This text has been printed in partnership with Accenture India
Within the 90s, Geetha Manjunath was a part of a staff that helped design the primary Indian business supercomputer. This, she recollects, was one of many first occasions she realised she wanted to work twice as arduous — and present double the outcomes — to be handled at par together with her male colleagues.
At present the NIRAMAI founder has pioneered girls’s healthcare throughout the globe. “We’ve got put an Indian startup on the listing of high AI, digital well being, and women-founded startups on the planet, and used expertise to make a distinction in somebody’s life.”
In the meantime, Saket Modi is a worldwide title in moral hacking and cyber safety. And his startup has helped a number of Fortune50 manufacturers battle cybercrime and hold their info protected. He notes, “We wish to create a military of cyber warriors, the engineers of tomorrow.”
What led him right here? It began when he determined to hack his college’s IT system to entry the chemistry paper — a topic he was not too keen on.
And that’s what you typically see. {That a} easy concept, an unshakeable thought, or the urge to make a distinction can typically push one to show their ‘eureka!’ moments right into a motion, a revolution — bringing astounding change throughout sectors, setting a brand new, shiny, and provoking path for the nation’s future.
So what goes on behind the scenes? How does an concept turn into that motion?
That is what Accenture India and The Higher India have got down to discover in ‘Igniting Concepts for Affect’, a riveting audiobook that journeys by the world of the nation’s most sensible minds.
Traversing India’s panorama, we talked to revolutionaries behind a few of India’s most pioneering startups. The individuals you’ll hear from embody Manjunath as she talks about her transformative battle for early breast most cancers detection; Modi on his world mission for cyber safety; Aishwarya Karnataki on her endeavour to incorporate 1000’s dwelling with an invisible incapacity; and Manish Amin on his objective of printing human organs to avoid wasting thousands and thousands of lives — to call just a few.
When Girls Result in Construct Foundations, To not Break Ceilings
India has nearly 15.7 million women-owned companies that present direct employment to 22–27 million individuals. It’s estimated that over 30 million extra women-owned companies are anticipated to supply 150–170 million jobs by 2030.
It’s this transformative potential of ladies entrepreneurs that we discover on this chapter. These girls took the unconventional plunge to not solely problem norms but in addition encourage stellar impression. Their tales present how they drive innovation, resilience, initiative, and creativity when the percentages are stacked towards them.
“Biases exist in every single place. You probably have the need, ardour, consistency, and data, gender ought to by no means be the rationale to cease you from reaching the highest,” says Madhumita Agrawal, a pioneer in India’s EV sector.
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The Sustainable Change: The best way to Develop With out Harming the Atmosphere?
Why is it crucial for companies to measure their environmental impression? How are you going to assist your online business develop whereas guaranteeing that the surroundings doesn’t must pay the heavy price?
On this chapter, we deal with these questions and an necessary query — “What does sustainability imply?”
The ventures you’ll hear from have developed distinctive options that not solely abide by their ideas of sustainability but in addition give us a shot at a cleaner and more healthy future. They present us how Indians are constructing sustainable options, how they arrived at them, and their ideas on the bigger sustainability enterprise ecosystem within the nation.
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Reworking The Future With Deep Tech
In a rustic like India, socio-economic and improvement challenges are distinctive. Does deep tech have the potential to meaningfully deal with numerous facets of those issues utilizing new applied sciences?
The improvements we discover on this chapter embody life-changing units, applied sciences that might give thousands and thousands of individuals a second probability at life, and make life easier and safer for individuals throughout the corners of India.
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Inspiring Giant-Scale Change With Improvements Pushed by Empathy
“You go searching and see that we’re all the time aiming for the celebs, however you don’t wish to go away individuals behind. You genuinely wish to deal with the wants of everybody, since each particular person counts. You decide up an issue and purpose to resolve it in the easiest way potential.”
When innovation is pushed by empathy, the change is certain to be outstanding. So how will we compassionately progress as a nation, guaranteeing that nobody is left behind?
We take a look at three startups utilizing that straightforward human high quality we name empathy to blaze a path.
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The Anatomy of AI: Will It Unleash an Entrepreneurial Revolution?
Think about a day within the lifetime of an Indian farmer.
He wakes as much as his climate assistant informing him that it’ll rain in about two hours. Minutes later, one other beep — his livestock sensor alerts him to a brand new virus on the block. Because the day progresses, extra beeps and alerts vie for his consideration. It’s no shock, for his farm knowledge is on the cloud for real-time advisory, his plot is mapped by sensible drones, his crops are monitored by agri-bots, and the harvesting is taken care of by GPS-driven autonomous tractors.
He’s a farmer of the digital age, with knowledge at his fingertips and expertise within the palm of his arms.
May AI revolutionise the lives of thousands and thousands of such Indians? Be a part of us as we discover the anatomy of AI, unbundle what it really means, and listen to from the startups leveraging this expertise to encourage change in brand-new methods.
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Indians Constructing the Way forward for India’s Workforce
The immensity and expanse of India’s expertise lies in its youth. How will we harness this potential to additional our financial progress? For one, by aiding segments of the inhabitants — notably girls ignored of the formal workforce — to get again into it. By reconfiguring what it means to ‘work’ in a proper setting.
On this chapter, we discover platforms pioneered by bizarre Indians which can be serving to the nation encash its demographic dividend, whereas additionally facilitating the entry of these typically ignored, or ignored of the formal workforce.
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A courageous new world
Every story on this audiobook is a testomony to the nation and its individuals’s resilience to maneuver in direction of a extra inclusive, extra equitable future whereas harnessing new alternatives with the assistance of expertise.
As professor Anil Prabhakar — who has helped revolutionise look after individuals with motor and listening to disabilities — places it: “Allow us to remedy the issue for one individual, and in that course of, you study sufficient that you would be able to remedy it for 100 individuals, possibly.”
So right here’s a window into the lives, pondering, and energy of a number of the nation’s best minds. These Indians present us why change just isn’t so far as it appears, that generally, all it takes is a straightforward concept that may be a catalyst for a revolution — one which opens new roads to a transformative future.
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