Innovation Station

We welcome our guest speaker Mr Unmesh Kulkarni, Founder Member Of OceanicCircles & A Former Director Of Honeywell User Experience, Philips Design. 

 

Social innovation is the practice of using creativity to develop solutions which improve the well being of people & society. It promotes collaborative action, creative thinking & innovative action to address social need. It uses the experience & insight of those impacted & those concerned to come up with new solutions & approaches. Social innovation is a way of making change. How you make that change is as important as what change you want to bring about. Successful social innovation is informed & characterized by the values of empowerment, fairness, inclusion & well-being. In fact, the purpose of social innovation we believe is to bring about a fairer, more equal world! Social innovation can help to address local, national & global challenges in our world. Our belief is that by learning social innovation - how to innovate for social good - we give people the tools to bring about the change that is needed. 

 

Unmesh is a founder member of Oceanic Circles, a collective for social innovation & impact. Previously he has handled global & regional design leadership roles at Honeywell & Philips, working across continents, living in India & China. Prior to that, he co-founded a multi-disciplinary design consultancy & appropriate technology lab, Design Matters. 

 

Unmesh has designed physical & digital solutions globally across sectors, technologies, & regions, successfully bringing branded product & service solutions to markets at scale across healthcare, industrial IoT, life-safety, consumer appliances & electronics, lighting, FMCG, crafts, appropriate technologies etc. 

 

A firm believer in the power of simplicity & creative empowerment in solving complex, real-world problems, he has a number of design awards to his credit including- 2009 INDEX: Award, Red-Dot, Design for Asia, IDEA Eco-Habitat Award, iF Award etc. 

 

We welcome our guest speaker Mr. Tal Catran. 

 

Mr. Tal is a prominent figure in the global innovation ecosystem. 

 

Founded 14 startup accelerators since 2012, in both Israel and abroad, has rendered him a Guru on building accelerators, hubs and startup ecosystems. 

 

He serves as Advisory Board Member in various companies and technology startups, mainly in CyberSecurity, IT, AdTech, Retail, Drones, Home Land Security and others. 

 

His active involvement with hundreds of startups, accelerators, incubators, innovation hubs, tech parks and other major players in the entrepreneurial ecosystems, stretches from Israel to Eastern Europe and Asia. 

 

Mr. Tal is also a busy Keynote Speaker and TEDx Speaker, on tech startups, innovation, and entrepreneurship, sharing his professional toolbox to mentor, motivate and inspire entrepreneurs around the globe. 

 

Corona world Lockdown made Mr. Tal perform his own adaptation and added a new title to his name Webinar Guru, sharing his experience worldwide. 

We welcome Mr Praveen Juyal, Senior Consulting Partner, MIT ID Innovation Programme. He is a Global Design Driven Innovation & Digital Transformation strategist & practitioner with 2 decades of industry experience. He has held senior leadership & management positions at Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale.  In his last role as a Head of Design-Driven Innovation with Societe Generale, Praveen was instrumental in conceiving, developing & institutionalizing the Design-Driven Innovation Center of Excellence that worked at a strategic confluence of Technology, Business and Design. At MIT ID Innovation Programme, he contributes to the academia space by equipping the young student-innovators with industry-readiness. 

We welcome our Guest Speaker, Innovator Mr. Anjan Biswas, he leads the Innovation charter at Amdocs, India. With a career of 18+ years, he has experience in domains ranging from systems programing in a startup to development and scoping for telecom BSS solutions and further leading large teams of developers and architects for projects across the Globe. Anjan brings rich experiences in driving Innovation , Engagement, Leadership and Knowledge building for a CoE within Amdocs and also enabling the “Innovation in Practice” culture across all the business units across Amdocs India. Prior to joining Amdocs, Anjan was instrumental in building a webserver from scratch using the FSM framework in a startup. 

We welcome our guest speaker Mr. Ankit Kukadia, Co-head of Team Avishkar Hyperloop, the 28 member student team of IIT Madras (#NIRF Ranking 1) doing indigenous research and development for building the First-Ever Self Propelled, Completely Autonomous Hyperloop Pod of India. 

 

He has worked extensively on system-level design and optimization of the Hyperloop Pod and has played an instrumental role in establishing a strong network between Alumni, industries, and the team. 

 

He has been the Chief Strategist in laying down the business plan for raising funds amounting to INR 1.2 Crores for the project and successfully executed it within 3 months without a dedicated Sponsorship and marketing team. 

 

He is a TEDx Speaker and in the past has also been invited by IIT Madras Foundation to deliver a talk in Silicon Valley on Hyperloop Technologies. 

 

Avishkar Hyperloop is among the Top 22 teams out of more than 1600+ globally. Their designs had been approved by engineers from Tesla, SpaceX, and Boring Company for finals of SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition held in July'19 at its Headquarters in Hawthorne, LA. 

 

It is the only team from India as well as Asia to have been able to achieve this feat. 

We welcome our guest speaker Mr. Chinmay Vadnere, Director - Outreach & Operation, Jagriti Yatra. 

 

This curated series will feature a variety of industry thought leaders who are a part of the global MIT ID Innovation ecosystem. 

 

Jagriti Yatra is a 15-day long, national train journey that takes you 8000 kilometres across the length & breadth of India, to understand & build the India of smaller towns & villages through enterprise. You meet role models, change-makers, leaders that started out on a journey just like you & made a difference to thousands of lives. You forge bonds with like-minded young leaders, your co-Yatris & complete strangers. They become your closest friends & comrades for life. 

 

You will be exposed to role models who are building India through enterprise; through them you will find inspiration to undertake your own building journey. 

 

500 youngsters, selected from thousands of applicants, many from smaller towns and villages, join the Yatra every year, with the goal of creating awareness & start a movement of 'building India through enterprise'. 

 

Mission : to nurture 1 Lakh entrepreneurs by 2022 & create 10 Lakh jobs in this process. 

Launching BOOKMARKED, an intellectually-stimulating series of book-reading sessions, hosted by MIT ID Innovation Programme. 

About the Bestseller and the Author :  

We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money and yet no political party of the right or left is providing us with answers. So, too, does the time seem to be coming to an end when we looked to economists to help us define the qualities necessary to create a successful society. We need a new movement. One defined by a young historian who can tell us the truth about how we got here. They’d be a political outsider, the voice of their generation, one who doesn’t harness rage or agitate grievances but who provides us with the answer’s for which we’ve been looking. That person is Rutger Bregman and his vision is Utopia for Realists. 

Prof. Harshit Desai, Director, Innovation Programme will be in conversation with our Guest reader, Mr. Shekhar Badve, founding Director of Lokus design, a leading Strategy & Design company. A NID alumni with 17+ years of diverse experience in Strategic Design, Innovation, Design Research. Jury at GOI's India Design Mark, Member of CII’s National Committee on Design, Design Interventions in Smart City, Member of Board of Studies, MIT Institute of Design. 

 

So, tune in to BOOKMARKED & let's learn.innovate.lead 

Launching BOOKMARKED, an intellectually-stimulating series of book-reading sessions, hosted by MIT ID Innovation Programme. 

About the bestseller : 

Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers. 

- Major New York Times bestseller 

- Over two million copies sold 

- Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011 

- Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of 2011 

- 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient 

- Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds 

In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.  

System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional;  

System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.  

About the Author :  

In 2015, The Economist listed Daniel Kahneman as the seventh most influential economist in the world. 

 

Prof. Harshit Desai, Director, Innovation Programme will be in conversation with our Guest reader, Mr. Shekhar Badve, founding Director of Lokus design, a leading Strategy & Design company. A NID alumni with 17+ years of diverse experience in Strategic Design, Innovation, Design Research. Jury at GOI's India Design Mark, Member of CII’s National Committee on Design, Design Interventions in Smart City, Member of Board of Studies, MIT Institute of Design. 

 

So, tune in to BOOKMARKED & let's learn.innovate.lead 

MIT ID Innovation Programme is pleased to announce MIT ID's first-ever week-long Virtual GradShow, which will showcase. Innovation projects by students of the Foundation Batch, while they hand over the baton of Innovation to Class of 2020. 

One of the industry-interactions in the GradShow, provides a glimpse into our collaboration with collaboration with LinkedIn, and LinkedIn Learning. 

Our Guest speakers, Innovators

Rakesh Gaur, a competent professional with 14+ years excelling in Key Account Management, Team Management, Business Development, Market Analysis & Campaign Management. 

 

Ritu Pal, Learning & Development professional with 15+ years in top global firms.

Ansuman Mishra, leads New Business Development & Strategic Client Acquisition for India, West for LinkedIn Learning.

First-movers MIT ID Innovation Programme strategically partnered with Linkedin Learning as an optimal onboarding tool in the virtual era, by which students can upgrade their business, creative & technology-related skills. Student-innovators further gain an edge that empowers them to shine amidst competition. 

Welcome to Innovation Grad Show 2020, hosted by MIT ID Innovation Programme. 

 

MIT ID's first-ever week-long Virtual Grad Show, will showcase the Innovation projects by students of the Foundation Batch, while they hand over the baton of Innovation to the Class of 2020. 

 

One such session in the week, provides a glimpse into our collaboration with Mural. 

 

Our guest speaker Ward Bullard leads education and non-profits at MURAL, working closely with academic institutions and community groups worldwide to bring visual collaboration to the classroom. 

 

He is an adjunct instructor at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school), where he developed and teaches the course, “Testing at Scale.” 

 

Ward previously worked at Verizon, SAP, Google, Mertado (acquired by Groupon), Microsoft and Harrah’s Entertainment in product, business and marketing leadership roles. 

 

Ward is the Past Chair of the Stanford Athletics Board and co-founded the Athletic Department’s Technology Advisory Committee. He is the Co-Chair of Stanford’s Class of 2000 20th Reunion Campaign. 

 

He is on the Menlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation Board, serves on the Parent Teacher Organization boards for both Oak Knoll Elementary School and Hill view Middle School. 

He is an advisor to the Positive Coaching Alliance, Team Snap, the Portada and the Aspen Institute’s Project Play Initiative. 

 

Ward graduated with degrees in both economics and history (with Honors) from Stanford University and holds an MBA from Harvard University.