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Universal Ai-RDS joint including product engineering, manu- reflects our commitment to shaping

venture facturing, and customer experience. future leaders and propelling the next
Under this tripartite initiative,
wave of technological progress,” said
Mumbai, june 4. Universal Ai Uni- Tata Technologies will provide Nikhil Malhotra, Global Head of
versity, which bills itself as India’s shortlisted project team/s with the Makers Lab, Tech Mahindra, speak-
first artificial intelligence university, tools and technologies required to ing on the occasion.
signed an agreement with French develop scalable innovations with Added Aditi Srivastava, Presi-
design school Rubika to establish a subject matter experts (SMEs) from dent of Pearl Academy: “The CoE will
Rubika Design School (RDS) on the company mentoring them for not only enhance our students’ learn-
its Karjat campus. Rubika is a glob- project scaling. Microsoft will offer ing experience, it will also prepare
ally reputed French design school with topper team/s complimentary ac- them to meet the demands of the rap-
campuses in France, Canada and Re- cess to Azure resources and project idly evolving jobs market.”
union Island. RDS will offer a four- mentoring through the Azure com-
year Bachelor of Design (B.Des), and munity, and Tata Motors will define Rishihood U scholarships
integrated five-year Master of Design real-world manufacturing challenges
(M.Des) programmes in Transporta- and support the commercialisation of New delhi, june 19. The So-
tion Design, Product Design, UX/UI top projects. The hackathon is open nipat-based Rishihood University
Design, Animation, Video Games Art to third and fourth year engineering (estb.2020) has announced a Rs.7
and Video Games Design. students across India. crore Bharat 100 Scholarship initiative
Under this joint initiative, RDS will The evaluation process will com- for undergraduate students admitted
provide its curriculum, pedagogy and prise three stages: initial review, vir- into its futuristic programs including
share its world-class faculty with Uni- tual proof of concept (PoC) presenta- entrepreneurship, AI, finance, design,
versal Ai. The university’s students tions, and final demonstrations. The and psychology. Classes are scheduled
will also be able to access the state-of- top three winning teams will receive to begin on August 12.
the-art studio of RDS in Pune, India. cash prizes of Rs.4.5 lakh with paid Under the Bharat 100 scholarship
“This partnership with RDS will internship opportunities at Tata Tech- schema five students will get full tu-
provide exhilarating design careers to nologies. The last date for project sub- ition waiver, 15 will be awarded 75
our students, with access to the best mission is July 31. For further details percent and 20 a 50 percent waiver.
teaching-learning techniques world- visit: https://www.tatatechnologies. Moreover, 60 students will get up to
wide, here in India. I believe there is a com/innovent/. 40 percent fee waivers. Admission
massive design talent shortage world- preference will be given to students
wide and Universal Ai graduates will Pearl Academy-Tech who have achieved extraordinary suc-
be able to make a mark around the cess in curricular or extra-curricular
world,” observed Prof. Tarundeep Mahindra CoE activities including sports, science,
Anand, Chancellor, Universal Ai Uni- social work, and innovation. Scholar-
versity, speaking on the occasion. Bengaluru, june 10. Pearl Academy ship applications are invited online
and Tech Mahindra signed a Memo- (https://apply.rishihood.edu.in).
Tata Tech InnoVent randum of Understanding (MoU) to ers and entrepreneurs including Mo-
A panel comprising industry lead-
establish a Centre of Excellence (CoE)
hackathon on the academy’s Bengaluru campus. tilal Oswal, Ankur Warikoo, Prashant
The CoE will spearhead R&D in Sachan, Sachin Gupta, Anmol Jain,
Bengaluru, june 18. Tata Technolo- next-gen technologies, including arti- and Srikanth Velamakanni will inter-
gies launched the second edition of ficial intelligence, generative AI (Ge- view scholarships applicants.
the Tata Technologies InnoVent hack- nAI), augmented reality/virtual real- “Rishihood University is proud to
athon in collaboration with Microsoft ity, robotics and Metaverse. Moreover, announce this massive scholarship
and Tata Motors. The objective of this Pearl Academy students will have the drive valued at over Rs.7 crore for 100
initiative is to provide engineering opportunity to work on intellectual students to provide a turning point in
students a platform to showcase their property ideated within Tech Mahin- the lives of many meritorious and de-
creativity and innovations to address dra’s Makers Lab, the company’s re- serving students. The scholarship is
challenges confronting the manufac- search and development division. supported by industry leaders, and is
turing industry. This year’s hackathon “We will integrate AI and advanced part of our joint vision to create future
focuses on Generative AI-enabled in- technologies into the students’ curric- leaders out of today’s learners,” said
novations that deliver value across ulum to foster a tech-forward learn- Shobhit Mathur, Vice Chancellor,
the product development value chain, ing environment. This collaboration Rishihood University.

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