TiE IoT Forum: Smart Agriculture & Smart Healthcare

Apply here to showcase your IoT company. Selected teams outside Bangalore can alternatively present through Skype/Hangout. Entry to the event is free for one member of any team that applies to showcase their prototype or product, irrespective of the fact whether the product is selected or not.

To attend the event as a spectator, click here to register.

The Internet of Things (IoT), the new frontier of technological innovation in today’s world, is grabbing significant mindshare from entrepreneurs and consumers alike. The demand for connected devices spans multiple industries including the energy, automotive and consumer spaces. For each of them, the need for devices that can report or react to certain things provides a new level of convenience, efficiency and automation.

IoT has the potential to be key to the farming industry, increasing food production by 70% to feed the 9.6 billion global population expected by 2050. Smart farming will allow farmers to improve productivity and reduce waste. It is imperative for the farming industry to embrace the use of precision agriculture and harness the benefits of IoT to better understand the wider conditions that lead to variabilities. Embedding intelligence into the design and operation of machines will allow sensor information to be combined with other data and the knowledge of the farmer.

Internet-connected devices have been introduced to patients in various forms. Sensors interact with physical world and provides rich data to empower Internet of Things. Whether data comes from fetal monitors, electrocardiograms, temperature monitors or blood glucose levels, tracking health information is vital for some patients. Many of these measures include follow-up interaction with a healthcare professional. This creates an opening for smarter devices to deliver more valuable data, lessening the need for direct patient-physician interaction.

IESA in association with TiE Bangalore invites you to a Panel Discussion on the use of IoT to make the industries of Agriculture and Healthcare “Smart”. The panel discussion will be followed by a product showcase and a technical workshop focusing on IoT.

Registering participants need to indicate if they will join technical session scheduled for 11:30 am. Only 25 seats are open for hand on technical session.

Apply here to showcase your IoT company. Call for applications will be closed by 23rd June.

Panelists

 Srikrishna Ramamoorthy

Srikrishna is a partner at Unitus Seed Fund  with extensive experience in impact investing, consulting and implementation. Srikrishna joined Unitus Seed Fund as a Partner to setup and lead India operations in 2012. Unitus Seed Fund is now the leading venture seed fund supporting startups innovating for the masses in India.

Guruprasad S.

Guruprasad is General Manager – Engineering Tools, Healthcare as a Startup for Robert Bosch India. He has launched a Startup / Intrapreneurial Business Initiative to establish Healthcare as a New Stream of Business at Bosch. He has developed Engineering Tools with special focus to acquire and develop Global Customers. He possesses strong Project and Product Management Experience in delivering end to end solutions catering to diverse engineering and related IT domains.

Venkatesh Tagat

Venkatesh is a highly accomplished financial expert with huge experience working with NABARD. He created a separate department “Business Initiatives”within NABARD to facilitate speedy processing of agriculture based ventures. He is a planner, strategist, a leader and some one who has clear vision for agriculture sector.

Krishna Kumar

Krishna Kumar has 5 years of rich experience in working with global company such as GE and has worked with best of breed technology and business processes in India & US. Krishna holds a bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation and Electronics engineering from M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology. He was selected for 2- Yr Information management leadership Program at GE and had hands on Business strategy, New business development & handled Post Merger & Acquisition activities.

Krishna Kumar the founder of start up CropIn Technology carries a vision to transform agriculture in India as well as in developing nations with IT intervention. He believes Digitize-Share-Collaborate is three words for Next Gen Agriculture.

Ashish Bedekar

As Head of MediaTek Labs (India), Ashish leads a team in the region for developers and technical partner relationships, community engagement, business development, ecosystem evangelism, go-to-market planning & execution and outreach activities. He is a well-connected leader with expertise in business development, partner relationships in wearables/ IOT Mobile, Telecom, IT/Technology, with India and APAC experience. He is also a Start-up advisor and  mentor at an Indo-Canadian accelerator – Zonestartups India, currently advising three start-ups. He can be followed on twitter at @ashishrbedekar. 

Dr. Jay Warrior

Jay Warrior has over 20 years of creating new high technology based, business opportunities for Agilent Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, Emerson, Fisher-Rosemount, & Honeywell in the US & in Asia. He is driven by a systems wide perspective to problems, integrating long term trends with strategy, technology development and user centric design techniques in his work. He puts these into practice at Mobiatrics LLC, a healthcare focused start-up. He also works extensively with TiE and IESA on developing the IoT ecosystem for India. His previous experiences include his roles as the Chief Technologist at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems at IISc, Bangalore, a technology transfer organization, Chief Technologist & Strategist for the Network Solutions business at Agilent Technologies and Managing Director of New Business Creation at Agilent. He has led the the development of multiple large scale distributed systems, including the HART protocol, a defacto standard in process automation. He holds a Ph.D in control & dynamical systems & currently has over 25 patents covering key inventions in networking & diagnostics technology.

Sanjay Bharadwaj

Sanjay Bharadwaj currently leads the advanced technology programs spanning radiology, critical care and patient monitoring domains at Skanray technologies, Mysore – one of the fastest growing medical device companies of India. He is a systems engineering expert with over 14 years of industry experience in medical device product engineering and technology development at several multinational corporations such as Philips, Honeywell and GE. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering from IIT-Chennai and his Masters and PhD at University of California specializing in the multi-disciplinary field of Mechatronics and Control Systems Engineering. He was the primary architect of Philips Efficia product line of baby warmers and incubators targeted at neonatal care in emerging markets.  His work has resulted in several international patents and publications to his credit.