Drishti – An Eye for Innovative Communications

In this intensely competitive world of simultaneous rat-races, getting a bit of headstart is always a boon. With this philosophy, few guys got together to organize one of the two platforms (the other being proto, which was held the same day) for innovators to get together, and show the industry stalwarts and a very impressed audience what they are upto. As a speaker, I felt intimidated, yet excited to showcase Drishti’s new brainchild, to a visionary audience. Intimidating because many of these folks have started a bit of a revolution themselves, and excited because it is a privilege to be sharing our “baby that we have nurtured so well over the past two years” with those who swear by innovation, and technology renaissance. If the quality of the content was anything to go by, any Indian company would have been proud to see the kind of work their peers around are doing.

The event commenced with the demos that fell under “Consumer Services”. Some interesting work was shown by 90 degrees, alabot, proficio, sneakcast, and mobisolv in this segment. This was followed by the “Enterprise Applications and tools” which showcased some cutting edge stuff from Infosys, Symantec, Thoughtworks, and Pramati. Drishti’s latest offering – DACX Ameyo – was demo’d for the first time as well. Infosys talked about GRADient, Symantec about fault tolerant, highly available DMS, and Thoughtworks about a collaborative testing tool.

Second day was all about the “Mobility & Communications” segment, where some really neat stuff was showcased to a very interested audience. Most notably, Sloka and Tring-me had a very interesting live demo ( I won’t tell you about what they actually demo’d, you have to check it out on your own!). I had to skip the Semicon segment so I will skip that one here.

The best part about such events is that they really do stick to their philosophy of providing a great platform to people to share great ideas, network, explore alliance opportunities and last but not the least, get the dough to make an idea a reality, which are so very important for any enterprise – start-up, SMB, Large Enterprise – to collaborate, grow, and beat competition. As a participant, I learnt a great deal and my faith in the capabilities of my fellow countrymen in constantly coming up with pathbreaking innovations is reinforced [I know I shouldn't bring patriotism in this, but I simple can't help feeling proud ] Also, one doesn’t need to fear getting lost in the crowd even if (s)he has a great idea that should see the light of the day.

The organizers, sponsors and participants put the best foot forward, and I couldn’t find a better audience, who raised some really good questions that folks needs to address. Kudos to them!

My advice – if you have an idea, take a chance, work on it, make it a reality, and let events like Headstart, Proto give it a thrust. The momentum may just carry and we may be looking at future “Google”s based out of India. Only we may just call it “Fundoogle” or “Rapchik”