Tag : Academia

Roorkee (The Hawk): Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) Department of Design organized a two day Industry Academia Meet from April 22-23, 2023. The objective of Academia Meet - Insight on Innovation: Success Stories - was to provide a platform that connected corporates and experts from different fields and facilitated sharing of experiences related to the field of innovation. The visitors were also given a glimpse of ongoing frontier research activities at various Centres of Excellence in the campus. The workshop sought to reduce the gap between academia and industry, and to deliberate upon how students could help innovation in industry to build products in the most optimized way. Chief Guest of the inauguration session was Prof. Apurbba Kumar Sharma, Dean of academic Affairs and the Guest of Honor, Mr. Rajat Bhalotia (Managing Director, Wonder products) shared their inspiring entrepreneurial journey with the students. Among other dignitaries were Prof. Inderdeep Singh, Head of Department of Design. Additionally, Prof. Rajat Agrawal, Associate Dean of Innovation and Incubation guided the audience with the importance of innovation management and how the introduction of ISO 56000 would create a system of innovation management. The students received guidance from esteemed speakers who were pioneers in their respective fields, while they shared their success stories of innovation. Amongst the speakers were Mr. Sunil Ranganathan, who is an experienced AI/ML Product leader from Tredence, shared how AI/ML are being used in regular business activities, focusing on Design excellence through Ideation and Innovation. Mr. Harshit Sinha, Senior Production Manager, and Mr. Bablu Dey, Lead Technologist from ITC shared how ITC is buil ...