Track 1: Medical Devices and IoT/AI

Best for students focusing on Bio Medical, Bio Engineering, Bio Design, Medical Devices, Physics, Mathematics, Applied Materials, Healthcare Management, Service Management, Hospice Care, Nursing and Mechanical/ Industrial/Electrical and Aeronautical Engineering.

Objective / Case Study

You have recently joined the Traklife team. Traklife is the only company that has developed a patent-pending device that helps patients with pacemakers have a better grip on their health using IoT, sensors, and the innovative design of the device. Post studying the product you are told there is a flaw and you need to discover the flaw in the design, present it to the CEO, explain how to solve the problem, and in addition do market research on the positioning and market size of the product, costing, marketing and outreach strategy. Before the final presentation, you will need to reach out to the Industry experts as a team and build the total value so that the flaw does not creep into the manufacturing phase of the product. 

Track 2: Robotics & Design

Best for students focusing on Design, Physics, Mathematics, Applied Materials, Social Sciences, Service Management, Hospice Care, Nursing and Mechanical/ Industrial/Electrical, Software Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science and Aeronautical Engineering. We also welcome students who are interested in Government, Public Policy and Finance to participate.

Objective / Case Study

You have recently got a job at the startup Arm-e, a revolutionary robotics company that has designed a robot to create independence for people with Cerebral Palsy. Tasked with digging deeper and studying the problem of the entire ecosystem you have been requested to find out the flaws in the design of the product and put one recommendation to rectify it before the robot Arm-e moves into the production phase. You really have to understand the boundaries and challenges you are up against and have to get real feedback from real people.  Based on these challenges find the one that would be the best recommendation, the impact, the cost involved, and the time involved to introduce the modification. The final stage is the presentation to Industry professionals and you have to convince them to invest money in the project. You have to appeal to them in such a way, they can’t refuse. 

Track 3: Ecosystem Design & Sustainability

Best for students in the field of Architecture and Planning, Sustainability, Civil engineering, and Capital Projects, Project Management, Government Policy, Human Rights, Politics, Divinity, Math, Finance, Law and Education.

Objective / Case Study

You are a passionate advocate for children. Millions of children go through cancer at an early age, though most heal up on time, these children are usually behind in their education, they are isolated and miss the childhood fun if not the love of their near and dear ones.

You want to make a difference.

Your plan is to create a proposal for your State Governor/ Chief Minister of State to build a Children Cancer hospital with the concept of an Ecosystem. An Ecosystem is a near self-sustaining model that creates value based on outcomes. Your job is to design, create the costing for multiple activities, build a visual presentation with details of People, Process, Technology, and Costs, present Venture Capitalists to request funding. While the design is a critical piece, you have to work with a team of professionals to complete the rest of the critical items. The key is to collaborate and build a template that can later be presented in real life to all Governments of the world, the United Nations, IMF, etc. Thus you will need to be really detailed and be a visionary to connect the dots and solve problems. How would you execute the project? A template like this doesn’t exist and no one has done this before. Can you?

Track 4: Smart Ashrams of the Future

Best for students in the field of Marketing, future MBA, Business Majors, Communications, Architecture and Planning, Sustainability, Civil engineering, and Capital Projects, Project Management, Government Policy, Human Rights, Politics, Divinity, Math, Finance, Law and Education. Equally good for students with Computer Science, Anthropology majors/minors, Liberal arts, and Blockchain enthusiasts. We invite future Lawyers, Attorneys, and Tax enthusiasts too! Please note, whoever you are, you need to be a changemaker and be willing to make a difference here. The project is real and you need to make it real by taking it further.

Objective / Case Study

This is a decade-long vision come true as a project. Ashram is a state of living in a community that is minimal, close to nature, self-sustaining, disciplined, and spiritual life – a practice India/ Tibet and other ancient civilizations practiced as a way of living. 

Welcome to Smart Ashrams, a global community that adopts the same minimal model as value, yet makes it suitable for the current Digital Age.

Early Bitcoin/Crypto investors for example have made a killing. Many in the late 40’s are no longer interested in running the corporate rat race and now want to live an adventurous life, but a minimal one with travel, laughter, great intellectual friends, close to nature, and a way to contribute back to society and also find a way to do work wherever they go. This is a visionary and futuristic project and you have set out to achieve a big objective. Imagine the possibilities of bringing people who can move between ashrams, sharing knowledge, digitally mentoring students of the future, building networks of the future, building a huge impact by being the key organizer for this project!

In the end, you are tasked to work with a team and build the entire proposal, understand the market, find the buyers of the Smart Ashram and get their feedback.

Track 5: Industry 4.0 Augmented Reality & Digital Twins

Open to those in Computer Software, Engineering, Business Architecture, Project Management, Business Management, Enterprise Architecture, IoT, IIoT, Cloud, Manufacturing etc. Also welcome are those looking at Engineering such as Mechanical, Electrical, Mining, Oil/Gas, Chemical and Process Engineering.  

Objective / Case Study

You have just joined the Manufacturing production team of a Toolmaking company. The Plant manager has asked you to evaluate the possibilities of AR, VR, and XR to help new production workers. He is interested to know the possibilities and has requested you build a small demonstration and if possible a Proof of Concept.

He has placed a couple of very important questions for you. First, he has 200 plants mostly in rural locations, he wants you to build a successful scalable strategy where AR/VR/XR can scale and impact. He did say there are other problems and decided not to tell you what those problems are. You need to probe what those problems can be in advance. The better you understand the challenges, the more accurate your strategy to scale the project.

He has requested other important pieces including costs, implementation strategy, people required, total Return on Investment and the architecture required. He has given you 30 days to complete the project and then finally present your findings to a panel of people including the CEO.

The CEO, unfortunately, thinks the idea of training factory personnel is a waste of time and feels the Plant Manager is not the right person to lead the factories as it may create problems with the workforce. On the other hand, the Plant Manager has immense faith in you. He knows you are a techie, understands architecture, understands the IT stack and charming personality. If you do well in convincing the CEO – you earn accolade and you save the Plant Managers job as well. Else, both will be let go! Can you help?

Track 6: Cryptocurrency, Trading, and Economics

Open to everyone and anyone! Crypto is the future and understanding the Economics, the Trading aspect, and Finance is critical for the entire student generation

Objective / Case Study

You have joined a non-profit, the CEO has hired you as a person who is a stellar Crypto enthusiast. She has asked you to focus on understanding the value of Crypto and the different ones available to invest in. Is it an asset, currency, a tulip-mania…what is it?

She requests that you understand how to trade Crypto. She has heard about Technical Analysis, and she has made friends in other circles who swear by WD Gann’s methods of drawing charts that can forecast trends and movement, which again is not Technical Analysis. She recently also came by a group of investors who claimed that Crypto( and stocks) can be invested by studying Financial Astrology. Yes, Financial Astrology and the movement of planets. The CEO doesn’t know what to do now with these silos of information.

She has requested that you start becoming a crypto investor, invest $100 and start trading to get the experience, and start forecasting how to make money for the non-profit. Can she depend on you to quickly learn and show profits? She understands you may not know anything about the subject, but she trusts in your enthusiasm to learn. Can you?