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WHEELS, Six IITs partner for transformative change - Satellite Conferences at PIWOT 2025
The satellite events highlighted cutting-edge research, innovation programs, and start-up incubators at the partner IIT campuses.
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In collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), WHEELS Global Foundation (WGF) extended the PanIIT World of Technology (PIWOT) 2025 experience to Satellite Conferences at six newer IIT campuses across the country: Ropar, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Tirupati, and Gandhinagar. These satellite events highlighted cutting-edge research, innovation programs, and start-up incubators at these institutions. They also featured highly productive dialogues among industry, academia, and WHEELS, focusing on broader goals of actionable industry-academia collaboration and leveraging technology to improve lives in rural India.
A pivotal achievement of these events was the signing of a MoUs (Memorandum of Understanding) between WHEELS Global Foundation and the Deans of six IITs. This agreement, witnessed by leaders from CII, IIT faculty, and the WGF leadership team, marked a significant milestone in advancing collaborative efforts. Notable attendees included WGF president Ratan Agarwal (virtually), WGF India president Sujata Roy, Ambassador Pradeep Kapur, Hitendra Ghosh, Suresh Shenoy, Dr. Ram Ramanan, Dr. Raj Shah, Dr. Bindu Kansupara, Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Yogeah Andley, and Yadav Murti Sankaran.
The Satellite Conferences received an overwhelming response, drawing over 500 participants including students , industry professionals, academia, armed forces, senior Govt officials, overseas University leaders and WHEELS members. The collaboration seeks to bridge the gap between innovation and large-scale implementation, facilitate knowledge exchange for rural advancement, and initiate impactful projects in partnership with Pan-IIT alumni , WHEELS and other stakeholders.
WHEELS Global Foundation demonstrated its unique ability to bridge technology, innovation, and social impact, showcasing how collaborative efforts can drive material change across multiple sectors and communities. These satellite events are paving the way for action-oriented quarterly forums, fostering tri-party collaboration among IITs, industry and WHEELS. Further, with the recent launch of its new initiative to connect ‘Innovations from US Universities for Underserved Populations’ to WHEELS Pan-India NGO Network, WGF is looking forward to bi-directional innovation-to-deployment activities and linkages with these quarterly forums.
WHEELS , by deploying such programs, aims to achieve the shared objectives of Technology Driven Transformation of India’s 20% of “Rurban” population that is 180m+ people, by 2030 in support of India’s vision of becoming a developed economy by 2047.
We urge all of you with interest in supporting the large underserved segment of India’s future to join WHEELS’ efforts by visiting WHEELS WEBSITE and Getting Involved section which provides numerous ways for you to be part of our journey. Visit www.wheelsglobal.org
(The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of New India Abroad)
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