Express IT Awards Jury meet: The jury is in, countdown begins

Picking winners in a field that is as vibrant as technology is never easy; there’s innovation by dozens of firms — big and small — and it’s hard to tell how many will live up to the initial promise. But the Express IT Awards jury proved it was more than up to the task. On a cool winter afternoon in Bengaluru, former Infosys CFO TV Mohandas Pai, technology consultant and investor Sid Pai, iSPIRT co-founder Sharad Sharma, Gopichand Katragadda, former CTO of the Tata Group and head of GE’s India research before that; and Professor S Sadagopan, head of IIIT and among the foremost teachers in the tech industry, put their heads together and pored over the entries. Five hours and several cups of coffee later the winners for the seventh edition of the awards had been chosen.