Key Speakers Profile...

·         Prof. N V Deshpande, Director, NIT Silchar

·         Dr. P. Banerjee, Director, NISTADS  New Delhi

·         Prof. Gautam Sinha, Director, IIM Kashipur

·     Prof. S P Parashar, Managing Partner & Principal Consultant at TACM Management Education Consulting, LLP, India &  Managing Director at Center for Safe and Sound Banking, Inc. USA & Former Director, IIM Indore

·        Prof Ashok Jain, Former Director, CSIR-NISTAD, New Delhi & Dr Ashok Jain Fellow National Academy of Science, President Indo-Japan Society

·    Dr.Prabir G. Dastidar, Director/Scientist, Ministry of Earth sciences, Prithvi Bhavan (Opposite to India Habitat Centre), Lodi Road, New Delhi- 110003.

·  Dr Sujit Bhattacharya, Professor in ACSIR| Academy of Scientific & Innovation Research, Senior Principal Scientist in CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi

·         Prof. K M Baharul Islam, Chairperson, Planning & Development, IIM Kashipur

·         Dr. Kavita Mehra, Chief Scientist in NISTADS, New Delhi

·         Mr. Yogesh Suman, Associate Professor, AcSIR  & Principal Scientist at NISTADS New Delhi

·         Dr. Mir Alam Siddique, SMC, Guwahati

Dr. Parthasarathi Banerjee

Title of Talk: Thinking about Innovation for the North-East India

Dr. Parthasarathi Banerjee, Director, CSIR-NISTADS, has a research career of more than thirty years with abiding research interests in areas related to innovation, technological changes, small industry, high and advanced technological issues, business strategy, science policy and similar such areas. He has as visiting been with a few leading institutions including Ecole Polytechnique, University of Tokyo, SUNY, and Dr. Banerjee has published about hundred research papers, twelve books, several research reports and has remained associated with several international journals or has guided several doctoral students, been consultant to The World Bank, UNIDO and has provided research based inputs to a large number of domestic public bodies.

Dr Sujit Bhattacharya

Title of talk: Emerging Technologies and New Players: A Case Study of Emergence of China and India in the Nanotechnology Race

Dr Sujit Bhattacharya is a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and MSc (Physics) from Delhi University. He is presently Professor in ACSIR| Academy of Scientific & Innovation Research, Senior Principal Scientist in CSIR-NISTADS and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientometric Research (published by Wolters|Kluvers Health). His main area of work is in Science and Technology Policy Studies, Scientometrics, and studying IPR in the context of Research, Innovation and Development.  He has published widely in the aforesaid areas.

Prof. S P Parashar

Title of Talk: Innovating- The how of it!

Dr S P Parashar has been a distinguished Professor, Trainer, Researcher, Consultant, and Academic Leader. His experience spans over four decades, nationally and internationally. He is currently Managing Partner and Principal Consultant, TACM Management Education Consulting, LLP, India; Managing Director, Center for Safe and Sound Banking, Inc, USA; Visiting Faculty, Rady School of Management, USA; Member, Corporate Educators Network,  Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA. He is the former Director of IIM Indore, IFCI Golden Jubilee Chair Professor of Finance, MDI, Gurgaon, Head, Center for Banking and Center for Research at Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance, Bahrain. He is a habitual innovator. Doing things different or differently, for the better, is his daily passion. He had turned around and transformed IIM Indore in a short span of time by his innovative ideas and actions. The Times of India had named IIM Indore under his leadership, ‘A Jewel in IIM Crown’ (July 11, 2005).

Dr Kavita Mehra

Title of Talk:  ‘’Commercialization of Public Funded R&D’’

Dr. Kavita Mehra is Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology from Delhi University and at present Chief Scientist in NISTADS. For more than 25 years, she has been involved in S&T and Innovation Policy Studies. She has several international publications in international ournals/handbooks and editing of reputed journals to her credit and also represented NISTADS at international forums in several countries.

Mr Yogesh Suman

Title of Talk:  "Crucial Factors in Technology Transfer from Government Research Institutions to private sector industry: Findings from questionnaire survey"

Yogesh Suman, is Principal Scientist at NISTADS and Associate Professor at Academy of Scientific Innovation & Research (AcSIR). He has Bachelors in Computer Science and a Masters in Information Technology. He has submitted his doctoral thesis in Faculty of management Studies, University of Delhi. His research interest includes developmental issues related to information and communication technologies, technology management with specific focus on technology transfer from Government research institutions to small and medium enterprise (SMEs).

Dr. Mir Alam Siddique

Title of Talk:  "Innovation in Health Care Service and Health Education in North-East India",

Dr. Mir Alam Siddique, M.B.B.S., M.S., Ph.D. is a prominent Ophthalmologist of the country. He is one of the few eye specialists of India and the first in North-east India to acquire Ph.D. degree. His cataract research has earned him the honour of “The Top Biomedical Research in the World” by RMF, USA in 2012. He bagged the “Best Scientific Paper” award in the annual conference of Association of Community Ophthalmologists of India and international Assembly of Community Ophthalmologists in 2011. He is the recipient of prestigious L. C. Dutta Award, 2012 of Ophthalmological Society of Assam which is awarded once in every four years. Apart from his experience in the U.K., his outstanding contribution as a teacher for the undergraduate and postgraduate medical students of Silchar Medical College and Gauhati Medical College during the last ten years is widely acknowledged by student community. His dedicated healthcare service to patients ranging from the most economically and socially backward to the most forward has benefited people of north east India a lot and inspired many other doctors and students. He is presently working in Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, Guwahati.

Prof Ashok Jain, Former Director, CSIR-NISTAD, New Delhi

Dr Ashok Jain, Ph D in Physics is a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India. He spent his initial professional career in Physics research and teaching at the Universities of Delhi, Kyoto and Bristol and then shifted to Science & Technology Management and Policy analysis work in Indian Embassy, Tokyo as Science Attaché and in the Department of Science & Technology as Director in Science & Technology Promotion Division and then as Director National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, NISTADS of CSIR from where he retired. 

He has over hundred publications in Physics and in the multidisciplinary area of Science Technology and Society Studies and has edited a number of books.
Dr Jain is associated with S&T & Innovation Policy work, besides India, in several countries of Africa, Asia and Europe with the Commonwealth Science Council, European Commission and several UNESCO. As Honorary Vice President for Research and Academic Development at EMPI Business School he has been involved in initiating a programme ‘Mission Innovative India’ launched by Honourable Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. He is also co-editing ‘Innovation: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives’.

Specialties

National S & T & Innovation Policy & Strategy setting,
Research & Studies on Innovation Systems
Management of Educational Institutions
Academic cooperation between India and Japan
Futurization

Dr.Prabir G.Dastidar, Director/Scientist, Ministry of Earth sciences, Prithvi Bhavan (Opposite to India Habitat Centre), Lodi Road, New Delhi- 110003.