Tech For Change

In this episode of Tech for Change, host Kay Machado talks about the latest advancements in the phone world. The world has a number of options to choose but people still prefer Samsung for their own convenient reasons. The host talks about the newly launched Samsung S22. How was the hands-on review and how the new phone can make your daily life easy? Tune in to know more!

This episode is sponsored by Samsung.

Not knowing the quality of water and appropriate purification methods is a major challenge compared to accessibility to different types of purifiers. “Since approximately half, of the world’s population is still dependent on groundwater, there is a genuine need for a system that regularly monitors and pre-warns about anomalies or degradation in groundwater not just to the authorities but to the entire community around it. This is where saltwater comes in. The Saaf water platform comprises hardware and the dashboard both connected via a backend on IBM Cloud. The hardware is a cellular-enabled, low-powered, plug-and-play unit that checks for different water parameters and sends it to the IBM Watson IoT Platform.

In this episode of tech for change listen to our host @offairwithkay speak with Satyam Prakash about how this AI-IoT platform is designed to regularly monitor the groundwater and effectively communicate that information — not just to the authorities, but to the community as well.

To know more about Saafwater visit: Saaf water

Dr. Judy Jeevarajan is the Vice President and Executive Director of the Electrochemical Safety Research Institute at Underwriters Laboratories Inc. She has worked in the area of batteries for more than 25 years with a primary focus on lithium-ion chemistry. Before joining UL, she worked at NASA-Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston for 12 years. She was the Group Lead for Battery Safety and Advanced Technology at NASA-JSC. Before becoming a civil servant at NASA in 2003, she worked on-site at NASA-JSC for Lockheed Martin Space Operations for five and a half years.

Over the years, the battery industry has evolved on a huge scale. From using lithium-ion cells in portable and small electronic equipment to massive power and energy systems used in aviation, automotive, space, etc.

In this episode of Tech for Change, listen to our host @offairwithkay speak with Judy about how she is working to bridge the gap that calls for greater safety measures due to exponential growth in the battery industry

To know more about visit: Judy Jeevarajan | Underwriters Laboratories (www.UL.org)

Jayant Singh, professor at IIT-Kanpur’s chemical engineering department, belongs to a family that has professionally worked in the agriculture sector for two generations. He notes that talks at home always opened discussions on how their knowledge and skills could benefit the farmer fraternity. In 2013-14, the Central government began laying emphasis on improving the soil quality in agriculture. This move motivated Jayant to conceive a convenient and easy technological tool for farmers to check soil health.

In this episode of Tech for Change, listen to host @offairwithkay speak with Prof. Jayant Singh about his device the “Bhu Parikshak” (soil tester), which is a portable soil testing device that is accessible with a smartphone and helps understand the nutrient value of the soil.

To know more about Bhu Parikshak visit: Bhu Parikshak (cnislab.com)

In this episode of Tech for Change, listen to our host @offairwithkay speak with Ayush Jain the co-founder of Xane AI which is an award-winning B2B SaaS AI platform aimed at revolutionizing user experience using Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing to help organizations in creating personalized user experiences. It uses AI, computer vision, and NLP to help organisations create personalised user experiences.

Xane is essentially an AI platform that helps businesses reduce their cost to service, and increase user retention through DIY (do-it-yourself) diagnostics, using computer vision and natural language processing (NLP). A person working in a factory can quickly run diagnostics on a stalled or broken-down machine, or even use Xane’s platform to carry out a standard operating procedure.

There are only a few profiles that come to our mind and when we talk about the medical field like doctors and nurses, this is because of lack of awareness and because it's supply-driven and not demand. Virohan aims to bridge the gap between industry demand and the skills of the workforce by using its ‘technology skill stack’ through which Virohan predicts job demand for each job role across India, builds out the curriculum needed and delivers standardized training through blended learning across training centres.

In this episode of Tech for Change, host @offairwithkay speaks with Nalin Saluja, Co-founder, Virohan talk about how they are working on reducing this gap and the role Virohan is playing in aggregating the fragmented training ecosystem in India through a plug & play installation of its technology stack at training centres to provide affordable, accessible, quality training.

In this episode of Tech for Change, host @offairwithkay speaks with Anirudh Sharma, Co-founder, Digantara who shares how their start-up has developed India’s first In-orbit Space Debris Monitoring and tracking system, which will provide global real-time earth coverage by deploying a constellation of cost-efficient nanosatellites in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and a space-based air surveillance payload for accurate tracking of both aircraft and space objects.

Digantara was also selected as one of the top eight startups of the world, and the only startup idea from India at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington DC, the US in 2019.

In this episode of Tech For Change, listen to host @offairwithkay speak with Dr K Chandrasekar who tells us about one such device -3nethra. Where it screens the anterior (cornea) and posterior (retina) for four eye diseases — cataracts, diabetic retina, glaucoma and cornea issues within five minutes. Unlike any other device, it works without dilating the eyes.

We often talk about the rural-urban gaps and that has only increased with the world turning towards a digital era. Is this even possible to bridge this gap? And this is where Vamsi Udaygiri comes in, who is highly passionate with strong execution experience in rural value chains and founded Hesa. Hesa, is a start-up that enables connectivity and door-step access in rural India, redefining rural commerce.