Hello friends,
After operating in stealth mode for nearly a year, I am happy to announce the Indian launch of the ‘Brainwave Platform’ at Infocom 2006 in Kolkata, India. The first release is a developer preview. Since a part of our development team is based in Kolkata and it is an upcoming IT destination, we thought it would be appropriate to start here.
Infocom 2006 was held at the Salt Lake Stadium from December 6-10, 2006. Brainwave was the brand sponsor for the Innovation Hub, a pavilion that showcased the top 30 innovations made by students across the globe. Also represented at the show were the folks from Intel, Siemens, Wipro and others.
Preparing for the launch was gruelling but fun. We all made many mistakes and learnt from them. The team camped at the venue for a few days with the contractors to ensure that the Brainwave booth was ready on time. Inspite of some technical and logistical problems, we got the job done.
Our Technology Architect and founder, Prateek Sureka addressed the industry leaders as a speaker on December 8, 2006. He spoke on the shortcomings of relational and object oriented database models and highlighted some of the research trends. He also said a little about our own patent pending information architecture.
Overall the event was a success and had people from various parts of the globe attending. We received some great reviews, coverage in the local media, accolades on our stall design and generated a number of enquiries. We got great feedback on Prateek’s presentation and the live demo applications created in under 30 minutes by the dev team manning the booth. My Q&A sessions in the booth were also very productive and I hope I was able to whet the appetite of potential employees, development partners and end users alike.
It would be unfair on my part to not talk about the excellent efforts put in by some of our India development team and Marina who had flown down specifically from the US for the event. I will be posting those as well as some details of our lives during the launch, images, scanned articles and what we learned from our experiences as a subsequent post. Look forward to all your comments and feedback.
Cheers!
Abhishek Chamaria
