Kolkata, Tuesday, 12 July 2022: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Intel hosted the fourth edition of EdTech CXO Mixer in Kolkata.
The EdTech CXO Mixer (Kolkata Edition) was attended by 30+ Edtech founders & CXOs who joined to network, meet, and learn about other EdTech businesses and best practices. Sunil PP, Lead—Education, Space, and Nonprofits, Amazon Internet Services Private Limited, AWS India, and South Asia, addressed the gathering.
Founders & CXOs from Kolkata-based EdTech start-ups serving different sub-segments attended, including those who leverage AWS to deliver their EdTech offerings in India and the world. The founders shared their EdTech start-up’s mission and dived deep into their EdTech business’s key challenges.
The organizing team welcomed the EdTech founders by expressing gratitude for their amazing work adding to the growth of the EdTech sector and the impact they are creating for different educational stakeholders. The EdTech founders were equally excited and thankful to the organizers for hosting it in Kolkata.
PP Sunil Acharya said, “We are delighted to collaborate with EdTech start-ups in Kolkata and better understand their mission and focus areas. We are all ears to address associated challenges facing EdTech founders, and help them with solutions, relevant information, and networking opportunities, in order to enable them in their mission and vision.”
Speaking about the journey with AWS, a few EdTech founders mentioned the continuous support they have received over the past few years. They shared how with the easy access to AWS tech & teams, they have never felt the need to evaluate a second option and how they continue to deepen their relationship with AWS.
AWS aims to help EdTech entrepreneurs build secure, smart, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. AWS and Intel share more than 14 years of a relationship dedicated to developing, building, and supporting cloud services designed to manage the cost and complexity, accelerate business outcomes, and scale to meet current and future computing requirements.
Seeing the positive feedback of such gatherings by the EdTech CXOs in the community, AWS is planning to bring such meetups for EdTech founders in different regions across India to support continuous innovation in the EdTech ecosystem.