Techvantage AI and SRMIST Partner to Advance Agentic AI:
- Partnership focuses on constructing future-ready AI expertise by way of utilized studying, educational collaboration, and enterprise-aligned ability improvement
- To conduct Hackathons, Ideathons, Datathons, and different innovation-focused educational occasions to expose college students to real-world drawback statements and strengthen analytical and problem-solving expertise
Techvantage AI, a number one AI merchandise and providers supplier in India, introduced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Kattankulathur Campus, Chennai. The partnership establishes a long-term collaboration targeted on training, utilized analysis, innovation, and expertise improvement in Artificial Intelligence, with a powerful emphasis on the rising area of Agentic AI.
As a part of the collaboration, Techvantage and its Agentic AI–targeted spin-off, Zentis AI Technologies, intention to bridge the hole between educational studying and enterprise-grade AI implementation by enabling college students to have interaction with fashionable agent-based programs in a structured, industry-aligned studying atmosphere.
The collaboration will embrace quarterly college improvement applications to guarantee educators are outfitted to educate next-generation AI ideas and utilized agentic programs. By aligning college capabilities with evolving {industry} wants, the partnership seeks to strengthen the supply of sensible, future-ready AI training.
Commenting on the affiliation, Deviprasad Thrivikraman Pillai, CEO Techvantage and Managing Director, Zentis AI Technologies, mentioned, “Agentic AI is not only one other technological wave; it represents a elementary shift in how intelligence is designed, deployed, and skilled. For India to lead on this frontier, universities should transfer past concept into utilized innovation. This collaboration with SRM is a deliberate step in that course. It allows college students to experiment with agent-based programs in an actual lab setting whereas equipping college with the depth required to information them. We imagine this {industry}–academia bridge will assist future-proof the workforce for an AI-driven world.
Industry collaboration performs a significant function in making ready college students for rising know-how landscapes. Through this MoU with Techvantage, SRMIST goals to discover avenues for tutorial interplay, utilized studying, and joint initiatives that align institutional strengths with {industry} views in Artificial Intelligence.”- Dr. R. Annie Uthra, Professor and Head, Department of Computational Intelligence, SRM Institute of Science and Technology.
The partnership will even span a variety of experiential studying initiatives. Techvantage and SRMIST will collectively conduct hackathons, ideathons, datathons, and related innovation-focused educational occasions designed to expose college students to real-world drawback statements and enterprise-grade challenges. These initiatives will emphasize analytical considering, problem-solving, and utilized AI improvement. Techvantage and Zentis will contribute by defining industry-relevant use instances, offering mentorship, and collaborating in evaluations, whereas SRMIST will prolong institutional assist by way of college involvement, infrastructure, and pupil participation.
The MoU additionally allows the execution of real-time {industry} initiatives inside educational and consultancy-oriented frameworks. Initial engagements could also be structured as pilot initiatives inside the educational ecosystem, permitting college and college students to work on outlined {industry} use instances beneath guided supervision. Based on outcomes, choose initiatives could evolve into formal consultancy engagements, and high-performing college students could also be thought of for internships or prolonged alternatives with Techvantage and Zentis AI.
As a part of the expertise improvement agenda, Techvantage and Zentis could supply structured summer season and winter internships to eligible undergraduate college students, notably these of their second and third years of research. Subject to hiring necessities, the businesses may take part in annual placement drives to recruit final-year college students. In addition, the collaboration will discover the design and supply of credit-based skilled elective programs aligned with rising AI applied sciences and {industry} expectations, combining educational rigor with utilized studying.
The partnership additional supplies scope for joint analysis initiatives and the doable institution of a Centre of Excellence to assist long-term utilized analysis, prototype improvement, and data creation. Both organisations could pool assets, together with platforms, infrastructure, and analysis assist, to maximise impression. Faculty members from SRMIST may take part in short-term {industry} immersion applications at Techvantage, gaining publicity to dwell enterprise initiatives and evolving AI practices.
The MoU formalises an present engagement between Techvantage and SRMIST, which has already included pupil innovation initiatives and placement-related interactions, and supplies a structured framework to broaden and maintain collaboration over the approaching years.
In the long run, Techvantage and SRMIST could collectively discover the institution of an Agentic AI laboratory on the SRMIST campus, topic to mutual settlement and alignment at a later stage.
Following the signing of the MoU, the primary educational modules and lab actions will roll out initially of Q1 2026.