Xerox Research Centre hosts Open Innovation Symposium

Xerox Research Centre India (XRCI) has conducted XRCI Open 2014 – Xerox India’s First Open Innovation Symposium in Bangalore. The event saw participation of eminent institutes, namely, IISc, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Delhi, IIM Indore, Singapore Management University, among others, as a part of the panel discussions, keynotes and poster presentations.
 
Traditionally, Xerox has been actively engaged in productive collaborations with academia through a number of initiatives such as research grants and open innovation projects. The goal of XRCI Open was to further strengthen ties with the academic research community in India and to encourage researchers to work on key problems across different technical domains, such as data analytics, machine learning and optimizations, mobile and distributed computing, human computation, game theory, ethnography and design.

“We are proud of our rich history of innovations, and the same innovative spirit and passion continues to drive us,” said Dr Manish Gupta, Vice-President, Xerox Corp & Director, Xerox Research Centre in India, during his welcome address.

Highlights of the events included keynote talks, poster presentations by students and panel discussions on the two emerging technology topics. The first keynote address was by Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director & Professor of Strategic Management, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, that centred on a study of corporate innovation centres in India, addressing issues from a strategic perspective as well as from the perspective of an individual contributor working at these centres. In order to create successful products, Prof. Krishnan stressed that it is very important to first immerse oneself into the lives of the concerned people and know what their real needs are.