Techkriti, Asia’s largest technical and entrepreneurial festival organized by IIT Kanpur, marks a symbol of creation or innovation in technology. Many interesting workshops, fascinating shows, enthralling talks, informal events, intriguing exhibitions and exciting competitions together construct the face of technical innovation. The four days of the festival attract footfall of over 40,000 from around 1500 prestigious colleges all over the world. The festival is celebrating its silver jubilee edition from March 7, 2019 to March 10, 2019.

In addition to inspiring talks from eminent scientists and entrepreneurs, Techkriti also hosts workshops that enhance the core skills required in the technology industry. Among the workshops, Techkriti has hosted in the past are app integration by Microsoft, cloud computing by Amazon Web Services, ethical hacking, Internet of Things (IoT), Android app development, robotics, machine learning, data analytics and Python programming. These workshops are conducted by reputed companies with a track record of excellence in these domains.

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Techkriti is known for hosting a variety of competitions with total prize money of 42 Lacs. The competitions serve the backbone for fulfilling the basic motto of Techkriti - developing interest and encouraging innovation in technology among students. Competitions are classified in a few broad categories such as Robogames, ECDC, Take Off, Software Corner, Mixed Bowl, Design, Technovation, Entrepreneurial and Buizkriti.
Techkriti, in its past 24 years, witnessed various prominent personalities who showed the proper direction to many scientific minds by offering mind stimulating talks and motivational speeches. Some of the speakers include Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (Ex-President of India and Founder of India’s missile program), Richard Muller (famous American physicist and professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley), Richard Stallman (Founder of FSF and GNU Project), Vladimir Voevodsky (Fields Medalist from Russia), Douglas Osheroff (Physics Nobel Laureate), Dr. Lyn Evans (Director of LCC CERN), Michael Foreman (NASA Astronaut), Marshall Strabala (Architect of Burj Khalifa), Jeff Liebermann (Host of Time Wrap), Victor Hayes (Father of Wi-Fi), Dr. Hamid Karzai (Ex-President of Afghanistan), Prof. Henry Schaefer (one of the most highly cited scientists in the world), Rajat Sharma (a renowned name in the field of Indian Journalism) etc. The words of such experienced people help to nurture future technology endeavors.
The exhibitions organized by Techkriti focus to present the fascinating things before the fest audiences. Their prime objective is to shape future innovation ideas and to think. Some of the past exhibitions at Techkriti include Eth Zurich (an autonomous Soccer playing robot), Nino (first Indian humanoid robot), Remidi (world’s first wearable device to record, play and perform), Hyperloop (a cool transportation system), OTO (a controller come musical instrument of Germany), Indro (the tallest humanoid robot), Holus (world’s first interactive tabletop holographic display), LIGO (gravitational waves in action) Puzzlebox Orbit (a brain-controlled helicopter of USA) etc. The exhibitions provide visual instincts and insights to the audience, helping in the development of rigorous and innovative thinking.

Besides workshops, talks and exhibitions, the fest conducts blasting shows and performances as well. They mark the biggest centres of attraction for the audience. The festival, in some past years, witnessed concert by Piyush Mishra, DJ night by Marnik, Willy William, stand up comedy Biswa Kalyan Rath, Drone Show, DJ night by Marnik, Zephyrtone and DJ Morgan, concert by Sonu Nigam, Edge Ryderz (motorbike stunt show), informal session by TVF Pitchers team, breathtaking performance by Farhan Akhtar, Beltek and NDS & Blues, Finnish rock band, 3D projection mapping show, fireworks and laser shows, Sukhwinder Singh’s performance, concert by Kailash Kher and much more. The shows and performances truly exponentiate the fascination among the fest attendees.

An era concludes and the next groundbreaking epoch surfaces, thus bringing the fourth industrial revolution into view, Industry 4.0 .  We are now standing at the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 comprises four components namely, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, cloud computing and cognitive computing forming a ‘smart factory’.

To celebrate the herald of this groundbreaking technological revolution, we, at Techkriti’19 bring to you the unprecedented technical summit with the theme: Industry 4.0 , for the first time in India. It will be the most promising technical extravaganza spread over three days of exclusive workshops, talks and panel discussions with various pre-eminent personalities on the four central concepts of Industry 4.0. Talks from the tech-giants namely Shailendra Kumar (Vice President Chief Evangelist, Sap Labs), Rahul Tyagi (Co-Founder, Lucideus), Utpal Chakraborty (Head Artificial Intelligence, Yes Bank), Amol Kodag (Engineering Leader, EATON India), Anjali Joshi (Vice President, Product Management, Google) are truly going to be enlightening for the audience with a surge of knowledge on Industry 4.O. Workshops will exponentiate the knowledge foundations on Industry 4.O namely Deep Visual Learning from MathWorks, Blockchain from HSBC, Cloud Computing from NetApp and many more to come.

Visit 
https://summit.techkriti.org/  for more details.

ABP Live being one of the biggest players in the news industry and having an enormous reach in India have joined hands with silver jubilee edition of Techkriti to encourage the youth to participate and enhance their skills in the field of Technology and Entrepreneurship. 

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