Indian Institute of Technology Delhi has joined hands with industry experts to create tech-enabled solutions.

The initiative will be part of the first edition of ‘Industry Day’, will be held on September 23, and is aimed at breaking down silos to catalyse academic-industry collaborations. Speaking about the annual technical exposition, V Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi, said: “Industry Day provides an opportunity for fostering cross-fertilisation of ideas through collaboration between industry and academia. As a common platform, it will bring together the industry, academia and research community to discuss the problems faced by the industry and form partnerships to create effective solutions, thereby strengthening a talented and responsive network to serve ‘innovation-hungry’ global marketplace.” Defence, environment, affordable healthcare, smart cities and energy are some of the themes of the event, which will showcase institute’s creativity and talent as an attractive business partner, an IIT-Delhi release said.

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