Recipients of Young Innovator & Entrepreneur Award

1. Dr Chandan Kumar Jha, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
2. Dr Madhan Balaraman, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai.
3. Mr Nikhil Kurele, Cofounder & CEO, Noccarc Robotics Private Limited, Pune, and Mr Harshit Rathore, Cofounder & CTO, Noccarc Robotics Private Limited, Pune.
4. Dr Sebastian C. Peter, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru.

1. Mr. Akshay V. Singhal, CEO & Founder, Log 9 Materials Scientific Private Ltd., Bengaluru.
2. Dr. Anuya A. Nisal, Principal Scientist, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

Special commendation

1. Dr. Sundararajan Krishnan, Founder and CEO, Aptener Mechatronics Private Limited, Bengaluru.
2. Mr. Jayant Sitaram Karve, Founding Director and CEO, RCupe Life sciences Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru.

1. Mr. Suteerth Tripathi and Ms. Shivani Gupta, Inochi Care Private Limited, New Delhi.
2. Mr. Prakhar Jain and Mr. Usama Ahmed Abbasi, MicroX Labs (Pratimesh Labs Pvt Ltd).

1. Mr. Nitesh Kumar Jangir, Director, Coeo Labs, Bangalore
2. Prof. Tarun Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Mr. Tushar Vyas, CTO, Nanoclean Global Private Limited, New Delhi.
3. Special commendation Award to Dr. Mayank Shrivastava, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, IISc, Bangalore Bangalore in recognition of his contributions in innovation.

1. Mr. Mandava Mohana Rao, BHEL, Hyderabad.
2. Awarded jointly to Mr. Tanuj Jhunjhunwala, Planys Technologies Pvt Ltd. and Mr. Vinay Kumar, PathShodh Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.