Vortex 2018

From Carbon and Frugal Innovention, where inchoate frugality ruled, to Indigenesis where Indian genesis was highlighted, and finally SiSTEM which brought sustainability into picture, Vortex has always strived to highlight the need of the hour. For this fifth edition of Vortex, where automation is the key to strive, innovation is sustenance and revolution is the maverick, what can be better than employing a system that is a perfect amalgamation of these, a system that will generate human civilizations' next evolutionary step.

Years ago, the Industrial Revolution transcend human civilization into a new realm, affecting all the classes of the society. What mankind needs now is a revolution, not only to innovate, but also to save planet Earth from the catastrophe that anthropological activities have brought upon it. A revolution that will have a huge impact on the ability of people—of all economic classes—to obtain goods and services. The Industrial Revolution only led to mass production of previously imagined items, however, the Automated Innovation Revolution will result in an endless, rapid stream of previously unimaginable products and services based upon technology breakthroughs being generated and utilized at an astronomically fast rate with unprecedented efficiency and agility. The automation of the development, acquisition and utilization of technology is what will create this transformation in innovation, and thus, we bring to you the theme of Vortex 5.0.

One such revolution, one such metamorphose, one such change.

We bring to you

Quadrigy - The Automated Innovation Revolution

The AIR that we need, not to survive but to strive!

In the past three years, Vortex themes have been centred on ‘hot’ topics. With quality jugaad in Frugal Innovention, a call for applications towards sustainability in SiSTEM and promoting industrial automation in Quadrigy, Vortex 6.0 brings you its theme – PRITHWEE.

Having the privilege of organising IIChE’s SCHEMCON 2008, our theme is in step with their “Green and Sustainable Chemical Engineering”, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Prioritising Research & Innovation in Technology towards Harnessing Ways to Ensure Eco-friendliness is indeed a need of the hour.

It is high time that humanity takes cumulative steps towards safeguarding the Earth from our own activities, which could make mere survival an issue for all. This theme appeals to invest in the Science of Survival for the sake of the future so that we may Save our Souls. Like the SOS, the theme highlights the distress and urgency with which we must act to ensure sustainability, so that everyone, and everyone to come, will have sufficient resources.