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• The Minister of State for Water, His Excellen-
cy Prahlad Singh Patel.
• Smt. Nidhi Singh Rajput, CEO, Jabalpur
Smart City Limited.
• Agranshu Dwivedi, Manager-Incubation at
Jabalpur Smart City Incubation Center, Start-
up Mentor-MSME Madhya Pradesh.
The same day, an award ceremony was orga-
nized in Thailand to honor Thai Youth inventors
who participated in the Innovation Week IWA
2020. Despite being the youngest in the entire
competition, these Thai youth inventors, aged
between 9 and 11, have won several awards
during the Innovation Week IWA 2020, includ-
ing Gold, Youth Grand prize, and Youth Best
invention in the entire competition. Among key
personalities who gave a speech and deliv-
ered the awards to youth participants:
• His Excellency Abdelilah EL HOUSNI, the
Ambassador of His Majesty the King of Mo-
rocco in the Kingdom of Thailand.
• Mr. Darm Boontham, Director-General, De-
partment of South Asian, Middle East, and Af-
rican Affairs, at the Thailand Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
Also, from the finalists of the Innovation Week
IWA 2021, 22 requests were approved to join
ICCD and start the commercialization process.
In addition, the Innovation Week IWA 2021
event, as the best didactic event for inventors,
broadcasted educational keynote speakers
for 5 days, by 24 virtual experts powered by
Artificial Intelligence, who discussed 47 Topics
classified in 5 Panels of discussions:
• Panel 1: about Artificial Intelligence (5 topics)
• Panel 2: How to achieve progress by innova-
tion? (21 topics)
• Panel 3: Trends of Inventions (10 topics)
• Panel 4: Popular inventions (5 topics)
• Panel 5: Introducing some concepts (6 top-
ics)
Furthermore, an art show named “Children’s
Anti-Epidemic Ideas, Spreading Wonderful
Creativity” was organized in collaboration with
the Chinese Association of Inventions (CAI),
China, to share the creative work of children
having 3 to 6 years old from China. The kids
received “Little Hero of Creativity” awards.
Finally, it should be noted that this year, the
Innovation Week IWA 2021 reached 60 partic-
ipating countries and made echo in more than
200 press articles all around the globe in sev-
eral languages. 5