Financial Express held Express I.T. Awards recognizing excellence and innovation

Financial Express, the premier financial daily from the Express Group, presented the Express I.T. Awards at a prestigious ceremony in Bengaluru on December 7, 2017.

Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog gave away the country’s most coveted IT awards — Express IT Awards — in the country’s technology capital today. Applauding the winners from the who’s who of the IT world.

Speaking at the fifth Express IT Awards, Kant noted that robots and artificial intelligence were bringing benefits by improving productivity and lowering costs. “India must embrace technology and we must restructure the education system to ensure we create enough new-age jobs,” Kant said. 

Amitabh Kant

The evening witnessed a thought-provoking panel discussion on ‘ The Future Of Technology Jobs’  with Krishnakumar Natarajan Executive Chairman, Mindtress & former chairman, NASSCOM; Vishal Dhupar , Managing Director, NVIDA; Irfan Abdulla, Director (Talent & Learning Solutions), LinkedIn; Akila Vasudevan, Executive Director, IBM; Professor Sadagopan, Director, IIIT Bangalore and Padmaja  Alaganandan, Advisory Partner, People & Organization, Practice Leader, PWC.

The winning candidates were picked by a high-powered jury comprising Google India managing director, Rajan Anandan, Facebook India Managing Director Umang Bedi, former Yahoo India R&D head and co-founder of iSpirt Sharad Sharma, Former Nasscom Product Council chairman Ravi Gururaj and Indian IIT Bangalore director S Sadagopan; a record 540 entries were received and read through and assisting the jury in their task was PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Lakshmi Narayanan, former Co- founder Cognizant was felicitated with the lifetime achievement award for his immense contribution to making India an IT services powerhouse. Byju Raveendran, the founder of edutech company Byju's who has established a dominant identity in a crowded and heterogenous environment like the Indian online education sector, walked away with the Newsmaker of the Year award.

The honour went under the following categories:

Winners List

IT Lifetime Achievement: Lakshmi Narayanan

IT newsmaker of the year: Byju Raveendran

ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS

Winner Newgen Software Technologies
Runner-up Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI)

START-UP OF THE YEAR

Winner Lendingkart Group
Runner-up Curefit
Runner-up Razorpay Software

E-GOVERNANCE

Winner Central Processing Cell — TDS, Directorate of Income Tax (Systems)
Runner-up Department of Information Technology & Communication, Government of Rajasthan

SOFTWARE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

Winner Zoho Corp
Runner-up Razorpay Software

E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS

Winner MakeMyTrip
Runner-up Zomato

DIGITAL SOLUTION OF THE YEAR

Winner Mynd Solutions
Runner-up Swiggy

CLOUD SOLUTIONS

Winner Zoho Corp
Runner-up Stellapps Technologies

IT INNOVATION – Large Enterprise

Winner Tata Consultancy Services
Runner-up IBM
Runner-up Infosys

IT INNOVATION – MSME

Winner Newgen Software Technologies
Runner-up Fifth Generation Technologies India

MOBILITY SOLUTIONS

Winner Tata Consultancy Services
Winner Naffa Innovations
Runner-up Cosmos eSolutions & Services

Financial Express has always believed in recognizing excellence and best practices amongst organizations and individuals. It has served as a platform for the exchange of progressive ideas and established itself as business daily embraced by more profound thinkers, leaders and communicators. 

The Express I.T. Awards is another such initiative from the publication that recognizes excellence and innovation.