India Development Service & Illinois And Loyola University Chicago

Presents: RURAL INNOVATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES  

April 4, 2009 from 9. 00 am to 2. 00 pm

 

Venue: Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, Illinois Room 160 SSOM

Moderated by: Jerome McDonnell, Host of Worldview, NPR

Speakers:

Professor Anil Gupta, Professor IIM, Ahmedabad, India
Mr. Manoj Sinha and Mr. Charles Ransler, Founders, Husk Power Systems
Mr.  Shailesh Rao, Founder, The Climate Healers, CA
Mr.  Bhagawati Agrawal, founder,  Aakash Ganga

Anil Gupta: Chosen by India Today as one of the 50 Pioneers of Change in the country, Prof. Anil Gupta has helped Govt. of India to mobilize more than 70,000 innovations and traditional knowledge practices from over 500 districts of India, the largest database of its kind anywhere.

Shailesh Rao: Dr. Rao holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and is founder of the Climate Healers, a non profit organization based in California, working towards combating the climate crisis by reforestation and use of solar energy.

B. P Agrawal: Dr. Agrawal is a founder of Sustainable Innovations, a non-profit corporation, to harness technologies for delivery of health care to vulnerable populations and for making safe drinking water available to rural areas.

Manoj Sinha and Charles Ransler: Manoj Sinha and Charles Ransler, Graduate students at the University of Virginia, and founders of Husk Power Systems are working to provide power using innovative technology to convert rice husks into electricity.

For more information, contact: Nila Vora, (630) 660-3870, nilavora@pol.net Jagjit Jain, (708) 574-6977

Registration fee: $50.00 before March 15,09
$60.00 from March 16-April 3 09
At the door: $75.00
Students discount: $25( with id card)
( Registration includes: Continental Breakfast and vegetarian boxed lunch)

 

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