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A unprecedented concept is all it takes to vary the world. That is the theme that we echo all through the chapters of our audiobook — dropped at you by Accenture India and The Higher India.
Titled ‘Igniting Concepts for Affect’, this audiobook is a testomony to how the thoughts, when used properly, can provide you with concepts that trigger a dent within the system, a change in conditioning.
The six chapters deal with a stream of modern-day points, starting from girls entrepreneurship, sustainability in tune with know-how, know-how and its improvisation, synthetic intelligence and constructing the way forward for India’s workforce.
By way of these tales of resilience and creativity, it’s evident that each one it takes for one to defy the percentages is the braveness to imagine they will.
Right here’s a glimpse of the heroes of as we speak and tomorrow you’ll hear from within the audiobook.
Geetha Manjunath’s enhance to healthcare
The chapter highlighting girls entrepreneurs is a robust interpretation of how girls usually must defy a number of norms to be recognised.
One such lady is Geetha Manjunath, founder and CEO, NIRAMAI Well being Analyticsm, who took a leap of religion and give up her job to launch an AI answer that provides a radiation-free and non-invasive solution to detect breast most cancers in girls.
Explaining its performance, Geetha says, “Our machine measures the temperature variation within the chest with the assistance of thermal imaging. Our AI converts the temperature distribution to a most cancers screening report. It predicts if there may be an abnormality or not. After this, the sufferers can go for an ultrasound.”
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Madhumita Agrawal’s progressive e-motorcycle
Madhumita, founder and CEO of Oben Electrical, made waves as the primary lady to co-found an Indian electrical automobile firm that has indigenously designed and developed an e-motorcycle.
It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that she broke gender norms by deciding to enterprise into a site that’s usually touted as being dominated by males. However she brushes away this notion saying, “Biases exist in all places, however they are often put to relaxation if you realize your area properly. I knew what I used to be speaking [about].”
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Cousins Neelam Mohta and Pinki Bhaia’s Cell Pathshala
Cell Pathshala, began by cousins Neelam Mohta and Pinki Bhaia, is an try at utilizing know-how to higher the lives of senior residents.
Watching their dad and mom struggling to make use of the smartphone, the cousins figured this was a typical downside among the many aged. Their antidote got here within the type of a platform that has reached out to three,000 individuals within the 45-80 age group, serving to them get acquainted with the nuances of know-how purposes.
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What if each time you booked a visit on a preferred journey app, you got an choice to “neutralise” your journey by paying a small further quantity? That is the ‘clime’ idea that Anirudh Gupta and Siddhanth Jayaram got here up with to assist individuals scale back their carbon footprints. One ‘clime’ is the same as 1 kg of carbon neutralised. One can then donate their climes to a undertaking that’s working in the direction of growing forest cowl.
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Shruti and Disha Ahuja’s novel composting concepts
Spearheading Hyderabad-based Ahuja Engineering Companies, Disha and Shruti have all the time been eager on working in the direction of options that scale back waste to a minimal. The family-led enterprise manufactures anaerobic digesters that convert natural waste into biogas and bio-fertiliser slurry.
These digesters are put in at totally different market areas throughout India. This ensures that each one natural waste, discarded produce, peels, and many others, are transformed into biogas whereas the power produced is used to energy the world.
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Rizwan Sheikh, Shantanu Sonaikar and Irfan Pathan’s try to neutralise automobile emissions
The chums created PI Inexperienced Improvements to deal with industrial emissions that hurt the setting and result in harmful respiratory and cardiovascular ailments in people. The cleantech startup’s innovation ‘Carbon Cutter’ is a tool that may be plugged into the exhaust of vehicles and mills to gather particulate matter. It then converts this particulate matter into soot, which is used to make ink, paint and plenty of different helpful objects.
By capturing the particulate matter, the Carbon Cutter reduces poisonous emissions into the air by over 90%.
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Manish Amin and Suhridh Sundarama’s imaginative and prescient to print human tissues
In a step in the direction of the longer term, Avay Biosciences, a Chennai-based deep tech startup, launched their indigenous ‘state-of-the-art’ bio 3D printer that may print human tissues. The printer features by means of a bioink that’s made up of two elements — the cells which should be grown and the biomaterial that may help their progress.
An absence of organ donors is more likely to result in the dying of 500,000 individuals as a result of organ failure in India in 2023. Thus, this 3D bioprinting, the corporate says “is a present to humanity by science and know-how”.
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Dr Dhruv Joshi, Dr Dileep Raman, and their ‘ICU in a Field’
The founders of Cloudphysician have been pushed by their perception that no affected person ought to must undergo from an absence of satisfactory and specialised care.
This was the appearance of their platform, which features equally to an ‘ICU in a field’. By way of a ‘command centre system’ put in on the companion hospitals, Cloudphysician can run and supply actionable alerts, thus making certain knowledgeable care is given to each affected person.
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Dipen Babariya and Mishal Jariwala’s answer for safer roads
Roads in India are typically stuffed with potholes, making it troublesome to journey. So as to add to this, road lights, too, are sometimes dysfunctional. These realisations propelled the duo to provide you with an answer within the type of RoadMetrics, a deep tech startup that gives AI-based knowledge for street administration plans.
It has, to date, collected knowledge on greater than 50,000 km of street throughout the nation in cities like Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Jamshedpur and Patna.
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Vaibhav Tidke’s photo voltaic innovation backed by private observations
Vaibhav says his innovation, the Photo voltaic Conductor Dryer, was impressed by the agricultural produce he noticed going to waste in his hometown in Maharashtra. The machine aids the storage of farm produce with out resorting to preservatives or synthetic components by means of a singular mechanism that extends the shelf lifetime of produce.
Not solely greens and fruits, the gear will also be used for meats, seafood and spices.
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Anil Prabhakar’s dream to empower individuals with listening to incapacity
Talking concerning the innovation in query, Professor Anil Prabhakar, head, CREATE-IIT Madras, and college with the Division of Electrical Engineering says, “Vibe makes use of a microphone and iGest makes use of an IMU or inertial movement unit (accelerometer and gyroscope). The microphone picks up ambient sounds and matches the sample to certainly one of many recognized sounds, for instance, a doorbell. That is then transformed to a vibration sample utilizing a micro-motor.”
The wearable sensors possessed by these units will assist people talk independently and improve their high quality of life.
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Kedar Kulkarni’s journey to remodeling public urinals
The stench emanating from public urinals compelled Mohan Kulkarni to begin Rutu Biosystems in 2007. His son Kedar remodeled that into an initiative that will deal with odour administration and sanitation. In the present day, Rutu Biosystems has put in options in roughly 10,000 urinals. “And from April 2022 to January 2023, our know-how has helped save roughly 8 crore litres of water,” claims Kedar.
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Yatin Varachhia and the magic robotic
Yatin Varachhia, co-founder of Bengaluru startup Euphotic Labs, has innovated the NOSH, a robotic that cooks meals mechanically with minimal human intervention! The microwave dimension machine requires elements and spices which can be put into designated containers, whereas the primary tray incorporates elements equivalent to greens, paneer or meat. Then all one must do is select the specified merchandise one needs and voila! It’s prepared! The machine follows the precise order as prescribed within the recipe and ensures the elements mix and prepare dinner uniformly.”
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Aishwarya Karnataki and her ‘Fifth Sense’
When Aishwarya got here throughout a younger boy at college who was residing with a listening to incapacity, she was intrigued and wished to deliver a change within the lives of children like him. She then joined arms with Pune-based engineer and knowledge scientist Parikshit Milind Sohoni to create the AI-powered machine Fifth Sense.
The machine helps these with listening to impairments talk successfully, with out being depending on an indication language interpreter.
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Saket Modi’s weapons to guard the digital world in opposition to malware
Rising up, Saket started to develop a love for computer systems and cracking codes, and finally translated this love right into a profession. In the present day, as co-founder and CEO of Secure Safety, a cybersecurity enterprise, Saket’s motto has all the time been, “We wish to create a military of cyber warriors, the engineers of tomorrow.
The software program by Secure Safety scans IT methods of its shoppers for potential hacking or malware assaults and suggests treatments and companies if the methods are discovered to be weak.
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Narayan Mahadevan’s quest to scale back unemployment
When Narayan Mahadevan began BridgeLabz in 2015, it dawned on him that the employability and recruitment area may very well be affected by the ‘empty pond syndrome’. “Engineers ask ‘the place are the roles’, and corporations say ‘the place are the engineers’ when lots exists on both facet.”
At BrideLabz, practising engineers help engineers recent out of school and every applicant’s tech functionality, testability, learnability and communicability, amongst 21 different totally different parameters is measured. Primarily based on this prediction algorithm, BridgeLabz predicts what sort of a job profile is appropriate for a selected applicant.
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Pooja Bangad and Tejas Kulkarni’s efforts to extend the employability of ladies
The software program engineer duo’s enterprise Telemerge IT Companies Pvt Ltd is based on the precept that they might give extra alternatives to girls of their firm, in order to know why the gender hole existed in different corporations in India and clear up it.
Their platform SheWork is especially geared toward serving to girls restart their careers. Pooja says, “Once we get a requirement from an organization, we give them matching job profiles inside 24 hours. Following this, you might have the usual hiring course of by an organization. As soon as the corporate completes their rounds of exams and interviews, the one who is chosen joins the corporate inside a day.”
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Minakshi Jhawar proves age is only a quantity
When Minakshi based Ekatra, a sustainable life-style model alongside together with her daughter Aishwariya, she hadn’t dreamed that they might bag a Shark Tank deal of Rs 20 lakh for fairness of 20%.
In the present day, the women-led enterprise has given coaching to 32 homemakers from underprivileged backgrounds and recycled over 75,000 metres of cloth and turned them into handmade merchandise. Among the many uncooked materials they use, bamboo and banana leaf paper are fashionable, they usually additionally present employment to a number of homemakers.
In the meantime, Minakshi’s premise for all times is clear by means of her work. “I don’t imagine there’s a set timeline for working and following my ardour.”
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