Wipro head interacts with students at DAV University
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, March 3
Ankush Minocha, the global campus marketing head at Wipro Technologies, visited DAV University, Jalandhar, to interact with students.
Minocha said a command over modern technologies held the key to employability and professional leadership.
He said a balance between work and leisure led to success in a stressful professional environment.
The programme was organised by the training and placement cell of the university. Minocha said persistence, innovation and diversification were important components of sustainability.
Quoting an example, he said Wipro started as a vegetable product company and took a quantum leap into IT business.
“Wipro was established in 1945 as Western India Vegetable Products Limited in Amalner, Maharashtra. The company ventured into the fledgling IT industry in 1981,” he said.
Calling upon B Tech students to work hard and think differently, he said smart devices were already leading the charge in the current ever-changing business climate.
Fresh graduates took charge at Wipro to develop Smart Necklace capable of sensing parameters related to human heart, he said.
“Wipro has created a health necklace for patients who are under step-down treatment after surgery. The monitoring system uses sophisticated algorithms to send alerts to doctors when required and the patient can be called in immediately for treatment. Patients no longer need to stay in the hospital with doctors now equipped to remotely monitor the vital body parameters. The data is continuous, allowing doctors to arrive at better decisions than they could before. If those graduates could design such a device, why can’t you?” he asked.
Before the interactive session, the Wipro global marketing head was received on the campus by Prof AK Paul, Vice-Chancellor, DAV University.
Dr Paul said students had learnt a lot through interaction with Minocha.
The training and placement officer of the university, Abhinav Tiwari, was also present on the occasion.
