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An unusual thought is all it takes to switch the arena. That is the theme that we echo all through the chapters of our audiobook — delivered to you via Accenture India and The Higher India.
Titled ‘Igniting Concepts for Have an effect on’, this audiobook is a testomony to how the thoughts, when used neatly, can get a hold of concepts that motive a dent within the device, a transformation in conditioning.
The six chapters center of attention on a movement of modern day problems, starting from ladies entrepreneurship, sustainability in song with generation, generation and its improvisation, synthetic intelligence and development the way forward for India’s body of workers.
Via those tales of resilience and creativity, it’s obtrusive that every one it takes for one to defy the chances is the braveness to consider they are able to.
Right here’s a glimpse of the heroes of nowadays and the next day to come you’re going to listen from within the audiobook.
Geetha Manjunath’s spice up to healthcare
The bankruptcy highlighting ladies marketers is a formidable interpretation of ways ladies ceaselessly need to defy a number of norms to be recognised.
One such lady is Geetha Manjunath, founder and CEO, NIRAMAI Well being Analyticsm, who took a soar of religion and give up her process to release an AI resolution that gives a radiation-free and non-invasive option to come across breast most cancers in ladies.
Explaining its capability, Geetha says, “Our tool measures the temperature variation within the chest with the assistance of thermal imaging. Our AI converts the temperature distribution to a most cancers screening record. It predicts if there’s an abnormality or no longer. After this, the sufferers can opt for an ultrasound.”
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Madhumita Agrawal’s cutting edge e-motorcycle
Madhumita, founder and CEO of Oben Electrical, made waves as the primary lady to co-found an Indian electrical car corporate that has indigenously designed and advanced an e-motorcycle.
It wouldn’t be a stretch to mention that she broke gender norms via deciding to undertaking into a website this is ceaselessly touted as being ruled via men. However she brushes away this perception pronouncing, “Biases exist far and wide, however they are able to be put to relaxation if you realize your area neatly. I knew what I used to be speaking [about].”
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Cousins Neelam Mohta and Pinki Bhaia’s Cell Pathshala
Cell Pathshala, began via cousins Neelam Mohta and Pinki Bhaia, is an strive at the usage of generation to raised the lives of senior voters.
Staring at their folks suffering to make use of the smartphone, the cousins figured this used to be a commonplace drawback a few of the aged. Their antidote got here within the type of a platform that has reached out to a few,000 other people within the 45-80 age crew, serving to them get conversant in the nuances of generation packages.
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What if each time you booked a travel on a well-liked trip app, you got an way to “neutralise” your adventure via paying a small further quantity? That is the ‘clime’ idea that Anirudh Gupta and Siddhanth Jayaram got here up with to assist other people cut back their carbon footprints. One ‘clime’ is the same as 1 kg of carbon neutralised. One can then donate their climes to a challenge this is operating against expanding woodland quilt.
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Shruti and Disha Ahuja’s novel composting concepts
Spearheading Hyderabad-based Ahuja Engineering Services and products, Disha and Shruti have all the time been inquisitive about operating against answers that cut back waste to a minimal. The family-led undertaking manufactures anaerobic digesters that convert natural waste into biogas and bio-fertiliser slurry.
Those digesters are put in at other marketplace spaces throughout India. This guarantees that every one natural waste, discarded produce, peels, and so on, are transformed into biogas whilst the power produced is used to energy the world.
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Rizwan Sheikh, Shantanu Sonaikar and Irfan Pathan’s try to neutralise car emissions
The chums created PI Inexperienced Inventions to take on business emissions that hurt the surroundings and result in bad breathing and cardiovascular illnesses in people. The cleantech startup’s innovation ‘Carbon Cutter’ is a tool that may be plugged into the exhaust of cars and turbines to gather particulate subject. It then converts this particulate subject into soot, which is used to make ink, paint and plenty of different helpful pieces.
Via shooting the particulate subject, the Carbon Cutter reduces poisonous emissions into the air via over 90%.
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Manish Amin and Suhridh Sundarama’s imaginative and prescient to print human tissues
In a step against the longer term, Avay Biosciences, a Chennai-based deep tech startup, introduced their indigenous ‘state of the art’ bio three-D printer that may print human tissues. The printer purposes via a bioink this is made up of 2 parts — the cells which want to be grown and the biomaterial that may fortify their expansion.
A loss of organ donors is more likely to result in the dying of 500,000 individuals because of organ failure in India in 2023. Thus, this three-D bioprinting, the corporate says “is a present to humanity via science and generation”.
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Dr Dhruv Joshi, Dr Dileep Raman, and their ‘ICU in a Field’
The founders of Cloudphysician have been pushed via their trust that no affected person must need to be afflicted by a loss of good enough and specialized care.
This used to be the arrival in their platform, which purposes in a similar fashion to an ‘ICU in a field’. Via a ‘command centre device’ put in on the spouse hospitals, Cloudphysician can run and supply actionable indicators, thus making sure knowledgeable care is given to each affected person.
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Dipen Babariya and Mishal Jariwala’s resolution for more secure roads
Roads in India are once in a while filled with potholes, making it tricky to trip. So as to add to this, boulevard lighting, too, are ceaselessly dysfunctional. Those realisations propelled the duo to get a hold of an answer within the type of RoadMetrics, a deep tech startup that gives AI-based knowledge for street control plans.
It has, up to now, accumulated knowledge on greater than 50,000 km of street around the nation in towns like Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Jamshedpur and Patna.
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Vaibhav Tidke’s sun innovation subsidized via non-public observations
Vaibhav says his innovation, the Sun Conductor Dryer, used to be impressed via the rural produce he noticed going to waste in his homeland in Maharashtra. The tool aids the garage of farm produce with out resorting to preservatives or synthetic components via a singular mechanism that extends the shelf lifetime of produce.
No longer handiest greens and end result, the apparatus can be used for meats, seafood and spices.
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Anil Prabhakar’s dream to empower other people with listening to incapacity
Talking concerning the innovation in query, Professor Anil Prabhakar, head, CREATE-IIT Madras, and school with the Division of Electric Engineering says, “Vibe makes use of a microphone and iGest makes use of an IMU or inertial movement unit (accelerometer and gyroscope). The microphone selections up ambient sounds and fits the trend to one of the identified sounds, as an example, a doorbell. That is then transformed to a vibration trend the usage of a micro-motor.”
The wearable sensors possessed via those units will assist folks be in contact independently and support their high quality of existence.
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Kedar Kulkarni’s adventure to reworking public urinals
The stench emanating from public urinals forced Mohan Kulkarni to begin Rutu Biosystems in 2007. His son Kedar remodeled that into an initiative that might center of attention on odour control and sanitation. Lately, Rutu Biosystems has put in answers in roughly 10,000 urinals. “And from April 2022 to January 2023, our generation has helped save roughly 8 crore litres of water,” claims Kedar.
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Yatin Varachhia and the magic robotic
Yatin Varachhia, co-founder of Bengaluru startup Euphotic Labs, has innovated the NOSH, a robotic that chefs meals routinely with minimum human intervention! The microwave dimension gadget calls for elements and spices which can be put into designated boxes, whilst the primary tray comprises elements comparable to greens, paneer or meat. Then all one must do is select the specified merchandise one needs and voila! It’s able! The gadget follows the precise order as prescribed within the recipe and guarantees the elements mix and cook dinner uniformly.”
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Aishwarya Karnataki and her ‘5th Sense’
When Aishwarya got here throughout a tender boy in class who used to be residing with a listening to incapacity, she used to be intrigued and sought after to convey a transformation within the lives of youngsters like him. She then joined arms with Pune-based engineer and knowledge scientist Parikshit Milind Sohoni to create the AI-powered tool 5th Sense.
The tool is helping the ones with listening to impairments be in contact successfully, with out being depending on an indication language interpreter.
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Saket Modi’s guns to offer protection to the virtual international towards malware
Rising up, Saket started to expand a love for computer systems and cracking codes, and in the end translated this love right into a profession. Lately, as co-founder and CEO of Protected Safety, a cybersecurity undertaking, Saket’s motto has all the time been, “We wish to create a military of cyber warriors, the engineers of the next day to come.
The tool via Protected Safety scans IT methods of its shoppers for imaginable hacking or malware assaults and suggests treatments and products and services if the methods are stumbled on to be susceptible.
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Narayan Mahadevan’s quest to cut back unemployment
When Narayan Mahadevan began BridgeLabz in 2015, it dawned on him that the employability and recruitment house might be affected by the ‘empty pond syndrome’. “Engineers ask ‘the place are the roles’, and firms say ‘the place are the engineers’ when lots exists on each side.”
At BrideLabz, practicing engineers help engineers contemporary out of school and every applicant’s tech capacity, testability, learnability and communicability, among 21 different other parameters is measured. In keeping with this prediction set of rules, BridgeLabz predicts what sort of a role profile is acceptable for a specific applicant.
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Pooja Bangad and Tejas Kulkarni’s efforts to extend the employability of girls
The tool engineer duo’s undertaking Telemerge IT Services and products Pvt Ltd is based at the concept that they might give extra alternatives to ladies of their corporate, so that you could perceive why the gender hole existed in different firms in India and clear up it.
Their platform SheWork is especially aimed toward serving to ladies restart their careers. Pooja says, “After we get a demand from an organization, we give them matching process profiles inside of 24 hours. Following this, you could have the usual hiring procedure via an organization. As soon as the corporate completes their rounds of assessments and interviews, the one that is chosen joins the corporate inside of an afternoon.”
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Minakshi Jhawar proves age is only a quantity
When Minakshi based Ekatra, a sustainable way of life emblem along side her daughter Aishwariya, she hadn’t dreamed that they might bag a Shark Tank deal of Rs 20 lakh for fairness of 20%.
Lately, the women-led trade has given coaching to 32 homemakers from underprivileged backgrounds and recycled over 75,000 metres of material and became them into hand-crafted merchandise. A number of the uncooked subject matter they use, bamboo and banana leaf paper are widespread, and so they additionally supply employment to a number of homemakers.
In the meantime, Minakshi’s premise for existence is obvious via her paintings. “I don’t consider there’s a set timeline for operating and following my pastime.”
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