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Vivo partners India Art as mobility partner
MUMBAI: Creating a unique blend of Technology and Art, Vivo mobiles and India Art Fair 2017 has come together to showcase the magnum opus of art during the premier art fair starting from February 2nd in the capital, New Delhi. Vivo, the premium global smartphone has collaborated with India Art Fair 2017 as the mobility partner to showcase art collection through its lens. The four-day art fair scheduled from 2–5 Feb, 2017, will showcase pictures clicked by Vivo’s all new V5Plus featuring the first ever 20MP dual front camera with ‘moonlight glow’.
This partnership, will bring out a unique collection of vivid images and showcase art clicked through a lens of a smartphone, opening new avenues. India Art Fair is South Asia’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art and portal to the region’s cultural landscape. Founded in 2008, India Art Fair has become the bedrock of a now booming cultural community with connections to every level of the market.
Sharing his views on Vivo’s association, Vivo India CMO Vivek Zhang said, “We are extremely delighted to partner with India Art Fair 2017 as it displays an array of rich culture under one roof. As a brand our efforts have always been towards constant innovation and now with this partnership our smartphone technology will be used in bringing out the art in a unique manner for India Art Fair.”
“Selfie lovers would indulge in and enjoy the whole new experience of art displayed at the India Art Fair clicked by Vivo V5Plus, which is loaded with megapixels and comes with interesting features like bokeh, anti-shake & face beauty.” – Idris Ahmed, Photographer
Speaking on the association India Art Fair Founding Director Neha Kirpal said, “We are excited to have Vivo India join us as our Mobile Partner for the first time for the 2017 edition of India Art Fair. Technology and arts are becoming increasingly integrated and reliant on each other, not just as a means to promote arts and culture but also as an integral part of the artworks themselves through new media and digital art. As such, it is great to see a mobile brand like Vivo India developing this association. As a supporter of the Make in India campaign, it’s encouraging to see Vivo India’s continued commitment to art and design in India through their relationship with the fair and I look forward to seeing our partnership develop.”
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
