Mumbai: ZEUX Innovation, a UX design and innovation firm, sets a new benchmark with the launch of its Design Leadership Workshop series for design professionals seeking to elevate their leadership skills and impact. Headquartered in Mumbai, ZEUX operates with an outcome-based focus and approach, creating frictionless digital experiences across sectors. Through its Design Leadership Workshops, the firm aims to cultivate design leadership and innovation, empowering participants with the skills and mindset to transition from executing design tasks to leading strategic initiatives.

The workshops are a call to action for UX Designers, creative directors, design managers, product designers, and founders who face challenges in clearly defining design problems, thinking strategically within the design ecosystem, communicating design ideas effectively, and embracing disruption to drive innovation. ZEUX’s initiative seeks to address these common struggles, providing professionals with the tools and insights needed to navigate and lead in the ever-evolving landscape of design.

Led by  ZEUX Innovation co-founder Saurabh Gupta and an expert in UX design and innovation, the workshops are generating a strong interest. An alumnus of the National Institute of Design, Saurabh has trained more than 8,000 people across the globe. With over twenty years of experience, he conducts workshops to develop design leadership and innovation, introducing participants to his ABCD framework: Articulating the problem, Big-picture thinking, Clear communication, and Delivering disruption. Leveraging his long track record of providing successful UX solutions for both startups and Fortune 500 businesses, he is a renowned mentor for aspiring leaders owing to his experience in effortlessly integrating design and innovation into company culture.

The workshops maintain a limited capacity of 26 participants per session to ensure an interactive and immersive experience. This approach attracted design professionals from diverse backgrounds, including UX, Product, and Visual Design, as well as, founders and project leaders seeking to enhance their design leadership capabilities.

Reflecting on the success of the UX design workshops, Saurabh Gupta expressed “We are thrilled by the overwhelming success of our Design Leadership Workshop. It underscores the growing demand for strategic design leadership skills in today’s competitive landscape. Our commitment to fostering design excellence and innovation remains unwavering. We are expanding our workshop series to meet the needs of design professionals seeking to drive meaningful change through design.”

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These workshops have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from participants, who commended the sessions for their insightful content and practical applicability.  The attendees found immense value in the program’s practical framework and fresh perspectives on problem definition in design, strategic thinking, communication clarity enhancement, and leveraging disruption for innovation and growth.

In response to participant requests for a more comprehensive program, ZEUX is also exploring the possibility of introducing a multi-day residential certificate program. This extended format would enable a deeper exploration of key concepts and foster stronger connections among participants.

Sharing his experience, Capgemini a UX design manager Sandesh Mandlik, expressed gratitude for the exceptional workshop, highlighting its enlightening presentation and the blend of theory and practical exercises. Karthik Chaganty, a senior design specialist at Dream 11, found the curriculum inspiring, with relevant lectures and engaging activities driving home the concepts. Nandini Bhosale, UI/UX designer, TCS, shared that as a young designer, hearing Saurabh decode the mindset and perspective required for leadership was invaluable. She noted that the workshop advanced her career by 2-3 years. Khushboo Shah, founder of Studio Juxta, found the sessions insightful, covering overlooked UX aspects with simplified topics, and expressed excitement to implement the knowledge gained in their design process. Overall, the workshop provided a comprehensive and immersive learning experience, leaving attendees eager to apply their learnings.

ZEUX Innovation remains steadfast in its dedication to fostering design excellence and innovation. With plans to deliver unique and practical content in an engaging format, ZEUX aims to further solidify its position as a leader in equipping designers with the skills and perspectives necessary for driving meaningful change through design.

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Mumbai: Net Insight is proud to support a groundbreaking theatrical production, “Tre Rum” taking place in September. This innovative play explores the life of a woman across different stages of her life and is performed simultaneously in three countries, Sweden, Finland and Norway. This unique format was made possible through Net Insight’s innovative media technology, ensuring minimal delay in video and audio, and a real-time experience for audiences in each location.

The play is part of the collaborative project “Innovative Rooms”, part of the EU program Interreg Aurora, and a development project that supports collaborations between Nordic cultural actors, technology developers and educators, specifically in the northern parts of the countries. Net Insight is committed to supporting creative initiatives that merge culture and technology, and “Tre Rum” represents a significant step forward in this regard.

“By harnessing Net Insight’s low latency network technology to transport media, we have been able to revolutionize theater production with “Tre Rum”, performed simultaneously in three countries. This level of innovation is a testament to the transformative power of technology on cultural expression,” said Riksteatern, Swedish National Touring Theatre (one of the involved parties) , project manager Ann-Cathrine Fröjdö.

“We are delighted to see our technology serve as a key component in realizing this spearheading production and equally thrilled to support and develop cultural projects that enable a wider audience reach,” said Net Insight CEO Crister Fritzson. “We eagerly anticipate the transformative impact this will have on the arts.”

The production of ‘Tre Rum’ exemplifies how technology can profoundly reshape the landscape of performing arts. With a physical actress on each stage in the three countries, the three women meet in a virtual world before three different audiences in real time. The result is an out-of-body experience; a new form of stage art where the performance is unique depending on which of the three rooms you are in. Net Insight’s commitment to this project aligns with its strategy of expanding into new market segments and customer segments.

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The play is made possible in partnership with Net Insight, Epson, Servanet and Remote North, the Nordic community for distributed presence (NCDP), a network of universities, theaters, music schools, system specialists and organisations within performing arts.

Besides this play, Remote North utilises Net Insight’s ultra-low latency solution to foster all forms of live remote artistic performances, collaborations, and arts education. This allows for cultural exchange between artists, students, and teachers beyond geographical constraints. The result is a boost in efficiency, enhanced knowledge sharing, and professional growth. Moreover, it reduces the necessity for physical travel for rehearsals, lectures, and performances, thus contributing to sustainability by diminishing the environmental impact related to travel and logistics.

KOLKATA: Synamedia has launched a new intelligence-first security model laser-focused on eradicating streaming pirates’ businesses and protecting legitimate providers’ revenues. This data-led model helps to measure the efficacy and ROI of anti-piracy initiatives. The video software provider has also launched Synamedia VN Cloud, a managed service for its entire video network portfolio.

The new approach combines digital and human intelligence to zero in on the increasingly sophisticated streaming piracy underworld that is threatening the media industry. It provides unparalleled forensic insights into the minds, motivations and behaviors of pirates, and their infrastructure and business models, for a more powerful, targeted anti-piracy response.

It is already fueling technology innovations across Synamedia’s security portfolio, helping customers protect revenues, negotiate fair content license terms such as sports rights, and ensure compliance. 

“Video piracy is becoming an existential threat to the media industry because the barrier to entry is low and the return on investment very high. Eradicating these businesses is made more difficult by the fact that they have sophisticated operations, are well organized, and make extensive use of the latest technologies,” Synamedia security SVP Yael Fainaro said .

VN Cloud will to offer end-to-end video network functionality on any public, private or hybrid cloud, and breaks new ground by delivering the high availability customers demand on a single platform for both broadcast and OTT.

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VN Cloud gives operations teams the insight, agility and flexibility to effortlessly deploy and manage multiple workflows and deliver outstanding quality of experience on any device, anywhere, with seamless failover, while controlling costs.

It lowers the barriers to launching new services by allowingservice providers, content owners and broadcasters to quickly test new services anywhere in the world, with support for lab-in-the-cloud, pop-up and disaster recovery events.

Customers can deploy an OTT service in the cloud using a pay-as-you-use cloud model then, once established, move it on-premise. The Workflow Portal’s dashboards provide transparency about costs for hybrid, on-premise and public cloud, allowing users to easily move workloads to balance OPEX and CAPEX, as well as controlling the cost of public cloud to support disaster recovery.

Dashboards provide visual representations of each end-to-end media processing workflow, flagging up any problems and changing channel line-ups easily in near real-time using drag and drop. Further improving availability, VN Cloud is the industry's first solution to adopt a single channel fault domain approach, ensuring any issues are isolated to the impacted channel.  

“Our managed service proposition allows service providers, content owners and broadcasters to reinvent themselves by delivering broadcast quality services with the cost control and flexibility of the cloud. As we designed VN Cloud, we focused on providing total control of complex, hybrid workflows from scene to screen while managing costs and with the insurance policy of cloud-based disaster recovery,” Synamedia video network SVP and GM Julien Signès said.

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VN Cloud combines all the elements of a video network workflow in a cloud-native format using microservices. Its containerized video processing stack means that each function, such as encoding, is fully isolated and managed on a per-channel basis. Workflow support includes: the PowerVu portfolio for secure content distribution, low latency ABR, broadcast, Connect inter-cloud connection and ATSC 3.0.