thought advisory | Devmalya Sarkar

Recognitions:

Best Research Pitch, Research to Impact Masterclass, University of Cambridge, 2025.
Best Speaker, West Cambridge Research Symposium, University of Cambridge, 2024.
Best Research Poster, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, 2024.
Wall of Fame, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, 2023–present.
Fellow, RSA (the royal society for arts, manufacturers and commerce), 2023.
EuropeIndia40 Leader 2022 — Next Gen Under40, who will shape the future of UK-India relations, Europe India Centre for Business and Industry (EICBI).
Cambridge Trust Scholar (£117,500), 2021.
R&D Management Association UK Scholar (£60,000), 2021.
Trinity-Henry Barlow Scholar (Honourary), issued by Trinity College, Cambridge and HS Barlow Charitable Trust, UK, 2021.
Excellence in Digital Health Award, HITLAB NYC, 2017.
Top 0.2% of 4,000+ nationwide applicants to be inducted into the Government of India: Dept. of Biotechnology’s Stanford-India Biodesign programme for Medical Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship, 2014.
Best speaker - 7th Northwest Biomechanics Research Day, 2012, UCLAN, UK.
Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Manchester, 2012, UK: best in the cohort and top 0.3% in the Faculty of Life Sciences.

Speaking engagements:

2024, June — Speaker: The role and determinants of early-stage user involvement in need identification in health apps: Insights from start-ups. European Academy of Management Conference, University of Bath, United Kingdom.
2024, May — Speaker: Appreciating user needs early in digital health innovation. Pandemic Preparedness and One Health Symposium, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2023, November — Speaker: Appreciating user needs early in digital health innovation. Planetary Health Symposium, University of Cambridge, Cambridge United Kingdom.
2022, September — Speaker: Improving user-centric open innovation in mHealth. Invited speaker, HIMSS APAC Health Conference & Exhibition, Bali, Indonesia.
2022, June — Speaker: Improving user-centric innovation by engaging users. 29th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany (online).
2021, September — Moderator: Investing in innovation: Consolidating meaningful digital health innovation in India. HIMSS India Conference, India.
2019, February — Panellist: Collaborate–Innovate–Impact. HITLAB Innovators Summit, New Delhi, India.
2018, February — Moderator: India’s digital health innovation potential. HITLAB Innovators Summit, New Delhi, India.
2017, November — Speaker: Designing an effective digital health ecosystem in India. HITLAB Innovators Summit, New York City, USA.
2017, February — Moderator: Design thinking in digital health innovation. HITLAB Innovators Summit: India, New Delhi, India.
2017, February — Speaker: Empathy-driven digital health innovation across ideation, creation, evaluation, and diffusion: HITLAB perspective. HITLAB Innovators Summit, New Delhi, India.
2014, December — Speaker: Spinaflex — India’s first preventive solution for stress-related musculoskeletal disorders in dental clinicians. 8th Indian MedTech Summit, New Delhi, India.
2012, May — Speaker: Cardiac remodelling from a fish perspective (with Shiels, H.A.). 7th Northwest Biomechanics Research Day, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom.

Research findings acknowledged at the meetings of the Physiological Society at Edinburgh, Experimental Biology Society at Boston, USA, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre at Manchester in 2013.

Patents:

India’s first preventive solution for debilitating musculoskeletal disorders affecting over 2.5mn clinicians; patent no.: 466813; granted.

Publications:

Sarkar, D. and Minshall, T., 2024. The role and determinants of early-stage user involvement in need identification in health apps: Insights from start-ups. European Academy of Management Conference, University of Bath, Bath, 25–28 June.
Sarkar, D. and Minshall, T., 2022. Improving user-centric innovation: An exploration of how utilising user engagement can help firms reduce uncertainty in identifying users’ needs early in mobile health innovation. R&D Management Conference, University of Trento, Trento, 9–10 July.
Sarkar, D. and Minshall, T., 2022. Improving user-centric innovation outcomes by engaging users. 29th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Kühne Logistics University (KLU), Hamburg, 16–17 July.