CHENNAI : The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India (DARPG), is partnering with Indian Institute of Technology Madras and IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP) to organize a three-day symposium on ‘Imagining India @2047 through innovation’ from 7th to 9th March 2022.
Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India, is scheduled to inaugurate the event on 8th March 2022.
This Symposium is being organized to bring together pioneering minds in the country across the diaspora of academia, Government and entrepreneurs to evolve a ‘Vision 2047,’ marking India’s 100th year of independence.
In a novel attempt, young IAS Officers, young faculty of IIT Madras and young entrepreneurs of IIT Madras Incubation Cell (IITMIC), will be seen being teamed together to individually bring their deep sector expertise and enterprising spirit to collectively brainstorm innovative solutions.
Under the overarching themes of ‘Research and Development,’ and ‘Innovation and Digital Governance,’ the following ten key areas will be explored across this three-day symposium:
(1) Energy and Net Zero
(2) Education
(3) Health Care and Assistive Technologies
(4) Water
(5) Infrastructure and Communications
(6) Transport and Mobility
(7) Urbanization and Housing
(8) Rural Development and Agriculture
(9) Fintech and Inclusion
(10) Information Security and Defence
Each day of the Symposium will feature presentations by senior faculty and entrepreneurs to help evolve the Vision 2047 under each key theme. Thematic presentations will be prepared as an outcome of the interactions within the forty cohorts aptly termed as ‘nucleus.’
The Symposium will also provide all the delegates an insight into the evolving technologies under each theme and the opportunity to ideate, conceptualize, and strategize the Vision 2047 with each other, not just during the Symposium but across the subsequent years to come through detailed Vision papers.
IIT Madras Research Park, as an institution committed to building a cutting-edge knowledge and innovation ecosystem where unlike minds collaborate to develop scalable and unique technology-based solutions, is working as a catalyst to this larger vision.
Inauguration
Date: March 8th,
Time: 2.00 to 3.30 pm
Venue: 7th Floor, Block D, IITM Research Park, Taramani.
