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India Science Festival 2020

HIGHlight Events of ISF 2026

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Meet Subhanshu Shukla - India’s Newest Space Hero

Meet Subhanshu Shukla - India’s Newest Space Hero

Watch an Original Theatre Drama Chronicling India's Space Journey

Watch an Original Theatre Drama Chronicling India's Space Journey

Meet the Mind Behind Transformers - Ashish Vaswani

Meet the Mind Behind Transformers - Ashish Vaswani

Play Sci-Fi & AI Games - Win Prizes Worth ₹2 Lakhs

Play Sci-Fi & AI Games - Win Prizes Worth ₹2 Lakhs

Rethink Your Assumptions About Reality Through a Quantum Perspective

Rethink Your Assumptions About Reality Through a Quantum Perspective

Explore Science Exhibitions, Art, Theatre & Interactive Installations

Explore Science Exhibitions, Art, Theatre & Interactive Installations

Witness Science Presented Like You've Never Seen Before

Witness Science Presented Like You've Never Seen Before

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Publications

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SPEAKERS

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Anna Agarwal

Fellow,
Centre for Policy Research

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Bharat Agarwal

President,
Vishwakarma University

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Harshit Agrawal

AI-Artist & HCI Researcher,
Adobe Design Lab

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Narendra Ahuja

Director, Information Technology
Research Academy (ITRA)

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Payal Arora

Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures,
Erasmus School of Philosophy

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Ravindran Balaraman

Head, Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI,
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

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Satchit Balsari

Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Harvard Medical School

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Gargi Banerjee Dasgupta

Director,
IBM Research India

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Raman Batra

Executive Vice President,
Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida

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Upinder Singh Bhalla

Professor of Computational Neurosciences,
National Centre for Biological Sciences

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Santanu Bhattacharya

Chief Data Scientist,
Airtel

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Mani L. Bhaumik

Physicist and Philanthropist,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Cong Cao

Professor in Innovation Studies,
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

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Saurabh Chandra

Co-Founder,
Ati Motors

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Rama Rao Damrela

Researcher in Cancer Genomics, Department of Biotechnology,
Kasturba Medical College

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Dhananjaya Dendukuri

CEO & Co-Founder,
Achira Labs

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Rajesh Gopakumar

Centre Director and Senior Professor,
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR)

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R. Gopu

Researcher,
Tamil Heritage Trust

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Speakers

Abhay Karandikar
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
Shubhanshu shukla
Venki Ramakrishnan
Ashish Vaswani
Nikku Madhusudhan
Dr. Eshan Chattopadhyay
Dr. Kush Varshney
Girija Narlikar
Vivek Wadhwa
Srinath Sridhar
Marcia C. Barbosa
Nick Jones
Arvind Gupta
Samagya Banskota
Dr. Jani R Bolla
Thomas Barlow
Subrata Saha
Ashok Atluri
Manish Gupta
Arvind Saraf
Srinath Ravichandran
Maneesha Inamdar
Arnab Bhattacharya
Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Angshuman Nag
Bhaskar Kanseri
Rajesh Ingle
Yashwant Gupta
Arun K. Pati
Sourav Pal
M.S. Santhanam
Amit Apte
Umakant Rapol
GV Pavan Kumar
Surhud More
Vishal Vasan
Anuj Gupta
Karthik Venkatesh
Priya Nagaraj
Neil Gaikwad
Srimathy Kesan
Dhruba Chakrabarti
Jahnavi Phalkey
Karishma Kaushik
Nolita Coelho
Ananya Ranade
Neerja Dashaputre
Rajit Gupta
Anirudh Bhardwaj
Udaya Kumar
Udayan Kanade
Rashmi Tripathi
Maya Sherman
Vineeth Venugopal
Nikhil Gulati
Keshav Aggarwal
Uppasana Sarraju
Shane Rydquist
Mayuri Rege
Kunal Upadhyay
Dhruba Chakrabarti
Sreejith G.J
Omkar Raikar
K Vijayraghav
Ashish Arora
Anand Kulkarni
Shailendra Nath Jha
Ritu Sodhi
Vijay Jerome
Payal Rajpal

Competition Winners

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50+

Speakers

70+

Events

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13,000+

Attendees

Over the last edition

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TESTIMONIALS

The festival feels very energetic and fresh, would love to be a part of it offline!

Richard Wiseman

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I really enjoyed the conversation and the engagement from the audience. The audience wasn’t that large, but the question were insightful, which made me feel that I was engaging in a meaningful way with them.

Andrew Maynard

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The organization was excellent. The media and publicity features, choice of speakers and sessions were outstanding.

Karishma Kaushik

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I really liked the variety and creative angle of the talks. I also appreciate that the talks are available online via YouTube – I’ll be able to use some in future teaching.

Marina Joubert

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It (India Science Festival) might prove to be a turning point in the history of our brilliant, perpetually interesting, mad, magical country of ours. We want India not only to excel in technology but become a world leader in basic science.

V.S. Ramachandran

Director Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego

ISF is an interesting first step towards democratizing science. Definitely take this forward! More essential than ever in these times. Love the festivalization of science making it accessible, engaging and meaningful to diverse populations.

Payal Arora

Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures, Erasmus School of Philosophy

The large number of children and young adults who are eager to hear things. (were the best thing about ISF).

P. J. Narayanan

Professor & Director, IIT Hyderabad

"I had a great time at the festival the whole day–both at the talk and panel, as well as the almost nonstop interactions with students…wherever I went ;-) Hats off to you for putting this event together. It requires a certain level of delusion to even think of putting together a festival of this size, let alone pulling it off!"

Subbarao Kambhampati

Professor of Computer Science, Arizona State University

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