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BML Munjal University Hosts Sustainable Technology Advancement

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2 years ago

April 30, 2024

BML Munjal University Hosts Sustainable Technology Advancement Conclave 2024 – ‘Futuristic Techscape 5.0: Shaping tomorrow’s innovations’

Gurugram, India – April 30, 2024: School of Engineering & Technology, BML Munjal University (BMU) concluded its highly anticipated Sustainable Technology Advancement Conclave 2024 – ‘Futuristic Techscape 5.0: Shaping tomorrow’s innovations’ today, marking a significant milestone in the journey towards sustainable innovation and collaboration.

The one-day conclave, held at the BMU Campus, brought together an esteemed gathering of thought leaders, innovators, and stakeholders from across various domains to explore and shape tomorrow’s innovations in sustainability and technology.

Prof. Maneek Kumar, Dean of the School of Engineering & Technology at BML Munjal University, set the tone for the event with his inaugural address, emphasizing the critical importance of integrating sustainable practices into technological advancements to address global challenges such as climate change and resource depletion.

He added, “In today’s rapidly evolving world, the integration of sustainable practices into technological advancements is not just a choice but a necessity. The Sustainable Technology Advancement Conclave 2024 serves as a testament to our commitment to driving innovation and collaboration towards a more sustainable future. By exploring various themes such as smart mobility, renewable energy, smart manufacturing, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence, we are not only envisioning the future but actively shaping it. By convening thought leaders and stakeholders from diverse domains, we are collectively shaping tomorrow’s innovations and addressing global challenges such as climate change and resource depletion.”

The keynote speaker “Dr. Debajit Palit, Professor, NTPC School of Business” discussed India’s strides towards a renewable energy boom, particularly in solar and wind power, emphasizing their pivotal role in economic and social growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Key highlights of the conclave included:

Panel 1: Smart Mobility & Renewable Energy

Experts including Dr. Debajit Palit, Professor, NTPC School of Business,, Mr. Shishir Gupta, Head – Power Electronics & Automation Technology Centre, New Product Development, L&T- Electrical & Automation , Dr. Deb Mukherji, Managing Director, Omega Seiki Mobility, Dr. B.S Meena, Ex Dy GM (Environment Management) NTPC Limited and Dr. Sunanda Sinha, Assistant Professor, MNIT, Jaipur deliberated on the convergence of smart mobility and renewable energy solutions. Their discussions encompassed topics such as electric vehicles, sustainable transportation infrastructure, and the role of technology in advancing energy efficiency. They explored how alternative energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydrogen can power electric vehicles and sustainable transportation infrastructure, thus reducing reliance on fossil fuels like coal and promoting a cleaner, greener future. Additionally, they discussed innovative approaches such as utilizing waste to create energy solutions, underscoring the importance of grid resilience and the necessity to invest in technologies like energy storage, microgrids, and smart grid systems to enhance the reliability and stability of our energy infrastructure.

Panel 2: Synergies in Smart Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship

The panel consisting of Dr. Deb Mukherji, Managing Director, Omega Seiki Mobility, Arindam Mukhopadhyay, Partner, India Accelerator, Prakash Bhalekar, Co-Founder and CEO, Quadsun Technology and Aman Atreja, Assistant General Manager, FANUC India Pvt Ltd. explored the interplay between smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 technologies, and entrepreneurship. They highlighted the disruptive nature of these interactions and the critical decisions regarding task automation. Their discussion emphasized the importance of digital transformation, sustainable supply chains, and the emerging opportunities in the green technology sector within smart manufacturing, offering valuable insights for SMEs and aspiring entrepreneurs navigating this dynamic landscape. Moreover, they examined the evolving role of AI in shaping new technological paradigms and driving innovation, providing a comprehensive overview of the dynamic landscape of smart manufacturing and its significant implications for the future of industry.

Panel 3: Frontiers of Cyber-Physical Systems & AI

The last panel comprising industry stalwarts including Mr. Mudit Sharma, Co-Founder, Nebula9.ai, Mr. Ajay Mohan Goel, Visiting Professor, Ex- EVP, Wadhwani Foundation & Sr. VP, NIIT Limited, JK Business School, Mr. Mukesh Jain, CTO, Capgemini, Mr. Kushal Vijay, Software Engineer, Microsoft, Mr. Mubarak Patel, GenAI Architect, Datamatics Global Services Limited delved into the profound implications of AI in enhancing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). They highlighted AI’s transformative potential in augmenting CPS capabilities, enabling real-time learning, adaptation, and informed decision-making. By spotlighting scenarios like predictive maintenance in manufacturing and the healthcare revolution, the panel underscored AI’s role in mitigating cybersecurity threats while acknowledging ethical concerns such as privacy infringement and algorithmic bias. Moreover, the discussion extended to envisioning AI’s broader impact in optimizing resource utilization, environmental management, and facilitating sustainable urban development. The panel emphasized the necessity for a responsible approach towards harnessing AI’s capabilities in advancing CPS for the betterment of society.

In his closing remarks, Prof. Maneek Kumar, Dean of the School of Engineering & Technology at BML Munjal University, extended his gratitude to all participants for their active engagement and reaffirmed BMU’s dedication to fostering innovation and collaboration for a sustainable future. In alignment with this sentiment, Dr. Kiran Khatter, Professor at the School of Engineering, delivered a vote of thanks, emphasizing the importance of continuing collaboration as we conclude this day, carrying forward the spirit of innovation and collaboration.

About BML Munjal University

Named after the late Founder Chairman of the Hero Group, BML Munjal University (BMU) is a unique not-for-profit initiative founded by the promoters of the Hero Group. BMU is engaged in creating, preserving, and imparting internationally benchmarked knowledge and skills. The university seeks to transform higher education in India by creating a world-class innovative teaching, learning, and research environment. It envisions becoming a nursery for the leaders of tomorrow and a repository of knowledge. The School of Management at BML Munjal University has been ranked 72nd among all management institutions in India in the NIRF Rankings 2023. It has also attained the Diamond subject rating by QS I-Gauge. It has been nationally ranked #6 and #1 in Haryana among India’s Top Private Engineering & Technology Universities in the Education World India Higher Education Rankings, 2023-24. The University has received an esteemed A grade accreditation from NAAC.

The University offers undergraduate to doctoral programmes comprising BA (Hons) Liberal Arts, BBA, BCom (Hons), BA LLB (Hons), BBA LLB (Hons), BBA-MBA, Integrated Programme, B. Tech at the undergraduate level, and MBA, LLB and Ph.D. at the postgraduate level.

For more details, log in to https://www.bmu.edu.in/

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Beyond Silence: A Smarter Way to Meditate

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2 hours ago

June 6, 2026

Anushka Thapliyal

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THE SCIENCE OF NEUROFEEDBACK AND HOW BRAIN-SENSING HEADBANDS ARE REDEFINING CALM

Close your eyes and imagine rain — not the kind tied to traffic and wet shoes, but the slow, steady kind that arrives when everything is quiet. Now imagine that rain responding to you, growing louder when your mind drifts and softening when you settle. That’s the experience brain-sensing headbands are designed to create. The headband rests lightly across your forehead, where small EEG sensors read your brain’s electrical activity in real time. Fast beta waves reflect a busy mind, while slower alpha and theta waves are linked to relaxation and meditation. Devices like Muse, Emotiv, and NeuroSky don’t read your thoughts — they simply follow your brain’s rhythm. “When the rain grows heavier, you know your mind has wandered. When it softens, you’ve returned.”

Person wearing a brain-sensing neurofeedback headband while meditating in a calm indoor setting.

This is neurofeedback — giving the brain a mirror so it can learn to regulate itself. Most people think they’re calm during meditation, but their brain activity often says otherwise. These headbands close that gap using sound, often in the form of weather.

READING THE RHYTHM OF THE BRAIN

Weather sounds are chosen carefully. Rain, wind, and waves don’t repeat in predictable patterns, which makes them hard for the analytical mind to track. With nothing to control, the mind gradually let go.

There’s also a deeper reason. These are sounds humans have lived with long before cities existed. Neuroscientists suggest water-based sounds carry no threat signal, allowing the body to relax — breathing slows, muscles soften, and tension releases.

That said, sound isn’t universal. For some, rain is comforting; for others, it may carry difficult memories. That’s why apps paired with headbands allow users to personalise their soundscapes.

When neurofeedback is layered onto these sounds, the experience becomes interactive. In systems like Muse, available in India through platforms like Amazon, the audio shifts instantly based on your brain activity. The result feels simple, but for someone struggling to meditate, it can be transformative.

WHY IT WORKS SO FAST

What surprises most people is how quickly it works. Instead of guessing what calm feels like, the brain gets immediate feedback. When the sound softens, it signals success. Over time, the brain learns that pattern and begins to recreate it on its own.

“The brain doesn’t need years to learn calm. It needs clear, honest feedback.”

Sound plays a powerful role here. It doesn’t just reach the ears — it activates memory, emotion, and the body’s stress system at once. Repeated over time, certain sounds can become triggers for calm.

THE SCIENCE IS NUANCED

These devices aren’t perfect. Brainwaves don’t map neatly to emotions, and most headbands only read activity from the forehead. Still, research shows increases in alpha and theta waves during meditation, making the feedback useful, even if incomplete.

A TOOL, NOT A SHORTCUT

It’s easy to see these headbands as a crutch. But for people who struggle with meditation, they offer something simple and powerful: proof that calm is possible. And once you’ve felt it, returning becomes easier — with or without the rain.

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The AI tools serious creators are quietly building empires with — and nobody is talking about

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4 days ago

June 2, 2026

Anushka Thapliyal

The New Creative Intelligence · Tools Issue · 2026

There is a version of the future that has already arrived — it just hasn’t been distributed equally. While the internet argues over the same five tools, a quieter revolution is unfolding inside the workflows of the creators who are actually winning: the podcaster who batches a month of episodes in an afternoon, the fashion filmmaker who renders twenty b-roll cuts before breakfast, the solo creator who looks like she has a full post-production team. They are not working harder. They are working with the right instruments.

“The tools that stay in your stack are never the ones that promise everything. They are the ones that solve the one thing you cannot stop losing time to.”

What follows is not a ranking. It is a wardrobe. Each piece chosen for a specific occasion, a specific problem — and each one worthy of a permanent spot in how you create.

01 · ElevenLabs Voice Design
Voice & Audio

“Your voice, available at every hour you are not.”

best AI tools for content creators in 2026

Think of it as the understudy who has studied you so closely she can walk on stage without a rehearsal. ElevenLabs Voice Design does not produce the flat, robotic narration we have been trained to scroll past — it produces something uncanny in the best possible sense. The emotional range is generous enough that audiences, real ones, do not notice the seam.

Clone your own voice for batch content. Build entirely fictional ones for characters, brands, or projects that demand something no human voice currently offers. Podcasters, course creators, and long-form YouTubers use it to decouple production volume from recording sessions entirely. The free tier is a real introduction; the paid tiers are where serious work lives.

02 · Kling AI
Video Generation

“The quiet contender who didn’t need the waitlist.”

While the industry held its breath for tools still locked behind invitation lists, Kling AI was being used. The difference that matters: motion coherence. Characters remain themselves across frames. Objects hold their shape. The physics feel, if not real, then at least convincing — which is exactly what b-roll and product visualisation demand.

Fashion, food, and lifestyle creators have adopted it almost as a category unto themselves. The faceless-channel ecosystem runs on it. The question was never whether AI video would arrive — it was which tool would be stable enough to build a production rhythm around. This is that tool.

03 · Higgsfield
Social Video

“It speaks the language of the scroll.”

Most video AI thinks in widescreen. Higgsfield thinks vertically. It was built with Reels, TikToks, and Shorts as the native format — not an afterthought. It understands pacing the way a seasoned editor understands an audience’s attention span: precariously, and with great respect.

Upload a concept; receive a draft that does not look like it was generated by something that has never seen a social feed. The creator community has not fully caught on yet, which means there is still a first-mover advantage to be had. That window, as with all windows in this space, will not stay open long.

04 · Captions App
Mobile Editing

“The invisible production team in your pocket.”

There is a quiet indignity in watching yourself speak on camera — the slight downward drift of the eyes toward the script, the filler words that seemed inaudible in the room. This framing made your kitchen look like a hostage situation. Captions remove all of it.

Eye contact correction moves your pupils to face the camera. Filler words vanish. Auto-reframing and b-roll suggestions round out what is, genuinely, an entire post-production workflow living inside a mobile app. For the solo creator who wants to look like she has a team — this is the cheat code.

05 · Wisper + Notion AI
Ideation Workflow

“From the voice memo that goes nowhere to the piece that publishes itself.”

Every creator has a graveyard of voice memos — the ideas caught while driving, the observations recorded between meetings, the three-minute ramble that contained, somewhere inside it, a genuinely good essay. Wisper transcribes them with fidelity across accents and rapid speech. Notion AI structures the result into scripts, outlines, newsletters, whatever shape the idea needs.

The gap between raw thought and publishable content is not a talent gap. It is a friction gap. This combination collapses it from hours of staring at a blank document to under fifteen minutes of light editing. That is not productivity optimisation. It is the return of creative momentum.

06 · Pika Labs
Video Effects

“Not a replacement. An enhancement. The distinction matters enormously.”

The fantasy of AI video is the blank-page generator. The reality of a working creator’s life is the footage that already exists — and needs something added, changed, elevated. Pika Labs understood this before the competition did. It specialises in modification: add effects to existing footage, change the weather in a scene, swap a background, and animate a still image.

It slots into an editing workflow rather than demanding you abandon one. That is the reason working creators choose it over all-or-nothing tools. Integration, not replacement, is the intelligence at play here.

The pattern that runs through every tool on this list is the same: specificity. Not the sweeping promise of doing everything, but the quiet confidence of doing one thing so well that you cannot imagine working without it. Fashion has always understood this. The dress that works for every occasion works for none of them. The tools that stay — the ones that survive a year in your workflow and still feel essential — are the ones that solved the right problem, elegantly, and got out of the way. That is not a feature. That is a philosophy.

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Where Cinema Meets Innovation

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4 months ago

January 23, 2026

Neha Tyagi

The Motorola Signature Film Festival marked the re-premiere of original short films crafted by emerging directors(Mr. Ruben Castano, VP- Design, Brand & CX Motorola, aspiring film directors Shikha Jain & Riya Kulkarni, Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, aspiring film directors, Peekansh S Gosain & Amar Vaswani and Shivam Ranjan, Head of Marketing – APAC Motorola ), each shot entirely on the Motorola Signature smartphone. The showcase highlighted the device’s gold-standard cinematic camera capabilities, demonstrating how cutting-edge mobile technology is redefining visual storytelling. Through powerful narratives and striking visuals, the films underscored Motorola’s commitment to empowering the next generation of filmmakers by placing professional-grade filmmaking tools directly in their hands.