A high five from Innovate Publishers

If you needed to meet the most brilliant minds in Bengaluru, well, you had to be at the Innovate Bengaluru Festival on 11/4/19, at WeWork, Residency Road. Over 300 people with diverse talents converged at the event which brought together Icons, Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Emerging Leaders, Enablers and Investors.

The highlight was the release of ‘Innovate Bengaluru’, a unique book on the city’s innovative ecosystem. Featuring the TOP 100 innovators in the city, this is the first book in the Innovate India series. Heralded as the future of MediaTech, Innovate Bengaluru is an AR-enabled book + web series (https://innovationsoftheworld.com/india/). The book is available at Sapna Book House, and on Amazon and Flipkart. For more details, see here:https://raintreemedia.blogspot.com/2019/04/an-impressive-deep-dive-into-bengalurus.html.

The Festival was high on energy; beginning with crisp presentations by two young innovators and entrepreneurs, the sessions moved briskly between individual presentations by established industry leaders and thought-provoking panel discussions.

Sandhya Mendonca, Founder Raintree Media, said, “This is the first edition of the Innovate Book and the Festival in India and we will be taking them to Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kochi. We will also be connecting innovators in India with their counterparts across the globe on the website innovationsoftheworld.com.”

Featured Speakers & Topics at the Innovate Bengaluru Festival were:

• As humans look at making their homes in space, Rohan Ganapathy, Co-founder & CEO, Bellatrix Aerospace talks about “Reaching the Final Frontier”
• HealthTech is journeying towards “Precision & Personalized Medicine” says Pooja Venkatesh, Co-founder, Next Big Innovation Labs.
• “Can humans live forever?” Yes, says, Dr BS AjaiKumar, Chairman & CEO, HCG Hospitals, in his talk on “The road to immortality”.
• Stressing over breakthroughs and bottom lines? Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds shows you “The happy way to success”.

• Partnering for Progress”: Her Excellency, Dana Kursh, Consul General of Israel to South India
• “The future of MediaTech is AR” say Sandhya Mendonca, Founder Raintree Media & Chief Editor, Innovate India & Carel Van Graan, CEO, Global Village. 
• Dr. Jitendra Kumar, Managing Director, Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre makes a compelling case for ‘Destination Bangalore’

• Spaces for Future Communities” : Discussion with Nirupa Shankar, Director, Brigade Hospitality & Brigade REAP, Dr. Shalini Rajneesh, Chairperson, Smart City Tumakuru, & Principal Secretary, Planning Programme Monitoring & Statistics Department, Government of Karnataka, Vinit Bhansali, Vice President & Chief Environmentalist, Orios Venture Partners, & Amit Gupta, CEO, Yulu Bikes. Moderator: Revathy Ashok, Co-founder, Strategy Garage

• “The Journey of Creativity : to Eureka & Beyond”: Discussion with Bindhumalini, Musician & Composer, Rajlakshmi Borthakur, Founder & CEO, Terra Blue, Veekshith Rai, COO, Finly.io, Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO & Director, C- CAMP. Moderator: Dr. CV Natraj, Technical Advisor, SID, IISc.

Media Coverage:

 

“An impressive deep dive into Bengaluru’s diverse, vibrant and inspiring ecosystem”

‘Innovate Bengaluru’, a book embedded with Augmented Reality was released by Her Excellency, Dana Kursh, Consul General of Israel to South India, Consul General of Canada in Bengaluru Nicole Girard, Dr. Shalini Rajneesh, Principal Secretary, Planning Programme Monitoring & Statistics Department, Govt of Karnataka, Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, Happiest Minds, Dr. BS AjaiKumar, Chairman & CEO, HCG Hospitals, and Revathy Ashok, Co-founder, Strategy Garage.

Published by city-based media firm Raintree Media with Global Village World, the book has been hailed as “an impressive deep dive into Bengaluru’s diverse, vibrant and inspiring ecosystem” by Sebastien Hug, CEO and Consul general, swissnex India. Innovate Bengaluru is available at Sapna Book House, and on Amazon and Flipkart.

The book was released at the Innovate Bengaluru Festival which brought together Icons, Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Emerging Leaders. Beginning with crisp presentations by two young innovators and entrepreneurs, the sessions moved briskly between individual presentations by established industry leaders and thought-provoking panel discussions. (For more details, see here: https://raintreemedia.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-high-five-from-innovate-publishers.html.)

Presenting the future of MediaTech, Innovate Bengaluru is an AR-enabled book + web series (innovationsoftheworld.com/india/innovate-cities/bengaluru/), that features the TOP 100 innovators from the city across Deep Science, Manufacturing, Pharma, Space, Education, Social Impact, eCommerce, Brick & Mortar, along with investors and innovation enablers.

Published by Raintree Media and Global Village World, this is the first book in the Innovate India series - the country’s first AR embedded publishing series.

About INNOVATE series

The Innovate publishing series is a very special in-depth study and showcase of all the people, companies, products, and services within a city’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Present in over 50 countries, the Global Village mission is to showcase success stories from different countries. Raintree Media published the series in India.

Praise for Innovate Bengaluru

“Innovate Bengaluru brought out by Raintree Media is a fascinating book which covers different facets of the city and the kind of stories that make it such a rich microcosm. Readers will relish and enjoy the story of Bengaluru.” - Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary to Government, Dept of IT, BT, S&T

Media Contact:
Subhalakshmi Roy: +91 99029 06298, mail@raintreemedia.com
Aditya Mendonca: +91 98804 84187, aditya@raintreemedia.com

Innovate Bengaluru Festival unites the unique innovation ecosystem of Bengaluru

The Innovate Bengaluru Festival by Raintree Media on 11/4/19 brings together Icons, Inventors, Innovation Enablers, Entrepreneurs and Emerging Leaders. It helps you discover what makes Bengaluru the ultimate place to work, live and play through a unique mix of discussions, talks, networking and more, at this free event.

Says Sandhya Mendonca, Founder Raintree Media & Chief Editor, Innovate India, “The Innovate Bengaluru Festival is an exciting new step in our mission to create informed communities through Print, Digital and Live Experiences. As we set out on a journey with our longtime partners in Global Village World, to connect Indian innovators with others across the world, Bengaluru is the natural starting point for the Innovate series in India. We are delighted with the response and look forward to taking it forward to other cities in India.”

The highlight of the festival would be the launch of the AR embedded Innovate Bengaluru book featuring the TOP 100 innovators from our city. Readers can watch the stories come to life with the Augmented Reality videos and experience the future of media in this 200 page coffee table book. The stories are also up on innovationsoftheworld.com/india/innovate-cities/bengaluru/

Presenting the future of MediaTech, Innovate Bengaluru is an AR-enabled book + web series (https://innovationsoftheworld.com/india/), that features the TOP 100 innovators from the city across Deep Science, Manufacturing, Pharma, Space, Education, Social Impact, eCommerce, Brick & Mortar, along with investors and innovation enablers.

Published by Raintree Media and Global Village World, this is the first book in the Innovate India series - the country’s first AR embedded publishing series.

“The Innovate publishing series is a very special in-depth study and showcase of all the people, companies, products, and services within a city’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Present in over 50 countries, the Global Village mission is to proudly showcase success stories from every nation to the world”, says Sven Boermeester, International Group Publisher, Global Village World. See innovation stories from around the world here: www.innovationsoftheworld.com

Praise for Innovate Bengaluru 

“Innovate Bengaluru brought out by Raintree Media is a fascinating book which covers different facets of the city and the kind of stories that make it such a rich microcosm. Readers will relish and enjoy the story of Bengaluru.” - Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary to Government, Dept of IT, BT, S&T

Praise for our earlier books on Bengaluru

BEST OF BANGALORE Innovation edition

“The BEST OF BANGALORE Innovation edition does a great job of chronicling the rise of Bangalore by highlighting its innovative companies and the dreams and ambitions of its start-ups. It is a valuable addition to the recording of these most exciting times in Bangalore’s history!”
– Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder & Non-executive Chairman, Infosys
“…very relevant to Bangalore” - Pradeep Kar, Founder and Chairman, Microland

BEST OF BANGALORE Vol. 1
“Bangalore is about human capital. This book focuses attention on this very special city.”
– Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson & MD, Biocon