Plenary Talk - 4
Speaker: Prof. Hidetoshi Katori (The University of Tokyo Team Director, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics)
Title : From Precision Time Measurement to Spacetime Engineering
Panel Discussion (Round Table): विकसित भारत में VAIBHAV का दृष्टिकोण
NIDHI PitchX - A Platform Where Innovation Meets Investment - Multi-Purpose Hall - (Level 3) - Close Door Parallel Session
Session Chair: Prof. Govindan Rangarajan (Director, IISc Bengaluru)
Keynote address
Prof. Anil Prabhakar (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Madras)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Prof. Rajamani Vijayaraghavan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
Dr. Gayathri Honnenahalli Niranjanamurthy (CEO, Quan2D Technologies Pvt limited, Bengaluru)
Prof. Aditi Sen De (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj)
Panel Discussion
Prof. Urbasi Sinha (Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru)
Dr. Sunil Gupta (Co-Founder & CEO, QuNu Labs Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru)
Dr. Nagendra Nagaraja (CEO & Chair, QPI AI, Bengaluru)
Prof. Kasturi Saha (Department of Electric Engineering, IIT Bombay)
Dr. Somna Mahajan (Scientist-G, Solid State Physics Laboratory, DRDO)
Session Chair: Dr. Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (Secretary, DBT)
Keynote address
Dr. Kallam Satish Reddy (Chairman, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Hyderabad)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Dr. Ashvini Shete (Prominent Scientist, Praj Industries, Pune)
Prof. Rekha Satishchandra Singhal (Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai)
Dr. Vijay Singh (Executive Director, Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana)
Panel Discussion
Dr. Jitendra Kumar (MD, BIRAC, New Delhi)
Dr. Vedam Ramprasad (CEO, MedGenome Labs Ltd, Bengaluru)
Dr. Sangeeta Srivastava (Executive Director, Godavari Biorefineries Ltd, Mumbai)
Dr. Arun Harish (Chief Strategy Officer, CPI, UK)
Smt. Supriya Kashikar (CEO, GeNext Genomics Pvt Ltd., Nagpur)
Session Chair: Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty (Secretary, DAE)
Keynote address
Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat (Member, NITI Aayog, New Delhi)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Smt. Rhea Mazumdar Singhal (Founder of Ecoware Solutions, New Delhi)
Shri Anuj Sharma (CEO, Waaree Clean Energy Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai)
Dr. Dave Smith (National Technology Adviser (NTA) UK)
Panel Discussion
Shri B. C. Pathak(CMD, NPCIL)
Shri Gurdeep Singh (Chairman & MD, NTPC, Delhi)
Shri. Amit Sharma (MD & CEO, Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd., Mumbai)
Dr. Ashish Lele (Director, CSIR-NCL, Pune)
Shri Ajay Talegaonkar (Technical Member, Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL))
Shri Ashish Bhandari (Managing Director & CEO, Thermax Limited )
Panel Discussion (Round Table): विकसित भारत में VAIBHAV का दृष्टिकोण
Chair : Hon’ble S&T Minister (120 mins) – Close Door Parallel Session
Plenary Talk - 5
Speaker: Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan (IIT Bombay)
Title : Artificial General Intelligence and Sovereign Capability
Session Chair: Shri S. Krishnan (Secretary, MeitY)
Keynote address
Dr. Sridhar Vembu (Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Zoho Corporation, Chennai)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Dr. Geetha Manjunath (Founder, CEO and CTO, Niramai Health Analytix, Bengaluru)
Dr. Sriram Raghavan (Vice President, IBM Research for AI, USA)
Prof. Amit Sheth (NCR Chair, Founding Director, Al Institute of South Carolina)
Panel Discussion
Shri Shashi Shekhar Vempati (Co-founder, DeepTech for Bharat Foundation & Former CEO,Prasar Bharati)
Dr. Harrick Mayank Vin (CTO, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai)
Prof. Balaraman Ravindran (Head, Department of DSAI, IIT Madras)
Shri Abhishek Singh (Director General, National Informatics Centre and Additional Secretary, MeitY, New Delhi)
Dr. Rimjhim Agrawal (Co- Founder & CTO, BrainSightAI, Bengaluru)
Smt. Debjani Ghosh (Distinguished Fellow, NITI Aayog, New Delhi, and Former President NASSCOM, Noida)
Prof. P. Venkat Rangan (Vice Chancellor Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritanagar PO, Coimbatore )
Session Chair: Dr. M. Ravichandran (Secretary, MoES)
Keynote address
Dr. Shailesh Nayak (Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc, Bengaluru)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Dr. Ratheesh Kumar Raveendran (Sr. Scientist, ICAR CMFRI, Kochi)
Dr. Ganesh Kamath (Director, Organica Biotech Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai)
Smt. Minushri Madhumita (Co-Founder & Director, ThinkRaw Innovative Solutions Pvt Ltd, Kalahandi)
Panel Discussion
Dr. Balakrishnan Nair (Director, INCOIS, Hyderabad)
Dr. Seshagiri Raghukumar (MD, Myko Tech Private Limited, Dona Paula)
Shri Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia (Chair, FICCI Taskforce on Blue Economy and Distinguished Fellow at Gateway House)
Shri Niroj Kr. Mohanty (MD & CEO, Core CarbonX Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad)
Capt. S.I. Abul Kalam Azad (Nautical Advisor cum Additional DG, Mumbai)
Session Chair: Dr. Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha
(Secretary, M/o Ayush)
Co-Chair: Dr. Rajiv Bahl (Secretary, DHR & DG, ICMR)
Keynote address
Dr. Shiv Kumar Sarin (Director, The Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Prof. Gagandeep Kang (Executive Director, The Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation, New Delhi)
Prof. Tanuja Nesari (Director, ITRA, Jamnagar)
C. V. Muraleedharan (Scientist G (SG) & Associate Head, Biomedical Technology Wing, SCTIMST, Trivandrum)
Panel Discussion
Dr. Jitendra Sharma (MD & Founder CEO, Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone, Visakhapatnam)
Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan (National Research Professor, Ministry of AYUSH, Pune)
Prof. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam (Director, Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC) and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Madras)
Prof. Rahul Purwar (Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering, IIT Bombay)
Dr. Puthiyedath Ram Manohar (Research Director, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Ayurveda), Kerala)
Shri Rizwan Koita (Chairman - NABH, Director - Koita Foundation)
Cultural Programme – Musical – Dr. Ricky Kej and Team