India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) has announced winners of the Technovation 2013 Awards at the 9th Vision Summit international conference in Bangalore.
Sanjeev Keskar, Chairman, IESA, said, “India is poised on the cusp of an ESDM revolution, one that promises to catapult the country to an electronics and semiconductor powerhouse supported by the untiring efforts of our brethren in government, industry and academia. The Technovation Awards are but a small token of our appreciation recognizing the unparalleled achievements of the awardees in furthering innovation and development of the domestic ESDM industry.”
P. N. Dhoot, Director, Videocon Group of Companies, was honoured with the IESA Technovation Sarabhai Award.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mohali, National Aerospace Labs. (NAL), Bangalore, Terminus Circuits Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore and Redpine Signals Inc., Hyderabad won the awards for “Most Innovative Product”. Evolute Systems Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai and Silab Tech Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore were given recognition for “Most Promising Start-up Company”.
Best Electronics Manufacturing Company award was received by Bosch Automotive Electronics India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore and Skanray Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mysore.
Among the academic awards, Prof. Arun N. Chandorkar, Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Mumbai won the TechnoVisionary award. TechnoMentor award was won by Dr G. Venkatesh, Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Madras and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Sasken Communications Technologies, whereas Dr Marshnil Dave, PhD Thesis, IIT-Mumbai; and Senior Analog Design Engineer, Marvell Semiconductor, California, USA and Dr Chandan Karfa, PhD Thesis, IIT-Kharagpur; and Senior R&D Engineer, Synopsys India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore received the Techno Inventor award.
