TCS Slush Experience 2015 offers startups an opportunity for a fast track

• TCS arranges Startup Match, allowing entrepreneurs to showcase their innovation to leading TCS customers.
• Most promising startups at Slush Helsinki will receive all-expenses-paid invites to TCS’ global innovation events, and they will be invited to become a part of TCS’ Co-Innovation Network (COIN^TM).
• TCS analyzes startups taking part in Slush Helsinki, and provides its customers exclusive guided tours to see industry-relevant emerging technologies.
• TCS Slush Experience 2015 is hosted by TCS’ global CTO K. Ananth Krishnan.
• The global IT services giant makes Slush Helsinki a focal point of its collaboration with the global startup community.

Helsinki, 27 October, 2015: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today announced TCS Slush Experience 2015, a tailored initiative bringing together startups at Slush Helsinki, and TCS’ leading customers in the Nordics. TCS Slush Experience 2015 will entail customized tours of the event for TCS’ customers, and the TCS Startup Match, offering selected startups to present their offerings to leading enterprises in a pitching competition. The winners of the Startup Match will be rewarded with the opportunity to pitch to TCS’ global clients at the upcoming TCS innovation events worldwide.

“We do this for the benefit of our customers,” says Ruchikar Dalela, Country Manager, TCS Finland. “TCS is committed to introducing next-generation technologies for our customers’ competitive advantage. Our close collaboration with startups from all over the world brings agile innovation to our customers and their digitization programs.”

“From the startups’ point of view, this is a great opportunity to connect with leading enterprises across industries from the Nordics and Europe, and showcase disruptive next-generation technologies,” Dalela concludes.

The TCS Slush Experience 2015 is hosted by the firm’s global Chief Technology Officer, K. Ananth Krishnan. He leads TCS’ COIN™, a global collaborative innovation framework that allows TCS to address a new generation of challenges. Through COIN™, TCS works with startups spanning varied technology areas from across the globe to create innovative solutions. Each year several startups are channeled through the COIN™ pipeline to undergo stringent technical and business diligence.

In preparation to Slush 2015, TCS teams will assess a great number of startups attending the event, and invite selected key enterprises to be a part of its guided tours at the event, and the TCS Startup Match. TCS’ engagement with Slush reinforces the firm’s focus on the event as one the foremost startup gatherings in the world.

“The Nordic region is a global hotbed of innovation and creativity, which also manifests itself in the rapid growth of Slush Helsinki. We have been impressed with the level of innovation and next-generation technologies that the startups at Slush have introduced in the past,” says K. Ananth Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer, TCS. “We are looking forward to Slush 2015, and our own Startup Match, to identify the most innovative startups this year.”

On a global level, the TCS COIN™ program includes the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Sierra Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, University of California Berkeley through to Clarabridge, Neospeech, TestPlant and others.

As a part of its COIN™ ecosystem activities in Finland, in February 2014, TCS promoted five Finnish startups to showcase their technologies in Silicon Valley, USA. The companies were introduced to some of TCS’ leading clients across banking, insurance, and media industries.

About TCS Nordic
Present in the Nordic region since 1991, TCS has continuously invested in the market for the benefit of its customers. TCS has around 9,000 professionals working in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and across TCS’ Global Network Delivery Model™ (GNDM™), servicing leading Nordic companies. Since 2010, TCS has tripled the size of its operations in the region, with significant increase in local hiring. TCS has been consistently rated as number one in Nordic IT services customer satisfaction over the past 6 years, in multiple surveys (by KPMG and Whitelane Research/PA Consulting). Several prominent Nordic companies have benefited from TCS’ unique service offering, including Nokia, Ericsson, TDC, ABB, Telenor, NETS, and DNB. In 2015, for the third year in a row, Top Employers Institute granted TCS the Top Employer in Europe certificate, with Sweden, Norway and Denmark among the eight markets where TCS was number one.

About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)Tata Consultancy Services is anIT services, consultingand business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio ofIT, BPS, infrastructure, engineeringandassurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 355,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $15.5 billion for year ended March 31, 2015 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

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