TringMe at HeadStart 2008

HeadStart held in Bangalore, India was one event which we were anxiously awaiting since TringMe was one of the five companies that was selected to demo at HeadStart’s Mobility and Communication segment.

Even though, TringMe’s platform has been in use since the launch of TringMe, it was only a day before HeadStart that we had formally announced the availability of the platform christened “TringSwitch” to the world. Although we were confident about our ability to demonstrate TringSwitch with multiple termination options, it was imperative that the live demo go as well as we planned it to be.

We started the demo and in the allocated time, demonstrated several combinations of phone calls - Web-to-IM (Gtalk), Web-to-Mobile, Mobile-to-Mobile over Mobile VoIP, Mobile-to-IM(Gtalk) over Mobile VoIP as well. Due to the time limitation, we have to conclude speech recognition demo half way after showing the initial screen.

In fact to make it more interesting and interactive, for our Web-to-Mobile we called one of the audience member and a panel member. After the demo, several attendees and media came by and congratulated us on the demo-gone-well. A lot of them were very excited to see the Mobile to Gtalk connection since the other way (IM to phone) isn’t a new idea. Audience was quite excited and encouraged us all through by applauding at successful demonstrations. At the expense of being bold, we believe that the demo went quite well.

We would sincerely like to thank HeadStart for giving us a platform and all the organizers - Prof. Suresh(IIM), Kesava, Aditya, Manasi, Puneeth, Kalol & others - who helped us in every which way. It was a well-planned and well-executed event and we are glad to be having been a part of it.