FTF India 2008

My second year at AllGo, and my second FTF. Freescale Technology Forum is a global event that is held annually to help Freescale and its partners showcase the latest technologies and products. In India, it is held in Bangalore. Like last year, this year too I was part of the team that represented AllGo at FTF. The venue this time was The Leela Palace Kempinski and it was held on the 13th and 14th of November. Compared to last time, the venue was better, the food was better, the freebies were better (heh heh), and even though I didn’t win a Creative Zen at the lucky draw , it made for a very satisfactory FTF for me.

We had a booth at the Technology Lab and we had one demo relating to automotive infotainment and another in home automation. We showcased Trio, AllGo’s popular multimedia solution as part of the automotive infotainment demo. We had on display support for different devices like iPod and USB thumb drives. Also on display was the Bluetooth handsfree support, which lets the user answer phone calls via his car audio system. It certainly made for a very interesting demo. As part of the home automation solution, we demonstrated a Wi-Fi and Zigbee based setup which lets the user control different electrical components of his house using his Wi-Fi enabled mobile phone, no matter where he is. Needless to say, the participants were very impressed by it.

I’ll leave you with a few pictures from the event. If you want to see all the photos we took at the event, you can head to my Picasa account here.

Me at the AllGo booth (Day 1)

The AllGo Team : (from left) Srinu, me, Girish, Kunal, Yagnesh (Day 2)

Our Automotive Infotainment setup

The Home Automation setup

FTF India 2007 Photos

The Freescale Technology Forum took place at the Grand Ashoka in Bangalore on the 19th and 20th of this month . I had the opportunity to visit FTF with my teammates, since we were demonstrating the “Plays From Device” capability of our Trio multimedia solution. Both Trio and ZigBee demos from AllGo were very well received by the participants. As expected, the participants were knowledgeable and inquisitive, and we had a good time interacting with them. FTF also gave us an excellent opportunity to look at some of the current activities going on in this field. Though there was a sizable crowd at the event, we did manage to take some pictures of our company booth at the Technology Lab.

The entire album can be viewed at my Picasa account here.

All in all, it was a good break from the regular Monday morning routine for me!