The ASEAN-India Hackathon was organised by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs from 1-4 February 2021. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) implemented this important initiative with the support of nodal agencies from all ten ASEAN countries, which included their Education Ministries and prominent universities. The Hackathon emanates from Prime Ministers’ announcement at the 16th ASEAN-India Summit in Bangkok in November 2019. The Hackathon was inaugurated by Minister of Education Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ along with other dignitaries from ASEAN and India.

The world’s largest open innovation model was organized from August 1 to August 3 2020. Smart India Hackathon is a nationwide initiative to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving. The first three editions SIH2017, SIH2018 and SIH2019 proved to be extremely successful in promoting out-of-the-box thinking in young minds, especially engineering students from across India.

However, SIH 2020 had hit a wall because of the COVID-19 situation. Which is where the experience of the InnovatioCuris (IC) team was handy. IC had already conducted two large hackathons, Ideathon and Samadhan for COVID-19 solutions and had a deep understanding of the processes involved in a virtual event.

The mega online challenge “SAMADHAN” has been launched by MIC and AICTE in collaboration with Forge and InnovatioCuris to test the ability of students and Educators to innovate. The participants in this challenge will design, simulate and develop such measures that can be made available to the government agencies, health services, hospitals and other services for quick solutions to the Coronavirus epidemic and other such calamities.

The joint fifth Science-Policy  Forum for Biodiversity and the eighth International Conference on Sustainability Science, scheduled on 13th, 15th, 19th, 21st, and 23rd April 2021, aimed to provide space for scientists, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders to discuss and make recommendations on how science, technology, and innovation could contribute to the effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework in order to bend the curve of biodiversity loss and obtain positive biodiversity outcomes and foster transformative change towards achieving the 2050 Vision. InnovatioCuris  (IC), being the technology partner supported the entire event on the technical front by providing end-to-end technology solutions and logistical support including the Fifth Science-Policy  Forum for Biodiversity and the Eighth International Conference on Sustainability Science (science4biodiversity.org) website.

Recently, TCGA received the prestigious 2020 American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) ‘Team  Science Award.’ Meanwhile, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), GoI has initiated ‘GenomeIndia Project’  aimed at sequencing 10,000 healthy individuals. India is already a partner in the International Cancer  Genome Consortium (ICGC), with a special focus on gingivo-buccal cancer.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), GoI has expressed commitment towards establishing  Cancer Consortia to generate genomics data on Indian cancer patients. More such initiatives/projects are expected to be rolled out in the coming years from various Governmental and non-Governmental agencies.  These positive developments make it imperative that a collaborative structure is needed in India to help share big data for performing meta-analyses on the lines of TCGA.
Therefore, based on the consensus between the attendees of the TCGA 2019 conference, the establishment of an ‘Indian Cancer Genomics Atlas (ICGA)’ has been proposed. The 2nd TCGA-themed conference, in collaboration with TCGA and key ICGA stakeholders, deliberates on the vision, design, and plans of the ICGA  project with regards to common SOPs, operations, logistics, and governance models.
InnovatioCuris provided the end-to-end technology support for conducting the 2nd TCGA conference virtually.

History is replete with examples of biological threats that have resulted in disastrous outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. This threat continues today in our present global society. With the world facing and trying to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, we all are well aware of how severely and adversely a biological disaster can hit a nation/world both economically and socially.
InnovatioCuris Foundation of Healthcare & Excellence (ICFHE) along with the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, organised a  webinar to create and spread awareness on management of biological disasters like Covid-19.

Certificate course in applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (CCAAIH) was designed and developed by InnovatioCuris (IC) and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) to bridge the information gap among clinicians on AI applications in Healthcare. The course was planned for 5-day duration and when writing this report has already been organised twice each time with a batch strength of 50 participants.
The course brought together world-class faculty from different domains and disciplines, academic, industry, and research providing a holistic approach to learning.

Certificate course in Cyber Security in Healthcare (CCCH) was designed and developed by  InnovatioCuris (IC) and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) to bridge the information gap among clinicians on Cyber Security and Data Protection topics in Healthcare. The course was planned for 4-day duration and when writing this report has already been organised once from 4-7 July 2020 with a batch strength of 42 participants.
The course brought together world-class faculty from different domains and disciplines,  academic, industry, and research providing a holistic approach to learning.