NEW DELHI, INDIA: The HP Labs will announce on May 15 the winners of HP Innovate 09, an annual event by HP India, to award innovative minds in the Indian Student Community and encourage technology entrepreneurship.

This year, the annual event has attracted 625 students form 90 institutes representing 216 teams from around the country.

"The response to the contest has been overwhelming. It was touching to note that the participants showed keen interest in innovations that can lead to use of IT in areas such as health care, energy conservation, interactivity in education, transport among others, said Vinnie Jauhari, Region Lead - India, HP Labs Open Innovation Office, HP India.

She said the submission for the 2009 event were mainly for intelligent document processing, web-enabling services, network, gaming, digital printing. According to Vinnie, the winners will be selected from the five shortlisted entries.

The winners will also get an opportunity to interact directly with venture capitalists in order to facilitate availability of the innovations to the society. HP Innovate was instituted in 2007 as an annual event by HP India to recognize and reward outstanding and creative ideas of young engineering graduates in India, and encourage technology entrepreneurship.

HP Innovate 2009 is an opportunity for undergraduate engineering students to present their innovative ideas in the fields of computer science and engineering.

The event is a platform for students to showcase their creativity and propose transformational ideas in the areas of innovation and technology entrepreneurship.

The winning team will be sent on a sponsored trip to Palo Alto, USA, to interact with eminent researchers at HP Labs.