EmTech India 2009 Special Coverage

Day 2

• And we can also make calls!
  The mobile phone is no more just a communication device, but your wallet, your school, your hospital and your passport to a better life!
• Taking education to rural youth
  At the EmTech Annual Conference, people from all walks of life came to attend the sessions and take something back with them.
• Innovation and micro entrepreneurs
  Micro entrepreneurs hardly get media attention. Beside media support, there is a real back-up needed for this segment to reach out the actual market
• Is there a clean tech bubble?
  Analysts have been wondering as to whether too much money is being pumped into too many over-hyped technologies and companies?
• HP Labs and collaborative innovation
  HP think that working closely with communities, universities and other collaborations will help to work on better things
• Homeland security: is India prepared?
  Citizens need to realize that security is everyone’s responsibility
• Tackling the tech challenges
  "The biggest challenge is to come out with relevant applications for the bottom of the pyramid customers"
• Writing programmes to the brain
  MIT scientist says Neuro Technology has a great potential to help cure many ailments
• Future of Bandwidth
  Eighty per cent of the world population will have mobile connectivity by 2013
• It's time to invest in rural India
  Education also provides a huge opportunity in a country like India
• ICT for a billion lives
  We have no dearth of innovation and demand, the key is scaling up, feel experts
• A revolution called information extraction
  The MIT-CyberMedia EmTech Conference throws some light on Information Extraction
• M-powered India
  Alcatel Lucent is developing a host of applications for the `bottom of the pyramid' customers since the next wave of growth is likely to come from the hinterland

Day 1

• MIT names 10 emerging technologies
  The list includes technologies miniature and massive, from fast, cheap, capacious computer memory to batteries that can store enough energy to power a city
• It's time to embrace alternative energy
  Bio fuels will not only reduce CO2 emission in the atmosphere but also help get better return on investments
• Customized medicine to be a reality?
  Generating data for understanding a disease has become cheaper, faster and better
• Web 3.0 promises a 'personal touch'
  Experts believe a number of next-gen web applications have already started appearing
• Nano Technology and its impact
  Beyond hype, there is something real being delivered through Nano Technology
• Reducing costs, increase productivity
  There is a growing need to make operations more efficient, without compromising on quality
• It's all in the cloud
  Cloud Computing was being touted as the next dotcom boom. But it still hasn't penetrated all the way down. Our panelists try to examine why...
• IT-driven education to build India
  Indian's investments in education have produced world-class talent that fueled growth of IT in the region
• Towards a green transportation
  We can't talk about green transportation unless we solve supply and infrastructure challenges
• Next billion cameras by 2011
  Visual social computing is going to be an important trend in India
• Putting 1bn Indians on Health Superhighway
  Dr Prathap C Reddy, chairman Apollo Hospitals, outlines his vision of bringing "good health" to a billion Indians, at EmTech2009
• 'Technology Review' launched in India
  Prof M.G.K. Menon and HP's Neelam Dhawan receive first copies of MIT’s magazine of innovation
• Bio fuels can replace fossil fuels
  Panelists say electric cars are the best alternative to petrol and diesel driven car
• Fusing Technovation & Entrepreneurship
  Neelam Dhawan, MD, HP India says entrepreneurial activities should also address societies and their concerns
• Tech in sync with mkt reality will survive
  We need disruptive and innovative technologies like cell phones and Internet which has helped improve the lives of people in even the remotes parts of country, says MGK Menon
• The Knowledge Lamp Burns
  EmTech, MIT's celebrated technology conference, kicks off in New Delhi