(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
GMR Group launched a Blockchain Centre of Excellence (CoE) for
airports as part of its expansion of GMR Innovex initiative.
GMR Innovex – Blockchain Centre of Excellence will identify and
incubate startups and catalyze innovative product development under
the guidance of business leaders and domain experts in association
with blockchain technology partners, according to a statement
released by GMR Group.
The Blockchain CoE will provide access to the required
infrastructure and labs to start-ups, SMEs for the development and
validation of solutions and services, from design to prototyping.
It will also enable thought leadership, research, and training
programs for upskilling in the field of blockchain.
GMR Innovex signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with
Idealabs, Polygon, Koinearth, India Blockchain Forum and Veroince
to explore opportunities, identify blockchain technology-related
use cases for airports and ancillary business.
Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary of the Industries and
Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT), Govt of
Telangana was the chief guest on the occasion.
Speaking on this occasion, SGK Kishore, ED-South and Chief
Innovation Officer – GMR Airports said,“We are excited to launch
the Blockchain CoE for our group, which intends to work with
various Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) technology players, to
build a slew of applications for the distributed technology
landscape.”
“We believe the industry is slowly emerging with respect to
utility and value that DLT systems present, specifically for a
multi-stakeholder environment like airports. We already have
use-cases that we are ear marking to build on which will help
create transparency, trust, data bartering and shared value and
experience for our partners and customers,” Kishore said.
Prasanna Lohar, President, India Blockchain Forum said,“India
Blockchain Forum, is excited to partner with GMR Innovex on its
journey to building the CoE and building enterprise class dApps. We
believe being Foundational Technology, Blockchain has lot of
applicability and relevance in the broader aviation space. We
should see this collaboration will bring much needed innovation for
aviation space.”
GMR Innovex has onboarded Pankaj Diwan as the Chief Evangelist
for leading the GMR Innovex Blockchain CoE, who has been associated
with blockchain-related activities for long time. He will also be
supported by a group of blockchain advisors who are an expert
grouping and practitioners in different industry vertical, GMR
Group said in the statement.
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