Lava announces “Design in India” contest as anti-China sentiment grows

At the time, when the sentiment is growing against China-made products in India over border tensions, domestic handset maker Lava has announced the launch of its ‘Design in India’ contest. Continue reading “Lava announces “Design in India” contest as anti-China sentiment grows”

Sunil Lalvani – President, Qualcomm India on Make in India

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Qualcomm is looking to help make India a hub for design capabilities for smartphones, tablets and IoT. The company is also looking to leverage India’s engineering talent to scale innovation for both local consumption, and rest of the world. On those lines, Qualcomm is setting up an Innovation Lab in Bangalore, India to provide technical and engineering support to the home grown companies.

In the very recent past, Qualcomm had also hosted the Design in India Challenge in association with NASSCOM to accelerate the creation of a product and hardware design ecosystem in India for healthcare, education, banking, agriculture, automotive, wearables and smartcities.

We at FoneArena had a chance to speak to Sunil Lalvani, the President of Qualcomm India at the Make in India week, which took place in Mumbai last month. Here’s the transcript from our talk..

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Qualcomm launches Design in India Initiative in support of Government’s Make in India Vision

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Qualcomm announced the launch of a new Design in India Challenge in New Delhi. The initiative is being launched by Qualcomm to support the Government’s vision of Make in India.

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