Cisco thingQbator – creating a culture of innovation & entrepreneurship

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Cisco thingQbator – creating a culture of innovation & entrepreneurship
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Every year I go on my annual pilgrimage – My place of worship is the Indian Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU), my alma mater.
This year was special as it marked 2 years of the CiscoThingQbator experiment featuring 5 colleges across India & E-Summit hosted by my alma mater IIT BHU.
One of the biggest sources of inspiration has been the Cisco ThingQbator.
ThingQbator was started as an internal incubator of IoT ideas coming from Cisco’s engineer community.
Inspired by the success of our internal makerspaces, we partnered with Five universities in India to set up similar incubators in their campuses to help students build digital skills through learning by doing.
This program is funded by Cisco India CSR initiative.
Most of all, we wanted to challenge young minds to find local solutions to local problems and instill an entrepreneurial spirit amongst students to help steer more of them to think like job creators as opposed to job seekers.
My trip back this year had me beaming with pride as the program has touched over a 1000 students across five colleges Just watching the energy, clarity of thought and communication from the different students as such a young age was such an amazing experience..
The Cisco ThingQbator has touched over 1000 students across five institutes.
The success in my Alma mater has prompted the university to offer us an additional floor to accommodate the growing demand from students.
Students are launching successful projects & companies while in college – offering solutions that are addressing local problems and are turning these into successful businesses.
This year we also were pleased to see the Inaugural version of the Entrepreneurial cell (E-Cell) IIT BHU hosting their event of Startup pitches in the CiscoThingQbator facility.
BV makes his annual trip to Varanasi to conduct this popular 5 day Entrepreneurial course for students

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