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India Science Festival 2023

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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SPEAKERS

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Abhay Bang

Director

Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH)

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Ajit Rangnekar

Director General

Research and Innovation Circle (RICH) of Hyderabad

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Amrita Sadarangani

Executive Director

Gujarat Biotechnology University project at The University of Edinburgh

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Ananyo Bhattacharya

Science Journalist and Writer

Freelance

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Aniket Aga

Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences

Ashoka University

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Aniket Bera

Associate Professor, Computer science

Purdue University

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Anu Acharya

Founder and CEO

MapMyGenome – Know Yourself

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Anurag Agarwal

Pulmonologist and medical researcher

Dean, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University

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Arati Kadav

Writer & Film Maker

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Archana Sharma

Particle Physicist

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research

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Arjun Srivathsa

Wildlife Biologist

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore

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Ashish Dhawan

Founder-CEO, The Convergence Foundation

Co-Founder, Foundation For Advancing Science and Technology, India

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Ashok Venkitaraman

Cancer Researcher

Director, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore

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Avinash Kumar

Co-Founder

Quicksand & UnBox

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Bidushi Bhattacharya

Astrohub

Founder-CEO,

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Bitasta Das

Author, Educator, TEDx Speaker

Senior Editor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

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Charu Srinivasan

Vice President of Engineering

Microsoft

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Chris Karp

Director, Discovery & Translational Sciences

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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David Price

Manager & Science Communicator

Science Made Simple

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Darshana Joshi

Founder and CEO

VigyanShaala International

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Debojyoti Chakraborty

Molecular Biologist

Principal Scientist

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Deepanwita Chattopadhyaya

Chairperson & CEO

IKP Knowledge Park

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Desh Gaurav Sekhri

Co-Founder

Sports and Society Accelerator

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Devangshu Datta

Publisher

Juggernaut Books

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Dinesh C Sharma

Author & Journalist

Managing Editor, India Science Wire

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Gagandeep Kang

Clinician Scientist & Professor

Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore

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Gautam Menon

Dean, Research and Professor of Physics and Biology, Ashoka University

PhD. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

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Geetha Manjunath

Managing Director

NIRAMAI

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Guy Brown

HoD & Professor at the Department of Computer Science

University of Sheffield

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Iain Stewart

Research Chair in Sustainability, Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal

Professor of Geoscience Communication, University of Plymouth, UK

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Ipsa Jain

Science Communicator and Illustrator, Ipsawonders

Faculty, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

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Jaya Baloo

Chief Information Security Officer

Avast

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James Evans

Professor

University of Chicago

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Jayant Krishna

CEO

Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology

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Jahanvi Phalkey

Founding Director

Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB)

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Jyotsana Dhawan

Stem Cell Biologist

Center for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB)

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K Vijay Raghavan

Chief Scientific Advisor

Foundation for Advancing Science & Technology (FAST India)

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K G Kumar

Director, G.P Birla Archaeological, Astronomical & Scientific Research Institute

Director, B.M Birla Science Centre and Planetarium, Hyderabad

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Karishma Kaushik

Clinical Microbiologist

Savitribai Phule Pune University

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Kuldeep Yadav

Director, AI

SHL

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Lewis Hou

Founder & Director

Science Ceilidh

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Madhav Deo Saraswat

Principal

Hyderabad Public School

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Madhushree Kamak

Programme Manager

Science Gallery Bengaluru

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Mallika Sarabhai

Director

Darpana – Academy for performing arts

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Manjari Tripathi

Professor – Neurology

AIIMS Delhi

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Manoj Kumar

Founder

Social Alpha

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Mark McCaughrean

Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration

European Space Agency

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Maya Sharma

Consultant Editor

NDTV

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Mudit Narain

Director, Policy and Research

Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology,

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Murthovic

Music Producer

Sound Designer

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Pawan Sinha

Computational neuroscientist

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Pialy Ghanekar

Founder

Cell Savvy Group

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Pranav Radhakrishnan

YouTuber, Educator

Creative Director, Science is Dope

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Pranay Lal

Biochemist & Author

India

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Prateek Jain

Senior Staff Research Scientist

Google AI

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Rachel Mason

Associate Director – Development

GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub

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Ramesh Loganathan

International Institute of Information Technology  (IIIT), Hyderabad

Professor Co-Innovation & Outreach,

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Rahul Seth

Scouting Director & Investor

Antler

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R Gopu

India

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Rohan Chakravarty

India

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Rohan Ganapathy

India

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Sai Kiran Verma

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Sarah Iqbal

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Sandhya Ramesh

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Satish Reddy

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Shagun Sabarwal

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Shannon Olsson

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Shanta Thoutam

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Shivanji Sisanthy

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Sonal Katyal

Communications Officer

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India

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Sriram Raghavan

Vice President,

IBM Research AI

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Subhra Priyadarshni

Chief Editor

Nature India, Nature Research

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Subhadra Jalali

Doctor

L V Prasad Eye Institute

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Subhash Lingareddy

Founder, MapMyGenome

President & CFO, Ocimum Biosolutions

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Sunaina Singh

Freelance Editor

Cactus Communications

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Sumit Gulwani

Partner Research Manager

Microsoft

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Supriya Devarajan

Senior Scientist

MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions

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Thomas Barlow

Barlow Advisory Group

Director,

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Udayan Ganguly

Professor

IIT Bombay

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Varun Aggarwal

Founder

India Science Festival (ISF) & FAST India

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Vedika Khemani

Physicist

Stanford University

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Vidita Vaidya

Neuroscientist

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai

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Vikram Patel

Psychiatrist & Mental Health Researcher

C0-founder, Sangath, India

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Vrinda Kapoor

Founder

DV2JS Innovation LLP

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Yoshowant Purohit

Project Director

Aga Khan Development Network

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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

Science in Focus

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Pranab Basak

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Yoav Cohen

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Trikansh Sharma

Spin Your Science

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Rashi Rajeev

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Aditi Mishra

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Akanksha Jain

Talk Your Thesis

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Reena Durai

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Harsha Jagdeesh

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Annapoorna P K

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100+

Speakers

90+

Events

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18,000+

Attendees

Over the past 4 editions

India Science Festival has seen

IMPACT

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Event Sponsors

Event Partners

Outreach Partner

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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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