The Ventilator Project - 27 Mar 2021

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DISCUSSION ON THE THEME OF THE BOOK

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HOW THE IIT KANPUR CONSORTIUM BUILT A WORLD-CLASS PRODUCT DURING INDIA’S COVID-19 LOCKDOWN

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Registration & High Tea MMA Management Center

6:00 PM

Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

Introductory Remarks Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA & Former MD, Pond's India Ltd

E-Launch of the Book and Address by the Authors Mr Srikant Sastri Chairman, I3G Advisory Network & Co-Founder, Crayon Data

Guests of Honour:

Mr Srikant Sastri

Dr Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Chairman, I3G Advisory Network & Co-Founder, Crayon Data

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

In conversation with

Dr Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Mr Vinay Kamath

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)

Senior Associate Editor The Hindu BusinessLine

Mr Vinay Kamath

Q&A Session

Senior Associate Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine

Share your questions by SMS/Whatsapp to 98401 23906

SATURDAY MAR 27, 2021 | 6.00 PM

7:30 PM

Vote of Thanks

PARTNERS:

FOUNTAINHEAD OF EXCELLENCE

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SYNOPSIS

A raging pandemic, a dearth of life-saving equipment, and ninety days to manufacture a world-class ventilator.

On 24 March 2020, a nationwide lockdown was imposed in India in the wake of a formidable adversary, the Covid-19 pandemic. With the number of cases increasing exponentially, hospitals were faced with a dangerous shortage of life-saving equipment and personnel.

In response to the imminent crisis, Amitabha Bandyopadhyay and Srikant Sastri formed the IIT Kanpur Ventilator Consortium

as

a

task

force

to

assist

a

young

startup,

Nocca

Robotics,

in

building

affordable

high-quality

ventilators for India’s cash-strapped hospitals. Under the mentorship of reputed industry leaders, the task force and the Nocca team worked tirelessly against unprecedented odds – trammelled by a ban on imports and telecommuting through Zoom and Whatsapp in the face of stringent lockdown restrictions – to manufacture the Noccarc V310 in record time. This is the incredible story of its conception, creation and success, in the words of the task force co-leaders themselves.

Inspiring and riveting, The Ventilator Project also offers an unmatched blueprint for business in the post-Covid era through first-hand lessons gleaned during the task force’s phenomenal ninety-day run. It proves that India, with its deep recesses of talent and ingenuity, has the potential to be a world leader in both business and social impact.

GUESTS OF HONOUR

DR AMITABHA BANDYOPADHYAY

SRIKANT SASTRI Srikanth Sastri is an alumnus of IIT

Amitabha

Kanpur and IIM Calcutta, and wears

scientist

many

professional

Chairman, Park,

and

IIM a

Vinay

Kamath

Einstein

Editor

with

is

College of Medicine, New York and

based

in

Innovation

Harvard Medical School, Boston. He

BusinessLine in 1998, he did a short

established

stint in television with TV18, where

hats.

Calcutta board

He

member

at

As an entrepreneurship evangelizer, he

created

the

trained

research

several other incubators.

ChaloStartup

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Bandyopadhyay at

his

group

Albert

is

a

independent

in

2006

at

Biological

Sciences

Bioengineering

Department

of

Chennai.

BusinessLine

Prior

to

joining

Chennai. He has earlier worked with

IIT

Kanpur.

Financial The

Express,

Times

of

BusinessWorld,

India

and

The

Economic Times. He holds a diploma

Advisory

the

and

Hindu

Associate

and

In 2012, Amitabha got involved with

trains

The

Senior

he was the chief of news bureau,

advisory bodies. As Chairman, I3G he

is

the

series and is on several government

Network,

VINAY KAMATH

in journalism from the Times School institute’s

technology

business of Journalism and is a recipient of

advises corporations on accelerated

incubator,

the

Startup

Incubation

business transformation.

and Innovation Centre. In 2018, he

the

Chevening

administered became

the

first

occupant

of

by

the

Fellowship, UK

Foreign

&

the Commonwealth Office, to study at

Kent

Chair

for

Innovation

and the

University

of

Westminster,

Entrepreneurship and the ProfessorLondon, 1995. He's the author of the in-charge

of

Innovation

and best-selling

business

book

Titan:

Incubation at IIT Kanpur.

Inside

India's

Consumer Brand.

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