Bangalore, March 16, 2011 - The third emerging technologies conference in India presented by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT's) Technology Review India begins at Bangalore on March 22.
A platform for innovative ideas and technologies, the two-day conference will see over 50 of celebrated scientists, tech visionaries and innovators from the world of energy, networking, architecture and medicine sharing and discussing their disruptive innovations aimed at offering solutions to the greatest challenges facing humanity.
Being held in India, for the third year in succession, in association with CyberMedia, the conference will cover a range of topics -- Regenerative Gene, Ubiquitous Technologies, Location Aware Networks, Smart Computing Techniques, Clean Energy – and the role they can play in revving up the high growth trajectory that India has set for itself.
Among MIT speakers, Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry at MIT, Dr. Daniel G. Nocera’s session on ‘Future of Energy’ promises to be of great interest in view of the rising global oil prices. His group pioneered studies of energy conversion with focus on the generation of solar fuels.
Dr. Nocera, named as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, has recently accomplished a solar fuels process that captures many of the elements of photosynthesis outside of the leaf. This discovery of artificial photosynthesis sets the stage for the large scale, distributed, deployment of solar energy.
A keynote on ‘Next Generation Regenerative Medicine’ by MIT’s celebrated faculty, Dr. Jeffrey M. Karp, Director of Advanced Biomaterials & Stem-CellBased Therapeutics Lab and Harvard Medical School, will set the tone for a discussion on activating the innovation gene by Indian scientists. Breakthroughs in the development of polymers and stem cells for replacement tissues and organs at MIT are expected to address this big limitation.
Leading Indian scientists and well known entrepreneurs will engage in a panel discussion on igniting the innovation gene.
Legendary architect Kent Larson, known for experimenting with living areas to achieve zero-energy, mass customized, scalable Urban Housing, will touch upon use of technologies and interfaces to understand and respond to human activity.
Larson, who directs the Changing Places Research and MIT Living Labs Initiative, will share his experiences of using GPS (Global Positioning System) location of occupants and a context-aware tunable LED (Light Emitting Diodes) lighting among others.
A keynote on Enterprise 2.0 by Andrew McAfee who authored a book by the same name will touch on the ways that information technology affects businesses. McAfee believes that emergent social software platforms like wikis, blogs, prediction markets, Facebook, and Twitter are now being used within and between organizations, and are delivering novel capabilities and powerful results.
A session on ‘Location-Aware Wireless Networks’ by Moe Win of Aeronautics and Astronautics Lab at MIT would dwell on how scientists deploy ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) systems, optical transmission systems, and space communications systems.
Speaking about Emtech, the best attended emerging technologies conference in the US and held at the MIT campus since 2000, Technology Review India’s Group Editor, Mr. N. Suresh, said, “The highlight of the conference will be the two-day cross disciplinary interactive sessions by a dozen researchers from Indian R&D Labs to propose innovative solutions to some India-specific technological challenges.”
The event is expected to highlight excited young Indian faces during the TR35 India awards. “Technology Review India will honor 18 individuals under the age of 35 for their innovative and promising technical work that is likely to shape the future of mankind,” Mr. Suresh added.
The TR35 awards span a range of technologies from biotech and medicine, clean energy, Internet, software development, semiconductors, to new materials research.
“The innovative work of the India TR35 winners will reveal technologies that focus on developments that benefit businesses as much as housewives and disadvantaged children,” says Mr. Pradeep Gupta, founder of specialty publishing giant CyberMedia, the publishers of Technology Review’s India edition. Technology Review was started by MIT in 1899 and is the world’s oldest technology magazine.
Activating the Innovation Gene
Several eminent researchers -- Prof D Balasubramaniam, Research Director, LV Prasad Eye Research Institute, Hyderabad, Dr. Chetan Chitnis, Principal Leader, Malaria Group, ICGEB, Dr. Udaykumar Ranga , Professor, JNCASR Bangalore (HIV), Dr. Kumaravel Somasundaram, Associate Professor, IISc. (cancer stem cells), Dr. Annapurni Rangarajan, Associate Professor, NCBS, TIFR (potential and cancer stem cells) -- pursuing work on novel vaccines such as universal flu vaccine, malaria vaccine, cardiovascular vaccines, cancer and HIV vaccine as well as exciting research in the stem cells space will converge on a single platform to cross fertilize their ideas and learning.
Over 500 participants—CEOs and CXOs from the R&D and Innovation community-- are expected to participate in the much sought after annual event.
About Technology Review
Technology Review (published by Technology Review Inc., an independent media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and by Cyber Media India Limited in India, the oldest technology journal in the world set up in1899 aims to promote the understanding of emerging technologies and focuses on analyzing their commercial, social, and political impacts.) featured innovative technologies and solutions relevant to solving some of the most urgent challenges facing the nation.
About Cyber Media India Ltd.
CyberMedia is the largest specialty media house in South Asia and amongst India's top five magazine publishers. With 15 publications, 12 websites, over 100 events and two weekly TV programs, it reaches out to a community of over 1.5 million people. Its brands have consistently been leading in their respective domains. They cover infotech (Dataquest, PCQuest, ciol.com), technology (MIT’s Technology Review), telecom (Voice&Data), biotech (BioSpectrum), entrepreneurship (Dare), outsourcing (Global Services), and consumer electronics (Living Digital, ld2.in).
Its Media Services include market research – CyberMedia Research; and Content Matrix LLC which provides through its subsidiaries, custom publishing (TDA Group LLC) and content management services (Publication Services Inc. and CyberMedia Services).
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