Never too old to innovate:The brain behind cTrain | Mr.Ashwani Upadhyaya | TEDxKIITUniversity

Mr. Ashwani Kumar Upadhyaya, also known as the ‘Father of cTrains’ is the General Manager at Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). A civil engineer from IIT Delhi, a PG Diploma holder in management and public policy from IIM Bangalore and a doctoral fellow in ‘Future mobility’ group at Singapore-MIT alliance, he completed his PhD research focusing on application of analytics in urban transport. He has presented papers and delivered keynote addresses in prestigious institutions like MIT Cambridge, NUS Singapore, ETH Zurich, Tongji University Shanghai and Sapienza University of Rome. Being crowned with the eminent MIT award for designing the 'cTrain', his concept of driverless, noiseless, pollution-free electric trains, he has been widely acclaimed all over the world. Watch him as he unravels his success-story, breaks conventional myths about innovation and gives us his secret mantra to victory. A new technology, an old problem and a big idea turns into an innovation. Mr. Upadhyaya is the GM at Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). A civil engineer from IIT Delhi,a PG Diploma holder in management and public policy from IIM Bangalore and a doctoral fellow in ‘Future mobility’ group at Singapore-MIT alliance, he completed his PhD research focusing on application of analytics in urban transport. This led him to come up with the concept of Caterpillar Trains, known as cTrains. With more than 20 years of experience in operation, marketing, strategic planning and information technology, he has presented papers and delivered keynote addresses in prestigious institutions like MIT Cambridge, NUS Singapore, ETH Zurich, Tongji University Shanghai and Sapienza University of Rome, just to name a few. Being awarded the eminent MIT award for designing the 'cTrain', his concept of driverless, noiseless, pollution-free electric trains has been widely acclaimed all over the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx