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Wipro Technologies Executives to Present

on Outsourcing Smart Grid at CIO
Utilities Summit
March 24th, 2010 by Inderpal Singh Leave a reply »
The CIO Utilities Summit team is pleased to announce that Wipro Technologies, a provider of integrated business,
technology and process solutions on a global delivery platform, has signed on to sponsor and present at the CIO Utilities
Summit, to be held at the InterContinental Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale, AZ on April 18-21. Wipro’s presentation will be
held in front of an audience of CIOs and IT executives on Monday, April 19 at 12:25p.m.

The CIO Utilities Summit is an opportunity for technology leaders from the utilities sector to network with their peers,
discover new IT solutions and learn about the latest technology trends. The event’s agenda topics, chosen by IT end-
users, include: smart grid, managing innovation, energy optimization, predictive analytics and more.

Wipro enhances the profitability of utilities companies by offering solutions that impact operational cost and have a
positive impact on revenues. A few of Wipro’s solutions for the utility industry include: work method standardization, smart
agent workspace, and remote diagnostic solutions for energy trading and risk management. Wipro has more than 2,500
professionals dedicated to the utilities practice, including individuals with expertise in working with government/municipal
owned utilities, cooperatives, investor owned utilities and independent system operators.

“Wipro offers top-of-the-line technology solutions and we are happy that they have decided to sponsor the CIO Utilities
Summit. Our CIO and executive attendees will greatly benefit from Wipro’s participation by attending their presentation on
outsourcing smart grid and learning about the IT solutions they offer utilities companies,” said Ross Abbott, Event
Director, CIO Utilities Summit.

Wipro executives planning to attend the event include Eric Smith, Global Head of the Smart Grid Practice; Arun
Krishnamurthi, Vice President of Energy & Utilities; and John Gustafson, Senior Vice President of Americas.

With a strategic agenda and cutting edge technology solution providers, the CIO Utilities Summit has quickly become the
must-attend event for technology executives in the utilities industry.
Source:http://www.prlog.org/10590892-wipro-technologies-executives-to-present-on-outsourcing-smart-grid-at-cio-utilities-
summit.html

Assessment of our Education work

Wipro Applying Thought in Schools Since its initiation in January 2001, Wipro
Applying Thought in Schools has evolved significantly in philosophy, strategy and
action. This paper presents an overview of our work and the progress made so far. In
summary,

• Ours is a network of over 30 partner organizations reaching out to 17 states in

the country.
• We have 2 kinds of interventions in schools
o Holistic school engagement [Whole School Transformation (WST) and
Holistic Interventions in government school systems]
o Incisive engagements [Training programs for teachers and school
leaders, curriculum development, assessment, research, curricular research]
• We support a teacher magazine reaching out to around 2000 teachers every
month.
• Our other advocacy initiatives reach out to a wider audience across the
country through popular magazines and newspapers.(The Metro Study published
in India Today last November has a readership of 15+ million)

Strategy

Over the past few years there has been resurgence in the education sector across
the country and an important need was to bring together these discrete initiatives
and create collective momentum for the cause of good education. As a corporate, our
leverage is in networking and advocacy and we need to use this actively in our
initiative and not restrict our participation to monetary help. There is a need to
encourage diverse initiatives and experiments in education reform and create a
mentoring and confidence building framework for social organizations working
towards good education. By creating a cohesive network while allowing each
organization the space and flexibility to work independently we have progressed in
this direction. This approach has been well received and helped us immensely in
establishing ourselves as an organization really committed to social change. Our
strategy has been three-pronged.

1. Build eco-system: Expanding and strengthening our network of partners

engaging in education reform. Build upon the collective capabilities of the network
to support new social organizations. Create platforms to realise the synergy of
learning from each other, and to jointly advocate. (Wipro and its partner network
provides organizations with program support, confidence, trust and a platform to
share collective learnings and experiences.)
2. Experiment and learn: Support diverse and holistic experiments in education
reform. Build a mechanism to consolidate our learnings and knowledge sharing. In
the process, deepen the collective understanding of what it takes to change the
fundamental character (philosophy, culture and competence) of schools.
3. Advocate: Use documented experiences and learnings, partner eco-system
and Wipro’s strong brand to advocate through policy and media.

In our assessment, we have crossed one important milestone. In India, serious social
action by corporations has been few and far between. Through our work, we have
demonstrated our commitment, and are today considered a serious player in
education – a recognition accorded to few.

Experiment: Teacher ProgramObjective: The Teacher Program (also known as

Teacher Empowerment Program or TEP) is a comprehensive development program
for in-service teachers. It is our oldest engagement, and has 3 objectives:

• To help the teacher become a reflective practitioner who will care for the
development of every child.
• To equip the teacher with curricular and pedagogic skills necessary for
creating child-centric and experiential classrooms.
• Through the teacher, to trigger change in the entire school.

Scope

• Initial success, driven by teacher feedback and school demand, encouraged

us to push for program expansion.
• 8 partners have taken the program (in various avatars) to 6,505 teachers and
244 schools in over 25 cities.

Summary of assessment
 • The program seems to have made headway in equipping teachers with
relevant work-skills. This has helped make classrooms more collaborative and
enjoyable for children.
• Given hierarchical school structures, if the program is to have any success, it
must be run in schools where the leadership is committed and willing to support
such teaching-learning. Hence, we should explore setting pre-conditions (that test
the leadership’s intent) before enrolment.
• We are exploring, keeping the network of teachers alive beyond the life of the
program. Teachers coming together to share and learn can provide a good
platform to sustain and encourage progressive practices.

Experiment: Leadership Program Objective: The Leadership Program is a

comprehensive development program for school leaders, and has 3 objectives:

• To make the leader see a larger purpose for and alternative methods of
education. To inspire the leader to create a worthy institution. To propel the
leader to explore the power of leadership in creating a learning organisation.
• To empower the leader to feel confident in truly exploring education, and in
building competence to provide academic leadership to the school.
• To equip the leader with managerial skills necessary to establish processes,
and to de-centralise decision making – so that the leader stops being an
administrator.

Scope The Teacher Program highlighted the importance of supportive leadership,

and this led us to the Leadership Program. We support 3 partners in the program,
and have worked with 492 leaders in 277 schools from across the country.

Summary of assessment

• The program has acted as a strong trigger for school leaders in driving them
to initiate change efforts in their school. However, leaders too are constrained by
systemic inertia inherent in every school. Often, this puts a stop to many well-
intentioned forays.
• Leaders with the fortitude to keep fighting often lack the academic or
managerial depth required to carry it through. Any external support, such as the
Teacher Program, then becomes a welcome scaffold to take the next big step
forward.
 • The program needs to spotlight successes – of leaders who have used the
program as a launch pad to fundamentally change course in their schools. This
can be an effective advocacy tool.
• We are continuing to work with 2 partners in leadership programs with the
added objective of using the leadership program as a trigger for a holistic
engagement with schools and to create networks of schools in various districts
across the country. This initiative is in its inception now.

Experiment: Curricular Research Objective: Research has been initiated

whenever curricular gaps have become apparent. The 3 efforts so far have been:

• Learning Standards: To develop internationally bench-marked learning

objectives for children across grades and disciplines.
• Curricular Mapping: To stitch disjoint threads from the syllabus into one
integrated fabric to show curricular linkages, thus aiding teachers in lesson
planning.
• Participative Action Research: We are supporting an action research
experiment with one organization that has created an alternative ICT curriculum.
They are using this as a means to influence overall pedagogical and classroom
practices in the school.

Experiment: Holistic School/System Engagement Objective: As we engaged

with schools though various efforts, it became clearer that we needed to see the
school as the basic unit of change. This led us to initiate holistic school engagements
with the following objectives:

• To help the project school initiate and sustain efforts to transform school
philosophy, culture and competence so that all children develop into critical,
creative and caring citizens.
• To help us understand what it takes for schools to change.
• To create a spectrum of mainstream schools that can act as beacons of
inspiration for other schools.
• To give our partner organizations an opportunity to engage with an entire
school as a system. This we believe helps them engage with an entire system and
the learnings for the organization are significant.

Scope The WST (Whole School Transformation) program is a little more than 4 years
old. Here, we have engaged with around 750 schools through 10 partner efforts. The
program covers a spectrum of schools – from government schools to high-end private
schools. It also covers a spectrum of approaches to school change. We have also
engaged in holistic engagements with systems of government schools like clusters,
blocks within a district. The intent is to engage deeply with a well defined
government system to understand the issues related to initiating change in a
government system. The objective is similar to the WST program in that we want to
understand what it takes for a system to change.
Summary of assessment: We are seeing varying degrees of success in the Whole
School Transformation projects. It is early to form an opinion, but the broad trends
visible are:

• There is direct correlation between buy-in of school management and efficacy

of our effort. This means a greater difficulty when dealing with government
schools and school chains where decision-making rests in some external body.
• Whatever the window we use to enter and engage the school, the nature of
effort needs to spread to all areas of school work – academic, administrative and
managerial.
• If we hope the school as an institution believes in the basic principles of
equity, democracy and respect for diversity these would reflect in the way the
staff, school leaders and the parent community engage with each other too. So a
‘changed school’ would have naturally changed in all respects not just the nature
of the classroom engagement. Any change that is not holistic in this sense can not
be sustained.
• School transformation is an extremely intensive effort. It requires high-quality
resources, and a constantly evolving engagement.
• The process of engaging intensely with a school system makes the
intervening organization aware of the complexity of the education system as well
as the attitudes and perceptions towards education which need to be considered.
We believe this process helps in bettering our understanding of the education
system and the various socio-economic and political factors that influence popular
perception of education.
• We are in the process of documenting our efforts in Holistic School
Engagement and analyzing the work we have done and the progress made in
each intervention. We believe this documentation will be of great value in
education reform considerations.
Build Eco-system Objective: Educational change is a large agenda. It is beyond
any organisation’s individual capacity. To be able to make any impact, a critical mass
of social endeavours need to get infected by and act on this agenda. Further, these
efforts will need to be synergised before we can witness any impact. This forms the
basis for our choosing to work through and with a partner network rather than
creating in-house capacity. Broadly, objectives for this strategy are:

• To create capacity on the ground for working on educational change, and to

build mainstream acceptability and demand for such work.
• To bring together various efforts and organisations and create synergy.
• Help individuals build new organizations and provide support in the form of
capability building, financial support and engagements that help the organization
get credibility and build a deeper understanding of the education space. In that
sense we act like Angel Investors.

Scope Today, our partner eco-system is almost 30 organisations. See

http://wiproapplyingthoughtinschools.com/?q=node/25. All of them are social
organisations – whether they are a voluntary organization or follow a for-profit.
Summary of assessment

• We have built sufficient credibility to be able to engage with a diverse crew of

institutions. It is not common to find organisations with such diversity in one
network.
• In some cases, we have helped to create these organisations (or their capacity
for work in education) from scratch.
• We plan to reach out to more fledgling organizations and engage them in this
larger eco-system. We believe feeling part of a larger community and learning
from diverse experiences will help new organizations widen their perspective to
educational reform issues.

Advocate Objective: Use groundwork, partner eco-system and Wipro’s strong brand
to advocate through policy and media to:

• Provide radical stimulus to influence the macro system.

• Show “what can be” and “how to change”.
• Cascade desire for change.
• Provide a platform for individuals to engage with work in education reform
(through the Wipro Education Fellowship)
 • Create good children’s literature and a build a platform to advocate
• Create good shareable learning from our experiments contribute to practice
driven qualitative research

Summary of assessment

• Our grassroots work over the past seven years has given a strong basis for
advocacy.
• We are beginning with small efforts. This includes the engagement with
Teacher Plus, a professional magazine for teachers. It includes the consistent use
of Azim Premji as an advocate through media. It includes how we have indirectly
influenced the National Curricular Framework, 2005.
• We engage in research studies to understand the education situation in India.
Our study jointly conducted with Educational Initiatives of the learning levels in
popular and aspirational schools in 5 metros. We popularised the findings of this
study in India Today with the intent of disturbing the inertia inherent in urban
communities about the state of education. We hope this will create wider
awareness to the need for change and generate momentum for the same.
• Advocacy is inherently ad-hoc. However, one large opportunity is presenting
itself when the current set of Whole School Transformations bear fruit. A focussed
and high-quality effort to document and publish these stories is in progress as part
of the efforts of the Wipro Fellows.

Some overall comments What it takes

• We have learnt that external, top-down, pre-meditated and large-scale

engagements will not change the education system. It is easy to get caught up
and carried away by some irrelevant measures of success – such as the demand
from the system. But the system has a legacy of co-opting such interventions,
thus rendering them sterile.
• The key question we must ask is: Is there even one school or a well defined
sub-system (cluster or group of schools) where we have made a sustainable
difference… in making school culture more democratic, in making classroom
practices more participatory and constructivist, and in helping every child realise
his/her potential? If our programs do not pass this muster, they are an irrelevant
effort.
• The kind of fundamental change we envision is related to attitudes,
perceptions and hence it has to be organic and from within the system. That is
why our objective is to work with mainstream schools, urban and rural,
 economically and otherwise privileged as well as the marginalised to continue to
influence and impact the current education system. Concerted advocacy and
dissemination to a larger audience is important. And that will over time continue
to influence the system.
• Various organizations are engaged in diverse efforts towards education reform
and it is important to have a platform for them to engage with each other towards
building synergy. New organizations and individuals need to get support, not just
programmatic or financial but also the confidence and trust of a larger network of
like minded organizations. We believe the work in nurturing this eco-system in
itself is important and needs to be broadened and strengthened.
• To build capacity (and capabilities) in the space of education reform there is
also a need to develop more research led documentation on the experiments.
These will help deepen the understanding of good education and encourage more
organizations and individuals to engage in education work. As part of this initiative
we plan to create this framework that will help create shareable learning.

Sustainability Event
Date: Thursday, 29th July, 2010
Venue: Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara
5101 Great America Parkway,
Santa Clara, USA

This Wipro sponsored round-table event will feature an interactive session to explore various methods to drive sustainability
initiatives that will shape the future. The session will include experts from Forrester and C3.

Click here for more information on the Sustainability Event.

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ESC 2010
Date: 21stJuly - 23rd July, 2010
Venue: NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore
Stall No: Intel Booth

Wipro is demonstrating its software framework named Connectivity Framework, which enables In-Vehicle Infotainment
Systems to provide connectivity to the external world.

The connectivity to the external world would mean ability to connect to portable CE devices like USB Memory Stick,
Bluetooth Streaming devices, Smartphones etc., ability to connect to internet resources like YouTube, SHOUTcast,
Facebook, Twitter, etc. and other features like ability to control a vehicle from a registered mobile phone and to display and
control Phone HMI from the In-Vehicle Infotainment system itself.

The framework is Platform and OS agnostic, highly modular and componentized to provide scalability and configurability.

Click here for more information on Wipro's expertise in the Automotive domain.

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Congruence 2010: The Fourth Dimension of Globalization
Date: 15th July, 2010
Venue: ITC Gardenia, Bangalore

Wipro is the gold sponsor at 'Congruence 2010: The Fourth Dimension of Globalization', one-of-its-kind premier event on
R&D and Globalization, hosted by Zinnov Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd. Senior leaders from the Product Engineering,
Manufacturing, Telecom and Technology divisions of Wipro will be attending and speaking at the prestigious event. Wipro
will also be giving a technology showcase.

Speakers

'Attracting & retaining talent' - Sunita Cherian, General Manager - Talent Engagement & Development

'Management of multiple centers' - Sambuddha Deb, Chief Global Delivery Officer

'Moving towards higher value partnerships' - Mansoor Ahmed Syed, Vice - President Global Services Alliance

For details, please contact:

liju.mathew@wipro.com

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Cisco Live 2010
Date: 27th June - 1st July, 2010
Venue: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

Wipro is participating in Cisco Live 2010 in the Computing Environment (VCE) pavilion. Wipro is demonstrating its Private
Cloud, WSAAS solutions based on VBlock. The solutions include Private Cloud, WSAAS, SAP BI, Hosted Document
Management etc.

To meet us at Cisco Live, please contact :

prashanth.john@wipro.com | sureni.rout@wipro.com

Wipro Speaking Session

Title: Transforming Enterprise & Reducing TCO through Private Cloud

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UPLINQ Conference 2010, San Diego, California, USA
Date: 30th June - 1st July, 2010
Venue: Manchester Grand Hyatt
Stall No: 401

Wipro is demonstrating its mobile solutions targeting OEMs and Carriers, based on Brew MP and other mobile platforms.

The demo solutions include handsets developed on Wipro's software, latest Apps for OEMs and Carriers.

To meet us at UPLINQ, please contact:

hriday.shenoy@wipro.com | sukalyan.mukherjee@wipro.com | srikant.godavarti@wipro.com
Click here for more information on Wipro's Mobile Devices expertise.

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America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute 2010
Date: 9th - 11th June, 2010
Venue: Las Vegas, Nevada
Booth No. 331

As a leading sponsor and exhibitor, Wipro invites you to visit its booth 331 at AHIP Institute 2010, where it will showcase our
expertise in enabling "collaborative real time Healthcare" for transforming Healthcare with reduced costs and increasing
member centricity in the areas of Business Transformation, Regulatory Services, Medicare services.
Schedule a meeting with Wipro Healthcare Leadership Team

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ILA Berlin Air Show 2010, Berlin, Germany
Date: 8th - 13th June, 2010
Venue: Berlin-Schoenefeld Airport
Stall: 103, Hall 10

Wipro will showcase its expertise and service offerings at the ILA Berlin Air Show.

For meeting us at ILA Berlin, please contact:

malavika.garimella@wipro.com
rajni.kant@wipro.com
Click here for more information on Wipro’s Aerospace expertise.

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CGT Sales and Marketing Summit
Date: 7th - 9th June, 2010
Venue: Roosevelt Hotel, NYC, NY

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CIO Executive Leadership Summit - Minneapolis
Date: 4th June, 2010
Venue: Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, MN

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International Super Computing (ISC) 2010, Hamburg , Germany
Date: 30th May - 3rd June, 2010
Venue: CCH-Congress Center, Hamburg, Germany
Booth No: 430 (Co-exhibitor in Microsoft Booth)

International Super Computing (ISC) is Europe’s leading Conference and Exhibition on High Performance Computing,
Networking and Storage.

Wipro would be demonstrating “High Productivity Services and Solutions leveraging HPC Server 2008” in ISC 2010. This
would involve demonstrations of solutions that are pertinent to users of HPC in Oil & Gas, Financial
Services,Media,Manufacturing and Life sciences industry.

Please visit the our booth and check out our HPC demonstrations on the following dates :-

Monday, May 31 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Tuesday, June 1 9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Wednesday, June 2 9:30 am - 6:00

pm
For meeting us at ISC 2010 please contact
amlan.cha@wipro.com or
chandrasekaran.ramkumar@wipro.com or
mahesh.mahajan@wipro.com

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Michelin Challenge Bibendum 2010

Date: 28th May - 3rd June, 2010
Venue: Riocentro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Booth No: D4

Wipro at Michelin CB 2010: Our efforts for sustainability in Automotive

The transport sector is currently the largest global contributor to GHG emissions, and is striving to achieve a reduced
emission target of 120 GMS/Km by 2012 across all EU countries. We believe that this target is a step in the right direction,
driving automakers to continuously innovate and invest in new technology.

Improvements in Fuel Technology, Energy Management, Transmission, Rolling Resistance, Engine Technology, Weight
Reductions, Aerodynamics, and Driver Information Systems are few of the key developments happening today.

In addition, the industry has also been going through a cycle of continuous improvements in the manufacturing process life
cycle, starting with green procurements, reduction in carbon footprint within factories, minimizing emissions during logistics
and distribution of cars, assisting drivers in improving their driving habits with ‘eco-driving’ to finally ensure the maximum
recyclability of the cars.

Wipro Technologies understands and appreciates these specific challenges of the automotive sector, and has developed
sustainable solutions that would support the organizations in their journey. Our Ecometer solution is one such example. This
solution would enable measuring the GHG emissions from a car on a real-time basis and will also guide the driver to
improve his driving habits. The solution is another step to help various stakeholders in the society like Governments,
Insurance Companies and Fleet Owners to support them in their endeavor to enable a greener tomorrow. The solution will
also help with energy profiling of hybrids and electric cars, which will enable car owners optimize energy consumption and
improve battery life.

Wipro will be seen speaking at a panel discussion on May 30th 2010 where Gopi Padiyath ( Head, Automotive Business
Unit, Wipro Technologies) is speaking on Efficient and Safe Urban Transportation. How will ITS improve the situation?

During this panel discussion, the speakers will focus on,

The key challenges (congestion, pollution and safety improvements) for urban mobility, especially in megacities, are well
identified and possible solutions are numerous.

Amongst various solutions, Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS) which comprise cutting-edge information and
telecommunication networks for vehicles, road services, transport operators, city planners and all users can play a key role.
ITS mitigates congestion issues through traffic information and navigation systems and traffic flow management; it provides
the regulation systems with current data on noise, pollution and traffic speed; it improves safety through intelligent vehicle
systems and by supporting emergency vehicle operations.

What are the best ways to develop and apply ITS? What are the remaining hurdles to be overcome? Who should push ITS
implementation both in vehicles and in infrastructure? Do the automakers have a roadmap today to develop ITS
implementation on board vehicles?

Know more about Wipro’s Sustainability efforts:

For Wipro’s offerings in sustainability, please visit www.wipro.com/greenit

We recently launched our second Sustainability Report around ‘Thriving in a Changing World’ and details on our vision,
goals and progress on the triple bottom-line. http://www.wipro.com/corporate/investors/sustainability-wipro.htm

Learn our comprehensive Green portfolio at www.wiprocorporate.com/ecoeye

Visit our Green Thought Leadership in WCIR at www.wipro.com/resource-center/wipro-council-for-industry-

research/index.htm
Schedule a Meeting with Wipro Automotive Leadership Team