During the first plenary session on Day Five of Sahyadri Conclave Prof. Serge Haroche, Noble Laureate in Physics delivered a talk on “Manipulating single photon in a box-with a discussion on the future of quantum technology”. He spoke about Fundamental particles such as photons that are difficult to isolate from their environment without destroying. He mentioned about quantum computers. He said that Computers power and speed has exponentially increased since the 1950’s because the size of the bits has continuously decreased due to technological improvements. He mentioned that the way to keep increasing the power is to exploit quantum effects. He discussed circular Rydberg atom to detect photons without destroying them.
The second plenary session was by Dr S N Omkar, Principal Scientist, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISC, Bengaluru who delivered a talk on “Yoga for Holistic Health”. He started his session with the essence of Bhagavad Gita in today’s life. He stated that “Health is not just a report that comes out of Clinical Laboratory”. He spoke about the principles and practices of Swami Vivekananda and also about the speech delivered by Swami Vivekananda at Chicago that inspired many people throughout the globe. He enlightened the students that “Health is considered as a small parameter, wherein its process needs to be cultivated as 4D (Discrimination, Discipline, Difficulty and Desire) culture”. He mentioned about the significance of Yoga, Power of speech, Tattva Bodha, Thithiksha, Sraddha, Samadhana, and focus of mind would enlighten and elevate to a greater extent.
The third plenary session was by Prof. Ada E Yonath, Noble Laureate in Chemistry who spoke on “From Basic Science to Advance Medicine”. She emphasized that the greatest threat to existing medicine is the resistance to medicine. Pathogens being clever to have made themselves resistant to antibiotics during the due course and days are near that no antibiotic may be able to cure bacterial infections, but nothing much progress has been done in the development of new antibiotics. Ada, with her discovery of active binding sites in the pathogens and the understanding of ribosomal involvement in protein synthesis, has given a spark for the synthesis of new antibiotics and after her findings have been published, many antibiotics have been synthesized since last ten years.
A panel discussion was held on the theme “Health”. The panellists were Dr S.N. Omkar, Chief Research Scientist, IISc, Bengaluru, Prof. K Byrappa, Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor, Mangalore University, Dr Dipshika Chakraborthy, Professor, IISc, Bengaluru, Dr Anand Venugopal, General practitioner, KMC Hospital & Mr Kamlesh Manuja, Head Business Operations, Edelweiss Ohio Life Insurance, Mumbai. The session was moderated by Dr S N Omkar who spoke about Vedic texts and their view in the health of the body and mind. He stressed on practising Yoga and meditation. Prof. Byrappa spoke about dedicating at least 90 minutes per day towards self-health. Dr Dipshika emphasized on keeping the gut flora microbes healthy for long and healthy life. Dr Anand Venugopal spoke about developing primary health care system to reach the wider community. Mr Kamlesh urged youngsters to have a financial plan at a young age.
Dr D P Agrawal, Former Chairman, UPSC of India delivered a talk on “IT and Health Delivery Systems in India”. He enlightened the students on the existence of IT systems in the field of health. He discussed the critical sectors of India, bioterrorism and the layers of Indian health system. He also spoke about Clinical informatics to promote patient safety (CLIPS) used in the field of health and Small business innovative research programmes (SBIR). He mentioned about the WHO norms, electronic health records and the use of mobile vans.
Ms Yugratna Srivatsava, Programme coordinator, Plant for Planet initiative delivered a talk on “Renewable Energy Technologies”. She discussed the reasons for the climatic changes in the environment due to industrial revolutions. She spoke about the history of the climate negotiations, UNFCC, a document ratified by 191 countries by secretariat Germany. She urged the students to think on “The 1.5 degree Celsius target, how do we reach it? The solution of the climate change is many folds and complicated i.e., by preserving the cold areas by adopting them. Climate change helps us to use renewable energy sources. India is trying to move away from the use of fossil fuels. She explained about the green energy corridor programme.
Dr Basheer Ahmad Ganai, Professor, Director CORD & Head of P.G. Department of Environmental Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar delivered a session on “Diabetics and Environment”. He gave a detailed overview of Diabetes Mellitus. He also stressed on the fact that environment plays a key role in accelerating various diseases. He concluded the session by advising the students to create awareness about diabetes in the society.
Dr D. Antony Louis Piriyakumar, Professor, PES University, Bengaluru, delivered a session on “Bionic Eye”. He started the session by quoting that information is the key in the 21st century. He mentioned that the visually impaired orphan students inspired him to create a technology through which visually impaired people can live independently. As a result of this, he has carried out several kinds of research in the field of Bionic Eye. During the session, he highlighted on the technology behind the bionic eye, it is working, its pros and cons along with its challenges.
Mr Prashanth Prakash, Partner, Accel Partners, Bengaluru spoke on “How to start a startup & Digitalization of Economy”. His session was on how digitalization has transformed the industry. In the wake of that, he defined transformation & the several subsets of digitalization. He threw light on the role of data analytics and how data helps in personalizing a customer’s virtual experience. He dwelled on the “Idea of Network Effect”. He concluded his session with case studies on Bluestone, Bizongo & Blackbuck.
Mr Kamlesh Manuja, Head of Business Operations, Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance, Mumbai spoke on “Operational efficiency through digitization”. He took the students through the journey of digitalization of insurance segment from the Indian context. He also put across the challenges and opportunities in the said segment and tried to focus on customer-centric solutions and innovations. He enlightened the audience about how the new generation on-boarding model works. He gave two live cases studies on General insurance & Life insurance to show how digitalization has impacted & improvised the entire experience of insurance.
Prof. Gopalkrishna Hegde currently working at Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru delivered a session on "Nano Technology techniques and Challenges". He started his session by giving an introduction to nanotechnology and compared the size of human red blood cells with nanorods. The session also emphasized on the need for nanotechnology. He discussed the application of nanotechnology in medicine, environment, energy, information and communication, heavy industry and consumer goods. The session also covered many important topics like mems and nems based gear system, atomic force microscope, scanning tunnelling microscope, two main approaches for nanofabrication (top down and bottom up), conventional nanofabrication techniques, semiconductor lithography and types of lithography, semiconductor processing.
Dr Dipshika Chakravorthy, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc, Bengaluru spoke on “Biomedical application of shock waves”. The session was about the needleless vaccine delivery system and its advantages over vaccine delivery through oral route and injection. This needleless system is based on the pressure profile which helps to inject the vaccine about 60-micrometre depth under the skin where the immune building “Langerhans cells” because of which 100% of mice under vaccination got survived. The needleless vaccine delivery system makes the immune system robust. Thus this is an inexpensive method for vaccinating many kinds of diseases such as typhoid, diabetes, cholera and tuberculosis were discussed during the session.
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