About the Conclave

Welcome to the 2nd edition of IEEE Bangalore Technology Conclave (BTC) on the theme Clean Technologies for a Sustainable World.

IEEE BTC 2021 is a flagship event of IEEE Bangalore Section, organized in collaboration with its two affinity groups - Women in Engineering (WiE) and Young Professionals (YP). It is held annually as part of the Industry Relations program of the Section; where technology leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and thought provokers share their passion in addressing impactful problems, and vision on futuristic technologies that will/may disrupt/impact our way of working and living.

This edition of IEEE BTC will be based on the theme of CleanTech; with a specific focus on:

  1. sustainable transport and renewable energy storage;
  2. ICT for clean technologies;
  3. clean production and clean materials; and
  4. sustainable agriculture, from farm to fork.

Subject matter experts will share their views on some of the following points:

  • What are the CleanTech challenges in India and Globally?
  • What are the top problems confronting this sector?
  • What are the forthcoming trends in this sector?
  • What are the opportunities that are likely to arise as a consequence of these trends, and their effect on present day's ground situation
  • What are the kind of solutions and measures (technical/non-technical) that are in place to address such problems, and their effectiveness level?
  • What is the role of citizens, industry, government and its agencies, academia in mitigating this problem ?
  • Should we be 'bullish' or 'bearish' about the future prospects of this sector?
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    Our Speakers

    KEYNOTE SPEAKERS



    Dr. Rahul Tongia

    Senior Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress

    Reji Kumar Pillai

    President, India Smart Grid Forum

    Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

    CTO, Energy & Mobility, Microsoft India

    Shajith Moosa

    Senior Director, Cisco

    Prof. Dipanjan Gope

    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore I CEO, Simyog Technology

    Prof. Muddu Sekhar

    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore


    SPEAKERS & PANELISTS



    Dr. John Hall

    Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo / Wind Turbine Blade Technology

    Yuvraj Sarda

    Head of Strategy, SUN Mobility


    Aishwarya Raman

    Director and Head of Research, Ola Mobility Institute

    Pawan Mulukutia

    Director, Clean Mobility & Energy Tech, WRI India

    Dr. Sudeendra Koushik

    Innovation Director & Head of CampX, Volvo Group

    Dr. Bharat. B. Kale

    Director & DG (A) | Head, Nanocrystalline Materials, C-MET, Govt. of India

    Ravikiran Annaswamy

    CEO & CoFounder, Numocity Technologies

    Prof. Vasant Kumar

    University of Cambridge


    Vish Ganti

    VP - Product Management, AutoGrid

    Michael J. Oghia

    Director of External Relations, Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA)

    Jayaram Beladakere

    Director (Products/Technology), Ericsson

    Neeraj Dasila

    Head of Products & Operations (INDIA), SmartHelio

    Dr. Venkatesh Sarangan

    Principal Scientist, TCS Research

    Sudipta Debnath

    Enterprise Software Architect - Proactive Software at Cisco

    Narayanan Subramaniam

    Senior Director of Engineering, Nutanix

    Pia Tanskanen

    Head of Environment, Nokia

    Dr. Dharmendra G Kumar

    Vice President, Reliance Jio, Bangalore

    Vidya Hungud

    Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

    Dr. Aloknath De

    Corporate Vice-President and CTO, Samsung R&D Institute India

    Pamela Kumar

    Director General, TSDSI | President, CCICI

    Neha Kumari

    Deputy Manager, Reliance Jio

    Dr. Soma Pandey

    General Manager, Jio Platforms Ltd.

    Dr. Beena Rai

    Chief Scientist, TCS Research

    Dr. J. Manjanna

    Professor & Chairman, Dept. of Chemistry, Rani Channamma University

    Dr. Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan

    Assistant Professor, IISc

    Rakesh Singh

    President, Punjab Solar Power Producers Association

    Dr. Tejaswini AnanthKumar

    Founder, Adamya Chetana

    Sunitha Jayaram

    Program Manager, Saahas

    Mangalapadma Srinivasan

    Director - Verizon Consumer Group, Verizon

    Dr. YVS Laksmi

    Head - C-BUDDHI & Group Leader - IPR & KM, C-DOT

    Claire Pribula

    Managing Director, The Yield Lab Asia Pacific

    Dr. R N Sahoo

    Principal Scientist, ICAR - Indian Agriculture Research Institute

    Richa Hukumchand

    Chief Innovation Officer, Pixxel

    Sanjay Borkar

    CEO & Co-founder, FarmERP

    Atul Bhatnagar

    Director, SunMoksha

    Dr. Preetha Bhadra

    Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology CUTM, Odisha

    Abner Chin

    C.E.O., RASHI Agropolis Pvt. Ltd

    Major Ved Prakash Sharma

    CEO, Gratitude Farms

    Dr. Ashok Das

    Founder CEO, SunMoksha



    Organizing Team

    Bindhumadhava B S

    General Co-Chair

    P Deepa Shenoy

    General Co-Chair

    Ashok K Das

    General Co-Chair

    Prasant Misra

    Organizing Chair

    Sunil Kumar

    Smart-Tech Co-Chair

    Latha Chembrakalam

    Smart-Tech Co-Chair

    Anandi Giridharan

    WiE Global Summit Chair

    Kumudhini Ravindra

    WiE Global Summit Co-Chair

    Chengappa M. R

    Web & IT Chair, YP Mentor

    Ketan Keshav

    Web Analyst & YP Treasurer

    Gitansh Anand

    Young Professionals Meet Co-Chair

    Neha Kumari

    Young Professionals Meet Co-Chair & Sponsorship Co-Chair

    D N Sujatha

    Sponsorship Co-Chair

    Kishore Kumar Sharma

    Publicity Chair



    Schedule

    Day 1
    Session - 1 SmartTech : Sustainable Transportation | Renewable Energy Storage | Renewable Energy Generation
    Session - 2 SmartTech : ICT for Clean Technologies
    Session - 3 Young Professionals Meet
    Day 2
    Session - 4 WiE | Clean Production & Clean Materials
    Session - 5 WiE | Sustainable Agriculture - Farm to Fork & Waste Management

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    Bangalore Technology Conclave 2021 – BTC 2021 is the flagship event of IEEE Bangalore section. The conclave objective is to bring together technology leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs & thought provokers who are passionate about addressing impactful problems by turning ideas into solutions.