New Delhi : LPU today announced significant news wherein Google has selected LPU’s student for its upcoming global technology conference Google I/O. This conference is completely sponsored by Google and is held every year in San Francisco (USA). Google has chosen a B Tech CSE student of LPU- Avinash Mishra to participate in the conference for representing India.

LPU student is selected along with 12 top professionals from industry & two other students from IIT Guwahati and an institute of Indore. It is important to note that there are 500+ Google Developer Group (GDG) Chapters in 100 Countries across the globe. Avinash is representing GDG Jalandhar constituted at LPU, which is covering the whole of northern region, and this group is ranked 3rd best in India in terms of performance. The two-day Google conference will be held from 25th to 26th June 2014.

On the new achievement, LPU Pro Chancellor Ms. Rashmi Mittal commented, “Our University is empowering its students to get recognitions and acclaims worldwide.   I am happy to note that this year once again LPU student is going to participate in the world conference of prestigious company Google, in America. I am proud that our student Avinash will represent our country at a global level and I wish him the best.”

Google annually sponsors 5000 professionals and students from across globe to participate at Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, where they talk about high-end technologies. Various sessions are held for Google and open web technologies such as Android, Chrome OS, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more. This seventh annual Google event is supposed to unveil many new products and project such as- Revamped Google Glass; Nexus 8; Android 4.5; New Gmail; Focus on design; Refocused Google+, and many more.