It
will come up alongside the proposed Startup Warehouse to be set up by
Nasscom inside the Infopark campus. The office will turn operational
simultaneously with the Warehouse by August.
The
premier IT trade body has an office at Thiruvananthapuram. The setting
up of the Kochi office will make Kerala the only state after Maharashtra
to host two Nasscom offices.
“The main objective of
setting up the new office is to engage with the fast growing city,” said
Purushothaman K., senior director of Nasscom in charge of Tamil Nadu,
Kerala and Puducherry on the sidelines of Nasscom product conclave here
on Friday. M.S. Sujith Unni, Nasscom’s deputy manager at its office in
Thiruvananthapuram, will move to Kochi to set up the office.
Nasscom
has lined up three sessions of Startup 20:20, a three-day
entrepreneurial promotion programme held in college campuses, in three
cities, including Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi from July by bringing
together students from ten campuses at a time.
Already two such sessions
were held in Thrissur and Kozhikode.
“We chose to
hold it in Kerala at the instance of Technopark Technology Business
Centre (T-TBI). That T-TBI has entrepreneurship development cells in
campuses would make its organisation easier,” said Mr. Purushothaman.
He
said that there is an ideal startup eco system in the State with the
convergence of all four stakeholders–government, industry, media, and
educational institutions. With the initiatives of Startup Village, TTBI
and Nasscom, the State is likely to witness a lot of activities in the
next couple of years, he said.
0 comments