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.

Every year Vortex comes up with a new theme which strives to connect science and everyday lives making the seemingly tough concepts look easy and turn it into a fruitful, yet enjoyable way to learn. Keeping up with this tradition we have come up with a theme for Vortex 8.0, - ‘Fundamentals’.

"Fundamentals” -It is focused around the cores of all of science and its attributes. In a time where we are so much focused on the "new" and "advancements" in technology and science, we've stopped appreciating the ‘basics’ and how they govern everything.

Generation by generation, we pass down the art of application in the form of applied sciences but the love for ‘understanding’ of scientific concepts is slipping through the cracks. This past year has been a reminder; it has thrown us off and compelled us to go back to the basics- The things we usually neglected.

Vortex ICT has taken this as an opportunity to revisit the depths of science and divulge the ‘basics’ that we have forgotten. We are aiming to promote the concept of ‘ABC’ where A stands for ‘Adapt’, B for ‘Balance’ and C for ‘Control’, which has become the need of the hour.

ADAPT: The nature is always adapting; so are we. This constant, never ending process is often neglected but it literally governs our entire race. On an innate level, new technologies are adapted from previous ones.

BALANCE: Everything is balanced by design. Whenever man has tried to over-throw the balance, it has resulted in catastrophic consequences. In today’s world, we are only exploiting the nature destroying the equilibrium which needs to be maintained. Hence, Balance is of the basic concepts without which none of the scientific fields can work.

CONTROL: ‘Limitless’ seems fancy but a world without the concept of limit will not survive. Unless a limit is followed in all fields, all decisions will have severe implications.

Vortex has a plethora of competitions which not only intrigues the curiosity among students, researchers and academicians, but also helps them in developing a stance to face and efficiently solve the real-life challenges in every field. This orients them as per the demands of the industry while evoking the empathetic side, curtailing to the social needs as well, hence, striking a balance between what is needed and what needs to be done.

‘Tesseract' entails four dimensions and through Tesseract we are aiming to elevate the ordinary by redefining the dimensions in an unprecedented endeavor. Orchestrating the four dimensions in a refined vision, we propound the dimensions : Panorama, Rejuvenation, Sustainability, Envision.

Panorama:
Panorama is a wide and unobstructed view of an extensive area in all directions and by this we mean to keep in mind the ‘Fundamentals’ of last version’s vortex and hence we now look forward to infinite possibilities that new technology and science has to offer us. We propose to broadspect an unbroken view of accepting unconventional ideas, traditional values and basics (fundamentals) with a perspective of experimenting and considering infinite possibilities that amalgamate cultural values into the modern sphere.

Rejuvenation:
Changing times have forced us to hit rock bottom but our ability to consider a change as an opportunity and not a threat will help us rejuvenate.Vortex's collective spirit is to manifest self-awareness ,sense of responsibility and accept innovation to boost the process of revitalization, resulting in spontaneous rejuvenation.This gives us the power to stand up and make a difference by modifying and passing on the ancestral knowledge.

Sustainability:
Sustainability is imperative and a pressing priority to secure world inhabitants that aims to balance our economic, environmental and social needs, allowing prosperity for now and future generations. It gives rise to new products and processes that have abilities such as becoming more energy- efficient and reducing the amount of harmful matter found in the environment. Hence, on considering all the domains, we hope to take a step forward on reversing the dire impacts wrought upon the environment and restore the balance of our ecosystem.

Envision:
We envision a world through experimentation by virtue of contriving and encouraging breakthrough innovations/research with science and technology as the foundation. Envisioning allows us to get a visual of the reality of what will be based on the choices we are making now which later can lead to improved quality of life and provide inspiration and opportunity through outreach, rehabilitation and research.

“By having a panoramic view we will rejuvenate every aspect of the system in a sustainable manner by envisioning the future”.