NITN | @notintownlive | 30 Mar 2023, 11:32 am
Vee Technologies
Bengaluru: IT veteran Venkatraman Umakanth, Senior Vice President, Vee Technologies has been named as the ‘Small and Medium Business CTO of the Year’ at the IT4SMB summit that highlighted the changing landscape of technology and its transformational power held at Bengaluru recently.
The IT4SMB awards are a celebration of sharp and innovative thinking of businesses to overhaul their business model and integrate it with solutions to uncover new market opportunities, driving overall growth.
“This recognition is significant for all of us at Vee Technologies and diverse customers ranging from healthcare in the USA to e-Governance in India. It highlights the value we add by early technology adoption, creation of proprietary tools and providing end-to-end solutions,” said Venkatraman Umakanth, Sr. Vice President, Analytics, IT and Animation. Vee Technologies, the Bengaluru and New York headquartered IT firm.
Chocko Valliappa, founder and CEO, Vee Technologies, said “As a customer-focused company we empower our people to forecast technology trends and be trendsetters for rapid technology adoption to benefit our customers. During Covid our teams co-developed an indigenous seam-sealing machine to make PPE kits, built the VeeTrace app for contact tracing and an AI-proctored solution for conduct of online exams used by scores of Colleges and Universities.”
The awards were given away at the SMB Summit organised by the Economic Times and the Forbes 500 technology company, Lenovo, in the presence of the who’s who of Karnataka Inc. The awards recognise SMBs in Karnataka that have demonstrated exceptional technology excellence. The awardees are individuals and companies that are leading the way for greater tech adoption amongst SMBs.
The jury included Satyavrat Mishra, Head Corporate IT, Godrej Industries; Amit Saluja, Senior Director NASSCOM; Abhay Bapna, AVP IT, Adani Wilmar and Manoj Chugh, veteran IT industry leader.
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