After a very happening Day1, showcasing a lot of enthusiasm and excitement, the day2 of Techkriti’21 bloomed with even more elements. The majority of the day covered inspirational and informative talks and panel discussions, including personalities like Pete Michels, Mridula Garg, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Srinivas Mohan, William Daniel Philips.

Workshops offering a learning opportunity to add a number of helpful and career setting skillset, on various subjects like Startup and Entrepreneurship, Robotics, programming language Python, Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security, Automotive Engine and IC Engine, Machine Learning and Web development.

Competitions were another major attraction for the day where students and tech and entrepreneurial enthusiasts from all over the country showed excellent participation and performance. These included competitions like Mandakini, Robogames, Technovation TIC, ECDC, Takeoff - IDRL, ML Hackathon, and Astro Quiz.

The talks started with Pete Michels, the leading animator for the famous tv show "The Simpsons".

He went on to talk about how he started with the show The Simpsons and is now the person behind the amazing and very expressive and funny animated show Rick and Morty. Pete also included a slideshow where he put some light upon how 2D animation has developed over the years and explored the fine details animators have to look out on. Explaining both the technical and the art aspects of animating, he said “the real art is where the expressions come in, an animator gets to be an actor and that’s the best part! Rest all is technical.”

To explore animation and being a professional he said, you may have to give a few exams to showcase your talent but you always have to keep drawing and exploring new stuff to get your art out there.

Following the talk on animation, We had a Panel Discussion including Saket Modi, Founder and CEO-Lucideus, Pranjal Kamra, CEO-Finology Ventures, Tarun Sharma, Co-founder and CEO- mCaffeine and Ankit Saxena, Manager(Projects) SIIC, IIT Kanpur. The discussion was quiet intense with a few disagreements which ultimately led to a lot of amazing tips and ideas to come up. It mainly covered three ideas

Career path point of view vs working at a regular job which covered the overall journey of the speakers from how and where they started and the present.

Is growth valued more than profitability? 3.Opportunities available to young graduates and when is the right time to go bootstrap or funding.Concluding the session with how and what to start with. Choose something you are interested in and follow its working. The speakers mainly focused on treating customers as the top priority and fulfilling their needs.

Srinivas Mohan who was the lead visual effects designer, coordinator and supervisor known for his works exclusively in Baahubali: The Beginning (2015). Communicating to the audience through visual effects and making the unreal look real is what makes visual effects such an interesting and amazing tool to be sed in movies.

Mridula Garg, the well known Indian author, publishing more than 30 books in Hindi and in English. She put som eligh on the topic “War between natue and Humnakind”.Stressed on the point that although technology has made our lives easier it hasn’t improved the quality of life. It comes at a cost of a clean and disease-free environment.Carson’s prophecy and her experience convinced her that war between nature and humankind is on and sooner or later something big will happen and nature will take its revenge. It happened in the form of Covid-19.

She has asked the people of the nation, is Vaccine the only solution to a pandemic like covid? The government can change this by bringing industries and work to villages where people won’t have to go to bigger cities. If done earlier(before Covid) , this could’ve helped achieve the target of Covid free India much earlier.

She ended her note by reciting a Hindi poem written by her on 5th April 2020. “Insan band hua Another highlight was the exhibition on climate monitoring systems. Showing recent advancements in the prediction of climate and creating awareness about the worsening of climate over the world in the past couple of decades.

William Daniel Philips is the American physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. He won the award for his contributions to laser cooling, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better study them. An orator of such a level that inspired and motivated a lot of young minds in the audience to pursue their ideas and be keen about science and technology.

After a long day of Motivational Speakers and Panel Discussions, the Musical night truly helped everyone to relax. Ankur and the Ghalat Family seemed to be lost in an ocean of emotions and music and We are sure that the audience was surfing through it. The music produced true vibes of comfort and love and strong messages coming straight from their heart, going right into ours. A true inspiration to all the independent artists out there making music out of their feelings and connecting people at a level that is beyond physicality. The participation showed a huge audience with more than 500 people listening to the calming music from their homes with their families and friends.

Day 2 had a greater response than day 1 with more people joining in and we hope to have out final day tomorrow to be the best of all. Hope you all join us tomorrow in the last day of Techkriti’21 in the journey of exploring technology and entrepreneurship.