[00:01:10] The kitchen that cooks startups: CFI, Nirmaan, Raftar, and many more

[00:08:16] Interesting Aside: MS in entrepreneurship at IIT Madras

[00:11:30] Shell Chair Professor and Energy Consortium and future of Entrepreneurship at IITM

[00:17:09] What are TRL: Technology Readiness Levels 1 - 9

[00:21:55] IIT Madras: From a teaching institution to a learning institution

[00:24:40] Decarbonisation: Not really what it sounds like

[00:27:30] Energy Usage: How does AI affect this?

[00:30:52] Climate Change: How is it governed at a global and national level

[00:34:40] The Journey: His entry and journey into Startups

[00:45:22] Pyramid Structure: Approach towards GHG reduction

[00:50:22] What’s the number: Prof Seshadri’s startups

[00:54:45] Scaling a Deep Tech Startup: What is it like?

[01:01:40] Academics and Entrepreneurship: How does he get so much done

[01:03:40] Is IIT Madras the best place to build: Mindset of celebrating risk

[01:06:28] IP Process: How does it work at IIT Madras

[00:07:21] [00:15:45] IIT Madras

[00:35:14] Rutgers University in New Jersey where Prof Seshadri did a Post Doc on delivering drugs to lungs

[000:50:00] United States Department of Energy (DOE)

[00:05:07] Swapnil Jain, Co-Founder and CTO of Ather, who was the Head of CFI during his time at IIT Madras

[00:18:30] Dr. John B. Goodenough, who was known for the lithium-ion battery

[00:23:10] Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi and Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala who started trying to create enterprises out of IIT Madras

[00:53:08] Kushant Uppal, co-founder of Indus DC who is also an IIT Madras Alumnus

[00:12:36] Prof Seshadri talks about working extensively with Shell as part of the Energy Consortium

[00:16:34] Ather Energy is mentioned as one of the startups which originated from IIT Madras and may soon become a unicorn.

[00:17:17] Prof Seshadri mentions that the TRL levels were introduced by NASA

[00:17:58] Companies like GE, Motorola, AT&T adopted TRL to look at their product pipeline

[00:28:16] The Ford Model-T Assembly Line production impacted the petroleum usage levels

[00:35:35] Prof Seshadri worked in an industry role focusing on coal gasification in GE Global Research Center 

[00:36:03] Prof Seshadri also spent some time working with Forbes Marshall 

[00:40:56] [00:50:42] Trigen DC was Professor Seshadri’s first Startup

[00:42:52] [00:50:49] Wankel Energy Systems is a company looking to reduce pressure to power recovery in process plants

[00:50:59] Energy ETA is Prof Seshadri’s startup focusing on building an Energy Efficiency operating system

[00:52:15] Indus DC - A venture builder which takes promising IPs out of labs and commercializes them on a global scale

[00:57:35] Companies like TVS and Tata Motors are more open to experimentation now

[00:59:18] ZF is a German global technology company supplying advanced mobility products and systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and industrial technology

[00:59:32] Prof Seshadri built his first 95 degree heat pump in the Lucas TVS plant

[00:59:53] Prof Seshadri also worked with Strides Pharma

[00:01:11] Nirmaan - Incubation Cell for Startups in IIT Madras 

[00:01:13] Centre For Innovation (CFI) - A maker space that has multiple clubs or special interest groups focused on building and innovating in their areas of interest

[00:03:52] Raftar - a Club within CFI

[00:07:20] IITM Global - A space to give IIT Madras Startups global exposure

[00:11:50] Energy Consortium - Shell IITM Energy Consortium is an industry academia and government platform to bring in all relevant stakeholders to the energy research transition from institution to industry

[00:17:09] TRL - Technology Readiness Levels

[00:21:09] CRL - Commercialization Readiness Level

[00:31:10] UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conducts events like COP29 Conference of Parties for Government and Intergovernmental Agencies

[00:33:13] India’s Panchamrit goals which is a five-fold approach to decarbonisation

[00:39:15] Energy and Emissions Lab at IIT Madras 

[00:43:07] MIT’s Clean Energy Prize

[00:58:51] Liability of Origin refers to the disadvantages faced by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in international markets due to their national origin, particularly those from emerging economies