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Onida launches ‘Maximum Impact – Maximum Sound campaign
MUMBAI: Indian consumer durable manufacturer Onida, has launched new print ad campaign “Maximum Impact –Maximum Sound” for its newly launched KY Super thunder smart TV.
The ad-campaign reflects the positioning of the brand as a category-defying sound that will blow away the connoisseur of sound. The campaign is to tap the today’s generation who are smart and connected well with the technology. The brand continues to focus on “owner’s pride”.
The entire advertisement strategy has been conceptualised and driven by Taproot Dentsu.
The brand is focussing on print ad-campaign across national and other regional dailies spread across India. Besides that, very strong BTL activities have been planned with all the MBOs across India, to deliver the essence of the brand and enhance visibility.
Mirc Electronics MD Vijay Mansukhani says, “Television technology has changed by leaps and bounds over the last ten years. The KY Super Thunder has a great sound, 4k picture quality and much required smartness in the TV. We are the only company which has been working on both sound and picture quality, whereas others have been focussing only on quality of the picture. As promised in the past, Devil is back and now represents entire brand Onida as a brand.”
The Onida KY SUPER THUNDER with KY HORNS technology comes with the Smart feature as well. These SMART TV will run on an Android 7.0 operating system, enhancing the viewing experience. This will also allow users to have access to the Google Play store and a suite of other services, as added value. It has an Air Mouse Remote with Point & Click technology and QWERTY keyboard behind. When other leading brands offer a high-end big-screen 4K UHD TV at a price point of 1 lakh upwards, Onida offers true value in much lesser cost with distinct product features and benefits revolving around Big Picture, Big Sound.
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Practo names Cijo George as vice president of artificial intelligence
New vice president of artificial intelligence to mine healthcare data and sharpen care delivery
BENGALURU: India’s healthtech race just picked up speed. Practo has appointed Cijo George as vice president of artificial intelligence, tasking him with wiring AI deep into the company’s sprawling healthcare platform.
George will steer AI strategy and execution, embedding machine intelligence across care navigation, doctor-facing tools and overall platform intelligence. He will work across product, engineering and clinical teams to rewire how patients search for and access care — and how doctors deliver treatment with greater consistency and precision.
He reports directly to Shashank ND, co-founder and chief executive officer.
Shashank ND said years of building healthcare data across patients, providers and treatment outcomes had laid the foundation for more advanced AI applications. Artificial intelligence, he added, can unlock the value of that data to improve patient outcomes and equip doctors with actionable insights. He described George’s experience in building production-grade AI systems as closely aligned with Practo’s long-term vision.
George brings nearly two decades of experience spanning machine learning, AI platforms and product engineering. Most recently at Observe.AI, he led work on large-scale AI systems deployed by global enterprises. Before that, at Belong.co, he drove platform and AI initiatives focused on search and personalisation in the HR technology space. He also worked with the Advanced Technology Group at NetApp, contributing to machine-learning and data-science projects for distributed systems.
An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science with a master’s degree in high performance computing, George said the chance to apply AI to directly improve patient experience and clinical delivery drew him to the role. Practo’s scale and its extensive longitudinal healthcare data, he added, offer significant room for innovation.
The move comes as digital health platforms double down on artificial intelligence to boost patient engagement, streamline provider workflows and sharpen decision-making. For Practo, the prescription is clear: turn data into diagnosis, and algorithms into advantage.
