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Speakers

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Dr. P. Anandan

CEO, Wadhwani AI | AI for Good

A renowned researcher in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, Anandan’s career spans over 30 years in academia and industry in the US and India. He was the Founder and Managing Director of Microsoft Research India, and professor of Computer Science at Yale University.

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Satyajit Mittal

Founder, SquatEase | Director, Sanotion Private Limited

Awarded as Forbes Under 30 Asia 2019, Satyajit’s ideas have conquered the complicity of interactions by doing simple interventions to change cultural habits for good health and well being. Satyajit, for his famous product, SquatEase, received the Swachh Innovation of 2018 on the Swachh Bharat Diwas organised by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He also installed 5,000 SquatEase toilets at the Prayagraj Kumbh.

Pratyusha Pareddy

Cofounder, Nemocare

An Industrial Designer and an electronics engineer from background, Pratyusha had experiences which have made her sensitive towards needless neonatal and maternal deaths. With her efforts towards solving the problem, she is perfecting the art of designing life saving solutions which are accessible, affordable and highly accurate. Her stories are not only moving but also insightful. Raksha from Nemocare is a wearable on the newborn that continuously monitors the necessary vital parameters used to detect Apnea , Hypothermia and other distress conditions.

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Anand Parikh

Co-founder, Shira MedTech | Shira Clamp

Anand Parikh is a co-founder of Shira MedTech, an award winning medical device innovation start-up. He is an alumnus of IIT-Madras and Stanford India Biodesign. Shira Med-tech strives to address the deficit of medical practitioners and care providers in India. At Shira, innovative products are invented, developed and commercialized in an interdisciplinary manner, by putting engineers and designers in hospitals and inviting doctors to their R&D studio. Shira Clamp, their flagship product, is a micro-surgical instrument to make blood vessel surgeries easier. Such surgeries are practically non existent beyond major cities due to a sharp deficit of specialist surgeons. Shira aims to simplify surgeries for junior surgeons to make micro-surgeries more accessible. Shira's potential to bring about social change by leveraging the power of product design has been recognized by the Government of India, Lockheed Martin, Titan Company, Ratan Tata and Tata Trusts through various awards and generous grants.

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Manish Ranjan

Co-Founder and CEO at NanoHealth.

NanoHealth is an organization that is dedicated to providing a proactive and continuous care solution for managing chronic conditions. Manish believes in a patient engagement model that has the right blend of human touch and technology. He aspires to make NanoHealth a medium through which healthcare advancements and best practices for managing chronic conditions can be extended to a maximum number of people. In 2014, NanoHealth won the prestigious Hult Prize. Manish founded NanoHealth while he was pursuing his MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB), where he was awarded the Torch Bearer title for outstanding leadership. Prior to his MBA, he worked as a consultant with a leading supply chain firm, i2 Technologies (JDA), where he designed business processes aimed at driving efficiency and profitability for large multinational firms. Manish intends to use the same expertise in designing healthcare systems that can reduce the socioeconomic burden of chronic diseases. Manish is an engineering graduate from IIT Bombay (Mumbai)

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Rushab Kataria

VR Interactions for Healthcare

Rushab is a UX designer and a former alumni of LVPEI Center for Innovation. He has a deep understanding in designing interactions for VR based healthcare solutions. Rushab comes with insights to make validation frameworks using VR technology to be used by a range of demographics.

 
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Ashish Jain

Design Lead, LVPEI Center for Innovation

Event Organizer

Ashish is an Industrial designer, did his education from MIT Institutre of Design, Pune. He currently leads design led initiatives at Center for Innovation, LVPEI. His design of Folding Foropter a simple, paper made vision screening device, has been internationally recognized and awarded for it’s potential impact. His interest lies in developing products which are patient centric and focuses on triggering behavior change by design to seek preventative approaches to better healthcare.

 

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