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Vijay Karunakaran
InGage Group of Companies, Founder & CEO
Speaker Bio
Current key roles as Founder & CEO, InGage Group in Emerging Technologies including AR VR, Gaming, AI & IoT:
Founder & CEO of InGage group of companies, Chennai with the following product/service portfolio:
- ReWin Health — Founded India's first AI & VR-powered digital rehabilitation platform covering neurological, musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary, geriatric, and paediatric conditions
- Scaled technology platform to 100+ hospital and clinic partners across India including Apollo, Tamilnadu Government Hospitals, MIOT International, Sri
Ramachandra Institute, Athulya Senior Care, and NIMHANS Built and operate 8 ReWin-branded rehabilitation clinics across India — directly owned and managed, delivering VR-assisted, AI motion- sensor based physiotherapy, neurological rehabilitation, and geriatric care - Delivered 150,000+ therapy sessions and treated 15,000+ patients across five clinical streams
- Established a dedicated geriatric rehabilitation programme — addressing chronic pain, age-related functional decline, and independence maintenance
for India's rapidly growing 60+ population, with specialised protocols for home-based continuation of care - Built a three-tier product architecture — ReWin VR (Oculus Quest), ReWin Standard (mobile + motion sensor), and ReWin Flex (non-immersive physiotherapy, launching September 2026) — addressing every tier from specialist hospital departments to standalone physiotherapy clinics
- Published peer-reviewed clinical studies in JMIR Publications and Frontiers; 90% improvement in stroke rehabilitation outcomes demonstrated in real-time studies
- Scaled technology platform to 100+ hospital and clinic partners across India including Apollo, Tamilnadu Government Hospitals, MIOT International, Sri
- Jadhu Health — India's first functional development platform for neurodivergent children and adults with Autism, Dyslexia ADHD, ODD, and DCD, delivering two personalised daily sessions across various skill domains and real-world scenarios.
- Built and deployed clinical VR platform on Oculus Quest — live at PSG Hospitals, SRM Medical College, Sri Ramachandra Institute, Swabhimaan Trust,
and the Government of Tamil Nadu Centre of Excellence for ASD; scaling B2B deployments across hospitals, therapy clinics, and special schools. - Launching India's first B2C neurodivergent functional development subscription platform — architected on a three-mode delivery model (mobile, cardboard VR, clinical Oculus Quest VR) with a prescription engine that builds a personalised daily plan for every learner, scaling direct-to-family.
- Built and deployed clinical VR platform on Oculus Quest — live at PSG Hospitals, SRM Medical College, Sri Ramachandra Institute, Swabhimaan Trust,
- InGage Tech: Immersive gaming virtual reality simulators for the Indian Defense, Law enforcement Agencies and large automobile/manufacturing companies. India’s leading VR & AR based Safety training company having trained ~ 1.5 million industrial workers in safety
- InGage Skilling Institute: Leader in project-based training to corporates, engineering, arts & sciences, polytechnic & ITI students.
- Training includes Emerging tech skill courses including gaming development, AI, AR VR, Industry 4.0, Data Sciences, Semiconductor, 5G, IoT and
Employability Skills. - Instructor led physical training of ~ 150,000 students per year across 1500 + Engineering and Arts & Science colleges & polytechnic institutes.
- Top training partner to Tamilnadu Skill Development Corporation (Naan Mudhalvan)
- Awarded top skilling company in Tamilnadu for social impact by CII
- Training includes Emerging tech skill courses including gaming development, AI, AR VR, Industry 4.0, Data Sciences, Semiconductor, 5G, IoT and
Current key roles as Advisor to Tamilnadu Government:
- Define the requirement & oversee the execution of key technology initiatives in Tamilnadu Forest, Environmental & Climate Change department including projects like Human – Animal Conflict, Digitalization of all Forest processes like GIS mapping & tracking of forest cover, Sustainable waste management, AI & Block-chain Center of Excellences to assess the climate risk and vulnerability on different sectors such as water resources, agriculture, forestry, coastal ecosystem and sustainable habitat.
- Assisting in the identification, closure and execution of investments in climate tech & other emerging technologies for the State of Tamilnadu as an Investment committee member for the Tamilnadu Emerging Sector Venture Capital Fund.
- Strategy of sustainable livelihood development.
- Board Member of Tamilnadu On-Line Gaming Authority to approve, monitor, audit on-line games & penalize offenders.
Key Accomplishments as Director at Intel Corporation, USA:
- Director, Intel Corporation & AMD, USA for 17 years driving design & validation of microprocessor development teams.
• Managed a team of ~1000 microprocessors engineers across multiple global sites (US, Malaysia, India, Costa Rica, Israel) with a budget of 500 million dollars per year. - Served in the Texas on-line gaming expert committee as an Industry participant for 2 years.
- Extensive research, industrial & teaching experience in immersive technologies (Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality), Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT, Mobile, Super computers, Cloud computing and Customer centric experiences.
- Industry expert & distinguished speaker in Industry 4.0 domain.
- Member of various international bodies including American Association for Artificial Intelligence, IEEE, ACM etc..
- Awarded the Intel’s Faculty Award and the NASA Foundation Research Grant, the SNF Fellowship for prospective researchers in 2011, and best paper award at SCA 2009.
- Awarded the prestigious “President Award” for the Athlon Burn-In project that enabled AMD to be the first company in the world to release a 1 GHz processor.
