KeyPoint Technologies: A Culture of Innovation, Collaboration & Fun Date:   Wednesday , July 01, 2015 Incepted in 2004 in Glasgow, Scotland, KeyPoint Technologies (KPT), leverages its extensive experience in natural language processing to make the entire human-machine dialogue as natural as possible. Combining artificial intelligence with linguistic science, KPT built Adaptxt, a next-generation text input platform providing highly contextual predictive text input applications that customizes suggestions based on locality and application (eg. informal for Whatsapp) among others. Thus far, Adaptxt has been downloaded by over 1.8 million users and embedded on almost 50 million devices through various OEMs. KPT recently launched patent pending Xploree, a user-initiated and hyper-contextual application that helps mobile users to instantly search and discover products and services in one tap across apps. Today with offices in Hyderabad, Tokyo, San Jose and Shanghai, the company stands tall as the market leader, thanks to its mature language databases and engines that supports over 136 languages including 25 Indic languages and 11 transliterated languages such as Hinglish, Banglish and others. Secret to Employee Retention \"I have worked for KPT for almost 8 years now. Throughout this time, the company has given me a chance of promotion and development, both professionally and personally. Keypoint\'s open work culture makes people heard and comfortable, increasing their contribution to our product. The nature of what we do is all about team effort and that\'s the best part of my job - working with fun and interesting people\", reminisces Daria Finnieston, Product Support and Linguistic Team Leader, KeyPoint Technologies, Glasgow. KPT acquired its first 3 employees, who were research scholars in Glasgow\'s university. They are still with the 120 people strong company, since they are passionate about the interesting work, appreciate the individual freedom to innovate and happy with the overall growth of the company and the industry. \"We scout for talent through social media, industry trade shows and campus interviews from leading institutes. After an extensive one year long training, freshers are placed in particular departments depending on their attitude and performance during training. Although qualification plays a major role, the utmost emphasis is laid on candidate\'s attitude, cultural background and ability to adapt to our culture, rather than functional expertise,\" explains Sunil Motaparti, CTO & Co-founder, KPT. Promoting a Healthy, Positive & Fun Work Culture KPT\'s flat work culture helps it to hold teams as a close-knitted and efficient unit. The company has several weekly and monthly cross-functional team lunches and project based team outings, where new ideas (inside & outside work) are openly discussed. KPTian\'s family members are also invited to spend time and observe the work environment. As the company has been attaining a global recognition from leading bodies such as NASSCOM and often honoured with national and international awards such as Intech 50 finalist, Horizon Interactive, ICT KTN Digital Innovation to name a few, all KPTians get together and celebrate such prestigious moments. KPT also follows several safety standards including conducting periodic health check-up workshops in-house. \"KPTians celebrate Fun Fridays in many creative ways - be it shaking a leg to popular dance numbers or savouring mock tails prepared in-house. Our weekdays are equally interesting through engaging games and sport activities such as ping pong matches, sci-fi events in innovation room, indoor golf, caroms to name a few,\" describes Gaurav Mahendru, Head-HR, KPT, Hyderabad Enabling Innovation \"KPT has provided the right opportunities for me to learn and put my theoretical knowledge to practical use. We have a dynamic work environment, where everyone is proactive and helpful. It is this culture of innovation, collaboration and fun at work through events like Codothon challenge that promotes creativity & out-of-the-box solutions and gives wings to our entrepreneurial abilities,\" says Srinavya Kethineni, BITS Alumni & Software Engineer, KPT. KPT has a separate focus for innovation (10%) alongside bottom-up organic innovation programmes and funnels to take products from concept to launch faster. KPT\'s reputation is being upheld by its four pillars - \'Customers first\', speed & agility, Passion for excellence and Innovation, which are devotedly followed by all KPTians across departments. Idea Junction, KPT\'s internal social media application facilitates people to post their ideas which are deliberated and discussed. \"As IoT is bringing forth numerous devices to be connected, we are geared up to enable intelligent communication for all these devices. We actively scout for and have hired young, highly-skilled and passionate technical domain specialists who are developing cutting edge mobile solutions that will redefine the mobile device landscape.\" concludes Sumit Goswami, CEO, KPT.