AIM PRIME Session 3 : Systematic Technology De-risking by Dr. Hiran Vedam
Channel: AIM PRIME
Date: 18/06/2021

Welcome to Session 3 of the AIM PRIME Program series on promoting deep-tech science based entrepreneurship. 

Today's session focuses on Systematic Technology De-risking and introduces the various steps to take an idea from the idea stage to the market and help is scale and grow. The session talks about how to identify and deal with all the various risks at different stages through this journey from Idea to PoP to PoC to PoV and beyond. 

Speaker Introduction :

Dr. Hiran Vedam has nearly 15 years of experience in transitioning technologies from research to market. Being a founder and early stage investor, she brings experiences from the US, Singaporean and Indian ecosystems in the area of commercialization. 

She is a Business Consultant & Senior Advisor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIT Tirupati. Recently, she started a YouTube channel, WorldofDeeptech, to familiarize young researchers on various aspects of commercializing advanced technologies.

She was also consulting as Advisor for IP & Entrepreneurship at IIT Gandhinagar, where she started the innovation and entrepreneurship program from scratch and helped the Institute secure DST-TBI funding for setting up an incubator. She has worked as a Senior Manager at Industry Liaison Office of National University of Singapore where she was responsible for the advanced materials portfolio. 

Dr. Hiran has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, MBA from INSEAD, M.S. from Washington University and a B.Tech from IIT-Madras.

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