Leadership

About

MaDeIT Innovation Foundation

MaDeIT Innovation Foundation is a non-profit Section 8 company under the Companies Act, 2013. It is a design-driven Technology Business Incubator promoted by the Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram, an institution of national importance fully funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. MaDeIT Innovation Foundation is supported by a grant from the Department of Science and Technology (NSTEDB Division), Govt. of India. MaDeIT intends build on IIITDM's core capability (IT enabled Design and Manufacturing) to encourage design-driven startups, largely in the manufacturing, healthcare and transportation sectors. It will support startups from IIITDM's students, faculty and the wider ecosystem.

Leadership

About

Prof. Kartikeyan M V - Director of IIITDM Kancheepuram.

Prof. M V Kartikeyan joined IIITDM Kancheepuram as the Director of the Institute on 12th October 2022. He is a professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering at IIT Roorkee (IITR). Prof. Kartikeyan joined IITR in 2003 as an Associate Professor, and he was elevated to the position of a full-professor in 2009. From 2020 to October 2022, Prof. Kartikeyan was working at IIT-Tirupati on deputation.
About

Dr. Sudhir Varadarajan - Associate Professor, SIDI at IIITDM Kancheepuram

He has 22+ years of experience in design & innovation management in the IT industry. He has strong expertise in management and IT consulting, and rich and varied experience in R&D, practice development, strategic marketing and consulting to Fortune 500 Clients. He is also the author of a book entitled Managing Nothing: A narrative inquiry into innovation and leadership in the IT industry(2015).

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