Mumbai, the city that never sleeps, is our last destination of Focus India 2019. Some of our cultural highlights were to have the chance to visit the Dharavi Slum, the Dhobi Ghat and our travel agent. From the business side, as Mumbai is a financial district and startup hub, we had the pleasure learn about digital transformation in the banking industry at HDFC Bank, and have a look around the Rise Mumbai co-working space for FinTech startups from Barclays. We…
Located in the state Maharashtra at the central-west of India, Pune is famous for warm weather, many green areas, as well as its educational institutes. Surrounding the city and on the way to Mumbai, many companies set foot to produce various products. And actually, we had the pleasure to visit two of our partners Burckhardt Compression and Oerlikon Balzers in the outskirts of Pune. Visiting the coating plant of Oerlikon Balzers Coating India We had the honour to visit the…
Bangalore, the place to be for any technology company, kept us very busy the last few days. We had the chance to visit Accenture’s Innovation Hub, Cisco’s business park comprising of 9 large buildings, LinkedIn to learn about AI to make content more meaningful, and last but not least swissnex India getting insights from Indian start-ups. Apart from all the company visits, we also had the chance to get a glimpse of a normal school day for children in India at…