NASSCOM CoE Manufacturing Innovation Challenge 2020.
                     NASSCOM CoE Manufacturing Innovation 
Challenge 2020
INTRODUCTION
• NASSCOM Centre of Excellence IoT & AI is 
an initiative of the MeitY. 
• The Gujarat government with NASSCOM 
organised a Manufacturing Innovation 
Challenge 2020 from 15th July 2020 to 
21st August 2020.
Source: Express Computer
OBJECTIVE
• The objective of this challenge was to 
build a first of a kind platform for 
enterprise and start-up collaboration to 
solve key challenges manufacturing 
industry is facing today.
Source: IIT Jodhpur
RESPONCE
• MIC2020 received an overwhelming 
response as 88 matured start-ups from 
across the country registered for the 
challenges. 
• All of them went through a rigorous 
screening process of four rounds.
Source: CRN India
STARTUP IDEAS ON NASSCOM 
• Workers Health and Safety, Solution to 
Promote Safety of Workers in Large Plants
• Predictive maintenance of high-value 
assets
• 360° Virtual Tour of plant
Source: Express Computer
PARTNERSHIP
• It encouraged startups to solve any of the 
challenges by submitting a proposal. 
• IIT Gandhinagar was the Research Partner 
and Gujarat Electronics & Software 
Industries Association (GESIA) was the 
Outreach partner. 
Source: Score
WINNERS OF THE CHALLENGES
• In an online award ceremony, winners 
were announced:
– AirVlabs – Kesh Kesavadas and 
Chinmay Sengupta
– Alluvium – Suraj Rajan and Siri 
Chandana Medehal
– Chistats – Rahul Lahane and Yogesh 
Karpate
Source: Dataquest
OPPORTUNITY
• These start-ups will now get an 
opportunity to work on a remunerative 
Proof of Concept with companies who 
nominated their use cases.
• Start-ups will also get a one-year 
membership to the NASSCOM CoE 
Acceleration Program.
Source: Industrial Automation Magazine
AATMA NIRBHAR BHARAT
• In current times, the significance of self-
reliance is at an all-time high. 
• Even the Government of India is 
cognizant of this and made the clarion call 
for an Aatma Nirbhar Bharat.
Source: LawLex.com
COLLABORATION
• This requires a collaborative effort of 
enterprises, start-ups, policymakers to 
identify the right problems and solution 
providers. 
• The Manufacturing Innovation Challenge 
2020 is a perfect example of this cross-
collaboration to further innovation & 
build self-reliance.
Source: Express Computer
ECOSYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING COMPANIES
• NASSCOM CoE is building an ecosystem 
for manufacturing companies to work 
with technology companies and 
innovative start-ups to drive adoption of 
Industry 4.0 solutions.
Source: Analytics India Magazine