IGEN ENERGATHON 2020 - 13.36 Hours Virtual International Conference

It is great to see so many enthusiastic participants celebrating digitally 50th International EarthDay 2020 throughout the world.

On this occasion IGEN and its partner organizations joining 50th EarthDay celebration through “13.36 Hours 40 Speaker“ virtual conference titled “ENERGATHON 2020” . ENERGATHON 2020 enlightened with technical talk, Technical debate, Panel discussion, Live Case study presentation , feedback on participants , which all connected with UN sustainable development goals.

The conference was hosted by Dr.J.Balamurgan and co-hosted by Er.S.Selvakumar , Scientist &Er.D.Gokuland supervised by Dr.L.Ramesh. Everyone were physically segregated geographically apart and operated with the minimal resources available in their home with one laptop and with the available network connectivity. The theme was clearly read out by Scientist D.Gokul, followed the program agenda and program schedule was thrown to audience by Dr.L.Ramesh, Founder & President of IGEN.

Padma Shri Dr.Mylsamy Annadurai, NDRF, Chairman IE India ,Chandrayaan 1&2 ,Project Director and Former Director,ISRO inaugurated the conference and delivered inaugural address. It was followed by Guest of honor speech by another eminent and program coordinators from the World Earth Day Foundation namely Ms. KarunaSingh ,Regional Director ,South Asia Earth Day Network and Mr. Ajay Mittal, Director,Climate Change India and South Asia -Earth Day Network.

The program categorized under the SDG goals were discussed with our 40 eminent speakers

THEME 1 – SDG GOAL 6: Clean Water and Sanitation & GOAL 13: Climate Action was delivered by Dr.DanielChellappa -Eminent Nuclear Scientist Chennai , Er.Sundarrajan- Poovilangil Nanbargal and Er.A.PeterRajan - Chemist(Rtd)/TNEB, PETERS

THEME 2 – GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality was delivered by Er.Geetha Lakshmi,-Discipline Head, TCE , Er. SubathraRajendran -Chief process Engineer,ENI, Republic of Congo, Dr .Akila -Principal, KPR Institute of Technology , Ms.UneniMogoma- Co-Founder of DMF(David Mogoma),Botswana

THEME 3–GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy& GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure was delivered by DrBalaraman Kannan -Director General, National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE)MNRE, Er. KRISHNAN RAJAGOPALAN- Global head – BD & proposals, hybrid & ES Sterling &Wilson, Er. Shaji John -Head – BD Domestic & Global, Renewables, L&T, Er.Selvakumar -Head Engineering & Design, Power Projects , Sivaguru Paramasivam - Energy Storage Expert Masdar – Abu Dhabi, Er. KRISHNAN RAJAGOPALAN- Sterling &Wilson, Dr. Ali AskarSherMohamad-MD & CEO, Sher Engineering Malaysia,Er. Vignesh SM-Senior Engineer, Blue power partner's

THEME 4 –GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities was delivered by Dr. Raj Rajaram-EWB Chicago president & Advisor of EWB India -U.S.A, Dr.R.S.Kumar-Professor in Geologist, Annamalai University, Mr.S.Sathish-Forest Range Officer, Ramanathapuram TamilNadu Forest Department, Er.YuvarajMoorthy -Associate General Manage Schneider Electric , Er.Anbumani -Tech lead, Shell petroleum Qatar, Er.Elangovan M -Associate Chief Engineer - Process Safety, Technip India Limited, Er.AbdulBasir Bina -Director, Young Generation Engineering Services Co, Er.KannanMuttaih -Proprietor, Sttar Engineering Services

THEME 5 –GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth was delivered by Dr,L.Ramesh - Founder & President IGEN, Dr. L. Ashok Kumar-Professor, Dept.of EEE, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Dr.AlbertAlexandar -Vice President, Energy Conservation Society, Dr Rama Rao P.V.V. - Professor in EEE and Dean (R&D), Sri Vasavi Engineering College Dr.Suresh, Professor/Dean Student Affairs, Kalaignar Karunanidhi Institute of Technology, Dr.Mohanasundaram -Professor & Dean EEE Veltech, Dr. UmashankarSubramaniam, Associate Professor, Renewable Energy Lab, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh
VISION 2020 – Mission Achievement was delivered by APMJ Sheik Daewood and APMJ Sheik Saleem, Abdul Kalam International Foundation, House of Kalam

THEME 6 –GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production was delivered by Dr.KameshwarEranki, Founder and CEO, Proactiff Digital Healthcare &VajraSoftInc

The valedictory address of the conference ENERGATHON 2020 was presented by Er Ramdoss, Chairman IE India Tamil Nadu State Centre and Dr Jayarajan, Chairman, IE India Tiruvallur Local Centre.

The conference ended with fruitful outcome of 13.6 hours continuous live stream of lectures and discussions with 40 speakers, 10000 participants with live watch at IGEN SDGplus channel.

Interested, watch our complete conference @ https://www.youtube.com/c/IGENSDGplus

We take Big opportunity to thanks all our partners, who supported strongly to execute IGEN ENERGATHON 2020

100 Year Institution - The Institution of Engineers (India) – Tiruvallur Local centre , Engineer Without Boarder (EWB) Chennai Chapter , Power Projects India ,APJ Abdul Kalm International Foundations,National Youth Council of Indi, Agatiam Charitable Trust,Fewer 91.9 FM Chennai and Win News

To all of you, thank you for reading our article and watching our video
Know more about ENERGATHON @ http://theigen.org/energathon/

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With Regards
IGEN ENERGATHON ORGANISING SECRETARY
Dr.J.Balamurugan, Er Gokul and Er Selvakumar

F1 Rampoorna Nagar Ext , Athipet
Ambatur

The Institution of Green Engineers (IGEN), connecting green professionals, registered under Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975, wide Registration No: CN/SR/3032019, work towards to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (3, 4,6,7,9,11,12,13 & 17), to be the solution provider for government policy drafting, to develop Innovative products, this leads to provide solution to stainable greener world and to organize activities through VIBBGGYOR society.

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