mTech, the emerging technologies conference from MIT's Technology Review, will begin in New Delhi on March 2. The two-day conference will see nearly 100 of the world’s leading tech and business visionaries discussing incubated technologies that are ready to hit the market.
The conference will enable decision makers to observe cutting edge know-how on greener and affordable fuel alternatives, inexpensive life-saving drugs and softwares that predict anything from traffic patterns to profit-making opportunities in stock markets.
The event will run parallel to the launch of the India edition of Technology Review, the world's oldest technology publication that was founded in 1899.
“Asian nations became economic powerhouses by exporting IT services, drug design, embedded systems to the world. By bringing EmTech 2009 to Indian shores we hope to bring into sharper focus emerging technology innovations from Asia and Australia,” Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Technology Review said during his India visit to announce the launch of the first ever MIT Technology Review event in India.
Dwelling on the significance of the timing of the EmTech conference especially at a time when India faces economic slowdown, Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Chairman of CyberMedia, South Asia's largest specialty publisher said, “The foundations of economic revival are generally built on technology innovation. This conference will help participants identify emerging technology innovations that will impact in strategy and business results.”
“India, home to off-shoring companies in IT software, biotech and embedded chip design can use this inflexion point to develop itself into a R&D hub for the world,” Mr. Gupta added.
The conference will see sessions on wide-ranging topics like education, health, green energy, biotechnology and information technology, with industry experts describing latest innovations in these fields. Cloud computing and semantic web are some of the forward-thinking sessions. Another exciting session will be on nano materials and their impact on power products.
With the meet straddling technological innovations in areas as diverse as personal genomics to green businesses, participants can hope to get answers to questions like how soon will parents be able to walk out of a hospital with their newborn baby's genetic code on a DVD; what technologies will help businesses cut down their IT management costs and what are the alternate energy sources that will help businesses plan for the oil-scarce future.
Renowned speakers Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab Chairman Emeritus, and Dr. Subra Suresh, Dean at MIT School of Engineering, will lend their expertise in ‘taking technology from labs to market’ session. Adding to its intellectual might will be EmTech India 09’s eminent advisory panel consisting of ideas man Nandan Nilekani, healthcare pioneer Dr. Prathap Reddy, biotech policy leader Dr M.K. Bhan, Co-founder and Chairman of Sycamore Networks Gururaj Deshpande, CISCO Systems’ Padmashree Warrior and mentors like IIM Ahmedabad's Prof Anil Gupta.
Participants can also look forward to listening to visionaries from Industry, Academia and Science and their ideas for the Next Century.
But the event will not be all talk. Alongside, there will be a showcase of demos and prototypes of innovative products that are ready to be taken to the market place. This will give an opportunity to Research & Development labs, educational institutions, start-ups and tech companies to make pitches to potential investors and large businesses. Incidentally, a special session on investing in India to be addressed by Mohanjit Jolly, Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will provide a spur to entrepreneurs.
Each year close to a thousand business and technology leaders visit EmTech at the MIT's Cambridge campus to discover critical innovations that changes the way they do business. Now, you can take a glimpse of the future right here in India.
Conference delegates will include participants from Australian, Chinese, Japanese, Malaysian, Singaporean, Taiwanese, British and American companies.
The conference will enable decision makers to observe cutting edge know-how on greener and affordable fuel alternatives, inexpensive life-saving drugs and softwares that predict anything from traffic patterns to profit-making opportunities in stock markets.
The event will run parallel to the launch of the India edition of Technology Review, the world's oldest technology publication that was founded in 1899.
“Asian nations became economic powerhouses by exporting IT services, drug design, embedded systems to the world. By bringing EmTech 2009 to Indian shores we hope to bring into sharper focus emerging technology innovations from Asia and Australia,” Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Technology Review said during his India visit to announce the launch of the first ever MIT Technology Review event in India.
Dwelling on the significance of the timing of the EmTech conference especially at a time when India faces economic slowdown, Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Chairman of CyberMedia, South Asia's largest specialty publisher said, “The foundations of economic revival are generally built on technology innovation. This conference will help participants identify emerging technology innovations that will impact in strategy and business results.”
“India, home to off-shoring companies in IT software, biotech and embedded chip design can use this inflexion point to develop itself into a R&D hub for the world,” Mr. Gupta added.
The conference will see sessions on wide-ranging topics like education, health, green energy, biotechnology and information technology, with industry experts describing latest innovations in these fields. Cloud computing and semantic web are some of the forward-thinking sessions. Another exciting session will be on nano materials and their impact on power products.
With the meet straddling technological innovations in areas as diverse as personal genomics to green businesses, participants can hope to get answers to questions like how soon will parents be able to walk out of a hospital with their newborn baby's genetic code on a DVD; what technologies will help businesses cut down their IT management costs and what are the alternate energy sources that will help businesses plan for the oil-scarce future.
Renowned speakers Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab Chairman Emeritus, and Dr. Subra Suresh, Dean at MIT School of Engineering, will lend their expertise in ‘taking technology from labs to market’ session. Adding to its intellectual might will be EmTech India 09’s eminent advisory panel consisting of ideas man Nandan Nilekani, healthcare pioneer Dr. Prathap Reddy, biotech policy leader Dr M.K. Bhan, Co-founder and Chairman of Sycamore Networks Gururaj Deshpande, CISCO Systems’ Padmashree Warrior and mentors like IIM Ahmedabad's Prof Anil Gupta.
Participants can also look forward to listening to visionaries from Industry, Academia and Science and their ideas for the Next Century.
But the event will not be all talk. Alongside, there will be a showcase of demos and prototypes of innovative products that are ready to be taken to the market place. This will give an opportunity to Research & Development labs, educational institutions, start-ups and tech companies to make pitches to potential investors and large businesses. Incidentally, a special session on investing in India to be addressed by Mohanjit Jolly, Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will provide a spur to entrepreneurs.
Each year close to a thousand business and technology leaders visit EmTech at the MIT's Cambridge campus to discover critical innovations that changes the way they do business. Now, you can take a glimpse of the future right here in India.
Conference delegates will include participants from Australian, Chinese, Japanese, Malaysian, Singaporean, Taiwanese, British and American companies.
