How Covid19 accelerated the future of "EVERYTHING" with exponential adoption of Emerging Technologies

1. HOW COVID19 ACCELERATED THE FUTURE OF
"EVERYTHING" WITH EXPONENTIAL ADOPTION
OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
SAURABH GUPTA, PhD
NIT Raipur

2. • WHY
• Such a theme
• HOW
• It can be done
• WHAT
• Does it mean
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5. WHY
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION
• When it comes to survival

6. • SOME OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT INNOVATIONS
HAVE HAPPENED DURING
WORLD WARS
Mass Production of Penicillin

7. INNOVATION
INVENTION X CREATING VALUE (COMMERCIALISATION)
1 X 0 = 0
0 X 1 = 0
1 X 1=1
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13. GOOD THINGS HAPPENED IN LAST 3
MONTHS
• RESET
• LESS POLLUTION
• CONTACTLESS SURROUNDINGS/ HYGIENE
• MORE HUMAN/ UNDERSTANDING THAT WE NEED BETTER
HEALTHCARE
• EFFICIENCY

25. HOW
Developing Innovator/ Entrepreneurial Mindset

26. WHERE DESIGN
THINKING
COMES IN
What is it that the doctors and hospital need,
and why?
What are the data sources available to predict
COVID-19 outcomes?
What are the impacts of doing this?

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30. – Ken Robinson
“Creativity is as important as literacy in education”
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31. Principles of Effectuation

33. HAVELL’S
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37. SKILL SET IN THE AGE OF AI
• Empathy

38. IDEATHONS
HACKATHONS
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39. AICTE MODEL CURRICULUM
• Courses in Emerging areas
• AI
• IoT
• Blockchain
• Robotics
• Quantum Computing
• Data Sciences
• Cybersecurity
• 3D Printing and Design
• AR/ VR
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40. • India’s most intractable problems
• Universal drinking water
• Better batteries that can work with other forms of renewable
energy
• Affordable housing
• Medical diagnostics
• Infrastructure
• Waste Management
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41. • Polevaulting is required and so Disruptive Innovations
• No legacy of technology
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42. WIKIPEDIA GAME
- CONNECTING
MUST DO UNINTERESTED THINGS
TO
MOST INTERESTING THINGS

43. WHAT
• More jobs can be created
• It is a responsibility of academic community
• Skill Gap can be covered
• Efficient use of human resource
• Will help to harness demographic dividend
• The working-age population will reach the highest proportion of approximately 65% in 2036
• Can penetrate global markets more easily
• Will help us to grow despite limited natural resources - Land, Water, Oil
• Can make the quality of life better for people around us
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a can have more than 2 lakh engineering innovations/ y
10,00,000/4 = 2,50,000
• https://twitter.com/anilgb/status/1099378435728781312?s=0
• Gurtej Sandhu
• Kanwal Rekhi

45. • We can solve the problems like the following
• 1 nurse/ 1000-2000 people in India
• 0.7 hospital beds/ 1000 people
• Doctor to Patient ratio is 79.7/ lakh
• Recent viral video of reporter in hospital ward
• 22 times more engineers then doctors in India
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46. - Grassroot
- Frugal
- Disruptive
- Radical
- Incremental
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47. RECENT INNOVATIONS FROM
INDIA TO THE WORLD
• Billion biometrics, bank accounts, mobiles
• Data consumption is cheaper and more than US+China
• BHIM app could make Credit Card redundant
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48. • Frugal Innovations
• GE ECG machine
• 35000 USD in US, 3500 USD in India
• 1 USD cost for ECG in comparison to 35 USD in US
• High quality artificial foot prices at 10,000 USD is 300 times cheaper
• High quality cataract eye surgery at 3,000 USD id 100 times cheaper
• Indian Innovations are for 18% of world population
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49. • According to Bruce Sterling “the most significant
innovation in computer technology in 2001 was not
Apple’s gleaming titanium Powerbook G4 or Microsoft
Windows XP rather it was a Simputer - a network linked,
radically simple portable computer intended to bring
computer revolution to third world”
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50. • Solutions do not exist in silos
• Executable ideas require the support of four levers
• Technology
• Policy
• Social Engagement
• Economics
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51. • Techpedia (from SRISTI
Foundation) is one platform
that can be explored
• Shodhyatra
• Visit to extreme places to
identify Innovators
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52. PASSION TO IDEA/ INNOVATION
• Knowledge
• Capability
• Connections
• Financial Assets
• Name Recognition
• Past Working Experience
• Passion
• Commitment
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54. “Innovative (Invention X Commercialisation) Academic Project
based learning is the solution to almost every problem of Society”
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THANKS