 Good morning to everyone who are appearing in this virtual summit. The other men of innovation who are participating in this unique hackathon, including Professor Kannan Mogul of Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai. Founder CEO of the climate Small Technologies is based in Guaimattur. Chief Operating Officer of the Derby Foundation based in Bangalore. Dr. Anthony from the Department of Social Entrepreneurship and the Incubation Centre of the Madras School of Social Work Chennai. My enthusiastic and passionate colleagues from the BIT campus of the Anna University who are the prime drivers of this unique hackathon including Professor Senthil Kumar, the Dean of the campus of BIT campus. Professor Putrajit Kukodi, the Head of the Pharmaceutical Technology Department of the BIT and the University campus. Professor Annapurna, Head of the Computer Science and IT Department of the BIT campus and the dedicated band of colleagues and students. First of all, I am very delighted to participate in this virtual meeting and also to inaugurate this COVID-19 National Bioinformatics online hackathon for full status. This is a unique event organized by several stakeholders who have been concerned greatly on this pandemic. In fact, on behalf of the Anna University, I thank all these guests who have been enthusiastic and crafted this entire hackathon program for the benefit of this nation. This event has been carefully crafted by my BIT campus of the Anna University with a very unique and productive partnership of the eminent innovators both in the academic and entrepreneurship world from different cities in this country of the country. In addition, I am extremely delighted that this hackathon has drawn the very overwhelming support of almost all the government departments in the country involved in higher education, skill development, innovation, innovation promotion and everything connected with the skills and innovation and all the other things needs to enhance our capabilities of our Indian students. In fact, we are all aware that few weeks ago, United Nations declared the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic to be the greatest test this world has faced since the World War II. As of this morning today, more than 3 million people have been affected and more than 2 lakh people have been killed by this deadly virus. It's unfortunate that in India we have lost more than 900 people due to this COVID-19. Clinicians, pathologists have been struggling to understand the damage wrought by this coronavirus as in 3 years to the body. It is now being realized that although the lungs are ground zero, the virus reach can be can extend to many organs including the heart, blood vessels, kidney, gut and the brain. So this disease can attack almost anything in the body with devastating consequences. Its ferocity is breathtaking and very humbling. This kind of unprecedented globally pervasive virus calls for intensively cooperative and normal efforts at global, national and local levels from all friends. Practice clinicians, vaccine developers, drug discovery scientists are leading this challenge from one of the main friends. Scientists, engineers, innovators, technicians might have given up all over the country including India to fill this crucial gaps in the nation's response to this deadly and cruel pandemic including these teams of scientists, engineers across the country, across various institutions and the government bodies and even private startups. They are very immensely and immensely involved in the design, manufacturing and distribution of large quantities of PPEs including ventilators and sanitizers, masks, face sheets. So in addition, there is an imperative need to develop a behavioral-centric solutions based on the local habits and the culture of the masks of our people which are different across the country and especially the people living both in the rural and rural areas have different habits, different cultures. So this needs a solution which people can understand and easily follow. And the solution for this kind of issues in mitigating this coronavirus 19 as of this sector of the people can come from the hackathon that we are launching today. This hackathon throws great opportunities for the app developers to come out with responsive apps, web-based apps which will enable health authorities to take measures to contain this pandemic as well as the public to protect each other from the virus in a very simplistic and novel way. India being the powerhouse of the software skills and apps development and expertise there is this great opportunity, this is a great opportunity to our skilled and talented students in all disciplines to team up and give shape to their intuition and innate abilities. More on this perhaps since I am not an expert on the apps, I have no little bit about it and it will be spelled out by my other experts who are actually your partnering in this sector and they will give you in more detail what should be done by these talented students. And I wish to take a two minutes of my time how Anna University, a leading technological university in the country has responded to and risen to the challenges thrown by this pandemic. And in the last few months Anna University's technological technologist we have played a very significant role and mentioned a few the roles of Anna University designed, fabricated and manufactured and designed and tested by our faculty members led by the Centre for Aerospace Engineering for the last 15 days five of our drones have been put into the service of the request of the Corporation of the Chennai to carry out the disinfection on the houses and buildings which are not easily accessible and in the last 15 days the drones of the Anna University has covered about 40-40 lakhs kilometers of the areas in the Chennai City Corporation and our people, the experts in the biotechnology department have come out with new sanitizers which can kill not only the proteins of the RNA of this virus and our people in the textile engineering department have come out with a washable mask and the department which has said to our department to the remote sensing department have helped the state government in mapping out the zones, what we call the red zones as in terms of concentrated people, concentrated and infected people in the entire city of Chennai, Chennai and the entire Chennai north to take appropriate measures of dealing with the kind of measures that replace the best zones and my NHHID team has helped in coming out with helping in repairing the ventilators in many of these hospitals and they have been doing a great job and my manufacturing department has helped in producing what you call the split type ventilators and provided to the hospitals along with the Shastra University and so this is a, an university is contributing its might in all friends in this hover of need for the nation and we have joined with many departments in the state government and we are being very happy and we will continue to challenge our responsibilities and to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus to the full extent I will assure you and I am glad that all the people, especially our chairman for Shastra Buddha and all the stakeholders have been intensively involved in designing this kind of a hackathon so that it can bring out a novel solution and for the people they need which will, people they need the solutions based on this kind of an approaches so with this one, I again thank all the members especially my team at the Anno University BAT campus is one of the campus is doing extremely well and having designed, taken initiative and taking a drive with this one, so with this one I again welcome all of you especially my other stakeholders, important stakeholders who are gracing this occasion including Professor Anno Shastra Bodhi and taking off his time with a busy schedule and helping and giving up all the importance, all the support that needed to drive this kind of an institution to rise to the highest level and to meet the challenges posed by this unprecedented crisis such as the state which has currently worked across the globe and across the nation Thank you very much once again for all of you