As cities grow, they also need to ensure infrastructure can keep up with and withstand the pressures of a growing population. The startups are playing a crucial role in building smart and intelligent solutions to keep cities moving, with innovations such environmental monitoring systems, energy management and connected devices, as well as fleet management, e-mobility, and intermodal transportation solutions.
The traditional industry has been challenged with the pace of technological developments and evolving business models. Electrification of vehicles,self driven cars, advancements of sensor, smart energy and environment monitoring architecture, artificial Intelligence, mobility business models, and machine learning are not only disrupting the conventional ecosystem, but is slowly and surely making it obsolete.
Start-ups are thus playing a key role in bringing innovation faster and cheaper into the market to address these needs of today and future. In order to leverage this, ESDM Industry is strongly promoting startups and incubation centers to support development of disruptive technology products and solutions.
Electropreneur Park supported by various industry partners is pleased to announce an event focused on technology landscape for startups in the field of smart cities and Electric Vehicles.
AGENDA | ||
TIME |
SESSION |
SPEAKERS* |
09:30 |
Registration |
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Inaugural Session & Lamp-lighting |
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10:00 |
Welcome |
Dr. Omkar Rai, DG, STPI |
10:25 |
IESA Initiatives for Start-ups |
Shri Ashwini K Aggarwal, Chairman, IESA |
10:35 |
Industry Outlook |
Rohit Girdhar, VP, Head of Strategy and Market Development, Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific |
10:45 |
Keynote address |
Dr. Ajay Kumar, IAS, Addl. Secretary, MeitY |
11:00 |
Vote of Thanks |
Sanjeev Chopra, CEO, Electropreneur Park |
11:15 |
Product Presentations |
Selected Incubatees |
11:50 |
Tea Break |
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12:15 |
Panel: Technology Landscape for Start-ups: Enabling Smarter Living (Smart cities and Smart Vehicles) |
Nirupam Srivastava, VP-Strategy, M&A & Digital Transformation, Hero Enterprise; Dr. Amit Tyagi, GM-Technology, Goldwyn Lighting; Prasun Talukdar, Country lead for Digital India and Strategic Public Sector initiatives, India Public Sector, HPE; Moderated by Dinesh Prasad, Founder & CEO BlueSky Invent and Former Head-Devices, Qualcomm |
13:00 |
Technology Landscape for Start-ups: xEV Evolution and Trends |
Robert Tan, Senior Principal Automotive System Application, Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific |
13:30 |
Networking Lunch |
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14:15 |
Panel: Technology Landscape for Start-ups: Edge Computing and Big Data |
Umesh Gupta, CEO - Open Software Technology & Kautilya BI, Expert in Business Analytics, President NITEE; Subinder Khurana, Entrepreneur, Mentor, CxO/Start-up Advisor &VC; Santanu Roy Chowdhury, Biz & IT Strategist, Consultant, HPE; Moderated by; Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, CyberMedia |
14:45 |
Technology Landscape for Start-ups: Smarter Lighting |
Youvraj Chandrakar, Head, Power Management & Multimarket, Infineon Technologies India |
15:15 |
Technology Landscape for Start-ups: Security in a Connected World |
Merlin Lucas, Country Head, India Chip Card Security, Infineon Technologies India |
15:45 |
Tea break |
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16:00 |
Panel Discussion – Fund Raising followed Q&A |
Arpit Agarwal, Principal, Blume Venture, Ajay Jalan, Founder & Managing Partner, Next Orbit; Padmja Ruparel, President, Angel Investor Network; Moderated by Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia Group |
16:45 |
Prize Winners of Electropreneur Park Season 3 |
Ajay Jalan, Founder & Managing Partner, NextOrbit Ventures |
17:00 |
Vote of thanks |
Vivek Mahajan, VP, Industrial power & control, Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific |
*Proposed Speakers |
