India Science Festival 2023
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SPEAKERS
Abhay Bang
Director
Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH)
Ajit Rangnekar
Director General
Research and Innovation Circle (RICH) of Hyderabad
Amrita Sadarangani
Executive Director
Gujarat Biotechnology University project at The University of Edinburgh
Ananyo Bhattacharya
Science Journalist and Writer
Freelance
Aniket Aga
Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences
Ashoka University
Aniket Bera
Associate Professor, Computer science
Purdue University
Anu Acharya
Founder and CEO
MapMyGenome – Know Yourself
Anurag Agarwal
Pulmonologist and medical researcher
Dean, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University
Arati Kadav
Writer & Film Maker
Archana Sharma
Particle Physicist
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research
Arjun Srivathsa
Wildlife Biologist
National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore
Ashish Dhawan
Founder-CEO, The Convergence Foundation
Co-Founder, Foundation For Advancing Science and Technology, India
Ashok Venkitaraman
Cancer Researcher
Director, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
Avinash Kumar
Co-Founder
Quicksand & UnBox
Bidushi Bhattacharya
Astrohub
Founder-CEO,
Bitasta Das
Author, Educator, TEDx Speaker
Senior Editor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Charu Srinivasan
Vice President of Engineering
Microsoft
Chris Karp
Director, Discovery & Translational Sciences
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
David Price
Manager & Science Communicator
Science Made Simple
Darshana Joshi
Founder and CEO
VigyanShaala International
Debojyoti Chakraborty
Molecular Biologist
Principal Scientist
Deepanwita Chattopadhyaya
Chairperson & CEO
IKP Knowledge Park
Desh Gaurav Sekhri
Co-Founder
Sports and Society Accelerator
Devangshu Datta
Publisher
Juggernaut Books
Dinesh C Sharma
Author & Journalist
Managing Editor, India Science Wire
Gagandeep Kang
Clinician Scientist & Professor
Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore
Gautam Menon
Dean, Research and Professor of Physics and Biology, Ashoka University
PhD. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Geetha Manjunath
Managing Director
NIRAMAI
Guy Brown
HoD & Professor at the Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Iain Stewart
Research Chair in Sustainability, Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal
Professor of Geoscience Communication, University of Plymouth, UK
Ipsa Jain
Science Communicator and Illustrator, Ipsawonders
Faculty, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Jaya Baloo
Chief Information Security Officer
Avast
James Evans
Professor
University of Chicago
Jayant Krishna
CEO
Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology
Jahanvi Phalkey
Founding Director
Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB)
Jyotsana Dhawan
Stem Cell Biologist
Center for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB)
K Vijay Raghavan
Chief Scientific Advisor
Foundation for Advancing Science & Technology (FAST India)
K G Kumar
Director, G.P Birla Archaeological, Astronomical & Scientific Research Institute
Director, B.M Birla Science Centre and Planetarium, Hyderabad
Karishma Kaushik
Clinical Microbiologist
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Kuldeep Yadav
Director, AI
SHL
Lewis Hou
Founder & Director
Science Ceilidh
Madhav Deo Saraswat
Principal
Hyderabad Public School
Madhushree Kamak
Programme Manager
Science Gallery Bengaluru
Mallika Sarabhai
Director
Darpana – Academy for performing arts
Manjari Tripathi
Professor – Neurology
AIIMS Delhi
Manoj Kumar
Founder
Social Alpha
Mark McCaughrean
Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration
European Space Agency
Maya Sharma
Consultant Editor
NDTV
Mudit Narain
Director, Policy and Research
Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology,
Murthovic
Music Producer
Sound Designer
Pawan Sinha
Computational neuroscientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Pialy Ghanekar
Founder
Cell Savvy Group
Pranav Radhakrishnan
YouTuber, Educator
Creative Director, Science is Dope
Pranay Lal
Biochemist & Author
India
Prateek Jain
Senior Staff Research Scientist
Google AI
Rachel Mason
Associate Director – Development
GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub
Ramesh Loganathan
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad
Professor Co-Innovation & Outreach,
Rahul Seth
Scouting Director & Investor
Antler
R Gopu
India
Rohan Chakravarty
India
Rohan Ganapathy
India
Sai Kiran Verma
Sarah Iqbal
Sandhya Ramesh
Satish Reddy
Shagun Sabarwal
Shannon Olsson
Shanta Thoutam
Shivanji Sisanthy
Sonal Katyal
Communications Officer
National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India
Sriram Raghavan
Vice President,
IBM Research AI
Subhra Priyadarshni
Chief Editor
Nature India, Nature Research
Subhadra Jalali
Doctor
L V Prasad Eye Institute
Subhash Lingareddy
Founder, MapMyGenome
President & CFO, Ocimum Biosolutions
Sunaina Singh
Freelance Editor
Cactus Communications
Sumit Gulwani
Partner Research Manager
Microsoft
Supriya Devarajan
Senior Scientist
MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions
Thomas Barlow
Barlow Advisory Group
Director,
Udayan Ganguly
Professor
IIT Bombay
Varun Aggarwal
Founder
India Science Festival (ISF) & FAST India
Vedika Khemani
Physicist
Stanford University
Vidita Vaidya
Neuroscientist
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
Vikram Patel
Psychiatrist & Mental Health Researcher
C0-founder, Sangath, India
Vrinda Kapoor
Founder
DV2JS Innovation LLP
Yoshowant Purohit
Project Director
Aga Khan Development Network
Competition Winners
Science in Focus
Pranab Basak
Yoav Cohen
Trikansh Sharma
Spin Your Science
Rashi Rajeev
Aditi Mishra
Akanksha Jain
Talk Your Thesis
Reena Durai
Harsha Jagdeesh
Annapoorna P K
100+
Speakers
90+
Events
18,000+
Attendees
Over the past 4 editions
India Science Festival has seen
IMPACT
TESTIMONIALS
Richard Wiseman
Andrew Maynard
Karishma Kaushik
Marina Joubert
V.S. Ramachandran
Director Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego
Payal Arora
Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures, Erasmus School of Philosophy
P. J. Narayanan
Professor & Director, IIT Hyderabad
Subbarao Kambhampati
Professor of Computer Science, Arizona State University