Innovations to meet industry at Chandigarh expo this November

After successfully holding a transfer of technology conference on medical devices recently, the city is all set to host a national-level exhibition to provide a platform to the country’s leading scientists for transferring their cutting-edge technologies and innovations to the industry. “It will be an opportunity to sell to industry the technologies developed by the academia,” Manu Sharma, Coordinator, Department of Science and Technology’s Technology Enabling Centre (DST-TEC) at Panjab University (PU), told The Tribune.

Set to be held in Sector 17 from November 14 to 17 with the collaboration of the DST-TEC and Fortune Exhibitors Pvt. Ltd., the event, titled Machma Expo-2025, will feature over 400 industrial stalls and attract more than 10,000 industry professionals.

The national-level event is aimed to promote the “Make in India” initiative and encourage companies to develop, manufacture and assemble products in India and incentivise dedicated investments into manufacturing.

Prominent scientists from the Indian Institute of Technologies, National Institutes of Technologies, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research labs, and universities across the country will bring their patents, technologies, prototypes and research and development outputs to the exhibition — not only to display but to transfer these technologies to the industry — for real-world adoption.

Besides, the organisers have invited high net-worth individuals and venture investors to visit the exhibition and explore technologies to invest in.

According to them, the industry too will showcase its technologies, making this a two-way street of collaboration and co-creation. For the first time in India, academia and industry will be exhibiting side by side, as equal partners in the nation’s innovation ecosystem.