8/6/2019 The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition India 2009, IIT Kharagpur, India

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THE AL GORE

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY 

 VENTURE COMPETITION

INDIA

OOPALI OPERAJITA  CHAIR AND FOUNDER

THE Al GORE SUSTAINAblE TECHNOlOGy 

VENTURE COmpETITION, INDIA

SENIOR pOlITICAl AND INTERNATIONAl AFFAIRS

ADVISER, INDIA

FORmER DISTINGUISHED FACUlTy FEllOW

CARNEGIE mEllON UNIVERSITy, USA

agstvc (at) gmail (dot) com

 

EDUCATION PARTNER 

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT), KHARAGPUR, INDIA  

www.iitkgp.ac.in

 

The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition or MBA, Engineering,and Science & Technology undergraduate (fnal year), and graduate studentsocuses on bringing new sustainable and clean technologies to market throughinnovation and entrepreneurship.

Winners o The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition will receive:• Cash awards

• The opportunity to interact directly with top-tier venture capitalists

and entrepreneurs.• Valuable intellectual property services and the opportunity to raise capital.

Schools may send up to two representative teams to the competition.For urther inormation and guidelines, please visit:

www.cicerotransnational.com/agstvc.html Approximately eight qualiying teams will be selected to make their presentationsand compete at the fnals in the host/partner institution. The panel o judges willbe composed o eminent aculty, venture capitalists and industrialists.

Image o Malaspina Glacier: Courtesy, NASA

Poster Design: Dan Boyarski

Board of Advisers

 

The Honourable Suresh P. PrabhuMember o Parliament, IndiaFormer Union Cabinet Minister,

Environment & ForestsFormer Union Cabinet Minister,

Chemicals & FertilizersFormer Union Cabinet Minister,

Power, Heavy Industries & Public EnterprisesChairman, Task Force on Interlinking o Rivers

(with cabinet minister rank)

Dr. Wilfried Aulbur Managing Director & CEOMercedes-Benz India Private Ltd., India

Dr. Abhay Abhyankar Baillie Giord Chair o Financial MarketsSchool o Management & Economics

The University o Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Dr. Vijayakumar BhagavatulaProessor, Department o Electrical

& Computer EngineeringFormer Acting Head, Department o Electrical

& Computer EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University, USA

Dr. Prodipto GhoshDistinguished Fellow,

The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), IndiaFormer Secretary, Environment & ForestsGovernment o India

Dr. Kenneth Goldberg Director, Berkeley Center or New Media (BCNM)Proessor, Industrial Engineering

& Operations Research (IEOR)Proessor, Electrical Engineering & Computer

Sciences (EECS)

University o Caliornia at Berkeley, USA

Dr. R. A. Mashelkar President, Global Research AllianceFormer Director GeneralCouncil o Scientifc and Industrial Research

(CSIR), IndiaFormer President, Indian National Science AcademyFellow, The Royal Society, UK

Dr. Veer Bhadra MishraPresident, The Sankat Mochan FoundationRetired Proessor o Hydraulic EngineeringRetired Head, Department o Civil EngineeringBanaras Hindu University (BHU), India

Dr. Baldev Raj, FTWAS, FNAE, FNA, FNASc., FASc.Distinguished Scientist & DirectorIndira Gandhi Centre or Atomic Research, IndiaHonorary Member, International Committee on NDT Member, German Academy o Sciences

Member, Academia NDT International

Mr. Ranjit ShahaniVice Chairman & Managing DirectorNovartis India Private Ltd., India

SAJJAN JINDAL 

pRESIDENT, ASSOCHAm (THE ASSOCIATED CHAmbERS

OF COmmERCE & INDUSTRy OF INDIA)

VICE CHAIRmAN & mANAGING DIRECTOR

 JSW STEEl lImITED, INDIA

www.assocham.com

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