Prof. Oopali Operajita
Chair & Founder
Senior Political & International Affairs Adviser, India
Former Distinguished Faculty Fellow
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Core Committee for the 2010 Competition
Prof. M.S. Ananth
Patron
Director, IIT Madras
Prof. V. G. Idichandy
Chariman
Deputy Director, IIT Madras
Prof. K. Krishnaiah
Member
Dean, Academic Research
IIT Madras
Prof. Job Kurian
Member
Dean, Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research
IIT Madras
Prof. M. Govardhan
Member
Dean, Students
IIT Madras
Prof. L. S. Ganesh
Convenor
Department of Management Studies
IIT Madras
Dr. Ashwin Mahalingam
Co-Convenor
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Madras
Aditya Harit
S. Aravind Krishnan
Student Coordinators
Board of Advisers
The Honourable Suresh P. Prabhu
Member of Parliament, India
Former Union Cabinet Minister, Environment
& Forests
Former Union Cabinet Minister, Chemicals
& Fertilizers
Former Union Cabinet Minister, Power,
Heavy
Industries &
Public Enterprises
Chairman, Task Force on Interlinking of Rivers
(with cabinet minister rank)
Dr. Wilfried Aulbur
Managing Director & CEO
Mercedes-Benz India Private Ltd., India
Dr. Abhay Abhyankar
Baillie Gifford Chair of Financial Markets
School of Management & Economics
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Prof. Damodar Acharya
Director
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
India
Dr. Vijayakumar Bhagavatula
Professor, Department of Electrical
& Computer Engineering
Former Acting Head, Department of Electrical
& Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dr. Prodipto Ghosh
Distinguished Fellow,
The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), India
Former Secretary, Environment & Forests
Government of India
Dr. Kenneth Goldberg
Director, Berkeley Center for New Media
(BCNM)
Professor, Industrial Engineering
& Operations Research (IEOR)
Professor, Electrical Engineering
& Computer Sciences (EECS)
University of California at Berkeley, USA
Dr. R. A. Mashelkar
President, Global Research Alliance
Former Director General
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
Former President, Indian National Science Academy
Fellow, The Royal Society, UK
Dr. Veer Bhadra Mishra*
President, The Sankat Mochan Foundation
Retired Professor of Hydraulic Engineering
Retired Head, Department of Civil Engineering
Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India
Dr. Baldev Raj, FTWAS, FNAE, FNA, FNASc., FASc.
Distinguished Scientist & Director
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India
Honorary Member, International Committee on NDT
Member, German Academy of Sciences
Member, Academia NDT International
Mr. Ranjit Shahani
Vice Chairman & Managing Director
Novartis India Private Ltd., India
*Dr Veer Bhadra Mishra was named one of TIME’s
Heroes
for the Planet in 1999. Click here for details.
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Core Committee for the Competition
Prof. Amit Patra
Chairman
Dean of Alumni Affairs & International Relations
IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Pratap K. J. Mahapatra
Member
Dean of Post Graduate Studies & Research
IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Partha P. Chakrabarti
Member
Dean of Sponsored Research & Industrical Consultancy
(SRIC) Cell
IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Dhrubesh Biswas
Member
Managing Director, STEP
(Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Park)
IIT Kharagpur
Prof. B. K. Mathur
Member
Professor-in-charge, Training & Placement Cell
&
Department of Physics & Meteorology
IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Joy Sen
Convenor
Department of Architecture & Regional Planning
IIT Kharagpur
Sarabjeet Singh
Integrated MSc. , Mathematics & Computing (IIT Kharagpur)
Web and Technical Manager
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An Entire Generation of India’s Brightest Students is Galvanized into Tackling Sustainability,
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IIT Madras to host the 2010 Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™, India, in Chennai,
April 1-3, 2010.
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IIT Madras is to be the Education Partner of Asia's first and most prestigious sustainable/cleantech venture competition in 2010. The competition is now in its third year, and comes on the heels of the phenomenal success of the second official Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ at IIT Kharagpur, November 6-7, 2009. The schedule for the competition is available here. Rules and Regulations for the competition can be downloaded here. Download the poster for the competition here. For a Sample Business Plan Format click here.
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Cash Prizes of Rs. 1,00,000 and Rs. 70,000 will be awarded to the winners and runners up.
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NEW DEADLINE FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF BUSINESS PLANS:
MARCH 10, 2010, MIDNIGHT.
Plans must be submitted to ALL three: agstvc (at) gmail (dot) com, lsg (at) iitm (dot) ac (dot) in and agstvc.iitm (at) gmail (dot) com.
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December 21 2009 – March 1 2010 : Business Plans Being Accepted
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March 10, Wednesday : Declaration of First Round Results
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April 1 – April 3 (Thursday – Saturday) : Finalists’ Presentations to Judging Panel at Good Friday Weekend at IIT Madras, India
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April 3, Saturday : Declaration of Winners and Awards Ceremony at IIT Madras, India
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For further enquiries, please email us at: agstvc (at) gmail (dot) com or lsg (at) iitm (dot) ac (dot) in.
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IIT Madras Finalist Team (Greenext Technology Solutions) from 2009 Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ Wins First Coveted 'Next Idea' Prize from New York City. Here's a link to the story. Here's the coverage on NDTV 24x7. |
The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ Asia's first and most prestigious sustainable/clean technology business plan competition, founded in 2007, is the brainchild of Oopali Operajita, CEO, Cicero, A Trans National Advisory, a Senior Political and International Affairs Adviser to several of India’s prominent political leaders and a former Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Operajita thought up an exclusive All India Sustainable Technology Venture Competition in honour of Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore. She named it for Al Gore, with encouragement from some of Gore’s colleagues from his White House days, and launched the First Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition in November 2007. Finalists were invited to make live presentations before an eminent judging panel on February 11-12, 2008, in New Delhi. The impetus and motivating force lay in Operajita’s wish to galvanize an entire generation of India’s formidable engineering, science, technology and management students — widely acknowledged as some of the brightest in the world — from its leading institutions, such as its legendary Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), as she says, “into thinking sustainability, and incorporating it into their mindsets, and coming up with sustainable technology solutions, for the future of the imperilled planet.” Further, she states, “Indians are known as some of the world’s greatest innovators and entrepreneurs, and I wanted to tap into this incredibly rich resource pool with one stroke.” The institution Operajita selected to tie up with, in the first year, was the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi.
Details about the 2008 competition can be had here: Poster, List of Judges, and Awards Ceremony attachment. (Fabled designer Dan Boyarski, Head of the Design Department at Carnegie Mellon University, designed the award-winning poster specially for his colleague, Oopali Operajita, with inputs from her.)
The winners of the first competition were National Institute of Technology (Rourkela), which won the first prize, and Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, which won the second prize.
ASSOCHAM and IIT Kharagpur are Official Partners of The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition, November 6-7, 2009 at IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
Mercedes-Benz India is Official Sponsor.
IIT Bombay-IIM Bangalore win First Prize, IIT Kharagpur wins Second Prize, in The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™, 2009, November 6-7, at IIT Kharagpur, India.
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| Focusing on the intellectual, technological, entrepreneurial, innovation and management skills that Brand IIT is renowned for, across the world, since 1952, The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ India, 2009 attracted the best minds in the country and was a phenomenal success. A stellar panel of judges lent much to the event. IIM Bangalore's press release is available here. IIM Bangalore is currently ranked as India's top business school. View the list of finalist teams at the competition here. View Photo Gallery. |
ASSOCHAM, The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, India’s apex industry and commerce body, is the official industry partner of The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™. Under the trail blazing leadership of its current president, leading industrialist Mr. Sajjan Jindal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of JSW Steel Limited, India, ASSOCHAM has emerged as a prominent industry leader worldwide both in the fight against global warming and in enhancing India’s energy security. Mr. Jindal was a generous sponsor of activities during Vice President Gore’s visit to India in March, 2008, and supports the India arm of Gore’s Climate Project. The next competition will be held at the legendary Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Kharagpur, India.
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Mercedes-Benz India is the official sponsor of the competition.
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Click here to download the poster for the 2009 competition. Download IIT Kharagpur's poster here.
For further information, please contact: joysen (at) arp (dot) iitkgp (dot) ernet (dot) in or agstvc (at) gmail (dot) com
We congratulate IIT Kharagpur for being ranked at the top of India's fabled IITs. Brand IIT is India's top academic brand − world renowned, and held in the highest regard, internationally − and it only gets better each year. IIT Kharagpur alone boasts of 3 of Fortune 500's top CEOs. Our competition is both honoured and proud to have IIT Kharagpur as our education partner this year.
The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ is delighted to have the Indian Youth Climate Network as a partner.
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