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JBM group’s Nishant Arya honoured at Hurun India Youth Awards for business leadership
NEW DELHI: JBM group vice chairman Nishant Arya, has been recognised at the Avendus Wealth–Hurun India Youth Series Awards 2026, joining a select list of India’s most promising entrepreneurs under 40 at a ceremony held in Mumbai.
The merit-based awards celebrate young business leaders shaping the future of India Inc, with Arya cited for his strategic leadership and contributions across clean mobility, green energy and future-ready infrastructure.
Under his stewardship, JBM group has expanded its footprint in sustainable mobility, energy storage, environmental management and digital transformation. Arya has also driven global partnerships with organisations including Singapore’s Economic Development Board, Keppel Infrastructure, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, IFC and Macquarie, focusing on co-investments, technology collaboration and policy engagement aimed at accelerating the transition to net-zero.
Beyond business growth, Arya has championed skill development, community initiatives and social responsibility, aligning the group’s expansion with national priorities such as Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat.
The Hurun India Youth Series Awards bring together leaders from startups and established corporations, recognising innovation, entrepreneurship and long-term impact across sectors.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
