Sep
8th
The Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition 2011, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, September 22 - 25, 2011
By Oopali Operajita
The Al Gore Sustainable Technology
Venture Competition™ is held annually since 2008 in honour of Vice
President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, for Planet Earth & Future
Generations. Asia's first and most prestigious
sustainable/cleantech venture competition is being held 22 - 25
September, 2011 at India's flagship institute: IIT Madras, Chennai,
India. The competition is conducted with the authorization
of the office of H. E. The Honorable Al Gore, former Vice President
of the United States. Read Carnegie Mellon University's
story on Oopali Operajita and the history and origin of the
competition, which she founded in February 2007, here: http://tinyurl.com/4462kno. View
the competition galleries for 2010: http://tinyurl.com/35dh48d; and
2009 :http://tinyurl.com/2br2k2z
The competition is for MBAs, Science & Technology undergraduate (final year) and graduate students who create new, sustainable and clean technologies and bring them to market through innovation and entrepreneurship.
Collaborators this year are the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CEI), at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, The Indus Entrepreneurs, (TiE) the world’s largest network of entrepreneurs, the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India's largest industry body; and The Indo-German Centre for Sustainability at IIT Madras.
The competition is for MBAs, Science & Technology undergraduate (final year) and graduate students who create new, sustainable and clean technologies and bring them to market through innovation and entrepreneurship.
Collaborators this year are the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CEI), at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, The Indus Entrepreneurs, (TiE) the world’s largest network of entrepreneurs, the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India's largest industry body; and The Indo-German Centre for Sustainability at IIT Madras.
Feb
4th
IIT Madras to host the 2010 Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™, India, in Chennai, April 1-3, 2010.
By Oopali Operajita
IIT Madras is to be the
Education Partner of Asia's first and most prestigious
sustainable/cleantech venture competition in 2010. The competition
is now in its third year, and comes on the heels of the phenomenal
success of the second official Al Gore
Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ at IIT Kharagpur, November 6-7,
2009.
The IIT Madras Finalist Team (Greenext Technology Solutions) from the 2009 Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ Won the First Coveted NYC 'Next Idea' Prize from Mayor Bloomberg on January 7, 2010. Here's the story.
The IIT Madras Finalist Team (Greenext Technology Solutions) from the 2009 Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition™ Won the First Coveted NYC 'Next Idea' Prize from Mayor Bloomberg on January 7, 2010. Here's the story.
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