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Designing Healthcare Apps to Improve Lives
30 Jun

Designing Healthcare Apps to Improve Lives

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Author: Debprotim Roy, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Canvs App design as a trade has various counterparties and reviewers. Often app designers make things to impress each other while all along finding themselves looking to fill the gaping hole left behind by the lack of impactful work. Designers often find themselves pining for work that has a tangible impact on the lives of users. A user coming up to a product designer and telling her how their work simplified their lives is a much more revered accomplishment and compliment than a hundred re-tweets from Design Twitter.  One such impactful domain…
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Vernacular.ai Sets Its Sights to Become a Global Voice-AI Company
29 Jun

Vernacular.ai Sets Its Sights to Become a Global Voice-AI Company

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Vernacular.ai is a startup founded in Bangalore by Sourabh Gupta and Akshay Deshraj. With a sight to become a global voice AI company, the innovative AI-first SaaS startup raised $5.1 million in a series A funding round. This Indian startup is all geared up to expand into Southeast Asia and the US, and use the funding towards R&D to further enhance its proprietary AI-based voice automation platform. Sourabh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO, Vernacular.ai In an exclusive interview with MediaCatalyst, Sourabh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO, Vernacular.ai dwells on the journey of the AI-first SaaS startup, its innovative products, how it is…
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Indian Crowdfunding Platforms are Taking a Lead in Helping The Nation Fight Pandemic
27 Jun

Indian Crowdfunding Platforms are Taking a Lead in Helping The Nation Fight Pandemic

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Author: Chet Jainn, Founder & CEO - Crowdera. “Crowdfunding” is a fairly newly coined word but in the Indian context, the concept of crowdfunding dates back to ancient times. Since long, it has been a widespread practice in Indian society to raise funds (and generously contribute) towards cultural, religious, and spiritual causes. Many places of worship have been built, numerous orphanages are run, various charitable projects are brought to fruition - all through collective funds raised from and contributed by the society. For raising such funds from the community, the more familiar term has been – Chanda in Hindi or patronage/donation in…
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25 Jun

Skills that Designers Need to Thrive on

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Author: Debprotim Roy, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Canvs Each New Year talks about newer trends in design and engineering, some stick while some pass. 2020, however, given it’s the start of a new decade was assumed year of importance and makes us aware of how far we have come from where we were 10 years ago. Mobile computing has changed the landscape as we have seen. Artificial intelligence has come into mainstream consciousness, user experience is not a spend you park for post MVP releases anymore. Designers have a seat at the table. Having a seat at the…
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Providing Sustainable Livelihood and Helping Existing Partnership will be Our Focus Says SBI General Insurance Deputy CEO
24 Jun

Providing Sustainable Livelihood and Helping Existing Partnership will be Our Focus Says SBI General Insurance Deputy CEO

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Prakash Chandra KandpalDeputy CEO - SBI General Insurance Prakash Chandra Kandpal, Deputy CEO – SBI General Insurance Company speaks to MediaCatalyst on the CSR journey of SBI General Insurance Company, how sustainable livelihood is here to stay, implementing CSR initiatives and its future strategies. Excerpts: COVID-19 is wreaking havoc across industries. SBIG formally set up its CSR programme with a focused strategy only in 2008.  How is the CSR wing coping up with this situation? We have been contributing to various causes since our inception. In 2018, we formally launched our CSR program with a focused strategy. The 5 key areas that we have been focusing…
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Innovation in HRTech Space will change HRMS
23 Jun

Innovation in HRTech Space will change HRMS

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Author: Prasad Rajappan, Founder and CEO - zingHR During the times of crisis and unprecedented events like the #CoronaVirus Pandemic, entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders should look at primarily two things : Welfare & Empathy For Their Human CapitalBusiness Continuity and Productivity  HRTech plays a vital role in addressing the above in a very ideal fashion and it is bound to contribute in a big chunk. Add innovation to HRTech and things just get streamlined and the business is up and running along with building pipelines for productivity. This not only saves time but can create a lot of positive outlook…
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The New Normal in Dentistry – An Indian Perspective
23 Jun

The New Normal in Dentistry – An Indian Perspective

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Author: Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Dr Vimal Arora, Chief Clinical Officer, Clove Dental Michael Ryan, the Emergencies doctor at the World Health Organization, has warned that the “new Coronavirus may never go away, and the populations have to learn to live with it”. This will be ‘one long, long way to Normal." The countries will have to stay on course for prevention.  There is no doubt that the ‘return to normal’ is being eagerly anticipated by populations, however, that may never happen in its true sense. We have to understand the ‘New Normal’, which will be the normal now onwards. And the dental…
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Quitting Smoking Can Make Fathers The Real Heroes!
21 Jun

Quitting Smoking Can Make Fathers The Real Heroes!

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Author: Dr. N Aditya Murali In times of a global COVID 19 pandemic, many silent epidemics are being relegated to the background. The toll however due to these epidemics, rises unabated. Primary among them is the tobacco epidemic which continues to rage on as strongly as ever. As per the GLOBOCAN 2018 statistics, lung cancer has overtaken oral cancer and become the primary killer among men with cancers in India. The toll on families where tobacco use is prevalent is manifold including physical, psychological and economic hardship. With that comes the role of fathers in the family who hold a…
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Wellness and Mental Health in Daily Life
20 Jun

Wellness and Mental Health in Daily Life

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Author: Dr. Bhavi Mody, Founder - Vrudhi HolisticHealth Care. Wellness is a complete state of well-being a balanced state of Mind - Body - Soul, but unfortunately very few of us understand this. All our reports are perfect, but we still don't feel good... We think of spas and other therapies for wellness. However, the emphasis should be on how we feel, it has to do with us and our surroundings. It's about your well-being. Wellness can never be achieved by isolating ourselves... Replace the “I”; from Illness with “We” and we will have Wellness. Wellness is all about you, and…
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We want to optimize the way data is transacted on the internet globally says SugarBox CEO and CO-Founder Rohit Paranjpe
15 Jun

We want to optimize the way data is transacted on the internet globally says SugarBox CEO and CO-Founder Rohit Paranjpe

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More and more users are switching to digital services from using different OTT platforms to e-commerce, e-learning, news sites and many more. However, data availability, reliability and affordability has always been a problem. At the forefront of revolutionizing availability, affordability, and reliability of digital services, SugarBox is here to solve the last mile connectivity problem. Infused with 522 Cr investment by Zee and present in 9 cities, this tech start-up is here to empower the Next Billion users worldwide. Mr. Rohit Paranjpe, CEO and Co-founder - SugarBox In an exclusive interview with MediaCatalyst, Mr. Rohit Paranjpe, CEO and Co-founder - SugarBox…
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