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 AR embedded special edition is launched at Bengaluru Tech Summit 2018

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy releasing special edition of Innovate Bengaluru at the Bengaluru tech Summit 2018, with Ministers KJ George, RV Deshpande and Priyank Kharge, along with Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon, Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder Infosys, Kate Jones, Queensland Minister for Innovation and Tourism, Alexandre Ziegler, Ambassador of France, Riho Kruv, Ambassador of Estonia, and other dignitaries. Also present are Sandhya Mendonca and Aditya Mendonca of Raintree Media

Unveiling the future of print, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy released ‘Innovate Bengaluru’, an Augmented Reality embedded book at the inaugural session of the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2018 on Nov 29, 2018. Aptly, this innovative media tech product published by Raintree Media and Global Village World is all about Bengaluru’s innovators and innovative ecosystem.

Mr. KJ George, Karnataka Minister for ITBT, Science & Technology, and Large & Medium Scale Industries, says in the book, “We are happy to see Bengaluru's startup and innovative ecosystem being promoted globally in the Augmented Reality Innovate Bengaluru. It is an excellent initiative. Bengaluru is the Startup Capital of India, and we want it to become the Startup Capital of the world.”

Heads of C-CAMP, Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre & ABLE  with the book and the Raintree Media team 

Sandhya Mendonca, Founder, MD & Chief Editor, Raintree Media says, “We are excited to bring the Innovate series of Augmented Reality embedded books to India. We are on a journey to connect innovators across the world and Bengaluru is the starting point in our journey in India. Being a homegrown company, we are thrilled to be at the Tech Summit, which is the ideal launch pad for our Media Tech product. We are now gearing up for the full-fledged edition that will be out in a few months and invite nominations of innovative companies to be featured in Innovate Bengaluru."

Dr.Kiran Mazumdar Shaw appreciating the book, with Sandhya Mendonca, Chief Editor

To experience the Innovate Bengaluru book, readers have to download the Global Village AR app to their smartphones, available free of charge on both IOS and Android app stores. They simply focus the phone on the pages which have the AR symbol and presto, the book starts playing a video.

Dr Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO & Director, C-CAMP

The special edition of ‘Innovate Bengaluru’ contains 30 stories of innovators in Deep Science, Manufacturing, AgriTech, BioTech, Space, Education, Social Impact, Ecommerce and Brick & Mortar, investors, incubators and enablers along with AR videos. It is also available as an ebook.

The stories are also on the web at innovationhubindia.com . The full-fledged book that will have a 100 stories, to be published in March. Innovative companies can nominate themselves to be featured in the Innovate series in Bengaluru and India, at innovationhubindia.com/form/