The official Weekly Newsletter of Technopark Trivandrum View this email in your browser KERALA IT@ GITEX 2015 GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK held in Dubai from 18 - 22 October 2015, is the Middle East, Africa and South Asia’s largest, most specialized ICT trade event. The future of everything on technology from Innovative demonstrations of UAVs, Robotics and 3D Printing to Autonomous Vehicles is displayed at this technological extravagance. Here we open the gateway to the future world of technology from the global visionaries across the world's leading companies including representatives from Facebook, Alibaba, Coca Cola, Boeing, BP and Vodafone. The highly intellectual and dedicated team exposes you to the exciting, interactive features and innovative conference programmes. The emphasis of IT sector is tremendous with various competitions and events like GTX App Hack, GTX Connexions, 3D Printing etc. This will indeed revolutionize the future of IT sector. Steps for technologically driven educational platforms in the future is already laid down which will promise amazing prospects in the educational sector that follows boosting innovations and meeting students’ demands.  The CEO of Technopark K.G. Girish Babu inaugurated the GITEX stall on Sunday, 18th October 2015. Now on its 35th edition, GITEX features over 30,000 international executives and over 4,700 international technology companies and over 1,52,000 trade visitors over the 5 days of the event. This year also Kerala IT is participating in GITEX with a 30-member team. Gartner, leading analyst firm has named Technopark, Trivandrum based Attinad Software Pvt. Ltd as a ‘Vendor to Watch’ in the upcoming mobile product space of Rapid Mobile Application Development framework. Attinad Software, a leader in SMACT (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud and IoT) space."This is a huge benchmark for our Cantiz Mobility platform which is being used by fortune 500 clients across the globe. This product has been developed in Technopark." said Rijas, CEO of Attinad Software in a press release. PRATHIDHWANI EDUCATION SCHOOLARSHIP SCHEME Prathidhwani, the Socio-Cultural Organization of Technopark, Trivandrum employees, initiated an education support programme called Prathidhwani Education Scholarship Scheme ( PES 2015 ) to help excellent students from poor financial background. Official inauguration of the program – PES held at Park Center of Technopark on 14th October 2015. Read full article here: http://bit.ly/1jpH63S The largest and greenest IT Park in the nation invites efficient IT professionals across the globe to experience the real harmony at work. The IT Park holds openings from 340+ top companies in the national and global level.  For more details, please check: http://bit.ly/1LOd001 VehicleST APP   The taxi cars run by Kudumbashree Travels can now be booked online and through mobile apps. VST Travel Solutions, a startup floated by a bunch of youngsters and incubated at ‪KSIDC‬’s Startup Zone at Angamaly, is behind the new application ‘VehicleST’. Technopark CEO K.G. Girish Babu flagged off the first taxi services of Kudumbashree taxi with VehicleST app. The CEO said that the App would be very much useful for the Technopark, Trivandrum employees. He also appreciated the facility in the app for review and rating of services, which will help customers to choose better services. You can download the App from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details… SEEDLING DISTRIBUTION @TECHNOPARK Prakruthi, a voluntary group of Technopark employees working towards ‘Green thoughts and Green living’, has completed Phase I Seedlings Distribution to the employees of several companies in Technopark. In Phase I of Seedlings Distribution, team Prakruthi distributed 14200 seedlings to 345 employees and aims at another 200 people in second phase, covering 1% of total number of employees in Technopark. TECHNOPARK IS A CLUSTER OF CELEBRATION Technopark, Trivandrum as many think, is not a space that warmly welcomes only fab and glamorous side of art, but its inmates enjoy every drop of art wrapped in the beauty of culture and traditional aesthetics. PHOTO OF THE WEEK An areal view of nation's largest IT hub  Photo: Jake Wattacheril