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ABOUT EMTECH INDIA Mint and MIT Technology Review brings to you the 2 nd chapter of EmTech India - an iconic platform where technology, business, and culture converge. It brings together business leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and change makers who are passionate about addressing major global issues by turning ideas into solutions. Inspire. Innovate. Collaborate. Join us on 9 th 10 th March 2017 for two days of intelligent conversation as MIT Technology Review and Mint bring award winning editorial content to life. ABOUT INNOVATORS UNDER 35 Last year when Mint invited Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to bring the iconic platform of innovators under 35, India found some of its finest minds. This year, we once again give your ideas the opportunity to start global conversations. Because the winners get a chance to present to the world at EmTech India. So are you ready to shine? Anyone who is under the age of 35 as on 1 st October 2017 and has a brilliant idea on technological innovation and applied research can be nominated.
INNOVATORS UNDER 35-2017 We are looking for 10 innovators under the age of 35 from India, who exemplify the spirit of innovation in business and technology. Organized by MIT Technology Review since 1999, the prestigious Innovators Under 35 Global competition has honoured some of the world s most brilliant minds such as Mark Zuckerberg, JB Straubel, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This year, Mint and MIT Technology Review come together to bring this iconic opportunity to the best innovators in India. NOMINATIONS We encourage you to nominate young researchers and entrepreneurs who are using technology to come up with creative and inspirational projects that provide solutions to global problems. The 10 honourees are recognized not only for their advances in a field of research, but also for their capacity to make an impact on society as a whole, and to lead the future of technology.
KEY THEMES Digital Life The opportunities and challenges in Mobility and Big Data to the Internet of Everything (IoE) - Connecting these mobile dots and defining the new mobile trend. Imagining the Next Generation Digital Workspace. Analysing the much-ignored but defining block of the Digital World Security. Future of Payments We may speak digital but still live a cash-based world, with 85% of consumer transactions worldwide done with bills and coins. New technologies, including digital wallets, crypto currencies, and mobile peer-to-peer payments, and India's own United Payments Interface (UPI) aim to tip that balance. Future of Energy Power consumption is set to go up in the next 10-15 years from 1.1 trillion units today to 4 trillion units by 2030. What is the future of energy and what are the technologies that can brighten this future? Cutting Edge: Robots/Drones/3D Printing Deciphering the impact of the arrival of increasingly smart, agile machines (Robots and Drones) that can interact more naturally and safely Reimaging productivity of the future. How Fabbers, or personal manufacturing machines (3D Printing), are expected to change the way we live and the way goods are manufactured, even in countries like India. Artificial Intelligence: The Next Frontier The next frontiers for machine learning - Artificial Intelligence. Uncover its implications for humanity. Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality New devices are finally bringing virtual reality into the mainstream. At the same time, emerging technologies promise to challenge VR's primacy-think augmented, mixed, holographic or cinematic reality-by blending virtual reality and real life together. How will our day-to-day experiences be augmented by these emerging technologies? Smart Cities Rethinking Urban Infrastructure Making sense of India's smart cities: By 2050 there will be 9 billion people living on Earth. And India is expected to be home to the world's largest population, overtaking China. How will our smart cities shape up? Connected Health Can Technology Assist an aging Population? Discover how wearables, assistive robots, remote monitoring and big data are going to revolutionize healthcare as we know it. Genome editing is evolving as a tool to fight hereditary diseases and extend life expectancy. How are companies and start-ups using this technology? Decrypt its impact on the healthcare industry.
2017 SPEAKERS Jeremy King, Raimund Genes, Chetan Dube, Prof. John Macintyre, SVP & Chief Technology Officer, Global e-commerce, WalmartLabs Global Chief Technology Officer, Trend Micro Inc. President & CEO, IPSoft Dean of Faculty, University of Sunderland Ralf Dreischmeier, Raj Talluri, Raghu Raghuram, Jason Pontin, Senior Partner, MD & Global Leader, Technology Advantage Practice, London, The Boston Global Consulting (BCG) Group Senior VP of Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies Executive Vice President & GM, Software-Defined Data Center Division, VMWare Editor in Chief & Publisher, MIT Technology Review Dr Anish Shah, Dr Gopichand Katragadda, Rajan Anandan, Umang Bedi, Group President (Strategy) & Member of the Group Executive Board, Mahindra & Mahindra Group CTO, Tata Sons Head, Google India & Asia-Pacific MD India & South Asia, Facebook Manoj Kohli, Debjani Ghosh, Srinivas Prasad, Rahul Narayan, Executive Chairman, SoftBank Energy Bharati Enterprises & Foxconn, Mahindra & Mahindra VP- Sales & Marketing Group & MD, South Asia - Intel Corporation CEO, Philips Innovation Campus Founder & Fleet Commander, Team Indus
2017 SPEAKERS Anand Chandrasekaran, Founder & CTO, Mad Street Den Gourav Jaswal, President, Synapse Prof Harald Haas, C0-founder & interim CEO Purelifi Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC-TV18 Zenia Tata, Prof. G.V. Sreekumar, Pranav Anam, Rajiv Gupta, Executive Director, Global Developement, XPRIZE Head of IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay Co-Founder, The Gene Box Partner & Director, The Boston Consulting Group V.Vaidyanathan, Sandipan, R. Sukumar, Leslie D Monte, Founder & Executive Chairman, Capital First Group Founder & CEO, Xelpmoc Editor, Mint National Technology Editor, Mint
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INNOVATORS UNDER 35 2016 Arijit Biswas, Research Scientist, Xerox Research Center, India Nidhi Agrawal, Manager-R&D, Pluss Advanced Technologies Pvt. Ltd Piyush Agrawal, Founder and CEO, superprofs.com Richa Bajpai, Co-Founder and Director, NextGen Roopam Sharma, Group CTO, Tata Sons Shivani Gupta, Research Scholar, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus Umesh Sachdev, Co-Founder & CEO, Uniphore Software Systems Pvt. Ltd Vignesh Subrahmaniam, Executive Chairman, SoftBank Energy
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