CIM Global along with the Telangana government today announced the next edition of 'Campus Party', a technological festival of innovation, creativity, science, digital entertainment and entrepreneurship for tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs, would be held here from September 14 to September 19.
Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, information Technology, Electronics and Communications (ITE&C) Department, Telangana, was quoted as saying in a statement, "We are extremely proud to be the destination for an event of this scale, especially since it is coming to India and in fact Asia for the first time".
"The Telangana government recognises the importance of innovation and creativity in creating next generation products and solutions; it is our aim to become the hub that attracts the best organisations and talent. Campus Party will attract huge interest not just in India but from tech practitioners across the globe and put India on the map", he added.
Eduardo Lorea, Director, Business Development at Campus Party, said the very mission of Campus Party is to provide a platform where like-minded enterprising individuals can come together, exchange ideas and be inspired by innovators and speakers who are some of the most successful people in the world.
Some of the speakers who will be participating in Campus Party, India are Bas van Abel- CEO and Founder Fairphone, Camille Francois-Cyber War, Harvard, Dan Shechtman-Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Matthijis Pontier- Artificial Intelligence, Samir Patel- Big Data & Data Science.
The objective of the Campus Party is to bring together geeks, nerds, designers, developers, gamers, hackers, scientists, startups and other fans of Internet and technology popularly known as "campuseros", where they will go through a series of intense days of networking and activities such as workshops, hackathons and competitions about innovation, creativity, science and digital entertainment and entrepreneurship, the statement added.
