Tula’s Institute and Tech Counsellor were designated with the responsibility of holding ‘the prestigious International Training and Internship Program on ‘Opportunities for R&D and Tech-Driven Startup’ organised from 20th June 2020 to 15th July 2020. The program was co-organised by Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences ‘Deemed to be University’ Karad, Maharashtra; sponsored by Uttarakhand Technical University & TEQIP – III. Additionally, the program received much organisational support as Technical, Knowledge and CSR Partner, which includes Yuvayana Tech & Craft P. Ltd, Ramanujan Academy of Science and Technology, Kaviraj Foundation, Swachh Neer, SEWA, Boudhik Ventures Private Limited.

The program started and conducted with the vision of contributing towards the government of India vision an mission, ‘making India a global R&D hub’. Under the umbrella of DISA & AVNI, the program had 22 sessions which include on the multidisciplinary domain and had 10+ practical session. The sessions included online hands-on learning presentations and training by 18 leading Domain-specific experts from various countries, reputed organisation and scientific labs. The session experts were well-recognised experts from the Industry and Academic world.

Online sessions and training were conducted using the various online platform including Google Meet, GoToMeeting, Stream Yard, Facebook and YouTube. The strong technical support since the inception, implementation and for successful completion of the program made it a huge success. The most highlighted success of the event was as follows:

  • More than 1200+ participants had shown the interest for the program
  • 11 Institution collaborated for this one month extensive R&D and Startup focused program, which was of first of its kind towards boosting startup ecosystem.
  • 15,000+ views on Facebook and 3,300+ Views on YouTube sessions for this program, till date (16 July 2020).
  • Participants from almost all states of India, and from 6 Asian Countries attended the program.

Sessions included the following 18 experts and their vast knowledge and expertise on the domain provided a new horizon of opportunities and ideas to work upon to all the participants. In the short span of one month, the experts covered most of the major topic of academic and industrial importance which have huge potential to turn ideas into innovations; and innovations into the business. The detailed sessions, hand-on learning experience and the opportunity for the audience to interact in live sessions created great learning space.

The experts and their individual topics of discussion are listed below:

  1. Dr Fabio Masi, R&D Manager at IRIDRA from Italy, on the topic Nature-based Research & Innovation solutions for the next generation startups.
  2. Dr Rajkumar Halder, Founder & CEO Ruhvenile Biomedical, New Delhi, India on the topic R&D and R&I in Defence and Biomedical for next-generation startup and entrepreneurs.
  3. Mr Madan Kanala, Founder & CEO SnowM Inc from Canada on the topic Digital enablement of the workforce through IoT technologies.
  4. Mr Saurabh Trivedi, Founder and Director, Boudhik Ventures Pvt Ltd, India, on the topic IPR – Assets for the Startup and relevance of IPR in startup ecosystem.
  5. Er Ajit Kumar Yadav, Researcher NASA-ISRO, Founder Ramanujan Academy, Maharashtra, India, on the topic Understanding of Communication and its application for Space Satellite program
  6. Er Naveen Kumar, Research Engineer from France, on the topic Communication for smart home automation, and smart tech-enabled devices.
  7. Er Abhishek Gupta, Research Engineer from Hungary, on the topic Terahertz (THz) antenna design, Non linear THz time-domain spectroscopy, and ultrafast carrier dynamics in semiconductor materials.
  8. Shiva Prasad Koyyada, Data Scientist from INSOFE Education, Hyderabad, India, on the topic Detour of Data science, Intro Supervised learning- linear Regression with hands-on and error metrics.
  9. Dr Raman Sharma, Senior Scientist from CSIR-NEERI, New Delhi, India, on the topic Opportunities for sustainable green tech startups’
  10. Dr (Prof) Manoj Panda, State Project Implementation Unit (SPIU) Uttarakhand, India, on the topic Sustainable future and scope of Solar for Startups.
  11. Dr Vinay Chowdhary, Assistant Professor, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Uttarakhand, India, on the topic IoT and Embedded, in today’s Startups and Tech Driven R&D ecosystem scenario, Practical Approach
  12. Dr Sunil Semwal, HOD & Professor, Tulas Institute Uttarakhand, India, on the topic Opportunities on Solar & Renewable for Green Tech and Sustainable Future and Government Initiatives
  13. Ms Sakshi Gupta, Assistant Professor, Graphic Era University, Uttarakhand, India, on the topic Understanding Issues and Challenges In Rainwater Harvesting For A Better Sustainability Of Water Resources.
  14. Mr Mukesh Chandra Kestwal, Incubation Manager, Atal Incubation Centre – EMPI, New Delhi, India, on Tech-Driven Economy, Sustainable Future and Government Initiatives for Incubation and Startups
  15. Er Udayveer Mittal, R&D Embedded Engineer, R2E Technologies Pvt Ltd, Uttarakhand, India, on the topic Hardware Implementation for R&D and Project Development.
  16. Dr Jayant Panwar, Research Associate, Krishna Institute of Medical Science, India, on the topic Possibilities in NanoTechnology based R&D for Agri-Tech, Challenges and Opportunity for Startups.
  17. Mohan HR, Chair-ACM Chennai, Former Editor- IEEE IC, Newsletter, ICT Consultant, Chennai, India, on the topic Role of Technical Associations in Nurturing Innovation and Promoting Entrepreneurship.
  18. Dr. Anuj Bhardwaj, Professor-Computer Science & Engineering, Chandigarh University, Punjab, India, on the topic NAAC Vision for Experiential Learning Approach for Cultivating Innovation Amongst Students.
  19. Yasodhan Mandke, Senior Technical Research Advisor, Tech Counsellor & Independent Industry Consultant, Maharashtra, India interacted with participants during live sessions and discussed on the topic Astrophotonics -Minitarized chips for vast Space, R&D, commercialization & application to astronomy for space exploration.
  20. Renu Thapliyal, Co-Founder & Director, Tech Counsellor, Founding Member, Kaviraj Foundation, Uttarakhand, India interacted with participants during live sessions and discussed on the topic R&D and R&I ecosystem opportunities on technology development for next-generation entrepreneurs.

The success of the program is mostly derived from the fact that ‘how many participants actively participated the program’; despite such a hectic and long program, the International Internship program received 73% – 77% of attendance on an average in all session. Total of 190+ participants registered on this funded program and have participated on the online exam as well which was conducted on 15th of July 2020. Questions based on the whole one month program were asked from the participants for which automated online result system was created.

Vote of thanks from Tulas team was presented by Dr. Sunil Semwal, Organising Secretary of the Program, he emphasized to have such more program in coming month for the benefits of the students and so they may start thinking on turning their ideas into a successful business. He also shared about the Tula’s Business Incubator Centre.

From Tech Counsellor team, Mr. Mukesh Kestwal, Research & Technical Advisor, concluded the session, with thanking remark to all the sponsors and organisers especially to Uttarakhand & Technical University, Uttarakhand and Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences ‘Deemed to be University’, Maharashtra, he extended his heartful thanks to the organisation for supporting the endeavour of Government of India and of Tech Counsellor to foster the startup ecosystem in the country and towards creating tech-driven startups.

This program was hosted by Tech Counsellor, under the initiative Digital Incubation Support for All (DISA) ® and A Virtual Network of Indians (AVNI)™.

The organising team includes Dr. Sunil Semwal, Dr. Jayant Pawar, Dr. Anuj  Bhardwaj, Mr. Diwaker Pant, Renu Thapliyal, Parag Verma, Praveen Kumar, Priyanka Gusain, Monika Thapliyal, Ritesh Kestwal, Mukesh Kestwal, Akhilesh Singh, Ravi Patel, Satyendra, Ravindra, and the team from Tula’s, Krishna Institute and Tech Counsellor.

Report Prepared by:
Monika Thapliyal
Senior Associate, Tech Counsellor ®

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