- The MoU signed by the 3 parties will be a long-term association between CIE-IIITH, Headtstart & MUST Research
- Under the MoU, the parties will facilitate an AI Product Development Bootcamp, every month starting from Feb 2021
- Will provide students, young entrepreneurs, IT professionals hands-on experience on building AI products
Hyderabad, February 2, 2021: CIE-IIITH, one of the largest and oldest deeptech academic incubators in India along with Headstart Network (Hyderabad Chapter), known for its Startup Saturdays and programs supporting early-stage startups, signed an MoU with MUST Research for running AI Product Development Bootcamp.
Through this association, the 3 parties will collaborate to organize and run a 5-day boot camp every month starting from February 2021, which will help early-stage startups, students and IT professionals to get hands-on experience in developing AI Products. MUST research mainly focuses on advanced research on cutting-edge technologies like structured data analysis and modeling, text mining & NLP etc. The association will bring together ideas and hands-on mentoring from the 3 parties and help the participants in building AI Products, which eventually will get incubated at CIE-IIIT Hyderabad.
As part of the program every month, each cohort will accommodate up to 20 teams (3 members in each). The 5-day boot camp will focus building AI products in sectors like Healthcare, Retail, Education, Transportation & Smart Cities. It will help candidates with data science & analytics, ML algorithms, Ideation & implementation.
Commenting on the program Prof. Ramesh Loganathan (COO, CIE-IIITH) said, “There is a need of such boot camps which give a broad view to next-gen entrepreneurs and fresh graduates about AI and help them with hands-on experience in working around the same.”
“Since our inception in 2007, we have been supporting early-stage startups through our various initiatives such as Startup Saturday, Headstart Mentor etc. This boot camp will help us support startups in a more structured way,” said Anubhav Tiwari, City Lead, Headtstart Network (Hyderabad Chapter)
“Partnering with Headstart and CIE-IIITH will help us reach the right audience and with the incubation support many such products ideas coming out of the boot camps can eventually convert into a startup with the help of CIE and Headstart” said Joy Mustafi, Founder, MUST Research.
