Plenary Talk - 6
Speaker: Prof. Masaru Tomita (Distinguished Professor, Keio University President & CEO, Tsuruoka Science Park)
Title : Synthetic Protein Materials: Industrializing Circular Biomanufacturing for Apparel and Beyond
Session Chair: Dr. (Mrs) N. Kalaiselvi (DG, CSIR & Secretary, DSIR)
Keynote address
Prof. Giridhar Udapi Rao Kulkarni (Former President, JNCASR, Bengaluru)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Shri Pawan Kumar Chandana (Co-founder and CEO, Skyroot Aerospace, Hyderabad)
Smt. Rajashri Teli (MD, HYT Inovative Projects Pvt Ltd, Pimpri)
Prof. T. Pradeep (IIT Madras, Chennai)
Panel Discussion
Prof. B S Murty (Director, IIT Hyderabad)
Dr. Ramalingam Balamuralikrishnan (Director, DMRL-DRDO, Hyderabad)
Shri Subodh Pandey (Vice President, Technology & R&D, Tata Steel Ltd.)
Prof. Mandar Madhukar Deshmukh (TIFR, Mumbai)
Dr. Shailaja Donempudi (Distinguished Scientist and Head Business Development Group (BDG))
Session Chair: Dr. Neeraj Mittal (Secretary, DoT)
Keynote address
Prof. Kiran Kumar Kuchi (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Shri Ramu Srinivasaiah (Co-Founder & Director, Lekha Wires, Bengaluru)
Dr. Kumar N. Sivarajan (Co-founder & CTO, Tejas Networks, Bengaluru)
Panel Discussion
Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay (CEO, C-DOT, New Delhi)
Prof. Radhakrishna Ganti (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai)
Prof. Panganamala Vijay Kumar (Department of ECE, IISc, Bengaluru)
Shri A. Robert Jerard Ravi (Chairman & MD, BSNL, Delhi)
Dr. Parag Naik (Lead Scientist, EVP Tejas Networks , X-CEO Saankhya Labs)
Session Chair: Dr. A S Kiran Kumar (Former Secretary, DoS)
Keynote address
Dr. V. Narayanan (Chairman ISRO, Bengaluru)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Smt. Jayanthi Bhagatha (CEO, JBI Aerospace, Bengaluru)
Dr. Jhon Paul (Founder & CEO, Mysitech, Bengaluru)
Prof. Sanjay Mittal (Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur)
Panel Discussion
Shri Shantanu Bhatawdekar (Senior Advisor, New Space India Ltd; Former Distinguished Scientist and Scientific Secretary, ISRO)
Shri A. Rajarajan (Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Trivandrum)
Shri Rajeev Jyoti (Director Technical, Dept of Space, Govt of India, Ahmedabad)
Shri Balaji N(General Manager (ASD), Aerospace Division, HAL)
Shri Karthik Govindhasamy(CO-FOUNDER & CTO, Antaris Space)
Plenary Talk - 7
Speaker: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla (Indian Air Force and ISRO)
Title : India in Orbit: Human Spaceflight as a Catalyst for Viksit Bharat 2047
Session Chair: Dr. Mangi Lal Jat (Secretary, DARE & DG, ICAR)
Keynote address
Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra (Chairperson, Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority, New Delhi)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur / S&T Leader
Dr. Usha Barwale Zehr (Executive Director & Chairperson, Grow Indigo Pvt. Ltd., Jalna, Maharashtra)
Shri Sachin Hegdekudgi (Founder & CEO, Roots Goods, Bengaluru)
Dr. Nachiket Kotwaliwale (Director, ICAR, CIPHET, Ludhiana)
Panel Discussion
Dr. Shyam Narayan Jha (Deputy Director General, Agricultural Engineering, ICAR, New Delhi)
Prof. K C Bansal (Adjunct Professor, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Haryana)
Dr. A Bandyopadhyaya (Former ADG & Director, NRCG, Junagadh)
Dr. Kesavan T.R (Group President, Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd., Chennai)
Shri Abhilash Sethi (Investment Director, Omnivore, Bengaluru)
Prof. Santanu Chaudhury (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi)
Concluding remarks and way forward of overall thematic session
(by session chair / thematic committee chair)
Session Chair: Dr. Samir V Kamat (Secretary, DDR&D and Chairman, DRDO)
Keynote address
Dr. Bobby Mitra (CIO and President of AI & Digital Transformation, Tata Electronics)
Talks by Start-up CEO / Woman Entrepreneur /
S&T Leader
Shri G. S. Madhusudan (Founder & CEO, Incore and Semiconductors, Chennai)
Prof. Srinivasan Raghavan (IISc, Bengaluru)
Dr. Suraj Rengarajan (Managing Director & Head Semiconductor Products Group (SPG), Applied Materials India)
Panel Discussion
Prof. Navakanta Bhat(Dean, Interdisciplinary Sciences Division, IISc, Bengaluru)
Smt. Suma Varughese (Director General MED, CoS&CS, DRDO, New Delhi)
Prof. Udayan Ganguly ( Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay)
Shri Amitesh Kumar Sinha (CEO, ISM, MeitY, New Delhi)
Dr. Vibhu Sharma (Chief Technology Officer, L&T Semicondutors & Technologies)
Welcome Address : Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, DST
Remarks : Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Presentation of Recommendations : Thematic Chair of each Thematic Session (Approx. 5 minutes each for 11 themes)
Prize Distribution : Poster Presenters
Address : Hon’ble Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences
Vote of Thanks : Dr Jyoti Sharma, Head, RDI Cell, DST