New Delhi, November 01: IIT Madras is inviting public for its Centre For Innovation (CFI) Open House 2019. The event will be conducted on November 2 (Saturday). The participants will include students demonstrating some cutting-edge technologies and innovations. The event will be open to public between 4 pm and 7 pm.
Those who are willing to visit the event can register on the link provided on CFI website- cfi-iitm.com.
CFI Open House is an annual event
Student innovators showcase their recent work and achievements in the CFI Open House, which is an annual event. They also get a chance to exhibit projects on a large scale, leading to implementation. They can establish connections with potential mentors and facilitators in the field of technology and entrepreneurship as well.
CFI is the hub for students where they can brainstorm ideas, Prof. M.S. Sivakumar, Dean (Students), IIT Madras, said.
“CFI has become an important hub for many students to wet their hands and cook their ideas. And, therefore, if there is an occasion to witness the germinating source of all those that happen at startups and beyond, it is the CFI Open House,” he has been quoted as saying to a national daily.
For encouraging engineers to apply academic knowledge
CFI, a student-run platform, was established with an aim to motivate engineers to apply knowledge from their academic pursuits to innovate and propose solutions to real-world problems. This creative hub encourages peer learning and provides a platform for ideas to manifest with the support of resources, workspace and guidance.
“CFI has grown from strength to strength and has done so organically after taking roots with an alumni grant. Having proven their mettle with world-class compatriots, CFI is ready for the next level and we invite you to witness future in the making. Originally a maker space, with the vision to enable any student to walk in with an idea and walk out with a project, CFI is now joined by Nirmaan (India’s only Student pre-incubation on campus) to enable teams wishing to explore entrepreneurship with their projects. The CFI-Nirmaan tagline now becomes ‘walk in with an idea and walk out with a start-up’,” Prof. Satyanarayanan Seshadri, Faculty Advisor, CFI and Nirmaan, IIT Madras, told the media.
