#ASK_ME_ANYTHING_SERIES

The IIT Madras HTIC Medtech Incubator & IIT Madras Incubation Cell is excited to jointly host the “Ask Me Anything Series” . We will be bringing in experts from different sectors to answer some pertinent questions that matter the most to start-ups.  Pen down your questions related to “The support provided by DST for Innovation & Entrepreneurship” for Dr. Anita Gupta (LinkedIn).

 

Session Topic: ASK ANYTHING ON THE SUPPORT PROVIDED BY DST FOR INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Speaker: Dr. Anita Gupta,  Scientist -G /Adviser and Head-NSTED (National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India). 

 

Date: 13^th Aug, 2020 (Thursday) 

Time: 5PM – 6PM 

 

To Register: https://forms.gle/vr5aBw9QrL2b3miSA

Link to join: https://meet.google.com/obx-dwjq-rnw

 

Dr. Anita Gupta, Scientist -G /Adviser and Head-NSTED

Dr. Gupta, a doctorate in engineering from IIT Delhi by qualification, and an administrator by profession with over 20 years of experience in managing Govt. of India led programs on innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is currently Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Science and Technology. She has played a pioneering role in steering the horizontal and vertical growth of innovation, entrepreneurship and startups in the country. She has been a lead catalyst in establishing over 100 technology business incubators at Institutions of academic excellence including IITs, IIMs, NITs and leading private universities. She has also been instrumental in carving out a new umbrella initiative NIDHI, National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations under Prime Minister’s National Initiative of Startup India . She is deeply involved in transforming the Indian innovation landscape by engaging new models of Public Private Partnerships with leading MNCs i.e Intel, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Texas Instruments, Tatas and the Bennett Coleman and Co etc. She is driving the key program on Innovation i.e India Innovation Growth Program, Power of Ideas and Innovate for Digital India. At national level, she possesses the enriching blend of experience in promoting not only the startups based on technologies of excellence but also in empowerment of the society through nurturing micro-enterprises based on technologies of relevance.

In the Ministry, she spearheads a new and exclusive component on Women Entrepreneurs in technology and few of her recent work are first of its kind initiatives in the country, which include setting up of Department’s first Research Park in IIT Gandhinagar, Seed and Acceleration support for Startups in Incubators, India Innovation Challenge for Engg. students, Plugin : a first hardware product based incubation program and lead a unique bilateral program Indo-Russia Bridge program for Innovations. Apart from Nationaloutreach, she has contributed immensely in fostering result oriented International linkages with countries like China, Malaysia, Cambodia, South Korea, UK, USA, Switzerland, Russia, Israel, Australia, Sweden, African Countries like Rwanda etc. Recently, she has also led a few delegations of startups to the USA and Russia.