Bangalore: EmTech 2010, the annual emerging technologies conference, will be conducted in Bangalore from March 8, 2010. The two-day conference from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Technology Review is being held in India for the second year in succession, in association with Cyber Media, next month.
As per sources, about 100 leading business and tech visionaries from around the world would discuss innovative ideas and market ready incubated technologies at the meeting. It will cover a variety of pioneering topics ranging from green computing techniques, clean transport alternatives and smarter energy grid to the role that wireless can play in connecting India.
Further, special sessions on innovative diagnostics and neglected diseases will draw attention towards unheralded health care fields. Such session on neglected diseases will explore the possibilities of finding affordable vaccines against AIDS, malaria and pulmonary tuberculosis by 2015. Also, there will session on the future of nanotechnology, which will touch on the new capabilities, giving new ways to make things and heal bodies.
Further, Pradeep Gupta, Founder of Specialty Publishing Giant CyberMedia, the publishers of Techology Review's India edition said that the session on social innovations at EmTech 2010 will break the myth that technologies only touch the sophisticated, as it will focus on developments that will benefit those at the bottom of the pyramid.
