"Everybody can be an Innovator"
Speaker : Prof. P S Goel
Hon. Visiting Professor, School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, NIAS.
@ : dr.psgoel@gmail.com
Chairperson : Prof. V S Ramamurthy
Emeritus Professor, NIAS
@ :vsramamurthy@nias.res.in
Date : 19th August 2026
Time : 9.30 AM
Venue : Lecture Hall
Abstract: Innovation is creating a new product or coming up with a new idea, which is superior to the existing one, based on existing Science and Technology. New Technology Waves emerging in the 21st century are going to change the way we live today. While many existing disciplines/ business models may vanish, millions of new disciplines will emerge. But that will call for new innovations, making use of existing and new technologies. Societies those are innovative will only survive in this 21st century. Last (20th) century was of Science and technologies and this century will belong to New Technology Waves and Innovations.
The talk is primarily for NIAS students to apprise them of big challenges they will face in the coming decades, irrespective of discipline.
About the speaker: Dr. Prem Shanker Goel is a distinguished Indian space scientist, former Secretary at the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, and a former Director of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC). He was Chairman of the Earth Commission. He is fellow of several professional bodies, including the International Academy of Astronautics, Paris, INAE, INSA, IASc NASI and Third World Academy. He was President of Indian National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Goel is credited with the development of Attitude Control System for Bhaskara, APPLE, IRS, INSAT-2 series of satellites. He has over 100 scientific publications to his credit and is the author of the book Making of a Satellite Centre: The Genesis of ISRO's URSC, published by Springer Nature. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Special Achievement Award for the Aryabhata Project, the ASI Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aeronautical Society of India, and the ISRO Distinguished Scientist Award. In 2001, the Government of India recognized his outstanding contributions to science and technology by conferring upon him the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth-highest civilian honour.