swadesh Foundation
+Launched Hungama channel in 2004. Co-Founder and Chairman of UpGrad
+Board of Adviser AIESEC India and Writer of the book “Dream With Your Eyes Open”.</p>
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+I"^<p>E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad along with IEEE Student Branch of IIITH organized a workshop on “Hadoop Basics” conducted by CIS/GRSS Jt. Chapter, IEEE Hyderabad Section on Apr 8th and 9th, 2017. Mr. Arvind Agarwal (Lead developer on java/j2ee platform along with Hadoop implementation) and Mr. Swayam Prakash (Vice Chair, YP Technical Activities &amp; Education Society) from IEEE covered the topics in Big Data and Hadoop such as HDFS, MapReduce, SQOOP, Hive and New &amp; Upcoming Features and Tools in Hadoop. The session ended with a small talk by Prof. K. S. Rajan of IIIT Hyderabad on the 2nd day.</p>
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<p>E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad conducted a talk on 15th August, 2018 at IIIT Hyderabad on the topic “The role and importance of Freelance Entrepreneurship for a successful career and Freelancing in the 21st Century” by Dr. Nikhil Chandwani accompanied by Shreya Nair and Yash Singhania.</p>
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+I"�<p>UNIspotter is a mobile platform connecting the right students with the right universities. For students, UNIspotter is the destination for every step in the university application journey - adding ease, accessibility and transparency.<br />
+For universities, UNIspotter is a reliable &amp; trustworthy source of international student recruitment. They receive all relevant information about the course and university, fees, expected careers and industry trends.</p>
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+<p>Furthermore, ‘UNIspotter Buddies’ then guide them through the application process, help them apply and prepare them for their time abroad.  E-Cell IIIT-H partnered with Unispotter to help IIITians realise their dream of studying in the best universities across the world, and do research that matters.<br />
+A team from Unispotter headed by Mr. Christoph Trost came to IIIT-H on 12th September and gave a talk on how the process of applying to live abroad goes about and how Unispotter could help in making this process easy and stress free.</p>
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+I"<p>E-Cell, IIIT Hyderabad has partnered with IIIT Hyderabad Foundation for DISHA. DISHA is a product prototyping program by IIIT Hyderabad Foundation to help STUDENTS having an idea on any of the deep-tech areas like AR/VR, NLP, AI, ML, Robotics and IoT. The curated ideas get guidance from Research Labs and Domain Specific Faculties at IIIT Hyderabad and Business mentoring from experts. A SUMMER WORKSHOP will be conducted as part of the program. The best idea receives cash prize of Rs. 5 Lakhs.
+Last date to apply : April 30, 2017</p>
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�<p>A talk on “DFINITY: The Road to Randomness” by Arthur Falls was conducted by E-Cell IIIT Hyderabad on August 8, 2018 at IIIT Hyderabad.</p>
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+I""<p>E-Cell, IIIT Hyderabad in association with Asian Institute of Family Managed Business organised “Samagam”, an interactive session with Mr. Durgesh Gupta, CEO of Real Shoppee Retail Private Limited who shared his learnings and insights about managing a family business in the modern day and age. Mr. Gupta also highlighted the prominent family businesses running efficiently in the modern world, and a detailed analysis of their structure and functioning followed. He also took questions on the subject and provided his expert opinion.</p>
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<p>#ICANN is a body which manages all internet domain names. A large scale ICANN public meetings is being hosted in Hyderabad. E-Cell, IIIT Hyderabad is glad to be a community partner for Hack2Build ~ Hackathon on Smart Cities/Villages organized by NASSCOM and IdeaLabs.</p>
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