The Incubation and Enterprise Support System of IIM Shillong in collaboration with the Incubation Centre of NEHU organised today organised an impact lecture and experience sharing on “Innovation, Communities and Decentralized Future”.
The resource persons for the programme were Jonathan Pereira, Developer Relations at Polygon and Akash Shukla Developer Relations at Polygon.
In his address to the students Jonathan highlighted the students about the decentralised future and the prospects on web techs in the near future. He spoke about crypto currency, block chai, Web 3 and the unexplored infinite potential of the internet.
Shukla, who is also the business mentor for Google and others, touched upon the different aspects of 21st century skills, innovation methodologies, which included certain key aspects like Empathy, Prototyping, Testing, etc., along with relevant examples from the local Indian ecosystem.
He also spoke on the necessity of community in steering up one’s learning and the ways to possess the right mindset to learn along with the relevant resources. He emphasised on the community development prospects to solve the day to day problems and about startups.
Prof. Divesh Walia, HoD, Environmental Sciences and Head of Incubation Centre, NEHU was present for the occasion among others.
