Speakers – 2020
Anna Agarwal
Fellow,
Centre for Policy Research
Bharat Agarwal
President,
Vishwakarma University
Harshit Agrawal
AI-Artist & HCI Researcher,
Adobe Design Lab
Narendra Ahuja
Director, Information Technology
Research Academy (ITRA)
Payal Arora
Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures,
Erasmus School of Philosophy
Ravindran Balaraman
Head, Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI,
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Satchit Balsari
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Gargi Banerjee Dasgupta
Director,
IBM Research India
Raman Batra
Executive Vice President,
Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida
Upinder Singh Bhalla
Professor of Computational Neurosciences,
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Santanu Bhattacharya
Chief Data Scientist,
Airtel
Mani L. Bhaumik
Physicist and Philanthropist,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Cong Cao
Professor in Innovation Studies,
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
Saurabh Chandra
Co-Founder,
Ati Motors
Rama Rao Damrela
Researcher in Cancer Genomics, Department of Biotechnology,
Kasturba Medical College
Dhananjaya Dendukuri
CEO & Co-Founder,
Achira Labs
Rajesh Gopakumar
Centre Director and Senior Professor,
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR)
R. Gopu
Researcher,
Tamil Heritage Trust
Manish Gupta
Director,
Google Research India
Ramesh Hariharan
Co-Founder and CTO,
Strand Life Sciences
Vivek Jayaraman
Head, Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Prahlad Kakar
Founder and Chairman,
Prahlad Kakar School of Branding & Entrepreneurship
Subbarao Kambhampati
Professor of Computer Science,
Arizona State University
Gagandeep Kang
Executive Director,
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
Arnav Kapur
Graduate Lead Researcher,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Karishma Kaushik
Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellow,
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Bishesh Khanal
Research Scientist and Chairperson,
Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for Research (NAAMII)
Manoj Kumar
Co-Founder, CEO,
Social Alpha
Vidur Mahajan
Head of R&D,
CARING
Rahul Matthan
Partner,
Trilegal
Una-May O’Reilly
Leader, AnyScale Learning for All,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tashan Mehta
Novelist
Raja Mugasimangalam
Founder and CEO,
Genotypic Technology
Venkatesh N. Murthy
Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor and
Chair of Molecular & Cellular Biology,
Harvard University
Sunita Nadhamuni
Head – Healthcare Solutions,
Dell EMC
Ashwin Naik
Founder,
Manah Wellness
Shambhavi Naik
Research Fellow,
Technology and Policy Programme, Takshashila Institution
P. J. Narayanan
Professor & Director,
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Priyamvada Natarajan
Professor of Astronomy and Physics,
Yale University
Jahnavi Phalkey
Founding Director,
Science Gallery, Bengaluru
V.S. Ramachandran
Director, Center for Brain and Cognition,
University of California, San Diego
Rajesh P.N. Rao
Director, NSF Center for Neurotechnology,
University of Washington
Anil Sahasrabudhe
Chairman,
All India Council for Technical Education
Taslimarif Saiyed
CEO and Director,
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms
Sunita Sarawagi
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering,
IIT Bombay
Sanjay Sarma
Vice President, Open Learning and Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Badri Sesadri
Managing Director,
Synprosoft (NHM)
Nandini Chatterjee Singh
Cognitive Neuroscientist,
UNESCO MGIEP
Pawan Sinha
Professor, Vision and Computational Neuroscience,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Suresh Subramani
Professor of Molecular Biology
University of California, San Diego
Subramanian Swaminathan
(Retd.) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi
Founder, Tamil Heritage Trust
Milind Tambe
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science,
Harvard University
Vani Tripathi Tikoo
Actress and Board Member,
Central Board of Film Certification
Shubha Tole
Neuroscientist, Professor and Principal Investigator,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Dwarika Prasad Uniyal
Professor & Dean,
FLAME University
Minnie Vaid
Author and Founder,
Little Doc Productions
Chintan Vaishnav
Academic Director,
MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design
Nisheeth Vishnoi
Professor of Computer Science,
Yale University
Spenta Wadia
Founding Director and Infosys Homi Bhabha Chair Professor,
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (ICTS-TIFR), Bangalore
Speakers – 2021
Shantanu Abhyankar
Obstetrician and Gynecologist
Varun Aggarwal
Founder, India Science Fest, Co-Founder at Aspiring Minds
Philip Altbach
Founding Director & Research Professor, Center for International Higher Education
Daniel Angerhausen
Astrophysicist and Astrobiologist at ETH Zurich, Explainables CEO & NASA FDL mentor
Dimitra Atri
Research Scientist, NYUAD Center for Space Science
Satchit Balsari
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Philip Altbach
Founder, SEARCH
Andreas Bergsland
Associate Professor, Music Technology Program at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Bidushi Bhattacharya
Former NASA scientist, Founder and CEO, Astropreneurs HUB
Ansley Booker
Director, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, Mercer University
Rodney Brooks
CTO and Founder, Robust.AI; Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus), MIT
Vijay Chandru
Co-founder and Director at Strand Life Sciences, Pioneer at AI Foundry.ai
Girish Chowdhary
Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Rumi Chunara
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Global Public Health, NYU
Peter Corke
Professor of Robotic Vision at Queensland University of Technology, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision
Emily Cross
Professor of Social Robotics (University of Glasgow) and Human Neuroscience (Macquarie University)
Bitasta Das
Senior Editor- Office of Communications and Humanities Instructor, IISc, Bangalore
Abhijit De
Head, Molecular Functional Imaging Laboratory, ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre
Pawan Deshpande
Head of ModelOps, Domino Data Lab
Siraj Dhanani
Founder and CEO at InnAccel
Anthony England
Former NASA Astronaut, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Rupamanjari Ghosh
Vice-Chancellor of Shiv Nadar University
Jyoti Gupta
Founder, The Colo(u)rism Project, Author – Different Differenter
Sunetra Gupta
Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Oxford University
Vineet Gupta
Co-Founder & MD, Jamboree Education; Founder and Trustee, Ashoka University; Founder and Trustee, Plaksha University
Sourabh Gupta
Founder and CEO, Vernacular.ai
Ramesh Hariharan
Co-Founder and CEO at Strand Life Sciences
Shantala Hegde
Associate Professor, Clinical Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Center, NIMHANS
Sarah Iqbal
Lead, Communications and Public Engagement, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance
Neha Kirpal
Co-Founder of InnerHour, a mental health platform, and Mental Health Ambassador