Director's Blog
From Innovation to Impact: Highlights of INFLIBNET Open Day 2026
Prof Devika P Madalli
Dear Friends,
Greetings from INFLIBNET. Welcome to the second blog in the series on INFLIBNET services. This blog covers two platforms that we dedicated to the academic and scientific community, launched during the INFLIBNET Open Day 2026.
It gives me immense pleasure to share with you that on the occasion of the INFLIBNET Foundation Day, the INFLIBNET centre successfully celebrated INFLIBNET Open Day 2026 on 27th February 2026 at its campus in Gandhinagar with great enthusiasm and participation.
The Open Day serves as an important platform for the centre to present its vision, mission, and strategic initiatives, reflecting its continuous commitment to innovation and technological advancement for the academic community. The Centre extends its heartfelt gratitude to all participants and contributors whose enthusiasm and valuable inputs made the event a grand success.
On this occasion, the centre launched two of its new academic platforms, InfyMeet and Shodh Prabha.
Friends, InfyMeet is designed to connect academic communities by providing a dedicated platform for the announcement of academic events such as workshops, seminars, and conferences.
Traditionally, institutions invest significant time, effort, and cost in developing event websites or outsourcing such tasks. InfyMeet addresses this challenge by offering a completely free and user-friendly platform where academic institutions can easily register and share their events, ensuring wider visibility and participation. I encourage all institutions to make effective use of this platform to get publicity for their academic events.
Another important initiative we have launched is ShodhPrabha. ShodhPrabha is a significant step towards promoting innovation by creating a centralized repository of academic patents generated by universities across the country. Recognizing the absence of a single platform to access consolidated patent outputs of Indian universities, ShodhPrabha has been developed.
Under the platform, we have curated the patent information from the past decade. Now the participating universities and institutions can log in and update their own patent metadata.
In the next phase, we plan to invite corporates and companies to explore academic patents for technology transfer and create a platform where companies can directly contact the respective institutes or universities for effective collaboration.
In this way, ShodhPrabha will serve as a valuable resource for universities to showcase their research and innovation outputs and will also enhance institutional visibility and support key assessment frameworks such as NAAC and NIRF.
So, with immense pleasure and pride, we present InfyMeet and ShodhPrabha to the academic and scientific community of the country, and we sincerely hope that these platforms will be effectively utilized for the advancement of knowledge and research.
Thank you.