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SKIL Travel promoted Trishal Rao as chief sales officer
Mumbai: India’s one of the end-to-end corporate travel solutions provider SKIL Travel has recently promoted Trishal Rao to chief sales officer. Currently working as the director of SKIL Travel, Trishal plays an important leadership role and exudes strong business strategies that have helped SKIL Travel to flourish in the growing travel trade market.
A seasoned executive known for driving businesses to success, Trishal possesses sharp analytical acumen that he has developed over the years through his diverse exposure in the dynamic hospitality sector. He has previously been a part of hospitality brands of repute like Oakwood and Hyatt which have aided in shaping up his strategic business development and execution. Over the years, Trishal’s role as director at SKIL Travel has helped the company in attaining the market-leading position in providing bespoke end-to-end corporate travel solutions. A team player with a strong collaborative aura, he has helped bring in several noteworthy recognitions and accolades for SKIL Travel on the back of providing exceptional services and spotless quality year on year.
Speaking about the promotion, Trishal Rao said, “It indeed is an honour to take on the new role of chief sales officer at SKIL Travel. While here at SKIL Travel, every day is filled with learnings, the new role will bring more opportunities to make the maximum out of and in turn help the company’s sales strategies to shape up better. Backed by our talented team, I am excited to take on the new role and work together to achieve untapped heights in business objectives.”
SKIL Travel managing director & founder Shylender Jindal added, “Trishal has brought a lot of development within SKIL Travel which goes beyond measure. While bringing in brilliant results, Trishal’s strong communication skills have only helped nurture good relations within the travel trade fraternity. With our trajectory to grow manifold, we at SKIL Travel are confident that Trishal is the right person to take on the role of chief sales officer. Under his aegis, SKIL Travel will indeed reach newer heights of success.”
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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.
