ce n a r Fr ag s
s i ne s u of B
DISCUSSION ON THE THEME OF THE BOOK
THE VENTILATOR PROJECT
id eve
E /
5:30 PM
ON-
P
R
MMA Management Center
E
N
M
IL
ESI
NO
HOW THE IIT KANPUR CONSORTIUM BUILT A WORLD-CLASS PRODUCT DURING INDIA’S COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
tn
yh
br
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
profile
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
web
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.
MADRAS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Most
Successful