Inclusive Manufacturing Forum 6-8 April 2017, NIAS, Bengaluru

SPEAKER PROFILES

R Chidambaram Dr. R. Chidambaram is the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and Principal Scientific Advisor to Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet. He is also a Member of Government of India, Vigyan Bhavan PM’s Council on Climate Change, Chairman of National Knowledge Network HLC, and a Annexe, New Delhi member of the Space Commission. He is one of India’s distinguished experimental [email protected] physicists and has made outstanding contributions to many aspects of basic science and +911123022112 nuclear technology. He received his Ph.D. degree from IISc Bangalore in 1962, joined BARC, and became its Director in 1990. He was Chairman, IAEC (1993-2000), and Chair of IAEA BoG (1994-95). He has D.Sc (h.c.) degrees from 20+ Universities in India and abroad. He has more than 200 publications in refereed journals and all his research work has been in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1975 and Padma Vibhushan in 1999. Other recognitions include the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IISc (1991), C.V. Raman Birth Centenary Award (1995), the Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year Award of MRSI (1996), Meghnad Saha Medal of INSA (2002), Homi Bhabha Lifetime Achievement Award of Indian Nuclear Society (2006), INAE Lifetime Contribution Award in Engineering (2009), C. V. Raman Medal of INSA (2013), and others. Baldev Raj Professor Baldev Raj’s work on non-destructive evaluation, different aspects of materials, Director, National Institute of nuclear systems science and technology is well known through 1300 plus publications, 80 Advanced Studies, Bangalore plus books, 100 plus articles in encyclopedia and handbooks, technologies, patents, and [email protected] standards. He has fellowships of all the four academies of Sciences and Engineering in the +91 9894070495 country and several others worldwide. He has given over 500 plenary, keynote, and invited speeches; and is chair or member of some of the most eminent Committees, Councils and Bodies in the country as well as 30 countries worldwide. His contributions to science policy and science diplomacy are recognized worldwide. He has been honored with Homi Bhabha Gold Medal; H K Firodia Award; Om Prakash Bhasin Award; Vasvik Award, National Metallurgist Award; Lifetime Achievement Award of Indian Nuclear Society, Distinguished Material Scientist Award; Padma Shri; and Distinguished Alumni of Indian Institute of Science, among many other distinct honors.

Rajkumar Roy Professor Roy has led Competitive Design research at Cranfield for over sixteen years. He Director of Manufacturing, Director of set up the Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D), a £5.5 million investment from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative HEFCE, Cranfield University, UAL and EEDA. This is an initiative to link design with Manufacturing in Through-life science, technology and management. He has buillt high performance teams and is Engineering Services, Cranfield leading collaborative research and development with industry. He is elected President of University UK the Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE) (2008-2010) and a Fellow of CIRP. He studied [email protected] Production Engineering for BEng and MEng at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and +44 1234 758555 MSc (Intelligent Systems) and PhD (Design Optimisation and Soft Computing) from University of Plymouth, UK.

V Bhujanga Rao Dr. Bhujanga Rao superannuated from DRDO as Distinguished Scientist and Director ISRO Chair Professor, National General for Naval Systems and Materials, prior to joining NIAS. He specialized in Institute of Advanced Studies, Engineering Acoustics, Warship and Submarine Technology, Weapon Hydrodynamics and Bengaluru Hydro Ballistics, Naval Stealth Technology, Medical Implants, Condition Monitoring, etc. [email protected] He was the Chief Designer of low cost indigenous Cochlear implant prosthesis for the +91 8800990254 profoundly deaf; the technology is undergoing multicentric human clinical evaluation. He is the founder President of the Condition Monitoring Society of India. He is recipient of several prestigious awards such as the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities-2015, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, National Design Award from National Design Research Foundation, Stanley L Ehrlich Gold Medal from India Regional Centre of Acoustical Society of America, Vasvik Award for Mechanical Sciences, DRDO Technology Leadership Award, and Agni Award for Excellence in Self Reliance, among others.

Amaresh Chakrabarti Professor Chakrabarti has a BE (Mech Engg, IIEST Shibpur), ME (Mech Design, IISc) and a Professor and Chairman, Centre for PhD (Engg Design, Univ of Cambridge UK). After PhD, he led for 10 years the Design Product Design and Manufacturing, Synthesis group at the EPSRC Centre for Excellence at Cambridge. His interests are in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore creativity, sustainability, informatics, virtual reality and smart manufacturing. He [email protected] authored/edited 13 books, over 280 peer-reviewed articles, and has 10 patents +91 9845937443 granted/pending. He is associated with over 15 International Journals in editorial work. He is a member of Advisory Board of the Design Society, UK, CII National Committee on Design, and Jury for India Design Mark for India Design Council. He founded IDeASLab for research into design creativity, sustainability and innovation. He is Programme chair for the Intl Conf series on Research into Design (ICoRD) and other conferences. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers, the first one elected from outside Europe and North America; and received TUM Ambassador Award from TU Munich Germany.

Manoj Kumar Tiwari Prof. Manoj Kumar Tiwari is working in the domain of Manufacturing Systems and Supply Professor, Department of Industrial & Chain Management. His research and teaching interests are in modeling of Systems Engineering, Indian Institute manufacturing processes and operations analysis in supply chain networks. His research of Technology, Kharagpur has been supported by several industries, and national and international research [email protected] funding agencies. He has published more than 240 papers in International Journals of +91 9734444693 repute. He has been ranked first among top 100 researchers who published in the International Journal of Production Research during 1985-2010; recipient of the ‘Most Influential Researcher Award’ in Operations and Supply Chain Management; among the top 20 most productive authors in the area of Production and Operations Management in the last 50 years; and 2nd among researchers working in Logistics and Supply Chain Management in India. He serves as Associate editor for IJPR, IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics-System, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Intl J of System Science, J of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Sadhana, Neuro-computing and Decision Support Systems. Prof. Tiwari is on the editorial board of several International Journals such as EJOR, IJCIM, PPC, RCIM, IJAMT, and JTS. B Ravi Prof. B. Ravi is Institute Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay, where Institute Chair Professor, Mechanical he heads E-Foundry and BETiC- Biomedical Engineering and Technology incubation Engineering Department, Indian Centre. He is also Adjunct Professor in National Institute of Advanced Studies, and Vice Institute of Technology Bombay President of Governing Council of CMTI, both in Bangalore. In the last 25 years, Prof. Ravi [email protected] spear-headed several translational research projects leading to software and hardware +91 9819817510 products in metal casting and medical domains. He has guided 14 PhD and 75 Masters students; and shared his knowledge and experience through 250 technical papers, 300 invited talks or conference presentations, and 60 training programmes, motivating many others. He is a Fellow of INAE, and received several awards for innovative R&D contributions.

P V Madhusudhan Rao PV Madhusudhan Rao is Mehra Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Mehra Chair Professor, Department of Engineering at IIT Delhi, New Delhi. He also heads Instrument Design and Development Mechanical Engineering, Indian Center and Central Workshop, and is coordinator of IIT Delhi Innovation Center. His Institute of Technology, Delhi current teaching and research interests include product design & manufacturing, [email protected] innovation driven entrepreneurship and design of medical & assistive Devices. Prof. Rao +91 9871346160 is a member of several government committees including Medical Electronics Evaluation and Advisory Group, BIRAC, DBT; Central Sector, Research Scheme on Disability related Technologies, Products and Issues, Ministry of Empowerment and Social Justice; Development of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, TDSP, DST; Technology Development Board, Ministry of Science & Technology; PAC to study R&D gaps in machine tool sector, CDC, DSIR; Committee to Frame Curriculum for courses to be offered at IIITs, MHRD; Scientific Advisory Group, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, DBT; Project Review & Monitoring Committee, Office of the PSA; Strategic Group for National Biodesign Alliance, DBT; and member of Review Committees for several IITs. He is also Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture as well as Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems. Anil K Gupta Dr. Anil K Gupta is well known as the founder of Honey Bee Network, with a mission to Professor, Centre for Management in expand the global as well as local space for innovations at grassroots and college level, Agriculture, Indian Institute of link ideas in informal and formal sector, ensure recognition, respect and reward for Management, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad- creative people; and creating knowledge networks for augmenting innovations. He is 380 015 Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation; President, SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions); Editor, Honey Bee; Secretary, Gian.org. He was also member of advisory board, Global Innovation Centre, UNICEF, New York; Board of Directors, EdCIL (India); National Innovation Council; and others. He was honoured as the Best Researcher at IIMA, 2015, Humanistic Management Lifetime Achievement Award, 2013; Hermes Award, 2012, and Padam Shri, 2004, and many other awards. He was Adjudged as one of the fifty most influential people in the field of IPR around the world in 2003. Prof. Gupta is a widely published author, and member of many governmental and corporate bodies. Madeline Gabriel Madeleine Gabriel leads international research and policy projects to explore how Head, Inclusive Innovation, Nesta, UK innovation can tackle big social challenges. Her current work includes a study on whether [email protected] and how the concept of 'frugal innovation' could apply in Europe; a partnership with the São Paulo State Government to explore how open innovation models could improve healthcare outcomes; and a project for the European Commission on policy development for social innovation. She is passionately interested in the relationship between innovation and inequality, and in exploring the role that innovation - and innovation policy - can play in promoting greater equality.

Anil Rajvanshi Dr. Anil Rajvanshi’s pioneering rural development work for the last three decades Director and Hon. Secretary has spanned a whole spectrum of areas affecting the lives of rural population: renewable Nimbkar Agricultural Research Insitute energy based cooking and lighting; power generation from agricultural residues; Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road, renewable fuel production from agriculture; electric cycle rickshaws; water purification [email protected] and effluent treatment through the use of renewable energy. In this, he was the first person to promote the use of high technology for rural development – an idea that is in vogue nowadays. Born and raised in Lucknow, Rajvanshi went to US for higher studies at the University of Florida after B.Tech and M.Tech from in Mechanical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur. After his PhD in 1979, he taught at the University of Florida for two and half years and then came back to India to apply his training for developing rural India, establishing the energy and sustainable development work at Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) at

Phaltan, Maharashtra.

Monto Mani Associate Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Technologies (formerly ASTRA) and Associate Professor at the Centre for Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, IISc, India. He previously served as Sustainable Technologies (formerly Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian ASTRA) & Centre for Product Design Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. and Manufacturing, IISc, India. [email protected] [email protected]

Daniel Steenstra Daniel is Royal Academy of Engineering’s Professor in Medical Innovation, hosted by Visiting Professor, Cranfield University, Cranfield University. He has a unique combination of skills and expertise, graduating in UK Medicine then working in design and innovation management in companies such as [email protected] Jaguar, Unilever and Alstom. He is MD of Innovations Factory Ltd, which develops and commercialises healthcare products including for near-patient testing. Over the last 18 years Daniel led complex multi-stakeholder projects in academia and industry. At Cranfield, he led activities in the ATMP sector. Daniel’s focus now is action research into the application of disruptive innovation in healthcare.

Anil P Joshi Dr. Anil Prakash has doctoral degree in ecology, combined with his personal conviction Himalayan Environmental Studies and that villagers need to optimize the use of nature's bounty, has formed a marriage of Conservation Orgnization, science and entrepreneurship in his organization Himalayan Environmental Studies and Shuklapur, Dehradun Conservation Organization. He lives among the local people providing them with a +91 9411109073, realistic sense of how much intervention would be needed to change perceptions about [email protected] bio-mass use. After three years of teaching botany in a local college, he decided to take his ideas from the laboratory into the field. His father, who is a farmer, continues to be a strong source of encouragement; his wife and son are also part of his mission. It is not everyone who has the satisfaction of doing something which impacts close to 5 lakh villagers, in more than 10,000 villages, spread across 9 mountain states of the Himalayas. He has a target to work for people of hills consisting of poor farmers and sharecroppers.

Ambuj Sagar Prof. Sagar works in policies related to science & technology, environment, and Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi development, focusing on the interactions between technology and society. His current Professor of Policy Studies, research is on energy innovation and climate policy, as well as various facets of IIT Delhi technology innovation, environmental politics and processes, and engineering education [email protected] and research. He currently is advising/interacting with various agencies of the Indian Government and several multilateral and bilateral organizations; while in the US, he worked with a range of private and public-sector organizations in the US (including as a staff researcher for a major study on energy R&D for the White House). He currently is a member of the Indian Government's Expert Committee on Low-Carbon Strategies for Inclusive Growth, the US-India Track-II Dialogue on Climate Change, as well as other advisory groups in the Indian Government.

Smita S Mule Smita S Mule is contributing to technology transfer activities of BARC, by evolving a Scientific Officer-H, Technology programme called AKRUTI - Advanced Knowledge and RUral Technology Implementation, Transfer & Collaboration Division, which aims for large scale deployment of spin off technologies developed by BARC/DAE Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, for inclusive growth of rural areas. She has been involved in promoting spin off Trombay, Mumbai-400085 technologies in public domain, transferring these technologies to industries, societal collaborations for setting up Rural Human & Resource Development Facilities, AKRUTI Tech Pack agreements, etc. She has interacted with interested companies, education institutes, NGOs, Trusts, Woman Entrepreneurs, Individual villagers and other Govt. departments. The programme has benefitted more than 40 rural techno-prenuers. D R Mehta Mr. Mehta is Founder and Chief Patron of BMVSS; he is a retired IAS officer and former Founder & Chief Patron Chairman of SEBI; earlier Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He set up BMVSS, Jaipur India Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) in Jaipur in 1975 and is now its full- [email protected] time honorary volunteer. Under his leadership, BMVSS emerged as the largest organization for the handicapped in the world, providing artificial limbs / calipers and other aids and appliances for free, benefitting more than 1 million people so far. An MOU between Stanford University and BMVSS resulted in the development of a new Knee Joint, hailed by the Time Magazine as one of the 50 Best Inventions of the World for the year 2009. In 2008 he was conferred with the Padma Bhushan by the President of India. Other awards include TECH Museum Award for Innovation and Its Use for Humanity, The Indian for Collective Action Award, DIWALI BEHAN Award (conferred by Dalai Lama), CNBC Award for Social Enterprise, Satpal Mittal Award, Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award, etc. He is also a director on the Europe / Asia Board of the Alfred Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA. Pratap Bhanu Singh Bhadoria Prof. Bhadoria was awarded Alexander-von-Humboldt Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Coordinator of Design Innovation in Göttingen University, Germany and ICRA Fellowship of IAC, Wageningen, Netherlands, RuTAG-Cell and FoodSecurity. for field study of farming systems in Guimaras, Philippines. He guided 16 Ph.D., 35 IIT Kharagpur M.Tech. and 30 B.Tech. students and handled 27 sponsored research projects and four [email protected] consultancy including one each from Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, Herons Bonsai Ltd., U.K. and IWMI, Sri Lanka. He published 148 papers and three books and 4 book chapters, and filed 25 patents. He is currently handling two mega projects: (i) National Initiative for Design Innovation (NID) and (ii) Food Security.

L S Ganesh L S Ganesh (aka LSG) has over three decades of academic experience involving teaching, Professor, Department of research and intellectual services, and associations with major professional bodies. His Management Studies, academic interests span the areas of Systems Thinking and Applications, Sustainability IIT Madras, Chennai Studies, Data and Decision Analysis, Social Entrepreneurship, and Project, Technology and Knowledge Management. His research papers continue to be published in reputed academic journals and are cited often. He has been conferred the prestigious ‘Distinguished Fellow’ by Project Management Institute (India) and ‘Distinguished Professor’ by Computer Society of India (Mumbai).

Santosh Kumar Mishra Prof. Santosh Kumar Mishra is currently the Acting Director at the CSIR-Institute of [email protected] Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and holds Master’s degree in Electronic Design Technology from IISc Bangalore. He has received higher training at the University of Wuppertal in West Germany on advanced power conversion systems. He joined CSIR as a Scientist in 1983 and has acquired wide experience since then in R&D work for various projects, academic training programme of scientist trainees, management of R&D programmes, and of late in leading the societal extension programme of CSIR.

Stephen Fox Dr. Stephen Fox has twenty-five years' industry experience as an apprentice, craftsman, [email protected] manager and director. He obtained all his qualifications while working full-time in industry. He has more than fifteen years of experience carrying out scientific research, development, and innovation work. His work is reported in professional periodicals and scientific journals including: Journal of Consumer Culture; Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management; Manufacturing Engineer; Technology Forecasting & Social Change; and Technology in Society. Most relevant to this discussion is his work in socio- technical systems for breaking down barriers to people manufacturing their own prosperity in regions without industrial infrastructure. Himadri Ghosh Prof. Himadri Ghosh is a Director of Banasthali Institute of Design and Dean of Faculty of [email protected] Design and is also the mentor for Craft Village, New Delhi. He has more than 45 years of experience in the area of Craft, Manufacturing, Textiles, Exports Of Garments, Design Education and Institution Building. A former Chairperson (education) of National Institute of Design, he held many positions in the academic and industrial world. He also is associated with the craft sector since 1971 and his involvement is mostly with sustainable livelihood options for craftsman. A textile technologist and turn designer has been associated with design education from last 28 years.

Ketaki Bapat Dr. Ketaki Bapat is currently working as a Senior Scientist in the office of the Principal Scientist 'F', Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India. She is coordinating various initiatives such as Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India Rural Technology Action Group, Identifying gifted children in Maths & Science, Science in [email protected] Ayurveda etc. She holds PhD in Applied Biology, Mumbai University and has worked in the Radio-pharmaceuticals Division, BARC Mumbai prior joining the PSA Office in 2007. She has worked in the area of radio-labelling of phytochemicals, hormones, diagnostic assay techniques, trained several IAEA sponsored trainees, visited Sri-Lanka as an IAEA expert and delivered invited lectures. Sanjay Singh Sanjay Singh completed B.Sc (Tech) in Ceramics Technology from College of Ceramic Scientist G and Advisor Technology in 1984, and subsequently completed B.Tech in Industrial Engineering. He Technology Information, Forecasting worked for over 13 years in Bhilai Steel Plant with experience in Refractory development and Assessment Council (TIFAC), DST, and application. He had designed and also steering the TIFAC MSME Program covering New Delhi more than 40 clusters across the country. He is also piloting the MSME Internship [email protected] scheme, under which students interaction with Industries is facilitated. Earlier he had [email protected] also nucleated the innovation support program TREMAP, under which several technologies have been commercilaized. A S Varadarajan Dr. Varadarajan obtained his BTech from the University of Calicut, M.Tech and PhD from Professor (Retd) IIT Madras. He has done pioneering work in the area of Green Manufacturing with a N S S College of Engineering, Pallakad focus on cutting fluid minimization. He supervised 3 Ph.Ds and at present guiding 3 .Mobile : +91-9496176360. doctoral research programs. He has got 65 publications to his credit. He is the recipient Email:[email protected] of the AIMTDR best research work award 2000, Production Engineering division gold medal of the Institution of Engineers, India (2001), Prof. MM Ghani award for the best college teacher of Calicut University (2004) and Prof. Bahauddin award for the distinguished teacher of Kerala (2013). He developed 3 products, a multi-purpose paddy drier, a gravity assisted coconut de-husker, and a coconut de husker. The Regional Agro Industrial Development Corporation of Kerala Ltd has come forward to manufacture and market them. 7

Keshab Das Prof. Keshab Das holds MPhil (Applied Economics) and PhD (Economics) degrees from the Professor, Gujarat Institute of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a recipient of the VKRV Rao Prize in Social Development Research, Ahmedabad Sciences (Economics) and had been empanelled as an ICCR Chair Professor in Economics. He has been a visiting research fellow/faculty at Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa; University of Insubria, Italy; International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands; University of Manchester, UK; Institute of Developing Economies, Japan; CNRS-REGARDS, France; Maison des Sciences de lHomme, France; and University of Sussex, UK. With eight books, his research focuses on local and regional development; industrialization; informality; innovation; labour and basic infrastructure.

Satish Vasu Kailas Prof. Satish Kailas is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IISc Bangalore, working in Professor, Department of Mechanical the areas of Tribology, Friction Stir Welding and Processing, Environment Friendly Engineering, IISc, Bengaluru Lubricants, Metal Forming, and Design of Special Purpose Machines. [email protected] [email protected]

Vishal Sardeshpande Dr. Sardeshpande (PhD IIT, Bombay) has been associated with Thermax, A.T.E. Adjunct Associate Professor, Center enterprises, National Dairy Development Board, MNRE, and Forbes Marshall for past 20 for Technology Alternatives for Rural years. He has worked for Chemical, Engineering, Textile, Pulp & Paper, Glass, Foundry Areas (CTARA), IIT Bombay. and Steel industries and conducted more than 50 energy studies in these sectors. His specialties are product development, industrial energy studies and application engineering which he has applied for solar process heating, furnaces, steam systems, HVAC systems, compressed air systems, and agro processing. He is currently working on solar process heat applications in milk processing, industrial heating, community cooking; product development for solar roasting, jaggery and turmeric processing; productivity increase for poultry and poly-house farming sector.

V Premnath Dr. V Premnath is championing the cause of technology innovation within NCL, and Head, NCL Innovations, provides leadership for the Intellectual Property Group at NCL. He is also the Director of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune the Venture Center – a technology business incubator on NCL campus. He is scientist in [email protected] Polymer Science & Engineering Division at NCL with an interest in technology development for biomedical products, in which he helped in founding two startups. He holds a B.Tech. from IIT Bombay and Ph.D. from MIT, USA. He has also been a Chevening Technology Enterprise Fellow in London Business School and Cambridge University, UK. He brings with him considerable experience in technology development and commercialization, incubation and innovation management, working with start-up companies and engaging in research and consulting.

Ramya MM Ramya’s area of specialization in Machine Vision and Artificial Intelligence | Professor | Centre for Automation & Robotics, HINDUSTAN UNIVERSITY [email protected]

Pramod Khadilkar Pramod’s areas of research include Industrial Design, Socioeconomics, and Welfare Associate Professor, PES University Economics. Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, [email protected]

V R Mehta Mr. V.R. Mehta was awarded ‘Padma Shri’ by the President of India in 2015 for his Executive President, Jaipur Foot extensive humanitarian work in India and abroad. He worked at senior levels in the 011 46063055 Indian Railways, as Director and Joint Secretary, Ministry of Shipping & Transport, as MD M 09810399054 of Dredging Corporation of India, and as Senior Expert in Asian Development Bank in [email protected] Manila. He was Director of Tata Motors, Birla VXL, TVS Suzuki, Haldia Petrochemicals, MMTC, etc, and is currently a Trustee of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai. Mr. Mehta is also Executive President, Bhagwan Mahaveer Vikalang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), as well as founder President and President Emeritus and International Director of the Mahaveer Phillippines Foundation Inc, Manila, Philippines to fit Jaipur Foot to disabled there. In 2010, Mr Mehta was honoured by the lower House of the Philippine Parliament. Based on their close association for 14 years with Mother Teresa’s work, Mr & Mrs Mehta jointly wrote a book “Mother Teresa - Inspiring Incidents”.

Yogesh Dubey Yogesh Dubey co-founded Implantaire; he is responsible for the operations and steering CEO, Implantaire Technologies Pvt Ltd, its business. As a CEO, he defines the road map for technology and innovation for the Mysuru organization and has gained immense experience from the delivery of hundreds of [email protected] projects within both the consumer and Industrial sectors. He is the primary mover behind Implantaire’s open hardware initiative, which will release two products every year for bridging the technology divide by using IoT. Under his leadership, Implantaire has helped its customers filing dozens of patents for its customers. Hailing from Nagpur, Yogesh Dubey completed his schooling at St. John’s and higher education at Nagpur University. P Balachandra Dr. P Balachandra, a PhD from Indian Institute of Science, is an energy, environment and sustainability expert, and ranked among top 10 management researchers in India. He has about 30 years of experience as a faculty at Indian Institute of Science, and as a visiting expert at Harvard University-USA, UNDP-Bangkok, AIT-Bangkok and IGIDR-Mumbai. He has investigated 46 projects with funding from UNDP, European Commission, World Bank, SIDA, SANEI, RCUK, AIT, TERI, IGIDR, DST and ministries of government of India. Has authored/co-authored six books and published about 120 papers in International and National journals, conferences and edited books. Under his guidance six have completed their Ph.D. degrees and 10 more are working for their Ph.Ds. K P Karunakaran Prof. Karunakaran has over 30 years of professional experience, in the areas of CNC Professor, Department of Mechanical technology, Rapid Manufacturing and Computer Graphics. He was a consultant to Engineering, IIT, Bombay Mercedes-Benz Technology Centre, and has been associated with Fraunhofer institutes in [email protected] Stuttgart and Darmstadt since 1998 as a Humboldt Fellow. He was a Visiting Professor in the University of Metz, and Ecole Centrale de Nantes. He launched OptiLOM, a pre- processor for LOM-RP, in collaboration with DaimlerChrysler and Materialise during EuroMold 2002. He is presently developing two new RM processes, viz., Hybrid Layered Manufacturing and Segmented Object Manufacturing. Helicopters without tail rotors are his passion. He is currently developing a single seater of the coaxial contra-rotor pair configuration.

P J Mohanram P.J. Mohanram is an alumni of the IISc, having earned his ME degree in Machine Design in Senior Adviser, Indian Machine Tool 1969. He then joined HMT’s R&D division, and remained with HMT until he retired as the Manufacturing Association, Bengaluru MD of HMT International in 2004. During his tenure in HMT he developed new [email protected] generation CNC machine tools, and worked with BARC, DGOF and others in supplying advanced manufacturing and automation technologies. After retiring from HMT he is with the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturing Association as Senior Adviser. He works closely with the Heavy Industry Ministry on behalf of the association, and is also on several project monitoring and review committees of DHI; he held a chair in CMTI for High Technology Innovation and is an invitee in TIFAC deliberations on Technology Roadmap for manufacturing in India.

Mukesh Kumar Mukesh Kumar is leading research on industrial resilience. He completed his PhD at IfM University Lecturer in Operations Cambridge, followed by an industrial project funded by Sealed Air Corporation to Management, Institute for operationalise his research outcomes into a manufacturing investment risk evaluation Manufacturing, Cambridge tool. He secured further grant from Three Guineas Trust in 2013 to explore “climate [email protected] change implications for global food supply chains” in collaboration with IfM, 4CMR and +44 1223 338191 British Antarctic Survey. Since then, his research has included food product safety management from developed and developing country perspectives, risk evaluation in pharmaceutical supply, and environment sustainability assessment in global supply networks in four sectors - food, pharmaceuticals, automotive and aerospace. His research continues to focus on sustainability and resilience but is closely related to the emerging manufacturing paradigm of “Distributed Manufacturing”.

Rajesh Urkude Rajesh Urkude is agricultural engineer with PG in marketing management having over Head mKRISHI Planning & Operations, 20+ years of comprehensive experience in Agricultural publications, extension, Biomass Tata Consultancy Services procurement and SCM, Rural networking and Agricultural markets in India including M 8097001948/9930305754 exposure to varied fields like strategic planning, Channel appointment and development, [email protected] Product launch, Business intelligence, Analytics, etc. He has widely written on rural entrepreneurship. He has also designed agri business management courses. As Head – mKRISHI® planning and operations at TCS he is responsible for scaling up the initiative. His most prominent contribution has been PRIDETM (Progressive Rural Integrated Digital Enterprise) business model for farmer organizations. The model focuses on improving agricultural production, productivity by infusing technology, scientific agricultural practices and business management. The model helps farmer organization engage with other stakeholders in market place for collective bargaining for its input requirements and sale of harvested produce. Gurmeet Singh He has rich experience of working in Research & Development in FMCG industry for 18 Global R & D Director, Unilever years inventing, developing and implementing new technologies to deliver novel and [email protected] superior sensorial for beverages. More recently looking at identifying, incubating and market readying disruptive innovations that have potential to be future core in traditional businesses such as tea.

Jyoti Bhat Jyoti Bhat’s is expertise in Physiology, Cell Biolog Health, Nutrition & Consumer Science Manager, Unilever R&D Mobile 7406033044 [email protected]

Dipayan Sanyal Dipayan Sanyal completed B.Tech Chemical Engineering from Jadavpur University in Chief Scientist and Head, Non-oxide 1984, M. Tech, Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1986, and Ph. D, Mechanical Ceramics and Composite Division, Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2004. He joined as a Scientist in the CSIR-National CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur and subsequently moved to CSIR-CGCRI in 2002. Research lnstitute, Kolkata He has been the Indian Coordinator of several large funded India EU FP7 projects, such as [email protected] SIMUGLASS and AGATHA where his EU counterparts were Fraunhofer, IPT, Aachen, Germany and CEA, LITEN, France, respectively. He has been awarded University Gold Medal and J. K. Medal for securing first rank in B. E in Jadavpur University and JSPS RONPAKU fellowship for collaborative research at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Since 2014, he has been appointed as honorary Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India in the faculty of Engineering Sciences.

Trinath Pachal Dr. Trinath Pachal has M. Sc (Work Physiology & Ergonomics), M. Phil (Environmental Bokaro Steel Plant, Science), Ph.D (Human Engineering), and CIH (Industrial Health) degrees. He is the only SAIL, Bokaro. designated Industrial Ergonomist in India looking after ergonomics and work [email protected] physiological applications in Steel Industry. He is Guest faculty of several IITs, NITs as well as HRDs of several industries. He has published over 60 research papers and is a national resource person on Energy & Environment, NCSTC Network, DST and honorary Member of BIS (PGD 15, Ergonomics). He has worked as Convenor, Rural Development Forum, Institute of Engineers (I), AGS, national Bratachari movement and Adviser, Science for Society, Jharkhand, and as President, Vigyan Jagaran Samity, Jharkhand. He has received several national awards including The President of India Prize, Production Engineering Gold Medal, Jawaharlal Nehru award of IE(I), AISMOC award ( thrice) of SAIL, National

Occ.Health, Safety & Environment Award, etc. N Viswanadham Professor Viswanadham has held several prestigious positions including Professor and Emeritus Professor & INSA Senior Executive Director for The Center of Excellence Global Logistics and Manufacturing Scientist Strategies in the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; Deputy Executive Director of The Computer Science and Automation Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific and also Professor in Department of Mechanical and Indian Institute of Science Production Engineering at the National University of Singapore; Chairman of the [email protected] Department of Computer Science and Automation and Chairman of Electrical Sciences Division, Tata Chemical Chair Professor, and INAE Distinguished Professor at IISc. He is the recipient of the 1996 IISc Alumni award for excellence in research. His awards include the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Council of IISc, and Prof S K Mitra Memorial Award by INAE. His current research efforts are on Global supply/service chain networks, Green supply chain design, Food security in India and Smart village development.

S S Meenakshisundaram Dr. S. S. Meenakshisundaram is a Post Graduate in Mathematics from Loyola College, [email protected] Madras and holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from Jamia Milia Islamia National University, New Delhi. He joined the Karnataka cadre of the Indian Administrative Service in 1968. He had held a number of assignments including Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj department. He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, Uk for one year. Besides several articles and papers on Panchayatiraj and Rural Development, he has also published a book on "Decentralization in Developing Countries" with special reference to Nigeria, China and India during 1994. After working as Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Karnataka and Joint Secretary to three Prime Ministers of India, he also served as Adviser in the Planning Commission and

Secretary in the ministry of Rural Development, and as Dy. Chairman of the State Planning Board. Currently he is the Executive vice Chairman of MYR ADA, a voluntary organization in the field of building people's institutions for development and a Visiting Professor at Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. His research interests include rural development, poverty alleviation, voluntary action and decentralized governance. Shirshendu De Sirshendu De did his B. Tech. (1990), M. Tech. (1993) and PhD (1996), all from Professor, Department of Chemical Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His research interest includes Engineering, membrane separation, process modeling, flow through microchannel. He supervised 15 IIT, Kharagpur. PhD students. He has authored more than 245 publications, 8 books, 8 book chapters, 14 [email protected] patents and transferred 4 technologies. He is recipient of many awards including Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2011), Innovation award (2016), INAE silver jubilee award (2012), Herdillia Award (2010), INAE Young Engineer Award (2001). He is fellow of INAE and NASI. He is the founder of the spin-off company M/s, Technoquipts Separation Pvt. Ltd.

K R Ravi Prof. K.R. Ravi’s area of specialization is Metallurgy, Composites, Nanostructures Associate Professor in Metallurgical Materials and Nanocomposites. Engineering Mobile: +91- 97898 19362 [email protected]

Bhanu Prasad Pinnamaneni Dr. Bhanu Prasad Pinnamaneni is the Chief Mentor, Jekson Vision, USA, Dubai, India & Chief Mentor, Jekson Pvt Ltd Director (R&D), Kelenn Technology, France. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering; Postdoctoral [email protected] research in France. He received “Academic Award of Excellence”. He is advisor to more than 15 industries and R&D Centres in France, Germany, Norway and India. He published more than 150 articles related to applications of Machine Vision using image processing, Mathematical Morphology in different domains. He is member of editorial board for scientific journals. He has 35 years of experience in industries and academic organisations in Europe based in Paris, France. He is Life member in CSI and AMSI. Research interests are related to immediate industrial applications impacting the society which include Virtual Reality, Augmented reality, Digital Healthcare, Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Roads, Smart Cities, Machine Vision, Smart Factory and Intelligent Manufacturing. He had developed several innovative products for Medical, Automotive and Pharmaceutical industry which are in the market. He has given invited talks in India, USA and Europe, to motivate young researchers and entrepreneurs. 12

Venkatesh Dutta Dr. Venkatesh Dutta completed post-doctoral research from School of Public Policy, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland and PhD from Faculty of Policy and Planning, TERI University, New Department of Environmental Science Delhi in 2006 with major research focus on environmental management and urban water (DES), systems. He has about 15 years of professional experience in areas of water quality BBAU, Luknow management, land-use planning and environmental impact assessment. Currently he is 9918466778 the Dy. Director of the Startup Centre, a joint project of DST and MHRD, and a member of [email protected] State Science and Technology Programme (SSTP) of Ministry of Science and Technology. He is also the Coordinator of DST-Centre for Policy Research in Science, Technology and Innovation. He is a British Chevening Fellow, as well as Fulbright-Nehru Fellow. He is the recipient of UN Fellowship (UNITAR) in ‘Technology for Development’ at EPFL, Lausanne; Sir Ratan Tata Trust Award, 2006; Global Development Network Research Medal, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2005; GDN Research Medal Finalist, Kuwait, 2008 and Budapest, 2012; and Global Development Marketplace Finalist, The World Bank, Washington DC, 2008. He has presented several invited lectures at universities and institutions of repute worldwide. He has mentored five doctoral candidates and supervised more than 30 masters’ theses on different aspects of natural resources management and environmental planning. He has to his credit three edited books, more than 30 research papers in journals of international repute and books, and several op-ed articles. Apart from academics, he looks after university innovation club, which was started by Hon’ble President of India, and is a member of Waterkeeper Alliance, USA. S K Babu SK Babu is Project director in Ecogreenunit, Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Project Director Coimbatore. His projects are areca leaf plates making project/banana fibre project/handi Ecogreenunit C-5,Agri Business crafts project/organic farming/agri tourism/eco-vastra [herbal clothing]/women’s Directorate Tamilnadu Agricultural empowerment/income generation activities/rural upliftment. University Coimbatore 641003 M.09600876767 [email protected]

S Vaidhyasubramaniam Prof. Vasudevan obtained is Ph.D. from Concordia University, Canada. He has more than Chair Professor of Management & 18 years of combined research and teaching experience in India and Canada. He Secured Adjunct Professor of Law, University first rank and Gold medal during the Post Graduation. He Finished the Dean, Planning & Dev. Sastra guidance of 3 Ph.D. scholars and one M.S. (Research). His research interest is Structural University Thanjavur Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Engineering. [email protected]

R Vasudevan He Obtained is Ph.D. from Concordia University, Canada. Having more than 18 years of Professor of Centre for Innovative combined research and teaching experience in India and Canada. He Secured University Manufacturing Research first rank and Gold medal during the Post Graduation. He Finished the guidance of 3 VIT University, Ph.D. scholars and one M.S. (Research). His research interest is Structural Engineering, Vellore, India Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering 9500027328 [email protected]

K R Sridhara Murthi Prof. K. R. Sridhara Murthi is currently the Director of International Institute for [email protected] Aerospace Engineering and Management under Jain University and had been an Adjunct Faculty at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He is an expert in space policy, international affairs and space industry development. He earlier served ISRO as Distinguished Scientist and as a senior expert in the office of Advisor to PM (Information Infrastructure and Innovations). He is also a Vice President of the International Institute of Space Law. He recently co-chaired International Academy of Astronautics study on “Global Perspectives on Regional Cooperation in Space: Policies, Governance & Legal Tools”

Jaideep Prabhu Jaideep Prabhu is Professor of Marketing and Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian [email protected] Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has published in leading academic journals and his work has been profiled by the BBC, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Economist, The Financial Times, Le Monde, The New York Times, and The Times. He has consulted with or taught executives from Bertelsmann, Barclays, BP, BRAC, BT, GE, the UK Government, IBM, ING Bank, the NHS, Nokia, Philips, Roche, Shell, Siemens, Unilever, Vodafone and Xerox, among others. He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, described by The Economist as “the most comprehensive book yet” on the subject of frugal innovation. His most recent book, Frugal Innovation, was published in February 2015 and won the CMI’s Management Book of the Year Award 2016. Sadhana Relia Sadhana Relia studied at University of Delhi (1976-1982). She received merit scholarship [email protected] for PG degree in biological sciences, and university best prize for graduate degree in education. She was inducted as a Senior Scientific Officer in DST through UPSC in 1984, where she is engaged in India’s S&T cooperation related policies, strategies, institutional and financial frameworks, international collaborative programs at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels (joint research projects, technology missions, exploratory scientific mission joint workshops, regional & international STI Ministerial Meetings, Round Tables etc). She has been a Pearson Fellow awarded by IDRC, Canada in 1992. She also participated from India in WHO-ICMR Program on Legal Aspects of biomedical research involving human subjects in 2003. Her division is responsible for India’s science & technology collaboration, at an inter-governmental level, with numerous Regional Entities & Groupings, UN & International Organizations, and Multilateral Platforms. She contributed to the development of Indo-EU S&T cooperation leading to India becoming a strategic partnership country engaged on parity basis and with co-investment of resources. Her current focus is on DST-TWAS S&T partnership, BRICS STI cooperation and ASEAN-India S&T relations.

P Goswami Dr. Goswami’s early education had been in Assam, with M. Sc. in Physics from Gauhati Director, NISTADS University. He then completed his PhD and post-doctoral studies at IISc, followed by a New Delhi Visiting Professorship at IIT-Kanpur, then joined the CSIR-Centre for Mathematical [email protected] Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS) in 1993 with primary focus of research [email protected] on developing forecasting capabilities combined with basic understanding of the atmospheric and climate processes. There he headed the Climate and Environmental Modelling Programme. Dr. Goswami received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in earth and planetary sciences in 2001 for his fundamental contributions. He was an Invited Prof. (2001-2003) at ENS, France at LMD. Dr Goswami also acted as a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report 5, Working Group I. He also initiated pioneering outreach activity in collaboration with Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, Govt. Karnataka, to provide forecasts at hobli level (village cluster), with novel methodology for skill and user acceptance. Dr. Goswami has 76 high-impact SCI publications. He has also guided eight PhD students so far from different universities. He is a professor at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, where he served as Dean, Mathematical and Information Science. He has acted as Chairman/member of many institutional and research Committees in India. He also maintains active collaboration with several national and international agencies/groups.