Alok Medikepura Anil

Alok Medikepura Anil is an Entrepreneur focussed on bringing about change in his fields of interest – Industry 4.0 with a focus on 3D Printing, SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. Alok’s company, Next Big Innovation Labs (www.nextbiglab.com), has built India’s first commercial 3D Bioprinter. A Made-In-India product, helping create 3D Bioprinted skin within the lab. The short-term goal is to empower the cosmetic and FMCG R&D community with viable alternatives to animal testing. The long-term goal is to explore clinical applications for 3D Bioprinted skin and empower other researchers with our proprietary 3D Bioprinting technology. The company aims to collectively work towards creating organs in the lab and one day making the world free of organ transplant wait lists. The company is funded by various grants from Indian central and state governments, Lockheed Martin and TATA Trusts. The team is on a mission to build an impactful Made-In-India product, for the benefit of the worldwide healthcare community.

The world is seeing fast change in the workplace as technology takes over jobs and humans find themselves with the urgent need to reskill and upskill, to stay relevant in this era of the fourth industrial revolution. Alok is initiating conversations between government – industry – academia and educating young fellow Indians with the knowledge they need about Industry 4.0 and how it will impact the jobs of tomorrow. Autodesk’s Future of Making Things – India Virtual Conference, Re-imagining the future of employment conference at Infosys, Global Shapers Bangalore Healthcare Summit on Disruptive Healthcare Innovations for the World and efforts to enable STEAM based out of classroom learning at Rural Indian schools; are some of the current and recent projects Alok is associated with, towards helping meet SDG #9 – Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

Previous speaking opportunities / articles

Future of Health and Industry 4.0 panel

at Carnegie Mellon University –
http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/alumni/index-social.aspx?sid=1410&gid=1&pgid=9656&content_id=8445 ;

WEF India Economic Summit 2017–

Conducted Session on 3D Print Your Heart Out ;

I have conducted multiple meet the leader

events with Global Shapers Bangalore –
https://medium.com/global-shapers-bangalore

/global-shapers-bangalore-join-us-2661e8c9cf23 ;

have organized a healthcare summit in consultation

with Centre for fourth Industrial Revolution, San Francisco –
https://medium.com/global-shapers-bangalore

/healthcare-summit-disruptive-indian-healthcare-innovations-for-the-world-6a9e212a60a3 ;

was invited for roundtable discussions held by Lockheed