Innovation Station

The topics for today's discussion will be How innovations in healthcare are important in today’s world. The webinar will help you understand the pre-COVID world and what are the lessons that we can learn from it to be prepared for a post-COVID world. Nitin Sisodia is today's speaker who is the founder & CEO of Sohum Innovation Lab, a social enterprise to develop novel solutions to improve health & income of people living in underserved regions. He is a 2010 Stanford India Biodesign fellow, among the top 20 Indian innovators by MIT Tech Review and President of India Awardee for Innovation and Technology. Nitin did his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from NIT Bhopal and Master in Industrial Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He has been associated with organizations like Maruti- Suzuki, Zeiss- Germany, Mckinsey & Co to name a few. He loves to jam with people, cook, brew coffee, write and travel during his free time.

Healthcare Innovations for today - Part 1 Pushkar Ingale Founder and Director of Cohesive Labs has earned his master’s degree in Design from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai & bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has also worked as a responsible Manager at Laerdal Global Health where he had setup and operated the India based Design and Implementation team. Pushkar has been rewarded with CII Design Excellence Award & Stanford Medicine and American Indian Foundations - Most innovative medical device innovation award 2016 for his design excellence. The topics for today's discussion will be How innovations in healthcare are important in today’s world. The webinar will help you understand the pre-covid world and what are the lessons that we can learn from it to be prepared for a post-covid world.

Prof. Harshit Desai will help us understand the term innovation and will explain Design Driven Innovation in more details. Prof. Harshit Desai heads the Industry relation at the MIT Institute of Design and he also heads the MITID Innovation Programme. The session will cover the following points 1) Frameworks of innovation 2) Design thinking and design-driven innovation 3) Case studies and examples 4) Business success and design-driven innovation.