{"id":1000319,"date":"2026-04-01T07:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000319"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:22:13","slug":"ideaforge-iit-bombay-ink-pact-to-launch-programme-for-identifying-emerging-deeptech-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/ideaforge-iit-bombay-ink-pact-to-launch-programme-for-identifying-emerging-deeptech-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"IdeaForge, IIT Bombay ink pact to launch programme for identifying emerging deeptech founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and ideaForge Technology on Tuesday said they have forged an agreement to encourage future tech leaders to develop ideas that solve real-world problems while demonstrating strong technical depth and entrepreneurial intent. <\/p>\n<p>Under the memorandum of understanding (MoU), a six-month programme &#8211; &#8216;Who Are the Next Idiots?&#8217; -was launched aiming to attract participants working on concept-stage or early prototype ideas rooted in deep technology, according to a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and ideaForge Technology on Tuesday said they have forged an agreement to encourage future tech leaders to develop ideas that solve real-world problems while demonstrating strong technical depth and entrepreneurial intent. Under the memorandum of understanding (MoU), a six-month programme &#8211; &#8216;Who Are the Next Idiots?&#8217; -was launched aiming to attract participants working on concept-stage or early prototype ideas rooted in deep technology, according to a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}